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Ashlea Veal

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IT IS HERE!!!! This might be my favorite advent calendar, we have had yet! I’m obsessed 🤩 you need this!! Or gift it!!! You truly get a taste of everything!! SO MANY SPECIAL EDITION LIMITED EDITION ITEMS!!! I’m shook!!! #adventcalendar #christmasgift #christmasfun #holidays #farmasiusa by @ashlea_veal

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Update on post transfer cancellation appointment with my dr. #vealjourney #fertility #ivf #transfer by @ashlea_veal

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3 days ago

Let’s be honest lol we all need mom time too on these playdates lol helps my sanity! So thankful for my friends! #motherhood #momlife #playdate #moms by @ashlea_veal

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3 days ago

Thank God for collagen! My hair was falling out FAST postpartum and this magic drink right here saved me!!! #postpartum #hairloss #collagen #momlife #viral by @ashlea_veal

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4 days ago

BATHEEEEE me in this glow spray every day!!! Im in love with this spray!!! The glow, the hydration, the smell 👃❤️ 🍑 it’s 100/10!!!!! lol #glowspray #glow #dewyskin #glassskin #makeup by @ashlea_veal

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7 days ago

I wonder when I became so consumed with being everything for everyone that I forgot how to just BE. 🥹

A mom. A wife. A leader. A business owner.

Someone always needs something. There’s always something that needs to be done. Someone who needs an answer. A problem to solve. A responsibility to carry.

And I LOVE the life I get to live. I really do.

But sometimes I wonder if I’ve become so used to being needed that I don’t even know how to NOT be needed.

Whew.

Because the truth is, nobody has to put that pressure on me. I do a pretty dang good job of putting it on myself.

And somewhere along the way, I think I started believing that if I’m not doing something for someone, I’m not doing enough.

So even in the moments when I could just relax, laugh, be silly, and enjoy life, there’s this little voice reminding me of everything I SHOULD be doing.

And I wonder how many other women feel that too.

Like you’re so busy making sure everyone else has what they need that you forget there’s a whole woman underneath all those responsibilities.

A woman who deserves to laugh until her stomach hurts.

A woman who doesn’t have to accomplish something to be valuable.

A woman who is more than what she can do for everybody else.

I look at this picture and I see HER.

Not the mom. Not the wife. Not the leader.

Just me. Genuinely laughing. Not carrying the weight of the world for a moment.

And maybe I’m sharing this because I know there’s another woman out there who feels like she’s forgotten that part of herself too.

I see you. ❤️

And maybe, just maybe, we’re both learning that we don’t have to be needed every second to be enough. by @ashlea_veal

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8 days ago

I think I have developed an unhealthy obsession with these new makeup products. 🤣💀

Like… someone told me the other day that they actually ENJOY not wearing makeup.

And I just stared at them like… EXCUSE ME?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN?! 🤨😂

Because BABYYYYY, ever since these new products launched, I wake up every morning EXCITED to put my face on. 🤣💄

I’m talking about standing in the mirror, putting these products on my face, and literally saying…

DANGGGGGGG GIRL!!!! WHO IS SHEEEEE?! 😮‍💨🔥😂

Like I genuinely look forward to doing my makeup every single day now!!!!!

The formulas. The finish. The way they make my skin look. THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE.

I fear I have become absolutely OBNOXIOUS about these products. 🤣

But I cannot help it. THEY ARE THAT FREAKING GOOD.

If you haven’t tried this new makeup yet, I am telling you right now… YOU ARE MISSING OUTTTTT.

And if you see me with a full face of makeup just to sit around my house, mind your business. I’m having the time of my life. 💀💄😂 by @ashlea_veal

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9 days ago

FULLER LIPS! Skincare! No filler needed! #lips #fullerlips #peptidepower #howtomakeup #viral by @ashlea_veal

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9 days ago

To the woman who can feel when someone around her is unhappy… and somehow their heaviness immediately becomes yours too.

You start replaying everything.

What could I do differently?
Do I need to change something?
Do I need to show up more?
Did I miss something?
What can I do to make this better?

And before you even realize it, you’re not just caring about what they’re carrying anymore…

you’re carrying it too.

Because somewhere underneath all of it is this quiet fear that if the people around you are disappointed, frustrated or unhappy, maybe you should have done more.

Maybe you weren’t enough.

Phew. I know that feeling.

I’ve carried other people’s disappointment so personally that I immediately started searching myself for what I needed to fix.

I’ve felt the weight of wanting everyone around me to be okay and somehow believing that if they weren’t… I had failed them in some way.

I’ve questioned whether I was doing enough.
Giving enough.
Showing up enough.
Being enough.

And sometimes I don’t even think we realize how heavy that is.

To care about people so deeply that their feelings start feeling like a reflection of you.

If you’re carrying that kind of weight right now…

I see you.

I’ve been there too.

You’re not alone in it. 🤎 by @ashlea_veal

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10 days ago

I AM LOVING THESE THREE right now!!!! 🤩🤩 do you wanna stay bronzed and glowy YEAR ROUND?!?!

I literally don’t have ONE ounce of foundation on in these pics!!!! Thank you BRONZING DROPS!

Dewy glow look? THANK YOU GLOW MIST 🤩

Brighter, even skin tone? Thank you VITAMIN C SERUM! 🤩

I love these three so much I threw them in a bundle with the cutest bag for you!!! (See comments) by @ashlea_veal

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10 days ago

I used to think Monday mornings were supposed to feel rushed.

Alarm. Get ready. Get everybody where they need to go. Go to work.

I never pictured a Monday morning looking like this…

sitting in the dirt, still able to work from home, while my little boy yells:

“PLAY MOMMY! PLAY!” 🥹

There is something so powerful about realizing your life doesn’t have to stay inside the picture you once thought was your only option.

For me, success looks a lot less like a title these days…

and a lot more like being able to say, “Okay buddy, Mommy’s coming.” 🤎 by @ashlea_veal

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12 days ago

There is a kind of tired that comes from feeling like nothing ever gets to just… work out.

You try not to get your hopes too high because somewhere in the back of your mind you’re already wondering what the next thing will be.

Another delay.
Another change of plans.
Another thing you never saw coming.

And eventually it’s not even just disappointment anymore.

It’s frustration.
It’s anger.
It’s confusion.

It’s looking around at people whose lives seem to move forward so easily and quietly wondering…

Why does everything have to be so hard for me?

Why do I always have to fight this hard for the things I want the most?

And maybe the thought you hate admitting the most is…

Haven’t I already been through enough?
I see you if these are your thoughts. You aren’t alone. by @ashlea_veal

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13 days ago