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Inner Alchemy (formerly Unapologetically Yours) goes deep on what it actually takes to build a life that belongs to you. Hosted by @ashleydlogan.

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7 months ago

If the stress of divorce has you turning toward the Pinot Noir, you’re not alone — I definitely poured myself a glass (or several) during my own divorce process. 🍷

But Ashley made a different choice. 6 months before the divorce conversations even started, she eliminated alcohol from her life entirely. Not because she had a problem — but because she wanted to feel what was happening. All of it.

She didn’t want to numb. She didn’t want to risk saying something she’d regret or lashing out in ways that didn’t match who she wanted to be. She wanted to protect her integrity through the hardest conversations of her life.

And she’s still alcohol-free — in her words, “with so much delight.”

Your relationship with alcohol is yours alone — no judgment here, ever. But there’s something powerful in what Ashley discovered: when you stop numbing the hard stuff, you get to feel everything — yes, the bad, but also the good.

🎧 Full episode — link in bio.

#TheDTales #AlcoholFree #SoberCurious #DivorceJourney #RadicalClarity by @inneralchemyshow

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5 months ago

Divorce is brutal. But sometimes it can also be really, really funny.

Ashley’s daughter was 9 and had just gotten the birds-and-bees talk. She took that information and ran with it…

At her basketball game.
In front of both parents.
At full volume — for the entire gym to hear.

I promise: This might be the funniest thing a kid has ever shouted across a gym.

A good reminder from Ashley:
�Laugh in the moments that are funny.
Cry in the moments that feel painful.
And let yourself just go through it — because the only way through is through.

🎧 Full episode available now — link in bio.

#TheDTales #DivorceHumor #KidsSayTheDarndest #LaughThroughIt #CoParenting by @inneralchemyshow

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5 months ago

Something inside her was pounding like a Jumanji drum — and it got louder and louder until she couldn’t ignore it anymore.

Ashley had built a life inside a box that didn’t belong to her. That internal drumbeat was telling her it was time to break free of it.

First the universe hits like a feather. Then like a brick. Ashley decided to start listening before she got hit with the brick.

So she did the work early. Regulating her nervous system. Shifting her habits. Facing the edges she’d been avoiding for years.

And when the divorce came — grueling, painful, relentless — she didn’t fall apart. Not because she’s superhuman. Because she’d already started listening and building her inner resources.

🎧 Ep 14 of The D. Tales is available now — link in bio.

#TheDTales #ContemplatingDivorce #TrustYourBody #NervousSystemHealing #InnerKnowing by @inneralchemyshow

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5 months ago

Listen to the full conversation with @swaddled.by.sarah at the link in my bio @inneralchemyshow by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

“Nobody told me my life would come back to me.” So many of us—if we’re being honest—moved through those early months of new motherhood wondering if who we used to be was just… gone. Buried under the feeding schedules and the sleep deprivation and the particular kind of loneliness that shows up even in a room full of people who love you.

Sarah Cassidy @swaddled.by.sarah is the author of Swaddled: Sage Stories to Wrap Mothers in Love, a book that collects the true stories of 12 women navigating the profound, and profoundly under-supported, transition into motherhood. When I met her, I felt instant connection and recognition—and at ease. Because she was actually telling the truth about what it means to become a mother…and she had the courage to write it down.

What I love most about Sarah is that she’s a type-A, prepare-for-everything kind of woman who was still completely blindsided by new motherhood. She read the books. She organized everything. And then her son arrived and she felt like she’d disappeared. And no one warned her that it was going to happen!

So she decided to be the voice who names that sacred, brutal and beautiful in-between space of unbecoming of who you were before motherhood, and becoming all that you are.
This conversation is for every mother who has ever whispered, or screamed into a pillow, “I don’t feel like myself,” and every woman who is about to.

Listen to the full episode with @swaddled.by.sarah at the link in my bio @inneralchemyshow by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

Listen to the full conversation with @allisonjkahler at the link in my bio @inneralchemyshow by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

Divorce touches almost half of all marriages, and yet almost everyone who goes through it feels completely alone. That paradox is exactly what @allisonjkahler set out to change.

Allison is an Executive Coach and Founder of @thedtalespodcast - a podcast dedicated to sharing real divorce stories and expert insights for anyone contemplating a split, navigating the process, or rebuilding life on the other side. Before she ever hit record, she spent years in management consulting, then interviewed over 50 people anonymously about their own experiences with divorce. What kept surfacing across all of it: the hardest part isn’t the legal process. It’s everything that happens before and after.

I got to know Allison over recent months and felt an immediate kinship. She was also gracious enough to have me on The D. Tales (episode drops soon!) and I will share that for you when it’s live.

We went deep on what it actually feels like to sit inside a marriage that isn’t working - the years of quiet questioning before a single word gets said out loud, the shame that makes people white-knuckle through it alone, and the well-meaning things friends say that land all wrong. Allison is also a self-proclaimed data nerd, so she shares what the research and data keep showing: that life on the other side is almost always better than people could imagine.

Whether this episode finds you in the middle of a hard season in your relationship, supporting someone you love through one, or simply trying to understand an experience that’s far more common than we talk about - this conversation is an honest one.

