The Sacred Becoming

10/08/2026

The details are coming together. 🌿

Spring 2027. The Colorado mountains. Six spots.

The Sacred Return is a five-night retreat pairing low-dose ketamine-assisted EMDR with IFS and inner child work, somatic yoga, sound bath, nature ritual, and sacred circle — a full container for the kind of healing that lives in the body, not just the mind.

If you've done the work — the therapy, the insight, the years of trying to understand it — and you're still carrying it somewhere you can't quite name, this is built for you. Two preparation calls and one post integration session included. Two private, 90-minute ketamine-assisted low dose attachment focused EMDRand IFS sessions with me, one-on-one, with space between them to integrate. Daily movement. Daily witness. Six people, held closely, the whole time.

Early application pricing ends January 31st.

Applications are open now — link in bio to learn more and apply. I can't wait to hold this space with you.

You are the medicine. 🌿

09/26/2026

In my conversation with Mental Wellness - Dr Sarah Zerbib Tisser Dr. Sarah Tisser, a perinatal mental health prescriber, she shares something that stopped me in my tracks: psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners receive little to no advanced training in women’s mental health or perinatal mental health.

Think about that for a moment. Pregnancy, postpartum, and the hormonal shifts that shape a woman’s whole life are not considered essential parts of psychiatric training. Women are left to navigate some of the most vulnerable seasons of their lives with providers who were never taught how to support them.

This isn’t just a gap in education. It speaks volumes about how women are prioritized in our society.

If you’ve ever felt dismissed, unheard, or handed a prescription without real understanding, it’s not that something is wrong with you. The system wasn’t built with you in mind.

I feel this personally right now. I’m currently facing a shortage of both my hormone medication and my Adderall, two medications that help me function and care for others. Trying to get answers, alternatives, or even a sense of urgency from the system has shown me how easily women’s health needs get pushed down the list.

🎧 Listen to the full episode at the link below -

Tag a mama or a provider who needs to hear this. 💛

09/21/2026

Second somatic reparenting workshop complete - 9 beautiful souls shared space at Rising Lotus and said yes to being held.

One participant reported she arrived terrified and left feeling gangster. 💕✨💕✨ Another commented she came in heavy and walked out light. A third arrived with anxiety and walked out feeling peace. Three hours of a full somatic embodied experience where everyone showed up brave, vulnerable, and open to receive.

They didn’t just learn that energy can shift—they felt it move through their own bodies. They left with a lived experience of what’s possible. They experienced being held, learning to self soothe, how to say no and discharge fear, and how to practice trusting yourself. They integrated with a sacred sound bath and reiki energy healing. Instead of sharing stories we shared sacred space while moving our bodies. This is the medicine.. 🌿

I can’t wait for the next workshop and for the next offering - a retreat!!!!

Stay tuned!! 🌳🌳🌳🌳

09/12/2026

Things I wish you knew about the mother wound:

Your nervous system learned early that it wasn't safe to move toward connection, that it wasn't safe to need. This creates an ache, a longing, an undeniable hunger that never fully goes away.

So you became a people-pleaser. Hypervigilant. Addicted to love, s*x, substances — because you believed that hunger needed to be satisfied outside of yourself.

Here's what I need you to know:

There's nothing wrong with you for aching for that connection. It's primal. Your first experience of love is a mother's love, and it wires the way you view yourself for the rest of your lives.

And the good news? You can reclaim what was once lost.

You can learn to nurture yourself through gentle somatic self-soothing. You can explore what a yes and no feels like inside your body. You can trust the wisdom that lives inside you.

When you regulate your nervous system, these gifts come naturally. You become your own safe mother. 🌿

I'm Ashley Hartman, LCSW, PMH-C, RYT-200 with 15+ years of clinical experience in somatic and attachment trauma. I'm trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR, IFS, ketamine-assisted EMDR, and trauma-informed yoga. I recently completed my somatic sensorimotor training and I'm finishing my psilocybin training. I founded The Sacred Becoming, a private-pay integrative trauma practice, and I'm passionate about teaching clients how to access the medicine that lives inside their own nervous systems.

09/09/2026

Join me for a crucial conversation with Dr. Sarah Tisser, PMHNP, as we dive into perinatal mental health in the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy case. I'm an attachment and somatic trauma therapist trained in traumatic birth and Attachment-Focused EMDR, and Sarah is a prescribing PMHNP.

Together, we discuss an undeniable clinical reality backed by research: having a supportive partner is associated with a reduction in moderate-to-severe postpartum depression by nearly 50%. ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Even more striking, partnered postpartum people show a 71% reduction in their risk of severe depressive symptoms. The partner's role is not peripheral—it's foundational. ‼️‼️‼️

We discuss how hormonal transitions, traumatic birth experiences, and attachment patterns require active partner engagement. If you're carrying trauma, navigating motherhood, or supporting someone who is, this episode matters. You are the medicine. 🌿

If you have struggled with perinatal trauma check out the link in my bio to learn more about my work. I am licensed in IL & Colorado.
Sarah sees clients at her practice in Northbrook, IL via telehealth and in person.

