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Reclaiming the Signal
The low-tox conversation in wellness has largely focused on what we put on and in our bodies. Clean beauty, organic food, filtered water. But the energetic body is just as porous as the physical one. What we consume digitally moves through us. It shapes our thoughts, colors our emotions, influences what we believe is possible and what we believe about ourselves.
Cerissa Leese
Jun 33 min read


Food as Medicine: What Our Ancestors Already Knew
Modern wellness culture loves a revelation. Every few years a new diet arrives. Atkins in the early 2000s. Raw food in 2010. Paleo in 2013. Keto in 2018. Carnivore in 2020. Each one packaged as a discovery, a breakthrough, the thing we've finally figured out. We treat food science like it's new. Like we are the first people to ask what we should be putting in our bodies and why. Our ancestors would find this baffling. For most of human history, the relationship between food a
Cerissa Leese
May 274 min read


Twenty-Four Years to Find the Framework
It took me years to arrive at a diagnostic framework I trust. Years of understanding the history of where this practice comes from, and why that history matters for the work. Years of sitting with the science until it started to clarify rather than complicate. Years of developing the body awareness practice that lets me read a situation before I touch it, rather than casting into the dark and hoping.
Twenty-four years.
And I kept thinking: it should not take that long. It
Cerissa Leese
May 66 min read


Letting It Go
Grey Hair, the Crone, and Reclaiming What Was Never Theirs to Take There's a moment a lot of women in their 40s and 50s reach: standing in front of the mirror, watching the grey come in, and feeling something complicated move through them. Maybe it's defiance. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's the quiet exhaustion of realizing how many years they've spent managing their appearance for an audience that was never worth the performance. I want to talk about that moment. Because it is
Cerissa Leese
Apr 223 min read


Kids in the Craft
When I think about children in the craft, I always hope for wonder and prepare for boundaries. Forcing participation, overriding discomfort, or rushing a child into experiences they aren't ready for doesn't build a magical foundation, it builds resistance. But a child who is allowed to approach the craft on their own terms, at their own pace, in age-appropriate ways? That child may one day have a practice more powerful than you can imagine.
Cerissa Leese
Apr 153 min read


43 and the Year of Wisdom
Wisdom isn't just the accumulation of information. Wisdom is the thing that lives underneath all of it. The thing you can't rush or manufacture. The thing that only comes from having lived, made mistakes, survived them, and chosen to keep going anyway.
Cerissa Leese
Apr 83 min read


How Going Public as a Witch Changed Me
When we first start exploring spirituality, most of us are handed a framework. Follow this tradition. Use these tools. Don't break the rules. And for a while, that structure is useful. It gives us something to hold onto while we find our footing. We read the books, learn the correspondences, follow the sabbats, try to figure out how all of these new practices fit into what we already believed about the world. If we're lucky, that eventually cracks open into something entirel
Cerissa Leese
Apr 12 min read


The Kitchen Was Always the Altar
We've been taught to think of the kitchen as mundane. A chore. As domestic in the diminishing sense of the word. Something that happened before the real work began. But if you go back far enough, before the separation of the sacred and the everyday that Christianity introduced into European folk practice, the kitchen wasn't separate from the altar at all. It was the altar. The hearth was the ritual center of the home. The act of feeding people was an act of power.
Cerissa Leese
Mar 254 min read


What Is Shadow Work
Shadow work asks you to look directly at the thing you've spent the most energy looking away from. That's not a small ask. Most people would rather stay busy, stay numb, or stay in the comfortable story they've built about who they are and why their life looks the way it does.
It can feel like the scariest thing in the world to sit down with yourself and ask: what am I carrying that was never mine to carry? What parts of me have I abandoned? What am I really afraid of?
Cerissa Leese
Mar 182 min read


The Voice That Dims Your Flame
In a world full of powerful, gifted spiritual teachers, I know I'm not the only voice. But I am my voice. And that voice is needed. I'm still scared. I may stumble. But I am here, and I am doing it.
Cerissa Leese
Mar 113 min read


Tools for a Living Magic
As a witch who values autonomy and respect, I’m not here to sell you a "spiritual aesthetic." I’m here to help you find the tools that keep you in alignment with your own power. Here is why the "prescriptions" are always shifting.
Cerissa Leese
Mar 43 min read


The Radical Act of Presence
Choosing not to drink isn't about diet culture or "staying thin." It’s about Biological Respect. It’s about refusing to ingest a known toxin simply because a marketing campaign told me it would make me more "fun."
Cerissa Leese
Feb 253 min read


Identity Is Not a Spell
Modern spiritual culture places enormous emphasis on self-definition. “What kind of witch are you” has become both instruction and moral directive, as though identity is something fixed, discoverable, and inherently liberating once named. In beauty culture, spirituality, and contemporary witchcraft alike, authenticity is treated as the highest good.
This assumption deserves examination.
Cerissa Leese
Feb 182 min read


Valentine’s Day Was Never About Romance
The modern holiday traditions of cards, roses, and heart-shaped symbols sits atop a much older structure built from ritual, fertility rites, blood, and institutional control. What we now call romance was once something far less sentimental and far more dangerous.
Cerissa Leese
Feb 113 min read


What You Do After the Working Is Part of the Working
In traditional witchcraft, a working is not complete when the visible action ends. The candle going out, the words spoken, or the ritual concluded marks only the midpoint of the process, not the conclusion. What follows – the return, the grounding, the reintegration – is structurally part of the work itself.
Cerissa Leese
Feb 42 min read


Full Circle Is Not the Same as Going Back
Full circle is not going back. It’s being asked to show up differently, and knowing that this time, you can.
Cerissa Leese
Jan 283 min read


Why We Keep Looking Up: The Aurora Effect
In times of uncertainty, whether socially, politically, and/or emotionally, people look for frameworks that make internal experience feel legible. Astrology and celestial language offer something powerful: pattern without confrontation. Explanation without blame. Meaning without demand.
Cerissa Leese
Jan 203 min read


The Heat Is On
What we experience when extreme weather arrives is a collective disorientation: fear, urgency, helplessness, and a scramble for narrative meaning. This pattern—reactive, emotionally driven, and story-hungry—is far older than modern climate discourse. It is ancestral.
Cerissa Leese
Jan 143 min read


Empire, Fear, and Myth
Witch hunts were never about witches. They were about fear looking for a body. When societies face instability such as economic strain, environmental disruption, or political unrest, they search for meaning quickly. And when meaning is rushed, it becomes myth. When myth is repeated enough, it becomes doctrine. When doctrine is enforced, it becomes control.
That pattern did not die with the gallows.
Cerissa Leese
Jan 73 min read


Why So Many People Are Turning Toward Witchcraft Right Now
Something is happening right now. And it isn’t about aesthetics, trends, or social media algorithms, even though those are where it’s most visible. It’s about disorientation.
Cerissa Leese
Dec 31, 20253 min read
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