• Nightbitch: : the raw reality of creative motherhood
    Jan 13 2026
    This Between the Seasons book episode explores Nightbitch a novel by Rachel Yoder, a work of magical realism about a mother longing to reclaim her identity of artist.Named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. It was adapted for screen in 2024 by writer and director by Marielle Heller, starring Amy Adams.https://www.racheljyoder.com/This episode weaves my own reflections on the themes of the book, with women’s voices from our Creative Magic book club, readings from the book and excerptsJanuary 8th - Womancraft Submission Zoom call – link hereJanuary 9th- Feb 13th – submissions open at Womancraft Publishing – find out more.January 13th – Creative Magic Book Club – Magic Maker by Pam Grossman – sign up hereJanuary 20th Free Multi-Passionate Creative class – sign up hereFeb 10th - The Multi-Passionate Creative and The Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur, starts, early birds to Jan 30th. Find out more...***We talked about:Creative mothers – the inherent strugglesWhat we cannot talk about – the experience of motherhood andWriting new stories – our own storiesMothering in patriarchyMammalian motheringMaternal rageIdentity – loss of, finding it again through creativityExtended Episode just $3 at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceA deeper dive into identityThe public body of mother and the artist’s need for time alone and secrecyMaternal inheritance and our maternal ancestorsThe feeling of loss of time and careerWanda White – the author of the book in the book!Want more?A full episode of my second conversation with Sarah Detweiler is available on the $6/9 dollar Patreon tiers.At this level you can also join us for future book clubswww.patreon.com/lucyhpearceResourcesNightbitchThe Rainbow WayThe Artist’s WayAll FoursBurning WomanMoods of MotherhoodCrow MoonMotherhood Until YesterdayI’m a Writer But…About Rachel YoderNamed a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. It was adapted for screen in 2024 by writer and director by Marielle Heller, starring Amy Adams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • January - What's Up?!
    Jan 2 2026

    A brief look at all the creative magic coming up in January


    January 8th - Womancraft Submission Zoom call – link here

    January 9th- Feb 13th – submissions open at Womancraft Publishing – find out more.

    January 13th – Creative Magic Book Club – Magic Maker by Pam Grossman – sign up here

    January 20th Free Multi-Passionate Creative class – sign up here

    Feb 10th - The Multi-Passionate Creative and The Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur, starts, early birds to Jan 30th. Find out more...***

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    11 mins
  • 51: Midwinter Magic with Sarah Robinson
    Dec 23 2025

    A seasonal round up from Lucy – her highlights of Season 4 and looking ahead to our next Between the Seasons Book Specials.

    As well as snippets from a festive conversation with friend of the pod, witchy author, Sarah Robinson as we share how we celebrate Christmas and some of our favourite Christmas traditions – all things mince pies, cranberries and Christmas trees.


    In the Extended Episode – there’s oodles more from just $3/ month on Patreon

    We talk Christmas wreaths

    Hygge

    Plus bonus Seasonal extracts from the book that we co-authored – The Kitchen Witch Companion.

    Resources

    Join the Book Club on Patreon

    The Kitchen Witch Companion

    Sarah’s autumn episode – Magical Wanders

    Pam Grossman’s episode

    Womancraft Publishing Submissions

    Sign up for my new free class: The Multipassionate Creative


    About Sarah

    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 and the Wildwood and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairy tale. 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 epsidoe in Season 3, as well as discvoer some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on Patreon – for $6/ month.

    Join her for her Masterclasses live on Zoom on October 29th and November 5th.

    Find Sarah online:

    Website: www.sentiayoga.com

    Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry

    Podcast: Witch Country

    Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson



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    34 mins
  • 50: Tracy Breathnach - The Soul Path
    Dec 9 2025

    Dr Tracy Breathnach is an Irish author, speaker and somatic performance artist, based in the UK, exploring heart-centred living and loving. The main themes of her work are intimacy, authenticity and aliveness. She has worked extensively across arts, community and education settings, primarily in the UK for over 25 years, as well as now offering transformational coaching and mentoring to clients around the world.

    In November 2025, she launched her first non-fiction book called In Other Words Love, Learning to intimately love our lives. The material is also offered as an e-course available online: Words for Love.

    Tracy’s practice as research PhD (University of Aberystwyth, 2018) explored identity, narrative and trauma in autobiographical birth-storytelling. Following this she developed a project called ‘Birth Café’ with People Speak Up in west Wales to create a space for women to share their birth stories from their bodies.

    Tracy is a highly experienced freelance consultant in Culture, Health and Wellbeing and most recently worked as the Programme Manager for Wales Arts, Health & Wellbeing Network. She has led on the award-winning Wales-wide artists’ wellbeing programme How Ya Doing? for WAHWN, as well as several arts programmes for staff wellbeing in health boards.

    www.tracybreathnach.com

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/trebreathnach

    Insta: http://www.instagram.com/trebreathnach @trebreathnach

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tracy-breathnach-13113133/

    To buy the book In Other Words Love: https://amzn.eu/d/e0sGyUS


    We talked about

    Soul friends - anam cara.