09/09/2026

Dr. Sarah Tisser, PMHNP, and I, Ashley Hartman, LCSW, PMH-C, discuss a clinical reality that should alarm us all: It’s 2026 and postpartum depression doesn’t have its own DSM-5 diagnosis. It’s classified as Major Depressive Disorder “with peripartum onset”—buried as a specifier, not recognized as a distinct condition. Postpartum psychosis? Also not a separate category. Postpartum anxiety? Also missing. This isn’t a minor classification issue—it’s evidence of profound systemic neglect. The DSM-5 is the diagnostic bible used by every therapist and prescriber to treat women’s mental health. Its silence on perinatal conditions reflects a lack of research funding and care prioritization for mothers. This is catastrophic and a profound failure for women and families everywhere. This is the patriarchy at work.

As a perinatal trauma therapist trained in traumatic birth and Attachment-Focused EMDR, I understand how this diagnostic erasure fails women. Sarah shares how she proactively follows up with clients about traumatic birth experiences, partner support, and hormonal impacts—doing the work the system refuses to recognize.

You are the medicine. 🌿

Full episode: https://youtu.be/N8bDBI2FcUM

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09/03/2026

What does it look like when we teach our nervous system to soothe itself?

In the Finding Safety in Your Body Again workshop, we move through a nurture sequence—a series of gentle, embodied practices that literally rewire how you receive care. Here’s a taste of what happens in the room:

We start by lying down. Feet pedal out slowly, finding rhythm. Then supine figure 4 twists—one side, then the other—and we pause to notice what rocking feels like. Not think about it. Feel it.

Knees come to chest. We hug ourselves.

A good morning stretch unfolds. Gentle neck rolls. Side-to-side movement that invites your brain stem to soften.

Legs lift and pedal again—moving through whatever’s stuck, whatever’s been held.

Knees to chest one more time. Hugging ourselves. Then extending long, shaking out the last of the stuck energy.

Finally, we roll into fetal pose—tucking in, turning toward ourselves with tenderness.

This is somatic reparenting in action - learning to soothe yourself through breath, through gentle movement, through the simple act of turning toward your own body with care.

It’s medicine for the nervous system.

Ready to experience the full workshop?

Finding Safety in Your Body Again: A Somatic Reparenting Experience

⏰Saturday, September 19th | 1:00–4:00 PM
📍Rising Lotus Healing Center, Homer Glen, IL
$299 early bird special valued at$697

Link below to register

09/03/2026

You struggle to rest and you compulsively work. You always need another training, another certification, another achievement. You don’t know how to stop the doing. And it’s not your fault. 🥹

As a child, you made the best decision you could at the time to believe: If I’m smart enough. If I’m successful enough. If I achieve enough. Maybe one day that will be enough. Maybe then she could love me. 💔

That belief gave you hope. It meant one day things could be different. One day you could finally be worthy of her love.

So you built your whole life around that hope. Now you’re an entrepreneur and that part of you still can’t stop. It compulsively works because it’s still waiting for the day when achievement finally equals love. When you’re finally enough.

Your business and career has become the stage where you’re still trying to earn what was never yours to earn in the first place. I get it.

Here’s what you need to know: The cold had nothing to do with your worth. It was always about her inability to love. There’s nothing a child could do that would make them unlovable. Nothing.

Try this: When you feel that compulsive urge to do more, place a hand on your heart, breathe into your hands, pause and remind that part: You are so good and you always were. Theres nothing a child could do that would make them unlovable. Then gently ask that part with compassion: We’ve been working so hard to earn her love. But what if it was never about us? That part was protecting you. It needed that hope to survive when you were young and small. �
You don’t have to earn love anymore. You’re allowed to rest.�
Check out my bio to learn ways to nurture yourself somatically when it feels like you can’t stop the doing. I cover this in my workshop Finding Safety in Your Body — Rising Lotus Healing Center 7 spots left — Saturday, September 19th. Link in bio. 🌿

08/31/2026

Do you find yourself repeating the same patterns in your relationships?💕✨ These are reflexive patterns learned from years of survival.

‼️ I have 8 spots left in my 2nd Somatic Reparenting Workshop

You will experience 3 hours of somatic trauma informed yoga vagus nerve toning , inner child work, gentle healing touch with consent, reiki, and a sound bath. You will leave with concrete tools to practice in your daily life to help you break the patterns of fear.

📍Finding Safety in Your Body Again: A Somatic Reparenting Experience
⏰Saturday, September 19th | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Rising Lotus Healing Center, Homer Glen, IL

$299 early bird extended through Sept 8