Lisa Marie Basile

The Magical Writing Grimoire is a book of inclusive and accessible rituals and writing prompts for anyone who feels called to using words as a source of healing, empowerment, joy, generativity, and self-exploration. Read...

The book was a doorway in, a doorway out, a personal threshold. Here’s what I learned, a year out, from writing it. Read...

Remember that your body is you, it is not separate. Treat it, yourself, with love. You’re a body of magic.

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I grew up knowing my family always had its very own black cloud. Like a backyard pet that comes and goes when it pleases, a room locked but filled with things we weren’t allowed to look at or set free. And it was all passed down to me like some broken heirloom — my ancestor’s weaknesses and fears, swirled into DNA’s mad ritual. Does the body sometimes take into itself — take from its creators — what it cannot heal from? Sometimes, yes.

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It can really take a toll on you when you have to parent a parent.

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The sum of a city isn’t always made up of its parts.

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In this column, I talk about things other people think or say, but not out loud, and certainly not in public. No one wants to say, “People either love me or hate me” because it sounds ridiculous and arrogant and icky.

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For the longest time, I've turned to tarot cards — usually read by someone else for me — to seek wisdom. Read...

No addiction or recovery story is the same. You don’t always kick the habit and you don’t always find the forgiveness which you seek. Around 60% of addicts relapse, according to the U.S. government. Others die. Others end up prison. Others lose their kids. Some make a full recovery.

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