Today we’d like to introduce you to Ember Fae.
Hi Ember, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I’ve been a witch since I was 13. Talking to the ocean, the trees, the earth, definitely talking to animals. I went to vet school at 21 and kept my magic practice alive, mostly hidden in my bedroom because that felt safer than explaining it to anyone and I didn’t really feel like there was anyone I could connect to with the practice.
After veterinary school, I did a residency which is when COVID happened. I had just finished studying for boards, a brand new job, supervising a group of people, and the post-covid burnout hit HARD. I was exhausted, dealing with friendship fallouts, way too much on my plate at work, and honestly barely holding it together. I didn’t even recognize who I was anymore or what I actually wanted. My ADHD brain’s solution? Obviously get a hobby. Add more things to the pile of things. I went looking for kickboxing.
I found a sketchy Facebook page. Showed up to this beautiful old building which definitely had NO kickboxing, but there was a flyer for a burlesque academy.
I was enamored by the flier, but didn’t do anything about it. I thought about it for six months and even brought it up in therapy almost every single month. Until my therapist finally said “Hmmm, maybe you need to just go try it? What could be the harm?”
OK THERAPIST. I showed up in leggings and a t-shirt to a room full of people in sexy little outfits and had absolutely no idea what I was doing, and I had the time of my life.
It was NOT an overnight transformation. It took months and it was HARD. But I could feel something shifting in my body and my mindset. About six months in I did my first group performance. A few months after that, my first solo. I was learning what my body could do, what it couldn’t do, and finding ways to love it exactly as it was. I went from someone who couldn’t look in a mirror to someone who genuinely feels so sexy and empowered watching herself move.
Then I found witchy mentors who explained what I’d already started feeling AKA that movement and magic ARE NOT separate. When I danced I entered trance states. My meditations deepened. I started weaving dance into my circle casting. My magic became more potent, more alive.
That’s when I understood: embodiment IS the magic. WE are the magic. The more I felt into my body, the more powerful I became. And I started actually loving my life again in the most beautiful, feral, sensual, sexy, wild way.
Now I help queer people, neurodivergent people, and femmes do exactly that. Come home to their bodies, their pleasure, and their magic, because when you love yourself wildly? You become freakin’ unstoppable.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
LOL. No…..Honestly, the road has been anything but smooth, and I think that’s kind of the point of it.
The burnout I mentioned wasn’t just tired. It was the kind of exhausted where you stop recognizing yourself. I was a veterinarian which sounds impressive until you understand what that actually costs you…the emotional weight of it, the impossible decisions, the animals all cute and snuggly that we hold or the incredibly fearful ones you wish you could fix and somehow still feel like you’re not doing enough. I was running on empty for years before I even admitted it.
And then there was the identity piece. I’d been a witch my whole life but I’d kept that so hidden, so compartmentalized, because I genuinely didn’t know if the world had room for a vet who also cast circles and talked to trees. Letting those two parts of myself exist in the same room took a long time. And a lot of mentorship and therapy.
Building a business as someone who is neurodivergent is its own adventure. My ADHD means I have approximately 324234 brilliant ideas before breakfast and the executive function of a golden retriever who just saw a squirrel. Learning to work with my brain instead of against it, to create systems that actually fit how I think, has been one of the biggest ongoing projects of my life.
And honestly? Burlesque cracked me open in ways I wasn’t prepared for. Healing isn’t linear and it isn’t always pretty. Some of those early performances were terrifying. Some of the mirror work was genuinely painful. There were months where I questioned everything. But every single hard moment was also information and learning to listen to that has changed everything.
I’m still on the road. I don’t think it gets smooth, I think you just get better at loving the terrain.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I’m a professional (veterinarian, boarded aka 11 years of schooling) and, yes, Head Witch of Ember Fae Magic. Both are equally as magical and important to me.
I’m an embodiment priestess, burlesque artist, and trained witch working at the intersection of movement, pleasure, and earth-based magic, training in the eclectic faery tradition. My work helps queer people, neurodivergent people, and femmes come home to themselves, their bodies, their desire, and their sense of magic, because so many of us have spent years learning to make ourselves smaller, quieter, easier to digest, and I’m here to blow that up entirely.
What I actually do: I guide people through movement and somatic practices, ritual and earth-based work, and the kind of embodiment that makes you feel genuinely, wildly alive in your own skin. Not “wellness” in the sanitized Instagram sense. The real thing. The feral, sacred, sexy, deeply human thing.
What sets me apart is an honestly ridiculous combination of credentials: I’m a veterinarian with a deep understanding of physiology and anatomy, and I’m also a trained witch, burlesque dancer, and Priestess of the Sacred Wild. I bring the science AND the woo into the same room and I don’t apologize for either. Embodiment work is often either too clinical or too intangible. Mine is both, unapologetically.
What I’m most proud of: watching someone who couldn’t look in a mirror start to see themselves. Genuinely. That moment when a person stops apologizing for taking up space and starts taking it up on purpose. I’ve seen it happen again and again and it never stops feeling like witnessing actual magic, because it is.
I hold the full spectrum here, from cute and playful to unapologetic feral sexuality, and every single part of that is welcome and sacred. You get to decide how you want to celebrate your body. All of it belongs.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
Honestly, if you asked me whether I’m a risk taker, my gut says no. I don’t sit around dreaming about jumping off cliffs or sky diving…. I’m not someone who gets a thrill from uncertainty for its own sake.
But then I look at my actual life and LOL…okay, maybe I am.
I decided I wanted to be a veterinarian within a year of starting undergrad and finished my degree in three years. When I built Ember Fae Magic I went all in financially, no half measures, no dipping a toe in, just full commitment to creating something I genuinely love. I get on stage and take my clothes off in front of audiences. I walk into tattoo shops in random cities when I’m travelling and come out with new ink. I showed up to burlesque class in leggings and a t-shirt with no idea what I was doing and just… stayed.
So I think my relationship with risk is less about being fearless and more about the moment I decide I want something, I go. I don’t mull it over for fifteen years. I don’t wait until I feel ready, because I’m not sure that feeling ever fully arrives anyway. I just decide and then I move.
Life is genuinely way more fun that way. The risks that have scared me the most have also been the ones that changed everything. And I think there’s something in that worth paying attention to.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.emberfae.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emberfaemagic/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@emberfaemagic
- Other: https://www.threads.com/@emberfaemagic
