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 poetical journey through the process of shedding an old identity and easing into a new one; with topics around our relationships with the internet, spirituality, creativity, friendship, and accepting ourselves for who we truly are.
Walk through the dark woods of the four sections: The Crisis of disorientation, Into the Dark Woods of anger and shame, Befriending Shadows of acceptance, and Together Out of the Woods of healing and hope.
Explore the Ither, a force of the internet that is floating around every one of us now, and understand the dark side of spirituality.
Through her poetry collection entwined with themes of nature, healing, and the relationship with self, Ashley shares the dark side of spirituality, the internet ecosystem and the process of listening to the shadow self. By the end of the collection, she makes peace with her past and sheds an old identity to open up for something new.
This poetry collection is for anyone who’s felt disoriented in our modern day society, sensitive to the chaos of the world around us, and wishing there were better ways to exist. Befriending Shadows gives you a voice for these feelings while giving you power in your sensitivity, to go on with your gentleness with acceptance for the world around us.
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.