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8 Instagram Shops You Should Know

It’s always great to find really cool, unique new shops that sell really awesome stuff, especially when they’re upcycled, earth friendly, all natural, charitable or just plain amazeballs. I follow several on Instagram that are to die for and today, I’m sharing them with you, just in case you need a last minute gift idea for Christmas!

Crystal Bar Soap – Canada

@crystalbarsoap
www.crystalbarsoap.com

100% vegan & cruelty free handmade crystal soaps and bath bombs. Each one of these lovelies comes with a crystal tucked inside.

Nectar & Bumble – UK

@nectarandbumble
www.nectarandbumble.co.uk

Gifts, homeware, and natural skincare. Nectar & Bumble donates 10% of its profits to bee charities to help save the bees.

Lonesome Hobo Glass – Wisconsin, USA

@lonesomehoboglass
www.lonesomehobo.com

Hand crafted terrariums from recycled window glass.

The Sacred Dimension – California, USA

@thesacreddimension
www.thesacreddimension.com

Spiritual treasures for the body and mind.

ShowMe Orgonite – Missouri, USA

@showmeorgonite
www.showmeorgonite.com

Orgonite artists and reiki masters. Each piece is reiki infused.

Poison Apple Print Shop – Pennsylvania, USA

@poisonappleprintshop
www.poisonappleprintshop.com

One person print shop. Handmade illustrations and prints.

Sisters of the Black Moon – Sweden

@sistersoftheblackmoon
www.sistersoftheblackmoon.com

Eccentricities for the shadows of your soul. Clothing, jewelry and accessories.

Becca Douglas Art – Virginia, USA

@beccadouglasart
http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/BeccaDouglasArt/

Dream paintings, tattoo design, and personal portraits.

Get creative this holiday season and support conscious local businesses and artisans with your gift giving!

Xo,

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You can love someone and still (figuratively) tell

You can love someone and still (figuratively) tell them to go fuck themselves if and when the necessity arises.

If they take accountability for their actions and attempt to make amends, keep them.

If they don’t, let ‘em go. That doesn’t mean you don’t love them. It just means that you recognize you’re not in a healthy dynamic and you respect yourself enough to not subject yourself to toxic behavior.

It’s not worth fighting to keep someone in your life who won’t fight to keep you in theirs.

#boundaries #healthyboundaries #fuckoff

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the inside.

#love #instadaily #creativewriting #words #honestl

#love #instadaily #creativewriting #words #honestlyworded #thoughtoftheday #lovequotes #soul #instagood #wordporn #spilledink #wordsofwisdom #sacredunion #writer #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetry #writersofinstagram #quoteoftheday #reflectingoutloud #writingcommunity #writersofig #poet #poetry #poetsofinstagram

I'm realizing that I take serious issue with the c

I'm realizing that I take serious issue with the commercialization of spirituality.
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Once the desire for success overtakes the desire for service to the greater good, you cross the border into service of your own ego, and the work loses its integrity.
✳︎
I think this is one of the reasons I've taken a sabbatical from offering paid services. If I'm in a position where I *need* to make my spiritual work support me financially, then I'm inherently driven by a state of lack wherein my primary motivation is to make money, rather than to be of service.
✳︎
If I'm inherently driven by a state of lack wherein my primary motivation is to achieve status and success, rather than be of service, the work also loses its integrity.
✳︎
This concept applies to business, as well as life—when you lose sight of your mission, you find yourself out of alignment with your higher purpose.
✳︎
Spiritual work is sacred work. People are trusting you with their deepest level of vulnerability. You have a responsibility to honor that within your interactions.
✳︎
It's important to periodically check in with ourselves and give our motivations a hard, honest assessment.
✳︎
You might be sitting there thinking, “Well Ash, nobody ever became a millionaire with that attitude.”
✳︎
And you’d be erroneously assuming that I desire to be a millionaire. I don’t. I’ve known a few. They’re rarely happy and are frequently followed by a trail of regrets. The happy ones are the people who followed a passion, the money was just a pleasant side effect.
✳︎
You can be successful and still do what you love. The difference is that if you do what you love, you're more likely to be successful. You can't help but attract that to yourself. If you strive primarily for success and lose sight of what you love, you're just like everybody else at the end of the day, wasting your life, sacrificing real happiness while working your ass off for something that never truly fulfills you.
✳︎
Have you checked your motivations today?
✳︎
#motivation #commercialization #spirituality #bereal #behonestwithyourself #spiritualbusiness #soulpreneur #heartbasedbusiness #growyourlove #fuckthehustle #businesswoman

