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Continue reading →: Explore by Category
This blog is organized into four simple spaces. Each one reflects a part of real life I’m learning to stay present in—my body, my mind, my faith, and my everyday life. You don’t have to read everything. Just start where you feel drawn. Body Learning to listen to my body…
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In the Middle of the Storm: Learning Who I Am While Life Is Unresolved
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Continue reading →: In the Middle of the Storm: Learning Who I Am While Life Is UnresolvedI am in the middle. In the thick of it. The chaos is swirling from every direction, and my mind is constantly trying to process the ebbs and flows of the punches life keeps throwing. I started this blog from the perspective of learning how to stay steady in yourself…
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Continue reading →: When Showing Up Is EnoughEverything feels like an annoyance when you finally start seeing things for what they really are. I woke up to my alarm blaring—dry mouth, already cranky, and not in the mood to rush. It was the third Saturday in a row I had to get up and immediately meet the…
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Continue reading →: Not Everything Is a Problem to Solve
I used to treat almost everything I felt like something I needed to figure out. If I felt anxious, I wanted to understand why. If I felt overwhelmed, I wanted to fix the cause. If I felt emotionally off, I assumed something needed to change. I didn’t realize how automatic…
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Continue reading →: I Used To Think Peace Came After Fixing Everything
I used to believe peace was something I would reach once everything was fixed. Once I understood it. Once I improved it. Once I got it under control. If something felt off in my body, my emotions, my thoughts, or my life—I would immediately try to figure out what needed…
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Continue reading →: Why I started This Space (Held in the Middle)
There’s a place I keep finding myself in lately. Not at the beginning of things. Not at the end. But in the middle. The part where things are still unfolding. Still unclear. Still becoming. For a long time, I didn’t know what to do with that space. I thought the…
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Continue reading →: The Irony of “Let’s Just Go”That is the saying on my cute floral license plate cover on my ride. It reads, “LET’S JUST GO.” I kind of find the irony humorous, considering the type of driver I actually am. What would you call it—rigid, timid, unsure, probably going to linger a little too long at a…
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Continue reading →: Reflecting on the whole NEW YEAR NEW me TREND
It’s interesting, really—I’ve always been a bit of a fanatic about the New Year. The anticipation of the whole “New Year, New Me” craze used to be the fuel that kept me going year after year. I think it was last year when my brain finally decided to grow a brain of…
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Continue reading →: God’s Promise- Something New
Isaiah 43 But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel:“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.When you walk through…
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Continue reading →: My Journey: From Logic’s Grip to Faith’s Freedom
For the past year and a half, I’ve been on a profound spiritual journey with the Lord. I’ve granted myself grace to let it unfold naturally—a process that involved plenty of trial and error. Flipping through my journal now, I see the raw struggles: the internal wrestling between logic and…

