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Speaking with Shelley Johnson\u2014known to her millions of followers as \u201cA Good Witch\u201d\u2014feels like affirmation cards come to life, only less polished and far more entertaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a whole person is not about judgment. Being a whole person is about accepting yourself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou are divine and you are connected. Nothing on this earth can shake you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat you think about me is none of my business.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n These are just a few of her mantras.<\/p>\n It\u2019s only a few minutes into our Zoom call\u2014how Johnson holds all her virtual tarot card readings\u2014and I already feel better, calmer. At 73, Johnson has mastered something most people spend their lives chasing: the ability to be fully present.<\/p>\n But Johnson didn\u2019t start becoming a \u201cGood Witch\u201d at 69, when her Instagram persona took off @agoodwitchofficial<\/a>. For more than three decades, she worked as an occupational therapist, building her own practice in the 1970s\u2014uncommon for a woman at the time\u2014and helping patients who believed their lives were limited rediscover what was possible. Her methods weren\u2019t always conventional. She used humor, blunt honesty and even tarot cards to better understand how to connect with the people she was treating.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always asked the same question,\u201d she says. \u201cHow do I get you to relax, enjoy, learn and grow?\u201d<\/p>\n That question still drives everything she does today\u2014it\u2019s just packaged differently.<\/p>\n Scroll through Johnson\u2019s social media, and you\u2019ll find a mix of offbeat humor, cannabis content and hard-earned life advice. One moment she\u2019s joking about smoking weed and sharing bong-cleaning tips; the next, she\u2019s reminding viewers to love themselves exactly as they are\u2014then baring her chest post-mastectomy, urging them to release shame around their bodies. It\u2019s chaotic, a little disarming\u2014and intentional. Cannabis, in particular, has helped her invite people in.<\/p>\n \u201cI give you what you want, so you\u2019ll listen to what I have to say,\u201d she says, adding that her cannabis humor is meant to help people shed any shame around what she sees as a normal, regulatory medicine.<\/p>\n Johnson has been open about her relationship with the plant\u2014starting young, getting sober for nearly two decades, then returning to it after a breast cancer diagnosis made pharmaceutical treatments unbearable. \u201cI started smoking again at 50, quit the pharmaceuticals and stopped going crazy,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m not an insane bitch when I smoke pot.\u201d<\/p>\n But she\u2019s quick to clarify: Cannabis isn\u2019t a cure.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cure-all is regulating the nervous system,\u201d she says. \u201cPot doesn\u2019t fix it\u2014it helps it.\u201d<\/p>\n This nervous system work\u2019s something Johnson explored deeply after her cancer diagnosis in 2000. She stepped away from occupational therapy and went back to school for studio arts, where she discovered that sculpture\u2014working with her hands, being fully present in the moment\u2014would become a key part of her healing. \u201cI sculpt because I have to\u2014for neuro-regulation,\u201d she says. \u201cI need time where I\u2019m not thinking, where I\u2019m not worried about the future or worried about the past.\u201d<\/p>\n She found this to be especially true after developing trigeminal neuralgia as a side effect of chemotherapy, which caused chronic facial pain for years. What ultimately helped wasn\u2019t medication, but shifting her focus. \u201cWhen I stop paying attention to my body, the pain diminishes,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s why I have to sculpt.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson uses cannabis as a tool, just like sculpture. A puff before a workout. Before a walk. Before painting or sculpting. Not to escape, but to slow down enough to engage.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I get too stoned, I miss me,\u201d she says. In her view, the real issue isn\u2019t what people use\u2014it\u2019s why they\u2019re using it. That\u2019s why she sticks to low-THC, balanced products\u2014often outdoor, organic flower from Moon Made Farms. Getting too high, she says, defeats the purpose entirely. The goal isn\u2019t to check out\u2014it\u2019s to stay present.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople aren\u2019t checking out from reality,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019re checking out from themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a perspective shaped not just by personal experience, but by decades of working with others. Long before she was building an audience online, Johnson had already developed another unconventional tool: tarot. She\u2019s been reading cards for more than half a century, beginning shortly after graduating college, when she found herself unsure how to emotionally connect with her first patient.<\/p>\n So, she bought a deck of tarot cards. At night, while charting, she\u2019d pull cards and use them to better understand how to approach each patient. \u201cI always interpret the cards in a way people can learn and grow,\u201d she says. \u201cNot in a way that shows limitations.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, the same work she was doing as a therapist\u2014helping people reframe their experiences, regulate their reactions and move forward\u2014just through a different lens.<\/p>\n That throughline\u2019s what makes Johnson\u2019s current persona feel less like reinvention and more like evolution. The \u201cGood Witch\u201d was born out of necessity during the pandemic, when Johnson could no longer sell her artwork in person and needed to drive traffic online. A consultant suggested she sell herself, not just her art.<\/p>\n \u201cWho could you be?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I\u2019m a witch,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n To Johnson, the label wasn\u2019t about aesthetics or mysticism. It was about agency.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy<\/em> am I a witch? Because I can create whatever I want,\u201d she says. It\u2019s the same belief system she\u2019s carried for decades: that people aren\u2019t limited by circumstance, only by the way they think about it. \u201cI\u2019m not restricted to other people\u2019s ideas,\u201d she says. \u201cI create the reality of my living.\u201d<\/p>\n That mindset has carried her through a life that includes being kicked out of multiple churches, building a career on her own terms, surviving cancer, raising two daughters and continuously reinventing how she expresses herself\u2014whether through therapy, art or now, social media.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also what resonates with the millions of people who follow her.<\/p>\n Johnson\u2019s content isn\u2019t polished or aspirational in the traditional sense. It\u2019s raw, sometimes chaotic, often funny and occasionally blunt to the point of discomfort. But underneath it there\u2019s a consistent message: Relax. Pay attention. Learn. Grow.<\/p>\n In an online landscape crowded with curated wellness advice and perfectly packaged self-help, Johnson\u2019s approach stands out precisely because it isn\u2019t trying to be anything other than what it is. She\u2019s not positioning herself as a guru. She\u2019s not claiming to have all the answers. If anything, she\u2019s doing what she\u2019s always done\u2014meeting people where they are, getting their attention however she can and then nudging them toward something better.<\/p>\n You can call it therapy. You can call it spirituality. You can call it content.<\/p>\n She calls it being a good witch. So do we.<\/p>\n The post A Really, Really Good Witch<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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