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Publication
Adams Media (2019), 224 pages
Description
"Self-care is a necessity for any modern woman, and this book helps you prioritize #1 with a little help from the magic of witchcraft. The Witch's Book of Self-Care has advice for pampering your body, mind, and spirit with spells, meditations, mantras, and powerful activities to help you to keep healthy, soothe stress, relinquish sadness, channel joy, and embrace your strength"--
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LibraryThing member justchris
This is a charming little book that frames self-care in terms of witchery. The subtitle: Magical Ways to Pamper, Soothe, and Care for Your Body and Spirit. It delivers as advertised. I am just starting my spiritual exploration and have been struggling for quite a long while to engage in self-care.
It's divided into 5 chapters: self-care and magic, mental and emotional self-care, physical self-care, spiritual self-care, and household self-care, bookended by the introduction, bibliography, and index. It's got kind, compassionate advice and suggestions for developing habits to build self-esteem, reduce stress, and bring meaning into daily life. And lots of recipes! For personal care products, food, teas, aromatherapy blends, incense, craft projects. And spells/rituals, which are basically recipes with a spiritual dimension, to go along with an assortment of mindfulness practices. My only frustration with the book is that all of these recipes and rituals call for an assortment of materials, and it would have been nice to have included those in the index. Instead, I added sticky notes to the inside cover creating ad hoc indices for stones, oils, herbs, and incense ingredients. Based on these, the most useful items are bergamot, clear quartz, frankincense, jasmine, lavender, rose quartz, sandalwood, ylang ylang, and rose. Plus, lots of different colors of candles.
This is a very hands-on book that offers lots of things to try out. I've already started doing some of them and look forward to trying out more. The food recipes are probably the least interesting to me as I already have an extensive cookbook collection and am very comfortable with feeding the body--I really need help with feeding the soul. Hopefully, this little guide will continue to nudge me toward more intentional daily practices. It might help you too, or at least give you ideas to think about.
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I thought this book might be an engaging way to push over two tile cascades (dominoes FTW!).It's divided into 5 chapters: self-care and magic, mental and emotional self-care, physical self-care, spiritual self-care, and household self-care, bookended by the introduction, bibliography, and index. It's got kind, compassionate advice and suggestions for developing habits to build self-esteem, reduce stress, and bring meaning into daily life. And lots of recipes! For personal care products, food, teas, aromatherapy blends, incense, craft projects. And spells/rituals, which are basically recipes with a spiritual dimension, to go along with an assortment of mindfulness practices. My only frustration with the book is that all of these recipes and rituals call for an assortment of materials, and it would have been nice to have included those in the index. Instead, I added sticky notes to the inside cover creating ad hoc indices for stones, oils, herbs, and incense ingredients. Based on these, the most useful items are bergamot, clear quartz, frankincense, jasmine, lavender, rose quartz, sandalwood, ylang ylang, and rose. Plus, lots of different colors of candles.
This is a very hands-on book that offers lots of things to try out. I've already started doing some of them and look forward to trying out more. The food recipes are probably the least interesting to me as I already have an extensive cookbook collection and am very comfortable with feeding the body--I really need help with feeding the soul. Hopefully, this little guide will continue to nudge me toward more intentional daily practices. It might help you too, or at least give you ideas to think about.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
224 p.; 7.5 inches
ISBN
1507209142 / 9781507209141
Local notes
Another delightful lovely book by Arin Murphy-Hiscock!
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