About The Awakened Witch
Our mission is to empower women to align with nature's cycles, achieve their goals without burnout, and live a balanced, enchanting life.
Imagine shedding societal constraints, embracing your raw power, and joining a community of fierce, courageous women on a transformative journey toward unapologetic freedom.
About our Founder
Let’s start at the beginning. Melissa Lyon West was born and raised in a high-demand religion that celebrated male power and functioned through manipulation and control. She spent the first thirty years a prisoner in her own body, afraid of being seen and heard. She lived in a constant state of fear, shame, and guilt.
She felt as if she had no voice, did not know herself and had no deep friendships, or any real friendships at all. Ashamed of who she was and disconnected from her body, Melissa kept her true self hidden.
Anxiety, panic attacks, depression... all hidden behind a smile.
Melissa went to bed each night desperately wanting a bigger life, but knowing she wasn’t good enough, hadn’t made enough progress. Tomorrow she would try harder…
After Melissa’s third daughter was born, she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease, which sent her into one of the darkest periods of her life. It was in this darkness that the pressure of living up to perfection took its toll, and she hit rock bottom – causing cracks to form all over her perfectly plated life.
In this darkness, hope showed up. A woman befriended Melissa - she was fire in human form. She was all the things a woman wasn't supposed to be… she said and did whatever she wanted! She talked about her story vulnerably and without shame. Who was this magical person!?
Over the next few years, she helped Melissa find her
voice, courage, and bravery!
Melissa made a decision during this time that altered the course of her life…
no more lying
No more pretending she was ok, pretending she was happy. No more pretending she didn’t have questions and doubts.
This one decision caused Melissa to practice courage daily. Slowly she left the rules that were crushing her. Started to see herself as worthy of her own love and acceptance, learned to see the divine inside her soul, and started to have fun for the first time in her life. She was learning to write her own rules, use her own voice, access her own power.
FREEDOM BEGAN TO BEAT IN HER CHEST!
It was at that point Melissa found her soul’s calling - to help women break out of their own prison of uncertainly and discover the freedom to live a life they desired. For Melissa, that most aligned with feelings-based, heart-centered life coaching. So she went back to school, got her life coaching certificate, and started her business.
For years, Melissa coached women who wanted more. They wanted to fall in love with themselves and leave behind toxic relationships, to launch businesses and find confidence to speak their truth, to live authentically and find the bravery to do so. She had the unique opportunity to work with these brave women to figure out what they truly wanted, and walk with them toward that goal.
She loved her work...
But something was missing,
and she couldn’t quite put her finger on what it was.
So after the most successful spring in her business,
she shut it all down.
She cocooned, she cried, and with the help of plant medicine, Melissa did some deep healing.
Then one day woke up and remembered... she was a witch!
You could see it all over her house - the jars of dried herbs, the crystals scattered on every surface, the tinctures and oils, the tarot and oracle cards stacked on her desk.
Melissa is a woman who knows her power, a woman connected to nature, and that, that was the part that was missing. It was a new kind of freedom to fully embrace this part of herself. The plants, the herbs, the tinctures, the crystals, and spells... They fit seamlessly with her love of coaching and building a life that brings joy to women.
So one day Melissa sat down, and within four hours, had created The Coaching Coven, a group coaching and online community for women. A week later The Book of Ritual Vol 1: Moon Magic was born.
Melissa combined what she knew from coaching, what she learned from helping women work towards big goals, and what she loved about witchcraft.
What she quickly realized was that community,
ritual, and cycles were at the heart of it all!
She started to develop the witch’s way
of avoiding burnout and
soon her coaching company became
so much more than just her.
The Awakened Witch was born.
The Awakened Witch was created out of one woman’s desire to combine her unending ambition with a more sustainable way to build a life of passion and purpose.
We are here to help you understand the energy of the moon, the power of ritual, and the fun of witchcraft to help you create a life that makes you excited to wake up in the morning, nourishes you when you are tired, and shows you a more sustainable way to build a life of passion and purpose.
