Working-class. Geordie. ADHD. Tuned to music, voices, and what most people filter out.
Actress-turned-author Tracy Whitwell didn’t find her voice—she stopped containing it.
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Some lives move in straight lines. This one moves by instinct.
Tracy Whitwell was born in Gateshead and never stopped creating. By six, she'd written her first play. By her teens—acting, writing, making music. Always something. Always moving. Always needing to make.
As the years passed, London came, and so did the work. By the early 90s, Tracy was a professional actress working across stage, screen, and radio. Voice became discipline. Timing became everything.
Then 2006 made its appearance, alongside the birth of her son. As she stepped away and embedded herself within motherhood and writing full-time for stage, screen, and music videos – something deeper was stirring. Tracy drafted a novel she'd been thinking about for years and wrote it in weeks. Then another. And another. Eleven books later, Pan Macmillan came calling asking for the “whole heap of crazy truth” in her fictional (but rooted in experience) novel, The Accidental Medium.
Alongside her published work, that continues with 5 more books planned from next year, sits inheritance.
Originating from a long line of Wise Women, Tracy works as a healer, card reader, energy clearer, and clairaudient. By listening to the unsaid and seeing the invisible, Tracy utilisesher gift to provide advice and consolation as the Sweary Witch, penning self-help books that are direct, unsentimental, and precise.
In this episode, Tracy speaks about her reinvention through loss and discovery, embracing her spiritual gifts and power, the importance of vulnerability and self-acceptance, and how women should embrace all the sensory pleasures life has to offer.
This isn’t a reinvention story.
It’s about timing, accumulation, and work done without hurry.
🎧 Writing the Long Way Round: Tracy Whitwell, A Voice With More Than One Origin | #YANIA50² | Ep 101
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