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Lucy Pearce

Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflect on what, how and why we create, what drives us...and what stops us in our tracks. We share honestly how we find the time and energy to make magic in the midst of life's challenges and why we keep on saying yes to our creativity.


Lucy is known for giving real and raw interviews, and now she shares this form of deep dive conversation with many of her favourite creative people.


The first season of Creative Magic is the Wild Initiations series, featuring her immensely popular intimate conversation series recorded to celebrate the launch of her 12th book Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods... She will also be joined by some new guests diving into the themes of wild nature, symbols, initiation and creative magic.

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  • Tuesday · 1 hr 15 min

    Ep 63- Sarah Robinson – Practical Magic

    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, Ep 46 – Magical Wanders , Ep 51 Midwinter Magic as well as discover some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on my Patreon and the recording of Lifelines, Hope and Healing in Times of Cultural Chaos – for $6/ month. Join us for Writing Nature and Magic, on October 1st – find out more at Womancraft Publishing Find Sarah online: Website: www.sentiayoga.com Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry Podcast: Witch Country Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson We talked about: · Writing, Nature and Magic. · Being a bit Eeyore. · Our current and future creative projects. · Our childhood and teen experiences of all things witchy. · Whimsy as soft rebellion. · Our whimsical top trumps on Instagram. · Practical Magic – the film, the book, the upcoming Practical Magic 2. · The joy of community for solitary practitioners and creatives. In the extended episode –just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about: · Intergenerational curses – in Practical Magic and in our own lives – what they can look like and how we are breaking them. Resources @jonathanhierbert – the flower crown man @longlivenewro – the pink priestess Friday blessing woman @brigidsgrove – Molly Remer’s goddesses @yogaforwitches – Sarah’s whimsical delight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E64
    September 1 · 1 hr 14 min

    Burning Woman - Between the Seasons Book Episode

    NAUTILUS AWARD WINNING Burning Woman is a breath-taking and controversial woman’s journey through history— personal and cultural—on a quest to find and free her own power. From Amazon#1 bestselling author, Lucy H. Pearce Uncompromising and all-encompassing, Pearce uncovers the archetype of the Burning Women of days gone by—Joan of Arc and the witch trials, through to the way women are burned today in cyber bullying, acid attacks, shaming and burnout, fearlessly examining the roots of Feminine power—what it is, how it has been controlled, and why it needs to be unleashed on the world during our modern Burning Times. Burning Woman explores: Burning from within: a woman’s power—how to build it, engage it and not be destroyed by it. Burning from without: the role of shame, and honour in the time-worn ways the dominant culture uses fire to control the Feminine. The darkness: overcoming our fear of the dark, and discovering its importance in cultivating power. This incendiary text was written for women who burn with passion, have been burned with shame, and who at another time, in another place, would have been burned at the stake. With contributions from leading burning women of our era: Isabel Abbott, ALisa Starkweather, Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Molly Remer, Julie Daley, Bethany Webster ... Buy a signed copy Join the Creative Magic Bookclub www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 18 · 1 hr 25 min

    62: Kat Shaw - Uprising : Art, Activism and the Red Lipstick of Rebellion

    My guest today is Kat Shaw - a return guest - check out Episdoe 35 Unapologetic. Kat is a visual artist based in the UK who is known for her vibrant celebratory paintings of real, juicy naked female bodies. Over the last 7 years, Kat has painted over 3000 glorious women into Goddesses, held many successful exhibitions and live shows, run enriching workshops and paints not only onto canvases, but also directly onto women’s bodies! As an activist artist, Kat prides herself on dismantling the patriarchy, breaking society’s stereotypical views of beauty and challenging every negative paradigm that women have been drip fed since birth, instead, encouraging them to step into unapologetic empowerment. Having made her name painting the glorious nude reality that is a woman’s body, self-worth, self-love and self-belief are at the centre of her art, rather than airbrushing, filtering, photoshopping and the “only one size fits all” approach to beauty. Glorifying every single body shape, Kat challenges the images of perfection of the female form that are so rife in today’s culture. katshaw.art/ Heads up this is a fabulously sweary episode with lots of talk about women’s bodies and nakedness. We Talked About: Red lipstick and resistance Paying attention to the world in flames The Good Girl The shadow of the Burning Times The manosphere How making art was a bridge to loving her body Celebrating and glorifying real women’s bodies Her newest show Uprising – combining healing, ceremony and creativity. In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce A deeper dive into politics and the fragmentation of the left Watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Burning Woman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E61
    August 4 · 52 min

