#348 – Overcoming The Witch Wound with Mia Magik

Today I chat with author, speaker, coach and modern ambassador for ancient magic, Mia Magik. Mia dives into the historical, cultural, and personal aspects of the witch wound, providing insights on how it affects expression, sexuality, creativity, and business. Mia also shares practical tips for overcoming the witch wound and embracing authenticity and leadership.

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🔹The witch wound refers to the historical and cultural suppression of women’s wisdom, expression, and power
🔹Overcoming the witch wound involves embracing authenticity, vulnerability, and reclaiming personal power
🔹Reclaiming the sacredness of the moon cycle can lead to a transformative experience and a deeper connection to intuition

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Mia Magik is an author, speaker, and coach, serving as a modern ambassador for ancient magik. On a mission of permission, she ignites the Wisdom of our IntuWitchin, inviting the liberation of your most magikal self through spiritual transfiguration. Purifying the wounds from patriarchal programming so you can attune to the voice of your inner guidance system.

Over the past decade, Mia has immersed herself in the study of yoga, meditation, Buddhism, Kabbalah, ceremonial magik, Tarot, and spiritual medicines. Mia has empowered thousands of people to realize, utilize, and reconnect with their infinite spiritual abilities through her Academy of Magikal Artistry, books, retreats, and 1:1 coaching.

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Transcript:

Brett:
Yoga family, I am here sitting today with Mia Magic. I’m very excited. She’s an author, a speaker, and a coach, and she is a modern ambassador for ancient magic. So she’s going to talk to us today about the witch wound or into witchin, which I’m really curious to learn more about. In the past decade, Mia has immersed herself in the study of yoga, meditation, Buddhism, Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, tarot, and spiritual medicine, all the things many of us love on this show. So Mia, I’m really excited to have you and connect with you and get to know you better on the podcast.

Mia Magik:
Yeah, thanks. Thanks so much, babe. I’m so happy to be here.

Brett:
So tell us a little bit about what the witch wound is, maybe as a first step. And I refer to this term, well, actually, why don’t you define it? And then I can even let you know if the way I’ve been talking about it is correct, but tell us a little bit about this term of the witch wound and how it resonates or relates to women specifically, obviously, in kind of a patriarchal culture.

Mia Magik:
Yeah, so the word witch means wise or wisdom, one who sees, one who knows. And so the witch wound is the wound to our wisdom. It’s the wound that has been inflicted upon us around the fact that our…menstrual blood and our cycles match up with the moon when we don’t have artificial hormones or light. We are cyclical beings just like the tides and we have been taught that our moon time is shameful, dirty, gross, bad, wrong, even though that’s the literal liquid of creation. That blood only stops when we’re going to have a baby. It’s the wisdom of knowing the plants. Before there was pharmaceuticals that are made literally from oil and petrochemicals. All of our medicines and came from the earth, came from plants, it came from the herbs and the trees and the bark and the leaves of the natural world around us. That wisdom has been taken from us. How many of us know how to sew our own clothes, know how to grow our own food, know how to build a house, right? Build a fire even. And the witch wound, of course, is about…

our ancient wisdom and our primal nature and how connected we used to be to the earth, to each other in tribes and communities, and to God without a middleman, right? Without the lens of major religions being between us and the divine and often charging money for our connection there. But it’s also about…

that sovereignty that was lost. I can pray to God on my own. I can sing to God in nature. I can feel God beneath my feet when I connect to the earth. I can express myself. I can say or sing or share whatever it is that I want. I can be powerful, especially as women who were nobility and priestesses and…

honored and revered and acknowledged as the source of life pre Christianity, pre major modern religions. And that’s really where we see the witch wound most obviously right now is when women.

whether it’s in your spiritual practice, whether that’s with yoga and meditation, people think it’s weird, it’s something I need to hide, yoga was not mainstream 20 years ago, it was weird. And meditation has caught up and now it’s sexuality and tantra and witchcraft and astrology and all of these things are catching up. But the witch wound is the fear that we have.

of expressing those things, of living in alignment with them, of being an honor to them. Because when the major religions took over, if you maintained your sovereign spirituality, your innate and inherent connection to nature, the wisdom of the plants and the medicines to be able to heal yourself rather than going and paying to pray to heal, you were killed.

You were silenced, you were suppressed, you were exterminated. And so it’s completely natural that it would be something that we’re all afraid of. We’re afraid of natural medicine. We’re afraid of dancing together under the moonlight. We’re afraid of utilizing our infinite power, which the yogis have talked about. It’s many different words, all describing the same things, whatever lineage you go back far enough into.

the chi, the prana, right? There is so much power inside of us. We are emanations of the divine and the witch wound is our fear of that power. And it comes up in our sexuality. We feel ashamed to be in our sexual power. It comes up in our creativity. We are ashamed to write the book or give the speech or make the painting or build the sculpture or the home, whatever it is.

