Jessica Settergren Author

The Last 2025 Book Signing: B&N!

Photo is the cover of Defying Shadows captioned with "Book Signing with Jessica Settergren: "Defying Shadows: For Witches and Pagans Battling Cancer and Chronic Illness" SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 2:00PM CT Author Event Not long ago I wrote about steps to success,…

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

The Last 2025 Book Signing: B&N!

Photo is the cover of Defying Shadows captioned with "Book Signing with Jessica Settergren: "Defying Shadows: For Witches and Pagans Battling Cancer and Chronic Illness" SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 2:00PM CT Author Event Not long ago I wrote about steps to success,…

Cancellation Apologies

Due to a death in the family, I'm unable to attend the Women & Spirituality Conference tomorrow in Rochester, Minnesota. I'm sorry to miss it, and I'm terribly sorry if you were planning on attending my time slot, but the funeral is this weekend. The best prepared plans are…

Unfortunately, I won't be able to present at this conference on Saturday due to a family emergency. I'm so sad to miss it, and I will definitely be there next year! the conference will be wonderful, so I hope you all have a lovely experience!

41st Annual Women & Spirituality Conference - Women & Spirituality Conference The Women & Spirituality Conference is dedicated to deepening our connections, embracing our wholeness and awakening our wisdom.

I'll be here on Saturday! Come check out this excellent conference. womenandspirituality.org

YouTube video by Witchy Corner Productions Defying Shadow Chronic Illness and Witchcraft with Jessica Settergren

I had the pleasure of chatting with Pagan recently for Pagan's Witchy Corner about my book. What a wonderful experience, and thank you again for handling my nerves with such patience! youtu.be/CGh3mSpE1xQ

Success and screaming goats.
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Definitions of Success

Twenty-*cough* and some years ago, I'd moved from my hometown to a suburb of Minneapolis for a job and desperately wished I could move back. I spent the first eight months or so leaving from work at 3:30 on Friday to drive home, coming back after 10 on Sunday night for the…

Review: A Reckoning Up Black Cat Hollow by Matthew F. Jones

I received an ARC of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. On a dark road in the middle of nowhere, a slip of a girl in almost no clothes jumps into Jack Spinks's car. Filthy, exhausted, and obviously terrified, she…

Fall Appearances

A few years ago, I went to Hawai'i with my (then) 86 year old grandmother so I could officiate the wedding of one of my best friends to her lovely (now) husband. It was wonderful had a fabulous week (I miss the overwhelming beauty of Hawai'i). A bit more than a year after that,…

My favorite amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

— Harper Lee,”To Kill a Mockingbird”

No Pithy Phrase Is My Freak Flag Upside Down Again?

PNW folk! Come see me in September at Tah-Lume, Lincoln City, OR on the 13th and Crescent Moon Gifts, Tacoma, WA on the 14th!
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This is what integrity looks like.

You are not alone in this dystopia.

The last few months have been terrifying in the US for many as policies, rhetoric, and even legislation has highlighted an underlying racist and misogynist agenda by those currently in power. It's disheartening. It's scary as hell. It's hard to focus on other…

Review: The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter

I received an ARC for this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Ayleth is the accidental scion of a powerful line of witches in a secret coven in the woods. After the White Court's King decided witches are evil, he sent the Huntsmen to…

Milestone Frankenboob-aversary

This isn't porn, if that's what you searched for to get this blog post. Five years ago I finished radiation, which marked me as clear of breast cancer active treatment. It would've been an exciting day had I not been exhausted: I probably napped. You can read about…

Oh yeah, it took a LONG time after treatment for me to consider my body a body, and not the malfunctioning meatsuit I'm piloting. Congratulations and yay for an awesome plastic surgeon!

Once everyone under the medical sun has seen 'em to get healthy, why not show them off? After multiple biopsies and the hilarious horror of a breast MRI, and pre/post-surgery...eventually it's just easy to whip them out. I hope treatment is gentle and you kick cancer's ass.

Find you a cat that will hide a body with you

I'm signing at the 3rd Street Festival at Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery in Park Rapids, MN this Saturday! Come pick up a copy of Defying Shadows and say hello!
#witchsky #booksigning #witchyreaders #cancersupport

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Loreena remounts her 'love letter to the season - Loreena McKennitt Loreena remounts her ‘love letter to the season This December Loreena […]

Loreena is remounting her celebrated seasonal performance of Under A Winter’s Moon this December at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, in her home base of Stratford and in neighbouring London, Ontario.

On sale now, ticket link 🔗 in bio:
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Maycember is finally over…I’m tired and I don’t remember what day it is.

Graduation activities for the eldest Horde member are all done (his grad party was last weekend). I checked in with my European co-workers today: no, they don't seem to do grad parties in the UK the way we do here. Not…

I'm signing at the 3rd Street Festival at Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery in Park Rapids, MN this Saturday! Come pick up a copy of Defying Shadows and say hello!
#witchsky #booksigning #witchyreaders #cancersupport

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Minerva wants to know if you're taking healthy breaks from doom. She suggests walks, a roll in the grass, and barking at golfers (her favorite hobbies) for stress relief.
#dogs #mentalhealth #selfcare

(Photo is a close up of a white fluffy dog's face looking directly at the camera.)

Samsung fridges, now fat-shaming under the guise of protecting your health. "Are you opening this door AGAIN? Do you REALLY need those calories? Put the ice cream down and go for a walk, Barbara."

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is preparing to roll back rules that limited mercury, lead, and arsenic emissions from coal plants, protections designed to safeguard brain development and prevent heart and respiratory disease.

Trump told reporters at the White House that the protesters in Los Angeles “are insurrectionists.” That’s false. January 6 was an insurrection, this is a protest. But by using that language, he may be laying the groundwork to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act.

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