The Making & Mending Podcast

Hey friends, I'm reaching out with an episode that I hope will bring some comfort in these heavy times. Speaking to Risa & Amy of Missing Witches was truly such a joy and a great reminder of how powerful witchcraft is. I hope you'll enjoy listening as much as I loved asking questions. Here is some of what we talked about:

• How and why the Missing Witches project came to be
• What it means to live in feminist magic
• Witchcraft as a sense of personal power
• How nothing is mundane and everything is sacred

Risa Dickens has an undergraduate honours baccalaureate in English Literature and a masters in Communications Studies. She helped found Worn Fashion Journal writing feminist fashion history. Since then she has worked in community building, marketing and PR in tech for over 15 years. Amy Torok is an ESL teacher, counter-culture enthusiast, professional musician and visual artist/designer with a B.A. in English Literature and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism. Risa and Amy were on a similar track, community and event organizing in Montreal, when they met backstage at a ukulele showcase. Together they’ve worked their magic to create music, a coven, a podcast, and now a book. Both Risa and Amy live tucked into the woods of Quebec. https://www.missingwitches.com/

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How to I introduce this episode and my wonderful friend Janelle? Honestly it's been such a joy to talk to and write with her - I can't wait to start her program and work some more with the free resources she is sharing. I guess this episode is much groovier than a normal interview, we are writing and laughing together and you can get pen and paper out and join us! Janelle shares her thoughts about why writing can be such a powerful tool for healing and transformation and she offers us a few really juicy exercises to try out. If you can't write right now you can also totally enjoy this episode on the go and explore what comes up for you in your beautiful mind or on paper later. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Janelle Hardy is a writer, artist, host of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast and the creator/teacher of a 5-month transformational memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. She’s a born and raised Yukoner, a solo mother, who has been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker in the hands-on healing arts fields for 13+ years and as an artist (writing, painting + dance) for 17+ years. Throughout that time she’s taught adults out of her living room, arts centres, universities and community colleges. For the past 4+ years she’s integrated all of her expertise, including a BA in Anthropology, an MA in Dance and a Diploma in Structural Integration, into supporting people in their creative healing work via the alchemy of transformational memoir-writing. Sign up for the Outline Your Memoir workshop: https://www.janellehardy.com/outline-your-memoir/ Website: http://www.janellehardy.com/ The Art of Personal Mythmaking - online course: https://www.personalmythmaking.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janellehardyart/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janellehardybodylove/

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Hey friends, welcome to Sagittarius season. I can't believe we're here, but what even is time anymore? To celebrate I am sending you an episode with one of the literally dreamiest Sagittariuses your way. We covered a lot of fertile ground and, amongst other things, talked about the following:

• The intersection of queerness, creativity and spirituality
• Daydreams as portals
• Keeping a dream journal
• Creative community building & healing

Jess is an expressive eco-arts therapist and facilitator who is passionate about weaving together creativity, queerness, and spirituality. They have been imagining and creating ever since they can recall and have devoted their formal learning to fiber arts, ceramics, printmaking, and “trauma-responsive” art therapy. Informally, Jess has studied herbalism and permaculture, ritual and ceremony, dance and movement, and dreamwork. After years of facilitating creative groups and community spaces in person, Jess is opening "The Sacred Third Creative Well-being" this fall to expand their offerings to a wider, virtual community.

Here is more info about the beautiful free community offerings Jess mentioned: https://www.jesskennard.com/

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Hey everyone, mmmhhh. This is a good one! I've known Meghan for a while and really love her work & approach and hope you will too. This interview ties so beautifully with where I am at at the moment - appreciating that inner and outer seasons can be different and letting myself be where I am. I shared about this a bit in the intro and I hope that if you feel the same you know you are not alone. Here is some of what Meghan and I talked about:

• Trauma informed somatics and movement
• Gender inclusive work around cycles and seasons
• Living in a rhythm that does not fit into capitalist society
• The beauty of really listening to our bodies

Meghan Norean (she/her) is a womb witch and cyclical living guide weaving together cycle magic for regeneration of body + earth + community. She creates sacred space for womb-bodied beings to journey into remembrance + reclamation of their power through ritual, bodyfulness, meditation and archetypal energy work. Meghan works within a trauma-informed, healing-centered, somatic-based, anti-capitalistic framework in her online offerings. She can often be seen in the wild dancing, reading, performing spells and hand crafting womb-based embroidery. Meghan’s work is informed by the lands that run through her blood, birth and love. She has Celtic + Germanic ancestral lineage. She was birthed on Turtle Island, the traditional lands of the Susquehannock, now known as Pennsylvania. She has spent the last 10 years living + working in Kolkata, India, the land of the Bengali people, where she met and fell in love with her partner. Free offerings: https://meghannorean.com/free IG: https://instagram.com/meghan.norean

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Hey friends, how has this new moon eclipse magic weekend been treating you? I'm bringing a conversation with my friend Jade Mars your way - you might remember that they've been on episode #10 and so it's been really cool to catch up and see what has changed in our thoughts and ideas over the years. Here is some of what we talked about:

• Zine writing, DIY publishing & sharing our voices
• Valuing all kinds of intimacy beyond heteronormative norms
• Care, affections & closeness with the non-human world
• The beauty of neurodivergent perspectives

Jade Mars is a writer, zinester, poet and witch based in Brighton, UK. They are the author of the Scorpio Moon perzine series, editor of Aspects of Uranus: a queer astrology zine, and co-author of the Queering Intimacy workbook zine. Jade is the author of three collections of ecopoetry, and their writing has been published in Zarf #13, A Queer Anthology of Wilderness (Pilot Press, 2020), and Fermenting Feminism (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2017), amongst others. Jade is an experienced workshop facilitator and speaker, and has worked with community groups, universities, and queer & feminist projects throughout the UK.

Jade’s writing explores the magic and ritual of the everyday; the complexities of gender and sexuality; intimacies with the natural world; grief, loss, and growing older; building community in a world of capitalist alienation; and autistic experience in a neurotypical society. They are inspired by science fiction and utopianism, anarcha-feminist thought and praxis, DIY cultures, druidry, folklore and the liminal. Jade co-runs Brighton Feminist Science Fiction Bookclub and is a member of Brighton Zinesters.

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