In business, we’re afraid to sell, we’re afraid to talk about ancient wisdom or mysticism because it’s judged in the world. And those are, I would, I see the witch wound, you know, in personal expression, sexuality and creativity, especially in regards to like creativity generating money and abundance as well. Those are the primary ways that the witch wound shows up. And the money one is because if you had too many resources back then and maybe your husband died or whatever, you would, be accused as a witch for either the townspeople or the church to take all of your resources. And that’s why the church made dragons so evil, right? The keepers and guardians of all the hoards of treasure. It’s like, where do you think they got all the gold and jewels that funds the Vatican’s endless crusades across the world when it’s supposed to be like a nonprofit organization? So there’s a lot we could go into, but that is really how the witch wound shows up in the world in the modern day.

Brett:
It lines up with what I talk about as well. So I’m really glad that we’re on the same page and you went into so much more detail than I ever could have. So I’m so grateful. I talk about the witch wound in the advanced yoga teacher training I offer, which is the 300, 500 hour program. Cause most of the people coming into that program, they have their yoga certificate, but they want to amplify their voice. They want to amplify their income. They want to make it a career. They want to take those next steps.

to really own this teacher healer identity and potentially roll it out into a business. And what inevitably happens is that they are like afraid to use their voice and they think something’s wrong with them. And I even have a section in our manual where I talk a tiny bit. I mean, it’s like, it’s like half a page. So I’m so glad that we can like double click into it together here today, but about this thing called the witch wound, which is basically that when you use your voice for many of our.

female ancestors, you were burned at the stake. You were persecuted. So if you feel afraid to use your voice right now, you know, we know about epigenetics. It’s there’s nothing wrong with you. This in the past couple hundred years has been a dramatic time. while many of us were persecuted for sharing our voice. And so yes, there’s, you know, part of it’s like get into action, get over it. And we coach on that. But another part of it is like, we need to look and heal this, this very real fear inside of you that may seem.

Like, why am I so scared to speak up? Or why am I so afraid to launch my own proprietary method? Right? I have all this imposter syndrome. Like, is that allowed? Am I going to be called out? Am I going to be shamed? Many people just don’t even feel comfortable teaching or holding space at the front of the room or posting on social media. And so I always like to make women aware, women specifically aware of the witch wound, just so that they know that this, this isn’t just them. This is something so much bigger than just their fears. This is.

out there as like a phenomenon that we can energetically feel and talk about together.

Mia Magik (08:04)
Yeah. And I really loved what you said about like…

some of it is is mindset and some of it is just get up, get out, get into action and what I have found to be the most impactful way to counteract the witch wound is by taking the actions that are informed by the awareness you have of how the witch wound is impacting you. So it’s not about like just snap your fingers and get over it because it is epigenetically programmed into us cellularly to believe that if we share our voice or if we stand up, if we speak out, you know, that was a big thing. If you went to

to protect or defend someone that you loved. You could get killed just for speaking out on their behalf. So what I like to do is really look at, okay, where is the primary block that I’m experiencing from my witch wound? Again, in expression, in sexuality, in finances, in self -confidence, self -worth.

What’s the worst part of it, right? Like what’s the biggest fear? What’s the most terrifying aspect of it? And then what’s one of the things that sort of leads up to that? And then, okay, maybe it is, you know, I feel safe holding space in my classroom in front of people, but I don’t feel safe sharing on social media or vice versa. I can say on social media when I’m disconnected, but I can’t like get up in front of the room and say things to people.

Now, this is a unique path for me, but it always worked because it’s like, you know, I’m sure some of you have seen 8 Mile. Have you seen 8 Mile, you know, with Eminem, that movie? And there’s like that one point where he goes…

Brett (09:42)

Yes.

Mia Magik (09:44)

He says all the, yeah I do live in a trailer with my mom and like, he did fuck my girl and I’m still skin and hair screaming fuck the free world, like whatever it is, you know? And he tells them everything that they would have to say about him and then, here, tell these people something they don’t know about me and drops the mic. That is the most powerful way to unwind any shit that you have that you’re worried about and you’re dealing with. How I got my start on social media was writing…

was writing papers, little essays, not papers, but like on Facebook, little essays like that. And they were called, Musings on Life from a Former NYC Party Girl Turned Spiritual Healer. So right off the bat, you’re like, look, I know who I used to be. I know that you could judge me and think that I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about because I used to just be a little socialite and like fluffing about with a totally unimportant life. But.

I learned how to heal myself. And so here are, and then the first one was about judgment. I was like, I am so worried to share who I am because I’m so terrified of everyone judging me from my past and where I came from. But this is why I trust myself. And this is why I’m interested in doing what I’m doing. And this is what I’ve learned. And so one of the things that I would offer to people who are dealing with the witch wound and not sure what the action to take would be or how to understand what specifically is

being informed by those fears. It’s like, okay, can I get on social media and tell them that I’m afraid to tell them? Can I stand up in front of the room and just be honest? Like, that is actually what draws people to us, you know?

as an influencer, as a teacher. Yes, there are tons of people who are gonna follow you for your pretty photos and like your inspiring quotes and your, you know, whatever, like kind of the fluffy stuff. But you lead teacher trainings and I lead tantric, feminine, embodiment, witchcraft, personal transformation retreats at castles in Europe. Like the people that are gonna choose to come to something like that, they’re choosing because they trust you as an authentic leader.

