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.