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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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It’s crazy out there, guys. Remember, you cannot

It’s crazy out there, guys. Remember, you cannot control what goes on around you, but you can control what goes on within you and that is the greatest power any human being possesses.

The more you focus on uncertainty of the future, the more fearful and anxious you become. Stay rooted in the right now, right in front of you. Your family. Your home. Your work. Yourself.

Media speculation is only going to feed your fears, but it’s just that: speculation. Stay informed, but moderate your consumption.

Headlines are particularly loaded and divisive right now because we are in an election year. If you’re not learning anything new, then reading and sharing the news is only serving to reinforce your beliefs. Take a break. Take a breath. Let your mind be with things that bring you joy.

Stay focused. Stay present. Find your light.
XO,
Ash

#covid_19 #quarantine #socialdistancing #pandemic2020 #mindfulness #staypresent #stopwatchingthenews #letgo #mentalhealth #copingstrategies #anxiety #fear

How’s your #quarantine going? It’s been up an

How’s your #quarantine going?

It’s been up and down. Feeling a lot of fear and anxiety that eventually dissipates as I shift into a deeper layer of the “new normal.” I was meditating today and I heard/saw things that were distractions being removed “to get back to where we need to be.” That feels relevant both for me on a personal level as well as the collective. It was a moody week with all of the rain and the depression and the desire to retreat from the world. But the sun came out today and it was beautiful and I’m in a good mood for the first time in a while.

How about you?

#quarantinediary #thenewnormal #quarantinelife #quarantineandchill

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 year

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 years on earth, I’ve never met one that I liked.
 And yet, every single fucking time I see one, I still think, “Maybe this time…” I pick it up. I take a bite. Nope. Still hate peanut butter cookies.  The fact that I still try it every time I see it thinking that maybe this will be the one and somehow my aversion will magically shift, all the while fully knowing I don’t like them and never have, is the definition of insanity. But that’s what ingrained behaviors do to us.  I’ve found myself exhibiting this same behavioral pattern in other areas of my life, particularly relationships. Falling for the same kind of people over and over. Giving them chance after chance, thinking somehow, this time, it would end differently. But it doesn’t. And I knew it wouldn’t, just like I know I fucking hate peanut butter cookies.  At some point you’ve got to look in the mirror and tell yourself, ‘You know you hate peanut butter cookies. You know you’d much rather have a snickerdoodle or a sugar cookie. The only reason you keep trying peanut butter cookies is because that’s the only thing available. And you know what? IT’S FUCKING OK TO GO WITHOUT THE GOD DAMN COOKIE IF IT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE REALLY LOOKING FOR.” And the same goes for romantic partners. And friends. And jobs. And any other hypothetical thing your peanut butter cookie could be a metaphor for.

Be willing to wait for what will fulfill you instead of trying to settle with what’s in front of you, lest you keep taking a bite and spitting it out because it’s disgusting. Every. Fucking. Time.

#standards #whatyouseekisseekingyou #raiseyourstandards #consciousliving #value #knowyourworth #consciousrelationships

Maybe it’s PMS, or maybe I’m just having a bad

Maybe it’s PMS, or maybe I’m just having a bad day, but I currently feel utterly repulsed by Instagram.
✳︎
To be honest, I’ve never really liked it here. Besides the things I post, I don’t even use it for anything beyond looking at memes or reading the occasional astrology or tantra post here and there. I don’t look at anyone’s stories. I don’t watch Instagram TV. I barely interact with other people’s content. Hell, I barely interact with the people who interact with my own content unless it’s one of my friends.
✳︎
I find myself feeling more and more disgusted by anything lacking total authenticity or integrity and I feel like this platform is permeated by people out of alignment with their own truth.
✳︎
In some ways I’m disgusted with the thought of having a platform at all.
✳︎
I’ve tried to maintain an awareness of my motivations for my actions when it comes to spiritually related things, and I told myself that if I ever reached a point where I felt like I had to do something or be something or post something for the sake of other people, and not for myself, then I would need to take a step back.
✳︎
I haven’t reached that point yet, but it has come to feel like a burden, and I have felt a nagging feeling to just let it all go—ALL of it. Not just Instagram or social media. It would be disingenuous of me to continue with something that no longer brings me joy. If I’m being honest, this doesn’t feel good anymore. And particularly with Instagram, I kind of hate it here and always have.
✳︎
I suppose the fact that my entire website was somehow mysteriously deleted from my web server last week is, perhaps, the universe’s way of telling me it’s time. Or at least to evolve into something else.
✳︎
That being said...I think this may be my last post for a while. Maybe ever. I don’t know where I go from here, but I guess we’ll see where the U takes me next. 🤷🏻‍♀️
✳︎
It was fun while it lasted. I grew a hell of a lot. So much so, I’m not who I was when I started. I guess that means I get to start over, somewhere else, as someone new.
✳︎
Maybe I’ll meet you there one day.
✳︎
—Ash