They trust you as someone who is willing to face off with their inner Voldemort or their inner witch hunter as I like to call it. And so that I have found to be, if you’re worried about coming out to your family, go and tell them that you’re worried about it.

Be like, hey, I love you guys so much and I am finding something that is really helping me cultivate happiness in my life, but I’m so afraid to talk to you about it because I don’t wanna be judged or because I don’t wanna make you nervous or whatever it is. But you take the power away from, it’s not about taking it away from someone else, but you.

Reclaim the power for yourself when you choose to acknowledge the fear, acknowledge the worry, let it be present, let it be there, let it be accepted. And that to me, I have found that to be the greatest.

baby step that leads to massive leaps for ourselves and our healing. And so, you know, yes, take the action, but it doesn’t always have to be big bold action. It can be really small steps in the right direction that every time you prove to yourself, look, I did that and I survived. You have more confidence going forward. And

just a caveat on that, if you feel like you got proven right, you’re like, I knew that was gonna happen. Like, my dad texted me after I told everyone that I was gonna be a yoga teacher and he said like, you don’t know what you’re talking about and you’re crazy. That too is an opportunity.

to face off with the witch wound because it’s just your consciousness testing you and saying how strong is your resolve? How devoted to this are you? Are you willing to follow through even if you get the exact kind of reflection you were worried about? And I’ve like one of my big witch wound things was talking about the magic that I do with moon blood and that I have in that sacred time of the month with myself where it is my favorite time. It’s not a burden to me. It’s a blessing and

And

I got this note from the goddess. She was like, you need to start talking about your sacred practice with moon time. And I was like, no, definitely not. I did not want to do that. That is not happening. And she’s like, sorry, you have to do it. And I did. And I lost hundreds of followers when I did.

And that was part of it for me. It’s like, okay, good. Now I know that the people who are here and the people who saw this are even more on my team and are even more my kind of people. And I actually feel freer on the other side. I actually feel more trusting of the universe and the goddess because I know that I followed through and I showed her I was willing. And then I made a reel about that. That was like hundreds of people unfollowed me and like…

Hundreds of thousands of people saw that and resonated with it and it’s because you’re proving to the universe like I refuse to give that external thing power over me. I reclaim my power from within.

Brett (15:01)

There’s so much we can pull out here and lots of like lots of follow -up questions I think I want to just you know emphasize for everyone listening this idea of being an authentic leader and that people buy from you because They they like you right like they they they vibe with your energy like we are all transmitters we’re transmitting energy and in some of my programs I call this like your frequency or your energetic frequency which Exists when you’re around me, and I’m teaching you or we’re having a conversation, but

Mia Magik (15:12)

Yeah.

Brett (15:31)

You can also, if you get great at branding, like actually imprint this through your socials, through your website, through every little touch that someone has with your brand, whether it’s in an email or a thank you page or whatever. So really getting clear on that frequency for yourself, which is obviously a ton of yoga and a ton of embodiment work and a lot of coaching and all of those other things that it’s kind of stripping away all the patterns and programs that we were indoctrinated with when we were growing up or in our school system or through our families and just really reclaiming.

you know, what is us and what do I want to be bold with and say, and when we’re willing to be authentic because so few people are, we really do become like beacons or magnets for the people who are meant to find our work. And it’s so refreshing and you just feel it right away. Like when you’re in front of someone who has that, I think authentic leadership that you were mentioning. And just so we follow your advice, I just want to like pull it through and make sure people are really getting it. It’s like, if you feel shame,

or if you feel scared, it’s like just talk about that as a first step. And one of the beautiful women in my yoga life coaching program, I was so proud of her because I was on Instagram the other day and I saw that she actually did that. She went on Instagram and she just talked about how, because obviously with yoga and life coaching, it’s like, well, if I haven’t figured all my crap out, am I able to coach other people? Like who am I to?

Mia Magik (16:35)

Yeah. Yeah.

