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Hey, guys. I'm live. It's been a long time since I've done this, and I'm doing it from

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my husband's phone and Facebook, which is now ours. So this is really weird, but good

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because part of me being in the rest intensive is not being on social media, or part of me

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shifting interest is not being on social media. And so this is my first time being on social

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media without being on social media, just so I can get in the rest intensive. So my

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name's Liberty. I'm going by Liberty, and some of you might know me as Libby from the

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past and being in the rest intensive starting in 2020, 2020. Oh my goodness. Definitely

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during COVID. So anyways, I'm so excited to get to see your videos. I've been watching

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and catching up with a few of you who have shared. And it's got me really, really extra

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jazzed because everything that you've shared, I can so, so relate to personally, and it

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feels like a collective thing that the Lord's doing. And it feels a lot, it feels like,

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oh my goodness, like this is something he's doing. And it's, I'm already seeing it in

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my life so much, but now there's more confirmation, you know, when you see him doing the same

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thing in other people's lives. So thank you for sharing and introducing yourselves. I

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feel braver. I am a mama and wife. I actually started the rest intensive as a single mom

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back in 2020, in the summer of 2020, and just really struggling hard. It's been a real struggle

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bus that I've been on for some years now. And at the time, the Lord had really clearly

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led me to Ashley through a fellow friend. And I watched an interview and I was like,

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this is, this is stuff that I've never heard anyone talk about like this before,

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but I have to know more. I'm going to have to reach out to her someday.

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And that's how I left it. And then I went through kind of a deep betrayal.

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Oh, shoot. Sorry. Phone call. I don't know if this is still going.

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Um, so I went through a deep betrayal and through that the Lord said through an entire weekend over

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and over and over, like he likes to do through different verses and people and just ways that

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he shows himself, um, said, rest, rest, rest, rest, and reset is what he told me to do. So

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I thought actually right away, I was like, that's why I came across her a month ago,

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because I'm supposed to know her and it's now. And so we connected and I started

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Thrust Intensive, honestly, with like very, very, very little funds. Okay. Um,

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which is just a testament to Ashley's heart and her generosity. Um, she really

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like, it's amazing how she poured into me and poured into all of us without,

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you know, without, um, favoritism or without expecting something in return. And the investment

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that I was able to give at the time was like, it was like the lady, you know, giving the last of

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what she had kind of thing. Like I knew that I had to make an investment, but it was more about

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me trusting the Lord and in faith saying, I'm going to do this, even though the funds didn't,

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weren't there at all. And Ashley did never, she never, um, she never made me feel any different.

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And she's still poured into me just as much. Um, and just really gave me an opportunity that, um,

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like a cry, like it was just an opportunity that I needed and wanted, but didn't have

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the ability to have through other coaching programs or things because of the financial

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piece. And so, um, I love how affordable that they're still making this opportunity and,

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um, fast forward, I was in such a situation of, you know, just survival, um, with several things

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through, you know, everything from my, my personal health, you know, mental health,

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physical health, um, that had suffered through a great deal of trauma and complex PTSD. If you're

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familiar with that, um, I was just really, truly surviving on adrenaline, barely making it, um,

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financially, barely holding on through a court case for my children, a custody case for my

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children, um, with an abusive person. And so I was just really going through a lot, but I knew I

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wanted to shift. Well, fast forward, God brought me a husband soon after, um, that all happened

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with the rest intensive. And I had no intention of being with someone again. I was really, really

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single and for good thinking I'm single for good. Like this is, this is great. I finally am content.

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Um, the Lord rescued me out of abusive relationship after abusive relationship and toxic relationships

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became in a big way where my, um, my coping mechanism and the generational curse, that was

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something that he wanted to break through me. And so once I did that and I stepped into the

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rest intensive, I ended up meeting my husband soon thereafter and we just got married six months.

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ago and we have two girls. Their Olive is 11 and she's amazing. She started 6th

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grade middle school and then my youngest is Penelope and she's 9 and in 4th

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grade and so and I'm doing some kind of after-school homeschool with them

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because of just how much they're lacking in the home that they're living in, the

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other home they're living in with their dad and also in school and so we're

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doing something called love school so I'm developing a curriculum for them to

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learn all the kind of relational things that are the most important things in

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life and that's really exciting and my background is in teaching and I got an

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education degree but have since worked in marketing and communications and

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started a kingdom business for women who are creatives for the kingdom so

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entrepreneurs, women who are visionaries, pioneers, forerunners and the Lord has

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had me pause that for this season of rest so keep saying fast forward just to

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try to get to the part of the story where we're at now and just let you know

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that really the timing of this is such that the Lord told me after you know I

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surprised found someone you know went through a fast dating engagement

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marriage and tons and tons of transition he was like it's time it's time like it's

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time to really learn rest and brought me back to this rest and reset because I

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wasn't able to fully shift into it with the survival mode that I was living in

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as a single mom and I wanted to but I just I just didn't know how and so he's

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brought it back around I thought I'm gonna have to go back through these

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videos and it's gonna be you know kind of lonely but I got to find a way to

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sneak on Facebook since he's called me off Facebook you know through my

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husband or something to find these videos from Ashley because I know that

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God's calling me back to rest and reset and I need to learn this once and for

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all right and it's just really not optional anymore and so I ended up you

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know finding out soon thereafter that she was restarting this rest intensive

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and the timing was like the exact timing that I need because the Lord really has

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said like drop everything pause your business pause your just completely

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surrender everything your hopes dreams everything you thought you'd be doing

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everything you thought life would look like to really grieve fully and process

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and move away from the old way of trauma into a new way and that's included you

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know anxiety major major anxiety which PTSD is an anxiety disorder technically

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but also you know a lot of people-pleasing and a lot of codependency

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and different things that have been very unhealthy for me and just really a

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lot of oppression you know from just bondages and he's breaking me free from

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so much right now and I think he really wants to give me the gift of rest not

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only shifting into rest as Ashley talks about it but also like actually giving

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me a season where my husband's going to take the load in terms of making income

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and I'm stepping back from everything just to be just to be it's a really kind

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of foreign concept but I'm embracing it the best I know how one day at a time to

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be a stay-at-home mom for a season and just really let him do this work so I'm

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so excited thank you so much Ashley for everything I'm so excited to meet your

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husband and to you know get to hear from him and get to know him because even

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just getting to meet you in person I was like how does a person get better than

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Ashley online but she for all y'all who have never met Ashley in person I got to

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meet her over dinner one night and she is even better in person than online and

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I just I just was shocked like how how is that possible because she's just such

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an amazing person and so genuine authentic but she was even more alive

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and generous and just blew me away like over our dinner and our conversation and

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I'm just so happy to be here and so thankful that I have a small group now

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that I'm not online very much a small group of intimate friends who get it and

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who are going through the same thing that I can walk hand-in-hand with so

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I'll be seeing you all soon okay bye