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rise up! good witch: self care as resistance
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self care is magic, resistance is power: using herbalism, tarot, self care, astrology, and radical community care to foster resilience in toxic capitalism. interviews with healers, artists, and activists. formerly hosted by corinna rosella, ru!gw has been adopted by fellow good witch, herbalist & comedian tavi elise for 2023 and beyond. weaving together stories & shared experiences in a loving container, with a dose of humor & skepticism to survive our current hellscape. let's create new worlds. to support the podcast & sign up for extra content: patreon.com/riseupgoodwitchremixx

  1. 01/21/2025

    Ep113 ~ re-envisioning revolution: pluto in aquarius with revolutionary astrologer kay, darling (pt 1)

    Today the collective is reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy–but this ep was recorded all the way back in November, the day before Pluto entered the sign of Aquarius (where it will stay for the next 19 years) so you know we talkin’ bout a capital R Revolution! Could we believe that Revolution is actually walking into a much more comfortable, easeful and loving way of being? How can community help us reconnect with our purpose, our magic, our strengths? As we witness our cruel and inefficient systems collapsing in real time during a violent power-grab, how can we more compassionately support each other through illness, climate change, disability? Grab a cup of something nourishing and strap in for part one of this in-depth, real-talk convo with revolutionary astrologer kay, darling of Cosmic Healing, as we tuck into these questions and much more.  We talk: embodied ethics and integrity in the spiritual and peer support realms, intersections of disability justice and liberation, the 2024 US election, and kay’s own journey with chronic illness and experiences as a Black refugee of the American empire. If you’re feeling freaked about 2025 and what’s to come, you’ll def want to tune into both parts of this lively ep for some solid wisdom and insight into how the outer, slower planets (like Pluto and Jupiter) can offer us hope, guidance and inspiration for the challenging paths we may have ahead of us. kay's links: https://linktr.ee/cosmichealingfam Cosmic Healing website: https://cosmichealing.addpotion.com/ To book a session with kay or erica: https://calendly.com/cosmichealingfam/ Care about Landback but haven’t paid any Reparations yet this month? Support our mutual aid sponsee, Black, trans & disabled-led moonpence farm!!: https://givebutter.com/moonpencefarm rise up! good witch: To book a Disability/Transition Doula service with Tavi: https://www.manateemedicinals.com/services Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a queer, disabled Black herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going into the future~ ⁠⁠www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx⁠⁠ Follow us on IG: @_riseupgoodwitch444 @manateemedicinals Learn more about me, and check out handcrafted small-batch herbal medicine at my apothecary: ⁠⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop

    Ep113 ~ re-envisioning revolution: pluto in aquarius with revolutionary astrologer kay, darling (pt 1)

  2. 11/30/2024

    Ep112: Strength is looking in the mirror: seeking truth and liberation in a strength card year

    Ep112: Strength is looking in the mirror: seeking truth and liberation in a strength card year In this moment of so much global pain and fear, how do we re-locate our bearings and connection to ourselves and each other? How do we combat the onslaught of disembodiment and interpersonal violence that capitalism uses against us? Where do we go from here? In this first solo episode of season 8, Tavi shares some contemplations, insights and practices for deeper self-reflection and grounding down into our own power and unique gifts in the post-election haze--and winding down of this Strength card year. Also mentioned: homophobia and racism in ohio v.s. oregon, living through the US’s cartoonish Pluto Return, and some very concrete reality checks and advice for yt folks who want to show up in more tangible ways. Herbal Medicine for Self-Care 101 Live Virtual Workshop DATE CORRECTION: Dec. 1st at 4pm PST Purchase sliding scale tickets here: https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop/workshops-and-classes rise up! good witch: Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a queer, disabled Black herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going into the future~ ⁠⁠www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx⁠⁠ Follow us on IG: @_riseupgoodwitch444 @manateemedicinals Learn more about me, and check out my handcrafted herbal medicine at my apothecary: ⁠⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop⁠⁠ Like this episode? I am always accepting tips to keep my magic flowin' via Cashapp or venmo: @TaviTime Episode Credits: Music clips in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit” Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites Editing: Tavi Waits

