What Is a Witch?

With Halloween right around the corner, Ashley is asking a question that stopped her in her tracks during a recent coaching call: what is a witch?

Most of us grew up with the pointy hat, the cape, and the cauldron. We also inherited the history of women being silenced, punished, and burned for being different. That’s the witch wound. But Ashley’s coach invited the group to go beyond the wound and step into the greatness of the witch, and what came through for Ashley was a vision of a lighthouse and a simple message: follow the light back and you will come home to yourself.

In this episode, Ash shares her own definition of a witch, why she believes witchiness is a spectrum, and how disowning your gifts is just another way of disowning your truth. She also gets honest about the shame she has carried around her intuitive abilities, the reactions she has received from people whose beliefs differ, and the conversations she has had with God about it all.

This is a Halloween episode for anyone who has ever hidden their magic to keep other people comfortable.

In this episode:

• The question that made Ashley stop and pause: what is a witch?
• The difference between the witch wound and stepping into the greatness of the witch
• The lighthouse vision and its message: follow the light back and you’ll come home to yourself
• Why witchiness is a spectrum, just like autism or ADHD
• How feeling disconnected from yourself can come from not using your gifts
• Why disowning your magic is disowning your truth, and how that ties back to shadow work
• Ashley’s experience being told her gifts are demonic, and how she responds
• Why people hide their gifts out of shame, yet get curious the second you mention them
• Her definition: a witch is anyone who steps into their power in any form, whether healing, analyzing, music, or cooking
• Why making soup, herbal remedies, and holistic living are witchcraft too
• The question to carry with you: will you step into your power and let yourself shine?