We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ashley Brothers a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Ashley, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
Before I explain how I found my purpose, I’d like to define what it truly means. Purpose is not just a mission or goal—it’s the culmination of several interconnected factors that must first be cultivated for success. On the logical levels pyramid, purpose sits near the peak, with its base and subsequent levels comprised of one’s environment, behavior, capabilities, values, beliefs, and identity.
Your environment includes the people, places, and things that influence you. Behavior reflects your choices, actions, and reactions. Values define what’s most important to you, shaped by past perceived voids, present needs and desires, and future visions. Capabilities encompass your knowledge and skills. Beliefs are what you hold to be true about yourself, others, and life. Identity is your concept of self—how you see and feel about who and what you are.
When these elements are clarified and aligned, they form a map of fulfillment and contribution that naturally leads to a compelling vision for your life that holds purpose and meaning that inspires and motivates you. So, purpose is ultimately an expression of who you are and how you contribute to the world. It’s not limited to a job title—it can show up in your passions, relationships, service, or creativity. When your actions reflect your highest values, life flows effortlessly rather than being forced. You radiate authenticity, attract opportunities, and naturally become the person you were always meant to be. With that said, my purpose was born from a multitude of experiences that started when I was young, but didn’t become clear to me until my mid-20s.
In January 2004, I decided that my purpose was to help people around the world heal from the long-term effects of abuse, trauma, and neglect through energy medicine and shamanic healing. I spent over 20 years studying under doctors, scientists, shamans, mystics, healers, and spiritual leaders from diverse indigenous cultures, philosophies, and traditions worldwide, seeking the most effective and transformative methods available. I chose the path of ancient healing practices because it aligned with my inherent psychic abilities and an experience that altered my perception and understanding of reality. What I learned not only changed my life—it saved it when I later faced a terminal illness that was the result of medical malpractice.
From birth, I possessed the ability to see, hear, and feel spirits, sense the emotions of others, and perceive past and future events. These intuitive gifts allowed me to prevent accidents and death, and offer accurate insights into people’s health, relationships, and life circumstances. My skills include clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, precognition, medical mediumship, and, at times, telemetry and telepathy.
My first memory occurred while I was still in the womb. My consciousness had either separated from my mother’s body or I was viewing the world through someone else’s eyes (telepathically). This wouldn’t be the last time that happened. Throughout my life, I occasionally found my consciousness within other people’s bodies—seeing, hearing, and feeling everything they did while being fully aware that it wasn’t me. Sometimes I would flip back and forth between a couple of people in the same room if they were interacting with each other. These experiences were spontaneous, often overwhelming, and entirely beyond my control. I don’t do it intentionally for ethical reasons. However, I can focus on a person and see images of their past, present, and future; get messages from their consciousness, their ancestors, and even their bodies; and get insight into what needs to be removed or restored in ordinary and non-ordinary reality for them to achieve their goals.
I can pick up impressions simply by touching objects, entering a room, or focusing on someone’s question, which is particularly useful for doing house clearing and blessing ceremonies because it tells which objects in a person’s environment are positively or negatively impacting their life. These abilities are diminished under stress, so when I am channeling for myself or others, I have learned to remain centered and relaxed, often entering an alpha-theta state to access my highest accuracy.
As a child, I had no understanding that these abilities were gifts because they were only activated in moments of danger or when negative spirits would harass me, which was on a daily basis. These gifts felt more like a curse because they never helped me improve my own life until I received training. By my early twenties, after years of complex trauma, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and struggled to find purpose or meaning. My so-called gifts earned me an additional diagnosis that carried a hefty stigma and would later be used against me.
Everything shifted the day I wandered into a spiritual shop and decided to have my first tarot reading. The session seemed unremarkable until the reader paused and asked if I knew I could communicate with the dead. Every hair on my body stood on end. She handed me a card—the contact information for the woman who would become my first spiritual healer and mentor. Following that encounter, I enrolled in a two-day psychic development workshop. Our exercises involved reading candle flames, water bowls, and personal objects to uncover intuitive information. To my astonishment, it all felt completely natural—like something I had done many times before.
When I received my first shamanic healing, the transformation was profound. The mental, emotional, and energetic shift was so powerful that it altered my identity, mindset, habits, and direction in life almost overnight. I overcame years of depression, anxiety, and complex PTSD. I quit smoking, lost over 100 pounds, began public speaking, changed my appearance, and returned to school to study massage and healing techniques from around the world. That single healing experience ignited a lifelong passion to study ancient wisdom traditions and dedicate my life to helping others heal through alternative methods.
