75: DTN Podcast | Jim Alstott Ep. 75 | She Quit God. God Stayed. | Sunshine Witchski, The Sober Witch

About this episode

Sunshine Witchski shares her journey of leaving organized religion and finding personal faith and spirituality.

What if walking away from the religion you were raised in isn't losing your faith — it's the first honest thing you ever did with it? Sunshine Witchski was eleven years old when she noticed the contradictions in what she was being taught in Catholic school. She asked. Nobody had an answer she could live with. What followed was decades of addiction, a rock bottom in Costa Rica, and a long walk back — not to the Church, but to something she could finally call her own. Today she is a psychic medium, soul healer, Reiki master, high priestess, and the founder of Sunshine Readings. She calls herself the Sober Witch. Can you lose your religion and keep your faith? In this candid episode of The Drop the Needle Podcast, Jim Alstott sits down with Sunshine Witchski to talk about growing up Catholic in Detroit, the question at age eleven that started everything, the years she spent numbing what she couldn't name, and how she built a spiritual life on her own terms — one with room for tarot, recovery, shadow work, and every part of herself she was once told to hide. Sunshine shares the moment she stopped performing belief, what rock bottom actually looked like, and the day she walked into a…

People in this episode

Host: Jim Alstott

Guest: Sunshine Witchski

Topics covered

• faith
• religion
• addiction
• spirituality
• personal growth

Keywords

• Catholic school
• addiction
• psychic medium
• soul healer
• Reiki master
• shadow work
• personal faith

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sunshine Readings

Places: Detroit, Costa Rica

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