Life Updates, Musings, & a Poem

Hello my dear friends, new and old! It’s been a long time since I’ve made a journal entry! If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I went back to work full-time after a three year hiatus of caring for my dad on hospice, mothering my babies, and weathering two years of isolation.

During that time, I also cultivated a new garden, added a flock of chickens to my brood, and kicked the shit out of some old patterns to focus on radical Self-love and Self-care. I deepened my herbal studies, have done and continue to do a lot of spiritual work, and most recently, have committed to a yoga practice.

If I miss classes now, I really miss them. My instructor read a beautiful passage from a book that essentially said the student finds their way to the mat when they’re looking for something but they don’t quite know what. What I was looking for was my Self. Again. I cried the entire class as I released a lot I was carrying in my body that I was unaware of!

There’s a lot to unpack in a short journal post and some of it I’m choosing to keep private but thank you all still for being here. I enjoy the connections I’ve made and continue to make and cultivate!

Photos, lately

“During that time, I also cultivated a new garden, added a flock of chickens to my brood, and kicked the shit out of some old patterns to focus on radical Self-love and Self-care. I deepened my herbal studies, have done and continue to do a lot of spiritual work, and most recently, have committed to a yoga practice.”

I may not have perfect form, and I’m totally okay with that!

Now, a little poem for your soul:

Sweetest child - child of multitudes; Woman of mountains and Heavens, Woman of storm and of shelter-

Fear not who you are. Fear not the voices that try to contain you. Fear not your strength, nor your courage, nor your tongue.

Speak your truths & howl at the moon. Dance in circles until you are dizzy and drunk with Self-love and attunement.

Bury your wounds, once you've greeted them, into the fertile soils of time. Sing a spell of transformation & while you long for the hellebores in the first light of spring, remember, too, that you have sewn the seeds of healing. A true alchemy of the soul has catalyzed here.

Remember that when the snow melts & your garden starts to emerge with new beings of light, so, too, will you.

And when the Sun dawns from the east, be ready to greet yourself anew.

Hold still a moment. Close your eyes & let your Being swell with rose gold and green light. Feel your blood warming with the seasons & heart opening and synthesizing with the Sun.

You are loved.

You are loved.

You are loved.

Go now, sweet child, with your affirmations of love and greet the world.

They need your medicine now.

As always, and in deepest gratitude, thank you for reading here and being here!

Sending all my moonbeams and starlight out to all of you beautiful people!

With love,

Ashley