A tender reflection on the quiet conversation between your younger and emerging self — where rebellion meets becoming.
Category Archives: Storm & Stillness
Connection: The Sacred Pulse Between Us
Connection is not found — it’s shaped breath by breath. A soft dive into boundaries, presence, and the container of ‘And.’
Breath: The Sacred Exchange of Being
Breath is consent. Not just biology, but the energetic yes — or no — we live by.
Healing Isn’t Linear: Embracing Soul Nutrition
Explore five soul-nourishing movements in your healing journey — from storm to stillness — and discover the truth behind emotional spirals.
The Many Within: Becoming One – The Thread of All That I Am
She no longer chooses between her parts.
She gathers them — storm, rebellion, witness — and weaves a wholeness that lives and breathes.
This is the thread of all that she is.
The Many Within: The Storm-Bearer & The Part of You That Held It All
This post explores the Storm-Bearer archetype — the inner part that holds too much for too long. Through poetic reflection and tender insight, we meet the quiet survivor within. Part of A. J. Ashe’s “The Many Within” series on emotional healing and inner reclamation.
Part Two: The Soft Gathering
A gentle return to self, after the stirrings of truth After the tremble.After the hush.After the voice that almost believed itself —there comes this:A soft gathering.Not a resolution.Not a triumph.But a laying down of all the truths we’ve carried this week.What a thing it is, to meet yourself after the echo.To say, quietly: I’m stillContinueContinue reading “Part Two: The Soft Gathering”
# Part 1.75 – The Moment I Almost Believed Myself
The Edge of the New Story Where Doubt Still Whispers There’s a moment in healing no one warns you about.It’s not the beginning — and it’s not quite the becoming.It’s the moment you almost believe yourself.And then the doubt arrives —dressed as protection.As overthinking.As sabotage.As silence. The Pause You’ve named your truth.You’ve spoken softness intoContinueContinue reading “# Part 1.75 – The Moment I Almost Believed Myself”
Part 0.5 Before The Parts: The Unfolding
The Moment It Breaks “You don’t always see the break coming”Sometimes it’s loud.A scream. A slammed door. A “no” you never thought you’d say.Other times, it’s quiet.A tightening in the chest. A pause before replying.A moment where your own discomfort becomes louder than their approval.This is the moment it breaks. The Realisation “… your energy,ContinueContinue reading “Part 0.5 Before The Parts: The Unfolding”
Love In The Shadowing
How we try to love when our hearts are still healing from who we had to become. There are kinds of love we don’t speak about in daylight.Loves tucked into corners.Loves that never bloomed, but still left petals in our chest.“Love in the shadowing – forbidden relationships held in a container of hurt.”These loves areContinueContinue reading “Love In The Shadowing”