Another something I wrote one morning in June: Ab

Another something I wrote one morning in June:

Abandonment is a term we’re all familiar with and have likely experienced to some degree in a relationship at some point–the guy you met on Bumble and dated for three weeks who ghosted you; the one you dated in college who moved away; the friend who broke up with you after a disagreement.

Then there’s traumatic abandonment. I don’t know if that’s an official psychological term, but if it’s not, I’m about to coin it. Traumatic abandonment occurs when someone you have developed a long-term, intimate emotional relationship with suddenly cuts off all communication without warning. It’s being ghosted, but not just by anyone–by someone you love and have a deep attachment to.

Traumatic abandonment leaves a devastation in its wake rivaled only by death–except it’s worse, because at least with death (suicide being the exception), the loved one didn’t choose to leave you.

The stages of grief are similar, though they come with one addition: confusion. First, you are confused. Why aren’t they responding? You make excuses. Maybe they’re just busy. Maybe their battery died. The hours go by and then the days. Maybe they lost their phone. Still nothing. After a few days, it begins to sink in.

Then comes bargaining: once you recognize the person has no intention of responding to you, you keep keep trying. You send text messages trying to fix things. You apologize, or beg for forgiveness, or forgive, or otherwise try to smooth over whatever happened, only to be met with more silence.  Next comes the anger. Why would they do this to you? How could they do this to you? How could anyone, but especially them–this person who said they loved you? How can they just disappear without saying a word?

Weeks begin to pass and the denial begins to work it’s delusion. You tell yourself they’ll come back. You build yourself up with hope. It gets you through the days. Every time your phone buzzes, you think, “Maybe it’s them.” And then you crash each time you see that it isn’t, until it happens enough times that hope becomes cynicism. (continued 👇🏻)

Let me tell you about the day I threw my career in

Let me tell you about the day I threw my career in the trash—but first…let’s talk about how I got there.
✳︎
After seven years of working full time in disgustingly toxic work environments, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I was working for an ecommerce startup owned by a crack addict, coming home every day to drink an entire bottle of wine just to deal with the stress of being there.
✳︎
My husband at the time pointed out, “You’re not yourself.”
✳︎
At his urging and encouragement, I started my own business. Over the next four years, I grew that business to a level of success I’d never experienced while working for anyone else.
✳︎
Incidentally, I began In My Sacred Space six months after. The two grew side-by-side over the course of the next four years.
✳︎
One day, when I was sitting in a meeting with one of my clients, he looked at me and asked, “Do you want to run this business?”
✳︎
I felt a wave of internal resistance. Not because I was afraid or thought I was incapable.
✳︎
My ego said, “Yes! Do it! You’ll be the CEO of a fashion tech startup at 33.”
✳︎
But my soul said, “This will suck every ounce of life out of you. And for what? You don’t give a single fuck about fashion.”
✳︎
That was when I realized my true passion was not for helping other people grow their businesses. It was for helping other people grow. Period.
✳︎
My longterm goal at the end of 2016 was to put myself on a trajectory to be involved in personal development and spirituality full-time.
✳︎
Then life, as it often does, happened. My largest client went AWOL on the same day that my marriage imploded. Four and a half months later, I packed up my shit, moved to New York City and started fresh with no friends, no job, and no plan.
✳︎
Initially I thought I’d attempt to rebuild my business in a new place, which was certainly ripe with opportunities for someone with my skillset, and I busily set about laying a foundation to do so in my first three months here. (Continued in comments)
📷: @robstamm14

