The Deeper Call

The Deeper Call

Four things I’ve learned in 2023

And a breathing practice to carry us into 2024

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Ashley Neese
Dec 27, 2023
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On the eve of the last full moon of 2023, I wanted to take a moment to close out the year in community. Marking transitions is a cornerstone of my personal practice and I wanted to share with you a few lessons that I gathered this year.

Our intimate community is filled with caring, open-hearted, intelligent, creative, and complex humans. One of the threads that weaves us all together is our shared desire to listen to our deeper callings. For the last three seasons we have come together to offer support and encouragement, to witness each other, to feel less alone, to breathe, to write, to rest, and to remember, even for one heartbeat, our inherent worthiness. We gathered for intimate workshops, connected in the comments of many of my letters, and are continuing to find our way through the very real awe, grief, joy, and exhaustion that cycles through our lives just like the moon.  

When I created The Deeper Call in April, I was unsure what it would become or if a…

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