Embody Balance: Ashley Baugh, LCSW, LMT, MPH

12/29/2025

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12/17/2025

‘Tis the season to prioritize self-care💌

Even in the midst of all the busyness make sure to rest and make time for yourself✨ Here are 5 affirmations I’m using this holiday season:

❤️I am present, I am patient, I breathe through stressful moments
💚I release unnecessary expectations, I know that I am always enough
❤️I find happiness in the smallest joys
💚I feel calm, centered, and grounded within myself
❤️I trust myself, I love myself, all is well

xo,

10/23/2025

If you are looking for assistance with food, please check out our resource guide for food assistance. If you are aware of a resource that has not been included, please contact us!

NOTE: It’s best to call ahead to confirm. Each place has their own requirements with too many specifics to list. For example, some require residency, some require proof of income, some require ID, etc. I wish all of that could be consolidated in one area, but the information becomes a bit cumbersome. 

10/13/2025

It’s okay to slow down if you’re unsure about what to do next.

10/13/2025

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So grateful to be learning this!
4 Levels down, 6 to go!

CCST graduate shares: “A question I get asked a lot, and to be honest words are quite limiting when trying to explain how this beautiful treatment works…. But I am going to try anyway….

I could go in to quantum physics, or anatomy, or how the nervous system functions… But don’t worry I wont 😅 (stay with me here)….

I want to explain craniosacral therapy from my personal perspective, from a heart centered space ❤️…

As a practitioner, as I gently lay my hands on you during your treatment, I am attuning to you….. Like a radio dial tunes in to a certain radio station frequency, my dial is tuning in to your entire being… Every aspect of you that your being is ready to show me, I will pick up on and hold space for…

I may be feeling your physical aches and pains, points of tension in your body, your emotional state, your nervous system, your overall flow of energy, where you may feel blocked, where your energy feels free and expressive….

Your body will be speaking a thousand words, and I will be listening, deeply.

As I am present with and consciously acknowledge what I am feeling in your body and in your being, I notice changes… Ah something just released, something just opened up, oh and something just relaxed, something needs a bit more space and something is drawing me in a bit closer….

As we go deeper in to the session we often go deeper in to your being, we work through more layers and stuff you have been carrying around with you for years may begin to show itself…

And this whole entire time, I am doing very little but holding space for all of this expression of yours, by simply being deeply present with you, without judgement, without an agenda, without trying to change you….

And this is what initiates your healing… This is what allows your body to find its way back to regulation, back to calm, back to feeling grounded, back to a deeper connection with yourself…. Everything feels a bit more open, a bit lighter and you may feel like something big has shifted but you can’t quite articulate it…

& then I thank your being, for allowing me to witness you whilst you heal yourself 🫶🏼”

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10/10/2025

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Many of us grew up in homes where emotions were treated like something to fix, silence, or fear.
“Stop crying.”
“You’re being ridiculous.”
“You have nothing to be upset about.”

It wasn’t our emotions that scared the adults around us — it was our reaction to them.
So we learned to shrink. To hide what we felt. To believe that being emotional meant being too much.

But feelings don’t disappear just because they’re ignored. They wait — and they resurface later as stress, anxiety, or the deep sense that we can’t trust what we feel.

If we want to do better — for ourselves and our children — we have to unlearn that fear.
We have to remember that emotions aren’t the enemy. They’re messengers.

Our children don’t need us to make their big feelings disappear.
They need us to help them make sense of them.

That starts with co-regulation — meeting their chaos with calm, their tears with presence, their fear with safety.

Sit with them through the wave.
Name what’s happening.
Hold them if they reach for you.
And wait.

The calm will return — more quickly, more deeply — when their feelings are met, not managed.

Later, when the storm has passed, you can talk about it — to understand what they were really trying to say, once they’re calm enough to find the words.

But first, we have to let them have all of their emotions.

Because the goal isn’t to stop them from feeling.
It’s to raise children who don’t have to heal from being human. ❤️

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10/02/2025

Last minute opening for tomorrow, Thursday 10/2! Either 1130am or 1:15pm- message me if you need to get in!🤲

10/01/2025

Last minute opening tomorrow between 1130 & 1pm!
Text me if you want it!

09/24/2025

Day 1, Level 4 Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy!
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09/23/2025

Last minute massage opening today at 12pm! Text me at 618-477-7256 if you want it :)

09/18/2025

Talk a little nicer to yourself. Like you would to a friend

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09/15/2025

🚨Announcement! 🗣️
Embody Balance is entering a new New Season!

You may have seen that the Seams For The Soul Boutique building, where I rent, went under contract last week and will be closing its doors in October.
Not to worry, I will be relocating nearby!

I am happy to announce that as of October 6, 2025 I’ll be sharing a space with Heather Hudzik Accupuncture, located at 11 Ginger Creek Village Dr. (formerly Elite Chiropractic). We hope to create a peaceful and healing environment for you all and can't wait to see you there!

**Important note**
ALL currently scheduled appointments will continue at my current location above Seams for the Soul 216 S. Buchanan through OCT 2, 2025!

Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions & thank you for your trust, patronage and patience as we navigate this transition.

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