Creative Magic

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.

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A brief look at all the creative magic coming up in January

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...***
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A seasonal round up from Lucy – her highlights of Season 4 and looking ahead to our next Between the Seasons Book Specials.
As well as snippets from a festive conversation with friend of the pod, witchy author, Sarah Robinson as we share how we celebrate Christmas and some of our favourite Christmas traditions – all things mince pies, cranberries and Christmas trees.

In the Extended Episode – there’s oodles more from just $3/ month on Patreon
We talk Christmas wreaths
Hygge
Plus bonus Seasonal extracts from the book that we co-authored – The Kitchen Witch Companion.
Resources
Join the Book Club on Patreon
The Kitchen Witch Companion
Sarah’s autumn episode – Magical Wanders
Pam Grossman’s episode
Womancraft Publishing Submissions
Sign up for my new free class: The Multipassionate Creative

About Sarah
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 and the Wildwood and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairy tale. 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 epsidoe in Season 3, as well as discvoer some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on Patreon – for $6/ month.

Join her for her Masterclasses live on Zoom on October 29th and November 5th.

Find Sarah online:
Website: www.sentiayoga.com
Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry
Podcast: Witch Country
Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson

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Dr Tracy Breathnach is an Irish author, speaker and somatic performance artist, based in the UK, exploring heart-centred living and loving. The main themes of her work are intimacy, authenticity and aliveness. She has worked extensively across arts, community and education settings, primarily in the UK for over 25 years, as well as now offering transformational coaching and mentoring to clients around the world.
In November 2025, she launched her first non-fiction book called In Other Words Love, Learning to intimately love our lives. The material is also offered as an e-course available online: Words for Love.
Tracy’s practice as research PhD (University of Aberystwyth, 2018) explored identity, narrative and trauma in autobiographical birth-storytelling. Following this she developed a project called ‘Birth Café’ with People Speak Up in west Wales to create a space for women to share their birth stories from their bodies.
Tracy is a highly experienced freelance consultant in Culture, Health and Wellbeing and most recently worked as the Programme Manager for Wales Arts, Health & Wellbeing Network. She has led on the award-winning Wales-wide artists’ wellbeing programme How Ya Doing? for WAHWN, as well as several arts programmes for staff wellbeing in health boards.
www.tracybreathnach.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/trebreathnach
Insta: http://www.instagram.com/trebreathnach @trebreathnach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tracy-breathnach-13113133/
To buy the book In Other Words Love: https://amzn.eu/d/e0sGyUS

We talked about
Soul friends - anam cara.
The soul path and following your bliss
Trauma and agency
Surrender, creativity and birth
Law of Attraction
Writing her book
Being a writer who loves feedback and sharing via performance

In the Extended Episode - 2 hours long
Working together teaching Burning Woman
Soul and masking
Resourcing – what it is, how it works and how to do it
How we can set ourselves up for peace and creativity in the midst of the current political and economic climate

Resources
Burning Woman
Medicine Woman
Benedict Cumberbatch
Gina Martin
Her new book, In Other Words Love
Jules Heavens
Joan Davies
NLP
IEMT
Authentic Movement
Mary Daly

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Essie Jain is an English singer and songwriter, who has been performing and recording music for over two decades. Her songs have traveled far and wide out into the world and gently weaved themselves into the fabric of people’s lives, daily healing practices and stories. She has almost 600K monthly listens on Spotify.
Essie often works alongside her husband, guitarist and long term collaborator Patrick Glynn, for both recordings and live performances. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter Opal.
Most recently, Essie and Patrick made an album of folk songs together, The Rose In Bloom, which was released on March 7th, 2025
Her website Instagram
Essie on Spotify
We talked about:
· Holding space for people’s responses to our work and boundaries
· Creative collaboration with our partners
· Music and healing
· Making a living as a creative
· Founding an indie label

In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
· How creativity prepares us for the challenges of parenting
· Betting the house on your creativity
· Channelling the energies of death into music
Resources Mentioned
Creatrix: she who makes
Big Magic – Liz Gilbert
Songs Featured in this Episode
O, I Love You – from Until the Light of Morning
I’m Not Afraid of the Dark– from Until the Light of Morning
The Healing from As I Return
The Blessing from As I Return
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