Empower Your Magical Self

Welcome to the thirteenth and final episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self.

This episode is a look back at the 12 episodes that have comprised this season, and editing this episode has brought back memories that span the second half of the year. I had only completed one of these interviews when I broke my right knee on July 7. Now, almost 6 months later, I'm almost back to 100%. 

Also during the course of the season, I published a book. It's called "Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook to Regain Sovereignty" .  Autographed copies of my book are available on TikTok, and it's also available on Amazon. I hope you'll consider picking up a copy. Learn more at my website, LeahWelborn.net. 

This has been a great year, in spite of challenges. I'm thrilled with the second season of my podcast, and look forward to season 3 (late) next year. 

Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to Empower Your Magical Self, as it's a labor of love, gratitude, and magic with the intention of helping others empower their magical selves. 

Interested in my other work? I offer Reiki healing locally in Aurora, Colorado, and globally via internet and Reiki-infused handfasting ceremonies in Colorado.

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Welcome to the twelfth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will inspire you to consider your perspective, and whether a revamp may benefit your life and the lives of those around you. 

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will inspire you to consider your habits, and whether any of them detract from your sovereignty and joy.  

Today's episode is a little different, in that I don't have a guest. Today I'm talking about habits, and about how changing mine changed my life. 

The concept of "habits" looms so large in my world that I wrote a book about habits - specifically about how to break up with one (or just take a break from one) in 30 days. 

It's called Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook for Reclaiming Sovereignty in 30 Days, and it's based in my own experiences with ceasing a few decades-long habits that were standing between me and my highest self.

Briefly, prior to 2020, I spent most of my life struggling with depression and anxiety to the point that I was planning an early exit when the pandemic hit. I can't explain precisely what happened, but I refer to it as grace. I knew I wanted to live, but only if my life was entirely different. I wanted to find a way to live in joy, even though I didn't know what that would entail, or how it would look or feel. 

Once I took honest inventory of my life, it became apparent to me that my habits would have to change. 

"Show me your habits and I'll show you your future." There's a lot of truth in that saying.

I knew my past - it was full of misery, and habits that matched. The two most problematic habits I had were watching news for hours every day and drinking at least one bottle of wine every night. 

Please understand that this is not about morals - that was an internalization that I had to fully grok in order to let go of the habits that no longer served me. It was not about judging and bullying myself, it was about honestly assessing what was going on and ditching what no longer served me. 

My book Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook for Reclaiming Sovereignty in 30 Days is the Project that evolved as a mindful way of jettisoning those habits. 

The Project detailed in the book is divided into four themed weeks, and each day offers a prompt or a physical exercise aimed to help you get to the bottom of your habit's origin and shake it loose so that it no longer has power over you. 

Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook for Reclaiming Sovereignty in 30 Days is the book I wish I'd had when I was endeavoring to change my habits. It took me a few years to develop this 30 day process, and I know it can help you with any habit you'd like to change. 

The book is rooted in years of experience and research in methods and theories that helped me utterly rehab my life. 

Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to Empower Your Magical Self, as it's a labor of love, gratitude, and magic with the intention of helping others empower their magical selves. 

Interested in my other work? I offer Reiki healing locally in Aurora, Colorado, and globally via internet and Reiki-infused handfasting ceremonies in Colorado.

 Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook for Reclaiming Sovereignty in 30 Days." is now available on Amazon, and I hope you'll consider picking up a copy. Autographed copies are available in my TikTok shop. 

Learn more at my website, LeahWelborn.net. 

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Welcome to the tenth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will inspire you to consider what community means to you. 

My guest today is Meghan Rubinstein, the founder of Sakala in Denver. Although we were talking by video, I've actually met Meghan in real life (!), so that sets her apart from most my guests. 

I met Meghan in real life because Sakala is a real, actual place in Denver, and (with great trepidation) I attended a Coffee & Communitea gathering there last year. The trepidation wasn't to do with Sakala specifically - as an autistic woman who was undiagnosed until quite recently, I've had decades of horrific social experiences and thus developed severe social anxiety, so walking into a group of strangers is terrifying for me. It says so much about Meghan and the space she's created that I was comfortable and have returned to several events there. 

In this episode, Meghan and I talk about dark times and how we got through them, we talk about community, and we talk about magic. 

If you're in the Denver area, there's a Coffee & Communitea at Sakala from 9 - 11 on December 12th, and I'll be there (at least part of the time!) with a few copies of my book and would love to meet you, so come by and meet me and today's guest, Meghan Rubinstein. 

Sakala's IG: https://www.instagram.com/sakalacommunity/

Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to Empower Your Magical Self, as it's a labor of love, gratitude, and magic with the intention of helping others empower their magical selves. 

Interested in my other work? I offer Reiki healing locally in Aurora, Colorado, and globally via internet and Reiki-infused handfasting ceremonies in Colorado.

Also, my book "Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook to Regain Sovereignty" is now available on Amazon, and I hope you'll consider picking up a copy. Learn more at my website, LeahWelborn.net. 

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Welcome to the ninth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will inspire you to spend time contemplating your own magic, and how it can make your life more joyful.

Welcome to the eighth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will cause you to reconsider how you've always seen something. Perhaps there's something you're missing, or seeing through a skewed lens.  

