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Ashley Judd Instagram - Reflecting on small bits of beauty from this summer.
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Ashley Judd Instagram - My mother died by suicide more than a year ago. Since that horrific day, my family has been faced with certain media publishing photos and video of her death — images that have complicated and compounded our lifelong grief. During #NationalSuicidePreventionWeek, I’m recommitting to fight for laws that protect privacy of families ravaged by death by suicide, and for more resonsible reporting from the press about the mental illness that drives people to such a drastic measure. It is neither ethical nor decent to publish the kind of invasive details about death by suicide that appeared in print and on the internet after my mother’s death. All reporting on suicide needs to be medically accurate, evidence-based, cautious about contagions that activate and increase further self-harm ideation in readers and viewers, and informed by the guidelines established by @afspnational Thank you, National Press Club, for the podium. @pressclubdc

Ashley Judd Instagram - Y’all are so awesome for cheering me on, and I notice how often you ask about my leg and foot recovery. That accident in DRC was hellacious to a factor of 10. I remain grateful to my siblings there who saved my life and encouraged my spirit as I was carried out of the depths of the second lung of the planet for 67 hours to get medical attention and that first pain medicine.

It’s been a long journey to full recovery: I have had a parasite (gone now, and featured, thank you, in the New England Journal of Medicine, so exotic was it), mono, big weight gain, and now loss, finally a diagnosis of a sleepiness sleep disorder (I now know why I always napped over lunch on movie sets!), and more! Every day, I am profoundly grateful for SAG/AFTRA union insurance & my healthcare team. Saved my leg, saved my life.

Now, I add PT & Functional Strength Trainer Maggie Mullins to that crack team! We are addressing that once-paralyzed nerve and nearly amputated leg in order to add more technical hiking to my abilities: uneven terrain with loose rocks and carrying a big heavy backpack again. Being able to load my right knee sideways, power up off my right foot, do sideways agility, reverse lunges on stairs holding uneven weights…miracles, all. And, sit cross-legged! I was not supposed to be able to do that ever again! The balancing is just incredible. She’ll have me pause mid-air and turn my head to each side: “Look at the bear!” And I can do it.

When I had my nerve conduction study in 2021, the Doctor said, “I do not know that this foot will ever move again.” To that dude….watch this.

I am realistic, so of course, I feel a little intimidated by Yellowstone National Park. And, I am enthralled by Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone, I am excited to meet you!

Ashley Judd Instagram - My beloved Pop and I are chasms apart politically (Mom was, too, although secretly, she could be pretty radical! Shhhhh!).

Pop is way over yonder, and I am way out in left field!

And yet, in this conversation—on the day I published my essay in USA Today excoriating his presidential candidate (he actually sat with me as I wrote that essay yesterday, out here on our back porch, we are living together this summer)—we visited about our joyful commitment never to allow anything to come between us:
Not Donald Trump.

Not Joe Biden.

Not even my Nasty Women Poem at the Women’s March.

Not even his position on….everything?

Or my positions on….anything?

We hope you will listen in.

We are so aware so many American families are riven by their different takes on where America should go, and how to get there.

We are so grateful we, years ago, found our way after finally giving up on trying to change//convert//scorn each other to being in a different story.

A story of cherishing every day together, caring for each other in deed and word, being very intentional about making more memories together, and expanding the values we do have in common, such as:
Family matters. Our shared past is hallowed ground. You are uniquely special in my life story and heart. And I stand with you and by you.

Presidential candidates come and go. Every four years, it seems.

Our affection and love is permanent, and we live it together on a daily basis.

(Hey. Since we are living together, maybe we can put up yard signs in our yard? Side by side?)

(PS Sister is on the road with her concert touring, or she would be in this video with us. She blesses this conversation!)

(PPS: Ever wonder if you ran for office if your opposing family would vote for you? Pop answers that question in the video.)