One year into my training, I underwent surgery to remove two ovarian cysts. What was supposed to be a routine procedure became the beginning of a medical nightmare. I was hospitalized for a week instead of a day, plagued by unrelenting pain, fever, and swelling that worsened instead of improving. Guided by intuition, I asked my higher self what was wrong and was told something inside me would lead to my death if it wasn’t removed. I placed a hand on my abdomen and felt a hard mass on the opposite side of my incision.
When I contacted my surgeon, I was told it would take months to be seen. By the time my appointment arrived, the lump had doubled in size and was visible through my skin. The doctor dismissed me, insisting I was merely overweight or constipated. She suggested I go on a diet, increase my exercise, and take some laxatives. I was offended, but I refused to leave without an ultrasound referral. During the scan, the technician went silent and didn’t look at me. That evening, my doctor called urgently, telling me that I needed an immediate MRI, but she refused to explain why. When she called with the results, she was so vague I suspected she was lying to me, so I sought another opinion at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. There, surgeons discovered two grapefruit-sized abscesses and a large wad of surgical gauze that had begun to rot inside my abdomen, causing systemic sepsis.
I underwent two more surgeries to remove the abscesses, my entire reproductive system, and to surgically separate my organs twice because they had fused together and adhered to my abdominal wall. The repeated trauma and chronic inflammation left me in constant pain and weakened my immune system. Two years and three surgeries later, I collapsed in the shower with chest pain and shortness of breath. Tests revealed inflammation of my aorta and arteries, restricting blood flow to my limbs and brain. I was told that I was probably born that way and that there was no connection between my cardiac condition and my botched surgeries. They insisted that my condition was mild and not to worry, but I knew my condition was not congenital.
Because of my history of anxiety, I had been tested for a cardiac condition as a teenager to rule out any underlying conditions for a racing heart, and I had no findings that were now suddenly apparent. My symptoms worsened—rapid weight loss (30 lbs in 3 weeks), internal bleeding, bruising, seizures, and mini-strokes—yet doctors insisted my results were “normal” and accused me of psychosomatic illness, reminding me of the diagnoses I’d received in my early 20s.
When I obtained my medical records, I discovered the truth: I had developed a rare form of vasculitis that was destroying my arteries, along with inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers, a collapsing intestine, a twisted colon, and gastric paralysis. Later, I developed seizures, 16 strokes, and amnesia. Because I was in the midst of a medical lawsuit, dozens of doctors across three states refused to treat me. I was either gaslit and bullied, or I was completely ignored.
At that point, I turned entirely to the spiritual and energetic methods I had studied. My inner guidance instructed me on what to start and stop doing, and how to activate my body’s innate healing capacity. The guidance included major changes in my diet and taking herbs that I later discovered were anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial in nature. Combining this new diet with energy medicine, meditation, and spiritual discipline, I healed conditions that had been deemed irreversible. I regained full function of my body and mind after years of 10 years of chronic pain and inflammation and 2.5 years of memory loss, seizures, strokes, and paralysis of organs. Though I had once been given less than a 1% chance of survival—and had even prepaid for my cremation—I fully recovered. Today, aside from surgical scars, there is no evidence that I was ever ill.
Medical malpractice is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Western medicine often manages symptoms rather than addressing root causes such as diet, lifestyle, toxic stress, environmental pollutants, and emotional dysregulation. Yet through ancient and integrative practices that unite the mind, body, and spirit, true healing and liberation are possible.
