Heather DresselHost
Inviting you to grab a cup of your favorite healing beverage, take me on a walk, a drive, to the sink while you wash your dishes, or maybe find a quiet moment just for you in nature.

Let's spend a little time together and stand at the mirror with the witch because that is what we're doing here in the spiral journey, right? We're not trying to become these archetypes or worship them.

We're here to get curious, right? To hold these archetypes as mirrors and notice what they reflect back to us.

What do they help us remember? How do they make us feel seen and understood? Or, like, what do they stir within us? What feels familiar? That, "Ooh, yeah, I've had that in my life in this way or that way," right? What makes us uncomfortable and maybe reveals our own shadow? Or what makes us say, "Ooh, yeah, I feel that.

I see her in me, in my life, in this piece or part of myself and my journey"? And the witch, oof.

[chuckles] When I stand at the mirror with the witch, I see so many things, but most immediately, I see me.

Maybe the word witch still makes something inside of you tighten up a little bit.

Maybe you've been calling yourself a witch for years, or you might be like, "Heather, absolutely fucking not." [chuckles] My love, there's space for it all because before we can really stand at the mirror with the witch and see what she's reflecting back to us, and that'll be different for each of us, right? I think we have to remember what we've been taught about her.

Think about the witches, right? So many of us met as little girls- For me, I immediately see the witch in Snow White, who of course turns out to be the evil queen, Snow White's stepmother in disguise.

It's like the scary old witch is the patriarchal version or way of, of making us fear older women.

Um, you know, the warts, the crackled, arthritic-looking fingers, and those gross long nails, those big, dark eyes, and she's literally trying to poison Snow White with an apple.

I remember going to Disney World with my family when I was a little girl, and we were outside watching one of the parades at night, like, as the day was winding down, and, uh, I was sitting on a fence with my back to some bushes, and my mom was kinda, like, standing on the side of, of me, like, holding me, making sure I wasn't gonna fall over, but it was, like, so I could see the parade.

And I kept squirming and squirming and squirming, and my mom was so annoyed, and she just kept telling me to stop it.

But I kept feeling this sharp, prickly little tapping at my back and the back of my head, and all I could picture was the witch from Snow White hiding in those bushes behind me.

My mother thought it was hilarious and probably told me it was just the branches or the leaves, but I still remember the intensity of the fear.

As far as I was concerned, the witch was in the bushes, and she was coming to get me.

And if we can follow the yellow brick road for just a moment, we meet the Wicked Witch of the West.

Inviting you to grab a cup of your favorite healing beverage, take me on a walk, a drive, to the sink while you wash your dishes, or maybe find a quiet moment just for you in nature.

Let's spend a little time together and stand at the mirror with the witch because that is what we're doing here in the spiral journey, right? We're not trying to become these archetypes or worship them.

We're here to get curious, right? To hold these archetypes as mirrors and notice what they reflect back to us.

What do they help us remember? How do they make us feel seen and understood? Or, like, what do they stir within us? What feels familiar? That, "Ooh, yeah, I've had that in my life in this way or that way," right? What makes us uncomfortable and maybe reveals our own shadow? Or what makes us say, "Ooh, yeah, I feel that.

I see her in me, in my life, in this piece or part of myself and my journey"? And the witch, oof.

[chuckles] When I stand at the mirror with the witch, I see so many things, but most immediately, I see me.

Maybe the word witch still makes something inside of you tighten up a little bit.

Maybe you've been calling yourself a witch for years, or you might be like, "Heather, absolutely fucking not." [chuckles] My love, there's space for it all because before we can really stand at the mirror with the witch and see what she's reflecting back to us, and that'll be different for each of us, right? I think we have to remember what we've been taught about her.

Think about the witches, right? So many of us met as little girls- For me, I immediately see the witch in Snow White, who of course turns out to be the evil queen, Snow White's stepmother in disguise.

It's like the scary old witch is the patriarchal version or way of, of making us fear older women.

Um, you know, the warts, the crackled, arthritic-looking fingers, and those gross long nails, those big, dark eyes, and she's literally trying to poison Snow White with an apple.

I remember going to Disney World with my family when I was a little girl, and we were outside watching one of the parades at night, like, as the day was winding down, and, uh, I was sitting on a fence with my back to some bushes, and my mom was kinda, like, standing on the side of, of me, like, holding me, making sure I wasn't gonna fall over, but it was, like, so I could see the parade.

And I kept squirming and squirming and squirming, and my mom was so annoyed, and she just kept telling me to stop it.

But I kept feeling this sharp, prickly little tapping at my back and the back of my head, and all I could picture was the witch from Snow White hiding in those bushes behind me.

My mother thought it was hilarious and probably told me it was just the branches or the leaves, but I still remember the intensity of the fear.

As far as I was concerned, the witch was in the bushes, and she was coming to get me.

And if we can follow the yellow brick road for just a moment, we meet the Wicked Witch of the West.
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