The Secret Witch Show

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Siân Marie Pilkington. Siân is The Wild Mama who has raised her babies and has landed shakti-based, goddess-devoted, and in service to the taboos of blood, birth, sexuality and death. A queer celt, Magdalene, radical birth worker, herbalist, and ceremonialist, she guides femmes back to the Great Mother, blending primal intelligence with embodied, Earth-honoring magic.  Siân now works purposefully to decolonize the rites of passage we've been taught to fear, reclaiming birth, postpartum, eros, and endings as sacred. Mentoring doulas and space holders in altered states, ecstatic birth, and collaborative community care, her work is a love letter to those ready to remember, rewild, and bring initiations home. In this beautiful episode about death we explore Siân's sacred and unique perspective around miscarriage as a natural, ancient healing ‘rite of passage' - rather than the taboo, over-clinicalised, sanitised, dissociative experience it can be created as by our world.  Sharing the healing transformation she was able to reclaim from her own miscarriage, and the ancient wisdom passed down from elders, Siân shines a light on the interconnectedness of grief and initiation - and the role of ritual and ceremony in alchemy.  Providing practical advice on holistic practices, herbs and remedies to support healing, she illuminates the powerful remedy that can be found (for us all) in learning how to see and hear ourselves and share our stories - touching on shame, rage and grief - and how the witch can help heal the societal avoidance of death and grief. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Miscarriage is over-sanitised in our patriarchal culture - which has it commonly not seen as the significant ‘peak experience' and transformative rite of passage that it can be, similar to live childbirth and other life transitions Miscarriage can be a deeply emotional and spiritual journey where we learn how to meet ourselves, face and process intense emotions, including grief and loss - and even pleasure - yet it is also often seen as ‘taboo' and shameful Left alone, and if we can allow ourselves to sit patiently, whilst allowing everything to move through us, the body has a natural wisdom in how to process miscarriage - and we can attune to our bodies to navigate this.  We are broken in the process - we are giving birth to death - and, often, it is also the path to reclaiming our wisdom. If we have had an over-clinicalised miscarriage, we can still journey with reclaiming this rite of passage - this threshold - through ritual and ceremony, reclaiming parts of ourselves that have felt lost to this process. Telling our story - and being seen and held in sisterhood - is a deeply crucial step in our healing journey, for personal closure. Sharing it with others also offers a remedy for them, too. We are remedies for those like us. Resources and things that we spoke about: Siân's Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motherarchy/ Our Links: Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: http://www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Resources: If Women Rose Rooted: https://sharonblackie.net/if-women-rose-rooted/ Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into the profound topic of ‘slowing down', particularly when we are faced with the fear of falling behind. Exploring through the lens of Archetypal remedy, Phosphorus - a symbol for those sensitive souls who burn brightly and risk burning out without boundaries and self-care. In this episode she explores the importance of rest, the intuitive healing wisdom within, and practical enquiries for beginning to integrate the lessons around slowing down in daily life. She shares personal stories and witchy medicine to help you recognise and heal common ‘Secret Witch' patterns of urgency and burnout - that can even sabotage us in the reclamation of our magic, in our tendency to rush to quick fixes, when we think we are broken (which we are not - as this episode highlights!). What You'll Learn from this Episode: There's usually a deep-seated wound that often stops us from slowing down - and that's the fear of falling behind (though it can also be other things) When we push through and try to speed up, we're often responding to a childhood fear or experience of being inadequate or abandoned Likewise there is a cultural conditioning - societal norms often reward us and make us feel more valid if we are urgent and productive, which leads to a collective misunderstanding that rest is the equivalent of laziness We can heal this by working with the archetypal remedy, Phosphorus - symbolised by the substance on a match which lights fires, this represents our passion and radiance in a healthy state, but in our wounded state, it points to our sensitivity that leads to burn out The route to healing this pattern is really about becoming aware of our internal patterns and the stories that drive our need for constant action - and loving these lost parts of our soul back home. Resources and things that we spoke about: Our Links: Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary YouTube Episode: https://youtu.be/YRVZF36M8P4 Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Kim