The Wild Goddess: The Art of Enchantment

Have we become so used to buying beautiful experiences, chasing the next big thing and trying to create the perfect life that we've forgotten how to find the magic in the one we're already living?In this episode of The Wild Goddess: The Art of Enchantment, I'm joined by Kalie Woolley, founder of Soul Sister Society and The Library, for a wonderfully honest conversation about everyday magic, romanticising your life, creativity and finding joy in the little things.We explore how our relationship with happiness and fulfilment can change when we begin looking beyond material things and start noticing the world around us. From collecting acorns on the way to work and admiring autumn trees to rediscovering childhood imagination, we talk about how small moments of wonder can make ordinary days feel so much richer.We also wander into the pressures of social media, consumerism, hustle culture and the idea that success must happen overnight. Kalie shares how her own spiritual journey has shaped her business, her growing connection with nature and the beautiful communities she's creating through her work.It's a conversation about following your curiosity, embracing what lights you up and remembering that an enchanted life is something we can cultivate in the everyday.So pop the kettle on and come and join us!In this episode, we explore:Romanticising your life without constantly spending moneyFinding everyday magic through nature, seasonal living and noticingConsumerism, social media and the pressure to have a picture-perfect lifeReconnecting with creativity and childhood imaginationFollowing your curiosity and allowing yourself to evolveLetting go of hustle culture and redefining successThe importance of community, connection and sharing a little more wonderIf you'd love to join Kalie's Winter chapter click here to find out more.Find out more about all her magical work and follow her journey over on Instagram @soul_sister_society 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

What would you pack if you were going away for a weekend with a badger?It's a wonderfully ridiculous question, isn't it? But when I asked it recently, the answers sparked something rather fascinating about imagination, creativity and how we experience wonder in everyday life.As children, we're encouraged to invent stories, play make-believe, ask endless questions and let our imaginations run wild. But somewhere along the way into adulthood, many of us begin to leave that playful curiosity behind.In this episode, we explore:Why imagination and creativity are important beyond childhood.How playfulness and curiosity can bring more wonder into everyday life.Whether we've become too reliant on ready-made entertainment.Why boredom can sometimes be the beginning of something wonderful.How small, imaginative questions can spark unexpected conversations and discoveries.Rediscovering the joy of creating something simply for the fun of it.This episode also marks a new chapter for The Wild Goddess Podcast, now The Art of Enchantment, where we'll be exploring creativity, storytelling, folklore, curiosity and the extraordinary wonders hiding within ordinary life.I'd love to hear your answer: What would YOU pack for a weekend away with a badger? Come and let me know over on Instagram.And if you enjoyed this episode, I'd love you to follow the podcast and share it with someone who could do with a little more wonder in their day. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

A short spoken nature musing about the little robin who visits my garden every day and the unexpected way birds have opened my heart to love and wonder.As he tilts his head and watches me from the branches, something softens. The stress I've been carrying eases, my jaw unclenches and for a few fleeting minutes the world falls away. In this gentle episode I reflect on why birds feel like such wise little companions, how watching them can calm an anxious mind and what it means to feel free from the mould we're expected to live in.Perfect for slow mornings, mindful moments, a cup of tea in the garden or whenever you need a breath of calm.A little reflection for you: next time you spot a bird, in your garden, on a walk or outside your window, pause and watch it for a minute. Notice how it moves and how your body feels as you watch, then ask yourself what this little visitor brings into your day.Topics: robins, garden birds, birdwatching, nature connection, slow living, mindfulness, stress relief, finding peace, wellbeing, nature writing. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

Do you ever feel on edge, waiting for the next ping? In this episode I share my poem Notifications, the Thief of Peace, a love letter to a childhood of street lights, house phones, muddy knees and frogs under lily pads, and then we talk about what constant phone notifications are really doing to our minds.I'm sharing some research showing that even an ignored notification pulls our attention away, how phone alerts can leave us feeling scattered and restless, and a surprising study on why batching notifications works better than switching them all off. Then we head outside with some research from the University of Derby on noticing the good things in nature, the lovely "awe walks" study, and why just two hours a week in nature is linked to better health and wellbeing. Most of all, this is an invitation to reclaim your peace, slow down, and rediscover the everyday enchantment that's still waiting just outside your door. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

