The New Ashla Podcast: Cultivating Consciousness through Inner Work and Self-Mastery
Season Two of The New Ashla Podcast explores consciousness, inner work, and spiritual discipline as foundations of emotional healing and personal authority. Through grounded conversations on awareness, identity, unconscious patterns, and attention, we examine how inner training shapes character and behavior. Rooted in Jungian psychology and the Path of Ashla, this season offers a serious psycho-spiritual path toward self-mastery, integration, and embodied change without shortcuts or illusion.
Episodes
You can be surrounded by people and still feel like no one would notice if you disappeared for a week.
Loneliness does not always look like sitting alone. Sometimes it looks like busyness, exhaustion, independence, productivity, or protecting your peace. Slowly, the distance between you and the people you care about grows wider, and reconnecting starts to feel harder than staying isolated.
In this episode, Michael and Ju...
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore the Automatic Success Mechanism, the idea that the human mind is always moving toward a target, whether we realize it or not.
Your thoughts aim you. Your fears aim you. Your expectations aim you. Your habits aim you. Your self-image aims you. And once the inner system has a target, it begins organizing your attention, behavior, emoti...
Are you tired of healing, or are you tired of healing being performed?
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore the difference between healing that is actually being lived and healing that is only being worn.
Healing language is everywhere right now. Boundaries, trauma, manifestation, shadow work, nervous system regulation, alignment, and inner child work have become common par...
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One person reaches. The other retreats. And the harder one chases, the further the other pulls away.
In this final episode of our attachment series, we bring anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment together to explore how these patterns actually interact inside relationships.
The anxious-avoidant dance can feel confusing, addictive, painful, and deeply personal. One partner may fear abandon...
You want the relationship. You want closeness. You want to be loved.
But the moment it starts to feel real, the moment someone actually shows up for you, something inside you starts looking for the exit.
In part three of our attachment series, we explore disorganized attachment: the painful push-pull of craving connection while fearing it at the same time.
Disorganized attachment often forms when the person a child depend...
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In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore how crisis can either collapse us into survival or awaken a deeper creative power within us.
Crisis has a way of revealing what has been leading beneath the surface. When pressure rises, fear can take over, old patterns can return, and the nervous system can move into panic, control, or avoidance. But crisis can a...
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In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore what happens when death stops being an abstract idea and becomes something real enough to change how you see your life.
After discovering that one of the arteries in his heart was roughly 95% blocked, Justin shares the emotional and spiritual impact of undergoing a stent procedure, facing mortality, and lear...
Avoidant Attachment | Attachment Series Part 2
You’ve always been fine on your own. You handle things. You don’t ask for much. You don’t burden people.
But somewhere along the way, “I’ve got it” became a wall.
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore avoidant attachment: how it forms, what it protects, and how it can quietly turn ind...
In this episode of the New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates begin the attachment series with anxious attachment...where it comes from, how it shows up in relationships, and how to start building safety inside yourself instead of constantly needing proof that you are loved.
Anxious attachment is often misunderstood as being clingy, needy, dramatic, or “too much.” But underneath the beha...
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In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore why so many people spend their lives searching outside themselves for peace, power, healing, validation, guidance, and identity, only to find that the emptiness eventually returns.
Drawing from the idea of the “treasure house within”, this conversation examines how the deeper ...
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In this episode of the New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore somatic healing, nervous system release, and why understanding your pain intellectually does not always mean your body has fully let it go.
You can read the books, go to therapy, name the wound, and understand exactly where your patterns came from, and still feel stuck in the same reactions.
That does not mean you failed at healin...
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore what it means to guard the inner temple of the mind.
Every day, thoughts, fears, memories, media, opinions, and old wounds try to enter the deeper mind. Over time, what we repeatedly accept begins to shape our emotions, beliefs, behavior, and identity. Drawing from the idea of the conscious mind as the “watchman at the gate,” this convers...
Boundaries are not about pushing people away. They are about learning how to stop abandoning yourself. In this episode, Michael and Justin explore people-pleasing, guilt, resentment, and why saying no can become one of the deepest practices of self-love.
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In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore boundaries as an act of self-love, self-respect, and truth. Rather than treating...
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore what effective prayer really means. Many people think prayer is simply asking, begging, or pleading for the Divine to intervene. But through the teachings of Ashla, prayer becomes something deeper: alignment.
This conversation reframes prayer as the conscious turning of the self toward the Light until thought, feeling, trust, and action begin to move...
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In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry sit down with Jenny Marie to explore the mysterious and deeply personal world of soul contracts. Together, they examine whether the repeating patterns, relationships, wounds, and lessons i...
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In this episode of the New Ashla Podcast, Michael and Justin explore the concepts of the Law of Attraction and the Law of Resonance, emphasizing the importance of emotional alignment and authenticity in manifesting desires. They discuss how superficial affirmations and positive thinking can lead to disillusi...
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Love alone does not create a healthy relationship. Communication, emotional safety, mutual curiosity, and the willingness to understand one another are what allow love to actually thrive.
In this episode, Michael Perry is joined by his wife, Allyson Perry-Turner, for a grounded and personal conversation about what healthy relationships look like in practice. They explore how unspoken expectations create...
In this episode of the New Ashla Podcast, Michael Perry and Justin Gates explore the deep-rooted survival mechanisms that shape our thoughts, behaviors, and perceptions. They discuss how ancient instincts conflict with modern life and share practical strategies to cultivate awareness, discipline, and intentionality in daily living.
Key Topics:
- The evolution of survival instincts from protecting tribes to managing modern anxiety a...
Is it intuition… or is it fear pretending to guide you?
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Justin V. Gates and Michael Perry explore how to tell the difference between true inner guidance and conditioned fear. Intuition is quiet, clear, and steady. Fear is urgent, loud, and often rooted in old wounds, survival patterns, and insecurity.
Through the teachings of Ashla, the Force, and the path of self-mastery, this convers...
What is stealing your attention, and what is actually helping you grow?
In this episode of The New Ashla Podcast, Mike and Justin explore the difference between noise and signal: the habits, distractions, relationships, and routines that scatter our attention versus the ones that bring us back into alignment.
Noise can show up as doom scrolling, binge-watching, overstimulation, emotional avoidance, unhealthy patterns, constant produc...
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