Witch Sweat

Melissa Word
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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

  1. OCT 24

    Oh Gah the Visibility Wound: Being Creative and Navigating the Witness

    Ok my creative little gremlins, today we’re talking about BEING SEEN. Ahhh the terror! the allure! the yearn! the repulsion! We’re getting up underneath the complex layering of what it means to be successful by collective standards, and its requisite pressure to achieve widespread recognition, alongside genuine desires to be seen and acknowledged by many for your unique expression in the world. We’re unpacking the energetics of putting yourself out there and dispelling the judgements we might carry about both being seen and not being seen! We also discuss the devilish phenomenon I like to call the 'what’s the point voice’ that loves to plague the raw beginnings of a creative act, and how that inner antagonizer maps onto our fears about being witnessed.   Love the episode? Share with a pal you think would dig. OR leave me a review - your feedback means a lot around here 3   ✨Book a Creative Revival Session with Melissa 🪱Come to an in-person movement class in Atlanta Free Resources — Download Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on getting outta your head and into your body Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes 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

    42 min

  2. SEP 10

    Let Your Art Have Its Way With You aka Surrender Time, Baby

    Yikes ya’ll, sorry to say it but being out of control is just such a vital part of being more creative. It’s laying yourself at the feet of the MUSE, jugular exposed, giving up your Best Ideas to instead be ravaged by the strange unknowable force that is your true Creative Work. Buckle up and get cozy, we are getting freaking COMFORTABLE WITH UNCERTAINTY, and we’re doing it through the lens of creative practice. We explore the different and distinct flavors of uncertainty, and how to deal with each of them. We are flying our freak flags high in the name of improvisation, going with the doggone flowsky and unclenching our buttholes and tight gripped fists so that we can actually create something real and honest with our lives yippeeee so fun let’s go! Solo episode. A love letter to your weird little inner child artist. ilysm. 3 Get a Creative Revival Session with Melissa Free Resources — Download Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on getting outta your head and into your body Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes 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

    23 min

  3. AUG 20

    Just This Stitch w/ Nico and Mel

    A cross-posted conversation from Nico Wolf’s podcast Living Liminal, where Nico and Melissa chat about the intersection between ritual textile play, creative practice, and our Spirit work. They speak to the magic of hands, lost contexts of craft, and the necessity of the revival of recognizing the ways the Unseen world can inform the the gift of creative vision. They bring in threads from their upcoming collaboration Distaff Ways: A Threefold Alchemical Healing, Seership Training & Ritual Fiber Arts Exploration w/ the Wisdom of the Spinners & Weavers This collaborative offering starts online at the end of August and culminates with a 6 day in person artist in residency in Santa Fe, NM. This work is open to all levels of experience and genders.   Learn more about Distaff Ways here: https://www.schoolofliminalarts.com/distaff-ways and Nico Wolf   Book a 1:1 Creative Revival Session with Melissa   Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes 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

    1h 4m

  4. JUL 19

    Choreography of the Unseen Self with Stephanie Zaletel

    This week we’ve got LA-based dance artist/body wizard Stephanie Zaletel in the broadcast portal with us. GIVE THANKS! Church is served, honey! This episode is very much about the vital research of coming back home to yourself, your body and your essential creative voice, and the cost of not answering the call.  You KNOW we got up to some 12 step talk and wooooo baby the ancestral addiction to shame and emotional spirals that get lodged up in our tissues. Stephanie’s exquisite research on the nervous system and somatic practices of care work and co-regulation are unmatched. The way she talks about her research and outlets for group practice is nothing short of stunning. Get somewhere soft and low to the ground to tee this one up.   Learn more about Stephanie HERE Follow I Care About Your Body on IG Stephanie’s IG   Sign up for Melissa’s Scrap the Plan workshop in August!   Book a 1:1 Creative Revival Session with Melissa Free Resources — Download Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on getting outta your head and into your body Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes 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 Sound Clip: Magic Stars Retro Sparkle by smokinghotdog via freesound.org

