Story & Lesson Highlights with Ashley Maven

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Ashley Maven. Check out our conversation below.

Ashley, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. What is a normal day like for you right now?
A normal day starts with time with God in prayer and reading the Word. Then I move onto my planner which is my life and biz book and everything in between. I love spending some time planning my day with God, being creative as I use this book for all sorts of things like scrapbooking, memory keeping, planning, journaling, written prayer, and so much more! After that I get to work with my beautiful clients. Thanks to technology, I get to work with clients all over the world. It’s incredible! Then I work on content creation for my app Joy Rising (which can be found on my website) and then off to the horses where I morph into childhood me who always wanted a horse! Now I get to have three! Sometimes I’ll teach some lessons in the evening, as I was a pro rider many moons ago and enjoy getting to still train my lovely students. Then something special for my polar bear (Great Pyrenees pup) and I tuck my button quail in for the evening. And then I close out my day reading, in prayer, and playing in my planner.

That’s a pretty typical weekday for me. However the creative in me likes to keep things interesting so some days are more client focused, some are more horse focused, some are more content creation focused, and so on. I thrive in routine but fall in monotony. So I’ve learned how to structure things around my unique needs. And I love helping my clients do the same!

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Many know me as Coach Ash, the Miracle Life Mentor

Leading results based Emotional Freedom Expert and Success Coach with an extensive background in neuroplasticity (mind rewiring), life and success coaching, inner healing and deliverance ministry, and a passion in seeking God on behalf of my clients.

I overcame a lifetime of suffering and became a doer of dreams (from the inside out), and now I help my clients all over the world do the same!

I am living proof you can live free from the torment and create a joy centered life. No matter what “they” say…

There’s a video on my homepage that dives deeper into my story should you be interested.

Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
I was the scapegoat within a family of a parent diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and the other parent diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (who had strong narcissistic tendencies). My entire childhood I believed there was something deeply wrong with me. That I was the problem, that I wasn’t skinny enough, pretty enough, smart enough, or valuable enough. I deeply struggled with psychological, emotional, and verbal abuse. From a very young age I was in deep dark pain, the kind of pain most don’t come back from.

I had been in traditional psychological care most of my childhood, and psychiatric care had been introduced in my pre-teens. But as the years passed by, despite my efforts to try and get out of pain, it just got worse and worse.

Until I found the field of neuroplasticity (brain rewiring). I was able to completely 180 and step into true freedom. 16 years ago or so I hung up my pro-rider and horse trainer hat and stepped into helping others become free too.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
The childhood trauma was very damaging to me. I had every diagnosis you can imagine from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Depression, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder, Learning Disabilities, and so much more. I was severely suicidal, as well.

I was told by mental health professionals very young that I’ could only ever “manage” these debilitating symptoms and would never actually be free. Can you imagine how damaging that would be to a child to hear?

Thank God, He had other plans for me. And after immersing in the field of neuroplasticity, I’m not only free from the torment and live in incredible joy, but I get to help my treasured clients all over the world do the same.

I hope my story inspires you of what’s possible. If only you knew the power your mind has to rewire and renew!

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
It’s not exactly “my industry” but we’re in the same general area, if you will. And those lies come from the mental health world and they are so damaging and keeping people stuck! Lies such as the ones I heard growing up “it’s impossible to be free of this suffering, you can only manage it”.

Another misconception is to continue to “process the traumas and emotions” as if you’ll get rid of them, but that’s just not how the brain is actually designed. The brain learns by creating the new, not reviewing the old over and over again. That’s actually just strengthens the very thing someone wants to be free of!

There’s also a complete misconception going on where our society is teaching people to be ruled by their feelings. We were actually designed to rule our mind, not let it rule us. An unruled mind is a weapon used against us, however a directed mind that’s tended to properly is an incredible force to be reckoned with and an ally for us.

Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
I hope people continue to say that God used me to help them be free long after I’m here. My mission is to leave a legacy of freedom from what has hurt us, living in incredible joy, being a do-er of dreams, and above all loving God with all our heart, soul, and mind and knowing how to let Him love us as well.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://ashleymaven.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleymaven
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAshMaven