Witch Sweat

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Welcome to Witch Sweat ~ conversations on the body, intuition, creative practice and spiritual self-inquiry. Jolts of inspiration! Hype sauce for a more expressed life! We’re talking about what it takes to unfurl the wingspan, and feel more life pouring through the parts of ourselves that otherwise stay squished and hidden. Follow @melissawordstudio on Instagram for more juicy word-art-play and subscribe to Witch Sweat for new weekly episodes. Music by Ben Coleman

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Tiddies in the Sun

May 06 2024 28 mins

This week we’re talking breast lumps, the doom forecasting that comes with health scares and awaiting *results*, talking to angels, and our very good but mysterious pal SURRENDER. And, like, how to fall dizzyingly in love with the lumpy mess of reality precisely as it is right now. Spoiler alert - I gotta clean bill of health, this is about the upgrade in consciousness we get whe

Talk to the Dang Spirit of Your Projects

Apr 21 2024 28 mins

An episode for the artists, creatives and solo entrepreneurs out there who get bogged down by the idea of having to *do it all* all by your lonesome. You've got other unseen forces up in your corner, who have your back, who are gassing you up and have secret lil intel to support your vision and work. Call them your guides, the angels, God, call them the indwelling consciousness of

Locked Out of the Love Show // Lil Drips

Apr 05 2024 22 mins

Oh lookie here, we are BACK baby. The AI bot that helped me audio engineer this episode thought it would be a good idea to title it "Savoring the Petite Droplets of Life Experiences" and they would be not wrong. Listen to me try to make the parallel between the experience of fomo and an inflammatory yet very magical take on DEATH. Whoops another accidental episode on death stuff. S

Rejection Medicine: Artists, Institutions, and Empire w/Jimmy Joyner

Dec 01 2023 92 mins

Jimmy and Melissa air some things OUT. We’re talking about the cost of an unexpressed life. We’re talking about the cost of wrangling our true voices to be more palatable to institutions - for clout, visibility, legibility, resource access - and how the curated version of ourselves is like an addiction that must be recovered from, boy howdy! We’re looking at the micro and mac

Not Collapsing When the World’s Heart Breaks Open

Nov 08 2023 44 mins

In this episode, we look at what’s happening in G@za, specifically through the lens of social media, and the forces that want to keep us skewing towards nervous system collapse and disassociation. Spoiler alert: it’s whiteness! It’s the ‘soothing’ lull of consumerism and capitalism! It’s the unconscious practice of abdicating personal power! It's compulsive information

Death Stuff, Grief Stuff, and the Gods in the Ground

Oct 03 2023 51 mins

An episode for people who wanna get into the loving mystery and magic of death, dying and grief work. In this solo show, Melissa shares a story from a recent encounter with a dying person, and some powerful / hard-won lil gemstones of truth that have emerged since. Don’t be scared! Let’s normalize these convos and make it feel less bewildering and weird. Ilysm thank you for bei

Intergalactic Masculinity w/ Hez Stalcup

Sep 21 2023 76 mins

We are in search of more imaginative expressions of masculinity - in ourselves and in the world, who tf is with us?? Let’s get into the energy of the nourishing and life-affirming badassery that is the sacred and dare-we-say intergalactic masculine principle. We talk Sedona vortexes, performative masculinity as a survival strategy, entity work, erotic power, desire, exhaustion, a

The Holy Fire of Other People’s Opinions : Getting Unpalatable Workshop

Sep 12 2023 37 mins

This week Mel shares an excerpt from a recent mini-workshop on the cost of prioritizing likeability in the eyes of others. We unravel the tangled knots of codependency, living as if to placate others, and orienting to life as if you’re always on the edge of being in trouble or needing to explain yourself. She shares a few somatic tools for loosening the grip of some of these lear

Getting Cracked Open By the Divine w/ Dajé Alōh

Sep 05 2023 72 mins

This week we are joined by the dazzling Dajé Alōh aka The Story Doula, and DANG do we get blessed by her presence. She takes us all the way to church and to the underworld beneath the church, and has us swinging from the rafters by the end of it. We talk recovery from fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and mining the jewels from the faith for a more creative, more gritty OF THE

The Ancestral Hot Seat

Aug 29 2023 21 mins

Mel takes us on a journey through the imagination and the realm of the ancestors, sharing a visualization tool for connecting to the big, fun resource that is your kindreds on the other side of the veil. Beginners and skeptics welcome! This is not about talking to dead people in a mediumship kind of way, but more like tippy-tapping on the back screen door of the ~beyond~ and recogn