Ashley Judd Instagram - I’ve always felt a deep, human need for play & fun—perhaps because of the nature of this world. “Carefree timelessness.” As “Henri Nouwen said, “The spirituality of vulnerability.”Does that speak to you? It calls to me, deeply.

In recent years, fellow Adult Children of families with a lot of abandonment/deprivation growing up have shown me how to become my own Inner Loving Parent—how to go deep inside myself to supply the gentleness, humor, love, and respect I needed as a child. I’ve discovered I can actually provision myself with boundless comfort, acceptance, and guidance. My Higher Power is the taproot. The child within each of us is eternal, waiting to be noticed, and is a genuine connection to the Divine.

One expression of the new depth of my healing has been “reparenting” my younger self. So, on April 19th—my 57th birthday—I hosted a garden party not for the adult me, but for the sweet little girl inside. I called it my 9 & Shine birthday, recognizing my inner 9-year-old. Joyful, innocent, trusting.

She wanted to play, with safety and freedom, with her Chosen Family by giggling, and lying on our backs to gaze at the wide sky, running barefoot through spring grass, blowing bubbles, twirling, and delighting in the wonder of flowers. No competition. No coarseness. Just tenderness and whimsy. This little part of me wanted to share a gift for each guest, have Sunday School, lie on old quilts and, oh yes, cuddle. She so loves to cuddle. She is trusting, friendly. (God save me from cynicism.)

How brave & beautiful. How Jesus-like, to be so open-hearted. What a high—and humble—bar Jesus set when Jesus invited: “Be like a child,” and that “the kin-dom belongs to children.” So happy birthday, Little Me. I attuned and heard you. I’m deeply honored that my friends did, too. They listened to their own inner children—trusted, played, and were still.

When was the last time you were still? Is something inside you longing for softness, wonder, or play? What gift can you offer your younger self today?

PS Yes, like any proper 9 year old, I laughed so hard I wet myself, after it looked like I laid an egg. (Peeing yourself, authentication of unselfconscious laughter!)

Ashley Judd Instagram - Alive-ing.
Integrating
Synthesizing
2025:
For all that has been, 2025: Thank you.
I have the right to dream. I have the right to have hope. I have a right to live mentally, emotionaly, spiritually, physical sanely & with clarity, from my True Self, though it may differ in part or entirely from others way of life.

For all that will be, 2026: Yes.

🎶Music:
I’m Coming Out, Diana Ross
What’s Up, 4 Non Blondes
In Dreams, Jai -Jagdeesh

Ashley Judd Instagram - I’m honored, and wow, it is so much fun!!!!

to return to my (second, University of Kentucky having been first) academic home, Harvard Kennedy School.

I am a Senior Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program! Wahoo, lookout!

In 2009, I thought I would do my Master’s somewhere else, when a professor who knew my international work well asked, “Why aren’t you going to Harvard?”

Totally shocked, I replied, “Why am I not putting a rocket ship up my rear end and going to the moon?” I didn’t recognize myself as “Harvard material.”

I soon reviewed the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Women & Public Policy Program website.I actually wept.
“These are my people.”

I began to feel confident that the expertise of my lived experience births a perspective and wisdom, combined with academic learning and being with folks from all over the planet, that means I have something unique and valuable to offer.
So.
It’s okay to be smart.
It’s okay to care.
It’s okay to be human.
It’s okay not to know,
and
to ask someone how to do things,
free from feeling shame or guilt.
(Like how to use my new email
or the shared folder with class readings! 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️)

I will guest lecture in a few classes around campus, attend so many neat things (such as with Hon Mr Justice Chile Eboe-Osuji, pictured here, President of the International Criminal Court), goof off, and ask really hard questions it seems many won’t dare to ask!

Thanks for coming along!

Love,
Ashley

@harvardkennedyschool

Ashley Judd Instagram - We are frustrated, sad, and heartbroken that NY overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction.

