Quiz - Ashley Abbs

CLARITY AND HARMONY WITHIN YOUR LIFE, WORK & RELATIONSHIPS STARTS WITH YOUR 5 ELEMENT ALCHEMY.

You are governed by a unique 5 Element Alchemy that can assist you in deepening your relationship with your intuition, cultivating meaningful relationships with yourself and your family, & support you in authentically share your unique souls expression to create a life that you love.

Understanding who you are is the greatest gift you can give yourself and others. This Medicine is both a tool and guiding system to help guide and support you in ways that you’ve only dreamed of.

Are you?

Earth: Peacemaker, Caretaker and Mother

Metal: the Artist, Architect and Alchemist

Water: a Dreamer, Philosopher and Mystic

Wood: a Pioneer, Warrior and Visionary

Fire: the Lover, Performer and Connector

Or perhaps your Alchemy comprises a combination that perfectly summarizes your personality and the way you show up in the world.

Only you can be an authority on who you are and why you are the way you are. No more seeking, you already possess the answers. Claiming and leveraging your true elemental nature is the way to your freedom.

The invitation here is to go inward.

The framework and steady steps to support you on your journey to live a life on purpose and help manifest your hearts desires into form starts with you.

If you’re ready to align this rich medicine with your soul and discover your 5 Element Alchemy

Take The Quiz Below.

What colour makes you feel like you are expressing yourself best?

Dark Blue
Green
Red
Earth Tones
White

What is your favourite Season?

Winter
Spring
Summer
Late Summer or Season Transitions
Autumn

What time of day are you at your best?

Sunrise
Morning
Mid-day and Dusk
Afternoon
Late Night

What are your innate gifts?

Organization
Nurturing & Supportive
Communication
Confidence and Assertiveness
Wisdom and Insight

During troubling times you're prone to?

Rigidity or Inflexibility
Anxiety or Worry
Restless or Hyper-Sensitive
Depression
Suspicion

What does your voice sound like?

Singing and Melodic
Fast Chatter
Shouting
Quiet or Moaning
Clear with a slight tremble

What Inspires You?

Creating Balance and Harmony
Creating Community and Intimacy
Making Things Happen
Philosophical Discussion
Art & Creativity

How do you relax?

I Collapse
Reading
Projects & Hobbies
With Friends
Dancing

What's your strongest mental ability?

Big Picture & Risk Assessment
Vision & Drive
Openness
Comfort with what I know
Disciplined & Organized

To which physical weakness are you prone?

Spine, Urination, Sexual, Low Vitality
Headaches, Blood Pressure, Inflammation, Muscle Spasms
Heart Palpitations, Insomnia, Anxiety
Weight Gain, Sluggishness, Indigestion, Lethargy
Breathing, Skin Problems, Digestion, Immune

What is your Emotional Tendency in Overwhelm?

Isolation
Rage
Excitable, Forgetful, Hard to Focus
Seek Comfort
Hyper-critical, Sad

Do you like to try new things, or experience change?

Sure
Of Course
Always
Not Really
No

Do you like to socialize?

Rarely
Oh Yeah!
Always
With a few friends
Selectively

What quality defines your emotional expression best?

Open
Sympathetic
Difficulty Expressing
Honest
Intense

People that know you would describe you as?

Unusual & A Dreamer
Ambitious & Competitive
Passionate & Magnetic
Loyal & Accessible
Classy & Discriminating

My Preferences for group work and projects?

Collaboration is where it's at!
Creating harmony within the group
When everyone understands their objective
I prefer to work alone
To be the Lead

What feeling is most dominant in you?

Fear
Frustration
Elation
Worry
Sadness

What quality do you value most in yourself?

Power / Driven
Compassion
Nurturing
Meticulous
Insight

What quality do you value most in others?

Depth
Confidence
Vulnerability
Honour
Self-Control

With which quality do you have the most difficulty?

Indecision
Boundaries
Saying No
Spontaneity
Authority

With which quality of yours do your friends and family have difficulty?

Elusive
Bossiness
Clinging or Over-Emotional
Wishy-Washy
Rigid & Inflexible

What qualities help you in your vocation?

Discipline
Dependable
Star Power & Charisma
Leadership
Independent Thinker

What are your dominant qualities?

Intelligent - Insightful
Powerful - Born Leader
Talkative, Joyful
Empathetic - Stable
Fastidious - Organized

Your ideal way to move your body?

Yoga
Something that pushes me to my limits
Dancing
Anything with Friends
Running by yourself

Your ideal vacation would be?

Retreat for Self-work
Something adventurous
Sun & Sand
Family Trip
Museums & Architecture

Truth is an embodied expression that often serves

Truth is an embodied expression that often serves as a personal mantra or mission statement. For Wood types, knowing and being aligned with their truth helps give their actions and decisions integrity.

However, first they have to develop an awareness of what their truth actually is. Without this, it can be easy to blur the lines and substitute another’s convictions and truth as their own.

Writing prompts for Wood types and everyone really… because we all have an inner wood that requires attention and care taking.

What does following your truth mean to you?

What does it feel like in your body to follow your truth?

What is your truth?

What is required of you to follow your truth?

What are words that you live by that embody you truth?