    61: Tami Lynn Kent: Wild Feminine - Trauma, the Female Body and Creativity

    My guest today is Tami Lynn Kent is the founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Mothering, and Wild Creative. She is an international teacher and TEDx speaker. Her books have been published in Mandarin, French, Turkish and Dutch. She is also a mother to three beautiful sons. Tami is passionate about empowering women in health & teaching them how to cultivate their creative energy in all stages of life through her practitioner training programs and personal sessions. Find out more at www.wildfeminine.com. Website & IG: www.wildfeminine.com @tamilynnkent We talked about: Reclaiming our female bodies and the language we use about them How we embody trauma The process of writing and publishing Wild Feminine A powerful Women in Power event. The Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Creatrix Burning Woman Wild Feminine Wild Creative Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E60
    July 21 · 1 hr

    60: Hannah Fraser Moore - Archetypal Wisdom for Wild Women

    My guest today is Hannah Fraser Moore, a Jungian psychotherapist and writer on the psychology of women's desire and defences. Her work explores instinct, defence, and the wild feminine in modern life. Drawing on depth psychology, myth and over a decade of clinical practice, she examines how women adapt early, and how those intelligent defences can later limit desire, voice and vitality. She is the creator of The Forest, a private membership for women navigating the deeper currents of the feminine psyche. Website: www.hannahfrasermoore.com Insta:@hannahfrasermoore We talked about: The power of archetypes, fairytale and myth Creative longings and allowing ourselves to meet them The Good Girl - and how we unlearn our training The impact of patriarchy on our psyches Superstition and what we fear will happen if we break patriarchal rules The power of breaking our silence The Extended Episode is available to paid Patreon members www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Burning Woman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E59
    July 7 · 53 min

    59: Liz Childs Kelly - Home to Her - Women as Portals to Creativity and Magic

    My guest today is Liz Childs Kelly, Nautilus Award winning author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine published by Womancraft Publishing, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. Through 1:1 coaching, small group programs, corporate workshops and immersive experiences, Home to Her is a space to unlearn patriarchal distortions and reconnect with the deep knowing within you. Home to Her is a return—not to something new, but to something ancient, something enduring. When we reclaim this wisdom, we don’t just remember. We transform. Welcome home! www.hometoher.com We talked about Her first electrifying experience of Feminine power How she came to get her book published Why Feminine power is very different to what we have been taught The function of magic in women’s creativity and experience – women as portals How her experiences of the Feminine impacted her creativity Her vision for her podcast How the idea of failure has totally shifted for her recently Her favourite bit of Burning Woman In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Our reflections on code switching between the daily world and the states needed for creativity – and why this might not be accidental and a minor rant about the patriarchy! The role of dreams in our work Watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Burning Woman Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine Home to Her podcast Womancraft Publishing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • June 16 · 57 min

    58: Carly Mountain - Untamed Pleasure

    My guest today is Carly Mountain, a women’s initiatory guide, psychotherapist, psychosexual somatic therapist, yoga teacher, breathworker and writer. She is the author of Descent & Rising ~ Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth and a new book Untamed Pleasure: unleash your true erotic nature from Womancraft Publishing. For the last twenty years she has worked with sacred embodied practices. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters. carlymountain.com We talked about: Being seen and sharing our work during these intense global times Pleasure and freedom Women’s experiences of descent and darkness and how to integrate them Patriarchy’s impact on our bodies and minds Shame and vulnerability In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Connections between the creative and erotic – our creative and sexual selves The story behind her book cover Watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Untamed Pleasure Descent & Rising: women’s stories and the embodiment of the Inanna myth Burning Woman She of the Sea Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E77
    June 9 · 8 min