One of the main goals of spirituality is to ultima

One of the main goals of spirituality is to ultimately arrive at a place of peace, love, and joy for everyone and everything—at least that’s what the mainstream Love and Light crew will tell you.
✳︎
For some of us, that means letting go negative feelings such as anger, rage, and hate.
✳︎
For others, it leads us directly into those parts of ourselves because they are aspects that have been suppressed our entire lives.
✳︎
For me, learning to whole heartedly embrace those emotions and experiences rather than let them fester inside has been a major part of my shadow work over the last two years.
✳︎
Shadow work is an incredibly important part of healing and the process of enlightenment. The only way through which you can reach self-actualization is by claiming yourself whole—including the anger, the rage, and the hate.
✳︎
Mastery comes with the neutral observance of our dark side, not the annihilation of it.
✳︎
Some would tell you that the purpose of the journey is to destroy the ego, but that, too, is a misnomer.
✳︎
To destroy one’s ego would be to destroy all that is human about you—to have identity permanently dissolve into the ether. You would cease to exist as an individual.
✳︎
The ego serves a purpose. Without it, you wouldn’t have the ability to experience life itself. It’s what allows us to see ourselves as separate from the whole, and thus, to come to know ourselves. It’s the mechanism through which we are able to experience being human.
✳︎
Your goal is not to destroy it, but rather, transcend it, gaining the ability to see yourself as both an individual and the whole.
📷: @dreamerssclub

I wrote in my very last blog post (link in bio) th

I wrote in my very last blog post (link in bio) 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.
✳︎
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. You have a responsibility to model integrity, not just in how you do business, but in how you live your entire fucking life.
✳︎
It’s easy to tell people the fundamentals of how to create change in their lives. It’s a wholly other thing to show them in the way we carry ourselves day-to-day. It calls us to elevate ourselves, our actions, and the entirety of our lives to a higher level of integrity. To live fully within our purpose in every moment and be a beacon of hope for the masses.
✳︎
THIS IS THE HIGHEST CALLING, THE GREATEST PURPOSE – TO BE THAT WHICH YOU PRESENT YOURSELF AS.
✳︎
The more time I’ve spent marketing on social media, Instagram in particular, the more disillusioned I’ve become with people who claim to be something they aren’t, the people who follow them, and the people who help create them.
✳︎
Many spiritual and heart-based entrepreneurs aren't comfortable marketing themselves.
✳︎
Most traditional business coaches will tell you that it's fear of putting yourself out there. They’ll tell you, in the most flowery, inspirational language possible, to quit being a coward, toughen up and power through it. They’ll disguise this message as, “You’re letting your fear control you. It’s imposter syndrome. You just need to put yourself out there.”
✳︎
They’ll write post after post “challenging” you to overcome this fear and “take my course” or “join my training program” for just $[insert ridiculous price here] and they’ll have you rolling in clients in no time, making all the money, working from home, and living your best entrepreneurial life, no doubt attached to a photo of themselves in a thong bikini working poolside with a margarita.
✳︎
[Keep reading 👇🏻. It gets better]

Sometimes, when relationships don’t turn out the

Sometimes, when relationships don’t turn out the way we’d hoped, we try to minimize them by saying things like, “This was just a lesson.” Somehow, by attempting to force a shift in our perception, we think it will lessen the impact of the loss, but in the process, we end up dismissing and invalidating our own emotions and the connection we had with the other person in that relationship.

That doesn’t help you move forward or heal, it’s only helping you bury your pain (and is a form of spiritual bypassing). It’s possible to accept the “lessons” you learned within a relationship while still honoring your place in it.

This person—this mirror—gave you a gift: the opportunity to see yourself. Just because it didn’t unfold the way you imagined it would doesn’t mean that what was there was never real. It was, but for a moment in time. And what is life but impermanent?

You don’t HAVE to measure success or failure by whether or not something continues. In fact, you don’t have to measure success or failure at all.

Perhaps there are no lessons. Only experiences.

