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Ashley Abbs

Acupuncturist | Spiritual Embodiment Mentor | Author 5 Element Alchemy On Sale Now!

Acupuncturist | Writer | Mentor for Heart-Centred Creatives | Aligning Medicine with Soul

Download your FREE 5 Element Alchemy Guidebook at: https://ashleyabbs.com/5-element-alchemy-guidebook/

05/29/2025

What my art is teaching me this season.

I’ve been noticing a shift in my energy. In my Art. In what I need - and what I want to let go of.

This season, my art is teaching me:

to move slower. - I’m not behind.

to stop trying to push - Old modes of operating no longer work for me, my body or my mind

and instead.....listen. - When I put faith in my souls knowing. It will show me my next steps.

Let this be your Reminder.

Let beauty walk with you. Let art be a companion to listen and trust your own hearts knowing.

Originals and Prints are available www.ashleyabbs.com

05/25/2025

Today I celebrate 44!

I first want to thank all of you who have chosen to hit follow and be patient with my journey in figuring out how to share my work. Art, Acupuncture and Writing to support women that find themselves in transition and wanting to create more space for inspiration and healing for themselves all while bringing the people that they love along with them on the journey. That’s where my heart longs to hold space for.

The traditional marketing models all tell you to pick one. But I can’t. So it’s a little messy sometimes confusing and probably 10x more work, however even with all of that it’s 100% true.

So here’s to 44 and another trip around the sun figuring it out and learning to share a little more openly. My Gemini - Aquarius - Scorpio combo tends to leave me getting in my own way. 🥰

So in the spirit of sharing here’s a few facts about me!

💗 I’m left handed and hold my pencil “wrong” - it looks weird but it works.
💗 I grew up on an acreage with a random selection of animals, peacocks, chickens, ducks, goats (I hated those dudes), a rabbit named Toby, my horse named Roxy, and the usual cats and dogs.
💗 My favourite flowers are dahlias, hydrangeas and peonies.
💗 I ALWAYS!! put on my Left shoe first. I think it started as a superstition when I was competing but now it feels weird if I don’t do it and I will actually take off my shoes and do it the other way around if I happen to start with the right.
💗My dad taught me how to draw. I swear I can feel him around me every time I make art now.

Ps. Angel food cake makes the best birthday cake! No matter what the rest of my family thinks 😂

Thanks for being here

05/22/2025

There’s a common thread that shows up in the sacred space of an acupuncture session. Typically when their littles have become school age and theres a reprieve of both time and energy that surfaces. What usually would be met with celebration and expansiveness instead is met with an overall feeling of loss.
Grief that the baby years are behind them and a new season of parenting and relating is upon them.
And an overwhelming feeling of loss. For so many years they have pushed aside their own wants and individuation in service their role as mom and wife and now with extra time. What do you do with it? What do you want?
The question, What do you want? is often unanswerable.
Put in the context of What do you want for your marriage, your kids, your family. This they can list off a million different ideas and directions.
For themselves? not as easy.
So we have to break it down into something smaller. Something that pertains to the core requirements of the Earth Element that governs our mothering and self care. To tease those two aspects apart where there is space for both to occupy awareness and intention.
Nourishment.
What is your personal definition of nourishment. (not just what you eat).
And then take some time to figure out.
What nourishes you.
Don’t know, this is your invitation to go find out. Try something new. Steal away an hour after school drop off and walk by the river, grab a tea with a friend. Go to a class. Read a book. The options are limitless.
They may feel trivial at first. But I can guarantee, that in time, there will be a moment where your soul will feel more grounded and nourished. When that happens envisioning what you want will emerge.

05/20/2025

Start here, love.
You hold so much.

You move through your days with strength, care, and a quiet ache for something more.

This space is for you.

Through art, acupuncture, and words, I offer beauty as medicine.

Stillness as sanctuary.

And a gentle way back to yourself.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, in transition, or just tired of holding it all - start with my free 5 element Quiz.

