About the Book
You Are More than Your Illness
Magickal Practices and Stories from a Witch Who Knows What You're Going Through
Your condition may always be with you, but so will your magick. This book is a beacon of hope for anyone grappling with chronic or invisible illness. Through personal stories and hands-on magick, Danielle Dionne guides your journey of self-discovery. She shows you how to incorporate spellcraft, healing, self-care, and confidence-building practices into your own unique process.
Chronically Magickal presents techniques that help boost your energy, mood, and vision for your future. While it can't cure your illness, this book teaches you how to accept help from others, grow around grief, pace yourself according to the spoon theory, and more. You'll also learn how to work with stone, plant, and animal allies. From energy clearing to spirit communication, Danielle covers every aspect of staying magickal and manifesting change for the better.
Foreword by Amy Blackthorn, author of Blackthorn's Botanical Magic
Table of Contents:
Contents
List of Exercises xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Disclaimer xv
You Are Not Alone xvii
Foreword xix
Introduction 1
Part One: Caring for You
Chapter 1: Acquainting Yourself with Your New Reality 11
Chapter 2: Accepting Help 27
Chapter 3: Spiritual & Physical Hygiene 37
Chapter 4: Your Sacred Home 49
Part Two: Opening to the Magick
Chapter 5: Crafting Spells for Health & Healing 67
Chapter 6: Healing Systems 93
Chapter 7: Divination for Support 101
Chapter 8: Magick for Empowerment 107
Part Three: Finding Allies
Chapter 9: Healing Spirits 125
Chapter 10: Plant Spirit Allies for Chronic Illness 139
Chapter 11: Stone Allies for Healing 153
Chapter 12: Animal Spirits 169
Chapter 13: Practical Matters 179
Conclusion 189
Recommended Reading 191
Resources 193
Bibliography 195
About the Author :
Danielle Dionne is a professional psychic medium and witch. She trained under internationally renowned mediums, including John Holland and Tony Stockwell, and under prominent magickal and occult teachers such as Christopher Penczak and Devin Hunter. Additionally, she studied at the Arthur Findlay College, a spiritualist college in Stansted, England. Danielle is an initiate in the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and serves as Scorpio Deputy Minister for death, dying, and bereavement. She has been teaching psychic mediumship development since 2009 and runs Moth and Moon Studio, a spiritual development center. Danielle lives on a farm in Chester, New Hampshire. Visit her at DanielleDionne.com.
Amy Blackthorn is a professional intuitive and author of Blackthorn's Botanical Magic (Weiser Books, 2018), Sacred Smoke (Weiser Books, 2019), and Blackthorn's Botanical Brews (Weiser Books, 2020). She has a certification in aromatherapy and incorporates her experiences in a traditional witchcraft with her horticulture studies. Amy's company, Blackthorn's Botanicals, creates tea based on magical herbal formulas. She has appeared in print as well as on Coast to Coast AM, HuffPoLive, and Netflix's Top Ten Secrets and Mysteries in an episode about supernatural abilities.
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Review :
"An essential and nurturing guide for anyone integrating their spiritual and magickal practices with the realities of chronic pain or illness. Danielle Dionne, one of my favorite witches, shares her own journey and insights in a way that resonates deeply with those facing similar struggles. This book provides a compassionate framework that recognizes the physical and emotional terrains of chronic illness. Danielle offers spells and magickal practices for handling health with clear, actionable steps for readers to enhance their well-being and reclaim their personal power. Chronically Magickal is a source of hope and fortitude, a balm in the journey towards spiritual health and empowerment."
—Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch and The Psychic Art of Tarot
"This beautiful book came at the right time for me. I'm helping a family member navigate a new reality with a chronic illness. It's been challenging, but Chronically Magickal has become the perfect companion on this journey. The magickal rituals and potions have given us new tools to support both me and my loved one. I also appreciate the practical life advice and personal stories Danielle sprinkles throughout the book. Whether you struggle with health issues or caregiving, you'll want to keep this witchy book close at hand. Highly recommended!"
—Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You're Dealt: How To Deal When Life Gets Real
"Danielle generously opens the door to her life, home, and heart to not only share her journey with you, but offer the hard earned wisdom that comes from truly living a magickal life and apply that magick to her health and wellbeing. If you are struggling with your health, or with your magick in relation to your health, Chronically Magickal will be an immense support. Filled with great magickal wisdom and technique, the sections on the spirits of disease and the spirits of medication in particular will be powerful steps in the journey.
—Christopher Penczak, bestselling author of the Temple of Witchcraft series
"A candid, raw, and (if you'll forgive me the pun) infectious perspective with actionable magical and mundane work that we can incorporate into not only our practice, but our day to day lives, no matter how low on spoons we may be."
—Mortellus, author of The Bones Fall in a Spiral
"The practices, insights, and life experiences shared in Chronically Magickal are applicable to all of us....This book offers an approach to claiming the fullness of being human that embraces the depths and the heights, the bright and the dark, and offers practical methods to be as well as you can be. This is the first book I've read that truly applies the tools of witchcraft and magick to the long-term process of living well with the challenges of incarnation. Danielle's voice in the book is kind and gentle but is not sugar coated."
—Ivo Dominguez, Jr., author of the Witch's Sun Sign series
