What the following inner witch child posts are about, as well as those that fall under this menu category, are my expanding upon a workshop I gave at Mystic South in the summer of 2025.
I originally came up with an idea to take the concept of the witch wound (an emotional or mental wound that’s either passed down from generation to generation from those directly or even indirectly impacted by the prosecution of witches throughout the centuries, from society’s persecution and looking down on those who are different from the established “norm” of the time and culture, as well as familial-induced direct or indirect trauma that in some form or fashion made you, the reader, or someone close to you consciously or unconsciously choose to shut down the side of yourself that is connected with magic in some way) and combine it with the concept of the inner child and inner child work.
There are tons of books, YouTube videos, articles, and workshops around the concept of healing the inner child. Many therapists somehow include work on healing trauma that has negatively impacted their patients’ inner children. It is a core wound that radiates throughout our lives and relationships.
The witch wound, as described above, is trauma that is passed down through generations, caused by enforcement by society either actively or passively (through implied disapproval, but not outright attacking someone), or because someone’s family or religion teaches it is wrong to believe in magic or one’s magical or psychic gifts.
My image of healing the inner witch child is reaching back in time to help that innocent side of yourself that believed in magic, wonder, dreams, possibilities, and a world where everything had a spirit or soul (animism).
So, healing the inner witch child entails looking at trauma (witch wounds) that have negatively impacted you in some way that caused you to lose touch with that little witch within you that saw the world as a wholly magical place.
What tends to impact people are past memories of people being mad at you (or you imagining they were mad at you) which might cause trauma, something where you did something that caused people to look at you and possibly judge you for what you said or did that made you feel you were utterly wrong to say something about how you viewed the world, what you saw or sensed or thought, or otherwise made you feel it was safer to shut down and not talk about or interact with the world as you truly experienced it.
My previous workshop and my blog posts stem from my working through my own healing journey as I try to puzzle out and pull together my personal investigations into my own trauma and my attempts to recapture that childhood magic to deepen my creative and magical practices.
I hope my sharing my own work and personal insight help you, the reader, take a look at your own inner witch child so you can get back to that mindset of your childhood where you can reconnect with the way you looked at and experienced the world as a place where anything was possible and dreams empowered you on a daily basis.
As a work in progress, the below list will slowly expand as I add more and more to the posts I make as I flesh more and more out of my own ventures into healing my inner witch child.
The Witch Wound
- Overview of the Witch Wound
- Basics of Trauma
- The Witch Wound — Generational
- The Witch Wound — Societal
- The Witch Wound — Familial
Understanding the Inner Witch Child
- To be added
Healing the Inner Witch Child