It’s a map inward. A mirror, A beginning.

Take the quiz - (link in bio)

Then stay awhile. You belong here.

01/22/2025

When we are initiated into change and transformation we are dipping our toes into the Water Element. While this space is exactly where we need to be it can often bring a lot of feelings and usually more questions than answers in the beginning.

This is natural. When we’re on verge of opportunities or directions because older models no longer fit or serve us, it’s easy to become overwhelmed or anxious. If you find yourself here, I invite you to lean into your rituals.

Rituals can serves as a container, borrowing the structure of the Metal Element, to hold the potency of the water energetic. They provided firm entry and exit points to prevent us from feeling lost or becoming overwhelmed by emotions that we may not be fully ready to feel.

At the same time they allow us to connect to our heart, our should and the initiation to experience and develop relationship to something bigger than ourselves. So that we may seek greater understanding of ourselves and hopefully arrive at the next steady step that propels us towards our destiny.

You won’t regret your time spent in this space. If it has been some time since you’ve convened with your rituals take this as your invitation. The answers you seek aren’t outside of you. You will find what you need in the space within.

What actions, intentions or ritualized activities help you foster sacred space to engage with your soul?

Identify and actualize.

Share in the comments some of your rituals and practices.

Adapted from 5 Element Alchemy

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12/13/2024

Drop in where your heart needs inspiration and support.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been active on this platform and I’m dipping my toes back in which means an introduction is necessary.

Hello, I’m Ashley. I’m an Acupuncturist, Artist & Author. Nature is my inspiration. Needles, Art supplies, namely pastels & words are my mediums. Together they allow me to embrace my full creative expression to inspire healing, introspection and an initiation to communicate with one’s soul.

It is a privilege & pleasure to share my work with my clients at my studio and online.

WWW.ASHLEYABBS.COM is brand new and I’m so excited to share it with you. There you will find info on how to work with me and the 5 elements at my acupuncture practice, how to buy my book 5 Element Alchemy and become a collector of my work both original art work and fine art prints.

The journey inward starts here. Where does your heart call you to anchor?

11/22/2024

What do you deem precious?
The Metal Element is crystallizing. Preparing us for the deep dive of the Water Season and enter a period of introspection and unravelling. Preparing us for a way forward into our next embodiment.
Not sure where you’re going? Or what’s around the corner for you? Not to worry, you needn’t have to have it all figured out just yet.
All that is required in this moment is to get truly clear on what is the most important to you.
What do you deem precious?
Or, what do you want to hold onto as you shed old skin, patterns, beliefs, habits etc. to begin anew.
If you were to emerge in a brand new life, what is it that you have in your current circumstance that you want to still have with you?
Are they qualities, feelings, people, things, memories or a combination that you hold dear?
What are they? Name them, say them aloud. If they are your most precious things treat them as so. Perhaps your people need to hear what you deem precious, or maybe you need to hear you acknowledge them too.
How do you or want to, honour, cultivate or amplify what you deem precious in your life?
It’s a practice that bears repeating. Over and over again.
Coming home to yourself, getting clear and holding what you love most at the centre of your awareness.
That is how those things, (people, things, qualities and memories) walk alongside and hold you up in your moments of transformation.
And so it is.

Looking for additional writing prompts to spur your inner journey, to create a life you love. Check out 5 Element Alchemy at your favourite book retailer. (link in bio)

10/11/2024

Follow your Tao by is out and it’s gorgeous!

Writing a book changes you. From the first moment of deciding that you are going to write a book and then to actually follow through with it and make it a physical manifestation of your efforts. Words and devotion that get to live outside of you, it’s no easy feat. And Stephanie, her knowledge and her unique medicine so deserves to be shared far and wide.

I had the pleasure and honour of supporting Stephanie during the writing of her first draft and mentoring her in finding her authentic voice. I’m so proud of her. I’m grateful to have been able to play a small part in the process.

Go get your copy, support emerging authors and love on this book in a big way. You won’t regret it.

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