The Wild Witch deeply feels the call to honour and respect the origins of the practices she incorporates into her life, especially those borrowed from BIPOC communities. Whitewashing these practices and ignoring their significance is not appropriate or acceptable. Because spirituality without intersectionality is just oppression.

Embodiment is not about perfection. It's about radical authenticity, about owning every scar, every curve, every tremor that makes us uniquely beautiful. It's about shedding the masks and stepping into the raw, unfiltered power of our being. It's about feeling everything, the ecstasy and the ache, the whispers of possibility and the roar of defiance.

So why is it that so many successful, smart, strong women are fuelled by self-doubt, guilt, anxiety and shame? It's a complex question with a multitude of intersectional answers including the impacts of colonialism, the patriarchy, and capitalism. All of these have contributed to, and continue to fuel, the Witch Wound within our collective psyche as women.

Are you really burned out, or are you just spiritually depleted? Many of us are feeling lost and disconnected. We're caught in a cycle of endless to-do lists and obligations. In our hectic modern world that prioritises hustle, many have forgotten how to connect with their inner selves and sense of purpose.

We’ve been tricked into believing that our ‘purpose’ is aligned to something that we have to do. So we have continued to perpetuate the toxic cycle of the hustle culture. We’ve abandoned one addiction (hustling to get ahead in the corporate world), for another (hustling to get ahead on our spiritual journey).

An American study found that women are still likely to be doing 4 hours of unpaid work at home, compared to men who are contributing on average 2.5 hours.

Yet, we, as women still expect ourselves to be hitting the home runs in the office and juggle our roles as dutiful mothers, daughters, wives. And for what, exactly?

The trick with starting and maintaining a spiritual practice is to start small. If you’re like me, and you’re not a morning person, don’t set yourself a lofty goal to wake up at 5am. It won’t happen, you’ll feel like you’re letting yourself down when you hit snooze for the fifth time, and you’ll undo the work that you intended. Trust me. I’ve been there.