Ep 360: The Belonging Skill Nobody Taught Us (Witnessing & Being Witnessed)

<p>🕯️ Afraid to join a group of women? It&#39;s not that you&#39;re antisocial...there&#39;s something else happening. </p><p>Check out the upcoming call on Making a Home For Your Magic: <a href="https://signup.thesistersenchanted.com/witchywomen_2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://signup.thesistersenchanted.com/witchywomen_2026</a></p><p>Most of us say no to new spaces before we&#39;ve even considered them because somewhere along the line we learned that being in a room with other women means managing emotions. Don&#39;t sound braggy, don&#39;t be too loud, don&#39;t be too much 🫠 </p><p>Soften the good news so nobody feels bad about their own...the list can go on and on.</p><p>That&#39;s the witch wound - the old, inherited fear that being seen, being powerful, and being openly magical isn&#39;t safe.</p><p>In this episode I&#39;m joined for the first time in a long time by two guests: Jenn Reagan, event planner, choreographer, and three-year Enchanted Sister, and Naomie Harris, certified astrologer and the woman who wrangles the chickens here at Sisters Enchanted. Together they built and ran our gathering in Salem, Massachusetts with a whole lotta&#39; witchy women, most of whom had never met in person, walking into a room together.</p><p>We talk about what came up before anyone arrived like the inbox full of women talking themselves out of coming. Jenn deciding to get on a plane while her basement filled with floodwater and why that turned out to be one of the best decisions she&#39;s made. The cliques that started forming before the event even began, and how we brought the energy back up instead of down into who-said-what.</p><p>And the highlight ➡️ witnessing and being witnessed. Nobody teaches us this. It&#39;s a muscle, y&#39;all, and community doesn&#39;t work without it.</p><p>🌙 If you&#39;ve ever hovered over the join button and closed the tab then this one&#39;s for you.</p><p>✨ What you&#39;ll walk away with:</p><p>— Why &quot;I&#39;m too empathic for group spaces&quot; is often the witch wound in disguise</p><p>— The question that makes hard decisions simple: how do I want to feel?</p><p>— Why cliques form out of fear (and how to widen the circle instead of calling people out)</p><p>— What separates actual community from a Facebook group with a nice name</p><p>— How to practice witnessing (and let yourself be witnessed) without deflecting</p><p>— Why the more authentically you show up, the less &quot;fitting in&quot; has to happen</p><p>🖤 You don&#39;t have to fit in, but you do have to let yourself belong. There&#39;s a difference, and we get into it.</p><p>Stay Magic, Enchanted Sister!</p>