Creative Magic

As I rest and begin to weave Season 5 of the podcast, here, for your listening pleasure is the most listened to episode of all time in its full extended format, remastered, for your listening pleasure.
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Free Multi-Passionate Creative class January 27th – sign up here
The Multi-Passionate Creative online course starts Feb 17th - early birds to Feb 2nd. Find out more...***

Creative Magic Book Club - Join us for our March read, The Circle by Dave Eggers www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

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Rima Staines, a UK artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards.

Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. She lives in the south of England.
Links:
www.rimastaines.com
www.patreon.com/rimastaines
Instagram: @tilsamka
Facebook: facebook.com/rima.staines
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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook
Womancaft Publishing

We talked about
Rima’s writing - Art and the Landscape of Belonging – join her Patreon to read
The changes required at midlife
Creativity and daily life a balance between desire and necessity
The beauty of particular difference
Her drive and need for authenticity
The Otherworld and how we can access it
Neurodiversity – Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome and autism.
Motherhood and creativity
Neurology and creative magic
Her visual art which she describes as “Art in a minor key”
Synaesthesia
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Join me for this FREE introductory class to The Multi Passionate Creative on Tuesday January 27th, 7-8.15 pm UK time LIVE on Zoom.

SIGN UP FREE NOW – and we will send you a recording the following day if you cannot make it live. https://tinyurl.com/2026MPCLucy

The FREE class will cover:
- What a multi passionate creative is.
- Language and lenses for understanding ourselves as multi passionate creatives.
- Common challenges and struggles.
- The myths.
- The reality.

JOIN ME for the MULTI PASSIONATE CREATIVE ONLINE COURSE

WEEK 1 – BEYOND OVERWHELM - strategies for core-self strength, learning what drive us, what nourishes us and how we can find our enough.
WEEK 2 – BEYOND CHAOS -organising time, energy, information and resources so you can create your heart out and stay sane.
WEEK 3 – BEYOND PROCRASTINATION moving from first ideas to finished projects.

+ Live classes
+ Lifetime access to recordings
+ Course slides
+ Reading list
+ Dedicated private Facebook group
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CREATIVE MAGIC BOOK CLÚB - join now
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This Between the Seasons book episode explores Nightbitch a novel by Rachel Yoder, a work of magical realism about a mother longing to reclaim her identity of artist.
Named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. It was adapted for screen in 2024 by writer and director by Marielle Heller, starring Amy Adams.
https://www.racheljyoder.com/
This episode weaves my own reflections on the themes of the book, with women’s voices from our Creative Magic book club, readings from the book and excerpts

January 8th - Womancraft Submission Zoom call – link here
January 9th- Feb 13th – submissions open at Womancraft Publishing – find out more.
January 13th – Creative Magic Book Club – Magic Maker by Pam Grossman – sign up here
January 20th Free Multi-Passionate Creative class – sign up here
Feb 10th - The Multi-Passionate Creative and The Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur, starts, early birds to Jan 30th. Find out more...***

We talked about:
Creative mothers – the inherent struggles
What we cannot talk about – the experience of motherhood and
Writing new stories – our own stories
Mothering in patriarchy
Mammalian mothering
Maternal rage
Identity – loss of, finding it again through creativity

Extended Episode just $3 at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
A deeper dive into identity
The public body of mother and the artist’s need for time alone and secrecy
Maternal inheritance and our maternal ancestors
The feeling of loss of time and career
Wanda White – the author of the book in the book!
Want more?
A full episode of my second conversation with Sarah Detweiler is available on the $6/9 dollar Patreon tiers.
At this level you can also join us for future book clubs
www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Resources
Nightbitch
The Rainbow Way
The Artist’s Way
All Fours
Burning Woman
Moods of Motherhood
Crow Moon
Motherhood Until Yesterday
I’m a Writer But…

About Rachel Yoder
Named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. It was adapted for screen in 2024 by writer and director by Marielle Heller, starring Amy Adams.

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A brief look at all the creative magic coming up in January

January 8th - Womancraft Submission Zoom call – link here
January 9th- Feb 13th – submissions open at Womancraft Publishing – find out more.
January 13th – Creative Magic Book Club – Magic Maker by Pam Grossman – sign up here
January 20th Free Multi-Passionate Creative class – sign up here
Feb 10th - The Multi-Passionate Creative and The Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur, starts, early birds to Jan 30th. Find out more...***
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A seasonal round up from Lucy – her highlights of Season 4 and looking ahead to our next Between the Seasons Book Specials.
As well as snippets from a festive conversation with friend of the pod, witchy author, Sarah Robinson as we share how we celebrate Christmas and some of our favourite Christmas traditions – all things mince pies, cranberries and Christmas trees.

In the Extended Episode – there’s oodles more from just $3/ month on Patreon
We talk Christmas wreaths
Hygge
Plus bonus Seasonal extracts from the book that we co-authored – The Kitchen Witch Companion.
Resources
Join the Book Club on Patreon
The Kitchen Witch Companion
Sarah’s autumn episode – Magical Wanders
Pam Grossman’s episode
Womancraft Publishing Submissions
Sign up for my new free class: The Multipassionate Creative

About Sarah
Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch and the Wildwood and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairy tale. Her newest book Witch Country: Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape is out on October 31st.
A yoga teacher and author based in in Bath, UK. Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities. She is host of the Witch Country podcast.
You can listen to Sarah’s popular episode from Season 1 of Creative Magic – Let’s All Run Away and Live in the Woods, and learn from her and myself in the Weaving Magic with Words epsidoe in Season 3, as well as discvoer some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on Patreon – for $6/ month.

Join her for her Masterclasses live on Zoom on October 29th and November 5th.

Find Sarah online:
Website: www.sentiayoga.com
Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry
Podcast: Witch Country
Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson

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