I was going to post this yesterday until Mercury R

I was going to post this yesterday until Mercury Retrograde killed the Internet...
✳︎
I started playing around with some new branding templates the other day. Might be feeling the vibe to get back into designing my own stuff again. *Might be.* Also, it makes it slightly more difficult for people to rip off your shit when your face is on it. And people seem to like my face, even more so than my words, which is unfortunate but, I suppose, reflective of the world we live in.
✳︎
More to come. Tell me what you think.
✳︎
#love #instadaily #creativewriting #words #honestlyworded #thoughtoftheday #lovequotes #soul #instagood #wordporn #spilledink #wordsofwisdom #sacredunion #writer #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetry #writersofinstagram #quoteoftheday #reflectingoutloud #writingcommunity #writersofig #poetsofig

You can love someone and still (figuratively) tell

You can love someone and still (figuratively) tell them to go fuck themselves if and when the necessity arises.

If they take accountability for their actions and attempt to make amends, keep them.

If they don’t, let ‘em go. That doesn’t mean you don’t love them. It just means that you recognize you’re not in a healthy dynamic and you respect yourself enough to not subject yourself to toxic behavior.

It’s not worth fighting to keep someone in your life who won’t fight to keep you in theirs.

#boundaries #healthyboundaries #fuckoff

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the inside.

#love #instadaily #creativewriting #words #honestl

#love #instadaily #creativewriting #words #honestlyworded #thoughtoftheday #lovequotes #soul #instagood #wordporn #spilledink #wordsofwisdom #sacredunion #writer #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetry #writersofinstagram #quoteoftheday #reflectingoutloud #writingcommunity #writersofig #poet #poetry #poetsofinstagram

I'm realizing that I take serious issue with the c

I'm realizing that I take serious issue with the commercialization of spirituality.
✳︎
Once the desire for success overtakes the desire for service to the greater good, you cross the border into service of your own ego, and the work loses its integrity.
✳︎
I think this is one of the reasons I've taken a sabbatical from offering paid services. If I'm in a position where I *need* to make my spiritual work support me financially, then I'm inherently driven by a state of lack wherein my primary motivation is to make money, rather than to be of service.
✳︎
If I'm inherently driven by a state of lack wherein my primary motivation is to achieve status and success, rather than be of service, the work also loses its integrity.
✳︎
This concept applies to business, as well as life—when you lose sight of your mission, you find yourself out of alignment with your higher purpose.
✳︎
Spiritual work is sacred work. People are trusting you with their deepest level of vulnerability. You have a responsibility to honor that within your interactions.
✳︎
It's important to periodically check in with ourselves and give our motivations a hard, honest assessment.
✳︎
You might be sitting there thinking, “Well Ash, nobody ever became a millionaire with that attitude.”
✳︎
And you’d be erroneously assuming that I desire to be a millionaire. I don’t. I’ve known a few. They’re rarely happy and are frequently followed by a trail of regrets. The happy ones are the people who followed a passion, the money was just a pleasant side effect.
✳︎
You can be successful and still do what you love. The difference is that if you do what you love, you're more likely to be successful. You can't help but attract that to yourself. If you strive primarily for success and lose sight of what you love, you're just like everybody else at the end of the day, wasting your life, sacrificing real happiness while working your ass off for something that never truly fulfills you.
✳︎
Have you checked your motivations today?
✳︎
#motivation #commercialization #spirituality #bereal #behonestwithyourself #spiritualbusiness #soulpreneur #heartbasedbusiness #growyourlove #fuckthehustle #businesswoman

Another something I wrote one morning in June: Ab

Another something I wrote one morning in June:

Abandonment is a term we’re all familiar with and have likely experienced to some degree in a relationship at some point–the guy you met on Bumble and dated for three weeks who ghosted you; the one you dated in college who moved away; the friend who broke up with you after a disagreement.

