Beloved witches & weirdos in low-capacity bodies, you are invited to join…
Soft Animal Coven
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nervous system magic
low-demand connection
seasonal ritual circles
Everything we want is on the other side of risk.
Whether it's in our relationship with our body, our relationships with our beloveds & kin, in our creative or spiritual endeavors, pretty much all of the things we desire & long for require us to choose risk, to choose experimentation, to choose messiness & discomfort.
And yet, for those of us in rebel bodies, our lived experience has drastically reduced our nervous system's capacity to make those kinds of choices with ease, leaving us to the same shame-based strategies that have harmed us in the first place: pushing, forcing, isolating, berating, cajoling.
In other words, the only way we've learned to do new, exciting, hard, risky shit is by violating our own consent, which we know isn't a sustainable strategy.
How do we get over the threshold and move towards that risk without resorting to self-extraction, urgency, and scarcity?
How de we create paths to risk & thriving outside of the well-worn grooves of internalized oppression & shame?
We need a new way.
We need room in the nervous system for life to surprise us. We need room in the nervous system to trust that help & rest will be available if things are hard, so that our soft animal can be much more willing to consent to taking risks, trying new shit, and making a mess.
What risks might become more accessible if your soft animal could trust that it would reliably receive the kind of support and accommodation it needs?
Enough with the fucking around and finding out, over and over again, that the tools & answers the overculture offers us were never meant to work for our rebel bodies
The future we want requires that we radically rewrite our nervous system story.
One that doesn't override the soft animals of our bodies but instead invites them to co-create with us, asking them what they need in order to feel safe in the process, and allowing them the time & space they need to rest, digest, and integrate.
When we learn to take BOTH our devotion to our dreams AND the capacity of our bodies EQUALLY SERIOUSLY, then radical change can really happen.
Now is the time to cultivate the kind of nervous system that can actually receive the world of safety & abundance we want to build for all beings.
Which means: it's time to start taking your magic fucking seriously.
It’s giving neuroqueer witch church & craft club.
What this is:
A monthly membership community of practice & integration where you’ll learn nervous system magic that will help you return to your wild & weird soul and all the things they want to make.
What’s included:
3-4 low-demand live calls each week
seasonal wheel of the year ritual circles
extensive library of courses & workshops on ritual, trauma repair, & nervous system magic.
a community of low-capacity witches who see you & understand you
an animist, somatic, and anticapitalist framework to imagine & experiment towards new ways of thriving in low-capacity bodies.
an accessible somatic journaling modality to rewrite your nervous system story
Who it’s for:
Artists, activists, healers, lovers & shit disturbers in rebel bodies who want to expand their capacity to feel & receive so they can reclaim their energy & sovereignty from the jaws of the empire.
What Is Soft Animal Magic?
A framework of nervous system magic for witches & weirdos in rebel bodies who want to expand their capacity to feel & receive so they can take radical risks in their relationships and creative lives and embody the world they most want to live in—WITHOUT burning out, feeling shame, getting overwhelmed, or doing it all alone.
Weaving together animism & witchcraft, anti-capitalism & neuroqueer liberation, and somatics, the Soft Animal Magic framework is:
Accessible: Starts small & goes slow—because this is hard work and life is already hard enough.
Adaptive: Meant to be adapted to your particular circumstances, needs, capacities, visions, values.
Archetypal: Uses symbols & imagery from the Tarot and folk stories to ground & illustrate aspects of lived experience.
Cyclical: Healing & thriving according to the cycles & rhythms of nature.
Elemental: Rooted in the four elements that create & sustain all of life.
Fractal: The same principles work at different scales, in the way that the shape of a snail's shell is the same as the shape of a galaxy.
Liberate your soul from the spell of shame by cultivating an accessible magic practice that honors the body you have right now.
Why do we need Soft Animal Magic now?
Because the world is on fire. Because we are TIRED y’all. Because grief, grief, grief. Because the ways we’ve been taught to do things don’t work for us. Because fascism. Because we don’t need to work harder, we need to feel safer. Because we deserve better. Because we need each other. Because the burnout is REAL. Because the world needs our sparkly brains. Because these systems harm us so deeply. Because animism is the antidote. Because community is medicine. Because we can’t repair our trauma without Spirit. Because our dreams are worth it but can’t be reached through the old ways. Because it is time for something new. Because the way we get there matters.
