Breaking Free from Self-Sabotage: A Guide for Women Who Feel Deeply and Overthink
Overthinking, perfectionism, procrastination and people-pleasing can all be forms of self-sabotage. Here's why it happens and how to start working with it.
Insights
Articles from Ashlie
Honest writing on confidence, fear, self-sabotage and the craft of acting.
Personal growth
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome as a Creative
Why actors, artists and creative entrepreneurs are prone to imposter syndrome, and five practical ways to loosen its grip on your confidence.
The Power of Hypnotherapy and Self-Hypnosis
What hypnotherapy is (and isn't), how self-hypnosis works between sessions, and how Ashlie uses cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy techniques in her coaching.
Becoming friends with Panic
Ashlie Walker shares her personal experience of panic attacks and anxiety, where they began, and what helped her stop being afraid of fear.
Acting
Fear: Fuck Everything and Run, or Feel Everything and Relax?
Fear never fully leaves, so good actors learn to work with it. Ashlie Walker on curiosity, feeling, and relaxing in the face of fear.
Meisner heads for Helsinki!
Actors Temple co-founder Ellie Zeegen asks Ashlie Walker about taking Meisner-based actor training to a community of actors in Helsinki.
Let's talk about Meisner
Ashlie Walker on why Meisner-based exercises help actors stop self-monitoring, listen properly and work truthfully from moment to moment.