    The soul path and following your bliss

    Trauma and agency

    Surrender, creativity and birth

    Law of Attraction

    Writing her book

    Being a writer who loves feedback and sharing via performance


    In the Extended Episode - 2 hours long

    Working together teaching Burning Woman

    Soul and masking

    Resourcing – what it is, how it works and how to do it

    How we can set ourselves up for peace and creativity in the midst of the current political and economic climate


    Resources

    Burning Woman

    Medicine Woman

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Gina Martin

    Her new book, In Other Words Love

    Jules Heavens

    Joan Davies

    NLP

    IEMT

    Authentic Movement

    Mary Daly


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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 49: Essie Jain - The Healing
    Nov 25 2025

    Essie Jain is an English singer and songwriter, who has been performing and recording music for over two decades. Her songs have traveled far and wide out into the world and gently weaved themselves into the fabric of people’s lives, daily healing practices and stories. She has almost 600K monthly listens on Spotify.

    Essie often works alongside her husband, guitarist and long term collaborator Patrick Glynn, for both recordings and live performances. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter Opal.

    Most recently, Essie and Patrick made an album of folk songs together, The Rose In Bloom, which was released on March 7th, 2025

    Her website Instagram

    Essie on Spotify

    We talked about:

    · Holding space for people’s responses to our work and boundaries

    · Creative collaboration with our partners

    · Music and healing

    · Making a living as a creative

    · Founding an indie label


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

    · How creativity prepares us for the challenges of parenting

    · Betting the house on your creativity

    · Channelling the energies of death into music

    Resources Mentioned

    Creatrix: she who makes

    Big Magic – Liz Gilbert

    Songs Featured in this Episode

    O, I Love You – from Until the Light of Morning

    I’m Not Afraid of the Dark– from Until the Light of Morning

    The Healing from As I Return

    The Blessing from As I Return

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  • 48: Pam Grossman - A Bridge Between Realms
    Nov 11 2025

    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 and What Is A Witch. Her newest book, Magic Maker- The Enchanted Path to Creativity has just launched. She is also co-editor and co-author of the

    Witchcraft volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. Her writing has appeared in

    numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME.com, and

    many more. She divides her time between Brooklyn and the Western Catskills

    alongside her husband and their two feline familiars.


    www.pamgrossman.com

    Instagram @phantasmaphile

    Podcast – The Witch Wave


    We talked about:

    Women and surrealist art

    Occulture

    Her podcast, The Witch Wave

    Capitalism and magic

    Being visible as a witch

    Being taken seriously by the mainstream media when talking about magic

    Witchcraft - The Taschen Anthology

    Her new book Magic Maker

    Archetypes of magic – Witch, Magician and Magic Maker

    Why creativity is vital now


    In the Extended Episode – just $3 a month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

    We dive deeper into capitalism and magic, bring the Taschen anthology of Witchcraft to life, women artists who are just coming into mainstream awareness and the work of Amy Hale bringing forward the work of Ithell Colquhoun.


    Resources

    Amy Hale – Creative Magic Episode

    Artists mentioned:

    Leonora Carrington

    Remedios Varo

    Hilma af Klint

    Ithell Colquhoun

    Agnes Pelton

    Gertrude Abercrombie

    Leonore Fini

    Pamela Colman Smith

    Waking the Witch

    Magic Maker- The Enchanted Path to Creativity

    Witchcraft volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series – ed. Jessica Hundley



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    58 mins
  • 47: Sangu Mandanna - Witches & Whimsy
    Nov 4 2025

    Sangu Mandanna is a British–Indian author of adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction. She is best known for her fantasy romance novels The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches and A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping.

    We talked about:

    • Whimsy and cosy fiction
    • The magical books that made her
    • Her writing process
    • Her publishing journey
    • The difference between writing for YA, children and adult readers.
    • Writing inclusive characters
    • Belonging and community
    • Writing sex scenes


    In the Extended Episode www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

    • We dive deeper into neurodivergence, being seen and invisibility
    • As well as an additional extract from The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches


    Join us for the Creative Magic book club www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

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    53 mins
  • 46: Sarah Robinson - Magical Wanders
    Oct 28 2025
    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, as well as discover some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on my Patreon – for $6/ month. Join her for her Masterclasses live on Zoom on October 29th and November 5th. Find out more at Womancraft Publishing Find Sarah online:Website: www.sentiayoga.comInstagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountryPodcast: Witch CountryInsight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson We talked about:The Season of the Witch – whether it’s over commericalised and what it means to usTime release magicSocial media, performance and authenticityThe importance of digging for rootsBalancing whimsy and the dark history of witch hunts.The place and witch that impacted her most as she researched Witch CountrySome of our favourite good witches from 20th century film In the extended episode – over 15 mins of extra content just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about: The backstory as to why Sarah is “friend of the pod”Apple magicReal world social media content making strugglesWitch marks – what they are and how to find them.An extra extract from Witch Country Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 6 mins