You don’t have to keep
living in overwhelm.
There’s a way back to yourself. To the people you love. To the life that's been waiting on the other side of the overwhelm, the shutdown, the exhausting fear loops and dreaded what-if spirals.
From the earliest days of motherhood to menopause and everything in between, mama amour is a safe space for mothers who are ready to heal their nervous systems and build a felt sense of safety within.
If this sounds like you…
You love your baby. You love your family. And somehow, that love and responsibility has led to worries you can’t turn off, moods you can’t predict, and an exhausting level of overwhelm.
It feels like you’re surviving life one day at a time, but certainly not thriving in it.
Flow? What’s flow? This feels like trudging through thick, swampy mud.
You’re mourning for the old you but unsure how to find her…
Maybe you’re mourning for the you that was carefree, easy going, spunky, and spontaneous instead of rigid, controlling, and angry.
Maybe you’re mourning for the you who was calm, confident, and decisive instead of perpetually paralyzed by fear.
Maybe you’re mourning for the peaceful pre-baby you that wasn’t afraid of… well, everything.
Maybe you’re mourning for the you that had passions, aspirations, dreams, and hobbies of her own.
There’s this looming sense that you’ve lost the thread of who you are somewhere in the process of becoming a mother, and you’re not quite sure how to find your way back to you again.
You’re not broken. You’re not failing. And the old you is still in there… she’s just hidden under a nervous system that’s stuck in overdrive. To reconnect to her, your body needs to feel safe again.
The most important safe haven you’ll ever build is the one inside yourself, and I’m here to show you how to build it.
Where are you at right now?
Every mother’s path looks a little different. Here’s where to start…
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The intrusive thoughts. The checking. The fear you haven’t told anyone the full truth of. If this is where you are, you’re in the right place — and there is a way through that goes all the way to the root.
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You may not have postpartum OCD, but your nervous system is dysregulated, you feel constantly overwhelmed, and you’re ready to come home to yourself. The Regulated Mother course was built for exactly this.
→ Learn about The Regulated Mother Course
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The sudden anxiety, the rage, the overwhelm that feels completely foreign—this is a neurobiological reality in perimenopause. And there are tools designed specifically for this season.
→ Learn about The Regulated Woman Course
Hi, I’m Ashley.
I know how heavy the burden is that you’re carrying, because I’ve carried it before too—twice, actually.
I experienced postpartum OCD after the birth of both of my children and yet again in perimenopause. I know how convincing the fear feels, how relentless the mental loops become, and how isolating it is to carry the terror quietly while trying to care for a baby. I also know how upsetting it feels when your innocent newborn becomes the primary trigger for your worst fears.
I tried CBT. I tried mindfulness. I tried medication. I tried meditation. I tried EFT. I tried herbs and supplements. I tried special elimination diets. I tried ERP… twice. It all helped… for a while. But the fear kept finding new forms, new targets, new ways in. Because the work addressed the surface-level contents of the intrusive thoughts rather than the core wound behind them.
Trying to address the specific fears one at a time felt like playing a game of whack-a-mole I’d never win… there was always a new fear, always a new way for worry to take hold.
What began to change everything was learning to work at the level of the body. Building a daily practice that actually trained my nervous system toward safety, instead of merely trying to manage the anxious thoughts that stemmed from dysregulation. And then pairing that with the deeper work of understanding the core patterns, programming, and unprocessed memories (wounds) that had trained my subconscious to be on high-alert even when life was objectively calm.
The Regulated Mother course and The Regulated Woman course are the entry points to healing that I built from that understanding. Not as courses to merely cope with symptoms. But as courses designed to build a foundation of safety within using practical, evidence-based strategies to regulate the nervous system in measurable ways. Why? Because the state of your nervous system shapes your perception. From within the felt safety of a regulated nervous system, the worries that once haunted you have less power, the mood spirals have less grip, and you have more of yourself back. These courses are designed to build a nervous system that knows how to be calm, even when life isn’t. Because safety isn’t circumstantial, it’s an internally generated state that emerges from a regulated nervous system.