We are devastated for the survivors of Harvey Weinstein and survivors everywhere who have ever bravely testified in pursuit of justice. Survivors deserve better.

Thank you @ashley_judd for your fight and @jodikantor for your tenacious reporting.

Sending love to all the survivors out there reading this news. We believe you, we are #HereForYou, and we will fight for you.

☎️💬 RAINN and the National Sexual Assault Hotline is here for survivors and their loved ones 24/7 at 800.656.HOPE (4673) or online.rainn.org in English and rainn.org/es in Spanish.

🎥 : @cbsmornings

#SAAPM #SAAM #HereForYou #SupportSurvivors #MeToo

Ashley Judd Instagram - Entire speech is on my Facebook. This week I spoke at #CGI2023 to talk about gender-based violence and how it impacts women and girls around the world. The rise of gender-based violence from the covert, small humiliations to grave bodily damage impacts not just the individual but an entire family, a community, a country, our world — it impacts all of us. Sexual violence pervasiveness constrains human development, and economic and geopolitical progress. We must end male entitlement to female bodies, it is that simple and it is that complex.

Ashley Judd Instagram - You’ve been asking about “Kiss the Girls” and I’ll start by saying my perspective on this movie has evolved quite significantly over the years. so let’s talk about it.

But first, thank you. Truly. Thank you for loving the movie, for loving Kate, and for making that film such a pivotal—really transformative—moment in my career. It opened big in the spring of 1997, when the daffodils were blooming in North Carolina, and it changed the trajectory of my life as an actor.

There are so many good memories from that time.

I was young and I really, really wanted to do a good job. I was learning everything in real time—even simple things, like the fact that when you wrap for the day, the catering doesn’t follow you home. I remember being hungry at night because I didn’t yet understand how life worked off set.

Over the years, though, my relationship to the film has evolved.

“Kiss the Girls” centers on male sexual violence and the torture of women’s bodies. At the time, we often framed stories like this around female resilience—the strength of surviving. Many people still say that’s what the film means to them.

But I’ve found myself asking a different question:
Why is sexual terror against women something we package as entertainment? Why is it profitable?
The feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon once said something that shifted my thinking:
“Resilience fundamentally means there is something from which to be resilient.”

That stayed with me.

What does it mean that we celebrate resilience, but rarely interrogate the violence that made resilience necessary in the first place?

A book that explores this beautifully is The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly.

So today I hold “Kiss the Girls” in a more complicated way—with gratitude for what it meant in my life and career, affection for the people I worked with, and curiosity about what the story represents in our culture.

Growing up sometimes means learning to hold things with a little more perspective. 💝PAPAW CIMINELLA!💝it’s misspelt above.

Ashley Judd Instagram - Celebrate 18 years of recovery with me! Thank you the good people at Shades of Hope who reached out to the “lost child” that I was, offering healing and a ever deeper & more beautiful way of life as the years pass.

There is always a path of peace for us, whether our loved ones change, acknowledge the existence of a problem, or get their own help. We are not betraying them when we ourselves thrive. In fact, we are giving them hope.

Ashley Judd Instagram - Part I: Living Peacefully with Chronic Pain

Our physical pain is invisible to those around us. Yet our insides are full to the brim with a relentless experience and heightened awareness of the pain inhabiting our bodies. How do we live with some ease, grace, an even temperament, & maintain (some?) happiness while enduring pain no one can see or medication barely touches?

In this three part series, I share what I have and am learning about chronic pain. For me, it’s an intractable migraine, which comes once every 1.5 years or so, and sometimes lasts for months. This headache bloomed 23 May. Let’s explore this together, sharing what helps (and at times, giving others grace, and sharing what doesn’t help. I have to teach people how I need to be treated, which can be so annoying! Shouldn’t they just know?!).

