Alicia Ashley, M.A., is a keynote speaker, author of LAVA: The Four Pillars of Self-Love That Heal Your Heart’s Deepest Wounds, and trauma-informed women's empowerment coach. She is the creator of The LAVA Method™, a proven framework for healing built on four transformational pillars: Unconditional Self-Love, Authentic Attention, Meaningful Validation, and Radical Self-Acceptance. Alicia specializes in helping women recover from trauma, abuse, and addiction by addressing the silent saboteurs of shame, unworthiness, perfectionism, and self-criticism. Her work has been featured in bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir All the Way to the River, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, where Gilbert credits The LAVA Method™ with profoundly impacting her own journey of recovery. Alicia part...