The Sober Witch Life: A Guide to a Mystical Recovery

This heartfelt episode explores the subtle and obvious signs that alcohol may be causing more harm than we realize. Reflecting on holiday drinking, personal experiences, and the culture of moderation, Sunshine Witchski shares how behaviors once considered "normal"—hangovers, risky decisions, endless rules around drinking, impulsive spending, unhealthy relationships, and abandoning personal values—...

In this episode of The Sober Witch Life Podcast , Sunshine sits down with Arlina Allen, sobriety expert, author, coach, and host of The One Day at a Time Podcast . With 32 years of sobriety through 12-step recovery, Arlina shares the story of how recovery helped her rebuild a life rooted in healing, self-compassion, spirituality, and service. Together, Sunshine and Arlina explore the painful reali...

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life Podcast , host Sunshine Witchski reflects on the meaning of the summer solstice and how it symbolizes joy, growth, and personal transformation. Drawing from childhood memories, recovery experiences, and her spiritual practice, she explores how seasonal cycles can teach us about lasting change more effectively than short-term milestones. She contrasts the qui...

In this episode of Sober Witch Life , Sunshine welcomes Kristine Genovese, creator of the Soul Intelligence Method, for a powerful conversation about recovery, self-abandonment, spirituality, and energetic healing. Kristine shares that self-abandonment was something she learned at a very young age, and that it shaped most of her life until her late 50s. While that pattern helped her become highly...

In this episode of Sober Witch Life , Sunshine welcomes Kristine Genovese, creator of the Soul Intelligence Method, for a powerful conversation about recovery, self-abandonment, spirituality, and energetic healing. Kristine shares that self-abandonment was something she learned at a very young age, and that it shaped most of her life until her late 50s. While that pattern helped her become highly...

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life Podcast , Max shares a deeply personal story of addiction, recovery, harm reduction, and spirituality. Growing up immersed in punk, DIY, and party culture, Max never initially saw himself as someone struggling with addiction. What began as recreational substance use eventually evolved into dependency, particularly with nitrous oxide and later methamphetamine...

In this heartfelt episode of The Sober Witch Life , Sunshine sits down with Annette Marie to talk about addiction, recovery, faith, family, and the long, messy road back to the self. Annette shares her journey from beginning drinking at fourteen, navigating years of shame, masking, toxic relationships, and relapse, to finding fourteen years of sobriety and a life rooted in service, movement, spiri...

In this episode of The Sober Witch Life Podcast , Sunshine welcomes Gen Rodriguez, psychic medium, tarot reader, past life regression practitioner, and host of Fate, Forty, and Beyond . Gen shares her recovery journey, including getting sober after realizing alcohol was keeping her disconnected from her self-worth, creativity, purpose, and personal power. Together, Sunshine and Gen explore what re...

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life podcast, Kim Gardner shares her powerful journey through addiction, trauma, and healing. Diagnosed with CPTSD and ADHD, Kim began using drugs and alcohol at 13 as a way to cope with childhood trauma, family struggles, and feeling unsupported. Despite rebuilding a successful career and life on the outside, she privately battled binge drinking and self-sabotag...

In this deeply reflective episode of the Sober Witch Life Podcast , Sunshine Witchski explores the powerful connection between addiction, spiritual suppression, and personal authenticity. Inspired by conversations within the witchcraft community and the struggles many people face reconciling religion with spiritual curiosity, Sunshine discusses how shame, rigid belief systems, and fear-based condi...

In this deeply reflective episode of the For the Sober Witch Life Podcast , Sunshine Witchski welcomes the show’s first guest, Justin L Shaw, for an honest conversation about addiction, trauma, spirituality, and recovery. Justin shares how childhood isolation, emotional neglect, and escapism through television, food, and humor eventually evolved into substance addiction and destructive behaviors....

In this episode, Sunshine explores a rarely discussed truth about recovery: it can feel boring, restrictive, or even disconnected after the chaos of addiction fades. Without the highs and risks that once felt like “excitement,” many people in sobriety find themselves restless and unfulfilled—even when they’re doing everything right. Sunshine reframes this experience as an invitation rather than a...