    BONUS EPISODE: Creative Retreat and Neurodivergent Arrival - Lucy H. Pearce

    I have dreamed for years of a creative retreat in a little cabin overlooking the sea, where I could write. Last week it happened. And I made a little solo podcast episode about it. Join me on www.Patreon.com/lucyhpearce to listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • June 2 · 57 min

    57: Jasmine Alicia Carter - Blood and Bone - Menstrual Art

    My guest today is Jasmine Alicia Carter, menstrual artist, founder of Sacred Woman™, and creator of the Menstrual Art Movement, guides women to reclaim their bodies, cycles, and creative power through menstrual blood as sacred practice. She is the founder of Sacred Woman™, a renowned brand dedicated to empowering women to embody their authentic feminine nature and live womb-centered, meaningful lives. Through the Sacred Woman Boutique, Jasmine curates holistic products and sacred pleasure tools designed to nurture women’s health and awaken the sacred sexual expression of the female body. Her unique artistry lies in her menstrual blood artwork, a sacred practice she has shared globally since 2016. Her work has gone viral, been featured on major media platforms, and sparked the creation of the Menstrual Art Movement—a non-profit uniting thousands of women and bleeders worldwide in reclaiming menstruation as a source of empowerment and healing. Rooted in ancient spiritual lineages, Jasmine continues to weave motherhood, art, and embodied wisdom into her devotion to women’s healing. She is a wife and mother of two Website and main social media link: @jasminealiciacarter www.sacredwoman.com We talked about: The power of menstrual blood Blood and bones as a way to reconnect us to what is real Shame and fear that keep us from ourselves Sharing our work, navigating social media and being seen Baptisms of fire The collective hunger for the sacred feminine Extended Episode A deeper dive conversation Trigger warning for a discussion about suicidal ideation at 25-30 mins. Feeding our demons – the Tibetan tantric practice she uses for navigating deep discomfort. This was recorded as part of the Burning Woman Conversations – watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Burning Woman Moon Time Menstruality podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E56
    May 19 · 1 hr 10 min

    56: Amy Wilding - Writing Beyond Patriarchy

    My guest today is Amy Wilding, Board Certified Women’s Hormonal Health Coach, and menstrual rewilding expert, author of Period of Change and Wild & Wise. Amy is a queer and inclusive feminist with a passion for empowering women by helping them to reclaim their inherent sovereignty and wisdom, she has been leading sacred women’s circles, mother-daughter circles, and rite-of-passage ceremonies for well over a decade. She is the founder of Period of Change, a transformative menstrual education programme and rite-of-passage celebration that has supported thousands of girls and their mothers through puberty, menarche, and the reclamation of cycle literacy. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her wife, Aimee, and their four young-adult children. periodofchange.com and @periodofchange We talked about: Her new book Period of Change Pleasure – and teaching our girls about it Patriarchy’s impact on our bodies and minds Shifting the culture from within Moving from force to flow - perimenopause and accepting our difference in energetic capacity The power of women’s circles Why language matters In the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members Generational shifts and sexual soveriegnty Trans-inclusive language in women’s work Watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Join me for my online class Writing with Fire Resources Wild & Wise Period of Change Gather: a celebration of women’s circles Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy Burning Woman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E55
    May 5 · 54 min

    55: Shiloh Sophia - Intentional Creativity

    Shiloh Sophia is a painter, poet, and educator who has guided tens of thousands of women worldwide to chosen liberation through Intentional Creativity®. As legacy-keeper of the 100-year Stardust Lineage, she carries forward teachings passed hand to hand, heart to heart. She's the author of 8 books, architect of 9 certification programs, and a university educator. Most days you can find her having tea with her muse at Stardust Ranch in Northern California Www.stardustlineage.com This was recorded as part of the Burning Woman Conversations – watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Join me for my online class Writing with Fire We talked about: Intentional Creativity Symbology of the feminine Sacred feminine ritual creative practice Her literal baptisms of fire The Good Girl and creative blocks Nervous system privilege In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Shiloh’s work and how to overcome creative blocks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E54
    April 21 · 1 hr 6 min

