Finding Myself After the Storm: Why I Created The Witch's Journey 🧳✨📖

I've been teaching witchcraft through grimoire art for three years now.

I've created courses on the Wheel of the Year, taken everyone through Star Quest exploring astrology, made over 30 paper doll Power Poppets, and shared countless tutorials on creating beautiful grimoire pages.

But somewhere along the way, I realized something was missing 😔

I was teaching witchcraft through art magic, but I wasn't really practicing it. Not the way I used to. Not the deep, transformative work that drew me to this path over 20 years ago.

And I need it now more than ever.

Because five years ago, my life was hit by a storm that changed everything. A legal nightmare that lasted half a decade. Bankruptcy. Losing our home. Watching every asset we'd built get sold off. Dealing with solicitors and trustees while my anxiety spiraled so badly I couldn't even imagine finding another job.

The woman who went into that storm doesn't exist anymore.

And I need to figure out who this new Sara Jane actually is.

The Storm and What It Took

When the legal battle first hit, my instinct was to hide. To disappear. To make myself as small and invisible as possible until it was over.

But something inside me—some warrior I didn't know I had—said NO.

This was my chance. My opportunity to finally be ME and do something for myself.

My husband believed in me when I couldn't believe in myself. He encouraged me to start this business, to share my grimoire practice, to teach what I'd been doing privately for 20 years. Because traditional work? That wasn't possible anymore. The anxiety made sure of that.

So I started creating. I started teaching. I built this business while simultaneously fighting legal battles, losing everything we owned, and dealing with the trauma of it all.

And somehow, I survived.

But survival isn't the same as thriving. Survival isn't the same as healing. And survival definitely isn't the same as knowing who you are on the other side.

Who Am I Now?

I'll be 60 next year. That feels like such a milestone after five years of absolute crap.

I'm going through menopause, which adds its own special brand of chaos to everything. The see-saw of hormones. The invisibility that comes with being an older woman. The shift into crone energy—which I'm actually embracing, even when it's difficult.

I've built this business. I've served over 400 people. I've created content that helps others explore witchcraft through creativity. I've developed more confidence than I ever thought possible (even though I'm not nearly as brave as I probably seem).

But I don't know who I am anymore.

I'm not the person I was before the storm. That Sara Jane is gone. The trauma changed me. The struggle changed me. Building this business changed me. Age is changing me. Menopause is changing me.

And I need to figure out who this new version of me actually is.

Not the trauma survivor. Not the person defined by what happened to me. But the woman on the other side, standing in her own power, ready to move forward.

I need transformation.

Real, deep, core-level transformation.

And the only way I know how to do that is through my practice.

Going Back to What Saved Me

Twenty years ago, I came to witchcraft through crystals and herbs. Through tarot cards and runes that spoke truths I wasn't ready to hear. Through journaling my way through anxiety and depression, writing my fears onto pages and transmuting them into something I could work with.

My practice was deeply personal. Intensely private. It was about facing myself—the shadow parts, the hidden parts, the parts I'd rather ignore. It was about transformation through creativity, using my hands to work magic that my mind couldn't quite grasp yet.

Creating became my most powerful tool.

When words failed me, art spoke. When my thoughts spiraled, my hands found peace in collage and paint and the simple act of making something beautiful from something discarded.

That's where the real magic lived. Not in the perfect spell or the properly timed ritual, but in the act of transformation itself.

But over these past three years of teaching, I'd focused on the surface. The techniques. The structures. How to create beautiful pages. Which moon phase means what. The sabbats and the seasons.

All valuable. All important. But not the depths.

I wasn't teaching—or practicing—the shadow work. The hard questions. The facing yourself in the mirror and dealing with what you see there. The Hero's Journey of personal transformation that had saved me all those years ago.

And right now, that's exactly what I need.

The Hero's Journey Found Me Again

I've always loved mythology. The Hero's Journey—that ancient story structure of leaving the ordinary world, facing trials, descending into darkness, and returning transformed—has fascinated me for years.

One day, I was reviewing my own journals from the past 20 years. Entries about facing my anxiety. Pages about shadow work. Collages documenting my own transformation through difficult times.

And I saw it. My own Hero's Journey, documented in grimoire pages.

