Oversimplified and pushed many concepts that are in fact ablest. I got this in hopes that there would be a better, more holistic take on the "health and wellness" garbage under the facade of spirituality but really, it was just the same things that I see over and over again in the community and really hope the next books that come out on health and witchcraft do better.

I received this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I would rate this book 2.5 stars. If you are into Wicca, then you will probably really like this book. It talks about healing your body using spells, potions, mantras, etc. I have an interest in Wicca and magic so I found it an interesting book, although I would never try the spells or potions in this book.

Good book for a beginner or an insight into witchy crystal things but it's not that great for a more experienced practitioner

Description
As within + so without = a healthy witch. But getting there takes the right magikal work. This holistic witchy workbook combines medical knowledge with magikal healing to put you where you need to be to get the most out of your life. Learn to personalize your healing needs by fusing skills in magik and nutrition, conducting rituals, and employing specialized spells. Using the pentagram model, take a healing journey through each organ in your body, allowing you to gain optimal health via signs, suggestions, and practical tips. Examine each element, and discover how your organs interact and affect your magikal energy flow. The tools here will guide you to becoming a naturally healthy witch, enabling you to work with the Goddess from a place of sacred well-being. A healthy witch is a successful witch!

My Review:
This book - The Healthy Witch - offers you methods including rituals, use of crystals and rituals and even spells for a holistic lifestyle. It includes seasonal, as well as, holidays to sort out when to use the rituals for maximum effect.

This book was provided for free in exchange for my honest opinion. It is an easy to understand and follow book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and highly recommend.

This isn't the best book out there, but it is a decent read for someone looking to use spells, rituals, crystals, food, and other methods to help in healing from a witch's perspective. It goes into detail regarding different ailments and organs that might not be up to par during different seasons of the year and offers rituals for various holidays to help strengthen the body's health. I found the way it was written a little awkward and hard to follow at times, but I had an ARC version, so that may have had a little to do with it.

This was an interesting book that offered advice on how to be healthy using the pentagram model. I found it to be interesting and useful, as it focused on getting all of the organs working together to create a healthy energy flow.

Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity for review. My review opinion is my own.

This is a excellent guide for witches to learn more about self care inside and out. The first half she uses a pentagram to describe organs and assigns them to elements. She describes symptoms and magical associations to crystals, essential oils as well as herbal magic. This helps us utilize what herbs and tonics to use for each organ health. The author describes how to incorporate meditation to heal. The author has beautifully done diagrams and charts throughout this book.

She describes ways to achieve wellness in simple terms anyone can understand even beginning witches. This applies for all of us that have chronic health conditions. The second half goes on to discus magick and spells, rituals and timing with the witches wheel for each of the seasons. Included are altars and use of magical pouches, herbs and crystals for our magic. I love the inclusion of the pagan wheel of the year and holidays in relation to health.

There is something here for every witch and I found it very helpful and educational. I recommend this book for all witches no matter your level of training and experience. Very well done to the author ! I will add that as a person of extreme chronic pain , a broken neck and Fibromylegia pain I refuse to use any medications that doctors continually push on me. I feel meds are dangerous and toxic to our bodies. I use herbal healing , meditation, magic, rest and stretching to control pain. So I am in full agreement with this author to see that she recommends against meds for chronic pain and illness. I find it very refreshing when a author is able to stand up for their beliefs against the toxic systems of western medicine and big pharma. Very well done !

I'm diabetic and I'm a wiccan so I was curious about this book.
I can say that this book features too many alternative medicine and Oh-the-Goddess-will-help ideas and even shames people who are medicate.
Not my cup of tea as I need my drugs to be alive.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Nothing to get overly excited about. Not bad but not wonderful.

**OMG! I cannot believe that these reviews haven't been done! I am so sorry they are so late!!!**

I had high hopes for this book but was let down. It is controversial and the claims she makes lack sound evidence to back them. It is not helpful and I think can be misleading to some.

I had some high hopes for this book but unfortunately was let down. Some of it was interesting but most was relatively common sense at the same time. I also found it a bit difficult to properly read because of the formatting frequently being messed up. I’m a witch myself and was hoping to get more out of it but sadly it is mostly things I already do or just wouldn’t do. I also believe that it should have mentioned the type of witch this was aimed at. There’s was a lot of talk of the Goddess and spells that incorporate her but not every witch follows that. This is more for the Wiccan witch and should’ve been advertised as such because those parts had nothing to do with my own beliefs or practices

Just a reference to help with what you have done to a medical practitioner. For some reason I was thinking more of a cookbook, but it is more of an introduction to a few health issues. Some herbs are introduced to the reader and a reference at the end.

For anyone who's even a little bit interested in Wicca, you'll find this super interesting. Full of good tips and tricks to figure out what to do to take care of your body or figure out what's wrong, this book will help you take a few steps forward without sounding like it has all the answers.

