- Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer is a free annual initiative from The Sisters Enchanted — a framework for designing your summer with intentional self-care and audacious personal goals.
- Good Witch energy = nurturing, tending to your wellness, self-care, boundaries, and peace. Bad Bitch energy = doing the thing you keep talking yourself out of.
- The free PDF resource (goodwitchbadbitchsummer.com) includes activity ideas organized around four pillars of self-care: spiritual, physical, practical, and relational.
- You don't need to check everything off. The list is about intentionality, not perfection — Sara herself has carry-overs from last year.
- Enchanted Journey members get special summer add-ons including psychic skills, tapping, Witching 101, courage work, and creative writing as ritual.
Why Summer Needs an Intention
Here's the thing about summer: most of us love the idea of it way more than we actually live it. We think about the bonfires and the lake days and the long evenings where nobody wants to go inside. And then we blink and it's Labor Day and we've spent most of it in air conditioning, scrolling our phones.
I'm Sara Walka, founder of The Sisters Enchanted, and I've been teaching women in midlife how to live with intention since 2016. And three years ago, almost by accident, we created something called Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer — a framework for going into the warm months with a plan, a list, and the audacity to actually follow through on it.
This is year three. And if you're new here: welcome. Grab a coffee. Let's talk about your summer.
Good Witch energy is the nurturing, tending side of yourself. It's the part that honors self-care, holds your boundaries, protects your wellness, and cultivates inner peace. It's not passive — it's the deliberate act of meeting your own needs without waiting for someone else to notice they exist.
Bad Bitch energy is the audacious, action-taking side of yourself. It's doing the thing you keep talking yourself out of. Ordering what you actually want instead of the safe option. Wearing the bathing suit. Driving the truck with the trailer to the lake. It's the moment at the end where you look back and say, "I cannot believe I did that." (And you're genuinely proud of yourself.)
What Is Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer?
Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer is a free annual initiative from The Sisters Enchanted. It's a structured invitation to design your summer around two types of energy: the nurturing and the audacious.
It started the way a lot of good things do — kind of sideways. The team at TSE had shirts made that said "Team TSE" with a subheader that read "Good Witches Bad Bitches." The community saw the shirts and wanted in. And from there, the phrase took on a life of its own.
Now it's an annual tradition here, and it's built around one simple question: What do you actually want this summer to feel like — and what are you going to do about it?
"I don't actually want to sit outside and get bitten by mosquitoes. It's that the energy, the feeling of it's happening and I want to do this thing anyway because it feels good."Sara Walka, Founder · The Sisters Enchanted
How Does Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer Actually Work?
You get the free PDF at goodwitchbadbitchsummer.com. Inside you'll find activity ideas organized around the four pillars of self-care that I wrote about in my book, Magical Self-Care. You pick the things that call to you. You write them down. You put them on a calendar.
That's it. That's the whole system. Simple on purpose.
The PDF also includes coloring pages, because yes — sometimes the thing that supports you is sitting down with some colored pencils and taking the pressure off for a minute.
Why Do We Get Stuck — and How Do We Get Unstuck?
There's a story I tell that lands differently every time. As a kid, I used to swim at a river with a rope swing. You'd run off the bank, grab the rope, soar out over the water, let go. Jump in. Do it again. Over and over.
And then one summer, my body froze. I couldn't make myself go. I knew how to do it. I'd done it a hundred times. But something in my nervous system just... stopped cooperating. It's the same thing that happens to gymnasts — that involuntary hesitation where the body refuses even when the mind knows it's fine.
I kept trying. Eventually I made it off the bank. But here's the thing I want you to hear:
"We get stuck on the bank. We get stuck in that part where we forget we can trust ourselves. We forget we've done this before. We forget we can fly."Sara Walka, Founder · The Sisters Enchanted
That's what Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer is actually about. Not the list. Not the PDF. It's the practice of remembering you can still run off the bank.
How Do You Build Your Own Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer List?
A couple of practical steps that I actually use myself, every year:
- Start with the two categories. What needs tending to this summer (Good Witch)? What have you been talking yourself out of (Bad Bitch)?
- Use the PDF as your idea bank. The activity ideas organized by the four pillars give you somewhere to start if you're drawing a blank.
- Print out monthly calendars for May through August. Put the real things on a real calendar. If it doesn't have a date, it doesn't really exist yet.
