Meet Rebecca Anuwen
Magick is About Relationship
I am an author, researcher, podcast host and creator of A Pinch of Magick, and my work explores how ritual, energy, creativity, story and intentional practice can help us live with greater meaning, self-trust and belonging.
For more than thirty years, I have worked with people who want to understand themselves more deeply, reconnect with their own wisdom and create lives that feel more deliberate, supported and fully their own.
My work has evolved across books, journals, courses, podcasts, energetic practices and, more recently, academic research into place, community, memory and belonging, yet the thread running through everything has remained the same:
Magick changes the way we relate to ourselves, to one another and to the world around us.
The Work Beneath the Magick
I have always been interested in the point where inner transformation meets everyday life.
It's one thing to understand an idea intellectually, set an intention or feel inspired during a ritual. It's another to allow that insight to shape the way you speak to yourself, care for your body, use your energy, inhabit your home, participate in your community and respond to the world around you.
That's where magick becomes lived.
My approach is practical, reflective and deeply relational. I create practices that help people notice what is happening beneath the surface, recognise the stories and patterns shaping their choices, and respond with greater attention, intention and agency.
Sometimes that takes the form of ritual.
Sometimes it is a journal question, a boundary, a walk, a conversation, a moment of rest or a decision to trust what you already know.
The form may change, although the purpose remains the same: to help you return to a more conscious relationship with your own life.
How My Work Began
My work with energy, healing and personal transformation began more than two decades ago.
Over the years, I trained in and worked with a wide range of energetic and spiritual practices, while continually noticing that the most meaningful changes rarely came from dramatic moments alone. They grew through repetition, attention, self-awareness and the willingness to make different choices in ordinary life.
This understanding shaped my books, journals, courses and mentoring work, and eventually became the foundation of A Pinch of Magick.
A Pinch of Magick was created for people who want magick to belong inside their real lives, including the busy, complicated, demanding and imperfect parts.
It offers practical ways to work with intention, ritual, cycles, self-care, energy and reflection without needing to perform spirituality perfectly or adopt someone else’s version of what a magickal life should look like.
My Philosophy
Magick is a practice of belonging
I understand magick as a way of creating relationship.
Your relationship with yourself shapes what you believe you deserve, what you trust and how willing you are to listen to your own needs.
Your relationship with your body shapes how you recognise safety, fatigue, desire, pleasure, tension and support.
Your relationship with your rhythms and cycles shapes how you work, rest, create and respond to change.
Your relationship with your home shapes how held, expressed and nourished you feel within everyday life.
Your relationship with community shapes participation, responsibility, connection and belonging.
Your relationship with place shapes what you notice, remember, value and choose to care for.
Magick gives us ways to meet those relationships deliberately.
Through ritual, reflection, story, creative practice and acts of attention, we begin to see where we have become disconnected, where something needs tending and where new possibilities are already beginning to emerge.
A Pinch of Magick
Practical magick for everyday life
Through the A Pinch of Magick podcast, app, journals, courses and articles, I create practical ways for people to bring more attention, meaning and magick into the lives they are already living.
The work includes:
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reflective podcast episodes and conversations
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guided audios and meditations
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journal prompts and practical rituals
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self-care and energetic practices
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seasonal and cyclical reflections
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courses for deeper personal exploration
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articles on magick, folklore, belonging, community and place
You can begin with a single episode, a five-minute practice, a question in your journal or a seasonal ritual.
Small practices matter because they change what you notice, how you respond and the quality of the relationship you have with yourself.
Where Magick and Research Meet
My academic work and A Pinch of Magick have different forms, audiences and purposes, although they grow from the same foundations.
Both explore how attention changes experience.
Both ask what becomes possible when we encounter familiar things differently.
Both are concerned with the relationships people form with themselves, their communities and the places around them.
Both understand meaning as something created through participation rather than simply received.
My research gives me a language for examining these processes in greater depth, while A Pinch of Magick brings them into practical, everyday experience.
Together, they allow me to explore magick as a living practice of relationship and belonging.
What I Believe
I believe people already carry more wisdom than they are often encouraged to trust.
I believe the ordinary parts of life deserve attention because they are where most of our choices, relationships and rituals are actually lived.
I believe self-care is foundational because every part of your life is carried through your body, energy and inner world.
I believe stories shape what we notice, what we remember and what we imagine is possible.
I believe place is active in our lives, carrying memory, meaning, attachment and relationship.
I believe magick becomes powerful when it helps us participate more consciously in the life we are already part of.
A Little More About Me... Personally
I live in Herefordshire, where the landscape, seasonal changes, small communities and ordinary places continually shape my work.
I am drawn to worn paths, overlooked details, local stories, everyday rituals, gathered objects and the traces people leave behind through repeated use and care...
I'm obsessed with trees and divination.
My work moves between the practical and the academic, the personal and the communal, the everyday and the enchanted.
There is usually a journal nearby, several ideas unfolding at once and a cup of nettle tea that has gone cold while I was absorbed in something interesting.
Where Do You Want to Begin?
You might begin with the podcast and listen to an episode that meets you where you are.
You might explore the app and develop a regular practice through guided audios, rituals and journal prompts.
You might choose a journal that gives your reflections somewhere to land.
You might read the articles and explore the wider ideas shaping my work around magick, self-care, belonging and place.
Wherever you begin, you are welcome to enter at your own pace.
Come Back Into Relationship
Magick begins in the way you meet yourself, the way you move through your day and the attention you give to what matters.
It grows through the choices you repeat, the stories you question, the practices you return to and the relationships you choose to tend.
A Pinch of Magick is here to help you make those relationships more conscious, more supportive and more fully your own.