This three part conversation I’ll be sharing over the next few days is about the place of spiritual practice while abiding pain: Life is not always fair. Life is good. “God suffers with me.” “God is in me like butter is in milk.” I am grateful for these teachings from Fr Richard Rorh, and James Finley, both of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Who teaches you?

#chronicpain #chronicillness

Ashley Judd Instagram - Happy Gratitude Day to all who celebrate! I spend the Gratitude Holiday with family and Chosen Family, and while it looks different this year without Mom, the feeling is the same. However you spend this day, I hope you all feel peace and love, and have a very full belly, and remain mindful of the needs of others.

Ashley Judd Instagram - As we mark #WorldMentalHealthDay this week, I wanted to share an update with you all on my own health journey. xx
I want to honor, deeply, the tiny circle of caring chosen family who have loved my body, mind, & spirit during this season: CC, my care companion & guide; my pastor, with her deep wisdom, empathy, vision, and lucid prayers; Amanda & Diane for their healing hands my system recognizes can help heal my system; Jamie & Aunt Dot for the ice baths, hugs, & anti-inflammatory, low-glycemic index meals; Beth, from 6th grade, Logan, Heather, lying on the moss with me, breathing, weeping; MTR for crafts & helping me find play; Tammy & Robyn & M.E., huddled in an embrace singing the Doxology together; Janet, who while traversing the globe still tracked me. day and night with care, cohesion, & showed me paths of hope; Nikki & Seane, holding back the walls of the Red Sea as I crawled through to re-birth. You are my people, my family, and you have loved me so well. Thank you.

Ashley Judd Instagram - Naomi Ellen Judd. (nee Diana)
January 11, 1946 🤍

Happy Birthday, Beloved Mama.

Love,
Sweetpea

Ashley Judd Instagram - Winter holidays, reflecting in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Ashley Judd Instagram - I live and love in a politically mixed family, and believe it or not, we have found our way to peace, dignity, respect, and even humor. (Gone are the verbally, ahem, “wild” suppers of my college years when everyone felt hurt and misunderstood.) I have learned to hold complexity and nuance, let go of either/or, ask myself if I want to be right or loved, and be more curious rather than
quoting facts all the time. It is damn hard work and the road can be long. It does *not* mean tolerating unacceptable behavior. Its reward is a sense of integrity and peace with others, crucially, this: Learning to stand for something without standing against my fellows. I would love to hear what you are trying, what has and has not worked, and your hopes for reducing conflict and holding more openness. #KitchenTableDiplomacy

Ashley Judd Instagram - I apologize deeply that the slide may be so easily misinterpreted. My feeling & value I am expressing is, “just because I don’t support a candidate doesn’t mean I would ever, ever want them, or anyone harmed.” I am so sorry it came out clumsily & that some misread my intention. I ask for your grace.

Thank you, all, who are exercising the goodness of your humanity in this fraught moment. I have also seen comments here that appalled me. I will not host such inappropriate incivility. Comments are off.

Ashley Judd Instagram - This morning, I was excitedly preparing to reserve our Yellowstone National Park backcountry campsites. Jodi Kantor from the NYT called, and texted simultaneously, “pick up rn,” and I did. She shared the news that the New York Court of Appeals had overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges. Yet again, male sexual violence had intruded upon and disturbed a beautiful day, as it does every day in the lives of American women.

We live on a daily basis with male entitlement to our female bodies. The most dangerous place in the US for us is in our homes. The men who most commonly assault, rape, and kill us are men who know.

Each of us who survived Harvey Weinstein’s serial sexual predation knew him. He exploited, gleefully, the asymmetry of power in our relationship to him. He defamed me after I barely evaded his sexual assault in that hotel room in 1996. I did not evade his grotesque sexual harassment, wrath, and punishment. My art and my pocketbook are still different to this day because of him.

The misguided opinion of 4 judges today does not change what we survivors know, and we acknowledge the fierceness of the minority opinion. The truth is consistent.