My purpose has since evolved. While I began by helping others heal from trauma and abuse, my mission now is to help people shift their identity, habits, and state of being into alignment with their goals, values, and the happiest, healthiest version of themselves. Healing is no longer just about recovery—it’s about transformation, embodying a compelling version of self, and creating a life that is based on inspiration and fulfillment rather than any perceived wound or limitation.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I am the founder of Inner Temple Healing, a motivational speaker, international life coach, metaphysician, and facilitator of identity-shifting, peak states of consciousness, and biofield therapies. Essentially, I help people remember who and what they truly are—powerful, intuitive, multidimensional beings capable of extraordinary things that bend and shape reality. I guide you through a process of transformation where I act as a bridge, a conduit, between versions of yourself by helping you:
– Identify and cultivate the current and desired maps of your reality
– Break, neutralize, or erase internal barriers created by social conditioning, mental constructs, and nervous system collapse that keep people stuck within a certain zone of life experiences
– End inner conflict between different aspects of your personality that may have opposing beliefs, needs, goals, and desires
– Break cycles of trauma, limiting beliefs, and toxic habits that lead to mental and physical illness
– Awaken and liberate your consciousness from unwanted influences
– Shift your identity and imprint new information into your quantum field and subconscious mind that allows you to activate your inner mastery
– Embody your values, passion, power, confidence, courage, and voice that are steeped in authenticity
– Deepen your awareness, intuition, and connection with Source
– Consciously become the architect of your life and create a compelling vision filled with purpose and meaning that motivates and inspires you to be and do your best
What excites me most about this work is witnessing the extraordinary transformations that occur when people reclaim their power. I’ve worked with clients from over 33 countries worldwide, helping them achieve profound breakthroughs in health, relationships, and purpose. When I began this journey in 2004, these methods were often dismissed as “fringe” or “woo-woo.” Yet today, visionaries like Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, and Gregg Braden have provided the scientific evidence to validate what ancient healers have always known—that energy, frequency, and consciousness directly shape our biology and our reality.
We are living in a time where people are awakening to their multidimensional nature and realizing that healing, transformation, and even miracles are not only possible but natural. Individuals across the globe are freeing themselves from chronic illness, depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction; they are manifesting abundance, love, and purpose; and they are stepping into the truth of who they really are—powerful creators of their own reality.
This global awakening is more than a movement—it is the next stage of human evolution. The expansion of consciousness and the mastery of energy are no longer luxuries; they are essential to our survival and the key to humanity’s future.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
1. Clarity of Vision: Clarity of vision is the cornerstone of transformation. Without a clear vision, the mind scatters its energy in too many directions, reacting to circumstances instead of consciously creating them. In my journey, developing clarity meant defining not only what I wanted to create, but why it mattered and who I needed to become to achieve it. A clear vision acts as a compass—it organizes your thoughts, emotions, and actions into alignment with your desired future.
For those early in their journey, I recommend taking time each day to connect with your highest vision—not from your current limitations, but from your potential. Visualization, journaling, and meditation are powerful tools for this. See your ideal life as already real, feel it in your body, and allow it to inform your decisions in the present moment. The clearer your vision, the stronger the energetic signal you send into the field—and the faster reality begins to reorganize itself around that frequency.
2. Committed Congruent Identity:
Your identity is the energetic architecture that determines how you think, feel, and behave. It defines the boundaries of what you believe is possible for you. Early in my path, I realized that real transformation doesn’t occur by merely changing habits or goals—it happens when you become a new version of yourself who naturally embodies those qualities.
A committed, congruent identity means that your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, habits, choices, and actions are all aligned with your values and your vision. When they’re not, you experience inner conflict and begin to feel like an imposter. Living in congruence requires prioritizing the needs of your future self and choosing integrity even when comfort, pleasure, or instant gratification tempt you to regress.
Tap into the vision of your future self and ask:
1) Who would I be if I already had what I desire?
2) What does that version of me do that I don’t currently do? (Start doing that.)
3) What am I doing now that my future self no longer does? (Stop doing that.)
4) Who and what does that version of me no longer tolerate? (Release those people and things.)
5) What are the beliefs, habits, routines, and lifestyle of my future self? (Rearrange your life and schedule to adopt these new aspects).
6) How does that version of me dress, eat, and speak? What skills do I need to learn to embody that identity? (Gradually incorporate these shifts into your life).
Your future identity is like the destination—the address you input into your internal GPS. The actions you start and stop doing are the directions that take you from your current state of being to that chosen destination. Identity and habits form a kind of momentum tunnel or timeline—like driving on a freeway at full speed. Many people treat transformation as a temporary detour, exiting the freeway for a few days, weeks, or months before returning to the same road and wondering why nothing has changed.
A committed, congruent identity means permanently leaving that old path—and the people traveling it—and merging onto a new one that puts you in proximity to events, relationships, environments, and opportunities that support your highest evolution.
If you have toxic people in your life, you must be willing to leave them behind. The top five people you spend the most time with shape your thoughts, emotions, language, beliefs, and habits. Many resist your transformation because it threatens their own comfort and identity. They may even unconsciously undermine your growth to keep you in a state that validates their own limitations.
