The Mirror Isn’t Broken: A Witch Wound Reflection -- Week One – Projection & Triggers

Ever been called too much?

Too loud. Too sensitive. Too angry. Too “weird,” “intense,” “dramatic,” or some other shapeshifting label meant to shrink you down to something more manageable?

That wasn’t ever really about you.

That was about someone staring into the mirror of your presence and recoiling at the reflection they weren’t ready to see. Not the distortion you’ve been accused of being—but the truth they buried and hoped would stay dead.

Welcome to the first Witch Wound: Projection & Triggers.

This one cuts deep and early. It shows up when your very existence becomes a mirror—reflecting back the shame, rage, ambition, wildness, or grief others were taught to suppress. And instead of owning it? They throw it at you. Wrap it in judgment. Call it dangerous. Call you dangerous.

You ask too many questions.
You feel too much.
You want too much.
You see too clearly.

And they flinch. And blame. And project.
But the mirror isn’t broken, witch.
🪞 You’re just not their funhouse reflection.

This week’s Ko-fi workbook isn’t a cure—it’s a confrontation. A tool to name the projections, scrub off the shame fingerprints, and meet your own reflection without blinking.

Inside the download, you’ll find:

  • Shadow prompts to track the trail of projection
  • Mirror journaling to reclaim the part of you they tried to exile
  • A ritual to burn, bury, or otherwise reclaim your reflection from someone else’s story

So go light a candle. Pull the thread. Stare back.
You’re not too much. You’re not dangerous.
You’re an echo of every witch burned for daring to feel something too deeply.

👉 Download Week One: “The Mirror Isn’t Broken – You’re Just Bleeding Through It” on Ko-fi

💀 Meet Hagatha (She’s Not Here to Hug You)

Each week’s workbook comes with a bonus quote from my unfiltered shadow-self-in-residence: Hagatha. She’s the skeleton in the cauldron, the ranting voice in the attic, the haunted scroll of truth you didn’t ask for but probably needed.

Hagatha doesn’t do gentle. She does justice.
And starting this month, she’ll be back every Thursday for Thorny Thursdays—a new series of spicy spell-rants and unsanitized wisdom for the emotionally constipated and spiritually hungover.

You’re not ready. But she doesn’t care.

Hagatha’s Hexcerpt (Week One):
“If your reaction is a 10 and the offense is a 2, it’s not about them—
it’s about that unhealed 7-year-old inside you who got hexed with shame.
Go sit with her. And maybe punch a pillow.”

Want more feral insights and shadowy spells delivered weekly?
Let me know in the comments, and follow me on Ko-fi!

Stay sharp.
Stay strange.
And don’t look away from the mirror.
It remembers everything you tried to forget.

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