    Ep112: Strength is looking in the mirror: seeking truth and liberation in a strength card year

  3. 06/04/2024

    Ep111: what we owe each other, and the perceived paradox of the wounded healer

    Ep111: what we owe each other, and the perceived paradox of the wounded healer This solo episode is a sermon, a love letter, a call to action to resist psychic death for anyone who may be feeling isolated, hopeless, numb or despairing under the heavy weight of our current world. What (or who) determines which of us are worthy of care in this life? How can we move from a framework of toxic guilt, shame and individualism, to one of collective care and reciprocity? As Tavi shares, sometimes our darkest moments can open us up to the divine, universal experience of receiving and giving help.  “The work is plentiful…It is not your duty to finish the work [of healing the world], but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.” (Rabbi Tarfon, "Pirkei Avot" 2:15-16)  Virtual Sick and Disabled Craft and Zine Fair July 21st-27th: https://www.sadfair.com/ Rad Pride Abolition Market (Portland, OR) on June 29th location TBA: https://www.instagram.com/abolitionmarket/ Thank you to our sponsor, Simply Sol farms: https://www.simplysolfarmstore.com/ Get 10% off all products when you enter code “riseup10” at checkout–yes, they ship! :)  Operation Olive Branch: Pick a Palestinian family (or several) to support! EVERY donation helps!! Please share this with your socials. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/edit#gid=1653697245 Episode Credits: All longer music clips in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit” Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites Audio technician: Sasha Ell  Additional Editing: Tavi Waits rise up! good witch: Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a queer, disabled brown herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going into the future~⁠www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx⁠ Follow us on IG: @_riseupgoodwitch444 @manateemedicinals Learn more about me, and check out my handcrafted herbal medicine at my apothecary: ⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop

    Ep111: what we owe each other, and the perceived paradox of the wounded healer

  4. 04/16/2024

    ep110: jupiter in taurus, peer support, and fat liberation with Erica Joy

    What lessons can we learn about Fatphobia from the planet Jupiter while she moves through the sign of Taurus? Delightful Taurus Erica Joy of Cosmic Healing, is here to talk about how rest, community, stability, care, protection and comfort are more than self-care buzzwords, especially when viewed through the lens of Fat Liberation.  With a background in social work, Erica works in collaboration with their sibling kay darling via Cosmic Healing: a community-focused healing justice practice committed to facilitating holistic understanding and liberation through a therapeutic astrological lens. They are leading a 4-session Fat Liberation workshop series starting THIS week–for fat and non-fat folks alike! (non-fat folks, please sign up! You need this in your life :) )This group is not just about de-conditioning internalized fatphobia, ableism or racism, but also about actively building communities of care in intentional ways that nurture embodied connection. In this episode, we also unpack fatphobia and how it intersects with racism and ableism, as well as how it contributes to medical bias for patients in a world designed for thin bodies. Links: Sign up for the fat jupiter group (non-fat folks especially encouraged to apply via email through 4/20!) https://cosmichealing.addpotion.com/community-offerings Follow Erica on IG: @itsericafullajoy  https://linktr.ee/cosmichealingfam A Home For Our Dreams: Help support Ori Art Gallery’s revitalization campaign!! (donate $75 or more to receive a free 1-on-1 consultation with Tavi!) https://chuffed.org/project/yygjtfxdahr8eod Ori’s Website: https://oriartgallery.org/about-ori Books mentioned in this ep:  Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by ⁠Da’Shaun Harrison⁠ Thank you to our sponsor, Simply Sol farms: https://www.simplysolfarmstore.com/ Get 10% off all products when you enter code “riseup10” at checkout–yes, they ship! :)  Episode Credits: All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit” Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites Audio technician: Sasha Ell  Additional Editing: Tavi Waits rise up! good witch: Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a queer, disabled brown herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going into the future~⁠www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx⁠ Follow us on IG: @_riseupgoodwitch444   @manateemedicinals Learn more about me, and check out my handcrafted herbal medicine at my apothecary: ⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop⁠

