Hey, guys. I'm live. It's been a long time since I've done this, and I'm doing it from
my husband's phone and Facebook, which is now ours. So this is really weird, but good
because part of me being in the rest intensive is not being on social media, or part of me
shifting interest is not being on social media. And so this is my first time being on social
media without being on social media, just so I can get in the rest intensive. So my
name's Liberty. I'm going by Liberty, and some of you might know me as Libby from the
past and being in the rest intensive starting in 2020, 2020. Oh my goodness. Definitely
during COVID. So anyways, I'm so excited to get to see your videos. I've been watching
and catching up with a few of you who have shared. And it's got me really, really extra
jazzed because everything that you've shared, I can so, so relate to personally, and it
feels like a collective thing that the Lord's doing. And it feels a lot, it feels like,
oh my goodness, like this is something he's doing. And it's, I'm already seeing it in
my life so much, but now there's more confirmation, you know, when you see him doing the same
thing in other people's lives. So thank you for sharing and introducing yourselves. I
feel braver. I am a mama and wife. I actually started the rest intensive as a single mom
back in 2020, in the summer of 2020, and just really struggling hard. It's been a real struggle
bus that I've been on for some years now. And at the time, the Lord had really clearly
led me to Ashley through a fellow friend. And I watched an interview and I was like,
this is, this is stuff that I've never heard anyone talk about like this before,
but I have to know more. I'm going to have to reach out to her someday.
And that's how I left it. And then I went through kind of a deep betrayal.
Oh, shoot. Sorry. Phone call. I don't know if this is still going.
Um, so I went through a deep betrayal and through that the Lord said through an entire weekend over
and over and over, like he likes to do through different verses and people and just ways that
he shows himself, um, said, rest, rest, rest, rest, and reset is what he told me to do. So
I thought actually right away, I was like, that's why I came across her a month ago,
because I'm supposed to know her and it's now. And so we connected and I started
Thrust Intensive, honestly, with like very, very, very little funds. Okay. Um,
which is just a testament to Ashley's heart and her generosity. Um, she really
like, it's amazing how she poured into me and poured into all of us without,
you know, without, um, favoritism or without expecting something in return. And the investment
that I was able to give at the time was like, it was like the lady, you know, giving the last of
what she had kind of thing. Like I knew that I had to make an investment, but it was more about
me trusting the Lord and in faith saying, I'm going to do this, even though the funds didn't,
weren't there at all. And Ashley did never, she never, um, she never made me feel any different.
And she's still poured into me just as much. Um, and just really gave me an opportunity that, um,
like a cry, like it was just an opportunity that I needed and wanted, but didn't have
the ability to have through other coaching programs or things because of the financial
piece. And so, um, I love how affordable that they're still making this opportunity and,
um, fast forward, I was in such a situation of, you know, just survival, um, with several things
through, you know, everything from my, my personal health, you know, mental health,
physical health, um, that had suffered through a great deal of trauma and complex PTSD. If you're
familiar with that, um, I was just really, truly surviving on adrenaline, barely making it, um,
financially, barely holding on through a court case for my children, a custody case for my
children, um, with an abusive person. And so I was just really going through a lot, but I knew I
wanted to shift. Well, fast forward, God brought me a husband soon after, um, that all happened
with the rest intensive. And I had no intention of being with someone again. I was really, really
single and for good thinking I'm single for good. Like this is, this is great. I finally am content.
Um, the Lord rescued me out of abusive relationship after abusive relationship and toxic relationships
became in a big way where my, um, my coping mechanism and the generational curse, that was
something that he wanted to break through me. And so once I did that and I stepped into the
rest intensive, I ended up meeting my husband soon thereafter and we just got married six months.
ago and we have two girls. Their Olive is 11 and she's amazing. She started 6th
grade middle school and then my youngest is Penelope and she's 9 and in 4th
grade and so and I'm doing some kind of after-school homeschool with them
because of just how much they're lacking in the home that they're living in, the
other home they're living in with their dad and also in school and so we're
doing something called love school so I'm developing a curriculum for them to
learn all the kind of relational things that are the most important things in
life and that's really exciting and my background is in teaching and I got an
education degree but have since worked in marketing and communications and
started a kingdom business for women who are creatives for the kingdom so
entrepreneurs, women who are visionaries, pioneers, forerunners and the Lord has
had me pause that for this season of rest so keep saying fast forward just to
try to get to the part of the story where we're at now and just let you know
that really the timing of this is such that the Lord told me after you know I
surprised found someone you know went through a fast dating engagement
marriage and tons and tons of transition he was like it's time it's time like it's
time to really learn rest and brought me back to this rest and reset because I
wasn't able to fully shift into it with the survival mode that I was living in
as a single mom and I wanted to but I just I just didn't know how and so he's
brought it back around I thought I'm gonna have to go back through these
videos and it's gonna be you know kind of lonely but I got to find a way to
sneak on Facebook since he's called me off Facebook you know through my
husband or something to find these videos from Ashley because I know that
God's calling me back to rest and reset and I need to learn this once and for
all right and it's just really not optional anymore and so I ended up you
know finding out soon thereafter that she was restarting this rest intensive
and the timing was like the exact timing that I need because the Lord really has
said like drop everything pause your business pause your just completely
surrender everything your hopes dreams everything you thought you'd be doing
everything you thought life would look like to really grieve fully and process
and move away from the old way of trauma into a new way and that's included you
know anxiety major major anxiety which PTSD is an anxiety disorder technically
but also you know a lot of people-pleasing and a lot of codependency
and different things that have been very unhealthy for me and just really a
lot of oppression you know from just bondages and he's breaking me free from
so much right now and I think he really wants to give me the gift of rest not
only shifting into rest as Ashley talks about it but also like actually giving
me a season where my husband's going to take the load in terms of making income
and I'm stepping back from everything just to be just to be it's a really kind
of foreign concept but I'm embracing it the best I know how one day at a time to
be a stay-at-home mom for a season and just really let him do this work so I'm
so excited thank you so much Ashley for everything I'm so excited to meet your
husband and to you know get to hear from him and get to know him because even
just getting to meet you in person I was like how does a person get better than
Ashley online but she for all y'all who have never met Ashley in person I got to
meet her over dinner one night and she is even better in person than online and
I just I just was shocked like how how is that possible because she's just such
an amazing person and so genuine authentic but she was even more alive
and generous and just blew me away like over our dinner and our conversation and
I'm just so happy to be here and so thankful that I have a small group now
that I'm not online very much a small group of intimate friends who get it and
who are going through the same thing that I can walk hand-in-hand with so
I'll be seeing you all soon okay bye