Vitality Medicine

Cross the threshold … …

Of your journey.

From lonely and lost,
To guided and supported.

Dr Ashlea Broomfield, a GP, sexologist and vitality coach is smiling a big smile at the camera, sitting at a cafe table with a tea in front of her.

Hi, I'm Dr Ashlea.

Dr Ashlea Broomfield, a Coffs Harbour GP who specialises in sex, body image and nutrition, is lying on a couch with a book open in her hands. She's smiling at the camera.

I’m a GP with a special interest in issues around food, sex and bodies.

I work with soul-seekers, deep thinkers and trailblazers to forge their unique way in life, whilst staying connected to their internal vibrancy and the world.

More about me.

Now, let's talk about you

You may have reached your idea of ‘success’, yet you feel like there is something missing. 

You may have been slapped by the realities of life. A major injury. A significant illness. A relationship break-up. You are not quite sure where to turn. Which way to go. 

You may be confused about nutrition messages. Unsure of which pattern to follow.

You might be wanting to explore a deeper sensual side of yourself. To reclaim your pleasure. Yet you want to do this within a safe or secure container.  

You may want to explore a deeper sense of yourself and spirituality but feel dubious or concerned about existing religious dogma, cultish claims within alternative paradigms, or disordered and unsafe approaches to food, sex & healing your body. 

You may feel like at any interaction, you are seen as pieces of a puzzle, scattered on the floor, where everyone only looks at one part. Or gives you their single solution. 

You may have felt let down by the pressures of the medical system. Where there is not quite enough time. For your needs. For fully understanding and explaining how your issues interact.

Wherever you look - it feels like an ‘either/or’ choice. 
It doesn’t have to be this way.

I know these systems. I know the disconnect that sometimes happens between medicine and healing. Between art and science. Between the seen, known and tested and unseen, unknown and untested. 

That’s why I do it differently. In my approach — the body is not left behind. The pleasures of life matter.
All parts of you are welcome. Where you can experience a life with vitality. Being you, thriving in all of your wholeness.

Let's go on an adventure. 

This is not the same as therapy.
Or going to see your regular doctor. 

You are not a problem to be fixed or cured.

Vitality Medicine Coaching is a 9-month personal journey of growth.

It is a deeper and wider holistic dive into everything that makes you, you.

It's about you feeling wildly alive and wholly yourself.

You will receive intensive 1:1 support in an individual curated program, personally designed to develop, cultivate and deepen your internal capacity for:

Nourishing your body.

Creating clarity of mind.

Supporting sacred connections.

Cultivating vibrant sensuality.

Clarifying purpose & enacting change.

Utilising the eluceo process, you will receive

Intensive and individualised 1:1 coaching

The five pillars are a framework

to address your specific & unique needs

Skills to develop could include:

  • Nourish your body

    • Learn how to pace energy, avoid boom/bust & toxic stress.

    • Identify lifestyle habits that are detrimental to health and wellbeing.

    • Develop an actionable plan to improve lifestyle habits

    • Optimise your sleep

    • Assess current movement strategies

    • Plan movement based actitives that support your personal health and wellbeing

    • Identify gaps in nutrition

    • Build a sustainable eating pattern for long term health

    • Own your body autonomy by developing foundations for boundaries and personal agency.

  • Develop clarity of mind

    Learn to:

    • Regulate from a state of stress or shut down to presence and connection.

    • Clarify your personal values.

    • Identify common thought patterns and problem-creating behaviours.

    • Reprogram and rewire the body and mind towards new patterns.

    • Defuse from overwhelming thoughts and feelings

    • Regulate emotions.

    • Meditate in a way that suits you.

    • Navigate internal conflicts

  • Support sacred connections

    With yourself, others and nature

    • Deepen your meditation practice.

    • Build connection with sense of inner self.

    • Connect with nature through embodiment practices.

    • Deepen relational intimacy and communication skills.

