Creative Magic

A Between the Seasons book episode with friend of the pod, Christine Rose Elle.
Christine Rose Elle is an award-winning creativity coach turned fiction writer with a lifelong fascination with how women’s stories are told and the hidden lineage magic they hold. She is the author of several nonfiction books, including The Happy Empath: A Survival Guide for Highly Sensitive People. Christine holds degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Art History, an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. She explores the intersection of mystery, folklore, psychology, and spirituality. She studies Pagan Theology at Cherry Hill Seminary, reads tarot, collects ideas, and believes fairy tales still have quite a lot to tell us.
https://www.christineroseelle.com/
https://www.instagram.com/xtineroseelle/
https://www.patreon.com/cw/xtineroseelle

We discussed Sue Monk Kidd’s new book, Writing Creativity and Soul, alongside my own new book, Structuring the Soul of Writing.

We discussed:
· Writing with soul in age of AI
· Visiting the creative spaces of heroines
· Memoir writing
· Gendered experiences of creativity
· Therapeutic purpose of writing
· The importance of the empty space
· Our favourite writing and creativity books
In the Extended Episode (available on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce) we discuss:

Family legacies and creative nepotism
Plus extra quotes form the book
Video episode available on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Join us for the final Creative Magic Book Club of 2026 – The Change – Kirsten Miller – kickass menopausal magical realism.
November 12th 7-8pm UK time – Access via www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
We mentioned:
Creatrix: she who makes – Lucy H. Pearce
The Rainbow Way – Lucy H. Pearce
Big Magic - Liz Gilbert
Writing Creativity and Soul - Sue Monk Kidd
Structuring the Soul of Writing – Lucy H. Pearce
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd
Travelling with Pomegranates - Sue Monk Kidd
Walking with Persephone – Molly Remer
Bird by Bird – Anne Lammott
Ensouling Language – Stephen Harrod Buhner
Grit – Angela Duckworth
Wilder - Podcast about Laura Ingalls Wilder https://open.spotify.com/show/4HJG51uLJn19Fu86dImecu?si=6547329a206c49f6
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All Fours is a must read for all creative mothers and creative midlife women.
Join us for the next Creative Magic book club where we will be discussing Sue Monk Kidd's Writing, Creativity and Soul
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Preorder my new book - Structuring the Soul of Writing www.womancraftpublishing.com - Out everywhere mid September.

ABOUT THE BOOK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK
A BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIAN
A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, i-D, NYLON, VULTURE, READINGS
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTIONAL VOICES OF 2024 PICK

A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift - a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel - and embarks on the journey of a lifetime.
"It's very funny, quite dirty, and deeply profound, with a fragile magic that comes from entering an uncensored inner world. There is the added thrill as well, of July suggesting that midlife, and menopause in particular, might be kind of . . . hot" ― Observer

"Rage, grief, lust, sadness, selfishness; this stunning book and July's nameless heroine have it all. I cannot wait to read it all over again" -- GILLIAN ANDERSON

"A life-changer for me. I thought I was reading about middle age, then I thought I was reading about menopause, then motherhood, then sexuality, then monogamy, then marriage. And by the final page I realised I was reading about existence and death and I couldn't stop crying. Plus it's so funny and it's so horny. My favourite novel of this year" -- DOLLY ALDERTON
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her newest novel, All Fours, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, the Women’s Prize, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. July is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and one of TIME Magazine’s “100 most influential people of 2025.” Her other books include It Chooses You, The First Bad Man, and No One Belongs Here More Than You (winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award). Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.
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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

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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
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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

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Resources
Burning Woman

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