Excerpt from #5elementalchemy available at your favourite book retailer. (Link in Bio)

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Hey! There’s a lot of new faces here. I want to

Hey! There’s a lot of new faces here. I want to say thank you and take this opportunity to introduce myself.

I’m Ashley Abbs, a Dr. of Acupuncturist, herbalist, Writer and Artist.

I live in Calgary, AB Canada with my husband and son.

I’m the owner of TerraSana Heath a hub for all things wellness with a particular focus on hormones - fertility, pregnancy, peri menopause, & menopause. Emotions and cosmetic facial acupuncture.

I am the author of 5 Element Alchemy: Use your 5 Element Type to Embrace Your Gifts & Create a Life You Love. It’s celebrating its 2nd birthday next week. Which means it’s time to write another one.

I’m a mixed media artist, my favourite being conté. I make things mostly for myself but am starting to consider changing it and making pieces available for others.

I write and teach about the 5 Elements exploring themes of creativity, transformation and cultivating wholeness.

A few random things. I’m a Gemini ☀️ Aquarius 🌙 and Scorpio ⬆️, I’m left handed and a former top 10 Canadian Ice Dancer from way back

One more thing…I didn’t start writing until after my son was born. Confirmation that you can start something at any time or age. Your greatest passions can be something you’ve never done before, all that is required is to follow the initiations of your soul and let curiosity and inspiration lead. ✨

Links in bio for sessions, books and resources.

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Your Core requirements serve as your navigation sy

Your Core requirements serve as your navigation system, your medicine and your saboteur, all at once. They are constantly seeking embodiment so that they can feel whole. If you consciously engage with your core requirements they can act as a guide and friend, providing opportunities for self-inquiry and helping you choose specific actions and relationships to bring you closer to the life that you envision for yourself. However, if your not engaging with them in this way, you are still engaging with them - unconsciously. If this is the case, they’re driving the ship and seeking satisfaction and fulfillment on their own terms. The unconscious doesn’t distinguish between health and unhealthy habits and behaviour. It will try to meet your requirements in what way it can, deal with the fall out, and then try and reconcile the requirements again. This is why one’s quirks, habits and traits surface as they do.

excerpt from 5 Element Alchemy book - available at your favourite book retailer.

If you would like to journey into your 5 Element type and engage with your Core Requirements in a supportive way to bring out the very best of you. Join me and @stephanienosco in her upcoming course Journey through the elements a 5 week online Qigong and inner alchemy workshop. We start tomorrow! Links in Bio.

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VISION Governed by the Wood Element and one of it

VISION

Governed by the Wood Element and one of its Core Requirements, your vision provides clarity on where you’re going. Offering you a consistent thread to hold on to when attempting to bring an emerging desire to its manifestation.

Without it, it can be incredibly difficult to cultivate the motivation to get started or keep going in the face of adversity.

What happens if you feel as though you’ve lost your vision. If what felt true and expansive before, now feels tight, restrictive and uninspired? For anyone, but especially a wood type a lack of vision leaves one feeling completely lost, with no way to navigate how to come back to feeling empowered and engaged?

If you’re finding yourself here its important to not get too far ahead of yourself. Set your sights not on a far off future but instead looking at what is right in front of you.

Holding your attention to the current season whether it be the next couple of days, weeks or months, rather than the over-arching ambition of how this season fits into your larger legacy. By staying rooted in the present even when it feels uncertain will help you to not get overwhelmed and further flustered.

I then would invite you to start by asking yourself a few questions? I encourage you to either get out your journal, or take a walk out in nature as you ponder these, which ever feels best.

What qualities do I wish to embody (ie. feelings or values) as my future me? You may look to others for inspiration, though be mindful of how this could pull you into comparison or themes of unworthiness.

What actions am I being initiated to engage with at this time? How is serendipity or connections with others revealing themselves to me right now? How do these reflect the embodiment that I desire to achieve?

If I were to follow these themes and actions what is possible for me in the next 30, 60 or 90 days? If you’re unsure, are you willing to be curious?

Take your time. Trust that the Wood element is productive. A little goes a long way, and by being intentional and starting with the smallest of steps the capacity to generate a great deal of momentum is absolutely possible.

A little love note from Wood to support new direct

A little love note from Wood to support new directions and your emergence.

As the energies begin to shift. Yes even here in #yyc where there’s still two feet of snow 😬 It’s helpful to tap into the medicine that is starting to surface to guide our actions and next steps with a gentle reminder that you don’t have to shoulder the journey alone.

“Find your feet, stand tall and lead. Stay committed to growing and putting yourself out there; your efforts will come back to you tenfold in the form of opportunity and abundance. If you're feeling stuck, ask for support. You don't have to do everything yourself. There's a team waiting for you to lead them so that they too can do their part in making the world a better place."

(excerpt from 5 Element Alchemy) link in bio to get your copy.

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Happy #worldbookday I can’t believe it’s been

Happy #worldbookday I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 years since this book has been out! Especially as I consider to start another one 😬.

What I love about this book specifically is how many readers have shared that it’s helped them understand themselves and the people that they love! That through the discovery of their Alchemy that they are more compassionate towards themselves and have been able to articulate and accept greater support into their lives. 🙏 I couldn’t ask for more.

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Writing prompts to help you feel into the medicine

Writing prompts to help you feel into the medicine of the Water Element.

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