Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being - Softcover

Moon, Irisanya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789043778 ISBN 13: 9781789043778

Publisher: Moon Books, 2020

Synopsis

Your health and well-being is valuable, and the actions you take to care for your beautiful self are a gift and a sacred prayer of intention.
You are precious. Your body is precious. Your mind is precious. Your heart is precious. With your actions, with your connection to yourself, you create a foundation that can weather all that comes before you. Perhaps you have been told otherwise. Perhaps you have believed otherwise, that somehow, some way, you are less than worthy of love and care. Perhaps you know you are worthy of love and care and beauty, but need to be reminded or given permission. I want to tell you that your health, your well-being is valuable. And the actions you take to care for your beautiful self are a gift and a sacred prayer of intention. Welcome to Practically Pagan - An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being in which we will encounter ways to care for our health and explore strategies to support ourselves as magical and powerful beings. An Alternative Guide to Health and Well-being is the second volume in an exciting new lifestyle series from Moon Books, which offers body, mind and planet-friendly alternatives for everyday tasks.

**Reviewed by Publishers Weekly, 2020**
 
WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?

• Readers who want to practice better self-care 
• Readers interested in non-judgmental ways to better care for their bodies and minds
• Readers who are interested in Pagan practices, but not sure where to begin
• Readers who want a short introduction to simple strategies to care for themselves, build resilience, and gain confidence 
• Readers who want to explore alternative spiritualities in a simple, approachable way

About this title

About the Author

Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, poet, and Reclaiming initiate who has practiced magick for 20+ years. She has taught in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, bringing her blend of grounded, graceful, and radically authentic facilitation to inspire transformation and liberation at the personal and collective levels.

She has written several books: Pagan Portals (Reclaiming Witchcraft - 2020, Aphrodite - 2020, Iris - 2021, Norns - 2023); Earth Spirit (Honoring the Wild - 2023, Gaia - 2023); and Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being - 2020.

Plus, she has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for Witches & Pagans, Pagan Dawn, Coreopsis Journal, Moon Books, Revelore Press, Llewellyn, Epona Muse Publishing, and more. In 2023, they self-published a book of poetry, wrecked: the insistence of grief.

Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

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Introduction

You are precious. Your body is precious. Your mind is precious. Your heart is precious. With your actions, with your connection to yourself, you create a foundation that can weather all that comes before you.

Perhaps you have been told otherwise. Perhaps you have believed otherwise, that somehow, some way, you are less than worthy of love and care. Perhaps you know you are worthy of love and care and beauty, but need to be reminded or given permission. I want to tell you that your health, your well-being is valuable. And the actions you take to care for your beautiful self are a gift and a sacred prayer of intention.

With each breath, with each choice you make, you can call back the parts of yourself that have wandered away from knowing health and wellness. With each step toward what you want to feel and be, you create a song of belonging fully to your power.

No matter how you identify and no matter what your beliefs might be (if only for this moment), you can step fully into the shape of your skin. You can fill up the spaces of your being and the stretch of your authentic self -- you can move fully into your life. It doesn’t matter to me if you’ve been lost or not.

It doesn’t matter to me if you’ve made mistakes or you’ve fallen away from a path. It doesn’t matter to me, as Rumi says, if you’ve broken your promises a thousand times. You can begin again. You can commit again. You can arrive in this precious moment. For you are a precious moment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moon Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789043778
• ISBN 13: 9781789043778
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160