Brett (16:58)

So obviously we work a lot on that because all of us are a work in progress continually, but she just went on and her wheel was so beautiful. I mean, she was very emotional and she was just talking about how she struggled to feel things. She got stuck in her head and it was just this really vulnerable share. And then at the end she was saying like, this is what I’m coaching people on, right? Is how to feel deeper, is how to combine yoga and coaching and embodiment work and all this stuff. And…

I was just so attracted to her watching it because you could just see that she was sharing from her heart. And it reminds me of like Brene Brown and the power of vulnerability, right? When people are vulnerable, we’re attracted to that because it’s honest. And I just think that’s such a great tip. So whatever we’re ashamed about to talk about. And I also tell you, everyone listening, like whatever you think is the thing that you can’t combine with yoga. Cause we talk a lot about like fusing yoga with your other interests and.

passions, whatever you think is the most like shameful thing that you could never combine with yoga. Like that’s the exact thing you need to combine with yoga, right? Or like, you know, or if you think you’re, you’re, you’re don’t have the right body type or you’re struggling. Like I had a student recently, she was struggling with her weight, right? So she was like, I don’t want to teach until, or she was teaching one class a week, but she wanted to do more, but she felt like she wasn’t, she didn’t, she wanted to get her weight and her own food stuff under control first. And I was like,

You need to talk to your students about your own struggles. They’re going to be so attracted to that opening and that share and that story. You know, no one wants a teacher on a pedestal anymore. They want genuine connection. so I really appreciate everything you, you shared about that. And if someone’s just feeling really, really scared to use their voice, cause like the throat chakra is a huge area of discussion.

in this community and it just seems like so many women I talk to students like they’re they feel blocked there myself included. Do you have any specific ideas for working with the voice specifically or so I know you’ve studied in so many different wisdom traditions like this is obviously a very narrow passageway when we look at the body physically it’s kind of connecting the head and the heart but is there anything about the voice that you want to share with us specifically?

Mia Magik (19:12)

There’s so many things you can do. I think that, you know, physically working with a coach or a therapist or someone who is explicitly supporting of that, you know, so many of my female entrepreneur clients come to me explicitly to work with the voice. So a lot of times, you know, in particular relation, in particular in relationship to the witch wound, it feels like,

claws, it feels like someone’s strangling you, it can feel like a noose tightening around your neck, it can feel like, you know, the other day I was dealing with someone where she felt that it was like one of those big metal, like, cage, like chains, like you would see in old kind of cartoon movies with the prisoners locked with this, like, big metal collar around their neck with it locked down.

In my work, I dive so deep into the subconscious and we work with the somatic energy that is stuck in the body. So I talk to that part of the throat. What does it need? How does it need you to express? How does it need to be held to be released? What is it asking of you? So getting support is great. The other thing is you can, you know, let it write just you like stream of consciousness writing.

let it all come out. I see a vocal coach, like I have a, she like literally is like a song teacher, but what I end up doing is channeling songs about my trauma and my hurt every single week. I’m gonna see her today as a matter of fact. And.

So it’s all just like, you know, as my partner and I are uncoupling, there were moments where I was begging for forgiveness and I’m just singing a whole song about like praying to God for forgiveness and help guide me. And, you know, and so there’s, you can write poetry, you can sing songs, you can just practice by speaking. If it’s, if you aren’t ready to like speak to the big groups or to social media, call one friend first and…

share this is something that is really alive for me. This is something where this is a place where I’m hurting. This is where I need support. I’ve never told anyone this before and I really trust you and I feel like I can count on you, whatever it is. those pieces are great screaming, like letting yourself emote. That’s why my rage rituals have gone super viral right now and everyone is talking about them and it’s so wild and

you know, those are a really great place. And one of the practices in the rage ritual is saying anything you’ve ever held back to any person who has ever harmed you or crossed your boundary. And so we make space for that. Like if it’s a boyfriend who cheated on you, if it’s someone who abused you, if it’s a father who neglected or abandoned you, if it’s a teacher who was unkind to you, whatever it is, we make the space to release any of the words that have never been said. And so that’s,

usually sort of like the negative or like that inner witch hunter kind of thing is like you need to say some of those things. But then there’s also all the moments that you didn’t tell yourself the truth. So it’s like, I am worthy. I am enough. I am beautiful. I am smart. I am capable. I am important.

whatever it is and so really working with those different frequencies of what needs to be let out whether it’s positive kind affirmation to myself or a little more volatile.

protection of myself towards someone that I never had the opportunity to stand up in that way. Those are really great practices. Scream into a pillow, you know, sing in the shower. It’s so simple really, but we just have to give ourselves permission to do it.

Brett (23:14)

So many great tips. I absolutely love it. We have so many people listening who I know want to launch businesses or they have this dream of owning a retreat center or hosting certain types of workshops that scare them, right? Or maybe there’s an element of shame. And I’m just curious, cause as I hear you talk about like these retreats and castles, which I’m wondering how we score invites to, by the way, I’m sure you’ll tell us at the end. but how did you have the confidence?

Mia Magik (23:39)

Yeah. my God, girl, I would love to have you come. It’s going to be so good.

