Ash Alves 🪞⚖️

A portal into the inner world of a sensitive soul, where reflections on wellness, spirituality, and justice intertwine. 🤍

Launched a year ago

I didn’t expect my ADHD diagnosis to bring grief

On receiving an ADHD diagnosis at 30 + mourning the life I didn't get to experience

What growing up with a parent living with mental illness left me carrying

On hypervigilance, responsibility + learning to put some things down

The ways my mother wound showed up in my friendships

On rescuing, mistrust + learning to experience connection differently

When online visibility meets anxious attachment

On attachment theory, online visibility + the longing to be seen

The shadow side of the spiritual babe

On spiritual bypassing, shadow side and the avoidance of self + reality

Recent posts

Who am I now? Moving through identity re-negotiation

On grief, identity shifts, and the strange in-between space of becoming.

Learning to let joy in

Reflections on how childhood experiences shape our capacity for joy

When you feel small around others

The emotional reality of believing other people matter more and how to heal that internal hierarchy.