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The Healthy Witch

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Oversimplified and pushed many concepts that are in fact ablest. I got this in hopes that there would be a better, more holistic take on the "health and wellness" garbage under the facade of spirituality but really, it was just the same things that I see over and over again in the community and really hope the next books that come out on health and witchcraft do better.

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I received this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I would rate this book 2.5 stars. If you are into Wicca, then you will probably really like this book. It talks about healing your body using spells, potions, mantras, etc. I have an interest in Wicca and magic so I found it an interesting book, although I would never try the spells or potions in this book.

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Good book for a beginner or an insight into witchy crystal things but it's not that great for a more experienced practitioner

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As within + so without = a healthy witch. But getting there takes the right magikal work. This holistic witchy workbook combines medical knowledge with magikal healing to put you where you need to be to get the most out of your life. Learn to personalize your healing needs by fusing skills in magik and nutrition, conducting rituals, and employing specialized spells. Using the pentagram model, take a healing journey through each organ in your body, allowing you to gain optimal health via signs, suggestions, and practical tips. Examine each element, and discover how your organs interact and affect your magikal energy flow. The tools here will guide you to becoming a naturally healthy witch, enabling you to work with the Goddess from a place of sacred well-being. A healthy witch is a successful witch!

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This book - The Healthy Witch - offers you methods including rituals, use of crystals and rituals and even spells for a holistic lifestyle. It includes seasonal, as well as, holidays to sort out when to use the rituals for maximum effect.

This book was provided for free in exchange for my honest opinion. It is an easy to understand and follow book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and highly recommend.

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This isn't the best book out there, but it is a decent read for someone looking to use spells, rituals, crystals, food, and other methods to help in healing from a witch's perspective. It goes into detail regarding different ailments and organs that might not be up to par during different seasons of the year and offers rituals for various holidays to help strengthen the body's health. I found the way it was written a little awkward and hard to follow at times, but I had an ARC version, so that may have had a little to do with it.

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This was an interesting book that offered advice on how to be healthy using the pentagram model. I found it to be interesting and useful, as it focused on getting all of the organs working together to create a healthy energy flow.

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Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity for review. My review opinion is my own.

This is a excellent guide for witches to learn more about self care inside and out. The first half she uses a pentagram to describe organs and assigns them to elements. She describes symptoms and magical associations to crystals, essential oils as well as herbal magic. This helps us utilize what herbs and tonics to use for each organ health. The author describes how to incorporate meditation to heal. The author has beautifully done diagrams and charts throughout this book.

She describes ways to achieve wellness in simple terms anyone can understand even beginning witches. This applies for all of us that have chronic health conditions. The second half goes on to discus magick and spells, rituals and timing with the witches wheel for each of the seasons. Included are altars and use of magical pouches, herbs and crystals for our magic. I love the inclusion of the pagan wheel of the year and holidays in relation to health.

There is something here for every witch and I found it very helpful and educational. I recommend this book for all witches no matter your level of training and experience. Very well done to the author ! I will add that as a person of extreme chronic pain , a broken neck and Fibromylegia pain I refuse to use any medications that doctors continually push on me. I feel meds are dangerous and toxic to our bodies. I use herbal healing , meditation, magic, rest and stretching to control pain. So I am in full agreement with this author to see that she recommends against meds for chronic pain and illness. I find it very refreshing when a author is able to stand up for their beliefs against the toxic systems of western medicine and big pharma. Very well done !

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I'm diabetic and I'm a wiccan so I was curious about this book.
I can say that this book features too many alternative medicine and Oh-the-Goddess-will-help ideas and even shames people who are medicate.
Not my cup of tea as I need my drugs to be alive.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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This was a fun and interesting book. It was quite informative and definitely worth the money and time.

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Nothing to get overly excited about. Not bad but not wonderful.

**OMG! I cannot believe that these reviews haven't been done! I am so sorry they are so late!!!**

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I had high hopes for this book but was let down. It is controversial and the claims she makes lack sound evidence to back them. It is not helpful and I think can be misleading to some.

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I had some high hopes for this book but unfortunately was let down. Some of it was interesting but most was relatively common sense at the same time. I also found it a bit difficult to properly read because of the formatting frequently being messed up. I’m a witch myself and was hoping to get more out of it but sadly it is mostly things I already do or just wouldn’t do. I also believe that it should have mentioned the type of witch this was aimed at. There’s was a lot of talk of the Goddess and spells that incorporate her but not every witch follows that. This is more for the Wiccan witch and should’ve been advertised as such because those parts had nothing to do with my own beliefs or practices

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I loved the cover art but, unfortunately, that is all. I found the book to be conversational but unfounded in it's claims and this is a concern to me as a professional practitioner. I would caution people from following these guidelines described in this book. While the author provides a good disclaimer about each person needing to research for themselves, this being in print is a risk factor to many who do not do that due diligence.

