About the Grind
A reflective glimpse into my journey, values, and interpretations on grief, survival and identity after loss.
Hi,
My name is Ashley.
I love an evening walk on the beach.
My morning cup of coffee.
A slow burn.
And a good old fashioned power struggle.
Being in my world, is like free diving. We are going meters down, there is something that beckons to me from the bottom of the ocean. It’s exhilarating, it’s physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting.
And the journey back to the surface? It’s calculated. You might get the bends. But I find that all the self discovery comes from swimming back up.
You don’t get to go 30 meters down, and pretend nothing happened.
My Honest Start
I didn’t start writing because I had everything figured out. Quite the opposite.
I started because life got so complicated, I simply needed a space to put the questions and reflections that were burning inside of me.
Survival. Identity. Compounded loss. Relationships. The uncomfortable spaces in between who we are, who we become, and how we relate to the world around us.
Growth&Grinds is my attempt to sit with and make sense of what doesn’t logically make sense – To give words to things many of us experience but don’t know how to articulate and provide frameworks for pain to flow into.
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