Creative Magic

My guest today is Amy Wilding, Board Certified Women’s Hormonal Health Coach, and menstrual rewilding expert, author of Period of Change and Wild & Wise.

Amy is a queer and inclusive feminist with a passion for empowering women by helping them to reclaim their inherent sovereignty and wisdom, she has been leading sacred women’s circles, mother-daughter circles, and rite-of-passage ceremonies for well over a decade.

She is the founder of Period of Change, a transformative menstrual education programme and rite-of-passage celebration that has supported thousands of girls and their mothers through puberty, menarche, and the reclamation of cycle literacy. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her wife, Aimee, and their four young-adult children. periodofchange.com and @periodofchange 

We talked about:

Her new book Period of Change

Pleasure – and teaching our girls about it

Patriarchy’s impact on our bodies and minds

Shifting the culture from within

Moving from force to flow - perimenopause and accepting our difference in energetic capacity

The power of women’s circles

Why language matters

In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members

Generational shifts and sexual soveriegnty

Trans-inclusive language in women’s work

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Join me for my online class Writing with Fire

Resources

Wild & Wise

Period of Change

Gather: a celebration of women’s circles

Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy

Burning Woman

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Shiloh Sophia is a painter, poet, and educator who has guided tens of thousands of women worldwide to chosen liberation through Intentional Creativity®.

As legacy-keeper of the 100-year Stardust Lineage, she carries forward teachings passed hand to hand, heart to heart. She's the author of 8 books, architect of 9 certification programs, and a university educator.

Most days you can find her having tea with her muse at Stardust Ranch in Northern California 

Www.stardustlineage.com

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We talked about:

Intentional Creativity

Symbology of the feminine

Sacred feminine ritual creative practice

Her literal baptisms of fire

The Good Girl and creative blocks

Nervous system privilege

In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Shiloh’s work and how to overcome creative blocks

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Jade Chung is a Spiritual Mentor, Somatic Healer, Intuitive, and Art Therapist known for her powerful transformational work. She integrates evidence based bodywork with spiritual ceremony and radical emotional healing to guide individuals through deep inner restructuring and embodied awakening.

She works with heart centred humans who are ready to evolve beyond inherited patterns and outdated paradigms, and step into lives rooted in coherence, love, and lived purpose. She believes the most powerful contribution to collective consciousness begins with a devoted path of individual evolution.

Website: https://www.jadechunghealing.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjadechung/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjadechung

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We talked about:

The healing and integrative power of darkness and silence, and the fire of self-expression.

Unmasking - as individuals and the collective unmasking of patriarchal culture.

The Year of the Fire Horse and what it means.

Our relationship with the Good Girl archetype.

In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Jade’s work and explore Van Gogh’s vision.

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ALisa Starkweather, visionary and facilitator, devoted four decades + to the work of the Sacred Feminine and women’s transformative leadership. She founded in 1998 her women’s mystery school, Priestess Path, the Women’s Belly and Womb conferences, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings, the global grassroots Red Tent (Temple) Movement and co-founded Women in Power initiations, uplifting the fierce feminine to confront predator energy through Shadow Work. Much of her work was purposefully undocumented for women to meet mystery in her containers, yet her influence is in the roots of much that grew from her devotion and those in her communities who gave immense lifeforce for our palpable rise.

alisastarkweather.com

We talked about:

·      Her role in my Burning Woman journey – and dancing naked around the bonfire.

·      Women in Power

·      Shadow work

·      Learning to trust your calling

·      Stepping into writing her book.

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Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, she also trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery. 

 Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.  

Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy.

Uma’s passion as a writer and as a teacher is to transmit clarity of awareness, creativity and profound vitality. She identifies these teachings as radical acts of rematriation, rooted in intuitive arts and in yoga tantra, drawing on a variety of yogic traditions to share deeply nourishing and enlivening practices appropriate for contemporary life.

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We talked about:

Life force energy and the death cult of patriarchy

Unlearning being a good girl

The impact of the witch burnings.

The connection between the colonisation of land and our bodies

Reclaiming our intuition

How and why she developed yoga practices that centred female bodies

The importance of understanding that the System isn’t personal

The transformative experience of home birthing her children

How she’s navigating current times creatively

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-           Her baptism of fire: revealing abuse in the yoga community and the repercussions of this.