Why a Coven?
I’ve been running group programs and workshops on trauma repair, nervous system capacity, and ritual for over five years, and there are two key takeaways I’ve gleaned from the process:
We cannot do this work alone: systemic trauma is best addressed in ongoing, supportive, intentional communities where we can practice giving & receiving witness & resource.
When the wound is in the body, there’s no amount of information that alone can facilitate repair. People don’t need more facts in order to heal; they need new experiences and new resources.
Accessible & Digestible
We created the Soft Animal Magic Coven to be as accessible as it is comprehensive. Everything in this online space has been designed and gut-checked by three neurodivergent witches who are picky as fuck to be inclusive, sensory-friendly, and functional without being overwhelming.
The Coven is priced so that it could be an easy, sustainable yes for most people in our community, almost all of whom are neurodivergent and/or disabled and/or queer and/or trans, and whose livelihood under these oppressive systems is all too often tenuous.
Who This is For
Artists, activists, healers, lovers & shit disturbers in rebel bodies who want to expand their capacity to feel & receive so they can reclaim their energy & sovereignty from the jaws of the empire.
Any body whose needs are marginalized & whose value is diminished by the colonial, cishetero, capitalist patriarchy is a rebel body. This includes, but is not limited to:
People in neurodivergent bodies.
Bodies experiencing chronic illness, chronic pain, and/or autoimmunity.
Queer & trans bodies.
Grieving & healing bodies.
Burnt out bodies.
Bodies of people from the global majority.
Pregnant & postpartum bodies.
What You Can Expect
In the realms of embodiment, relationships, creativity, and spirituality, here are some of the outcomes that become possible through Soft Animal Magic:
EMBODIMENT
Trust your body as it moves through its natural cycles & rhythms.
Remain connected to agency & connection while in the midst of contraction.
Own your rebel body genius and overcome internalized ableism.
Cultivate a nervous system spacious enough to receive rest, pleasure, abundance.
Know & trust your ability to care for yourself because you know exactly what you need.
Know when & how to lower expectations, and when & how to increase support.
RELATIONSHIPS
Release shame & tend grief that keep your system stuck in a pattern of protection when what you want is to connect & to belong.
Exercise flexibility when familiar survival strategies show up and in whether and how to engage.
Make daring choices in creative & relational matters in sustainable & accessible ways.
Ask for & receive the kinds of help you actually need.
Be vulnerable on purpose without losing your entire shit.
Create connections with like-minded witches and weirdos in a curated community space.
CREATIVITY
Move towards your dreams without pushing or extracting from yourself in order to do so.
Feel seen in your brilliance without shrinking or cringing.
Easily stoke the fire of devotion to pursue your unique purpose & vision, while also honouring your capacity.
Connect to hope & imagination for the future.
SPIRITUALITY
Connect to a larger spiritual container that can hold you through anything & everything.
Cultivate a felt sense of secure attachment with Spirit and the sensory world.
Cultivate sensory relationships with supportive spirits and familiars through ritual.
Use your voice to speak truth to power.
What’s Included
Special Community Sessions
seasonal ritual circles: wheel of the year, somatic spellwork labs, yin yoga practice
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Somatic spellwork labs and yin practice happen monthy. Wheel of the Year circles happen seasonally.
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This is the church of Soft Animal Magic, where we do more formal ritual and magic together. We come together to call in the elements and spirits to support us as we walk the spiral path and change the story of our nervous systems into one where we are able to take on risk. It is where we dispel internalized capitalism and ableism from our systems and remind ourselves what it means to be in our bodies and belong to the earth and each other.
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This is the church of Soft Animal Magic, where we do more formal ritual and magic together. We come together to call in the elements and spirits to support us as we walk the spiral path and change the story of our nervous systems into one where we are able to take on risk. It is where we dispel internalized capitalism and ableism from our systems and remind ourselves what it means to be in our bodies and belong to the earth and each other.
Quiet Club
weekly live coworking
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Wednesdays @ 11am Pacific/1pm Central/2pm Eastern
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Join your witch besties errrrry single week for focused support and get some shit done (like laundry, or taxes, or emails, journaling or even a nap!) Following a quick check in, we will spend some time (camera on or off) doing whatever work, creativity or play could use some company. We then end with an opportunity to ask for reflection or resource––this will also be a time to connect and receive witness. More powerful than it seems, body-doubling has been shown to be particularly helpful to neurodivergent folks.
