01/27/2026
Rooted in truth… your practice is yours and no title is required to belong.
We’ve become strangely obsessed with asking, “What kind of practitioner are you?” As if spirituality is something you’re supposed to choose from a list.
The truth is your practice is not a box. It’s shaped by your life, your land, your ancestors, your seasons, your grief, your growth, and your lived experience. It changes as you change. And it was never meant to fit neatly under a single title.
Eclectic. Green. Hearth. Ancestral. Witch. Practitioner.
Spiritual but religious. Spiritual but not religious.
These are descriptions not requirements, and not limitations.
And maybe we also need to loosen our grip on the word witch itself. Not because it’s wrong but because it isn’t universal.
Not everyone resonates with that title, and no one should have to adopt it in order to explore spirituality, intuition, energy work, or healing. Asking “what kind of witch are you?” assumes a starting point that doesn’t fit everyone.
What if the better question is simply… How do you practice?
For me, Catholicism is part of that answer. Not as something I had to unlearn or abandon but as something that lives alongside my spiritual work.
I don’t practice in a strictly conventional way, and I don’t feel the need to explain or defend that. My beliefs are intertwined. Prayer, ritual, reverence, saints, ancestors, candlelight, intention, and devotion are not opposing forces in my life they inform one another.
I refuse the idea that we must choose between faith and spirituality in order to be taken seriously.
You don’t have to give up your roots to grow spiritually. You don’t have to abandon religion to explore energy, intuition, or Reiki.
Religion is spiritual. Spirituality is lived. And the two have always overlapped far more than modern gatekeeping allows.
You answer to no hierarchy, no trend, and no one else’s definition of what your spirituality should look like.
💙Alchemy Apothecary