There are multiple forces at work here. One is the power of those of us with lived experience as survivors of male sexual violence and our voices. When we share our stories, we exercise leadership by sparking others to join us in shared actions toward safety and freedom from sexual harm. We let other folks know we see them, we hear them, we believe them, we love them. We have community.

The other force is institutional betrayal. We must work within and from outside institutions to encourage them to adopt the research-based, concrete actions of Institutional Courage. So many survivors share that the “second rape” and moral injury of institutional betrayal is harder to live with than the original crime against their bodies.

Ashley Judd Instagram - Happy 90th birthday to an icon and forever inspiration. The world is better because you were born. Thank you for your walk, courage, facing the loneliness and adversity back in the day, concrete principles, enduring mirth, intersectionality, always having a room for me in your home, and trademark gentleness. What a “wow” you are.
*****
”We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons … but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters”
*****
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
*****
“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”

Ashley Judd Instagram - “The beginning of real love is to allow others to be perfectly themselves.” —Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk

I experienced knowings in my soul in childhood about myself. They were clear, irrefutable. Nex, I am glad you knew your truth. I am so sorry others felt entitled to dispute and interfere with your God-given autonomy. I believe you. I see you. I validate you. May your soul be at ease. 🕊️🤍

Ashley Judd Instagram - I love being a woman, and I cherish the little girl who is still alive inside of me. On #InternationalDayofTheGirl, I get on my knees to give thanks for every girl I have ever met, who has ever allowed me to hold her hand, squeeze her close, stroke and braid her hair, climb a tree, and turn a kart-wheel. I cherish every secret that has been shared, fear divulged, wish made, and dream spoken aloud. Worldwide, girls still suffer for being girls. They do 160 million more hours of household chores than their brothers. They are given less food. They are held back from starting or attending school consistently, or drop out when they begin to menstruate. Many are sexually abused and forced into child marriage. They cannot choose if, when, and how many children to have.

To girls around the world, I hope I have, and will continue, to live up to the sacred responsibility of being your friend. At a time when there is so much darkness, I look at the light in your faces when we are connected faces and am reminded of the hope for our future. @unfpa

Ashley Judd Instagram - Greetings from the Pemigewasset Land.
ancestral home of the
Abenaki or Algonquian-speaking
cultural-linguistic family

“Guaranteed”
by Eddie Vedder

What do you feel when you read these
words?
Or hear Eddie’s version of the song?

"On bended knee
Is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup
I ask silently
That all my destinations
Will accept the one that’s me
So I can breathe

Circles they grow
&
They swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight
To wives they’ll never know
Got a mind full of questions
&
A teacher in my soul
So it goes….

Don’t come closer
Or
I’ll have to go
Holding me like gravity
Are places that pull
If every there was one
To keep me at home
It would be you…

Everyone I come across
In cades they bought
They think of me
&
My wandering
But I am never what they thought
Got my indignation
But
I am pure in all my thoughts

I’m alive

Wind in my hair
I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is
A road that disappeared
Late at night
I hear the trees
They’re singing with the dead
Overhead

Leave it to me
As I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite
Forever orbiting

I knew all the rules
But the rules
Do not know me
Guaranteed….”

(This version playing with
my video, not sung by Eddie,
because his singing it is
not available on Instagram!)

Ashley Judd Instagram - 2023 has been filled with moments of awe, healing and being in community with those I fiercely love. A big thank you to all of you who’ve shared your thoughts and feelings with me here along the way. Sending you peace and love this holiday season! ❤️

Ashley Judd Instagram - The first time I was aware something was violated in me was when a man molested me when I was 7 years old. I later learned vocabulary to put to this abrogation of my rights in instruments such as @unitednationshumanrights Convention on the Rights of the Child. All over the world, I have worked with partners like @unfpa to restore and uphold folks’ individual and collective rights, and especially to hold space as they heal from the wounding from violence against their rights. On #HumanRightsDay, I recommit to my, yours, and everyone’s human rights. May we all treat each other with fundamental decency and care.

