The benefits of joining an online community 💜

Hello!

Today I launch my new membership tier ‘VIP Art Witch Coven’.

I'm a great believer that the universe has plans for me if I just open my eyes and take notice. Over the past three years I have tried to look upon challenges and trials as ways to put on different glasses and see things differently rather than being problems that I have no control over.

If, for example, I had not suffered at the hands of a crap professional and lost everything I would not have lived at Swiss Cottage where I have felt safe and hidden away while I licked my wounds. I would not have been brave enough to start my online Art Magic community. I would not have had the time to create and share. I would not have met other like minded gentle souls. I would not have become the strong crone that I am today.

Each time a new problem popped up I knew I would have to be patient, deal with the anxiety it created, sit quietly and not beat myself up, wait until the dust settled and then think ‘how can this situation be a tiny step forward for me?’ ‘What new things have I learned from this?’

So recently as we reached the final, painfully tough part of our battle I was also weary and disheartened by the drop in my online members and income and felt rather tired and battered.

I asked myself again…’So what have you learned from this that might help you step forward?’ I didn’t want to give in with our legal battle and I didn’t want to give in with my creative life online. So if I want to persevere I have to find ways to support myself and keep strong. I found solace in practical things round the house, making preserves, collecting dried flowers to decorate with and plenty of journaling. I found books to read to take me on magical journeys and looked for new things to learn in 2026. Having my online community makes me feel part of something really important and special and the friends I have met are the building blocks of the foundations that keep me strong. People are the magic that holds us together.

When the postage rates and regulations started shifting this year it became apparent that it was not physically or financially viable to carry on with my Magical Pen pals, but I loved the deeper connection to these friends I have made and didn’t want to let go. Again I sat with this problem and waited for the universe to offer me a new door to open. When one of these friends suggested I could send her the content digitally I knew that this was the answer I was waiting for and VIP Art Witch Coven was born. This new idea gave me the boost I was desperately in need of and the bones of the plan started to magically fall into my lap with one idea after another and the excited butterflies in my tummy that I had been yearning for. A beautiful way for me to connect deeper with my tribe and build something even better. As one doors closes, another opens 🚪

Even though I am the builder of this online community I don’t feel like the ‘owner’. I am just the mother who gave birth to it and who is nurturing it as it grows into something beautiful. Learning how to build it has made me stronger and wiser and I am still learning, growing and looking after it like a beautiful garden. Not quite in control but helping it along as it evolves.

I would love for you to join me if you are called to a similar space. Not quite the finished article but I don’t think it ever will be. Just like us as we grow and change, within our own seasons of planting, growing, harvesting and resting. Embrace those seasons, go with the energies you need right now, but know that there are many others out there who you can connect with who feel just the same. You are not alone…

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