Inspired Creators: The Witch Wound -- Consuming and Being Consumed

Welcome to our second episode in our six-part series on Inspired Creators, where we’re musing on recovering from burnout, embodying your ideal creator archetype, finding your energetic creation wave, and what the Witch Wound has to do with our intuition and creative output.

This week we’re digging into the history of the Witch Wound and how it can affect our ability to get paid, be seen, and create from an authentic place.

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I’m just out here living. I’m trying to do my best, be my best, and also love myself.
— Michelle Pellizzon
It’s very common for intuitive, creative people to also be perfectionists to be extremely high achievers.
— Michelle Pellizzon
The witch wound is the wounding that someone would have from a past life experience of being penalized for a magical witch, effectively being burned at the stake for being yourself, and for going against the grain.
— Michelle Pellizzon
Sometimes when we’re free, it intimidates other people. Our comfort in ourselves, our confidence, and our choices can feel like an indictment to somebody else who’s not confident in their choices.
— Michelle Pellizzon
We’re also afraid to use our intuition to help us make choices to the point that maybe we’ll even go in the opposite direction of what our intuition tells us, which you definitely don’t want to do.
— Michelle Pellizzon
Your self-image, or your self-concept, can change depending on how you literally see yourself.
— Michelle Pellizzon
In the world, getting paid is a consume-consumption relationship. In nature, we are either consuming or being consumed. Sometimes at the same time.
— Michelle Pellizzon
As creators, we have to be okay and just audit our consumption-consume ratio. If we are being consumed, but we’re not consuming in return, then that means that we’re going to burn out because we are not getting enough resources to keep this thing going.
— Michelle Pellizzon

Show Notes

  • The idea of combating sides of your brain: one that wants to feel good, inspired, creative, alive, and free; and one that loves structure, being acknowledged and accepted

  • The fact that intuitive, creative people are also perfectionists and extremely high achievers

  • The witch wound defined

  • How our confidence and the choices we make affect other people

  • How healers get paid

  • Archetypes: the language of the collective conscious

  • The fear of being seen

  • Fear of trusting your intuition

  • Hesitancy to put a price on the things and services that we do

  • How you see yourself can change your self-image

  • How intuition plays into so many of our decision-making conversations

  • Is it healthy to do a sliding scale for your offerings?

  • Being in a relationship with your audience or users that isn't reciprocal

  • How to avoid burnout by auditing our consumption-consume ratio

  • Things to ponder: Do you feel like you're being over-consumed? Where do you need to consume in order to nourish yourself in order to feel well-resourced?

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