Let's be real, gentle parenting is way harder and way less fun than any of us were expecting. “The kids are finally asleep. I'm exhausted, overwhelmed, and stressed out. The house is a mess. That thing for work is coming up. I didn't think life was going to be like this.” “I lost my temper too many times, I tried so hard to be patient but I was on edge all day. I didn't think life was going to be like this.” Feel familiar? This is hand-in-hand parenting burnout and if you can relate, you are ...
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A bi-weekly podcast on all manner of magic, occultism, and folklore, from learned traditions of grimoires and astrology to the folkways of traditional witchcraft and herbalism around the globe. Hosted by Sfinga, Salt, and B. Key of the "With Cunning & Command" blog, bringing you all the same passionate exposition with far more mischief and devilry! Every two weeks, we bring you a folkloric deep-dive into an element of traditional magic to better enrich your knowledge base, a practicum on mag ...
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In this episode, we discuss showing self-compassion for our hurt parts. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. W…
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Animist Immersion with Albert Björn Shiell
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Sfinga and B. Key are joined by the incredible Albert Björn Shiell, witch, sorcerer, and student of English and Icelandic folk magical traditions. Albert goes over his experience studying oral and literary traditions of Icelandic magic, and muses on the nature of integrating into not only a new culture and language, but a foreign country's animist …
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In this episode we are discussing if you are highly sensitive. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am …
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In this episode we are discussing a deeper hurt. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with my th…
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Sfinga and B. Key cover the 44 pentacles of the Key of Solomon, their construction, uses, and personal tips, tricks, and innovations they've gleaned from their experiments. The Dragon and Owl discuss at length the various ways in which the planetary pentacles can be used across the sorcerous board, as well as the magical implications of matching on…
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Dutch Folk Magic with Caspar, De Duivelbanner van Overijssel
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Dear friend and discerning sorcerer Caspar, also known as De Duivelbanner van Overijssel, joins the hosts to chat all things Dutch folk magic. In addition to discussing the diversity of Dutch folk practitioners, what duivelbanners are, differences between Protestant and Catholic traditions, and types of spirits one may encounter, the gang explores …
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In this episode, we are discussing the obsessive mind. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with…
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When Stress Hijacks Us: Navigating with Mindful Meditation
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In this episode, we discuss Mindful Meditation and how it can help us when stress comes along. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with cou…
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Salt opens the floor on the grounding elements of magical healing and sorcery in health. Exploring the logics of oral charms, Galenic medicine, and medical astrology, he leads the gang through a round table discussion of the key principles of protecting and nurturing long-term health in one's spiritual practice—through all holistic means, magical a…
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In this episode, we discuss our judgment about a feeling, known as the Second Arrow. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and i…
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Managing Stress Amidst the Riptide of Emotions
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In this episode, we discuss managing stress amidst the Riptide of Emotions. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individual…
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Law Stay Away and Magical Resistance
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B. Key brings the fire to passionately advocate for the use of magic in anti-fascist resistance. After a brief overview of some of the most critical Supreme Court cases that have eroded civil liberties in the United States, Key provides a miscellany of sorcerous workings to resist the state, evade the law, and protect our communities—especially tho…
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In this episode, we will be discussing Perfectionism. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with …
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In this episode, we are talking about social support for depression. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When…
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Birth Omens and Witch Marks with Rose Aurora
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Sorceress, Fairy Seer, Trollkvinne, and dear friend of the show Rose Aurora returns for a discussion about the various signs that manifest in clusters at birth, puberty, and beyond to delineate proclivities for certain kinds of magical pacts. We cover questions concerning lack of free will and choice, what does having "the gift" entail across our c…
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Struggling to be present is what is discussed in this episode. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am …
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OVERCOMING PARENTING TRIGGERS WHEN FEELING STUCK
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This episode is about overcoming parenting triggers when feeling stuck. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. W…
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Sfinga leads the gang through a survey of the counter-magical tactics employed by witch bottles. From Blagrave’s "Astrological Practice of Physick" all the way to Harry Middleton Hyatt's collections on hoodoo and conjure, the Dragon, Wolf, and Owl engage in some quick maths: early modern humoural theory + pins + heat + a witch's bladder = an absolu…
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This episode is about being in a negative thought spiral. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not w…
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PLAYFUL PARENTING: NAVIGATING SIBLING FIGHTS
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This episode is about playful parenting and navigating sibling fights. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. Wh…
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After six months of continuous labour, Sfinga and B. Key at last unveil as much as can be said publicly about their profound experience pilgrimaging to the Sanctuary and Rock of the Goddess of Love's birth. Pouring their hearts out in celebration of a theophany, numerous physical manifestations of spiritual presence, remarkable omens of nature, and…
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FLIPPING THE SCRIPT ON YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIOR
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This episode is about flipping the script on your child's behavior. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When …
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This episode is about parenting challenges, loving our kids BUT struggling to like them. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples a…
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Alchemy and Spiritual Perfume with Austin Fuller
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This week we welcome diviner, perfumer, and conjurer Austin Fuller of BanexBramble and the Southern Bramble podcast. Austin joins Sfinga and B. Key in a heartfelt and riotous discussion on perfume and spiritual colognes, from their creation under the auspices of alchemical patrons to their use in glamour, sorcery, and the activation of spirits. We …
