In this episode, I discuss pitfalls of unhealthy masculinity, including a lack of self control, lack of restraint, and a lack of ability to constrain themselves. A lot of men have confused healthy masculinity with excess, gluttony, and overconsumption, being overly concerned with porn, drinking and eating in excess, following tons of titty accounts on Instagram, and other fast but empty pleasures.

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

When should you stop giving chances to the people in your life when they fuck up, hurt you, or act out of pocket? How long does it take people to actually change if they’re serious about change? In this episode, I talk about this very challenging topic. It’s something I get asked about A LOT in my tarot reading practice.

There’s a balance between giving grace and the benefit of the doubt, and being a total pushover, enabler, people pleaser, or doormat. Loving others doesn’t mean we need to abandon ourselves.

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

This episode is about being immensely present in the world. So often, people spend their time scrolling their phones, watching Netflix, TV shows, scrolling, swiping, whatever - as complete slaves to their screens and their repetitive, same same patterns. Living this way it’s easy to forget about the beauty and miraculousness of life. Embracing the always already enchanted nature of life is a crucial aspect of enjoying life to the fullest. There’s another option rather than simply being ‘extremely online’ and having the online world be your main social world. There is magic all around us, if we merely open our eyes and spirits to the experience.

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

In this episode, I discuss the (sometimes difficult) balance between listening to the spiritual world, whether it's a tarot reading, spirit contact, an astrology reading (or something else), and ignoring it - and making choices that I've come to think of as "doing it for the plot."

Sometimes, we just wanna ignore spiritual guidance and live life "normally" - and having some crazy, interesting, fun, or dramatic stories to tell. Sometimes we need to make choices that are calculated risks, going on adventures that sometimes explode in our face and goes totally wrong. Sometimes it's okay to just... do that, and learn lessons the hard way.

I love and believe in spiritual guidance; I'm grateful for my own spiritual connection and gifts, and while I do listen to it most of the time, there are some times I've gone off on some adventures regardless. It can be a difficult thing to balance as human beings!

At the same time, doing it for the plot can give us confirmation that the spiritual information we chose to ignore was actually spot on. It can also teach us the real world version of what the tarot cards and/or other spiritual messages express themselves.

An interesting and important discussion! Don't miss it!

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

In this episode of The Secrets of a Witch Podcast, I talk about how being misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misrepresented is an unavoidable part of life. We have to get used to it, and be so grounded in our own authenticity that we're unflappable.

It can be very easy to desire and strive to be seen, heard, and understood, and to think we can't be fulfilled in life without trying to persuade and convince everyone to see us a certain way. In reality, no matter who we are and how we show up in the world, some people will 'get' us, and others won't; this could be due to their own journey and lens (whether good or bad, healthy or unhealthy).

What matters the most is, do we know ourselves? Do we have self awareness? Do we have a good understanding of our own strengths and weaknesses? Do we know what we're terrible at and what we're good at? Do we respond well when trusted others teach us about our blind spots? How can we ground in our own sober self awareness about where we're at, and not get swept up in the highs and the lows of feedback from others?

I get into this topic in depth, including the importance of grounding ourself firmly in our own accurate self-concept - don't miss this episode!

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

As a tarot card reader, I get asked this a lot - will he/she/they change? Is there hope for my relationship/marriage/friendship/etc?

Unfortunately, in many cases, hope can end up fucking people over - false hope can cause people to stick around and feel that "change is just around the corner, it'll happen any minute now," and then it's five, ten, twenty years later, and people have wasted their lives.

Proof is in the pudding. Don't believe sweet fake words - believe only what you see with your very own eyeballs. Talk is cheap. In this episode I talk all about these dynamics.

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

In this episode, I discuss whether or not the person with avoidant attachment (who left you, ghosted you, cheated on you, etc) will come back and try and repent, and what to do when and if they do.

I also discuss reasons why people may stay in such toxic relationships, such as addiction to drama, financial greed, psychological codependency, an ego boost that no matter how often someone cheats they come back, etc.

The real question is - when the avoidant ex comes back, why would you even want them? Why do you feel compelled to give them a chance? Why do you have such low expectations for your life and the people in it? If you have a hard time extracting yourself from so much drama, there is likely a psychological reason that YOU are addicted/compelled to this push/pull cycle.

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com

In this episode of The Secrets of a Witch Podcast, I discuss the common phrase "your vibe attracts your tribe" and offer a critique of how this phrase can sometimes be used to victim blame people who have been the targets of predators.

So, yes, to some extent our vibe attracts our tribe, AND - when we are in a space of light, authenticity, and integrity especially - our light and radiance will attract absolutely everyone, including predators, cheaters, liars, and sketchy people looking to take advantage of our good energy.

Just like your porch light on a hot summer night, your light will attract ALL THE BUGS, both the beautiful ones and the dangerous ones.

I talk about the importance of our intuition, discernment, and protecting our time and energy.

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Secrets of a Witch is a podcast by writer, artist, and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott. She’s been a practicing witch and medium for more than 25 years, and in this casual, mellow show she shares her secrets and musings about how to overcome pain and live a happy, magical life. She is the author of five books: Witchbody; Curse and Cure: Magic for Real Life; Rapeseed: Poetry and Writing About Life After Rape; Bodymagic: A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing; and A Witch at Home: 18 Rituals for Life, Love, and Healing. You can learn more about Sabrina, book a tarot reading, and learn about her courses at sabrinamscott.com, and say hi on Instagram @sabrinamscott. Email her at ceo@sabrinamscott.com