It’s crazy out there, guys. Remember, you cannot

It’s crazy out there, guys. Remember, you cannot control what goes on around you, but you can control what goes on within you and that is the greatest power any human being possesses.

The more you focus on uncertainty of the future, the more fearful and anxious you become. Stay rooted in the right now, right in front of you. Your family. Your home. Your work. Yourself.

Media speculation is only going to feed your fears, but it’s just that: speculation. Stay informed, but moderate your consumption.

Headlines are particularly loaded and divisive right now because we are in an election year. If you’re not learning anything new, then reading and sharing the news is only serving to reinforce your beliefs. Take a break. Take a breath. Let your mind be with things that bring you joy.

Stay focused. Stay present. Find your light.
XO,
Ash

#covid_19 #quarantine #socialdistancing #pandemic2020 #mindfulness #staypresent #stopwatchingthenews #letgo #mentalhealth #copingstrategies #anxiety #fear

How’s your #quarantine going? It’s been up an

How’s your #quarantine going?

It’s been up and down. Feeling a lot of fear and anxiety that eventually dissipates as I shift into a deeper layer of the “new normal.” I was meditating today and I heard/saw things that were distractions being removed “to get back to where we need to be.” That feels relevant both for me on a personal level as well as the collective. It was a moody week with all of the rain and the depression and the desire to retreat from the world. But the sun came out today and it was beautiful and I’m in a good mood for the first time in a while.

How about you?

#quarantinediary #thenewnormal #quarantinelife #quarantineandchill

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 year

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 years on earth, I’ve never met one that I liked.
 And yet, every single fucking time I see one, I still think, “Maybe this time…” I pick it up. I take a bite. Nope. Still hate peanut butter cookies.  The fact that I still try it every time I see it thinking that maybe this will be the one and somehow my aversion will magically shift, all the while fully knowing I don’t like them and never have, is the definition of insanity. But that’s what ingrained behaviors do to us.  I’ve found myself exhibiting this same behavioral pattern in other areas of my life, particularly relationships. Falling for the same kind of people over and over. Giving them chance after chance, thinking somehow, this time, it would end differently. But it doesn’t. And I knew it wouldn’t, just like I know I fucking hate peanut butter cookies.  At some point you’ve got to look in the mirror and tell yourself, ‘You know you hate peanut butter cookies. You know you’d much rather have a snickerdoodle or a sugar cookie. The only reason you keep trying peanut butter cookies is because that’s the only thing available. And you know what? IT’S FUCKING OK TO GO WITHOUT THE GOD DAMN COOKIE IF IT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE REALLY LOOKING FOR.” And the same goes for romantic partners. And friends. And jobs. And any other hypothetical thing your peanut butter cookie could be a metaphor for.

Be willing to wait for what will fulfill you instead of trying to settle with what’s in front of you, lest you keep taking a bite and spitting it out because it’s disgusting. Every. Fucking. Time.

#standards #whatyouseekisseekingyou #raiseyourstandards #consciousliving #value #knowyourworth #consciousrelationships

Maybe it’s PMS, or maybe I’m just having a bad

Maybe it’s PMS, or maybe I’m just having a bad day, but I currently feel utterly repulsed by Instagram.
✳︎
To be honest, I’ve never really liked it here. Besides the things I post, I don’t even use it for anything beyond looking at memes or reading the occasional astrology or tantra post here and there. I don’t look at anyone’s stories. I don’t watch Instagram TV. I barely interact with other people’s content. Hell, I barely interact with the people who interact with my own content unless it’s one of my friends.
✳︎
I find myself feeling more and more disgusted by anything lacking total authenticity or integrity and I feel like this platform is permeated by people out of alignment with their own truth.
✳︎
In some ways I’m disgusted with the thought of having a platform at all.
✳︎
I’ve tried to maintain an awareness of my motivations for my actions when it comes to spiritually related things, and I told myself that if I ever reached a point where I felt like I had to do something or be something or post something for the sake of other people, and not for myself, then I would need to take a step back.
✳︎
I haven’t reached that point yet, but it has come to feel like a burden, and I have felt a nagging feeling to just let it all go—ALL of it. Not just Instagram or social media. It would be disingenuous of me to continue with something that no longer brings me joy. If I’m being honest, this doesn’t feel good anymore. And particularly with Instagram, I kind of hate it here and always have.
✳︎
I suppose the fact that my entire website was somehow mysteriously deleted from my web server last week is, perhaps, the universe’s way of telling me it’s time. Or at least to evolve into something else.
✳︎
That being said...I think this may be my last post for a while. Maybe ever. I don’t know where I go from here, but I guess we’ll see where the U takes me next. 🤷🏻‍♀️
✳︎
It was fun while it lasted. I grew a hell of a lot. So much so, I’m not who I was when I started. I guess that means I get to start over, somewhere else, as someone new.
✳︎
Maybe I’ll meet you there one day.
✳︎
—Ash