Kaase. Kim is the creator of Authentic Influence, a transformative messaging framework designed for experienced coaches, mentors, and visionaries. With a background in high-level sales and business strategy, she helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs craft clear, aligned messaging that resonates deeply - without resorting to hype or manipulation. She empowers her clients to amplify their impact while staying true to their soul voice and values. Her mission is to revolutionize marketing by fostering genuine connection, integrity, and sustainability in business. In this episode we explore the true value of ‘authentic' soul expression - and why it's so important, both personally and in our businesses as healers. Reflecting on Kim's healing journey, her spiritual awakenings and the realisation that true self-expression requires surrendering to a deeper divine guidance, she dived into the distinction between ‘authentic influence' and ‘manipulation', the ongoing nature of reclaiming our authentic self (and the fears and challenges that come up with that), and the revolutionary potential of AI in capturing and harnessing our true message (even though it may seem the very opposite of authenticity). She expressed the importance of aligning with our soul to express our gifts, as a powerful reminder for aspiring healers that sharing our voice is the remedy. What You'll Learn from this Episode: We can often feel unsafe to express ourselves due to the expectations of society - which often have us stuck in patterns of staying on the hamster wheel, burning out, people-pleasing and hiding our magic To begin the journey back to authenticity requires us to get quiet, pause and attune to our inner wisdom - even though that can feel challenging (and we also might not like what we hear) - we have to have time to ‘gestate' our rebirth Facing our fear of expressing ourselves isn't easy, and requires deep courage and acceptance that being authentic and sharing our voices may result in both adoration and criticism (and staying open to seeing that's okay!) As aspiring healers, it's important to learn a new way of business and marketing that comes from a more feminine lens (supported by the masculine), rather than some of the more ‘traditional' marketing approaches which come from the lens of lack and manipulation. To do that, we need to learn to have ‘authentic influence' - to embody the frequency of purity and truth - which is different from ‘manipulative' marketing. Whilst we might think that AI is robotic and the opposite of authenticity, AI can be a really supportive container to hold our message as we begin to create - offering a masculine structure of remembering our values, whilst allowing us to focus on authentic expression. There are different levels of consciousness (intuitive, intellectual, willful, reactive) which influence how we market ourselves as healers - and it's helpful to have awareness of these (and which level we, and the people we can serve are in) to reach people authentically. There's no ‘right' in how we express our message as healers - only learning to be had. We just have to start expressing our souls, and be open to learning what meets people where they are. Resources and things that we spoke about: Kim Kaase's Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimberley.kaase LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimkaase/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimkaase/ Nicole's Links: Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Join our free Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/iamnicolebarton Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Resources Mentioned:  Books - The Body Knows the Score: https://a.co/d/fecU3TM YouTube Episode: https://youtu.be/Dw29wqtrj4o Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into how our struggles, challenges, things going ‘wrong', and even our trauma can become our remedies - and how we can reclaim our power and stop fighting that alchemy process. Sharing her own personal journey, she explores how we enter ‘remedy states' each time we meet challenges - and how we have been conditioned to shy away from and avoid our darkness, which often leaves us (innocently) locked in that wounded state, ‘resisting' the lesson. Instead, she shares how we can open to learning new skills to meet ourselves lovingly in our triggers, wounds and challenges, so that we can receive the gold from them. Exploring how our gifts are found in our wounds - and how we can cultivate self-love, safety, vulnerability, and deeper intimacy with them in order to heal ourselves - this episode offers a transformative perspective of challenges as opportunities for growth. And it does this in a way that doesn't also have us ‘bypassing' our pain, but honouring and acknowledging it - aka truly healing it. What You'll Learn from this Episode: ‘Lessons' are often to be found in all the things that go ‘wrong' in our lives - our challenging experiences or traumas not met well in childhood often lead us to a cycle of suppression and fear of adversity This can ‘lock us in' to a remedy state that clouds who we are, leaving our scared, wounded inner little girl in charge of navigating our challenges - until we reclaim our power by welcoming and loving her, so that we can pause and go into find the gold in them We assume that healing should be a quick fix sticky plaster that immediately solves our challenge - but really, true healing often involves a healing response that takes us back to the moment we experienced a soul rupture, so that we can revisit it and decide again - whilst we unsuppress whatever was suppressed.  