220 | You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy in a Fractured World with Michelle Cassandra Johnson
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We are living through a time of profound unraveling. The pace and weight of what is happening around us can leave our attention scattered, our nervous systems overwhelmed, and our energy stretched across far more places than we ever consciously chose. We want to remain awake to the wounds of the world and contribute to meaningful change, but we cannot continue showing up if we are constantly depleted, dysregulated, and disconnected from ourselves.
In this episode of Wild & Waking, I’m joined by author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial-equity educator, intuitive healer, and clinical social worker Michelle Cassandra Johnson to discuss her newest (and, as she calls it, witchiest) book, You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy. Michelle shares how spiritual protection can help us draw our energy back, return to our center, and discern what is ours to carry in a moment when everything feels urgent. This is not protection rooted in fear, defensiveness, or disconnection. It is about strengthening our spiritual resources so we can remain openhearted, fully alive, and engaged for the long haul.
Together, we explore ancestral healing and how to call upon healthy, well, and benevolent ancestors, especially when our blood lineages feel complicated or painful. Michelle offers that the more-than-human world as another place to begin, reminding us that the elements, ancient trees, bodies of water, and the earth itself are living ancestors available for relationship and support. We also talk about spiritual hygiene, energetic boundaries, micro-adjustments that interrupt our habitual overgiving, and the deceptively simple question that can return us to our power: What is mine right now, and what is not?
We also dig into witchery as an ancient practice of healing and alchemy, the reclamation of words and traditions we were conditioned to fear, and the archetypes that can help us remain grounded as we evolve beyond old, more palatable versions of ourselves. This conversation is a powerful reminder that protecting your energy is not about retreating from the world. It is about tending yourself well enough to keep offering your particular medicine, trusting that what you can do is still something, and remembering that you were never meant to carry it all alone.
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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher, clinical social worker, racial-equity educator, and intuitive healer. For more than two decades, her work has explored how we heal from individual and collective trauma, dismantle systems of oppression, and return to wholeness in a culture that continually fragments us. Through her writing, teaching, and healing work, Michelle brings embodiment, ritual, and spiritual practice into conversations about justice—helping us remain connected to our humanity, sustain our energy, and continue showing up for the change we want to create. Her newest book is You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy.
In this episode, You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy in a Fractured World with Michelle Cassandra Johnson, we cover:
Spiritual protection and daily energetic hygiene
How to recognize energy leaks and prevent burnout
Creating boundaries while navigating caregiving and unavoidable responsibilities
Ancestral healing and connecting with benevolent ancestors
Working with nature and elemental energies as spiritual support
Staying engaged in activism without becoming depleted or dysregulated
Discerning “what is mine right now—and what is not”
Reclaiming witchcraft, magic, ritual, and spellwork as healing practices
Calling on archetypes, animal allies, deities, herbs, crystals, and other protective resources
Remaining grounded as you outgrow old identities and encounter other people’s projections
Protecting your energy so you can remain fully alive and continue showing up for collective change
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