Today I’m here to offer up 11 reasons why it can be so difficult to heal when we grew up in a fundamentalist household, community, or culture. To quote Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining: “Christianity is such a foundational part of colonization that even if people aren’t believers, it is still in their field.” If […]
Am I Welcome Here?
Today I want to address a frequently asked question about the work I do with witchy healers from a fundamentalist background. That question takes some form of: I’m really drawn to your work and yet, I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. Am I still welcome? The short answer is: Probably. The longer answer: […]
Eight Beliefs I Hold About Healing
Over the past year or so, it’s become apparent to me that I hold some fairly specific beliefs about what healing is (and about what it isn’t). Today, I’m going to share what I’ve come to believe over the past two and a half decades of being on a healing journey myself and of facilitating […]
Signs You Are On A Healing Path
During times of ongoing changes, confusion, overwhelm, or stress it can be difficult to recognize any healing or transformation that is concurrently taking place. Often, just keeping up (or perhaps not keeping up) with our moment-to-moment experience is all that is possible and yet, as you are here, reading this, I’m willing to bet that […]
The Five Smokestacks Of Trauma
Today I bring you the third installment of the Journey of the Witchy Healer as she/they step out of the fog of fundamentalism and into the sun/moonlight of their authentic self. If you’ve been following along, you may recall that last week I began to explore the Fog of Life… which is made up of […]