The call to adventure when I first discovered witchcraft. The crossing of thresholds as I left behind who I thought I should be. The trials I'd faced—including this five-year legal nightmare. The allies who supported me. The ordeal I was still processing.

It was all there. I'd lived it without naming it.

And I needed to live it again. Intentionally this time.

Because I'm standing at another threshold. The storm is over. I've survived. But who am I now? Where do I go from here? What does the return look like when you've been fundamentally changed by the ordeal?

I needed to answer these questions. And I needed to do it the way I've always worked best—through grimoire art.

Why Through Grimoire Art?

I'm a visual learner. I always have been. I can read about transformation all day long, but until I create something with my hands, it doesn't fully land in my body and my knowing.

Creating grimoire pages about my journey makes it real. Tangible. Permanent.

When I collage images that represent my shadow, I'm not just thinking about shadow work—I'm facing it. When I paint my fears onto a page, I'm giving them form so I can work with them. When I document my transformation in an altered book, I'm creating proof that change is possible.

The grimoire becomes the record of the journey. And creating it IS the journey.

This is why I teach through grimoire art. Not because it's pretty (though it can be), but because the act of creating transforms you in ways that just reading or thinking never could.

You're not learning about transformation. You're doing it, one page at a time.

Creating The Course I Need

The Witch's Journey is the course I need right now. At nearly 60. Coming out of trauma. Trying to figure out who I am without the labels of victim or survivor or fighter.

Just... me. Whoever that is.

Twelve weeks to work through the Hero's Journey using grimoire art and witchcraft practice. To face the shadow—all the parts of me that trauma brought to the surface and I haven't integrated yet. To do the deep work. To transform at the core level, not just rearrange the furniture on the surface.

Week 1 through 7, you prepare. You gather your courage. You create pages that help you understand where you are and where you're being called to go.

Week 8 is the ordeal. The shadow work. The facing of what you've been avoiding. This is hard. It's meant to be hard. Easy things don't transform you.

Weeks 9 through 12, you integrate. You claim the gifts earned through shadow work. You document your transformation. You return to your ordinary world changed—and you figure out what that means.

This is real witchcraft. Not spells to get what you want, but magic to become who you're meant to be.

Walking This Journey Together

I'm creating this course with you, not just for you. I'll be doing the work alongside everyone who takes this journey. Facing my own shadow. Creating my own grimoire documenting my own transformation. Figuring out who Sara Jane is now, at nearly 60, after the storm.

Because that's what I need right now. To practice what I've been teaching. To go deeper. To remember why I came to this path in the first place.

Not for the pretty pages. For the transformation.

Not to create a new identity label. But to discover who I actually am underneath all the roles and trauma and survival strategies.

Who This Is For

This course isn't for everyone. It's not for beginners who are just discovering what witchcraft is. It's not for people who want easy answers or quick fixes.

It's for practitioners who are ready to go deeper. Who've been working with moon phases and tarot cards and seasonal cycles and are ready for something more challenging.

It's for people who are willing to face their shadow. Who want transformation, not just information. Who are ready to do the hard work of becoming who they're meant to be.

Maybe you're like me—coming out of something difficult and trying to figure out who you are now. Maybe you're at a life transition. Maybe you just know, deep down, that it's time for something to change.

It's for people who need to work with their hands to process deep change. Who journal their way through transformation. Who create grimoire pages not just to remember what they've learned, but to become it.

Your Journey Awaits (And So Does Mine)

I can't promise this will be easy. Week 8 is intense. Some weeks will bring up difficult feelings. You'll face parts of yourself you've been avoiding.

But I can promise it will be worth it.

Because transformation—real, lasting, core-level change—is always worth the difficulty.

Your grimoire is waiting to be created. Your transformation is waiting to begin. And I'll be right there with you, doing my own work, walking my own journey, discovering who I am on the other side of my own storm.

Let's go deep together.

The Witch's Journey begins January 5th.

Are you ready? Because honestly, I'm terrified. But I'm doing it anyway.

Magic and courage,

Sara Jane xxx

P.S. I'm not as brave as I look. But I've learned that courage isn't the absence of fear—it's doing it anyway. Here's to doing it anyway, together.

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