How 'practical witchcraft' and 'ritual' can help us reclaim our self-healing power
Release Date: 02/25/2025
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In this juicy episode we explore Emma’s personal journey, marked by moments of stress, illness, grief, and self-discovery, and how it awakened her to the transformative self-healing power of witchcraft and ritual. Exploring challenges like infertility and cancer diagnosis, we explore how healing the ‘witch wound’ - aka reclaiming our true, authentic full expression of who we are - can help us manifest health. Diving into ancient, feminine, ancestral wisdom, seasonal living, emotional release - and the importance of presence, self-love and sisterhood - we explored the healing process and how the witch can help us reclaim ourselves.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
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Witchcraft can save our lives - literally. By embracing the power, magic and authenticity of the witch, we can heal on all different levels - including physical, mental-emotional and spiritual
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Whether we are ‘witches’ or not, the route of healing is really via healing our suppression and suppressed trauma - and reclaiming our authentic voices (which the witch holds a mirror to)
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To heal, requires us to face the ‘witch wound’ - we have to overcome societal judgement and fear of being a witch and sharing our true, authentic self-expression
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As we do, bravely own who we are - whether that’s a witch or something else - we connect more deeply to those who are like us (including our dream clients, if we are here to be healers)
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We must embrace the ancient wisdom of our ancestors - they knew that the real route of healing is through story-telling around the fire, ritual, creativity, presence, seasonal living, sisterhood and self-discovery
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There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in practical witchcraft and ritual - it’s really individualised and intuitive, and we can play with things to see what works for us (and keep a journal of discovery to note what does and what doesn’t)
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Ritual and witchcraft practices do not have to be long and elaborate - we can weave them into our day, just bringing ourselves to presence and setting intentions.
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Emma’s Links:
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Website: www.emmagriffinwitch.co.uk
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Emma’s Books:
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Find Your Soul Path: Discover the Magical Life Within - https://a.co/d/6trRRUu
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The Witch's Way Home: Magic, Spells and Rituals to Lead You Back to Your Most Powerful Self - https://a.co/d/5Nli4mz
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox