Chapter 21 – Chronic manipulation and abuse are difficult enough to deal with when you are well. When I developed a chronic illness, maintaining my boundaries became an even more overwhelming task.
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Chapter 20 – It is extremely normal for people to assume Diana and I are a lesbian couple, but despite how much we love each other, our relationship is not based in romance and sex. I love and value all my friendships, but the friendship I have with Diana is the one that I know I can count on for the rest of my life, through the good and the bad, until death do we part. With her in my life, I am no longer lonely, and neither is she.
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Chapter 6 – I believe it is fairly common for neglected children who do not get enough love, attention, and guidance at home to seek substitute parental figures outside the home. At least, that was true in my case, even if it is only in retrospect that I can see and understand what I was searching for.
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Chapter 4 – “Artists always starve.” That sentence will probably echo in my head in Father’s voice for the rest of my life.
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Chapter 3 – Critical introspection is the ability to objectively and critically evaluate the internal workings of your own consciousness. No matter how daunting that may seem, it is an essential tool for improving or healing your mental/emotional self, because without it you are never going to be able to address the root causes of any issues. Developing this skill was essential to my healing journey.
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The I Accept Good Things Sigil is a shadow work sigil designed to help those who struggle with feeling that they do not deserve support, help, love, or for good things to come their way.
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Sometimes when self-doubt is at play, a witch ends up fucking around and finding out, which is what I did to myself this past week. Instead of doing my magic, I fucked around. I found out. Don’t fuck around. Do your magic.
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I have mentioned repeatedly in various articles that it is important to be completely honest with yourself, especially when engaging with shadow work. I also usually include a few words about how critical it is to be compassionate and non-judgmental in your honesty, but what exactly does that mean? How do you avoid being hyper-critical or beating yourself up when you are honest with yourself about things you do not like? It is far easier said than done, but I believe that process works best with loving honesty instead of brutal honesty.
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This tarot spread for problem solving is for when anxiety, lack of confidence, or misperception creates an inability to effectively proceed.
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When I started blogging about paganism and witchcraft, I expected the hardest part to be deciding what to write about. I did not expect the hardest part to be having confidence in the public relevance of what I was writing.
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