    • Learn empathic communication and kind boundaries.

    • Understand how to engage respectfully with Indigenous history in your area.

    • Identify personal health practices that contribute to environmental degradation and create changes.

    • Create and hold your own sacred space.

  • Cultivate vibrant sensuality

    • Explore embodiment practices designed to to bring out your sensual self.

    • Develop personal pleasure practices (external, sensual and sexual).

    • Identify own sexual likes and dislikes within relationship.

    • Develop intimate communication skills and confidence to express yourself fully.

    • Identify your unique way of exploring inner playfulness, pleasure.

    • Access your erotic self and learn skills to develop this further.

    • Identify and work with physical tension related to sex and/or intimacy.

  • Clarify your own purpose and enact change

    • Extrapolate meaning and learning from your journey.

    • Re-define values.

    • Develop ways to use the skills learnt on the journey and enact change in the world through:

      • Courageous and heart centred communication.

      • Authentic and deeply embodied decisions.

      • Soul-led clarity.

      • Being able to stand confidently within your own space.

      • Brave action.

      • Being your own authority.

      • Strategic and big-picture approaches to culture making change.

    • Create a plan to bring the work into action and create sustainable practices.

    • Learn how to build a supportive community.

The steps of your journey ...

This is a process.
A map. A guide.
For your journey. 
For your specific needs. 

1- Elucidate and envision

You will meet me in person at eluceo for a full-day assessment where I will seek to understand your unique issues and how they interact in your mind and body.

I will undertake a thorough medical and psychological assessment.

I will then educate you on my understanding of the issues, helping you to put some of the puzzle pieces together.

Then we’ll go outdoors into nature together, interacting with the natural environment and envision together what your journey will entail.

From this point, I will outline what the following phases may look like and you will decide if you want to continue on the journey.

Afterwards, you’ll receive a summary of our day, mapped to the five pillars of the Vitality Medicine program, with recommendations on what areas both you and I see as needing to be addressed and which skills we will focus our work together on.

There is no pressure to join the program. You’ll pay a one-off fee for your assessment day, which can be used towards program costs if you decide to go ahead.

2- Illuminate the path forward.

We lay the groundwork to illuminate the tools that are required for a deeper journey. 

This phase is a 12-week process of weekly 1:1 90min sessions. These can occur in person or online with at least four sessions conducted in person.

You will learn skills and strategies to develop internal resources and external structures that are designed to support you to nourish your body and develop clarity of mind.

This phase creates the stability required so that you are prepared for the next stage of deeper exploration – building sacred connections and cultivating vibrant sensuality.

3- Ignite your spark

At this stage, we go deeper – using tools designed to assist you to remember and reclaim your vibrant sensuality whilst deepening sacred connections with yourself, others and the environment. 

We start with a 5-day 1:1 retreat* so that you can: 

  • Be outside of your usual routine

  • Immerse in experiential practices

  • Carve out time that sets the stage for you to be able to connect with your inner spark

You’ll stay in an apartment in the sleepy beachside town of Woolgoolga. I will schedule daily activities to create opportunities for immersion in the natural environment and understanding the cultural history of this area.

This is an experiential time that sets the stage for you to be able to fully connect with your internal sense of sacred connection and vibrant sensuality within yourself and through connection with the natural environment. 

You will be introduced to daily practices for connecting and deepening in these areas, designed for your unique and individual circumstances.

Over the following 12 weeks, we will meet fortnightly for 90min sessions (in person or online) to consolidate the in person immersion.

We will cultivate and build on the daily practices you learnt on retreat to further deepen and support the sacred connections you wish to deepen and cultivate your unique and vibrant sensuality.

*An alternate option is 5 seperate 1:1 full days over the course of the 12 weeks.

4- Radiate out and forge your own path

During this phase we clarify your inner wisdom, purpose, meaning and how you want to enact change in your life and the world.