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Just a reference to help with what you have done to a medical practitioner. For some reason I was thinking more of a cookbook, but it is more of an introduction to a few health issues. Some herbs are introduced to the reader and a reference at the end.

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For anyone who's even a little bit interested in Wicca, you'll find this super interesting. Full of good tips and tricks to figure out what to do to take care of your body or figure out what's wrong, this book will help you take a few steps forward without sounding like it has all the answers.

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The Healthy With by TJ Perkins is a very basic intro linking health and witchcraft. Good for beginners, but not so much for everyone else.

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I think this mostly will benefit a new witch with no medical experience or knowledge. With that said, it's important to understand the author is not a healthcare professional. As an individual who works in healthcare, I found myself too distracted by my own knowledge to look beyond that information to see into the witchcraft points in the beginning. I liked the spell section, but that was about it.

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This review is online at https://livingtheliminal.wordpress.com/2019/08/04/brooms-up-reviews-the-healthy-witch/

The Healthy Witch: A Workbook for Optimal Health

by TJ Perkins, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Red Feather Mind | Body | Spirit. Health, Mind & Body. Pub Date 28 Sep 2019


“As within + so without = a healthy witch. But getting there takes the right magikal work. This holistic witchy workbook combines medical knowledge with magikal healing to put you where you need to be to get the most out of your life. Learn to personalize your healing needs by fusing skills in magik and nutrition, conducting rituals, and employing specialized spells. Using the pentagram model, take a healing journey through each organ in your body, allowing you to gain optimal health via signs, suggestions, and practical tips. Examine each element, and discover how your organs interact and affect your magikal energy flow. The tools here will guide you to becoming a naturally healthy witch, enabling you to work with the Goddess from a place of sacred well-being. A healthy witch is a successful witch!”

– Book description from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
One intersection of living the liminal is no more overlooked than that of physical health and witchcraft. In this book, TJ Perkins brings together both, with a fierce and challenging look at optimizing health through challenges of physical pain, menopause, and more. I appreciated the focus TJ brings to this area.

TJ’s approach builds on that of the pentagram – each point representing one of the elements and uses the body for various correspondences with each element. She then delves into each with questions designed to help you understand areas of imbalance in your physical and spiritual self. Following the sections of the workbook devoted to this reflective exercise, she shares various ritual baths and candle magick, as well as crystal grids to support healing.

The second section was definitely the highlight for me. The rituals, the correspondences, and simple rhyming spells were perfect for witches of all experience levels, and shared enough detail to understand how to work through a ritual. TJ also reminded the readers throughout the book that these practices for healing are not “one and done” magick – that healing, whether physically or magickally completed, take time and continued effort.

For the first section, I would say I struggled with some of the medical information shared. As a health professional I had a difficult time not letting that knowledge come into play, and I would encourage readers to remember that TJ is not a health professional and sharing her own knowledge and experience. Should you decide that you do have imbalance in one or more of the pentagram points, it’s important to work with your health care provider(s) alongside the witchcraft. This is one way to live the liminal and work with both. My friend Mat just wrote a great blog about this very thing, combining the woo woo and the science. I encourage you all to check it out.


Overall, I give this book 3.5/5 brooms up!

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A decent book about being healthy the witchy way. I do like how she aligned different ailments with their corresponding chakras and organs in the body. But eating something "yellow" just to help the liver seemed a little like dark ages medicine. She was correct though that more vegetables and less alcohol will help our bodies and our energies feel better.

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The Healthy Witch by TJ Perkins was provided to me by Red Feather mind/body/soul Publishing and Netgalley as an advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review. As a practicing witch I jumped at the chance. After all, healthy is a goal we all hope to achieve, eh? The author uses the term field book throughout this quick read. The first half describes organs and assigns them on a pentagram to elements. She describes dysfunction and ways to achieve wellness in simple terms. The RN in me thought perhaps this section is remedial but that may be in part to my profession. The second half goes on to discus magick and ties in spells, rituals and timing with the witches wheel for the season. She also includes herbs and crystals to enhance your magickal works. Overall, I think a newer practitioner may get the most out of this book. However, I’m sure everyone will find something in this book that resonates with them, no matter their experience.

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