That moment is where our lesson is, which makes our moments of challenge opportunities for healing People can often be our biggest triggers, but they are also ‘remedies' and mirrors for us in our healing - that's why Nicole has created the Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership We often need to create a sense of safety for our child to meet triggers - because for the Secret Witch, especially, this way of working is largely not something that's been modelled.  It requires us to learn new healing skills - like nervous system tending, true self-love and acceptance, and capacity to hold the tension and pause in our triggers - and these skills can take a little time, tenderness and love to learn. Resources and things that we spoke about: Links to things mentioned: Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Book a Soul Reading: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/soulreading  Our Links: Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary YouTube episode: https://youtu.be/18OEr6K9j64 Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox    

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Gemma Brady. Gemma is the founder of Sister Stories, which is on a mission to make going to Women's Circles as common as yoga class. She has dedicated her life to creating spaces for people to tell important stories. Beginning her career as an award winning filmmaker, she believes in the healing power of storytelling and created Sister Stories as a means of offering women an opportunity to come together and experience the transformative power of being seen and heard. In this episode Gemma and Nicole explore the transformative power of sister circles and how our personal stories facilitate healing - for both ourselves and others. Exploring the understandable fears associated with stepping into spaces of sisterhood - like vulnerability, and the fear of persecution - and the importance of fostering unconditional love, honouring our triggers and having the courage to share our voices, we illuminate the vital need for sisterhood in the permission-giving reclamation of our authentic expression - and how that's the medicine for the world (including the mainstream!). What You'll Learn from this Episode: Sister circles are a potent space of healing and permission-giving, providing a space for self-discovery, expression and gentle activism - which can help change the world through compassion, connection and community Both in leading and participating in sister circles, being authentically ourselves, and acknowledging our vulnerabilities, is crucial for creating deep healing We can often feel the fear of joining a circle of sisterhood - and if we feel we can't share anything else, simply naming our fears can be so healing in and of itself  Listening is also a vital, courageous act - it allows people to hold space for each other's complex stories and can activate deep self-illumination - people are remedies, and circle allows others to mirror where we need love As facilitators, we aren't there to ‘get it right' or be ‘more advanced' - our role is as a gentle steward, creating and holding space for the group - if you're just starting out, keep it simple and be authentic, rather than thinking you have to ‘do more' - the medicine is in you expressing your unique authentic self (aka ‘being' your remedy). Resources and things that we spoke about: Gemma's Links: Website: https://www.sisterstories.co World Class Accredited Circle Facilitator Programme: https://www.sisterstories.co/doors-open-sister-stories-facilitation-online-training-2025 Social: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sisterstoriesuk Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SisterStoriesLDN Our Links: Register interest in our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Join us this 24th April 2025: Taster event - Heal Yourself, Become the Healer - enrolling now - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heal-yourself-become-the-healer-a-sacred-initiation-to-your-witchy-gifts-tickets-1290199043069 Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole vulnerably addresses the common challenges that Secret Witches can face in romantic relationships - being our true selves when our partners are not ‘witchy'. Discussing the natural fear of judgement, shame and rejection - and how our ‘difference' can feel like we are living “secret” lives, feeling lonely and disconnected and leaving us feeling unheard and unseen - she shares how to take tender steps to empower ourselves into liberating our authenticity.  In this episode Nicole talks openly about her personal journey with childhood trauma and abusive relationships, exploring how embracing her true self helped transform her current partnership. She offers practical journaling prompts, advice on the inner work and answers listener questions on how to find alignment with partners, as well as sharing why ‘difference' is actually crucial to union.  