    54: Jade Chung – Dancing in the Dark

    Jade Chung is a Spiritual Mentor, Somatic Healer, Intuitive, and Art Therapist known for her powerful transformational work. She integrates evidence based bodywork with spiritual ceremony and radical emotional healing to guide individuals through deep inner restructuring and embodied awakening. She works with heart centred humans who are ready to evolve beyond inherited patterns and outdated paradigms, and step into lives rooted in coherence, love, and lived purpose. She believes the most powerful contribution to collective consciousness begins with a devoted path of individual evolution. Website: https://www.jadechunghealing.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjadechung/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjadechung Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month and the video episode for $9/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce We talked about: The healing and integrative power of darkness and silence, and the fire of self-expression. Unmasking - as individuals and the collective unmasking of patriarchal culture. The Year of the Fire Horse and what it means. Our relationship with the Good Girl archetype. In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Jade’s work and explore Van Gogh’s vision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E53
    April 7 · 1 hr 15 min

    53: ALisa Starkweather - Women in Power

    ALisa Starkweather, visionary and facilitator, devoted four decades + to the work of the Sacred Feminine and women’s transformative leadership. She founded in 1998 her women’s mystery school, Priestess Path, the Women’s Belly and Womb conferences, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings, the global grassroots Red Tent (Temple) Movement and co-founded Women in Power initiations, uplifting the fierce feminine to confront predator energy through Shadow Work. Much of her work was purposefully undocumented for women to meet mystery in her containers, yet her influence is in the roots of much that grew from her devotion and those in her communities who gave immense lifeforce for our palpable rise. alisastarkweather.com We talked about: · Her role in my Burning Woman journey – and dancing naked around the bonfire. · Women in Power · Shadow work · Learning to trust your calling · Stepping into writing her book. Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month and the video episode for $9/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S5 · E52
    March 24 · 1 hr 10 min

    52: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli - Rise Up Rested!

    Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, she also trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery. Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra. Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy. Uma’s passion as a writer and as a teacher is to transmit clarity of awareness, creativity and profound vitality. She identifies these teachings as radical acts of rematriation, rooted in intuitive arts and in yoga tantra, drawing on a variety of yogic traditions to share deeply nourishing and enlivening practices appropriate for contemporary life. Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month and the video episode for $9/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce We talked about: Life force energy and the death cult of patriarchy Unlearning being a good girl The impact of the witch burnings. The connection between the colonisation of land and our bodies Reclaiming our intuition How and why she developed yoga practices that centred female bodies The importance of understanding that the System isn’t personal The transformative experience of home birthing her children How she’s navigating current times creatively In the Extended Episode from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce - Her baptism of fire: revealing abuse in the yoga community and the repercussions of this. - Kundalini and its relationship to the Burning Woman archeype Resources Burning Woman Bad Guru podcast Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra. www.yoganidranetwork.org/ www.patreon.com/umadinsmoretuli Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S4 · E59
    March 10 · 1 hr 10 min

    BETWEEN THE SEASONS BOOK: The Circle - Dave Eggers

    Lucy H. Pearce and Christine Rose discuss contemporary dystopian fiction - The Circle - on the Creative Magic Book Club. Listen to the Extended Episode for $3/ month or more at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce.com Join us for our next sesion where it's a reader Q& A for Burning Woman - May 12 on Zoom. Join for $6/ month or more at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce.com The Circle is for lovers of 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaids Tale - a tech utopia/ dystopia published in 2013, set in the near future. A clever examination of where we are going with social media and the dominance of likes and follower numbers. It makes you more conscious of the way tech is shaping our world, our interactions, our creative choices and our very selves, as you read you see it everywhere and can't unsee it. Available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and film starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Film available on Netflix and Prime. About the Book THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet 'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ... 'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair 'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian About the Author Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun. He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S4 · E57
    February 24 · 1 hr 36 min