Brett (23:44)

How do

you how did like I mean to even be as bold as like I want to hang out with other women who want to do You know ritual with their you know, but like what how do you have the trust to be like, you know what? I’m gonna do this It’s like very niche. I’m going to lose a lot of followers But I have that faith that like what’s your thought process because I think that’s kind of something we need to often psych ourselves up for and be prepared for the fallout and

What’s so fascinating to me is I have done some very weird niche programs and I’m always shocked at how many people are in there. You know, it’s like you show up to the first zoom call or the first lesson. I’m like, whoa, there’s like 75 other people who are in this, you know, either very high end or very niche. Like what I would think is extremely weird thing. And it’s always so inspiring to me when that happens. Cause I’m just like, everyone like you will find your people and

And it seems like this is something that you have definitely done and curated. So I just before we let you go, and I want to talk a little about intuition as well, but I was just like, do you have anything you want to share on that in terms of just your own personal process?

Mia Magik (24:49)

Yeah, totally.

The one thing, you know, you mentioned embodiment work and that is the biggest piece. If you are not actually…

embodied in the things that you’re teaching, it’s gonna feel scary or shameful. Like, I teach tantric witchcraft and can do pleasure rituals and all of this stuff because it is my personal practice, because I believe in it wholeheartedly, because I’ve watched it change my life. So there’s no part of me that’s afraid about leading retreats, that feels nervous or scared, because like, that is my personal practice. That is how I live my life. So I think that’s the biggest piece, is before you set out to…

have the business, make all the money, do all the things, because everybody wants to be a coach these days because it can be a really lucrative industry to be in, but you’ve gotta be embodied in your thing. That doesn’t mean you have to be perfect, that doesn’t mean you have to have already figured all of your shit out, but the thing that you’re gonna help other people with, you’ve gotta be embodied in. Going back to what you said about the imposter syndrome and who am I to…

What’s beautiful about coaching is it’s like being on a path in front of someone. If you’re in front of them on the path, even by a couple of steps, you can’t be one step ahead of them because you’re going to keep like flat tiring each other and stumbling over one another. But if you’re two or three steps ahead of them on the path,

You see the rattlesnake first. You see the hole in the ground. You see the big mud puddle or the pile of dog shit or whatever it is. You see it before them and you can warn them and you can let them know. So you only have to be a couple of steps ahead of other people to be able to coach them. But something that I see that I think is really damaging and dangerous is I’ll have people reach out to me.

Brett (26:28)

I totally agree.

Mia Magik (26:34)

And they’ll be like, my god, I really want to work with you one on one. And you look at their bio and they say like, abundance queen or like helping you manifest money or whatever. And then they find out how much I charge. And they’re like, my god, that’s way too much. And they freak out. And I’m like.

you should never be allowed to be selling people abundance when you’re obviously still in your scarcity. Like that I think is the biggest challenge in this coaching world and where there are a lot of people who are inauthentic. And so that’s what goes back to authentic leadership. And yeah, I lead my retreats and experiences and I feel so confident and trusting in them because I trust the work itself. And because I am like, I…

I admire myself. I look at the way that I handle challenges and hardship and heartache and I dive face first into my healing. I am always willing to stretch my comfort zone and push my edges and to face off with that inner witch hunter and the sides and parts of me that are small or that are hurt or that are wounded. And I think that’s really the biggest piece because when you know you can trust yourself in that way, there’s nothing that can shake you. There’s nothing that can…

like, you know,

take you off balance or off kilter. And that is a big piece actually that is coming forward and coming through with my retreats right now is women who want to run retreats, women who want to have successful spiritual businesses as a teacher or a coach or a healer are coming to me and realizing like, my best, my best training, my best method of understanding how to do this is by being in the container of someone who I know can hold it all. And for me, like I’ve done so many,

retreats,

especially recently, I’ve been like saying yes to everything and there’s no one running retreats that are as powerful and transformative as what I’m doing because they are explicitly curated to do exactly that, to change people from one version into another, to heal the witch wound, to make your dreams come true, to show you your value and your worth, to give you that confidence to become the…

person who is embodied in their purpose and who’s really fulfilled. And it’s, there’s such a gift. My retreats are my absolute favorite thing on earth because I’ve done so many and it’s just a collection of all my favorite aspects and most impactful processes and practices that I ever experienced. And I think that that is what it takes. If you want to lead, if you want to support other people.

You know, you have to put your mask on first and you have to know how to support yourself and stretch your edges and make big investments. You know, you want people to sign up for a program, you got to sign up for programs. You want people to buy into a retreat. You got to go to retreats and learn and be an example so that then you can always confidently say that you were your own ideal client and you really showed up the way that you’re inviting other people to as well.

Brett (29:37)

You mentioned as part of this process that you really work on acknowledging yourself. You said you’re proud of yourself. You acknowledge yourself. You look at all the different things you’ve done and, and that that’s key. And I agree. And I’m curious, can you double click into like any specific things you do to make that an actual practice? Because I know for myself, and I think most women, like, unless we create an intentional container to do that or force ourselves to do that, my mind never goes there. I never think about that.

And it can be, I think, a challenge to even know, like, well, how do I set that up as a practice? What does that look like? What should I be doing? I mean, obviously I can do like 90 day look backs and be like, okay, let’s journal on everything I did that was awesome and force myself to think about it. But like, what are you specifically doing there? Because I think there’s a lot of magic that all of us could leave with if we figure out that formula.

