Meet Leigh Aschoff

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Leigh Aschoff. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Leigh below.

Leigh, so great to have you with us and we want to jump right into a really important question. In recent years, it’s become so clear that we’re living through a time where so many folks are lacking self-confidence and self-esteem. So, we’d love to hear about your journey and how you developed your self-confidence and self-esteem.

My encouragement on how to develop confidence and self-esteem is to begin with curiosity around the areas where you do experience confidence and self-esteem. When you discover this, notice how your body feels when you experience confidence and self-esteem. Are there any sensations in your body? Do you notice a particular body posture? What thoughts do you notice having when aligned with embodied confidence and self-esteem?

Beginning from a place of acknowledging that most of us do experience confidence and self-esteem in certain areas can be a powerful foundation for exploring the areas within us that have growth potential.

Once you have a sense of the areas where you do experience confidence and self-esteem, bring curiosity to areas within yourself where there is growth potential. Notice if there are situations or relationships in your life that activate an absence of confidence and self-esteem within you. Take the time to notice how your body feels when you connect with this.

Are there any sensations in your body? Do you notice a particular body posture? What thoughts do you notice having when in a state of absence of confidence and self-esteem? 


From here, my recommendation is to explore this more in a somatic healing session. A one on one somatic healing approach like Compassionate Inquiry invites you to discover even more about what is in the way of you experiencing confidence and self-esteem in certain areas of your life experience.

A few areas of exploration a somatic healing session may invite you to are how you are seeing yourself in a particular situation, body sensations and resonant emotions. Somatic healing invites you to an opportunity for compassionate connection with yourself that will support you to know your unique work and practice in the area of developing more embodied confidence and self-esteem.

A deeper part of confidence and self-esteem is trust. Somatic healing invites you to ongoing, conscious relationship with your body. Through this ongoing awareness, you have opportunities to sense, feel and process your experience in the present moment. This invites you to engage with life and your experience of being alive with open presence.

When you are in ongoing connection with your body, you are grounded and awake to your unfolding experience. As you engage in this relational connection with yourself, you cultivate a deeper trust in yourself by growing your capacity to sense, feel and experience life through your your body and felt senses (not only in your mind).

Confidence and self-esteem are founded by trusting ourselves and trusting life. When we are a friend to our bodies, trust expands from possibility to a tangible, supportive way of being in the world.

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 a trauma integrating somatic healing practitioner. Currently, I offer Compassionate Inquiry Honoring Sessions, Mentoring Sessions and Akashic Records Sessions.

Professionally, I am focused on inviting people to connect with their present moment embodied experiences compassionately. Through this practice, truth and wisdom emerge that each person can apply to their day to day lives.

This is a transformational process that involves incremental steps, gentleness and presence.

Something very exciting about somatic healing sessions is that they engage you with your own body, your senses. The sessions are experiential and through this, healthy changes and growth occur.

What I bring to somatic healing is decades of experience in Sacred Creativity and years of experience as a Transpersonal Energy Healer and Advanced Akashic Records practitioner/teacher. My experiential background in these areas enables me to be trusting and open to the creative healing process as it unfolds. I embody deep humility, present moment trust and awareness of every person’s innate capacity to transform, heal and return to an embodied sense of wholeness.

Along with my passion for creativity and non-physical energy is a commitment to present moment attunement and possibility. Allowing, with curiosity and non-judgment, what arises in each moment is a powerful catalyst for processing what wants to be felt, seen, heard, held and cherished. This often ushers forth discovery of new possibilities and choices.

Playfulness is an essential part of healing. For all we are processing and integrating personally and collectively, I invite play, laughter and brevity as supportive companions along the way and encourage this for all.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

The most impactful qualities I embody are non-judgment, gentleness and creativity.

When I embody and offer non-judgment there is an all encompassing allowing that unfolds. As I work with people in sessions, it is paramount to safety and growth that non-judgment, acceptance and allowing is offered in sincere presence.

When we are able to welcome all that arises in the present moment with compassion, we are invited into deeper connection with our heart, body and wisdom. This gives us a design of our emotional, spiritual healing work to bring forward into daily practice.

Gentleness is a state of being I believe we all benefit from in all ways. Embodying a sense of gentleness can be counter to the culture and lifestyle many of us live within and are inherently a part of. Speed is a big part of life for many of us. Gentleness slows us down. Gentleness invites us to be soft and present.

What happens when we are more gentle with ourselves? How does gentleness impact our health and our daily life experience? How does gentleness with ourselves impact how we relate with others and the world around us?

I consider creativity to be inherently present at all times and very sacred. My deep reverence for creativity supports my ability to be non-judgmental and gentle. It also supports my deepening trust in myself, those around me and in all of life. Honoring creativity as it unfolds in every moment connects me to curiosity and possibility. It invites pause and an openness in my heart, body and awareness.

My advice to folx who are early in their journey —

Shine light on your gifts and honor your unique unfolding.

Set aside time and space to consider and know your gifts. Once you know your gifts — honor, cherish and share them regularly.

Choose relationships, activities and environments that encourage, support and deepen your gifts and skills.

Include a connection to your embodied experience in this process and you will begin to notice what and who you are called to collaborate with.

Honor the resonance that calls you forward into the world.

Honor your limits and need for rest along the way.

Remember the power of heart body connection and balance.

Engage in an intentional healing process with a healing practitioner you are called to work with.

Commit to an ongoing healing relationship with your heart and body.

Be a part of collective healing by engaging in healing yourself and sharing this with others.

Who is your ideal client or what sort of characteristics would make someone an ideal client for you?

My ideal clients have experienced separation, loss, othering and life experiences that in some way wounded their heart.

My ideal clients are those who have been wounded in heart yet are committed to living in a heart-centered, embodied, conscious way.

My ideal clients are ready to commit to an intentional, regular healing process in one on one sessions. They are ready to step into their emotional, spiritual work. They are ready to fully embrace and embody their gifts.

My ideal clients are courageous and willing to take responsibility. This is part of a collective process of connection and harmonizing that begins within each of us and expands into the collective through our relationships with one another.

My ideal clients are already engaged in healing work and practices yet are ready for more. They are ready for a deeper dive into connection, presence and attuned reciprocity.

My ideal clients intuitively know that a wounded heart unleashes a passion to be a part of collective healing in an embodied, conscious, heart-centered way.

My ideal clients are passionate about respecting and listening to their body.

My ideal clients are deeply sensitive and embrace this as a gift.

My ideal clients are passionate about integrity.

My ideal clients are expanded creatively.

My ideal clients are passionate about being a part of personal and collective reciprocity.

My ideal clients are committed to transforming pain and tension with their attention and evolving suffering with compassion.

My ideal clients are committed to cultivating compassion so that truth may flourish for all.

My ideal clients are ready to deepen their connection with their heart body wisdom in service of heart peace, love, embodied belonging and liberation for all.

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