-           Kundalini and its relationship to the Burning Woman archeype

Resources

Burning Woman

Bad Guru podcast

Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.  

www.yoganidranetwork.org/

www.patreon.com/umadinsmoretuli

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Lucy H. Pearce and Christine Rose discuss contemporary dystopian fiction - The Circle - on the Creative Magic Book Club.

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The Circle is for lovers of 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaids Tale - a tech utopia/ dystopia published in 2013, set in the near future.

A clever examination of where we are going with social media and the dominance of likes and follower numbers.

It makes you more conscious of the way tech is shaping our world, our interactions, our creative choices and our very selves, as you read you see it everywhere and can't unsee it.

Available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and film starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Film available on Netflix and Prime.

About the Book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet

'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...

'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair

'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun.

He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world.

His work has been translated into forty-two languages.

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Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/

www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney

*Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section around 15-22 mins*

We talked about:

The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!

Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre

How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw

The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism

Art and activism

Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment

Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain

In the extended episode we discussed:

The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change

Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised

Imbas – the Irish insight

Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to

We mentioned:

Empire podcast

Burning Woman

Tuam Mother and Baby Home

The Babog project

Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed

Imbas

Sile na gigs

About your Host

Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.

Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.

lucyhpearce.com 

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Join host Lucy H. Pearce, the book’s author, Pam Grossman, and the members of the Creative Magic Book Club for a deep dive into Magic Maker - The Enchanted Path to Creativity.

We discuss:

The central image of the magic maker

Creative gifts and demons

The ways we can incorporate magic into creativity.

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About the Author

Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history. She is

the host of the internationally beloved podcast, The Witch Wave and the author of

Waking the Witch.

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Join us for the next Creative Magic Book Club – our next book is The Circle by Dave Eggers and we meet on Zoom on March 3rd – 7pm. This is dystopian fiction about creativity, community and social media for those who loved The Handmaid’s Tale or Brave New World.

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A monthly Zoom gathering with myself and a small group of other creative magic makers.

A held and sacred space.

Dedicated time to reflect on your process.

The chance to seek creative insight and support from myself and the other coven members on specific projects we are working on or things we want feedback on.

Inspire each other.

Support each other as we make creative magic in these uncertain times.

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WEEK 2 – BEYOND CHAOS -organising time, energy, information and resources so you can create your heart out and stay sane.

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As I rest and begin to weave Season 5 of the podcast, here, for your listening pleasure is the most listened to episode of all time in its full extended format, remastered, for your listening pleasure.

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Free Multi-Passionate Creative class January 27th – sign up here

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Rima Staines, a UK artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards.

Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. She lives in the south of England.

Links:

www.rimastaines.com

www.patreon.com/rimastaines

Instagram: @tilsamka

Facebook: facebook.com/rima.staines

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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook

Womancaft Publishing

We talked about

Rima’s writing - Art and the Landscape of Belonging – join her Patreon to read

The changes required at midlife

Creativity and daily life a balance between desire and necessity

The beauty of particular difference

Her drive and need for authenticity

The Otherworld and how we can access it

Neurodiversity – Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome and autism.

Motherhood and creativity

Neurology and creative magic

Her visual art which she describes as “Art in a minor key”

Synaesthesia

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Join me for this FREE introductory class to The Multi Passionate Creative on Tuesday January 27th, 7-8.15 pm UK time LIVE on Zoom. 

SIGN UP FREE NOW – and we will send you a recording the following day if you cannot make it live. https://tinyurl.com/2026MPCLucy

The FREE class will cover:

- What a multi passionate creative is.

- Language and lenses for understanding ourselves as multi passionate creatives.

- Common challenges and struggles.

- The myths.

- The reality.

JOIN ME for the MULTI PASSIONATE CREATIVE ONLINE COURSE

WEEK 1 – BEYOND OVERWHELM - strategies for core-self strength, learning what drive us, what nourishes us and how we can find our enough.

WEEK 2 – BEYOND CHAOS -organising time, energy, information and resources so you can create your heart out and stay sane.

WEEK 3 – BEYOND PROCRASTINATION moving from first ideas to finished projects.

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+ Reading list

+ Dedicated private Facebook group

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