Mia Magik (30:30)

Yeah, so journaling’s a great practice. Eye gazing is another practice, like doing mirror work, so staring into one eye for a multitude of minutes, like five minutes, bare minimum. I like eight to 12 to 15 to 20, like really eye gazing with myself, opening the window to my own soul, seeing myself, letting myself be seen by my higher self, by God coming through me.

and by my smallness and my fear and all of the things, like letting it all be witnessed and saying what I want to be true. I do use pleasure as a tantrika. I use pleasure a lot. So I will do a sex magic practice, which is just like an intentional personal pleasure ritual where I am acknowledging myself or where I’m, even if I’m not explicitly focusing on like,

accomplishments because for me it’s not about accomplishments, it’s about who I am in my essence. There’s all kinds of things I still want to accomplish. Like there’s all kinds of goals and milestones that I haven’t hit quite yet.

But I know that I am living on purpose as a female crusader doing what to me is like the most important service on earth. Like I am helping people heal and unwind their trauma in order to reclaim their power and magic so that we can evolutionarily move forward as a species in a new way. I’m like, there’s nothing I care about more, you know? And so it’s not even about what I’m.

It’s about what I stand for and what I believe in. And also going back, my therapist would, you know, tell me I was remiss if I didn’t mention the fact that…

We all also need to feel just inherently worthy, without accomplishments, without anything that we have done. And so for me, what I am acknowledging within myself is my courage. And courage comes from the French word for cour, which means heart. And so to be courageous is to be of your heart. And I am…

living in alignment with my heart. If I could have filled in the blanks as a little kid when they ask you what you wanted to be when you grow up, it would be this. I just didn’t know it was an option. And so we are inherently divinely worthy by the nature of being here. And so that’s one thing, but then yes, like acknowledging yourself when you do have wins and when you have stuff to celebrate is so important. And one of the other pieces that I would say is like really meeting the moments that feel the opposite. So, you know, I,

I’ve been uncoupling from my partner. There are so many nights where I’m like laying in bed with just gripped with anxiety, like riddled with just so many thoughts and like feeling sad and wishing it could be different and blah, blah, blah. Like all the bullshit that comes up when you’re going through a breakup, even when it’s a mutually beneficial amicable agreement.

And in those moments, I just hold that little girl inside of me who’s freaking out. She’s freaking out. And I just go in and I just imagine her, however she’s showing up. And I just hold her and I tell her that I love her and I’m here and I’m proud of her. And maybe it’s not just at night when I can’t sleep. Maybe it comes up like during the day and I just spin out on some thing that I’m freaking out about. And I just…

one hand on the body and just let it know that it’s safe and it’s okay and I got you and I understand. Okay, well what do you need right now? How can I support you? Noticing when we reach, even like a different thing of being proud of ourself is noticing when we reach, when you reach for the phone to scroll on Instagram, when you reach for bad food for yourself, when you reach for…

you know, a pattern or a behavior that is not actually someone else’s fault. It’s your trauma response, but maybe you get angry at them for it or you blame them or you make it their problem. It’s like, no, wait, I’m doing that right now. I’m responding like that. Wow. Can I look at that part of me that’s like so desperate for love or like trying so hard to reconnect or whatever it is? What can I do to reconnect with myself right now?

What can I do to give that part of myself the love that it is obviously so desperately seeking? And those moments of showing up for ourselves, those moments of rewriting the pattern, that’s what makes us proud of ourselves. It’s not about accomplishment. It’s about choosing the empowered path.

and the option that will lead to the great change and transformation within yourself. So those are kind of like the main things. Journal about it, yeah, for sure. I’ve journaled more, I’ve filled up more in a journal in the last two months than I have in the last six or eight months, you know? So journal, eye gaze, do it consciously and do it somatically in the body when you notice that…

some part of you needs that support and the version of you that shows up is the one that you will become so proud of yourself for being.

Brett (35:41)

I’m glad you reminded us of the eye gazing because I haven’t done it in a while. I did teach a video. I do have like a 20 minute eye gazing. I think it’s in the life coaching program that I teach and it’s really long. Like people told me they were like, I’ve done eye gazing before and yours was really long. It was like the longest I’ve ever done. I think it’s like 20, 25 minutes or something. But I don’t do it as often as I should. So I’m like, this is a great reminder. I’m going to go do it. And I love you talking about the kind of like the dichotomy of we’re inherently worthy. We need practices that remind us of that. At the same time, you do want to look back.

Mia Magik (35:49)

Hmm.

Brett (36:11)

and look at those accomplishments. I mean, for me, those accomplishments are a lot of times like, wow, I created so much space in my calendar and had so much free time last week. Good job. That was intentional. Like my intention of creating more space is working. Like, wow. You know, so to me, that’s an accomplishment. If the accomplishment isn’t always like a metric or anything like that, it’s usually like, wow, I handled this interaction or this could have been like a really fraught emotional situation and it was navigated with such grace and ease. Let’s pause. Let’s think about that. Like, wow, pat on the back. Good job.