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Coven coworking leverages the power of doing things in community, particularly things that feel risky to the nervous system. It lowers the threshold for doing what might otherwise feel challenging. Knowing we’re not alone and having access to witness and support makes things more accessible. In other words, it can sometimes be easier to create portals and tunnels when we have each other’s presence.
Oracle Hour
weekly live call
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Tuesdays @ 12pm Pacific/2pm Central/3pm Eastern
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A weekly witchy Ask Me Anything (AMA):
Bring a sticky somatic knot to untangle or a pattern puzzle to solve and get a mini-coaching session, receive a pep talk or have a card pulled for you! Even if you don’t know what your question is, this is still the place to be––Fenn will help you figure it out, or you’ll hear others ask questions that spark with your own experience!
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Every single week you have an opportunity to have a one-card tarot pull or micro-coaching session around how this material is working through your nervous system and life. It allows for companionship in the process - the giving and receiving of witness. It allows us to know ‘it’s not just me’, which is a profound undoing of shame.
Somatic Journaling
weekly live call
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Thursdays @ 9am Pacific/11am Central/12pm Eastern
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A practice of stimming on paper to create the conditions that make nervous system magic possible.
In somatic journaling, we develop a sensory versus cognitive relationship with our journals and the habit of journaling. We make journaling more accessible by focusing on what brings us sensory joy about the process. It’s less about what you write or how much, and more about the right-now sensation of the journal in our hands and our relationship with it.
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Somatic journaling is a sacred container and a creative practice that centers sensory joy and bottom-up processing; provides a safe space to experiment with making messes and getting comfortable in the discomfort; and keeps track of the cycles & rhythms of the soft animal of the body.
PLUS!!! For your asynchronous learning pleasure…
The Trauma Witch Teaching Library, which includes my core course, WTF Is Trauma?, as well as (almost) all of the workshops I’ve taught in the last few years, all together for your asynchronous learning delight.
Soft Animal Magic Library, which will house all the new material my team and I are working on—including the first three workshops to get you started.
A Practice Portal of somatic spells, rituals, and tarot spreads.
You’ve done all the therapy already. It’s time to get weird.
Meet the witch behind the magic
Fenn Priest (she/her) is an Autistic witch, nervous system psychic, and somatic practitioner. She helps witches & weirdos in rebel bodies expand their nervous system capacity to feel and receive so they can find the embodiment, belonging, freedom, and joy the soft animal of their bodies long for. A loudmouth Gen X stoner hailing from the north woods of Canada, she currently lives in Austin TX with her weird, neurocomplex, polyamorous family, and one bossy black cat named Juniper. She can usually be found putting stickers in her journals and listening to Taylor Swift with noise-cancelling headphones.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Mostly yes. The weekly Quiet Club (coworking) isn’t recording. The Coven Moon Circles, Oracle Hour & Somatic Journaling calls are recorded, and the replays are archived in the portal for easy access.
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You might want to bring the following:
Stim & comfort items
Your favorite tarot or oracle deck
A small selection of your favorite sacred objects, potions, candles, and/or incense to create your ritual space
Pen and paper or a journal
Snacks and/or beverages for nourishment and hydration
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We host a very come-as-you-are space: you are free to arrive late, to leave early, to have your camera on or off. You get to choose exactly how much or how little you want to participate in.
We’ll provide closed captions and a transcript of the replay. Please email us at hello@thetraumawitch.com if you have additional accessibility needs.
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE AUTISTIC OR DISABLED TO PARTICIPATE.
Neurodivergent traits are human traits presenting in different combinations of varying intensity. The accommodations that make life safe & pleasurable for Autistic & disabled folks benefit absolutely everyone. No one escapes the spell of shame cast by an ableist & capitalist society. If the descriptions of these offerings speak to your soul, then you belong here.
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You betcha. You don’t have to be on camera; you can arrive late & leave early; all sharing is optional.
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Listen, that’s a hard one to answer, this record is all bangers, no skips for me, but if pressed to make a choice, my top 3 would be The Fate Of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, and Father Figure.
The body you have right now is the perfect vessel with which to cross the threshold into your truest, softest, most creative life.
You don’t need to try harder, you need to feel safer.
