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Category Archives: Reclaiming Voice
The Quiet Ache Beneath the Fire
What if your anger is not wrong, but a buried sadness asking to be loved? A soft reclamation of internalized rage — and the self beneath it.
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”
The Healing Rebellion
A manifesto for soft resistance and soul reclamation “I no longer heal to be palatable. I heal to be free.” Healing isn’t always peaceful. Sometimes it’s a protest. We’ve been sold a version of healing that’s quiet, polite, marketable.Pastel affirmations, perfectly curated self-care, silent tears that dry quickly so we can get back to performingContinueContinue reading “The Healing Rebellion”
Coming Out of My Own Silence
A reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and the sacred return of our voice There’s a silence we carry — not the peaceful kind, but the padded kind. The kind built of carefulness and concession. A hush stitched into us by years of trying not to be too much. Too loud. Too opinionated. Too wrong. And so, we shrinkContinueContinue reading “Coming Out of My Own Silence”