You Don’t Have to Break to Begin Again | SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast with Ashlee Tegen
SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast · Aug 27, 2026 · 29:26
SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast · Aug 27, 2026 · 29:26
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Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George welcomes Ashlee Tegen, the August Full Moon cover contributor and a self-love relationship coach, to discuss her article “You Don’t Have to Break to Begin Again” and the theme of Hitting Rock Bottom as something that can quietly build beneath outward “functioning.”
Ashlee shares her experience with anorexia, infidelity, separation, and a moment of suicidal crisis interrupted by a late-night therapist call that led to emergency counseling and deep personal work. They explore surrender, self-honesty, boundaries, and rebuilding identity beyond motherhood and marriage.
Ashlee teaches her PAUSE method - Pause, Assess, Utilize breath, Sense sensations, Examine emotions - to create space between trigger and reaction, plus guidance on identifying personal triggers like feeling unappreciated.
01:06 Meet Ashlee Tegen
02:24 Rock Bottom Story
04:09 The Call That Saved
06:07 Surrender and Honesty
07:46 Marriage and Boundaries
09:54 Choosing to Survive
11:08 Orbeez and The Pause
15:02 Perimenopause Rage
17:36 PAUSE Method Steps
22:47 Progress Not Perfection
24:35 Know Your Triggers
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