Pressed Flowers

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pressed Flowers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the debut poetry collection by Ashley Lazarz - a heartfelt vulnerable exploration of one transformative year through love loss healing and self-discovery. Told month by month beginning in December the book is structured like a personal journal of emotions. Each chapter captures the shifting seasons of the heart: from falling in love and dreaming boldly to experiencing heartbreak depression grief and ultimately growth and peace.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ashley draws from her own lived experiences offering raw reflections on identity self-worth loneliness and body image. These poems are not written to offer easy answers but instead to hold space - space for discomfort joy sadness and transformation. Through a range of poetic styles including free verse prose poetry and short-form pieces </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pressed Flowers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> invites readers to feel deeply and reconnect with parts of themselves they may have forgotten or hidden away.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This collection speaks to anyone who has ever questioned their place in the world lost someone they loved or felt overwhelmed by the beauty and chaos of life. It's a book about becoming - about embracing the mess holding on to hope and learning that even the broken parts of us are worthy of love.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ashley's intention with this book is simple but powerful: she hopes you laugh. She hopes you cry. She hopes you allow yourself to feel every word and to sit gently with your own story. More than anything she hopes </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pressed Flowers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> helps you feel more seen more vulnerable and more fully yourself. In a world that often demands perfection and composure this book offers softness honesty and a reminder that healing is not linear - it's layered delicate and often pressed into us like petals in a book.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pressed Flowers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is not just a poetry collection - it's a companion for anyone walking through their own seasons of change. Whether you're in the middle of letting go or just learning how to hold yourself again these pages will remind you that you are not alone - and that growth however slow is always blooming.</span></p><p></p>