    REPLAY: Dee Mulrooney - Creative Orgasms - Extended Episode

    Enjoy this full length extended episode from the vaults on the house! Receivemore bonus content and extended episodes, join the book club or the coven on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023. https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/ www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney *Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section around 15-22 mins* We talked about: The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture! Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism Art and activism Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain In the extended episode we discussed: The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised Imbas – the Irish insight Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to We mentioned: Empire podcast Burning Woman Tuam Mother and Baby Home The Babog project Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed Imbas Sile na gigs About your Host Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity. Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014. lucyhpearce.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S4 · E54
    January 27 · 1 hr 35 min

    REPLAY - Rima Staines: The Deeper You Go, The Wider The World Opens To You - EXTENDED EPISODE

    As I rest and begin to weave Season 5 of the podcast, here, for your listening pleasure is the most listened to episode of all time in its full extended format, remastered, for your listening pleasure. Did you know you can enjoy the extended versions of all Creative Magic episodes a week early as a paid Patreon member - so sign up now! Free Multi-Passionate Creative class January 27th – sign up here The Multi-Passionate Creative online course starts Feb 17th - early birds to Feb 2nd. Find out more...*** Creative Magic Book Club - Join us for our March read, The Circle by Dave Eggers www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Creative Magic Coven - Join us or upgrade - www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Rima Staines, a UK artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards. Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. She lives in the south of England. Links: www.rimastaines.com www.patreon.com/rimastaines Instagram: @tilsamka Facebook: facebook.com/rima.staines Follow Creative Magic on Instagram: @CreativeMagicPodcast Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook Womancaft Publishing We talked about Rima’s writing - Art and the Landscape of Belonging – join her Patreon to read The changes required at midlife Creativity and daily life a balance between desire and necessity The beauty of particular difference Her drive and need for authenticity The Otherworld and how we can access it Neurodiversity – Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome and autism. Motherhood and creativity Neurology and creative magic Her visual art which she describes as “Art in a minor key” Synaesthesia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S4 · E55
    January 23 · 7 min

    LIVE EVENTS - The Multi Passionate Creative

    Join me for this FREE introductory class to The Multi Passionate Creative on Tuesday January 27th, 7-8.15 pm UK time LIVE on Zoom. SIGN UP FREE NOW – and we will send you a recording the following day if you cannot make it live. https://tinyurl.com/2026MPCLucy The FREE class will cover: - What a multi passionate creative is. - Language and lenses for understanding ourselves as multi passionate creatives. - Common challenges and struggles. - The myths. - The reality. JOIN ME for the MULTI PASSIONATE CREATIVE ONLINE COURSE WEEK 1 – BEYOND OVERWHELM - strategies for core-self strength, learning what drive us, what nourishes us and how we can find our enough. WEEK 2 – BEYOND CHAOS -organising time, energy, information and resources so you can create your heart out and stay sane. WEEK 3 – BEYOND PROCRASTINATION moving from first ideas to finished projects. + Live classes + Lifetime access to recordings + Course slides + Reading list + Dedicated private Facebook group SIGN UP NOW CREATIVE MAGIC BOOK CLÚB - join now Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S4 · E53
    January 13 · 1 hr 14 min

    Nightbitch: : the raw reality of creative motherhood

    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 excerpts 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...*** We talked about: Creative mothers – the inherent struggles What we cannot talk about – the experience of motherhood and Writing new stories – our own stories Mothering in patriarchy Mammalian mothering Maternal rage Identity – loss of, finding it again through creativity Extended Episode just $3 at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce A deeper dive into identity The public body of mother and the artist’s need for time alone and secrecy Maternal inheritance and our maternal ancestors The feeling of loss of time and career Wanda 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 clubs www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce Resources Nightbitch The Rainbow Way The Artist’s Way All Fours Burning Woman Moods of Motherhood Crow Moon Motherhood Until Yesterday I’m a Writer But… About Rachel Yoder 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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