One of the main goals of spirituality is to ultima

One of the main goals of spirituality is to ultimately arrive at a place of peace, love, and joy for everyone and everything—at least that’s what the mainstream Love and Light crew will tell you.
✳︎
For some of us, that means letting go negative feelings such as anger, rage, and hate.
✳︎
For others, it leads us directly into those parts of ourselves because they are aspects that have been suppressed our entire lives.
✳︎
For me, learning to whole heartedly embrace those emotions and experiences rather than let them fester inside has been a major part of my shadow work over the last two years.
✳︎
Shadow work is an incredibly important part of healing and the process of enlightenment. The only way through which you can reach self-actualization is by claiming yourself whole—including the anger, the rage, and the hate.
✳︎
Mastery comes with the neutral observance of our dark side, not the annihilation of it.
✳︎
Some would tell you that the purpose of the journey is to destroy the ego, but that, too, is a misnomer.
✳︎
To destroy one’s ego would be to destroy all that is human about you—to have identity permanently dissolve into the ether. You would cease to exist as an individual.
✳︎
The ego serves a purpose. Without it, you wouldn’t have the ability to experience life itself. It’s what allows us to see ourselves as separate from the whole, and thus, to come to know ourselves. It’s the mechanism through which we are able to experience being human.
✳︎
Your goal is not to destroy it, but rather, transcend it, gaining the ability to see yourself as both an individual and the whole.
📷: @dreamerssclub

I wrote in my very last blog post (link in bio) th

I wrote in my very last blog post (link in bio) 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.
✳︎
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. You have a responsibility to model integrity, not just in how you do business, but in how you live your entire fucking life.
✳︎
It’s easy to tell people the fundamentals of how to create change in their lives. It’s a wholly other thing to show them in the way we carry ourselves day-to-day. It calls us to elevate ourselves, our actions, and the entirety of our lives to a higher level of integrity. To live fully within our purpose in every moment and be a beacon of hope for the masses.
✳︎
THIS IS THE HIGHEST CALLING, THE GREATEST PURPOSE – TO BE THAT WHICH YOU PRESENT YOURSELF AS.
✳︎
The more time I’ve spent marketing on social media, Instagram in particular, the more disillusioned I’ve become with people who claim to be something they aren’t, the people who follow them, and the people who help create them.
✳︎
Many spiritual and heart-based entrepreneurs aren't comfortable marketing themselves.
✳︎
Most traditional business coaches will tell you that it's fear of putting yourself out there. They’ll tell you, in the most flowery, inspirational language possible, to quit being a coward, toughen up and power through it. They’ll disguise this message as, “You’re letting your fear control you. It’s imposter syndrome. You just need to put yourself out there.”
✳︎
They’ll write post after post “challenging” you to overcome this fear and “take my course” or “join my training program” for just $[insert ridiculous price here] and they’ll have you rolling in clients in no time, making all the money, working from home, and living your best entrepreneurial life, no doubt attached to a photo of themselves in a thong bikini working poolside with a margarita.
✳︎
[Keep reading 👇🏻. It gets better]

Sometimes, when relationships don’t turn out the

Sometimes, when relationships don’t turn out the way we’d hoped, we try to minimize them by saying things like, “This was just a lesson.” Somehow, by attempting to force a shift in our perception, we think it will lessen the impact of the loss, but in the process, we end up dismissing and invalidating our own emotions and the connection we had with the other person in that relationship.

That doesn’t help you move forward or heal, it’s only helping you bury your pain (and is a form of spiritual bypassing). It’s possible to accept the “lessons” you learned within a relationship while still honoring your place in it.

This person—this mirror—gave you a gift: the opportunity to see yourself. Just because it didn’t unfold the way you imagined it would doesn’t mean that what was there was never real. It was, but for a moment in time. And what is life but impermanent?

You don’t HAVE to measure success or failure by whether or not something continues. In fact, you don’t have to measure success or failure at all.

Perhaps there are no lessons. Only experiences.

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