Listen to the full conversation with @allisonjkahler at the link in my bio @inneralchemyshow by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

Excited to share what’s coming up next on The D. Tales!

➡️ Swipe through to see what we’ll be discussing the next 3 weeks.

✨ Ep 12 with Bridget Borel this Tuesday 4/21: “Will I Be Okay?” — The Real Money Question in Divorce

✨ Ep 13 with Billy Kaitz on 4/28: Healing Isn’t Feeling Better — It’s Feeling Everything

✨ Ep 14 with Ashley Logan on 5/5: Dismantling the Life You Built to Find the One That Fits

Follow / subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so new episodes land in your feed every Tuesday.

💬 DM me with topics you’d love to hear covered on future episodes.

#TheDTales #DivorcePodcast #DivorceRecovery #StartingOver #LifeAfterDivorce by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

Retreats and weekend workshops have become non-negotiable for me.

I’ve learned that we have a tendency to get insular—to forget how much is out there, how many people there are who can add color and texture to our lives if we say yes to being in the room with them.

Which brings me to why I recorded this week’s episode of the Inner Alchemy Show: I’m hosting two retreats in the next year and let me just say, it’s such a gift to yourself to do something outside of the box.

In This Episode We Explore:
* What a retreat container actually is, and why the structure makes it feel so safe to finally let your guard down
* The difference between a vacation and a retreat, and why one restores you while the other just exhausts you somewhere new
* My first retreat experience in Tulum—the grief I carried in, the clarity I came home with, and the women I’m still close with today
* Why getting outside your insular bubble is one of the most underrated things you can do for your growth
* What happens when you give yourself permission to set down your load for a few days—to your body, your nervous system, and yes, apparently, sometimes your fertility

I hope this episode inspires you to say yes to something for you this year. That solo trip, that class, that weekend that scares you just a little. You can trust yourself.

The people in your life will survive without you for a few days. They might even be better for it. And so will you.

Listen to the full episode and learn more about our upcoming Inner Alchemy retreats at the link in my bio @inneralchemy_studio by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

There is so much happening in the world right now, and so much to be devastated about. How can you stay grounded when the world around you seems to be falling apart every time you open your phone?

It starts with creating spaciousness.

I can’t emphasize enough how hard it is for someone who is burned out, depleted, over-scheduled to show up for the people right there in their community who are in need. It’s very hard to make a meal for someone who’s just had a baby when you have kids in sports until 9 p.m. It’s hard to make that phone call when you are absolutely tapped out. It’s hard to even have that level of awareness of when someone needs an extra moment of your time when you have to run from one thing to the next.

I’m so guilty of this. I am an entrepreneur with so much to accomplish in each and every single day. And I’m also a mother of three little kids. And I also have a huge desire to show up for the people in my community. That’s where it starts. Truly, the biggest difference you can make is right there in your own life, in your own community, and in how you show up.

So that’s what we’re talking about today. Finding ways to actually create that spaciousness, to create more capacity–so that you can really show up in a way that can make an impact.

Women are the culture centers of our families and our communities. We are the ones who organize, we are the ones who create dinners and run the social calendars. And when we have the spaciousness to show up and connect, that is how we change communities. That is how we bring more good, more love, more affection into the world.

And that is what the world is needing so much right now.

Change starts within us. It starts within you.

Listen to the latest episode of Inner Alchemy at the link in my bio @inneralchemy_studio by @inneralchemyshow

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6 months ago

There’s something to be said about being a woman today - the weight that we carry and how that shows up in our body, in our lived experiences. But it’s healing that weight that is a whole different conversation.

And that’s exactly what we’re talking about in today’s episode. I’m joined by @chiaramecozzi - an Argentine-American visual artist and creator of Fuerza Cruda, a body of work exploring women’s relationships with their bodies and the internal dialogue that shapes how we see ourselves.

Chiara and I met because a friend of mine, @stephanieredlener (go listen to her episode if you haven’t yet), shared her work with me. I saw this beautiful Argentinian woman moving, painting, and creating these raw, powerful reflections of the female body, and I was instantly drawn in.

After following her for about a year, I reached out, took a cab ride to Brooklyn, New York, showed up at her brownstone… and got naked. Literally (although, maybe not in that exact order).
But the reason I went was simple: I wanted to love my body. I wanted to feel connected to my body.

What unfolded was a healing experience. It felt like liberation. Chiara created this sacred space for me to truly feel safe in my own body… and from that place, feel empowered in it.

But this conversation is about so much more than that experience.

In this episode, we go deep into what it actually looks like to come back into your body after years of disconnection, shame, and conditioning.

Chiara shares her journey from abuse, self-abandonment, and external validation… to using art as a tool for healing, rewiring, and radical self-love. What started as photographing her own body through discomfort and grief became a full-body reclamation, and now, a movement helping women do the same.

This episode is about remembering that you have a choice, learning to feel safe in your body again, and what becomes possible when you stop shaming… and start choosing yourself.

Listen to the full conversation with @chiaramecozzi at the link in my bio @inneralchemy_studio by @inneralchemyshow

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7 months ago