This final phase integrates the learnings from your journey and how they will apply in your day to day life. 

Over this 12 weeks we will continue to meet fortnightly. We will take what you want to move forward, leave what you want to leave behind and get really practical about how to consolidate this within your life going forward. 

In this phase I am guided by your internal wisdom of what needs to occur and we work together to foster ongoing integration.

At each phase, your journey is supplemented by your personalised practices, assignments and education delivered to an online platform, specifically for you.

Here's what you'll receive:

Your 9-month journey includes:

  • A full day intensive assessment and planning

  • A personalised and individualised program the whole way, at a pace tailored to your unique needs

  • 5 full days of in-person immersions at a tranquil beachside location

  • Intensive coaching (30 x 90min sessions) throughout

  • Personalised and guided practices specific for your needs and your journey recorded to an online platform to complete at your pace

  • Lifelong access to the educational materials and resources developed specifically for you

It is a significant investment for the year. To find out more please register your interest. Payment plans are available.

Dr Ashlea Broomfield, a Coffs Harbour GP, coach and sexologist, is sitting in the sand dunes looking to the side of the camera with a gentle smile.

This is not the journey for you if:

You want guaranteed outcomes.

This method is not a cookie-cutter formula for transformation. In medicine, and life … there are no guaranteed outcomes.

Just calculated risks. Possible outcomes. A mixture of chance and luck. Mitigated by knowing the terrain. By being familiar with the environment. By having someone who can help to guide the way.

You will be given an outline of potential risks and as a professional with expertise, I will make every effort to mitigate these for you and your personal circumstances as much as possible.

We will outline the process for the planned success - however, given this is experiential and deep work the outcome can be uncertain and that is part of the risk.

You need slower 1:1 work for a longer time.

You have any significant psychological issues that require slower 1:1 work over a longer period of time.

You may be more suited to Mind-Body Therapy and can have an initial assessment for this here.

You aren’t in a position to commit.

You are unable to commit to the time commitment, or the financial involvement. Fair enough! You might be interested in slower 1:1 work or some of my mini-courses.

You need more time to think about it or get to know me and how I think.

That is totally fair. When you sign up for my email list, I’ll send you more detailed information about who I am and what I do, as well as Monthly Musings on life, food, sex and bodies.

It's wonderful you have questions.

  • The full 9 month program is a significant investment. It is payable in weekly or monthly instalments.

    You can opt out at any time.

    You will have access to any content and learning from the completed stages as long as the content is current and valid.

    To find out more please register your interest.

  • Payments can be made weekly or monthly.

    Payments must be completed by the end of the program.

    Reduced cost enrolments will be made available once full cost program spots are filled.

  • Vitality Medicine programs start in 2024. You can register your interest at the top of this page or sign up for more information about what I do here.

  • I welcome people in all bodies, of all genders, sexuality, ages and cultural groups who feel as though my approach may be useful for them.

  • This process incorporates all of my skills and trainings and is not restricted by requirements of the mental health or medicare system.

    Like therapy, we will still have have 1:1 time limited sessions as part of the program.

    However this program also incorporates the addition of an online educational space and in person immersions for extended practice and exploration.

    This program does not replace medical care and is not designed for specific health issues.

    If you require assistance with a specific issue, check out my private practice here.

  • Vitality Medicine is individualised to your circumstances and each program is unique.

    That means although each person may cover similar content or strategies in a similar way, no two programs are the same.

    You will receive my training in medicine, psychology, meditation, embodiment, nutrition and sexuality tailored specifically and individually in a way that works just for you.

  • All of my work requires me to meet professional and ethical standards and registration requirements.

    Content in this program is designed to meet these medico-legal requirements.

    However funding systems are usually specific to a health problem or specific set of interventions. To maintain the individualised process and support the flexibility and holistic nature of this program medicare or private health rebates have not been sought.

    If you require a subsidised service, check out Mind-Body Therapy here.