    1h 21m

  5. JUN 13

    Dream Weaving and the Liminal Artistry of Nico Wolf

    This week we are buh-lessed to have Nico Wolf up in our radio sphere. She is a wizard of the healing arts, oracular arts, group ceremony, Earth wisdom ways, and Dreamwork. She is also herself a dreamboat, like an actual captain-facilitator of the boat that takes you to Dream World, and just a totally fascinating human to talk Spirit shop with. We discuss working with dreams in a devotional way, exploring group dream work, and understanding the role of dreams in shifting culture during unsettled times. Nico steeps us in the waters of liminal artistry - as in, becoming more and more literate in the wisdom of the cracks and in-betweens places within the web of known reality.   This episode will be a dang HOOT for anyone interested in: working with the language of Dreams as oracle, solace, and world-building material animist perspectives and interspecies relating water as a grief portal, water as a dream portal feeling like a spiritual or cultural orphan questioning the role of spiritual lineage when lifted out of land-based context the big ole tangle of white-bodied people grappling with their own severed indigeneity and raspberries as dream prophecy 📡 If you loooove this convo, go check out Nico’s gorgeous podcast Living Liminal 👽 Learn more about Nico’s upcoming workshops and how to work 1:1 with her HERE 🕸️ Nico’s IG 🤍 Book 1:1 Creative Coaching time with Melissa   Free Resources — Download Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on getting outta your head and into your body   Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes 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 🤍📡✨

    1h 27m

  6. MAY 7

    Tiddies in the Sun

    This week we’re talking breast lumps, the doom forecasting that comes with health scares and awaiting *results*, talking to angels, and our very good but mysterious pal SURRENDER. And, like, how to fall dizzyingly in love with the lumpy mess of reality precisely as it is right now.  Spoiler alert - I gotta clean bill of health, this is about the upgrade in consciousness we get when we let the stunning truth of our mortality have its way with us weeeeee    hey, I love you thanks for being here.   Book 1:1 Creative Coaching time with Melissa   Free Resources — Download Attention Reset - my free digital art zine on getting outta your head and into your body Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes 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

    28 min

  7. APR 21

    Talk to the Dang Spirit of Your Projects

    An episode for the artists, creatives and solo entrepreneurs out there who get bogged down by the idea of having to *do it all* all by your lonesome.  You've got other unseen forces up in your corner, who have your back, who are gassing you up and have secret lil intel to support your vision and work. Call them your guides, the angels, God, call them the indwelling consciousness of your projects and your art. Whoever they are, go talk to them, ok?? Momentum gathers rapidly when you enlist the *whatelseness* of reality as your collaborator. Enjoy 🤍🦋   Does your creative practice or movement practice need a surge of fresh energy? Get some 1:1 Creative Guidance time with Melissa   Free Resources — Download Attention Reset -a digital art zine on reviving your road-weary attention Stay Connected — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for juicy lil art memes  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

    28 min

  8. APR 5

    Locked Out of the Love Show // Lil Drips

    Oh lookie here, we are BACK baby. The AI bot that helped me audio engineer this episode thought it would be a good idea to title it "Savoring the Petite Droplets of Life Experiences" and they would be not wrong.   Listen to me try to make the parallel between the experience of fomo and an inflammatory yet very magical take on DEATH. Whoops another accidental episode on death stuff.  Sorry I'm congested here, when the mood strikes to press record, one jumps. The muse cares not for presence of phlegm.  ENJOY   Big thanks to Ben Coleman for composing our theme music, and Gavin Bernard for vocals and jingle wizardry on the outro   Book 1:1 Creative Guidance time with Melissa   Free Resources — Go download Attention Reset - my free and fun art zine on reviving your road-weary attention More — Follow Melissa’s Instagram for hot art memes Join Melissa’s weeklyish newsletter for musings and studio news

    22 min
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About

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

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  • Creator
    Melissa Word
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Witch Sweat

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