Ashley Judd Instagram - Great Smoky Mountains. Big hikes, sweet strolls, and in the cabin, 18 Chosen Family members trading cooking, chores, filling in a puzzle, playing chess, having a New Years Eve dance party (kiddos with the main moves), hilarious running charades, morning coffee with our readings, quiet conversations in pairs, laughter in groups, and peace all around. It works. We’ve been doing this for many years. Our secret(s) include, at our first meal, everyone shares a memory they would like to make, something they’d be disappointed if they didn’t get to do it, and any group norms they need/would like to ask for (quiet time after 10pm, before 8 am, e.g.). Everyone has full permission to do what they need to do to take care of themself at given moment: a nap, the hot tub, a break....I love these people and their love for me is one of the joys of my life.

Ashley Judd - 0.9 Million Likes - ✨WE DON’T CARE CLUB✨
founded by @justbeingmelani
🌊BALTIC SEA EDITION🌊
🌎
‘Cause menopause
(peri - post)
is human biology.
It is universal to females &
global.

What can be a hope of
“We Don’t Care Club?”

What will I, with my freedom & mirth,
when I let go of caring
about
stupid, controlling norms
about my female body, be free to enJOY?

Play!🪁
Be silly!🎈
Have Fun!🧚🏽
Feel Boundless Joy!💝

I bask in the
unselfconscious being-ness of
my True Self.
My Inner Child is free to emerge.
She feels confidence & glee.
🧑‍🧒‍🧒

If you let yourself
be free,
how would your
True Self
&
Inner Child
spend your
Carefree Timelessness?

How can you let go
of what others expect,
think, need, want?

What do 🤍YOU🤍
feel, need,
want, from yourself?

Thank you,
@justbeingmelani
for getting us all started,

Introducing, the:
👏🏽🌈
“Make Stuff Up” Club
“MSU”
Inner Children🌸
have such beautiful,
creative imaginations.

They want to be seen, heard,
be safe,
& play.
If as an adult, I am caught up
in what others think of me,
I ignore, neglect, & abandon my own
tender Self.

Today, that’s off the table.

Into the Sea for me, to splash & play!🌊

🌈
Love,
Ashley

👀📰
“We Don’t Care Club”
in the paper! https://shorturl.at/l9qxI

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Caption : ✨WE DON’T CARE CLUB✨ founded by @justbeingmelani 🌊BALTIC SEA EDITION🌊 🌎 ‘Cause menopause (peri – post) is human biology. It is universal to females & global. What can be a hope of “We Don’t Care Club?” What will I, with my freedom & mirth, when I let go of caring about stupid, controlling norms about my female body, be free to enJOY? Play!🪁 Be silly!🎈 Have Fun!🧚🏽 Feel Boundless Joy!💝 I bask in the unselfconscious being-ness of my True Self. My Inner Child is free to emerge. She feels confidence & glee. 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 If you let yourself be free, how would your True Self & Inner Child spend your Carefree Timelessness? How can you let go of what others expect, think, need, want? What do 🤍YOU🤍 feel, need, want, from yourself? Thank you, @justbeingmelani for getting us all started, Introducing, the: 👏🏽🌈 “Make Stuff Up” Club “MSU” Inner Children🌸 have such beautiful, creative imaginations. They want to be seen, heard, be safe, & play. If as an adult, I am caught up in what others think of me, I ignore, neglect, & abandon my own tender Self. Today, that’s off the table. Into the Sea for me, to splash & play!🌊 🌈 Love, Ashley 👀📰 “We Don’t Care Club” in the paper! https://shorturl.at/l9qxI
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Ashley Judd - 197.9K Likes - Who in your family is the keeper of family traditions and memories? Who shares the stories about your loved ones who are no longer here in person, keeping their spirits alive and making sure your younger generations know how special, quirky, funny, (or weird!) they were? For us, it is so important our younger ones know about “Mamaw and Papaw,” or that their 5x Great Grandfather Elijah fought for the Union cause out of Peach Orchard, KY, had a battlefield amputation at the Battle of Saltville, and was POW before becoming a successful farmer in spite of poor soil and faithful lay preacher. We have come to realize that WE are now those folks in our family: the standard bearers of memory responsible for passing along our heritage to younger kin. What grief to see the elders are now mostly gone! It is a shock and a lament to realize all they took with them. And then, a poignant honor to step into the role they so had well filled: knitting us all together through stories of previous times. We sisters love to swap memories. Our conversations, in any setting, are peppered with references to our childhoods (just don’t mention “Beverly” and “waterskiing” to Ashley because she will reliably wet herself laughing). So we now, joyfully and solemnly, commit ourselves in our family to the role of Keeper of Memories and Passers On of Tradition.