Changing identity is not just visualization—it’s an active process of thinking, speaking, and behaving from that identity every day. Over time, your subconscious mind rewires itself to match the new pattern, and what once required effort becomes your natural state of being.
Commitment is key. Identity shifts require consistency. When you fully commit to the version of yourself you are becoming, every obstacle becomes an opportunity for integration, expansion, and growth.
3. Self-Inducing Alternate States of Consciousness:
Everything in life is just a state of being. Anger, sadness, grief, poverty, failure, and illness are states of consciousness, as are love, joy, optimal health and fitness, success, and wealth. Self-inducing alternate states of consciousness (without psychedelics) has been one of the most transformative aspects of my work and personal evolution. These states—whether achieved through meditation, breathwork, hypnosis, trance, energy work, or heart-brain coherence—allow us to move beyond the analytical mind and access the subconscious and superconscious layers of intelligence. This is where deep healing, reprogramming, and creative inspiration occur.
Learning to consciously enter these states enables you to bypass old conditioning and connect directly with your higher guidance. It’s where new ideas, solutions, and insights arise—often instantaneously. The key is to cultivate stillness, presence, and openness to the unknown.
For those beginning this journey, start by practicing daily coherence exercises—such as HeartMath techniques, deep rhythmic breathing, or guided visualization. As you train your nervous system to relax and your brain waves to slow down, you’ll find that creativity, intuition, and healing potential naturally expand.
In essence, these three qualities—clarity of vision, committed congruent identity, and mastery of alternate states of consciousness—form a powerful triad of transformation. Vision gives direction, identity gives structure, and consciousness provides access to the infinite field of possibilities. When all three are cultivated together, you don’t just improve your life—you evolve into the highest expression of who you were created to be.
Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
Yes, absolutely. Collaboration is an essential part of my mission and one of the most powerful ways to expand consciousness and healing on a global scale. I’m very intentional about the kinds of people and organizations I align with, and I tend to collaborate with those who share a deep commitment to authenticity, service, and transformation.
Here are the main types of people I seek to partner with:
1. Conscious Thought Leaders and Visionaries: These are teachers, authors, and influencers who are bridging science and spirituality—those who inspire others to live consciously and take responsibility for their reality.
– Ideal collaborators: Transformational coaches, energy psychology practitioners, neuroscientists, spiritual teachers, and educators.
– Why: Collaborating on podcasts, summits, or educational series allows us to merge wisdom and create ripple effects of awareness and healing.
2. Holistic Health and Wellness Professionals: I love working alongside those who address the mind, body, and spirit as one system.
– Ideal collaborators: Integrative doctors, therapists, trauma-informed coaches, nutritionists, and holistic practitioners.
– Why: Our combined modalities offer a comprehensive path to wellbeing—addressing physical, emotional, mental, and energetic balance simultaneously.
3. Creative and Media Professionals: It’s important that consciousness-based work is communicated clearly and beautifully through storytelling and modern media.
– Ideal collaborators: Conscious filmmakers, writers, brand strategists, videographers, and social media creators.
– Why: They help bring multidimensional teachings into accessible, inspiring formats—documentaries, online courses, reels, and digital storytelling that reach global audiences.
4. Educational Platforms and Retreat Organizers: Transformational work thrives in immersive and experiential environments.
– Ideal collaborators: Retreat hosts, online academies, wellness institutes, and event organizers.
– Why: Partnering with platforms dedicated to human potential allows me to share my teachings through workshops, certifications, and live experiences.
5. Conscious Entrepreneurs and Innovators: The future of healing and transformation lies in integrating spirituality with science and technology.
– Ideal collaborators: Conscious business owners, app developers, and investors interested in advancing human potential through innovation.
– Why: Together, we can co-create systems, technologies, and communities that make energetic and consciousness-based transformation accessible worldwide.
Ultimately, my ideal collaborators are those who operate with integrity, purpose, and heart—people who believe in elevating humanity through awareness, healing, and aligned creation. When visionary minds and open hearts unite, transformation doesn’t just happen on an individual level—it becomes a collective awakening. People can reach me through my website https://www.innertemplehealing.org or via email: [email protected].
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.innertemplehealing.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/innertemplehealingandtransformation
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-brothers-851631113/
- Other: https://gnostictv.com/programs/ashley-brothers
