Creative Magic

Kirsten Miller is a groundbreaking feminist author of 20 books. A NY Times bestseller, She started out in YA literature, best known for her popular Kiki Strike series. Her most recent books are kickass magic realism featuring midlife women and witches, setting the world to rights. Described as “a feel-good feminist revenge fantasy”. The Change is our CM Book Club pick for November – do join us over on Patreon for $6/month + www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Her two most recent books are Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books and The Women of Wild Hill

Join us for the Creative Magic book club and come discuss Kirsten’s book The Change on November 12, 7pm UK time on Zoom for $6/month + www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

We talked about

Midlife magic

The superpowers of menopause

Women, rage and late stage patriarchy

Writing as a way of alchemising anger

Witches – why we are all witches now

Writing as a magical act

Who we write for and why

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We reflect on the differences and similarities in writing fiction and non-fiction

Our writing lives

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A Between the Seasons book episode with friend of the pod, Christine Rose Elle.

Christine Rose Elle is an award-winning creativity coach turned fiction writer with a lifelong fascination with how women’s stories are told and the hidden lineage magic they hold. She is the author of several nonfiction books, including The Happy Empath: A Survival Guide for Highly Sensitive People. Christine holds degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Art History, an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. She explores the intersection of mystery, folklore, psychology, and spirituality. She studies Pagan Theology at Cherry Hill Seminary, reads tarot, collects ideas, and believes fairy tales still have quite a lot to tell us.

https://www.christineroseelle.com/

https://www.instagram.com/xtineroseelle/

https://www.patreon.com/cw/xtineroseelle

We discussed Sue Monk Kidd’s new book, Writing Creativity and Soul, alongside my own new book, Structuring the Soul of Writing.

We discussed:

·      Writing with soul in age of AI 

·      Visiting the creative spaces of heroines

·      Memoir writing

·      Gendered experiences of creativity

·      Therapeutic purpose of writing

·      The importance of the empty space

·      Our favourite writing and creativity books

In the Extended Episode (available on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce) we discuss:

• Family legacies and creative nepotism
• Plus extra quotes form the book

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Join us for the final Creative Magic Book Club of 2026 – The Change – Kirsten Miller – kickass menopausal magical realism.

November 12th 7-8pm UK time – Access via www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

We mentioned:

Creatrix: she who makes – Lucy H. Pearce

The Rainbow Way – Lucy H. Pearce

Big Magic - Liz Gilbert

Writing Creativity and Soul - Sue Monk Kidd

Structuring the Soul of Writing – Lucy H. Pearce

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd

Travelling with Pomegranates - Sue Monk Kidd

Walking with Persephone – Molly Remer

Bird by Bird – Anne Lammott

Ensouling Language – Stephen Harrod Buhner

Grit – Angela Duckworth

Wilder - Podcast about Laura Ingalls Wilder https://open.spotify.com/show/4HJG51uLJn19Fu86dImecu?si=6547329a206c49f6

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All Fours is a must read for all creative mothers and creative midlife women.

Join us for the next Creative Magic book club where we will be discussing Sue Monk Kidd's Writing, Creativity and Soul

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Preorder my new book - Structuring the Soul of Writing www.womancraftpublishing.com - Out everywhere mid September.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK

A BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIAN

A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, i-D, NYLON, VULTURE, READINGS

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTIONAL VOICES OF 2024 PICK

A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift - a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel - and embarks on the journey of a lifetime.

"It's very funny, quite dirty, and deeply profound, with a fragile magic that comes from entering an uncensored inner world. There is the added thrill as well, of July suggesting that midlife, and menopause in particular, might be kind of . . . hot" ― Observer

"Rage, grief, lust, sadness, selfishness; this stunning book and July's nameless heroine have it all. I cannot wait to read it all over again" -- GILLIAN ANDERSON

"A life-changer for me. I thought I was reading about middle age, then I thought I was reading about menopause, then motherhood, then sexuality, then monogamy, then marriage. And by the final page I realised I was reading about existence and death and I couldn't stop crying. Plus it's so funny and it's so horny. My favourite novel of this year" -- DOLLY ALDERTON

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her newest novel, All Fours, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, the Women’s Prize, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. July is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and one of TIME Magazine’s “100 most influential people of 2025.” Her other books include It Chooses You, The First Bad Man, and No One Belongs Here More Than You (winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award). Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.