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Caption : Who in your family is the keeper of family traditions and memories? Who shares the stories about your loved ones who are no longer here in person, keeping their spirits alive and making sure your younger generations know how special, quirky, funny, (or weird!) they were? For us, it is so important our younger ones know about “Mamaw and Papaw,” or that their 5x Great Grandfather Elijah fought for the Union cause out of Peach Orchard, KY, had a battlefield amputation at the Battle of Saltville, and was POW before becoming a successful farmer in spite of poor soil and faithful lay preacher. We have come to realize that WE are now those folks in our family: the standard bearers of memory responsible for passing along our heritage to younger kin. What grief to see the elders are now mostly gone! It is a shock and a lament to realize all they took with them. And then, a poignant honor to step into the role they so had well filled: knitting us all together through stories of previous times. We sisters love to swap memories. Our conversations, in any setting, are peppered with references to our childhoods (just don’t mention “Beverly” and “waterskiing” to Ashley because she will reliably wet herself laughing). So we now, joyfully and solemnly, commit ourselves in our family to the role of Keeper of Memories and Passers On of Tradition.
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Ashley Judd - 113.5K Likes - My big sister. My protector who powdered me when I was an infant, let me do her Civics homework when I was in 6th grade (which made me feel "big”), who taught me how to drive (it was a 1957 Chevy), with whom I compared mosquito bites after we played in eastern Kentucky creeks looking for crawdads. Oh, yes — she happened to sing some, too.

This past Friday, she sang in Knoxville, and it was glorious. My favorite songs are the ones our Mama wrote, so customized for her voice are they. Thank you to fans for loving my sister @wynonnajudd and helping to give her life purpose and meaning, and for recognizing that she’s indeed the G.O.A.T.

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Caption : My big sister. My protector who powdered me when I was an infant, let me do her Civics homework when I was in 6th grade (which made me feel “big”), who taught me how to drive (it was a 1957 Chevy), with whom I compared mosquito bites after we played in eastern Kentucky creeks looking for crawdads. Oh, yes — she happened to sing some, too. This past Friday, she sang in Knoxville, and it was glorious. My favorite songs are the ones our Mama wrote, so customized for her voice are they. Thank you to fans for loving my sister @wynonnajudd and helping to give her life purpose and meaning, and for recognizing that she’s indeed the G.O.A.T.
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Ashley Judd - 89.2K Likes - Today is the two year anniversary of my beloved mother’s death by suicide. The approach of 30 April has felt fast and reckless, (and highjacked by Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction being overturned, frankly). I have wanted to slow down time, to think through how I wanted to care for and support myself today. And then the good David Kessler, grief expert, reached out to me and validated that the the anniversary ” is often very difficult, especially the days that precede it. That helped me feel known and seen. ****I want to share something Mom did before she died that epitomizes her both her motherly love and imagination: many years ago, she wrote me a birthday card to open after her death. I found it in our barn. I opened it this year (last year was too soon for me). It is simply extraordinary. She reminisces about how dear I was as a child, reminds me of how proud of me she is, encourages me to be “spiritually strong.” She closes her precious card, “Always, Mommy.” Today, and all days, yes. Yes. Always, Mommy.