- Let your people in. I do this with my whole family — my husband, my two kids. We each make a list. The calendars are a family project. Summer gets planned together.
- Give yourself permission to carry things over. I had "drive the truck with the trailer to the lake" on my list last year. I didn't do it. It's going back on the list. That's allowed.
The point isn't a perfect summer. The point is a summer you actually thought about, instead of one that happened to you.
What's on My Own Summer List This Year?
For transparency — and because it helps to hear real examples, not aspirational ones:
- Read books with my kids this summer
- Paddle board picnic on the lake with the kids (bring food, try not to flip it)
- Declutter my bookshelves (practical self-care — sometimes it's just that)
- Revise my Magical Self-Care book to include what I've learned in the last five years
- Do a picnic hike
- Yoga outside with my kids
- Host a solstice dinner
- Drive the truck with the trailer to the lake, with my husband there — carried over from last year
And I'm still working on what the real Bad Bitch moment is this year. The one where, at the end, I look back and think, "I cannot believe I did that." I don't have it yet. Which is honest, and worth saying out loud.
What Does the Enchanted Journey Membership Add to Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer?
The base summer experience is completely free. The PDF, the framework, the community energy — all free.
For women who want to go deeper with a group, Enchanted Journey members are getting special summer add-ons built specifically around the Good Witch Bad Bitch theme:
- Psychic skills workshop
- Tapping (EFT) sessions
- Witching 101 — starting in late May through June
- August: courage and becoming work, including creative writing and mythology as ritual
Membership in Enchanted Journey is how you go from doing this alone to doing it with a group of women who are actually serious about it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer is a free annual initiative from The Sisters Enchanted, which I founded. It's a structured summer intention framework for women — especially women in midlife — who want to stop letting summer happen to them and start designing it on purpose. It runs from late May through August and is organized around two types of energy: Good Witch energy (nurturing, self-care, tending to your needs) and Bad Bitch energy (doing the audacious thing, taking action on what you've been putting off, living with less self-censorship). There's no subscription required. You grab the free PDF, make your list, and show up for yourself. It's that simple. The initiative is now in its third year and has built a community of women across the United States and beyond who use summer as a season of intentional living rather than a season they survive.
The free PDF resource, available at goodwitchbadbitchsummer.com, contains activity ideas organized by the four pillars of self-care that I developed in my book, Magical Self-Care: spiritual self-care, physical self-care, practical self-care, and relational self-care. It includes a list-making page structured around the two core energies — Good Witch and Bad Bitch — so you can write out your specific intentions for the season. It also includes motivators and a few coloring pages, because keeping it fun matters. The resource is designed to help you move from vague "I want to have a good summer" thinking into specific, time-bound intentions you can actually put on a calendar. The PDF is free to download with no purchase required.
At The Sisters Enchanted, we define Good Witch energy as the nurturing, tending side of yourself. It's the part that shows up for your own self-care, protects your boundaries, honors your wellness needs, and cultivates peace. Bad Bitch energy is the audacious, action-taking side. It's doing the thing you keep negotiating yourself out of. Wearing the bathing suit. Ordering the food you actually want. Going on the rope swing when your body wants to freeze up. The framework is not about being two different people — it's about recognizing that both of these energies live in you already, and a good summer calls on both. Good Witch energy tends the soil. Bad Bitch energy runs off the bank.
No. The core Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer experience is completely free. You download the PDF, make your list, and participate at whatever level works for you. There's no membership required, no purchase, and no catch. Women who are already members of the Enchanted Journey membership will have access to special summer add-ons — including workshops on psychic skills, tapping, Witching 101, and a courage and creative writing series in August — but those are additional. The base initiative is open to everyone. No enchanted sister left behind. The only thing you need to participate is a willingness to actually think about what you want this summer to feel like.
That's fine, and I say so explicitly from my own experience. I had "drive the truck with the trailer to the lake" on my Good Witch Bad Bitch Summer list last year. I didn't do it. It's going back on this year's list. The point of the initiative is intentionality — that you thought about what you wanted, that you named it, that you gave it a calendar date. It's not about a perfect checklist. Some things carry over. Some things you realize weren't actually that important once you wrote them down. The framework is designed to help you have a summer you thought about, not a summer you performed for anyone. Carry-overs aren't failure. They're just things you still want.