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Self-Care Sundays: The Joy of Purging
Y’all, I gotta tell ya – I *love* to throw things away. I think part of that is because I was raised by parents who have always been minimalists, and it’s partly because the older I get, the less stuff I need in my life. If I have fewer physical items in my space, it makes it easier to value the things that I actually do possess. Not only that, it means fewer decisions I have to make about stuff – and since I managed to develop myself a nice new anxiety disorder in 2020, fewer decisions are really great for sense of well-being. I’d rather pick my battles and…
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Witchcraft for Healing On Sale Now!
Happy book birthday to me! Witchcraft for Healing is on sale now! It’s finally here, and officially out in the world for you all to read and enjoy. It’s been a wild ride from start to finish — I never imagined I’d be writing a book about self-care during a global pandemic. Witchcraft for Healing is a guide to unlocking magic’s transformative, empowering nature, and finding spiritual, emotional, and physical healing in all aspects of your life. Learn about how witchcraft has its roots in wellness, and explore dozens of simple spells and remedies like crafting an incense blend for prosperity, mixing oils for community unity, or brewing a healing herbal…
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What People are Saying About Witchcraft for Healing
Guys, I’m so excited! My newest book, Witchcraft for Healing, officially launches on November 10! Technically you can download the Kindle version now, although there seems to be a glitch in the matrix over at Amazon so the e-book isn’t showing, but trust me, the publishing gremlins are working on fixing that for you. I wanted to share with you some of the really kind words that some other folks have to say about the book! Lilith Dorsey, Author, Orishas, Goddess and Voodoo Queens and Water Magic “Whether we knew it or not Witchcraft for Healing by Patti Wigington is the book we all need. Healing is an integral part of…
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What’s Your Biggest Self-Care Challenge?
As I was writing my upcoming book, Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-Care for Your Mind, Body, and Spirit, I was working through the manuscript in the early months of a global pandemic. For many of us, our social interaction became limited to Saturday night Zoom hangouts, video chatting with friends and family around the country, and eating and drinking way more than was healthy for any of us. I realized pretty early on that under crazy circumstances like 2020 has presented us with, self-care was a lot easier to talk about than it was to actually do. I learned, once those first couple of months had passed, that for my own…
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Announcing “Witchcraft for Healing”
YOU GUYS!! After a ton of hard work behind the scenes for the past several months — which included writing a whole entire book during a global freakin’ pandemic — I’m thrilled to finally announce that I have a new book coming out, Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-Care for Your Mind, Body and Spirit, available from Rockridge Press on November 10! This book is a guide to unlocking magic’s transformative, empowering nature, and finding spiritual, emotional, and physical healing in all aspects of your life. You’ll learn about how modern witchcraft has many of its roots in wellness, and explore dozens of simple spells and remedies like crafting an incense…
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Self-Care Sundays: Cleaning House
I spent yesterday cleaning out my garage—or at least, the building that would be a garage if my driveway wasn’t weird and I could actually get a car up it and through the doors—because in the two years I’ve lived here it’s become a giant storage shed full of stuff I keep thinking I’ll maybe use some day. Who am I kidding? Other than the lawnmower and some camping equipment, I ain’t using anything that’s out there. Since we’re all stuck Quarantinalandia right now, my daughter and I decided the storage building/notgarage should become a weight room—after all, our gym has been closed for weeks and who knows when it…
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Self-Care Sundays: Deliberate Thankfulness
A little while ago I posted about discovering a sense of gratitude in small things when the world is pretty much turned into a post-apoc hellscape around us. After all, if the outside is a scene from Mad Max Fury Road only the crazy people are retrofitting their Honda Odysseys into tanks so they can descend like a plague of locusts on the local Kroger in their quest for a few rolls of two-ply Cottonelle, sometimes it’s just better to stay indoors. And when we stay inside—or simply choose to be alone, wherever we are—there’s time for reflection and looking inward. After a chat the other day with a friend…
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Self-Care Sundays: Magical Goal Setting
I’m one of those weird people who thrives on spontaneity but also likes to have some clear planning in place; like, I have to know what the end game is, but the journey there is a bit flexible. Because of that, I learned a long time ago that I thrive better if I set goals. How I arrive at them isn’t nearly as critical for me as knowing they’re out there. From a magical perspective, goal-setting is vital. You have to set your intent, and figure out where you want to go… because otherwise, you’re going to just half-ass it, and we all know that sometimes we do indeed get…
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Self-Care Sundays: The Joy of Minimalism
I’m not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about physical decluttering, because Marie Kondo literally wrote the book on that, and she covers it in pretty extensive detail. Contrary to all the bullshit memes you’ve seen, Kondo never said you should only have thirty books, so all you bibliophiles don’t need to message me to tell me how awful you think she is. Instead, she says that she only has thirty books — and that you should eliminate the ones that don’t bring you joy. If your 9,263 books ALL make you happy, keep ’em. Marie Kondo doesn’t care, and neither do I. All of that said,…
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Self-Care Sundays: Self-Care Ain’t Selfish
It’s recently occurred to me how much I enjoy the topic of self-care, which seems to somehow be viewed as a radical act of rebellious social anarchy. In some way, we’ve been conditioned to the idea that it’s just greedy to be focusing inward rather than outward, and so when we stop to do crazy bonkers shit like set boundaries, say no, or eliminate asshole people from our lives, we’re seen as selfish. I got a plot twist for you, my little sugar plums. Self-care isn’t selfish, it’s self-transformative, it’s self-empowering, and it’s self-sustaining. And the more you learn to accept the radical notion that it’s not only okay but…
