Shedding Cocoons is a story about Ashley, a teenage girl's fascination with the glitz and glamour of city life that seemed to peel off the glossy pages of a teen magazine, which frankly and outrightly consumed her. To Ashley's amazement this magazine promoted and encouraged her fantasies about a life of luxury, vanity, and extreme materialism. Ashley soon became, at least to her best friend, Taylor a loyal disciple and a victim of materialism and other cultural ideologies that she adopted prematurely in the absence of personal vetting and research. Ashley's journey through adulthood would be ripe with adversities on a scale of unimaginable proportion. Yet her resolve to overcome these circumstances as she recognized was her decision to leave her hometown after high school to attend university in another place. This move afforded her the opportunity not only to achieve a degree but a lifelong education. Ashley eventually falls for her classmate Mark despite her cynical attitude and suspicion about love. She credits her survival to the expert advice from her mentor Dr. Maxwell and his guidance which she says allowed her to navigate all the experiences she had lived through during this period. Dr. Maxwell also encouraged her that all experiences, particularly the tough ones, are opportunities to transition and transform herself and learn the art of shedding cocoons. With Dr. Maxwell's advice and great friendships, Ashley masterfully, exhibited the resilience through her darkest days, some loaded with much pain and real tragedies. She not only tackles all those moments in her life, especially the ones which once threatened to invade her moral compass and derail her permanently, but triumphantly and successfully transcends them fully. Ashley's journey in Shedding Cocoons is a culmination of her determination to beat the odds and her willingness to use conventional wisdom to make honest and necessary adjustments in her life despite the emotions and the cultural pressures that surrounded her and dared her to defy reason. Ashley slowly unsubscribes to the cultural ideologies and conformed to them no further, as she is forced to acknowledge the steady and powerful moral voice of her mother. This act allowed her to finally reflect on her mother's life positively by drowning out the culture and instead reflecting on more conventional values which helped her to refocus on the true images and sounds of her mother's moral voice. Finally, she comes to fully embrace, appreciate, and value her mother's journey. Ashely willingly resubmits to her mother's Judeo-Christian values, and this helps her to illuminate her path and saves her from perpetually subscribing to those harmful cultural ideologies that had once clouded her worldview and endangered her soul. Shedding Cocoons is an exhilarating journey through Ashley Chambers' life Her eventual sober maturation, deciding how to masterfully handle crucial decisions which mattered most. Ashley Chambers' journey in Shedding Cocoons is thrilling, uplifting, and life changing.