 I became aware of today's guest, Joe Ellison, in the way I became aware of most my guests - TikTok. Joe is just a few months older than me, and in our early 50s, Joe and I are definite elders of TikTok. He's a singer/songwriter, and his band, Run with Patience, is currently on tour in Eastern Europe - he was in Serbia when I checked in with him earlier this week to get a photo for this episode. 

Though Joe's a rock star, that's not what his TikTok channel is about, and that's not why I asked him to be my guest. As BrothermanJoe, his charismatic and upbeat persona brings thousands of viewers (including me) to his videos for his regular features like "3 Good Things Thursday" and "Fridays with Mom".

Joe's close relationship with his 96 year old mother is one of the hallmarks of his videos, and one of the many things that's endeared him to me. While Joe's mother lives a few doors down from him, my mother and I share a home (she's upstairs, I'm downstairs). 

In today's episode, Joe and I talk about having strong relationships with our elders as we all age. We also talk about his experience growing up as a Black boy in a largely white environment, and he reflects on his time as a Black man in a white Christian church. 

Joe's IG: https://www.instagram.com/joe_ellison_and_rwp/

Joe's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brothermanjoe

Run with Patience Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2bgtJhTSL9c2C3TUeGjPa3?si=CXstEyZaTjuvdsAOs2KIwg

Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to Empower Your Magical Self, as it's a labor of love, gratitude, and magic with the intention of helping others empower their magical selves. 

Interested in my other work? I offer Reiki healing locally in Aurora, Colorado, and globally via internet and Reiki-infused handfasting ceremonies in Colorado.

Also, my book "Empower Your Magical Self With a One Month Habit Break: A Handbook to Regain Sovereignty" is now available on Amazon, and I hope you'll consider picking up a copy. Learn more at my website, LeahWelborn.net. 

#podcast #EmpowerYourMagicalSelfthePodcast #spiritualitypodcasts #magic #spirituality #neurodivergence #witchtok #energyhealing #energy #mindfulness #autistic #latediagnosedautistic #mindfulnesspractice #actuallyautistic #mysticautistic #themysticautistic #joeellison #brothermanjoe

Welcome to the seventh episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will make you consider something you've never thought of before, or think of something in a new way. 

Welcome to the sixth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it will inspire you to let someone you admire know how they touch your life. 

Welcome to the fifth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it inspires you do something that scares you a little.

Welcome to the fourth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. My hope is that it inspires you to celebrate a dream you've made come true and to really savor how that feels.

Today's episode is a bit of a dream come true for me.  My guest today is author, witch, and truly one of my personal heroes, Amanda Yates Garcia, also known as the Oracle of LA. 

Working backwards, I reckon it was 2018 when I found Amanda on social media, the year before here brilliant book Initiated (to which I'll return in a moment) was published. I was immediately smitten. 

Though I've considered myself a witch since I was 17 (almost 35 years ago), I'd just begun to center that reality in my life when I came upon Amanda, the Oracle of LA. For most of my life at that point I'd been drifting between the levels of my personal hell. I was depressed, but I'm coming to understand at long last that my undiagnosed autism was more likely the root of my struggles than the "chronic, hereditary depression and anxiety" that were diagnosed (repeatedly, over many decades). 

In 2018 the very, very thin ice on which my so-called life was situated began to crack. That was an extremely precarious time in my life, and unbeknownst to her, Amanda was a sort of life preserver for me. 

I'm writing this on October 22, 2024 - coincidentally 5 years to the date since Initiated, the Memoir of Witch was published. I read it in January of 2020, just as I was weighing whether or not to continue living. Again, Amanda doesn't know how meaningful her work has been to me. 

Over the years, I've continued to watch and learn from Amanda. Her brilliant podcast, Between the Worlds, inspired me to start this podcast in two ways. First, I kept emailing her with guest suggestions (for which she would kindly thank me), and secondly, I honestly just wanted to have a conversation with her. 

She was, of course, the first person I invited to be on the show's first season last year. Her schedule didn't accommodate her appearance last year, but I am beyond thrilled to welcome Amanda Yates Garcia, the Oracle of LA, as my guest for episode four of the second season of Empower Your Magical Self. 

Before you dive into the episode, I have a caveat. I broke my leg on July 7th, and I did this interview (too) soon after. I was so excited to have procured an hour of Amanda's time that I decided not to reschedule the interview. In watching the episode, I can tell I was in a lot of pain and was really not at my best. I apologize to listeners/viewers, and especially to Amanda for that. 

That being said, Amanda is true shimmering magic in this interview. We talk at length about egregores, a concept I learned about from her book, and specifically the egregore of the United States. We're in the thick of election season, and as American-born witches, Amanda and I endeavor to look honestly at the history and future of the country of our birth. 

In this episode I mention the work of one of my favorite writers, Patrick Jasper Lee, who was a guest on the first season of my podcast. You can find his episode here. I also mention KellyAnn Maddox, author of the brilliant book Rebel Witch and the brand new Witch in Darkness. Her episode of Empower Your Magical Self will come out in late November. 

Please enjoy this interview (that I thoroughly enjoyed but probably should have postponed) with the magical Amanda Yates Garcia. 

Amanda's IG: https://www.instagram.com/oracleofla/

Amanda's Website: https://oracleoflosangeles.com/

Amanda's Link tree: 

https://linktr.ee/oracleofla?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

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