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This episode is about embracing guilt. Guilt and remorse are helpful emotions that support us in changing behaviors that no longer serve us. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who speci…
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This episode is about finding self-compassion in the shame-spiral. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I…
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The Book of the Images of the Twelve Hours of the Night
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B. Key introduces the gang to his experiments with the aptly-named Book of the Images of the Twelve Hours of the Night. Beginning with an overview of the text itself and then diving deep into the properties of each associated talismanic image, the Owl goes over his personal experiences with the spirits and their manifestations, personal application…
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This audio essay discusses how you can use mindfulness to observe your own anxiety. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and in…
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Hodie et Cras: The Feast of St. Expedite with Mahigan Saint-Pierre
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Mahigan Saint-Pierre of Kitchen Toad joins us once again to celebrate the feast of our most beloved Saint Expedite! We giggle about our formative experiences with the martyr, reminisce on baking late night pound cakes after our petitions manifested even more quickly than we'd dreamed, and ponder why Mahigan's statue of the saint looks exactly like …
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Feeling like we are not doing enough and the stories we tell ourselves. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. W…
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Daji and Chinese Fox Worship with Red Hu
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Sorceress, diviner, and Chinese folk magic practitioner Red Hu leads the gang through the story of Daji, the intelligent, sadistic, and supernaturally seductive fox spirit who allegedly brought about the fall of the Shang dynasty. We cover her legend from Xu Zhonglin's "The Investiture of the Gods," discuss the survival of Chinese fox cults and fol…
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Navigating the complexity of tunnel vision and rigid expectations. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I…
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It's hard to ask for help, but you do not have to suffer in silence. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When…
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Spiritual Hygiene and Sympathetic Magic
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What lies at the heart of the concept of spiritual hygiene and what implications does it pose for sympathetic magic? Salt leads the team through an exploration of the relationship between different notions of ritual purity and spirit communion, a topic so often misconstrued with notions of morality, strict orthodoxy, and personal worth. Support us …
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Finding support and resources to help stop burnout. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with my…
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How stress can cause us to work harder, not smarter. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with m…
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The gang explores the ins and outs of offering protocols, from divination to presentation to disposal. The Dragon, Wolf, and Owl dive deep in consideration of when to make them, what to give, how different actions and foods influence spirits during workings, and how to clean up and dispose of weekly treats and lavish annual feasts alike. Support us…
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Remaining "stuck" in reactive patterns and tools to help. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not w…
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Why do meditation teachers talk about impermanence? Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with my…
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B. Key leads the gang through an exploration of what to do when your magic doesn't work out the way you intend. From partial successes to outright roadblocks in materia, technique, taglocks, or spiritual sabotage, the Owl provides a thorough account of how to keep your wits sharp and your spells sharper. Support us on patreon.com/TheFrightfulHowls …
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Navigating the normality of bad days and bad moods. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not with my…
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Applying compassionate mindfulness in everyday planning. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and individuals. When I am not wi…
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Planetary Conditions in Traditional Astrology
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Salt brings out his astrological cunning to explain the importance of planetary conditions and necessity. Explaining the underlying implications of angularity, aspects and zodiacal shares, the Wolf explores how different contexts shape condition in the astrological figure. Support us on patreon.com/TheFrightfulHowls and follow us at twitter.com/Fri…
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It’s normal to not like difficult emotions or being stuck in states, such as anxiety and depression. At the same time, these experiences are a part of us and can become some of our greatest strengths. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Sup…
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“What am I supposed to do with all of this anger? My body feels like it might explode. No amount of breathing is going to call me down.” These emotions are what my kids call BIG EMOTIONS. Listen for tips on Regulating Big Emotions. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Em…
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Encountering the Djinn with J.M. Hamade
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Astrologer, artist, author, and fellow podcaster J.M. Hamade of "starnightdwell" joins the gang for an exceptionally thoughtful conversation on the hidden djinn. From literary motifs in Qur'anic scripture, Arabic grimoires, and the One Thousand and One Nights to the trance possession rituals of Zār and Gnawa cults, J.M. provides a vivid and articul…
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I tend to rigidly grasp onto things with a death grip. Meditating is no exception. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and ind…
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This audio essay discusses parenting from a place of shame and discovering the road to self-compassion. Helping burned out parents find inner calm and compassion. Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist Supervisor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy…
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Kitsune-tsuki, Fox Familiars, and Witchcraft Politics in Japan
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Sfinga explores some of the historical, anthropological, and medical scholarship on the phenomena of kitsune-tsuki: fox spirit possession or "attachment". From Meiji Period medical and religious reforms to the anxieties of socio-economic upheaval in villages, the Dragon considers culturally-negotiated categories of "madness" and trance, the politic…
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MEDITATION: A SOLUTION TO BEING TRIGGERED BY OUR KIDDOS
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Listen to this audio essay to hear about Michelle's personal journey with meditation and how meditation might be a helpful parenting tip for you, too. "I had experimented with meditation on and off for several years, I knew the research was solid, and that meditation had awesome benefits if I could just get myself to sit down and do it. Then one da…
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