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Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch & the Wildwood ,

and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairytale. Her newest book Witch Country: Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape is out on October 31st.

A yoga teacher and author based in in Bath, UK. Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities. She is host of the Witch Country podcast.

You can listen to Sarah’s popular episode from Season 1 of Creative Magic – Let’s All Run Away and Live in the Woods, and learn from her and myself in the Weaving Magic with Words episode in Season 3, Ep 46 – Magical Wanders , Ep 51 Midwinter Magic

as well as discover some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on my Patreon and the recording of Lifelines, Hope and Healing in Times of Cultural Chaos – for $6/ month.

Join us for Writing Nature and Magic, on October 1st – find out more at Womancraft Publishing

Find Sarah online:

Website: www.sentiayoga.com

Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry

Podcast: Witch Country

Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson

We talked about:

·      Writing, Nature and Magic.

·      Being a bit Eeyore.

·      Our current and future creative projects.

·      Our childhood and teen experiences of all things witchy.

·      Whimsy as soft rebellion.

·      Our whimsical top trumps on Instagram.

·      Practical Magic – the film, the book, the upcoming Practical Magic 2.

·      The joy of community for solitary practitioners and creatives.

In the extended episode –just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

·      Intergenerational curses – in Practical Magic and in our own lives – what they can look like and how we are breaking them.

Resources

@jonathanhierbert – the flower crown man

@longlivenewro – the pink priestess Friday blessing woman

@brigidsgrove – Molly Remer’s goddesses

@yogaforwitches – Sarah’s whimsical delight

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NAUTILUS AWARD WINNING Burning Woman is a breath-taking and controversial woman’s journey through history— personal and cultural—on a quest to find and free her own power. From Amazon#1 bestselling author, Lucy H. Pearce

Uncompromising and all-encompassing, Pearce uncovers the archetype of the Burning Women of days gone by—Joan of Arc and the witch trials, through to the way women are burned today in cyber bullying, acid attacks, shaming and burnout, fearlessly examining the roots of Feminine power—what it is, how it has been controlled, and why it needs to be unleashed on the world during our modern Burning Times.

Burning Woman explores:

Burning from within: a woman’s power—how to build it, engage it and not be destroyed by it.

Burning from without: the role of shame, and honour in the time-worn ways the dominant culture uses fire to control the Feminine.

The darkness: overcoming our fear of the dark, and discovering its importance in cultivating power.

This incendiary text was written for women who burn with passion, have been burned with shame, and who at another time, in another place, would have been burned at the stake. With contributions from leading burning women of our era: Isabel Abbott, ALisa Starkweather, Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Molly Remer, Julie Daley, Bethany Webster ...

Buy a signed copy

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My guest today is Kat Shaw - a return guest - check out Episdoe 35 Unapologetic.

Kat is a visual artist based in the UK who is known for her vibrant celebratory paintings of real, juicy naked female bodies.

Over the last 7 years, Kat has painted over 3000 glorious women into Goddesses, held many successful exhibitions and live shows, run enriching workshops and paints not only onto canvases, but also directly onto women’s bodies!

As an activist artist, Kat prides herself on dismantling the patriarchy, breaking society’s stereotypical views of beauty and challenging every negative paradigm that women have been drip fed since birth, instead, encouraging them to step into unapologetic empowerment.

Having made her name painting the glorious nude reality that is a woman’s body, self-worth, self-love and self-belief are at the centre of her art, rather than airbrushing, filtering, photoshopping and the “only one size fits all” approach to beauty.