So I do think it is, it’s like we do have to call our attention to it actively just because the way the brain is wired, otherwise we only end up like focusing on the negative. But I love that you’re reminding us of that inherent worth as well. And I wanna touch on intuition before we go. I mean, I know that you also mentioned, so I don’t wanna let this slide too, just like your rituals and maybe talking a little bit about your cycle and what you do during your cycle. And I’ve heard that women are more intuitive.

when they’re on their moon cycle. So maybe you can kind of weave some of those things together because another theme that I think is really present for me this year is just that how, as women, we create differently. We have these boom and bust creation cycles. I know I do, right? I have moments of extreme creativity, days or weeks of extreme creativity, followed by days or weeks of extreme fatigue and depletion. That’s actually quite normal for a feminine being like myself. And it’s not a problem anymore now that I know how to work with it.

especially, you know, pulling in my cycle and everything else. So I don’t know where you want to start, but tell us a little bit about how intuition plays into this or where you think intuition lives in the body, how you define it, and then anything you want to share about our moon cycle as well.

Mia Magik (37:54)

Yeah, so for me the difference between intuition and intuition because which means wise as we’ve spoken about it’s about

the wisdom to actually listen and follow. You can have like a little intuitive hit, I need to like yesterday I had something, I was like leaving the house and I didn’t want to bring my purse because I was just like going to get fuel in my truck and I was like I don’t need my purse. And then of course I stopped by somewhere else and there was really loud music and I was like damn it I had earplugs in my purse and like I could have just you know and I was like no it’s fine I’ll just bring my credit card I don’t even need it’s fine, you know.

It’s so small, but the wisdom to know the difference between the small invitation that you can just ignore and cast aside and the version of you that says that thought is happening for a reason and I’m going to follow that so that when the moment for the reason comes three hours, three days, three years later, I’m ready.

I’m prepared. I listened. I followed through. And so I think that everyone’s intuition lives somewhere different in their body. Some people hear it. Some people feel it. Some people know it. Some people it’s in their hands, in their wombs, in their hearts, in their feet. It really doesn’t matter. It comes from different places and different moments, honestly, for people.

And I think that, you know, the book is definitely if you want to cultivate your intuition, the book is full of practices. Every single chapter has multiple practices at the end to really deepen your connection and utilize meditation and different practices for cultivating a deep.

inner wisdom and guidance system, which is what intuition is to me. It’s literally like knowing that everything that’s happening and simultaneously the book is about as above, so below and as within, so without. It’s about the law of correspondence and that everything that’s happening is guiding you for a reason. Like this is just an interesting little anecdote. When I was doing all the contracts for this home that my partner and I just moved into in September,

I was on a road trip through Idaho and Montana and the owner of the house is like just, there was just a lot of shit. It was like really annoying. Like it was just so frustrating. He was difficult. All these little caveats and whatever as we’re doing all the contracts and.

I’m driving through Idaho and Montana at the end of the summer, seeing massive wildfires. I remember being on the phone with this guy, the sky is full of smoke. There’s a whole huge hillside fully lit on fire. And I’m just like driving through, getting my house details dialed and ignoring all the signs around me. And I knew this house were like up on the top of the mountain. There’s no trees. It’s very like,

mountain arid kind of desert rock vibe. And I was like, well, I have two cats. This doesn’t feel like a very safe place for my cats. There’s no crawl space under the house. There’s no trees. Cats need to go up or down.

Within two months, we lost my first cat, who was like my child, my best friend, my soulmate, my familiar. Within a few months after that, we lost her brother, and then the partnership fell apart, and now we’re moving out of the house, and like everything that I love, I lost.

because I didn’t listen, because I was ignoring that life was gonna burn down around me. And it did. And it’s become the greatest initiation of my life and I have met it. Again, like this is why I admire myself is because the woman that I’ve become through the greatest pain and heartache that I’ve ever experienced is like so next level powerful, which is why I’m so excited for this retreat in France in August because it is gonna be so epic because I have become even more amazing than I ever thought I could. Through the deepest,

darkness. And so that is really the biggest piece about intuition is the wisdom to know that everything around you is part of your intuition. Every landscape that you see is offering you information because the universe speaks in symbol. It doesn’t speak a language. It’s not English or Spanish or Japanese. It speaks in symbols. And so that’s the biggest thing.

about the book and about our intuition in general is how do we learn to speak the language that the universe is using to communicate with us. And in terms of our moon blood, that has been such a powerful way that I have seen, right? Like we are the elements. So our earth, the stones within us are like the bones, or the bones within us are like the stones in the mountains. And then the blood is the rivers and creeks and streams of water inside of us. And the breath we exchange with the natural world. And then the fire is the electricity that’s keeping our hearts

beating

in every moment. And so working with our waters, working with our cyclical waters, again, that is the lifeblood of creation. And some scholars say is the original blood of Christ because it was shed without violence, that the womb is the Holy Grail and the blood of Christ is moon blood because it is full of life.