    ep110: jupiter in taurus, peer support, and fat liberation with Erica Joy

  5. 03/30/2024

    ep109 resourcing resilience via ethical coaching with Cara Kovacs

    Cara Kovacs is an empowerment coach creating a culture change within the business realm. With magical witchy foundations, an intersectional feminist approach, and a values-aligned methodology, we talk all about how cara came to find her voice and locate her own ethics and practices in a coaching industry that has a bit of a reputation for being predatory or exploitative towards clients. We also dig into the distinctions between why someone might want to work with a coach v.s. a therapist, our own experiences with shifting needs in therapy, how embodiment is crucial to any work that seeks to change how we exist in this world (including business, therapy and more), and how Cara’s witchy family roots have helped to shape and inform her spiritual path while infusing her client work with magical undertones. You can follow her on Instagram @carakovacscoaching & learn more about her work at carakovacs.com Cara’s upcoming Ethical Business Incubator (Late April 2024): https://carakovacs.mykajabi.com/Ethical-Sales-Incubator Thank you to our sponsor, Simply Sol farms: https://www.simplysolfarmstore.com/ Get 10% off all products when you enter code “riseup10” at checkout–yes, they ship! :)  Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a disabled brown herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project moving forward & expanding!~www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx Follow us on IG: @_riseupgoodwitch444 @manateemedicinals Learn more about me, and check out my handcrafted herbal medicine at my apothecary: ⁠https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop⁠ Episode Credits: All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit” Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites Audio engineering: Sasha Ell  Additional Editing: Tavi Waits

    ep109 resourcing resilience via ethical coaching with Cara Kovacs

  6. 03/02/2024

    ep108 pandemic solidarity for the long future with Gata aka the Bureaucratic Baddie

    you're in for a treat! Gata (she/they) is a Queer Afro Caribeña Angry Feminista, and c0vid cautious baddie with a maskie. She created the Bureaucratic baddie series of online workshops: how to file your taxes, how to sue your landlord, and how to sue pretty much any person, government agency, or corporation in the state of CA.  Gata and Tavi talk about the "still-coviding" life, intersections of race, ableism, imperialism and cultural disposability in our current reality, her work on the upcoming virtual Pandemic Solidarity For the Long Future event for BIPOC, and how collective liberation can only be brought about via dedicated community care. Gata also shares about their experience shifting from a merch-based small biz (remember "men are trash" and "femme labor is not free"?) to her current work teaching community education workshops in California and beyond. In one of the biggest surges ever, 2,000 people are dying from Covid in the US per week right now! Wear a mask, y'all! Learn more about and register for the PS4LF conference (free to attend!) March 8-10th, 2024: Pandemicsolidarity.org Gata’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bbaddie Gata’s IG : https://www.instagram.com/gata_the_baddie/ Gata’s Linktree (free covid resources & more!): https://linktr.ee/gata_the_baddieDIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box: https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/ Schedule a peer support consultation with Tavi! Use code "riseup15" for $15 off any appointment when booking. https://www.manateemedicinals.com/services Music in this episode by Given Davis of Blooming Fire Healing--thank you Given! Audio Engineering by Sasha Ell, editing by Tavi Waits

    ep108 pandemic solidarity for the long future with Gata aka the Bureaucratic Baddie

