Books
Some of Ashley’s books can be purchased on Bookshop.org or by clicking on the images below.
Befriending Shadows
If shadows could speak, this is what they would say.
Befriending Shadows is a poetry collection about the effects of an old identity falling away and discovering who we are without it.
Written during a dark night of the soul, these poems wander through disorientation, anger, shame, spirituality, creativity, friendship, the internet, and the peculiar process of learning to accept ourselves.
The collection unfolds in four sections:
The Crisis of Disorientation
Into the Dark Woods
Befriending Shadows
Together Out of the Woods
At its heart is a question:
What if the facets of ourselves we’re reluctant to face are not our enemies, but guides?
Befriending Shadows explores the tension between sensitivity and overwhelm, belief and uncertainty, connection and isolation. It is a book for anyone who has questioned what they believe, felt disoriented by the modern world, or sensed that an old version of themselves was beginning to disappear.
Like a cicada emerging from their pupae state, we can shed an identity that no longer fits and step into something new.
This is not a book about having all the answers.
It’s a book about walking into the woods anyway.
Find Me in the Forest
Walk through the forest with me on a whimsical, poetical journey through nature, consciousness, and self.
Whilst meandering across the country as a nomad looking for pieces of her soul, poet Ashley Lynn wrote her feelings, discoveries, and ponderings on paper for future use. These poems helped her through self-discovery and making sense of being a cosmic soul in a human body, while also experiencing what beauty and solace Mother Nature provides for her children. Find Me in the Forest paints a colorful canvas from a spiritual & open minded view of nature, consciousness and existence.
A Year Against the Rain
Ashley and Austin left Wisconsin to start a new life somewhere else, somewhere more exciting than Wisconsin. They journeyed into the unknown with only their necessary belongings and their Chevy Cruze. The couple started out trying a lifestyle of work exchange, then lived 30 days on public land in a tent while seeing America’s most beautiful National Parks. Needing a home base, they chose the Oregon Coast and survived eight months in a rustic off-grid cabin. This book is an adventure memoir of the year against the rain, having to face life lessons of becoming an adult in today’s modern world while also living an alternative lifestyle. Something wild happened often, causing laughter, tears, excitement and fears during the days filled with rain – A Year Against the Rain.
(Revisions in progress – third edition coming soon!)
The Adventures Across Guided Journal
Discontinued, have a few copies left
Morning Motivations
Morning motivations is a personal dedication – to follow your dreams whole heartedly. A book of poetry – and nature photography – to begin your day so gracefully. If in a day you’re feeling down – or like your head is in the ground – open this book to your soul. Begin to feel inspired – manifest for you what is desired – let go and embrace your creative flow. Join Ashley on a walk through nature and discover life’s spiritual mysteries the trees, bees, flowers, insects, rivers, rocks, plants and streams have to share! Find your motivation and inspiration for life to pursue your wildest dreams. This poetry and nature photography book will light up your fire and inspire the greatness you hold within you.