November 27, 2023

From Half Lives to Healing, From Trauma to Temple: A deep dark honest dive into feminine power with JewWitch, Shapeshifter & Community Builder, Shoshana Sperling.

1 hour 4 minutes

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Witchhunt podcast!

🍂 🐦‍⬛ From Half Lives to Healing, From Trauma to Temple: A deep dark honest dive into feminine power with JewWitch, Shapeshifter & Community Builder, Shoshana Sperling.

This is a very special episode because I interview Shoshana and her familiar, Rosa, IN PERSON at one of my new very favorite spaces and places, Community OutWitch — a local neighborhood community centre for Witches and friends, in the Toronto area.

During our conversation, Shoshana shares how she was naturally attracted to spirituality and ritual as a child, sensitive to all sacred spaces. And how she navigated atheism as a child Witch. We talk about her 2020 Witch awakening and experience at Witchschool Canada and she shares how she alchemically birthed Community OutWitch. Goddesses, the JewWitch version of the Origin story, and the importance of honoring the transitional points in the Wheel of the Year all come up in this beautiful conversation.

And cherry 🍒 on top is our invitation to an in person Solstice ceremony AT COMMUNITY OUTWITCH that I’m calling Luz, which you can learn more about at alexandrahughes.com/luz 💃

Shoshana keeps me in stitches and has the warmest, kindest energy ever.

Listen in for a light hearted, yet deep episode where you get to know this wise woman and her magic.

Enjoy!

Alex

More about Shoshana.

Shoshana Sperling has a repertoire of 1000 voices and has thrilled Toronto-area audiences with her solo monologues for years. Her voice can be heard on many cartoons including Elinor Wonders Why on PBS, Paw Patrol and Charlie Colorforms. She conceived of, co-wrote and performed two CD’s for children with her band The Monkey Bunch entitled “Sho, Mo and the Monkey Bunch” and “Power to the Little People” which was nominated for a Juno.

As a freelance writer, Shoshana has written for the National Post, Now Magazine, Elephant Journal and is a regular contributor to Today’s Parent Magazine and Chatelaine Magazine. Most recently she has produced and performed in a monthly Cabaret at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre called “Feel The Burl” with her writing partner, Lisa Brooke.

Today she's a Shapeshifting Coach & Mentor who helps women with who hate to be in the limelight (which feels like just about anywhere) find their power and speak their truths. She is also founder of Community OutWitch, a community and events Centre for Witches and friends in the heart of Parkdale, Toronto.

Email her for Shapeshifting workshop events and private packages, at [email protected].

And check out Community OutWitch offerings here.

Both Shoshana and Alex are on borrowed territory of the Mississauga of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

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By Alexandra Hughes

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