In this transformative episode of The Sober Witch Life, Sunshine takes us on a heartfelt journey from the early days of starting her business in January 2020—just four months into her recovery—to fully stepping into her identity as a witch. 🌙 She shares how spiritual growth became the cornerstone of her life and work, leading her to create a powerful healing program centered on the chakras. 🌈

Sunshine reveals a pivotal moment when her spirit guides spoke loud and clear: it was time to weave her witchcraft into her recovery work. 🔮✨ With vulnerability and wisdom, she explains how this calling shaped her path and led to the creation of the Witch’s 13 Steps to Recovery. She dives deep into Step 12—Embrace Your Magickal Path—and explains how embracing her magick transformed her recovery journey into one of empowerment, community, and service to others. 💖

Get ready to be inspired as Sunshine calls on witches in recovery to share their stories, reminding us that our journeys can spark courage and change in others. Whether you’re navigating recovery, exploring witchcraft, or both, this episode is a soulful reminder that embracing your magick can unlock the life you’re destined to live. 🌟

Tune in now and let’s light the way—together. 🔥

Sunshine – The pink-haired sober witch:

 

Evening, my dear witches, welcome back to the sober witch life: Sunshine’s guide to a mystical and magical recovery. Today, we’re going to be continuing our discussion of the witches 13 steps to recovery, and we’re almost done, because we’re on Step 12 here today, my dear friends, as always, we’re going to start with a little bit of story time. And you know, this is something I’ve talked about in the past. So I don’t know whether or not you’ve heard it, but I’m going to say it again. I started my business in January of 2020, just four months into my own recovery, and I started it by giving away free one card readings as a way to connect to my spirituality and strengthen my gifts, right? I knew, after sitting at the AA tables for, three and a half, almost four months at that point, that I wanted to lean heavy into my own spiritual beliefs, and I wasn’t going to find it at the tables, and I wasn’t going to find it in the traditional ways that people normally did because, I’m a witch. I never intended to be where I’m at today, though, like when I sat down on that path, I just knew I wanted to stay sober.

 

Shortly after doing that, though, I decided I wanted to do another deep dive, another study into the chakras, and one of my favorite ways to re explore a topic that I’m already familiar with is to teach it, right? Because there’s just something that I learn, you know, I just get a deeper breath when I know that I’m actually going to teach and there’s, there’s a method of like learning when it that actually says that. So I created one of my most powerful healing programs that I have at that particular time, and it’s called balance. We dove into the chakras. We use divination. It was really, really beautiful and incredibly healing for me and impactful for a lot of other folks that joined, I continued to teach throughout the years. I created other programs to help, and started offering my psychic mediumship services in the beginning, though, I always kept the psychic stuff and the witchy stuff separate. I actually had two different Facebook pages, not unsimilar to today, now that I think about that, but it came became really overwhelming to manage.

 

So I decided to just focus on the psychic stuff, not unlike I just was right, like, once again, it kind of became overwhelming, and at some point in the last number of years, Spirit spoke to me and said, but you’re a witch, my dear, and why do you hide it? Right? There’s so many others that need to hear you speak up about it, and that’s the truth, you know. And I remember the exact moment I was, you know, I had music on, and I was dancing in the living room by myself, and, you know, I was talking to my spirit guides. And, I connected to my higher self, and I got this download,  like, of course, you’re a high priestess, of course you’ve been leading folks in ritual for you know, years you need to stop shying away from referring to yourself as a witch. So I started to share that I was one, but I still tip toed around it being aligned with some of my purpose. And then this past winter, it was January of 2024, Spirit spoke very clearly and loudly to me again and told me that I needed to be supporting witches in recovery. That was how I connected it to my purpose. And I could feel this fire start to burn inside of me, right? You know this passion, this like you know, deep, deep, knowing that it was truly my calling.

 

 

 

Little did I know, though, that the fire would also be used to burn down everything else that I had built, practically starting me, forcing me to start from anew, right? I had no clue, you know, so I did. I ended up leaving corporate the end of April, and I’ve been on this path, focusing with this being my number one priority since, why am I sharing all of this with you? It’s because Step 12 is all around embracing your magical path and using it to help support other witches in recovery. Right, celebrate the milestones, continue your own spiritual growth by continuing to evolve as a witch in recovery and supporting other witches in their journey. Right. And I know that that may seem a little bit daunting, right, helping others when you don’t even feel solid in your own footing. I’m going to go back to that story that I shared in the beginning around kind of how I chose to, like, do that deep dive again, right? There’s a really beautiful thing that happens when we take what we know or are kind of knowing, or what we’re even learning, and start to help share that with other people. If there’s just something beautiful about it, and it’s actually, like I said, it’s, it’s a known way of learning is to teach, you know, and I’ll share with you, it doesn’t have to be elaborate. It doesn’t have to be complicated. You don’t have to go balls to the walls like I did, and start building up programs and all this kind of stuff like you don’t have to do that.

 

My mission and my passion is to help as many witches in recovery as I possibly can. That really is it, you know? I mean, even just right now, I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it. It’s so important to me.  It’s so incredibly important. And the truth is, you may already be doing this. You may be in Facebook groups or Reddit groups about witchcraft, maybe sharing your own story. You may still be at the AA tables, or maybe smart recovery, or dharma recovery or whatever, and speaking your truth and not shying away from the fact that you are a witch and that’s part of your spiritual path. You may even be telling others of your recovery journey and just answering questions when they ask. And if you’re not, it’s as simple as just starting to let others know that you’re on a recovery journey. I know some of you may not be ready to come out of the closet, and some of you may it may not even be safe. The reality is is we do live in a world that can still cast a lot of judgment on those of us that identify as a witch, but for those of you that have hesitated and you can safely come out of that closet. And it might mean you have to face some fear right to do so, I encourage you. There are so many of us witches that are out here that need to know we’re not alone, and Step 12 is doing just that. So from one witch to another, from one which in recovery to another, I’d encourage you to start sharing your story, so that others find the courage that they need to step on their own path. That’s it, my dear friends, that being said. Much love from me to all of you, until next time. 

 

 👉𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦!

🤙🏻𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐚 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥

🧡𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 

👍𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 

📷 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦

💜𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞

👍 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞

📷 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦

👍𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡’𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐚𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩

🚨𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬:

📲𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐩𝐩: 𝐴𝑉𝐴𝐼𝐿𝐴𝐵𝐿𝐸 𝐼𝑁 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐴𝑃𝑃 𝑆𝑇𝑂𝑅𝐸 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝑃𝐿𝐴𝑌 𝑆𝑇𝑂𝑅𝐸 𝑇𝑂 𝐷𝑂𝑊𝑁𝐿𝑂𝐴𝐷

🔮𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠:

🔮𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 

🧑‍🎨𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