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Caption : Today is the two year anniversary of my beloved mother’s death by suicide. The approach of 30 April has felt fast and reckless, (and highjacked by Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction being overturned, frankly). I have wanted to slow down time, to think through how I wanted to care for and support myself today. And then the good David Kessler, grief expert, reached out to me and validated that the the anniversary ” is often very difficult, especially the days that precede it. That helped me feel known and seen. ****I want to share something Mom did before she died that epitomizes her both her motherly love and imagination: many years ago, she wrote me a birthday card to open after her death. I found it in our barn. I opened it this year (last year was too soon for me). It is simply extraordinary. She reminisces about how dear I was as a child, reminds me of how proud of me she is, encourages me to be “spiritually strong.” She closes her precious card, “Always, Mommy.” Today, and all days, yes. Yes. Always, Mommy.
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Ashley Judd - 86.8K Likes - Happy 60th Birthday to the Best Sister! May your day be joyous, may your heart be free, & I am grateful for the picture- perfect day God gave us for your day, our quiet time this afternoon, and I’m eager for your special evening tonight! I love you, Sister!

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Caption : Happy 60th Birthday to the Best Sister! May your day be joyous, may your heart be free, & I am grateful for the picture- perfect day God gave us for your day, our quiet time this afternoon, and I’m eager for your special evening tonight! I love you, Sister!
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Ashley Judd - 57.3K Likes - I love spring birthdays and I love my Pop. He came into my life when I was 11 and the day we met I was practicing my cheerleader moves - and he let me climb up to stand on his shoulders before we fully knew each others’ names. He’s held me high since then, and with Mom gone, we are closer than ever. Happy Birthday, Pop.

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Caption : I love spring birthdays and I love my Pop. He came into my life when I was 11 and the day we met I was practicing my cheerleader moves – and he let me climb up to stand on his shoulders before we fully knew each others’ names. He’s held me high since then, and with Mom gone, we are closer than ever. Happy Birthday, Pop.
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Ashley Judd - 50.3K Likes - Hello Community! I wanted to say thank you to everyone who’s been here a while and thank you to those who are new. I’m an actor, humanitarian, and a writer (in no particular order!). Follow me here for updates, and thanks for being with me.

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Caption : Hello Community! I wanted to say thank you to everyone who’s been here a while and thank you to those who are new. I’m an actor, humanitarian, and a writer (in no particular order!). Follow me here for updates, and thanks for being with me.
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Ashley Judd - 50.2K Likes - Today marks 56 years of being on this earth, and I am thankful to be here with y’all.

As a powerful woman in recovery, perhaps the best gift I’ve ever given to myself was entering treatment 18 years ago. Though life’s path is filled with challenges, it’s also a remarkable journey of self-discovery and healing that has helped shaped me into the woman I am today.

As I look to another year, I am grateful for the opportunity to continue learning, walking closer with my Higher Power (who is in me like butter is in milk), striving for equity and the end of all harm.

What was the best birthday gift you gave yourself? Let me know below! Thank you for your unwavering support and for being part of this beautiful journey with me.

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Caption : Today marks 56 years of being on this earth, and I am thankful to be here with y’all. As a powerful woman in recovery, perhaps the best gift I’ve ever given to myself was entering treatment 18 years ago. Though life’s path is filled with challenges, it’s also a remarkable journey of self-discovery and healing that has helped shaped me into the woman I am today. As I look to another year, I am grateful for the opportunity to continue learning, walking closer with my Higher Power (who is in me like butter is in milk), striving for equity and the end of all harm. What was the best birthday gift you gave yourself? Let me know below! Thank you for your unwavering support and for being part of this beautiful journey with me.
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