Hello you,
It’s been a minute since I’ve been in your inbox with a proper letter. Hi. How’s it going?
I’ve been burbling away, doing my thing. Realigning my work, recreating my brand, making Wayward Bodies, training in breathwork, navigating some big changes in my personal life. I’m always meaning to write, to keep to the fortnightly structure I created for this Substack, and yet every time I sit down to type? Nothing. Words and I haven’t been seeing eye to eye. And so time has done its linear march forward and somehow it’s been over six weeks since I wrote last.
But here we are. And on Halloween no less! What perfect timing to talk about witches.
What do you think of when you think of a witch? Is it the forest-dwelling crone from fairy tales? The cackling villain with her stripy tights and flying monkeys tormenting Dorothy and friends? Is it the black-taloned spiritual influencer wielding sage and moon phase tattoos, or the grey haired medicine woman with her bag of herbs and wisdom?
But the witch is more than an aesthetic. Scrabble down beneath the surface and you’ll find power. She is the power that comes from knowing yourself wholly. She‘s the shameless woman who shapes the world to her desires. The witch in the woods who lives beyond the presupposed roles of what a woman should do. She is the wildling that we were warned against becoming.
I’ve been cosying up to the witch since around this time last year. I’d done a little magic before, cast some spells and pulled some tarot, I was friendly with magic making but to call myself a witch? Oh no. I wasn’t that. To claim that title felt terrifying. Witches are unruly, wild. Witches are dangerously unconcerned with what you think of them. Witches are powerful and give zero fucks. Witches are rarely loved by the masses, and I did so want everyone to like me.
But despite my reticence, the witch called to me. She whispered at first. Little nudges that shuffled me closer to her. A deepening of my tarot and altar building practices, the pull to do more energy work, the arrival of teachers that could hold an unflinching and joyful space for all of me to exist.
And what I found, as I dropped deeper into my relationship with the witch, was that this was embodiment work too. Because as much as we can want to claim her power and shamelessness, we also need the capacity to hold it. To be able to stay with ourselves, especially when what we need differs from what others want. We need to have the skills to navigate our shifting nervous systems, to come back to our centre, nurture ourselves, and be present to what’s arising in our felt experience.
Our grief, our rage, our joy, our desire - can we let ourselves feel it all? Because at her root the witch is someone who owns themselves completely, and shapes her world accordingly. She doesn’t shy away from her devils. She allows all of her to dance at the fireside, and that’s where her power lies.
So I’m sending some of that witch energy on this spookiest of days, and for all the rest of them. May we step into the power of being shamelessly ourselves.
Sound good? Cool. I’ll meet you under the full moon and we can dance around the fire together
Embodiment Guidance sessions are designed to bring you into deep connection with yourself. They’re a six-month container of collaborative support where folks in marginalised bodies can reconnect with their bodies, and the wisdom they hold. They offer a mixture of conversation, embodied practice, and magic making, designed to cultivate your relationship with your truth and power in sustainable ways.
Some themes we might explore in one-to-one embodiment:
Cultivating presence, nervous system safety, and the capacity to stay with yourself in the midst of real life
Developing awareness of embodied desires and needs. Moving beyond who you should be and into who you are. Discovering practices that nourish you and open space for creativity, pleasure, truth and play
Exploring tarot, magic making, and connection to place as an embodied practice. Weaving intention, mystery, and connection to source into your everyday
Navigating stuckness and letting energy move through. Holding yourself in transformation and turbulence. Grounding and releasing what is no longer needed.
Applications for the Autumn/Winter season are open.
Book a call and let’s see how we might work together –
(PS – I also offer stand alone one-to-one sessions, if you have a specific single issue that you want to dive into)