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๐Module 4 โ The Witchโs Shadow Tools | Shadow Work for Witches Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on the witch's shadow tools: meet the six-piece kit, the black candle, dark stones, salt, mirror, journal, and the comfort kit. Discover why black tourmaline is the doorman, obsidian the truth-teller, and smoky quartz the gentle one, why the kit runs dark, how to set a working space that packs into a shoebox, and the dedication rite that sets it all apart.
11 min read


๐Module 6 โ Harvest to Jar: Drying, Storing, and Waking Your Herbs | Plant & Herb Magic Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on carrying a harvest from stem to jar: master four drying methods, hanging, screens, paper bags, and the dehydrator, plus the one microwave verdict every witch should know. Learn to garble a bundle, run the condensation check that ends mold forever, and store by the cool dark law. Build your first named blend like Quiet House or Brave Morning, honor the yearly retirement of spent herbs, and wake a portion for work, the charging skill e
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๐Module 4 โ The Starter Apothecary: Twelve Herbs That Do Everything | Plant and Herb Magic Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on building a starter apothecary: meet the twelve grocery store herbs that cover nearly every working, three masters in rosemary, lavender, and bay, five kitchen workers in basil, mint, sage, thyme, and cinnamon, two gentle ones in chamomile and rose, and two fierce guards in garlic and clove. Salt joins as the honorary purifier. Learn each plant's element, planet, jobs, and honest cautions, from thyme as watered courage to the chamomil
16 min read


๐ย ย Module 6 โ The Waning and Dark Moon: Releasing, Rest, and Dreams | Moon Magic Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on moon magic: follow the waning moon, the cycle's exhale, as the light fades from gibbous through last quarter to the dark. Learn the four languages of letting go, release, reduction, banishing, and ending, and why the moon takes only what your hands are also releasing. Move through integrating at the gibbous, deciding at the last quarter where the second wall rises, and softening at the crescent. Discover the dark moon as fertile void
18 min read


๐Module 5 โ The Full Moon and the Esbat | Moon Magic Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on moon magic: stand under the full moon, the brightest and most storied night in witchcraft, as she rises in the east while the sun sets in the west. Explore the four great works of fullness, culmination, illumination, amplification, and celebration, and learn the esbat, the recurring lunar gathering, with its real history and its difference from the seasonal sabbat. Meet the customs of casting a circle, Drawing Down the Moon, and cake
17 min read


๐Module 4 โ The Waxing Moon: Growing Toward Full | Moon Magic Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on moon magic: ride the waxing moon, the cycle's inhale, as the light grows from first crescent to the doorstep of full. Learn the four families of growth work, attraction, increase, strengthening, and momentum, and the honest law that the moon grows only what you are also growing through real action. Follow the three movements of the growing light: establish at the crescent, commit at the first quarter when resistance appears, and refi
13 min read


๐ Module 1 โ The Moon and the Witch | Moon Magic Course
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy Witchcraft Series Help us reach the people who may need this most by sharing this free course with friends, family, colleagues, online communities, social media or on your own website. ๐ง Audio - listen on the go (coming soon) ๐ Module 1 โ The Moon and the Witch Looking Up A witch steps outside with the day still clinging to her: dishes in the sink, one message unanswered, something from the afternoon still turning over in her chest. A
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โ๏ธ Module 4 โ The Three Basic Musts | REBT Course
A free IFS Academy course on the three basic musts in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT): demandingness, preferences vs. demands, the must aimed at yourself, at other people, and at life, Ellis's term musturbation, and hearing the demand hiding under an everyday thought. Every lesson ends with a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.
14 min read


๐Module 6 โ Cleansing: Clearing a Stone Before Use | Crystal Magic Course
A free course by Everything IFS Academy on cleansing crystals: discover ten complete methods, water rinse, moonlight, sunlight, smoke, dry salt, earth burial, the rice bowl, sound, the selenite shelf, and breath with intention. Learn the safety map for water, sun, and salt, why selenite dissolves and malachite turns water toxic, which stones fade in sunlight, and the craft's most important warning about crystal water and gem elixirs. Includes when to cleanse, how to choose a
14 min read


IFS & Taoism: Blending the TwoFoundational Blog
This article explores how Internal Family Systems naturally aligns with Taoism, showing how both traditions trust inner wisdom, balance, and non-forced healing led by calm presence.
3 min read


Myths, Mis-Reads & What Unattached Burdens Are Not: Clearing Confusion in the IFS Field
This article clarifies common myths about unattached burdens using Internal Family Systems, explaining what they are, what they are not, and how healing remains grounded and empowering.
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The Fear of Death Explained
The Fear of Death Explained ๐ง Audio โ Listen on the go - (coming soon) Whether you're carrying a fear of death you've never said out loud, walking beside someone who is facing the end, or simply curious why mortality unsettles human beings, this page walks through what the fear of death actually is, in plain terms. Read it straight through or jump to the section you need. There's no right or wrong way to take it in. 1. The Fear of Death in a Nutshell The fear of death, known
End-of-Life Legacy Projects Explained
Legacy projects for the end of life, explained: ethical wills and legacy letters, messages for future moments, life stories, voice recordings, recipes, keepsakes, heirlooms, and living legacies.
The 5 Stages of Dying Explained
Elisabeth Kรผbler-Ross's five stages of dying in plain terms: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, how the map really works, and anxiety, the stage that never got a number
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