Witch Sweat

Welcome to Witch Sweat ~ conversations on the body, intuition, creative practice and spiritual self-inquiry. Jolts of inspiration! Hype sauce for a more expressed life! We’re talking about what it takes to unfurl the wingspan, and feel more life pouring through the parts of ourselves that otherwise stay squished and hidden. Follow @melissawordstudio on Instagram for more juicy word-art-play and subscribe to Witch Sweat for new weekly episodes. Music by Ben Coleman Album art by Erin Palovick

Episodes

Aug 29, 2023

21 min

Mel takes us on a journey through the imagination and the realm of the ancestors, sharing a visualization tool for connecting to the big, fun resource that is your kindreds on the other side of the veil.
Beginners and skeptics welcome!
This is not about talking to dead people in a mediumship kind of way, but more like tippy-tapping on the back screen door of the ~beyond~ and recognizing that we really aren’t ever alone. We have a team of guides that want to play, and we aren’t expected to slog through life all by our lonesome.
It’s really just a matter of what we’re paying attention to…
We alsoooo talk about why you might feel shame, indifference, or avoidance altogether in connecting to the ancestors. Let's get into it! 
 
Book 1:1 Creative Guidance time with Melissa
Free Resources —
Check out Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on reviving your road-weary attention
Stay Connected —
Follow Melissa’s Instagram for podcast updates
Join Melissa’s weeklyish newsletter for creative musings and studio news
Big thanks to Ben Coleman for composing our theme music, and Gavin Bernard for vocals

Aug 29, 2023

21 min

Aug 21, 2023

1 hr 13 min

What a death midwife-performance artist has to say about the habit of palatability. It miiiiight be killing you.
The cultural program of *making other people more comfortable over authenticity* gets parsed out as Melissa and Narinder yuck it up and talk about the role of the sacred clown in society, the shadow side of performing your very likable personality, and what it takes to get thyself free from the program of living small. Buckle up baby, there are tears, there are spicy rebukes, there are confessions! Let's go!
Thank you for listening, we love that you’re here.
🖤
More about our guest —
Narinder’s Instagram
Narinder’s Website
Mentioned in the episode—
Cathy Heller's Instagram
Free Resources —
Check out Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on reviving your road-weary attention
Stay Connected —
Follow Melissa’s Instagram for podcast updates
Join Melissa’s weeklyish newsletter for creative musings and studio news
Big thanks to Ben Coleman for composing our theme music, and Gavin Bernard for vocals

Aug 21, 2023

1 hr 13 min

Aug 21, 2023

1 hr 15 min

This week we are graced by fitness-pole star-movement legend Marlo Fisken, who is one of the most delightful, goofy, generous humans I know.
We talk about the ways she empowers people to have more creative and unconventional relationships to their body and movement, and her tools for bringing as much play as possible into her world as an aid for doing hard things and disrupting the status quo. This conversation lit me all the way up. Marlo offers much inspiration and many delicious tools. Get into it!
 
More about our guest —
Marlo’s Instagram
Marlo’s Website
 
Free Resources —
Check out Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on reviving your road-weary attention
Stay Connected —
Follow Melissa’s Instagram for podcast updates
Join Melissa’s weeklyish newsletter for creative musings and studio news
Big thanks to Ben Coleman for composing our theme music, and Gavin Bernard for vocals
we love you, thank you for listening 🖤
 

Aug 21, 2023

1 hr 15 min

Aug 13, 2023

1 min

This is the beginning of something. Let's gooooooo
 
Music by Ben Coleman - find more of his music at Ben Coleman Sounds on bandcamp
Vocals by Gavin Bernard - he does not want to be found anywhere, enjoy this rare encounter with his baritone dulcetness 

Aug 13, 2023

1 min

Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.

Podcast Powered By Podbean

Version: 20241125