What if recovery wasn’t about fixing what’s broken, but about nurturing what’s still alive? Using the metaphor of gardening, this reflection explores the messy, imperfect, and deeply human process of healing. From pulling weeds to planting new seeds, it reminds us that growth takes time, patience, and willingness to keep showing up even when it’s hard. 

In this episode, Sunshine reflects on beginning formal peer recovery coach training and how it sparked a deeper understanding of what it truly means to support others in recovery. Drawing from her own six-and-a-half-year journey, she emphasizes the power of being of service as a cornerstone of staying grounded and committed to a sober life. She explores the different support roles available—therap...

In this episode, Sunshine Witchski explores the deep need for dedicated sober spaces within the witchcraft and spiritual community. She reflects on how alcohol is often normalized—even intertwined—with spiritual gatherings, leaving those in recovery feeling isolated or unseen. Drawing from personal experience and conversations within her coven, she highlights the powerful difference between being...

In this deeply reflective episode, Sunshine shares insights from completing a 90-day shadow work journey within her recovery community. What began as a program to guide others became a powerful mirror for her own continued healing, revealing that shadow work is never truly “finished”—it evolves as we do. She explores the core emotional layers of recovery—fear, shame, guilt, and self-loathing—and h...

This episode explores a powerful and often unspoken belief many people in recovery carry—the feeling that a beautiful, abundant life is meant for others, not for them. Sunshine challenges this idea by redefining abundance as more than money or success, describing it instead as the richness of everyday experiences: love, peace, creativity, connection, and rest. Drawing from her own journey through...

In this episode of the  Sober Witch Life  podcast, Sunshine Witchski shares the origin story of her nonprofit,  The Sovereign Phoenix . After leaving a burnout-inducing corporate career in early 2024, Sunshine felt called by Spirit to create a dedicated space for "witches in recovery." Drawing from her own experience of feeling out of place in traditional 12-step programs—where her spiritual pract...

In this episode, Sunshine reflects on the final stage of a 90-day shadow work journey focused on self-loathing and harsh self-criticism —patterns that often hide beneath perfectionism, workaholism, and the need for control. Even after more than six years in recovery, she shares how the inner critic can still appear in small moments, like judging herself for not completing a morning ritual while re...

In this March tarot reading using the Thoth Tarot, Sunshine explores a month marked by grounding, emotional sensitivity, and tangible progress. The overarching energy (Two of Wands) calls for clarity, balance, and anchoring yourself before charging ahead—especially after intense seasons of transformation. Week one invites tending to what sustains you (Princess of Disks), restoring balance and cari...

After attending four days at Convocation , one of the largest metaphysical and esoteric conferences in the United States, Sunshine reflects on what it means to finally feel at home in a spiritual community. Walking into a space where difference is normalized, creativity is celebrated, and spiritual language doesn’t need translation allowed her nervous system to soften—and revealed how much of adul...

In this episode of Sober Witch Life , Sunshine explores the powerful and often misunderstood relationship between desire and addiction. Inspired by Valentine’s Day reflections on self-love, she challenges the belief—rooted in both Catholic teachings on the seven deadly sins and traditional recovery culture—that desire itself is dangerous. Drawing on themes from the film Se7en , she reflects on how...

In this episode of The Sober Witch Life Podcast , Sunshine reflects on a deeply fulfilling weekend of personal and shared milestones, using it as a gateway to explore a core spiritual truth: magic, manifestation, and recovery require aligned action—not passive intention . Drawing from over 30 years of spell work and more than six years of sobriety, Sunshine explains that no spell has ever worked i...

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life podcast, recorded on Imbolc, the host reflects on the intense collective emotional climate many people are feeling—marked by agitation, fear, division, and nervous system overload. Using the metaphor of the “river of slime” from Ghostbusters 2 , she describes how negativity and anger feed on themselves, creating a pervasive energetic heaviness that sensitive...

In today’s episode, we’re diving into the "River of Slime" that heavy, psychoreactive energy currently pulsing through the collective. If you’ve been feeling unusually moody, agitated, or just "on guard" lately, you aren’t alone. As we move out of the "social safety net" of Dry January and into the volatile energy of February, maintaining your recovery and protecting your nervous system is more im...