Then there’s traumatic abandonment. I don’t know if that’s an official psychological term, but if it’s not, I’m about to coin it. Traumatic abandonment occurs when someone you have developed a long-term, intimate emotional relationship with suddenly cuts off all communication without warning. It’s being ghosted, but not just by anyone–by someone you love and have a deep attachment to.

Traumatic abandonment leaves a devastation in its wake rivaled only by death–except it’s worse, because at least with death (suicide being the exception), the loved one didn’t choose to leave you.

The stages of grief are similar, though they come with one addition: confusion. First, you are confused. Why aren’t they responding? You make excuses. Maybe they’re just busy. Maybe their battery died. The hours go by and then the days. Maybe they lost their phone. Still nothing. After a few days, it begins to sink in.

Then comes bargaining: once you recognize the person has no intention of responding to you, you keep keep trying. You send text messages trying to fix things. You apologize, or beg for forgiveness, or forgive, or otherwise try to smooth over whatever happened, only to be met with more silence.  Next comes the anger. Why would they do this to you? How could they do this to you? How could anyone, but especially them–this person who said they loved you? How can they just disappear without saying a word?

Weeks begin to pass and the denial begins to work it’s delusion. You tell yourself they’ll come back. You build yourself up with hope. It gets you through the days. Every time your phone buzzes, you think, “Maybe it’s them.” And then you crash each time you see that it isn’t, until it happens enough times that hope becomes cynicism. (continued 👇🏻)

Let me tell you about the day I threw my career in

Let me tell you about the day I threw my career in the trash—but first…let’s talk about how I got there.
✳︎
After seven years of working full time in disgustingly toxic work environments, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I was working for an ecommerce startup owned by a crack addict, coming home every day to drink an entire bottle of wine just to deal with the stress of being there.
✳︎
My husband at the time pointed out, “You’re not yourself.”
✳︎
At his urging and encouragement, I started my own business. Over the next four years, I grew that business to a level of success I’d never experienced while working for anyone else.
✳︎
Incidentally, I began In My Sacred Space six months after. The two grew side-by-side over the course of the next four years.
✳︎
One day, when I was sitting in a meeting with one of my clients, he looked at me and asked, “Do you want to run this business?”
✳︎
I felt a wave of internal resistance. Not because I was afraid or thought I was incapable.
✳︎
My ego said, “Yes! Do it! You’ll be the CEO of a fashion tech startup at 33.”
✳︎
But my soul said, “This will suck every ounce of life out of you. And for what? You don’t give a single fuck about fashion.”
✳︎
That was when I realized my true passion was not for helping other people grow their businesses. It was for helping other people grow. Period.
✳︎
My longterm goal at the end of 2016 was to put myself on a trajectory to be involved in personal development and spirituality full-time.
✳︎
Then life, as it often does, happened. My largest client went AWOL on the same day that my marriage imploded. Four and a half months later, I packed up my shit, moved to New York City and started fresh with no friends, no job, and no plan.
✳︎
Initially I thought I’d attempt to rebuild my business in a new place, which was certainly ripe with opportunities for someone with my skillset, and I busily set about laying a foundation to do so in my first three months here. (Continued in comments)
📷: @robstamm14

I was going to post this yesterday until Mercury R

I was going to post this yesterday until Mercury Retrograde killed the Internet...
✳︎
I started playing around with some new branding templates the other day. Might be feeling the vibe to get back into designing my own stuff again. *Might be.* Also, it makes it slightly more difficult for people to rip off your shit when your face is on it. And people seem to like my face, even more so than my words, which is unfortunate but, I suppose, reflective of the world we live in.
✳︎
More to come. Tell me what you think.
✳︎
#love #instadaily #creativewriting #words #honestlyworded #thoughtoftheday #lovequotes #soul #instagood #wordporn #spilledink #wordsofwisdom #sacredunion #writer #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetry #writersofinstagram #quoteoftheday #reflectingoutloud #writingcommunity #writersofig #poetsofig

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