In the quiet after the storm, The Witness arrives. She sees what was hidden, names what was silenced, and stays with what others flee. Her overthinking is not a flaw—it’s a map. This is the story of spiral, sight, and softness becoming strength. She watches—and begins to return.
Category Archives: The Unfolding Path
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.
The One Who Waited Too Long
An emotional archetype for those who linger, long, and ache to be chosen. The One Who Waited Too Long is a voice many carry — in silence, in hope, in grief.
The Archetypes Are Gathering: A Week Of Soul Voices
A poetic introduction to the emotional archetypes we carry within. In this soft series, we meet one inner voice each day — beginning with The One Who Waited Too Long.
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”
After the Unfolding: A Note to the Becoming Soul
By Being Human To you who journeyed here… thank you.For meeting each piece with an open heart.For reading not just with your eyes, but with your breath.This wasn’t a guide. It wasn’t a neat conclusion. It was a field of fragments – where you were invited to wander. To feel. To see yourself in theContinueContinue reading “After the Unfolding: A Note to the Becoming Soul”
I Found a Love I Couldn’t Hold
A quiet reckoning with the loves that pass through us, but never stay. I found a love I couldn’t own.I found a love I couldn’t hold.I found a love I couldn’t feel.I found a love… and I can’t heal.Sometimes love arrives like a whisper in a storm -too soft to be grasped,too loud to beContinueContinue reading “I Found a Love I Couldn’t Hold”
Leaning In: Momentum from the Messy Middle
What if right here — halfway through, undone, uncertain — is exactly where the magic begins? This isn’t the beginning.This isn’t the end.This is the middle -where nothing feels finished, and everything feels possible.It’s where we’re tangled in decisions, held by contradictions,learning to breathe through undone things.Acceptance – reset, pivot, create momentum, emergence, expansion.There’s powerContinueContinue reading “Leaning In: Momentum from the Messy Middle”