The Healthy With by TJ Perkins is a very basic intro linking health and witchcraft. Good for beginners, but not so much for everyone else.

I think this mostly will benefit a new witch with no medical experience or knowledge. With that said, it's important to understand the author is not a healthcare professional. As an individual who works in healthcare, I found myself too distracted by my own knowledge to look beyond that information to see into the witchcraft points in the beginning. I liked the spell section, but that was about it.

The Healthy Witch by TJ Perkins was provided to me by Red Feather mind/body/soul Publishing and Netgalley as an advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review. As a practicing witch I jumped at the chance. After all, healthy is a goal we all hope to achieve, eh? The author uses the term field book throughout this quick read. The first half describes organs and assigns them on a pentagram to elements. She describes dysfunction and ways to achieve wellness in simple terms. The RN in me thought perhaps this section is remedial but that may be in part to my profession. The second half goes on to discus magick and ties in spells, rituals and timing with the witches wheel for the season. She also includes herbs and crystals to enhance your magickal works. Overall, I think a newer practitioner may get the most out of this book. However, I’m sure everyone will find something in this book that resonates with them, no matter their experience.

Charming witchy take on health; a little repetitive but interesting and instructional. Offers remedies for various organs.

I really wanted to like this book, really. I am a practicing Witch, and I have a chronic genetic illness - so I am not expecting anyone to say that they can fix what I have, however, maybe there would be something in this book to make me feel better. That is what I was hoping for.
Here are a few things that turned me off right from the beginning
1. The Author started the sentences with "We Women.." Not all Witches are women, and even though I am, I do not like having my brothers of the Craft completely disregarded. We have done this too much, it needs to stop
2. It is all over the place. I did not feel like I was reading a coherently thought out, laid out book that built chapter upon chapter, but rather a perspective that jumped all over the place without much of consistency, or any type of linear thinking. it left me confused, unable to follow the author's train of thought, and rather unhappy.
3. Then she went into pseudo science - and I don't mean, take this herb and it will heal you (no it won't, not everyone can be healed by this stuff), but rather a short description on how one would know if they have the beginnings of liver failure. I find statements like that dangerous. My muscle cramps and tendon problems do not stem from liver failure. That is probably the only part of my body that is NOT broken, so there goes that theory. She also does not mention that there could be something else, that could cause the problems listed, no, she is certain it is liver problems. Okay then.
4. Then she started attacking taking medication over a long period of time. Please tell my Mother In Law that she should stop taking her insulin, or my daughter her heart medication, because it causes other problems - well, guess what, both lives depend on their medication, so don't tell people to go off them, especially as a first result. She only mentions caffeine or sugar, if going off medication or eliminating allergens will not do the trick. Not sound advice.
I could go on, and on, but the book's information is easy to summon up - it is dangerous. There is nothing healthy about this book or the advice given. If you want to be a healthy Witch, go to a Doctor, a certified experienced Homeopath, a person trained and with lots of experience in Herbology, or any other (better yet, a combination of) health care professional, and disregard this book.

'The Healthy Witch: A Workbook for Optimal Health' by TJ Perkins is a basic guide for witchy folk who want to learn how to become more healthy. The author stipulates in the beginning chapter that it’s difficult to be the best witch you can be when your body is distracting you with pain. Learning to understand these signs is no different than learning other magical practices. Witches are already very connected to a variety of magical tools, but we often forget that we also have magical tools within us known as the 4 elements who are connected to the major organs of the body. Working with the elements helps to awaken us to profound inner healing.

Perkins uses the pentagram as a model to show the inter-connectedness of the elements/organs in the body. She then explains which organs relate to which elements listing common symptoms when the organ is disturbed and all of the magical associations connected to the organ such as crystals, colours, emotions, tastes etc. She also explains how we can heal the organs using very practical means. What I liked was that after each chapter on the organ/element, there was a journaling section where you can list your symptoms and steps for healing.

The second half of the book contained rituals and spells to heal the organs. I really liked this part of the book because I never thought about targeting different parts of my body during meditation before, but it’s actually ingenious. How to make altars and magical baths and pouches were also included. The pagan wheel of the year holidays were discussed in relation to healing as well. Health intentions to set for each holiday and small rituals to partake in were outlined. A small little detail that I absolutely loved was the Tarot card associations with the main organs. I would love to be able to learn more about the health correspondences to the Tarot, so I would encourage TJ Perkins to perhaps even write a book about this, because I would love to study this further.

Overall this was a nice quick read that is good for the green witch or anyone starting out learning about their health from a magical perspective. I think this book is too simplistic for those practitioners who are pretty advanced, or for those who already have an in-depth understanding of Chinese medicine, the elements, or occult medicine in general.

To learn more about this book, please visit the book’s page on the publisher’s website for more information.

https://www.schifferbooks.com/the-healthy-witch-a-workbook-for-optimal-health-6710.html