She also guides you into cultivating an inner safety to share your vulnerability, and how to work with self-healing (and self-validation) for deeper intimacy and connection. What You'll Learn from this Episode: As ‘witches', we can often feel deeply fearful about being our authentic selves in our romantic relationship - bringing up the witch wound fear of being judged and abandoned - yet opening up to expressing ourselves doesn't always have to obliterate our lives, and we can open to it tenderly, with small steps ‘Difference' isn't a bad thing - we actually need polarity in relationships, because that's what creates union as we complement each other - so being a ‘witchy', mysterious feminine essence being in a relationship with a logical masculine essence being may not actually be quite as bad as our inner little girl imagines Being our authentic selves is vital in deepening intimacy and connection in our relationships - and even attracting soul-aligned partners - even though it will likely feel deeply vulnerable We often need to cultivate a sense of ‘inner safety' within ourselves first, welcoming our authentic ‘witch' home to ourselves first - until it's inevitable that no one can reject this part of ourselves (or if they do, we welcome this part of ourselves so deeply that this becomes okay) We can do this by beginning to do the inner work (such as working with archetypal remedies) to discover our wounding patterns and how they are contributing to us abandoning our authentic self - and by surrounding ourselves with likeminded souls until our expression starts to feel safe We don't have to jump to boldly declaring our witch status - we might start small by sharing aspects of our witch, such as loving wild wanders or enjoying full moon rituals - tender steps and deep love for the parts of us that feel unsafe is the way. Resources and things that we spoke about: Our Links: Register interest in our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Resources: Adam Quiney episode: Ep 33 -How to Own the Gold of your Soul's Essence - https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-33 Join our Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Join our Membership: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Youtube Episode: https://youtu.be/5YutFXrBHYk Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Marcus Fernandez. Marcus has been practicing and teaching homeopathy for over thirty years worldwide. His journey in homeopathy has been marked by dedication to both education and practice, having founded the Centre for Homeopathic Education (CHE) in London. Marcus's vision is to make homeopathy accessible to everyone. He firmly believes in empowering people to take charge of their families' health and well-being through homeopathy. His contribution to the field was recognized in 2021 when he was made a Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths for his outstanding service to the profession. In this episode, we explore Marcus's journey from aspiring rockstar to acclaimed homeopath.  Diving into the science and art of homeopathy as a ‘magical' energy medicine system for self-healing, we studied some basic universal principles - such as ‘like cures like' - and historical and alchemical roots of homeopathy that make this ancient wisdom body effective.  Providing an inspiring and compelling case for the ancient practice's relevance and efficacy in modern times, Marcus addressed some of the common doubts and fears about homeopathy - and fears that can come up around embracing more ‘magical' healing methods - making a stand for trusting our wisdom on what's ‘Truth'.  He also offered practical advice on how listeners can incorporate homeopathy into their lives. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Homeopathic principles say that illness is really caused by ‘suppression' - differing to mainstream medicine, which often suppresses symptoms without addressing underlying issues, homeopathy seeks to treat the root cause, leading to true healing Homeopathy empowers individuals to heal themselves by aligning them with their internal truth and natural healing capacities, encouraging trust in personal intuition and holistic health practices The remedies work on the law of similars (‘like cures like') and, traditionally, involve highly diluted substances that retain the energetic essence of the original material, akin to principles in quantum physics (although science is still ‘catching up' to homeopathy) Remedies in effect take us back to times in our lives where we experienced trauma, so that we can ‘choose again' - whether to release the trauma or remain holding it Homeopathy is also something that's been doubted and ridiculed as ‘pseudo-science' which can have Secret Witches feel the fear of being judged as ‘lunatics' if they work with it - and yet, when we try it, our embodied experience often reveals that it works All the healing wisdom we need is already within us - we are not broken, we have all we need already - if homeopathy calls to us, we can try it out for ourselves and live into our own experience of it with an open mind and trust of our inner wisdom and truth  Beginners can start with homeopathic kits and guides like Marcus's book "Homeopathy at Home," gradually exploring remedies for common ailments while understanding the principles and subtleties of holistic healing. Resources and things that we spoke about: Marcus's Links: Homeopathy at Home - Marcus's book: https://marcus-fernandez.com/  Website: https://marcus-fernandez.