Tag: Mental Health
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Missing Someone Who’s Still Alive: A Samhain Ritual for Living Losses
How to acknowledge a changed relationship, make room for what you miss, and choose one thing that supports you now. A friendship ends, a marriage breaks down, or someone you love stops being part of your everyday life. They’re still alive, but the relationship you relied on has changed. You reach for your phone to…
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October Is Coming, Bestie. It’s Time to Read Something a Little Cursed
Put down the wholesome summer romance. We have witches, secrets and extremely questionable supernatural decisions to make. Bestie, we’ve made it. September is packing her bags. October is standing outside holding a candle and looking suspicious. And suddenly the books that sounded slightly too dark in July? Delicious. I don’t want sunshine anymore. I want…
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The “Just One More Chapter” Romance Books We Blame for Our Sleep Problems
Tomorrow-you would like a word. Tonight-you does not care. Bestie, it’s 11:07 p.m. You’re going to read one chapter. Very mature. Very responsible. Look at you respecting your sleep schedule. Then somebody kisses somebody they absolutely should not be kissing. Suddenly it’s 12:43 a.m., your Kindle battery is at 14%, and you’ve begun calculating whether…
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A Neurodivergent Witch’s Guide to Autumn: When You Love the Season but Hate the Change
You ordered crunchy leaves and candles. Your nervous system received schedule changes, different daylight and seventeen new sensory experiences. Can we admit that loving autumn and actually transitioning into autumn are two completely different experiences? Because my witchy brain is delighted. Give me candles, cooler evenings, Mabon, ridiculous quantities of cinnamon and the first excuse…
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Low-Energy Witchcraft Is Still Witchcraft: What to Do When Your Brain Says Magic and Your Body Says Absolutely Not
Because apparently the universe forgot to include unlimited spoons with our witch starter pack. Okay, come sit with me for a minute, because we need to discuss one of my least favourite myths about witchcraft: that you need to be actively doing something impressive for your practice to count. You know the aesthetic. Candles everywhere.…
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Summer Romance at its Best: Why Do We Still Think About Someone We Only Knew for Two Weeks?
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been minding your own business, folding laundry or standing in the supermarket trying to decide whether you really need another iced coffee, when suddenly your brain goes: “Remember that guy you met on holiday eight years ago?” Excuse me? I don’t remember where I left my sunglasses ten minutes…
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7 Romance Books for Readers Who Love Powerful Women
There was a time when romance heroines were often written as people things happened to. Thankfully, those days are fading. Today’s romance readers want women who make decisions, start trouble, save themselves, build businesses, protect families, run kingdoms, lead covens, and occasionally set entire storylines on fire. Power looks different in every book. Sometimes it’s…
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Why Most Authors Burn Out Before They Succeed
There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that happens when you turn creativity into constant visibility. Not writing itself.Not storytelling.Not even publishing. Visibility. The posting.The marketing.The algorithms.The pressure to be entertaining, insightful, productive, aesthetic, relatable, vulnerable, and somehow professionally branded at all times like a tiny exhausted corporation with Wi-Fi. A lot of authors don’t burn…
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On Magical Burnout (And Why Your Altar Has Been Collecting Dust Since November)
Let’s do something radical. Let’s admit it. The altar hasn’t been touched in weeks. Maybe months. The candles are still there — melted to different heights depending on how enthusiastic you were feeling on various occasions — and there’s a crystal you meant to cleanse since, let’s say, the last lunar eclipse. The tarot deck…
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Writing Romance with Psychology in Mind
Writing romance through psychology changes everything. It’s not about diagnoses — it’s about pattern, attachment, vulnerability, and growth. Chemistry starts a love story. Emotional capacity sustains it. That’s where depth lives — and where real transformation begins.
