Ashfall Journal

Reflections on lived experiences —
the seeds beneath myth and echo.

  • Relapsing

    Relapsing

    Even when I do all the right things, when I set and maintain the boundaries I know I need, I can still slip. I slip because I wanted them to love me. Because I relive old wounds, time and again — wanting to be chosen, wanting to be loved, wanting to be seen. This time,…

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  • Standing Inside the Boundary

    Standing Inside the Boundary

    Boundaries are heavy things when you love someone. It is so hard when you actively feel their pain

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  • Pain as a cloaking mantle

    Pain as a cloaking mantle

    Sometimes we wear our pain like a mantle — a heavy, familiar cloak that hides us from the world and even from ourselves. To prove our worth, or our low worth. Unsure what we are without it, scared it’s nothing, empty.

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  • Transmutation isn’t pretty

    Transmutation isn’t pretty

    Transmutation isn’t just mystical notion. It’s the work of shifting your own energy when everything around you is trying to destabilise it.

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  • Spiralling to the centre

    Spiralling to the centre

    I’m bored of toxic positivity. That’s not truth. It’s lip service to a superficial spirituality. There is light. There is dark. I’m reaching for the balance between them

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  • Journey through the ashfall with me

    Journey through the ashfall with me

    Fly with me through the rambling machinations of my mind and soul. Rising out of self-doubt, low self-worth, and the fear of being seen for your soul — when all you’ve ever wanted is to be seen — is hard. It’s not all love & light, it’s facing your shadows & soul. Then choosing to…

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