Ashley Kelsch

Desire, Sex Drive and The Discovery of Something of New

A recording from Ashley Kelsch's live video

Jul 15 • Ashley Kelsch

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June 2026

On Aliveness and the Things We Don't Let Ourselves Feel (2023)

Listen now | The practice of swamping and the capacity to feel.

Jun 17 • Ashley Kelsch

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Where Did the Desire Go?

Listen now | Your life force didn't disappear. It just stopped having anywhere alive to go.

Jun 11 • Ashley Kelsch

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I Thought Wine Was My Problem. It turned out I had no idea what to do with myself.

On free time, wine in bed, and the self I hadn’t met yet.

Jun 3 • Ashley Kelsch

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May 2026

Lately, This: My Daughter Graduated and Something Unexpectedly Shifted

On motherhood, cold plunges, and what my pelvic floor apparently knew first.

May 23 • Ashley Kelsch

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Midlife Women, Wine, and the 3am Wake-Up

Why the thing many midlife women use to unwind is often the same thing waking them up in the middle of the night.

May 7 • Ashley Kelsch

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April 2026

What We Call Self-Care Doesn’t Last

The things that helped in the moment weren’t the same things that healed.

Apr 14 • Ashley Kelsch

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It Was Never Wild or Sober

Wine was sold to us as the thing that would make us looser, freer, more ourselves. Sex got sold the same way.

Apr 4 • Ashley Kelsch

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March 2026

Ten Years of Journals. Only the Names Changed.

I thought going back would feel like growth. It felt more like a weather report.

Mar 30 • Ashley Kelsch

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We Were Introduced to Our Bodies. Nobody Taught Us to Feel Them.

On desire, alcohol, and the awakening nobody warned you about.

Mar 22 • Ashley Kelsch

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The Girl Who Was Told To Be Quiet

Alcohol gave the angry girl a door. Sobriety meant learning how to open it.

Mar 18 • Ashley Kelsch

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Nobody Witnessed My Rock Bottom

For the women whose lives look completely fine from the outside.

Mar 10 • Ashley Kelsch

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