Living an Intentional Life Podcast
Welcome to Living an Intentional Life Podcast — a space for women who are remembering their hearts, reclaiming their energy, and creating lives that actually feel like home.
This is a place where you don’t have to perform, push, or prove — a place where you are met in your truth, your tenderness, and your becoming.
I’m your host, Ashley Strong Smith, and I believe that the deepest transformation doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from living with intention and listening more deeply to who you really are.
Each week, I share honest conversations and supportive tools you can gently try on in your own life — invitations to come back to your heart, trust your inner knowing, and create a life that supports your nervous system, your dreams, and your wholeness.
Here, we honor growth that is rooted, not rushed. We honor boundaries, embodiment, and the quiet wisdom of your own heart. You’re not here by accident. You’re here because something in you is ready for more — more truth, more softness, more alignment, more belonging.
So take a breath… and let yourself arrive.
Living an Intentional Life Podcast
Love Yourself Enough to Transform Your Life with Ash Rucker | Episode 52
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"Believe in the magic.
Believe that there is magic.
And be courageous enough to love yourself.
That takes a lot of courage to really love yourself.
And really choosing you, then will catapult you onto the path to come into connection with soul.
Because there is this resilience with having so much self love that...."
Love Yourself Enough to Transform Your Life with Ash Rucker | Episode 52
Tune into this week's episode of The Living Courageously Podcast as I sit down with the incredibly embodied and inspiring Ash Rucker.
About Ashley :
Ashley Rucker founded TherapART to promote the positive effects of art therapy after struggling with the anguish of a sibling suffering from drug addiction and incarceration.
A gifted dancer and passionate creative, she formed her unique method using meditation, dynamic movement and creative play as an alternative to traditional therapy. The results and breakthroughs were incomparable.
Doubling down on how effective it was on adults, she’s been paying it forward from the beginning. Focusing on youths significantly effected by the criminal justice system, helping them to work through the release of emotional barriers that limit their future lives.
A trained yoga teacher and graduate of the Institute of Transformative Mentoring (ITM) at The New School, she has facilitated TherapART workshops and ceremonies both nationally and internationally. Ashley has called New York home since 2011.
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