Articles

  • 3 days ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Lauren Bedosky |Emily Smith |Jon Spayde |Ashley Neese

    Trauma can be physical, mental, emotional, generational, or institutional. A traumatic experience can be acute or chronic. Examples of trauma include illness, accident, assault, neglect, natural disaster, torture, and war. But even life events that most people welcome, like childbirth, can be traumatic. Without resolution and healing, trauma can persist in our minds as well as our bodies, which remain primed to react long after the original threat has passed.

  • 2 weeks ago | thedeepercall.substack.com | Ashley Neese

    One year ago, I left Instagram for good. I shared about my decision in this essay. Here’s what unfolded…A walk with my family through the Sierras feels different when I’m present. It feels different when my awareness flows freely from our children’s laughter, to the Red Tail Hawk soaring overhead, to the scent of the lupines, to the welcomed exhale from my lungs that comes from feeling like I am enough in that moment. That we are enough.

  • Feb 6, 2025 | thedeepercall.substack.com | Ashley Neese

    This fall my attention has been stretched with our children, the animals we care for, the uncertainty of the times we inhabit, and the longing woven through all of it to stay connected to my deeper call.

  • Feb 6, 2025 | thedeepercall.substack.com | Ashley Neese

    There I was, cleaning my own pee off the floor of a hotel room. Not because I’d been drunk or 9-months pregnant—because I had worked myself into such an exhausted and delirious state that I couldn’t drag my body from my bed to the toilet. I don’t even remember it happening. Nic and I just found the soaked carpet in the morning. If you read part 1, you’ll know how I got there.

  • Feb 6, 2025 | thedeepercall.substack.com | Ashley Neese

    When I lived in Los Angeles, I probably spent a third of my income at Erewhon. Some months it was closer to half. If you haven't visited Erewhon, it’s an upscale health market with a major celebrity and cult following.