Love: Reflactions Archives | A. J. Ashé

5 Things We Have Learned About Love

Two hands reaching toward each other, fingertips barely touching in a moment of fragile connection

Love is complex and often intertwined with longing and vulnerability. It challenges our perceptions of safety and worthiness, revealing unhealed wounds. True love is not about performance or exposing our innermost selves but about creating a space where both individuals can exist freely, understanding and accepting each other’s truths while fostering genuine connection.

A Rising in Love

A black and white close-up of a rose bud covered in droplets, with a single drop falling from its petal

What if love isn’t about falling at all? In this lyric essay A. J. Ashé explores what it means to rise toward love after loss – with self-trust intact, history beside you, and your feet still on the ground.

The Language of Love We Were Taught

Black and white image of two empty chairs facing one another beside a small table with a cup and a single rose, symbolising relationship patterns, emotional distance, and the unspoken language of love.

What if love wasn’t something we lost—but something we learned in the wrong language? A reflection on inherited patterns, emotional dialects, and the quiet work of unlearning.

The Many Within: Becoming One – The Thread of All That I Am

Black and white image of a woman surrounded by multiple ghostlike versions of herself, connected by fine threads, symbolising integration, inner parts, wholeness, and healing.

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.

Part 1.75 – The Moment I Almost Believed Myself

Black and white image of a solitary woman standing barefoot in an open doorway, looking out toward a misty path, symbolising self-trust, transition, and the quiet beginning of belief.

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.

After The Hush: Echoes Of A Soft Rebellion

Black and white image of a solitary woman standing in a misty landscape at dawn, symbolising quiet resilience, inner return, and the gentle strength of a soft rebellion.

Healing rarely walks in straight lines.
It loops. It echoes. It hushes, then howls.
And sometimes, what feels like repetition is actually deepening —
the soul returning to the same truth, but with new hands.

Meeting the Many Within – Part One of The Inner Gathering Series

Black and white image of a solitary figure standing in a dim room surrounded by faint shadow-like figures, symbolising the many inner selves, self-reflection, and the beginning of inner gathering.

We are not one, but the sum of many parts. A reflection archetypes encountered through healing

5 Tiny Ways I Abandoned Myself Without Realising It

A black-and-white still life of five paper cards, an open notebook, a ceramic cup, and a soft cloth on a wooden table, symbolising self-reflection and the small ways we abandon ourselves.

Self-abandonment rarely looks dramatic. Here are five quiet ways it shows up in daily life and what learning to stay with yourself looks like.

Left-Over Love

Black and white image of a hand reaching gently toward a lit candle beside dried flowers, symbolising grief, lingering love, and the tenderness of what remains.

A personal reflection on grief and the left-over love

Coming Out of My Own Silence

Black and white portrait of a thoughtful woman in soft side light, with one hand resting on her chest, symbolising vulnerability, reflection, and the quiet return of voice.

A reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and the sacred return of our voice. Exploring the silences we carry from trauma and dysfunction.

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