Find Your Own Higher Power To Get Sober With Sunshine The Sober WitchFind Your Own Higher Power To Get Sober With Sunshine The Sober Witch
The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast
Sunshine Witski shares how she got sober by redefining her Higher Power through witchcraft and reshaping the twelve steps to fit her spiritual path. She talks about childhood trauma, early drinking, and the creation of her Recovery Coven, a community for people who want sobriety without hiding their witchy side.
50:14•30 Jul 2026
Finding Sobriety Through Witchcraft: Sunshine’s Higher Power on Her Own Terms
Episode Overview
- A Higher Power can be defined in a way that genuinely matches your spiritual beliefs, including witchcraft, deities, and tarot.
- Reworking the twelve steps with a personal spiritual spin helped Sunshine maintain sobriety and may support others who feel out of place in traditional settings.
- Daily spiritual practices such as prayer, movement, tarot, journalling, or even tending a garden can anchor recovery and keep you present.
- Safe, non-judgemental community spaces where people can bring their full identities reduce loneliness and increase the chance of long-term sobriety.
- Recovery meetings can be reimagined with elements like tarot cards, journalling prompts, and shared intentions while still focusing on staying sober one day at a time.
“"Change is inevitable. It's the only thing in life that's constant."”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction and rebuilt life on their own spiritual terms? This conversation with Sunshine Witski, founder of The Sober Witch Life, offers a fresh path for anyone who feels out of place in traditional recovery spaces. Sunshine shares candidly about growing up in a toxic alcoholic home, early drinking, and the emotional abuse that shaped her self-worth.
She talks about how alcohol escalated into blackouts, dangerous situations, and deep shame, especially around her 40th birthday, which became the turning point for her sobriety on 9 October 2019. If you’ve ever felt uneasy with conventional ideas of a “Higher Power”, you’ll probably relate to Sunshine’s approach. She explains how she rebuilt “every single one of the twelve steps” with a spiritual framework rooted in witchcraft, tarot, and ritual, while still respecting the 12‑step tradition.
Her daily prayer, which she has repeated for over six years, reflects this blend of recovery and witchcraft: “Change is inevitable. It's the only thing in life that's constant,” and she leans on that idea to stay on her path. The episode also walks through what being a “witch” means to her: psychic gifts, ritual, service, and a long history of healing roles like midwives and herbalists, rather than the stereotypes many people fear.
Sunshine describes her Recovery Coven community, where meetings include tarot pulls, journalling prompts, celebrations, and space for “magical requests” instead of formal prayers. This chat is especially helpful for those who are spiritual misfits, empaths, or anyone who wants sobriety support without hiding their witchy or woo‑leaning side. It shows how community, creativity, and a personally meaningful Higher Power can help keep sobriety strong.
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re “too weird” for recovery rooms, this might be the episode that lets you breathe out and think, “Maybe there’s a place for me after all.”
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