416: Ashley Abercrombie: Overcoming Trauma and Perfectionism To Find Space & Grace

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ashley Abercrombie fought to overcome addiction, rape, abortion, perfectionism and dysfunctional relationships to become an honest, whole and free woman (most days). She wore a mask more than half her life, and considers herself too old, and too annoyed to ever put that thing on again. Ashley is a speaker and a writer, featured in many magazines and digital outlets, including Darling, Relevant and Grit and Virtue. Her YouVersion Bible study, Finding God in the Hard Places, has been completed by over 200,000 people. Her first book will be released in the fall of 2019, with Baker Books. Alongside fellow author and speaker, Tiffany Bluhm, Ashley is the co-host for the hilarious and helpful podcast Why Tho. She has an unrelenting passion for justice, particularly anti-human trafficking and mass incarceration initiatives, and served the city of Los Angeles for seven years, winning commendations from the LAPD and Los Angeles Mayor’s office, before transitioning to Manhattan to pastor at Liberty Church, Downtown, alongside her husband, Cody. Ashley is an executive board bember of Treasures, a non-profit that reaches and supports women in the sex industry and victims of sexual exploitation, while training leaders globally. The Abercrombies are nearly brain dead from sleep deprivation, but love their life, raising two incredible sons, Levi (5) and Lucas (2), in their beautiful neighborhood in Harlem, New York. Listen in to hear Ashley share: How she gave up her PhD in pretending her life was great and get honest about her story and proudly own it - how to stop pretending and performing for others How enduring an eating disorder, addiction, sexual assault, and abortion led her to her current place of grace in life How our secrets inevitably lead to self harm The benefits of adjusting your expectations every morning instead of assuming every day will be great The exact action she takes to be honest with herself #everydamnday The beauty of recognizing the notion that time is your friend Why a day of rest is essential as a family How to have more holy gumption in order to live your best, most spirited life Links Mentioned: Join me at Shameless Mom Con 2020 SMA Ep 322 with Tiffany Bluhm Connect with Ashley: Ashabercrombie IG & Twitter: @ashabercrombie Facebook: @ashabercrombienyc Thank you to our sponsors: Derma E: To get you started on trying their clean beauty solutions they are giving you 20% off sitewide with promo code SHAMELESS20 at https://dermae.com/. FamilyAlbum: Please find FamilyAlbum on your favorite app store, or by searching for FamilyAlbum on the web. And remember FamilyAlbum is all one word. Blinkist: Go to Blinkist.com/SHAMELESS try it FREE for 7 days AND save 25% off your new subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 416 with Ashley Abercrombie. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.1	including any links mentioned in the episode, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors,
0:09.9	can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 416.
0:18.8	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to
0:38.3	join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you.
0:43.4	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's
0:49.8	episode.
0:53.5	Ashley Abercrombie fought to overcome addiction, rape, abortion, perfectionism,
0:58.1	and dysfunctional relationships to become an honest, whole, and free woman most days. She wore a
1:04.7	mask more than half her life and considers herself too old and too annoyed to ever put that thing on
1:09.5	again. Ashley is a speaker and a writer
1:11.7	featured in many magazines and digital outlets. Her U-Version Bible study, Finding God in the Hard
1:16.9	Places has been completed by over 200,000 people. Her first book will be released in the fall of
1:22.2	2019 with Baker Books. Alongside fellow author and speaker Tiffany Bloom, Ashley is the co-host
1:27.4	for the hilarious
1:28.1	and helpful podcast, Why, though. These two are an amazing dynamic duo. Tiffany has been on the show as
1:34.3	well. These two together. It's a lot in all the best ways. Like, it's a lot, but you also want more.
1:40.0	They're so great. Ashley has an unrelenting passion for justice, particularly anti-human
1:44.8	trafficking and mass incarceration initiatives, and served the city of Los Angeles for seven years,
1:50.3	winning commendations from the LAPD and the L.A. mayor's office before transitioning to Manhattan
1:55.8	to pastor at Liberty Church downtown, alongside her husband Cody. Ashley is an executive board member of Treasures, a nonprofit that teaches and supports women in the sex industry and victims of sexual exploitation while training leaders globally.
2:08.6	Ashley and her husband are nearly brain dead from sleep deprivation, but they love their life, raising two incredible sons, Levi, five and Lucas H2, in their beautiful neighborhood
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