250. Ashley Lemieux: Moving Through Grief & Loss, Maintaining Hope & Finding the Light
The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire
Dear Media
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Author and speaker, Ashley Lemieux, has empowered thousands of women to find purpose in their pain by reframing their mindset through the darkest moments of their life.
Ashley’s motherhood journey is one of immense pain, loss, and, ultimately, hope, after losing her two adopted children in an emotionally exhausting court battle that left her and her husband scrambling to find their way back to each other again. Last year, after making the conscious decision to grow their family, health challenges resulted in another tragic loss that she so openly and bravely discusses on the show.
Silver linings are impossible to find in such moments, but Ashley’s realization that escaping the pain made things worse invited her to work through it rather than around it. Clarity mapping, intentional meditation, and releasing stringent timelines have allowed her to find joy in her life and partnership again.
In times of shrinking solitude, Ashley Lemieux transformed her anguish to art, creating a community for people to feel seen, heard, and loved – even when they do not feel worthy. We hope this vulnerable, raw conversation offers light and inspiration to those who feel their emotional load is too heavy to carry.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Balanced Bond podcast, Solon Fire. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your host, Jordyn Younger and I'm going to keep this very short and sweet today because |
| 0:21.8 | I am healing from a bad cold and I don't want you guys to have to listen to too much of |
| 0:27.9 | this stuffy voice before we get into this conversation with Ashley Lemieux. She's someone |
| 0:34.2 | who I've been following on Instagram for a while and I have a feeling a lot of you are |
| 0:39.4 | too. She has 425,000 Instagram followers, she has an incredible podcast called The I Am |
| 0:47.4 | podcast and she has a brand new book called I Am Here. What really captivates me about |
| 0:53.2 | Ashley and what brought me to following her in the first place after finding her through |
| 0:57.8 | our mutual friend Ruthie Lindsay is that she is so honest on Instagram. She's so vulnerable, |
| 1:06.3 | she's been through a lot and she shares her story with so much courage, so much openness |
| 1:12.2 | and so much bravery. We go deep into everything that Ashley has experienced and has healed |
| 1:18.8 | from in this episode from extreme grief and loss to health issues, the loss of her children |
| 1:26.4 | last year and we really go into how she healed and how she found peace and how she finds |
| 1:33.4 | happiness in her day to day life, both her and in her relationship with her husband. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm so inspired by her and everything that she has been through and I wanted to share |
| 1:45.3 | her story here because all of us know to some degree what it's like to go through grief |
| 1:51.6 | and loss and I've never heard someone speak about it as eloquently as Ashley. Her and |
| 1:58.3 | her husband spent the summer in Hawaii and it looked so beautiful so this episode is |
| 2:03.5 | not all sad and grief. There's so much light and she is just a ball of light so I know |
| 2:10.8 | that you'll really enjoy this conversation and listening to her. Meanwhile, I'm like |
| 2:15.8 | totally laughing, just listening back to this intro so far like I did a second ago because |
| 2:22.4 | my voice is just shot from this cold and don't worry, it's just a cold that got tested |
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