And so I have, I found, I was initiated into some of the blood mysteries by some priestesses in Kauai, and I just found that my whole life changed. When I stopped shaming my body, feeling gross, feeling dirty during that time, feeling frustrated by cramps or whatever it was, I…

stopped getting cramps. I stopped having negative symptoms. I didn’t PMS anymore and I would take some time, you know, take like three days, day one, day two and day three, which are always the most intense physically and energetically for me. And I would just not do anything. And I would take time away and be quiet and introspective and.

my whole experience of bleeding changed. And then I got to change other people’s experience of bleeding. And by shifting how I felt about it, I watched hundreds of women, like first in my intimate circles and my friendships, and then in my greater community, and then in my audience, and then out into the world, shifting their relationship with their moon. And for me, I bleed with the new moon or full moon every month because I don’t use artificial light in my home.

after

dark, candles and salt lamps, which are technically artificial light, but the red light of it reminds us of our womb, of being in the womb. So the first type of light we ever saw was like through our mother’s bellies. And so I’m very particular about my nighttime practice so that my body is attuned to the light of the moon. And I just find it to be something that…

You know, we sync up together for a reason. When you’re all around all of your friends and you start to bleed together, it’s because we were meant to go out into the red tents and sit and download the information and get the insight and be connected to our intuition together and just bleed straight out onto the earth in this beautiful tent. As, I mean, you could have three generations back then when, when like,

Child birthing age was so, you could have four generations. You, your grandma, your mom, and your great grandma could all be bleeding in the tent together. And what a blessing, you know? I think that women just, none of us, most of us haven’t had a ceremony to celebrate that rite of passage, that shift from child into maiden. And I think that it’s just such a beautiful.

way of rewriting again, you know, you started this conversation about the, he said slightly patriarchal culture and it’s definitely getting better, but imagine if like in the Dene or the Navajo tradition, we were all celebrated for a week when we started our moon, where men weighed on you hand and foot and women celebrate you and, and you know, braid your hair and give you flowers and everyone feels this reverent honor to be.

connected to God through their womb in that way. And I just think it would change the entire world. And so I’m doing my best to empower as many women as I can to reclaim the beauty of that sacred time connected to our cycles, connected to the moon, connected to the seasons of the earth, that really gives us more comfort and more courage and confidence to be able to talk about it with our partners in a way that makes it really

a shared special and sacred experience.

Brett (46:48)

Thank you for sharing all that and I love it too because I interviewed probably like five or seven years ago now, but an Ayurvedic expert who said the exact same thing about the menstrual cycle. She was like, once you just don’t try to do anything the first three days of your period anymore, just like relish and that you need to rest and make it just time for you. Like all your negative symptoms will go away. And I was like, really? But it’s, it’s so funny because I have.

Mia Magik (46:57)

Mm.

Brett (47:17)

at times found that validated in my own system and you obviously seeing it work with so many women. So we’ll link up that episode in the show notes as well in case people want to go back and kind of listen to the same idea from an Ayurvedic perspective because I think we did a whole episode on it and it was really interesting and there were so many great tips in there about yeah just light and I think things can things people can really action and think about. It has been so much fun to chat with you.

Mia Magik (47:30)

Cool.

Yeah.

Brett (47:42)

I

want you to tell everyone listening how they can stay connected with you, how they can find you. I know you have a new book out and I’m sure your retreats will be on the website so they can know if they miss, you know, whatever one, if they’re listening to this in the future or something where they can just get all that information to be part of your world.

Mia Magik (48:01)

Yeah, thank you so much. Everything is under Mia Magic, -I -A -A -G -I -K. So website, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, all of the things. And yes, we have a retreat in France at this iconic…

Palace castle in the Loire Valley in August. We have a little more rustic Redwoods experience in October But there will always be more retreats and experiences and there’s so much magic and so many different money manifestation rituals and love spells and all kinds of beautiful opportunities on my website and the book intuition is out everywhere books are sold.

Brett (48:37)

Thank you so much for sharing your time with us today. And everyone, I think there’s a lot to reflect and think on from today’s episode. I know one of the big things I’m taking away is just being really more open to my environment. And I just love that story of you, like with the forest fires and like being busy, like on the phone that I can so see myself doing something like that as well. Just being like, you know, I gotta get through my to -do list. And meanwhile, like missing all these big signs. So I think that’s a huge takeaway for me.

Mia Magik (48:49)

Good. All right.

Brett (49:04)

Folks, I’d love for you to tell me what you thought of this episode. You can always DM me on Instagram at LarkinYogaTV. I’m sending you all a bunch of love and I’ll talk to you next time. Namaste.

Mia Magik (49:16)

Thank you.