Hi Witches,
I'm Brianna and
this is my story
My name is Brianna and I’m an initiated black cord witch rooted on Vancouver Island. My passion is to empower witches to develop a craft that helps them to step into the fires of transformation and create an alchemical process that deprograms them, expands their consciousness and, ultimately, aids in the reclamation of their power and reconnection with nature. To understand how I got here, let’s go back to the beginning!
From the time that I was a little girl, I felt deeply connected to nature and to the mystery of the spirit world. At a young age, I was under nature’s spell and coming into my ancestral gifts of clairvoyance and clairaudience. I often heard these whispers from within that said, “you’re a witch” and whenever I was alone with nature I felt these whispers moving through my body. But, I didn’t know what this meant exactly and I also didn't know how to process any of this. Looking back I was often living in a dream-like state, creating inner worlds as I felt isolated and detached from the reality around me and felt more seen by the trees, stones, butterflies and my cat than I did by other humans.
As I entered my teenage years, my innocence and girlhood were preyed upon and my core wounds were created. The shadows of abuse followed me wherever I went and they began to grow as I held onto my secrets so tightly that the tension began to fester and manifest in my body and spirit, making me constantly sick. Unbenowest to me at the time, I had become a physical manifestation of the unconscious sacral and throat chakra wounds that plagued the women in my familial line.
Pages from the Past
In my early 20s, I was operating from a place of complex trauma and I found myself constantly saying and doing things that were the exact opposite of what my heart and soul wanted to express. I was embodying inner conflict and the pain I was carrying became too much to bare. Through all this pain, I could still hear the whispers within and they were guiding me towards a mysterious path. And slowly, but surely, I began to surrender.
Through my surrendering, I began a quest to discover myself and learn what it meant to be a witch as I explored the inner workings of my own consciousness. I found this journey incredibly challenging as I wasn’t connecting to the more new age concepts around witchcraft that were readily available. My calling felt deeper and more primal, I was craving ancient ways and sacred traditions. Thus I was led to discover Shamanic Witchcraft where my natural ability to create worlds and explore spirit realms flourished. At the beginning of that journey, I was ceremonially initiated into witchcraft by a Priestess and Elder Witch. My first initiation opened the flood gates and I descended into a 7 year dark night of the soul where shadow work and inner alchemy became my craft. Now, nearly a decade since my first ceremonial initiation as a witch, having travelled to the depths of my spirit and moving through many sacred rites, I stand in my power as a Priestess myself.
My Surrendering
A huge part of my path has been navigating my resistance to vulnerability and embodiment which manifested as physical illness such as chronic throat and sinus infections, stomach issues, pelvic floor dysfunction, “inconclusive” endometriosis, and sexual pain. And, as I navigated all of this I felt my own resistance was a reflection of what other women were experiencing too. I found women did not want to talk about their pain because they didn’t know how to or they didn’t feel safe too which resulted in a resistance to sisterhood and community. But I followed the whispers within me and I took small steps over time learning to embody myself and integrate my wounds so that they no longer controlled me.
My journey of healing, deprogramming and transmuting my pain into pleasure has been a long one as I navigated the many faces of spirituality and witchcraft. By taking small steps to move through the uncomfortableness of becoming embodied and sovereign, I discovered the healing power of sisterhood and creating community with women. In fact, as I did this work I attracted the opportunities for deeper connection with other women where we could act as each other’s mirror in an empowered way. This is the point where I began to exit the survival mode I had been in since I was 13 years old.
It took many years of work to break down this resistance within me and return to the wisdom of nature and my own body. As I stepped into feminine embodiment, I discovered too that there was a collective return to the oracle of feminine wisdom occurring on earth. As I gave myself permission to embody my feminine essence, my world started to shift. I sacrificed my old life for a new one led by feminine embodiment and unity consciousness. I noticed too that my path was giving other women permission to explore themselves in this way. And this leads me to you.
My Becoming
Now, I get to not only demystify the workings of a witch, but I also get to share the teachings of my craft which has allowed me to step into my power and embody the wisdom of my divine spirit.
My alchemical process of turning my rupture into empowerment can become your lantern as you descend into your shadows to reclaim your sacred light and learn to embody the wisdom of your essence.
Welcome to the Whispering Winds School of Witchcraft. A sanctuary for women and witches to safely discover their craft of transformation leading them to embody the sacred wisdom of their essence and allow old ways and ancient traditions to create a modern path.
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