The Postpartum OCD Recovery Program is a high-touch, 1:1 container that takes this healing work to the next level by revealing and resolving the root cause (core subconscious wound) beneath all the anxious thoughts and patterns using the power of Rapid Transformational Therapy® (RTT®).
I hold an Ed.S. in psychology, certifications in Rapid Transformational Therapy® and hypnotherapy, and I’ve hosted a psychology-focused podcast for four years. But the most important thing I bring to this work is that I’ve sat exactly where you are, and I know the way out.
Ways to Work Together
THE PROGRAMS
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Built on The 4R Method™: Regulate, Reveal, Rewire, Return to Resilience
A 12-week, high-touch 1:1 program for new mothers navigating postpartum OCD. Combines psychoeducational coaching, Rapid Transformational Therapy, hypnotherapy, and nervous system regulation to break the OCD cycle from the inside out, going all the way to the subconscious root cause that most approaches never reach.
Investment: $4,500 | Limited to 8 clients at any time
Learn more here.
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Built on The 3R Method™: Regulate, Rewire, Return to Resilience
A self-paced online course in nervous system regulation, values-based living, and coming home to yourself. For new mothers who are dysregulated, anxious, and ready to change—at their own pace, in their own time.
Investment: $397 | Self-paced, lifetime access | Monthly live Q&A
Learn more here.
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Built on The 3R Method™: Regulate, Rewire, Return to Resilience
A self-paced online course in nervous system regulation, values-based living, and coming home to yourself. For women in perimenopause who are dysregulated, anxious, angry, and ready to change—at their own pace, in their own time.
Investment: $397 | Self-paced, lifetime access | Monthly live Q&A
Learn more here.
Everywhere we go, there we are. The most important safe haven we’ll ever build is the one inside ourselves.
The Methodology
Most approaches to healing postpartum OCD, postpartum anxiety, and other hormonally linked mental health issues work on the surface—managing symptoms, building coping strategies, desensitizing a person to specific fears, etc. That work matters. But for many women, something deeper is driving the cycle. A subconscious wound. A nervous system stuck in overdrive and dysregulation.
The 4R Method™ and the 3R Method™ are built to address these deeper layers. To regulate the nervous system, rewire the subconscious patterns maintaining dysregulation and hypervigilance, and build a felt sense of safety and resilience form within, with the 4R Method™ going one step further to reveal and resolve the subconscious root cause through Rapid Transformational Therapy® (RTT®) and 1:1 psychoeducational sessions.
Phase 1: Regulate.
Calm the nervous system enough to do the deeper work.
Phase 2: Reveal.
Uncover the root-cause subconscious beliefs (core fears) driving the cycle.
Phase 3: Rewire.
Replace fear-based beliefs with values-driven beliefs using RTT®, hypnotherapy, nervous system regulation tools, and ACT-informed values work.
Phase 4: Return to Resilience.
Arrive somewhere stronger than where you started, with a repeatable and personalized approach to resilience that travels with you into every life season that follows.
Wherever you are,
you’re in the right place
You don’t have to have it all figured out before you reach out. You just have to be ready to take the first step.
I think I have postpartum OCD and am in need of specialized support.
→ The Postpartum OCD Recovery Program
I’m a mother in the postpartum phase who’s feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and not quite myself.
→ The Regulated Mother Course
I’m navigating perimenopause and my moods and reactions have become unpredictable.
→ The Regulated Woman Course
The most important safe haven you’ll ever build is the one inside yourself. I’m here to show you how to build it.
Keep Learning
The Soul Horizon Podcast
Four years of conversations about psychological healing, nervous system regulation, and coming home to yourself. A good place to start before you take any other step.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify
From the Blog
Real, honest writing about postpartum OCD, nervous system regulation, perimenopause, and the journey back to yourself.
→ Understanding Trauma, Stored Trauma, and Postpartum Mental Health: A Science-Based Guide
→ What is postpartum OCD? (And why it’s not what you think)
→ Thoughts vs. Thinking in OCD: The Distinction that Changes Everything