Glorifying every single body shape, Kat challenges the images of perfection of the female form that are so rife in today’s culture.

katshaw.art/

Heads up this is a fabulously sweary episode with lots of talk about women’s bodies and nakedness.

We Talked About:

Red lipstick and resistance

Paying attention to the world in flames

The Good Girl

The shadow of the Burning Times

The manosphere

How making art was a bridge to loving her body

Celebrating and glorifying real women’s bodies

Her newest show Uprising – combining healing, ceremony and creativity.

In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

A deeper dive into politics and the fragmentation of the left

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Resources

Burning Woman

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My guest today is Tami Lynn Kent is the founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Mothering, and Wild Creative. 

She is an international teacher and TEDx speaker. Her books have been published in Mandarin, French, Turkish and Dutch. She is also a mother to three beautiful sons. Tami is passionate about empowering women in health & teaching them how to cultivate their creative energy in all stages of life through her practitioner training programs and personal sessions. Find out more at www.wildfeminine.com.

Website & IG:

www.wildfeminine.com

@tamilynnkent

We talked about:

Reclaiming our female bodies and the language we use about them

How we embody trauma

The process of writing and publishing Wild Feminine

A powerful Women in Power event.

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Resources

Creatrix

Burning Woman

Wild Feminine

Wild Creative

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My guest today is Hannah Fraser Moore, a Jungian psychotherapist and writer on the psychology of women's desire and defences.

Her work explores instinct, defence, and the wild feminine in modern life. Drawing on depth psychology, myth and over a decade of clinical practice, she examines how women adapt early, and how those intelligent defences can later limit desire, voice and vitality. 

She is the creator of The Forest, a private membership for women navigating the deeper currents of the feminine psyche.

Website: www.hannahfrasermoore.com

Insta:@hannahfrasermoore 

We talked about:

The power of archetypes, fairytale and myth

Creative longings and allowing ourselves to meet them

The Good Girl - and how we unlearn our training

The impact of patriarchy on our psyches

Superstition and what we fear will happen if we break patriarchal rules

The power of breaking our silence

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Resources

Burning Woman

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My guest today is Liz Childs Kelly, Nautilus Award winning author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine published by Womancraft Publishing, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine.

Through 1:1 coaching, small group programs, corporate workshops and immersive experiences, Home to Her is a space to unlearn patriarchal distortions and reconnect with the deep knowing within you.

Home to Her is a return—not to something new, but to something ancient, something enduring. When we reclaim this wisdom, we don’t just remember. 

We transform.

Welcome home!

www.hometoher.com

We talked about

Her first electrifying experience of Feminine power

How she came to get her book published

Why Feminine power is very different to what we have been taught

The function of magic in women’s creativity and experience – women as portals

How her experiences of the Feminine impacted her creativity

Her vision for her podcast

How the idea of failure has totally shifted for her recently

Her favourite bit of Burning Woman

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Our reflections on code switching between the daily world and the states needed for creativity – and why this might not be accidental and a minor rant about the patriarchy!

The role of dreams in our work

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Resources

Burning Woman

Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine

Home to Her podcast

Womancraft Publishing

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My guest today is Carly Mountain, a women’s initiatory guide, psychotherapist, psychosexual somatic therapist, yoga teacher, breathworker and writer. She is the author of Descent & Rising ~ Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth and a new book Untamed Pleasure: unleash your true erotic nature  from Womancraft Publishing. For the last twenty years she has worked with sacred embodied practices.

She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.

carlymountain.com

We talked about:

Being seen and sharing our work during these intense global times

Pleasure and freedom

Women’s experiences of descent and darkness and how to integrate them

Patriarchy’s impact on our bodies and minds

Shame and vulnerability

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Connections between the creative and erotic – our creative and sexual selves

The story behind her book cover

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Resources

Untamed Pleasure

Descent & Rising: women’s stories and the embodiment of the Inanna myth

Burning Woman

She of the Sea

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