Living an Intentional Life Podcast
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This is a place where you don’t have to perform, push, or prove — a place where you are met in your truth, your tenderness, and your becoming.
I’m your host, Ashley Strong Smith, and I believe that the deepest transformation doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from living with intention and listening more deeply to who you really are.
Each week, I share honest conversations and supportive tools you can gently try on in your own life — invitations to come back to your heart, trust your inner knowing, and create a life that supports your nervous system, your dreams, and your wholeness.
Here, we honor growth that is rooted, not rushed. We honor boundaries, embodiment, and the quiet wisdom of your own heart. You’re not here by accident. You’re here because something in you is ready for more — more truth, more softness, more alignment, more belonging.
So take a breath… and let yourself arrive.
Living an Intentional Life Podcast
A Return to Rhythm: You’re Not Inconsistent — You’re Cyclical with Grace Van Bodhi of YinKIND | Episode 195
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In this deeply grounding and expansive conversation, I sit down with Grace — a fourth-generation acupuncturist, women’s health practitioner, mother, teacher, and creator of MoonMapping — to explore what it truly means to live in rhythm with ourselves instead of against ourselves.
Together, we dive into the wisdom of cyclical living, women’s hormones, nervous system healing, intentional motherhood, and the power of learning to listen to the body instead of constantly overriding it.
Grace shares how her work at the intersection of Eastern Medicine, functional medicine, fertility awareness, and Soul-led living has transformed not only the way she supports women, but the way she moves through her own life as a practitioner, wife, mother, healer, and community leader.
We talk about:
- why women are not meant to function linearly
- cycle tracking and hormonal rhythms
- nervous system safety and regulation
- home birth, motherhood, and trusting the body
- balancing multiple identities and roles as women
- intentional living and attunement to the Soul
- cyclical productivity vs. hustle culture
- Eastern Medicine and women’s health
- cultivating joy, friendship, and meaningful community
- the courage it takes to live in alignment
This episode is an invitation to soften, reconnect, and remember that perhaps you are not inconsistent at all — perhaps you were simply never meant to live disconnected from your rhythm.
A truly nourishing conversation for women seeking deeper connection to their bodies, cycles, intuition, and lives.
ABOUT GRACE :
Grace is a fourth-generation acupuncturist, women’s health practitioner and mother based in Lake Arrowhead, CA. She works at the intersection of functional medicine, hormones, and nervous system healing, with a focus on helping women understand their bodies in a deeper, more intuitive way.
She created MoonMapping as a way to bring women back into rhythm with their cycles and their lives, and her work has naturally expanded into offerings like MoonSONG Circle, QiYoga, and her Crystal Keys tapping practice—spaces where women can regulate, reconnect, and come back to themselves, both in person and online.
Her work is rooted in the belief that when we understand our patterns, everything starts to make more sense, and that living intentionally begins by learning how to listen.
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