  7. 01/31/2024

    ep107 elemental alchemist creators Nyasha Williams and Grace Banda

    The Universe is speaking. Are you listening? Do you know how to?  This first episode of 2024 invites you on an international conversational journey to slow down, tune in and get grounded, with sisters and co-authors, Nyasha Williams and Grace Banda. These creators have blessed us with Elemental Alchemist: a bright, bold, and de-colonial oracle deck and guided journal set that seeks to guide us lovingly along our paths towards connection with the 5 elements (including Spirit), our Earth, each other, our ancestors, and ultimately our own bodies, minds and spirits. We get into:  -exactly how we can use these powerful tools for greater connection  -the often messy journey of reconnecting with our ancestral roots and practices that were stripped, severed and obscured from us in so many ways as colonized and historically oppressed people -How African Traditional Religious practices have simultaneously been co-opted and exploited by hollywood and appropriation, yet have also morphed, masked, or changed over time by being woven into different Black cultural "quirks" or "superstitions" in the US -The roles that elders and ancestral veneration can play in our growth and spiritual sense of self -Some of the work that yt people can do to navigate their own ancestral work around historical legacies of harm/shame/guilt/oppression Elemental Alchemist Oracle Deck and Guidebook: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elemental-Alchemist-Oracle-Deck-and-Guidebook/Nyasha-Williams/9781524880132 Elemental Alchemist Guided Journal: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elemental-Alchemist-Guided-Journal/Nyasha-Williams/9781524880149 Nyasha’s website–writing to change the narrative: https://www.nyashawilliams.online/ Grace's Website-- https://www.authorgcbanda.com/ Donate & share to support Nyasha’s BIPOC-centered publishing press startup, Fire and Honey Press : “A digital publishing honeycomb creating toward collective liberation.” https://www.nyashawilliams.online/fireandhoneypress Learn more about illustrator Kimishka in this interview: https://www.nyashawilliams.online/post/illustrator-interview-meet-kimishka-naidoo-black-tarot-elemental-alchemist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month) to support a disabled Black herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx Always accepting tips via Cashapp: $TaviTime If you’re not able to join right now, that’s okay! There’s lots of ways to support me and this show.  For my current apothecary offerings including tinctures, bath salts, herbal body care and pain management tools, check out my webshop at: https://www.manateemedicinals.com/shop Credits: All music in this episode by Given Davis from their album, “The Way Be Lit” Given’s Writing & Creative work: IG @givendaviswrites Audio editors: Sasha Ell & Tavi Waits

    ep107 elemental alchemist creators Nyasha Williams and Grace Banda

  8. 10/28/2023 ·  Bonus

    ep106: a quilt of memories and mysticism with kelli frances corrado

    Kelli Frances Corrado (She/Her) is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, teaching artist and occasional visual artist, “a quilt of memories and mysticism.” In this special musical episode of ru!gw, we delve into Kelli’s unique approach to music-making and field recording, the relationships between music, creativity and physical and emotional space, how kelli weaves various self-care practices and rituals into her life and artmaking practices, our shared deep musico-aesthetic love of Bjork, and how kelli’s life trajectory was changed forever by a spectral spiritual connection with her late Bohemian Czech grandmother. Listen through to the very end of this episode for a special sonic treat from Kelli’s most recent album ;)🌝 Happy Halloween and Free Pal3stine!!! Opening song “What Direction is Heaven on Earth” and closing song “Revenge of the Shepherdess” from Kelli’s 2021 album, Tuff Feathers Audio engineering on this episode by: Sasha Ell Links from this episode: Kelli’s Bandcamp Kellifrancescorrado.com Sign up for Under the Fig Tree free newsletter Learn more about Kelli’s unique music classes and lessons in creativity–get a discounted holiday special rate through 1/10/2024! Female Pressure network (a publicly accessible source of information, a means of communication and a tool to disclose the existence and the work of women*, non-binary, transgender and gender fluid people in this seemingly cis-male dominated field.) Take easy actions TODAY to demand a ceasefire against Gaza & support Palestinians against genocide!!  via: Jewish Voice for Peace US campaign for Palestinian rights 5 ways you can support Palestinians in Gaza “Seventy+ Years of Suffocation” Consumer Boycott of these products: BDS get involved Tavi's herbal medicine apothecary shop: www.manateemedicinals.com/shop Join the Patreon (for as low as $2/month!) to support a disabled Jewish BIPOC herbalist and keep the rise up! good witch project going: www.patreon/com/riseupgoodwitchremixx

    ep106: a quilt of memories and mysticism with kelli frances corrado
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self care is magic, resistance is power: using herbalism, tarot, self care, astrology, and radical community care to foster resilience in toxic capitalism. interviews with healers, artists, and activists. formerly hosted by corinna rosella, ru!gw has been adopted by fellow good witch, herbalist & comedian tavi elise for 2023 and beyond. weaving together stories & shared experiences in a loving container, with a dose of humor & skepticism to survive our current hellscape. let's create new worlds. to support the podcast & sign up for extra content: patreon.com/riseupgoodwitchremixx

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    rise up! good witch: self care as resistance
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
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