Witch Sweat
by Melissa Word
Latest episode
Facilitation in the Age of Shock w/ Narinder Bazen
Facilitation in the Age of Shock w/ Narinder Bazen
About this podcast
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.
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Music by Ben Coleman
Album art by Erin Palovick
Episodes
The newest 20 of 24 episodes
- Facilitation in the Age of Shock w/ Narinder Bazen · 1 h 40 min · Episode 24"Facilitation is triage now" -NB What does it mean to lead group spaces in a world that feels increasingly raw, volatile, and grief-saturated? Melissa and Narinder sit down as…
- The Mystic's Grief with Narinder Bazen · 1 h 14 min · Episode 23When you find yourself more and more interested in non-ordinary states of consciousness and cultivating a deep relationship to Divine Intelligence, but have spent a dizzying…
- Creative Blocks and the Artist's Grief Q+A - pt.1 · 57 min · Episode 22Oh lordy this is a big one for my artists and creative folk. I asked my audience on IG to name some of the grievances they carry having chosen the artist's life, or from not…
- Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Hands · 49 min · Episode 21A rebroadcast of a workshop I led recently on the power of moving grief and worry and anxiety out of the body through the exit route of the hands. Grief does not love to be…
- Is it Anxiety or Is It Life Grief? · 31 min · Episode 20Is it Anxiety or is it Life Grief? Solo episode dive into the difference between life grief and death grief. Thank GOD we are developing some maturity about the difference. I…
- Your Guides Wanna Chat w/ Psychic Medium Caroline Brown · 1 h 34 min · Episode 19Buckle up, baby, we’re jumping into the fascinating world of psychic medium Caroline Brown. Cherished by many for her incredible mediumship abilities, Caroline shares her journey…
- Oh Gah the Visibility Wound: Being Creative and Navigating the Witness · 42 min · Episode 18Ok 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…
- Let Your Art Have Its Way With You aka Surrender Time, Baby · 23 min · Episode 17Yikes 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…
- Just This Stitch w/ Nico and Mel · 1 h 4 min · Episode 16A 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…
- Choreography of the Unseen Self with Stephanie Zaletel · 1 h 21 min · Episode 15This 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…
- Dream Weaving and the Liminal Artistry of Nico Wolf · 1 h 26 min · Episode 14This 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…
- Tiddies in the Sun · 28 min · Episode 13This 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…
- Talk to the Dang Spirit of Your Projects · 28 min · Episode 12An 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…
- Locked Out of the Love Show // Lil Drips · 22 min · Episode 11Oh 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…
- Rejection Medicine: Artists, Institutions, and Empire w/Jimmy Joyner · 1 h 32 min · Episode 10Jimmy and Melissa air some things OUT. We’re talking about the cost of an unexpressed life. We’re talking about the cost of wrangling our true voices to be more palatable to…
- Not Collapsing When the World’s Heart Breaks Open · 44 min · Episode 9In this episode, we look at what’s happening in G@za, specifically through the lens of social media, and the forces that want to keep us skewing towards nervous system collapse…
- Death Stuff, Grief Stuff, and the Gods in the Ground · 51 min · Episode 8An episode for people who wanna get into the loving mystery and magic of death, dying and grief work. In this solo show, Melissa shares a story from a recent encounter with a…
- Intergalactic Masculinity w/ Hez Stalcup · 1 h 16 min · Episode 7We are in search of more imaginative expressions of masculinity - in ourselves and in the world, who tf is with us?? Let’s get into the energy of the nourishing and…
- The Holy Fire of Other People’s Opinions : Getting Unpalatable Workshop · 37 min · Episode 6This week Mel shares an excerpt from a recent mini-workshop on the cost of prioritizing likeability in the eyes of others. We unravel the tangled knots of codependency, living as…
- Getting Cracked Open By the Divine w/ Dajé Alōh · 1 h 12 min · Episode 5This week we are joined by the dazzling Dajé Alōh aka The Story Doula, and DANG do we get blessed by her presence. She takes us all the way to church and to the underworld…
