Shame Stories: A Scrapbook
Covering the beauty of loss, life, birth, and rebirth, this story will make you cry, laugh, and want to start telling your own truths.
“This stunning memoir is unlike anything I have ever read before — brave, vulnerable, lyrical, raw, emotional, and real. Her words will touch the depths of your heart, and you will feel your own shame lifted under the light of her truth. Ashley Gigous belongs on your bookshelf right next to Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle.” -Dallas Woodburn, author of Your Book Matters
About the author
Ashley Gigous
is the author of the newly published memoir Shame Stories: A Scrapbook, which showcases the writing practices that have helped her to process and heal from growing up in a dysfunctional childhood full of addiction, disability, and secrets. Her story is one of heaviness and hope, forgiveness and faith.
Ashley graduated from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Reiki Level 1 Practitioner. She currently lives in South Carolina where she is a Wild Writing instructor, hosting virtual writing classes seasonally while also working a full-time gig and raising her son. She has been published in the Screamin Mamas magazine and you can read more of her work in her substack titled Cups of Jo.
What readers said
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“Couldn’t put it down. Read the whole thing in one night.”
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“I feel a warm glow- my highest praise for a book!”
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“Talented, strong, tenacious, empathic, self-knowing, forgiving, brave…so brave.”
