The Comfy Cozy Witch’s Guide to Making Magic in Your Everyday Life

• Author: Jennie Blonde
• Genre: Spirituality
• Publication Date: September 3, 2024
• Publisher: HarperOne

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperOne for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

From the host of the beloved podcast The Comfy Cozy Witch comes an accessible two-color illustrated guide resonant with cozy fall vibes, featuring spells, recipes, meditations, and practices to bring good magic into your daily life.

“Jennie Blonde is one of the leading voices in witchcraft. She shows that it can be the warm and comforting hug you need the most.”—Amanda Lovelace, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Saves Herself in This One

Whether you’re a novice curious about witchcraft but aren’t sure where to start, or a seasoned witch interested in deepening your practice, this warm, accessible, and nurturing interactive guide shows you the way. The Comfy Cozy Witch’s Guide to Making Magic in Your Everyday Life combines the practical charm of The Little Book of Hygge with the down to earth wisdom of The Spell Book for New Witches and the practical advice of Grimoire Girl. Drawn from decades of popular podcaster Jennie Blonde’s experience, she shares seven tenets to help you begin and develop your own authentic practice:

Acceptance: gentle exercises to reflect on our past journeys

Simplicity: meditations to ground us in the present

Balance: self-care practices, like candle magic, to replenish our inner selves

Delight: practices to find joy in community

Warmth: building a cozy practice space

Reflection: journal prompts to help us stay centered

Intuition: learning to listen to ourselves and connect to our guides

This beautifully designed book—filled with spell craft exercises, magical journaling prompts, delicious recipes, and do-it-yourself tips for the home and garden–has everything necessary to develop a witchcraft practice built on magical authenticity, comfort, and self-care.

I started reading this on the last day of August, and expected to be able to finish it and have a review posted by the release date. It looked like a really interesting book, and even the cover looks cozy! It wasn’t until after I finished reading that the author shared that she did all the crocheting of everything pictured on the cover as well as the title, which is so impressive. But since this book seemed to offer everything I’ve been looking for, I was not expecting it to take me more than a month to finish reading it. 

To start with, a lot of books in this specific subgenre tend to be quick reads for me. When I read these books, I find myself typically bookmarking many pages and then referring back to them at a later date when I need to use that information. But this book stood out as an active read, where I journaled about prompts throughout the book, which is what took me so long to get through it. 

This warm and fuzzy book on making my daily life more magical was right up my alley, as I’ve kind of been practicing the comfy cozy lifestyle without even knowing it, and wanted to learn more ways to add some magic to my life. And this book offered so many ways to do that, allowing me to incorporate whatever resonates with me and leave the rest to the side. 

I liked the way that Blonde offered snippets of her own experiences and practice, allowing readers to see the flexibility that her approach offers and solid examples of how she puts it into action on a regular basis. It makes it easy to see ways that comfy cozy witchcraft can be incorporated into my own practice, and start using some of these ways immediately. 

The book is broken up into chapters that flow easily from topic to topic. She starts by discussing the seven tenets mentioned in the summary and offering different options depending on where you are in your practice and what you want to do. Then she delves into how to make your own magic, through daily rituals, divination, intentions, personal correspondences, and creating spells. I found this level of detail to be just right for me, and there are a lot of bookmarks, notes, and highlights throughout this book. I already know that this is a book I’ll be referring to often, and I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for a way to feel more connected to your practice in easy, doable ways.

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