A cosy fairy folklore story about wonder, friendship and finding your way back to the natural world.Mason, the little Ground-Bound fairy from the Hollow, has been best friends with Ellis, a boy from the village of Appledown, for five whole summers. But Ellis has started at the big school now, with a phone in his pocket, a group chat that never stops pinging and a lot of unspoken rules about what counts as babyish. The bird feeder hangs empty, the hedgehog goes hungry and the sunsets go unwatched.When Mason walks into the Elderwood to visit an old friend he finds some comforting words of hope & a reminder that wonder is still within us.Rooted in British folklore, the changing seasons and the magic of the everyday, this is a story for a slow evening, a digital detox or drifting off to sleep.You can find Masons first story on episode number 62More folklore, stories and handmade candles: thewildgoddess.co.uk 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

In the hedgerows of Mossvale, the hedgerow fairy Violet keeps a daisy named Deloris company through the last of the autumn rain. Deloris has heard every description Violet can give her of winter's frost, its icicles, its lace-spun cobwebs, but as an oxeye daisy, she'll never see a single one of them herself. When Violet brings a curious little snow globe to Edith, the ancient wise woman of the Wild Moors, an old magic offers Deloris one borrowed hour inside a winter that was never meant to be hers, and she comes back wanting a whole season of it.A folklore story about longing for the lives we weren't given, and the quiet work of learning to love the season we're actually in. Part of the Mossvale story world, rooted in British folklore, hedgerow magic, and the turning year. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

We live in a world where our screens are fighting for every second of our attention, and it's costing us more than we realise. In this episode, I'm talking about the art of noticing, and how consciously choosing to notice the small things around us can genuinely change your life.I share how noticing can help with decision making, how it can offer real relief in anxious moments, and how it gives you the space to breathe and think more clearly. We talk about why paying attention to the magic that's already around us, the changing light, the textures, the tiny everyday details, can lead to a richer, higher quality of life.If you've been feeling overwhelmed, distracted, or disconnected, this episode is an invitation to come back to yourself through the small, quiet magic of noticing. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

Isn't there something wonderfully comforting about a Sunday morning? In this short, cosy episode, I'm sharing an ode to slow living that i wrote. The lie-ins, the birdsong outside my window (hello, Whitey the robin 🐦), a cup of chai, and finally, that first Sunday roast of the season.We talk a lot about productivity, but not enough about the quiet joy of doing nothing at all. This episode is a gentle reminder to breathe in the gift of a slow Sunday. The woodland walks, the pocketful of pinecones and to let yourself simply be.A perfect listen for your own lazy morning, cup in hand.📖 This is a recording of my written version, An Ode to Sunday: On lie-ins, Whitey the robin, and a great roast, which is up on my Substack — link in show notes. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

A Lammas story from Mossvale. The wheat has turned to gold, the swifts are gathering above the Storywood, and in Brambleton, Indigo is baking the first loaf of the season.Step into the Vale on a hazy August day with golden fields, hay bales and the gratitude of a village breaking bread together. Meet Marmalade, Colin the Crow, Mabel Duskwood III & the ever-watchful Edith as Mossvale marks the turning of the wheel, that Lammas feeling of abundance & melancholy sitting side by side.This lovely story is an invitation. A moment to notice your own harvest this year, whatever shape it's taken, and to sit with it before the wheel turns towards the darker half of the year.If this story stirs something in you, Small Enchantments might be your next step. Daily folklore, seasonal wisdom & a gentle return to wonder, delivered straight into a cosy little corner of your day. Find out more at on the link below. 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess

This is a moment I have dreamed about for a very long time.Through the Hedge: Tales from Mossvale, my debut short story collection, is officially live on Amazon and I am sitting here with my physical copy in my hands and all the feelings in my heart.In this short but very heartfelt episode I'm sharing exactly how it has all felt, the emotion of holding your own book for the first time, the pride of pushing through the self doubt and the fear and the moments of wanting to give up, and what it means to finally believe in yourself enough to put something so personal out into the world.This book has been a journey of re-enchantment, of grief, of creativity and of trusting the process even when the path wasn't always clear. It started with a walk alongside a hedgerow in a place called Badger Dingle and grew into a world called Mossvale that I couldn't stop returning to.If you have a dream you've been putting off, something that lives quietly in the part of you that hasn't quite been given permission yet, I hope this episode reaches you today.Through the Hedge: Tales from Mossvale is available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.Find the book: Search Through the Hedge Kayleigh Priest on Amazon 🌿 Discover my books on folklore, small enchantment and daily noticing's here✨  The Snug is my free community, a cosy corner where I share stories, nature musings, folklore and seasonal living. Come and join us, there's always a seat by the fire. Click here to find out more. 📖 Prefer to read? My writings also live over on my Substack, The Wild Noticings. 🕯️ Experience story through scent. Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story.✨ Love the podcast? Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know.📲 Find me on Instagram @the.wildgoddess