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcusfndez/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009253627766 Helios Basic Remedy Kit: https://www.helios.co.uk/en/shop/basic-36-kit  Our Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Join our Membership: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Resources:  Homeopathy and Human Evolution - Martin Miles - https://www.homeopathicbooks.com/product/homeopathy-and-human-evolution/  Story: Aura Child - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1907203710 Books - The Body Knows the Score: https://a.co/d/5152PDp Youtube Episode: Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is sharing ‘Magical Healing 101'. Exploring her perspective on how to heal our body's physical pains by entering an initiation into our witch and learning to harness alternative healing ‘magic', she invites listeners into a new ‘worldview' of healing science and art that contrasts to the ‘mainstream' way. Nicole discusses her own journey with pains like chronic fatigue, menstrual pains - endometriosis - and thyroid imbalances, exploring ‘allopathic' versus ‘holistic' healing, emphasising the need to illuminate underlying causes of physical pains. In this episode Nicole explores the importance of expressing our uniqueness (rather than suppressing ourselves, which is the ‘cause' of disease), explaining some universal laws. She invites you to claim your power to heal yourself, sharing how we can do that by learning to work with our ‘inner apothecary' of archetypal remedies, and offering some ‘practical' steps to begin this - along with an invitation to reclaim your self-healing power. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Mainstream medicine (allopathy) differs in its worldview about ‘quick fix' healing to alternative, holistic approaches which focus on unsuppressing our souls and principles of ‘like cures like'  Because of that, mainstream medicine can struggle to heal ‘mysterious' pains that are really pointing us towards the deeper, root-cause underlying patterns The Witch can help us to reclaim our power - our pains are often unseen ‘initiations' into our self-healing gifts - and a deeper understanding of ourselves True healing requires us to not suppress, but address underlying emotional and psychological causes that manifest physical symptoms  Archetypal Remedies offer both a psychological and physical map to our healing - and learning to harness our ‘inner apothecary' of remedies can empower us to heal ourselves This requires an openness to a new worldview, perhaps a slower pace of healing - and being willing to be in the messiness of discovery - which we can feel resistance to in a world where we've been taught there's a ‘quick fix', but it's worth it when it truly heals us Resources and things that we spoke about: Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: Register your Interest here: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Our Social Links: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our free Secret Witch Sisterhood: http://www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk Youtube Episode: https://youtu.be/PXfhplul4zc Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Emma Griffin. Described as a real-life embodiment of Molly Weasley from Harry Potter, Emma is a modern-day full-time witch, healer, and author whose work guides women back to alignment by reconnecting with the ancient wisdom of their ancestors. Rooted in the interconnectedness of nature and the soul, Emma's teachings aim to awaken the innate magic within us all, helping women rediscover their purpose and authentic selves.  Emma's new book, ‘The Witch's Way Home' serves as a roadmap for self-discovery, healing, and stepping into authentic power.   In this juicy episode we explore Emma's personal journey, marked by moments of stress, illness, grief, and self-discovery, and how it awakened her to the transformative self-healing power of witchcraft and ritual. Exploring challenges like infertility and cancer diagnosis, we explore how healing the ‘witch wound' - aka reclaiming our true, authentic full expression of who we are - can help us manifest health.  Diving into ancient, feminine, ancestral wisdom, seasonal living, emotional release - and the importance of presence, self-love and sisterhood - we explored the healing process and how the witch can help us reclaim ourselves. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Witchcraft can save our lives - literally.  By embracing the power, magic and authenticity of the witch, we can heal on all different levels - including physical, mental-emotional and spiritual Whether we are ‘witches' or not, the route of healing is really via healing our suppression and suppressed trauma - and reclaiming our authentic voices (which the witch holds a mirror to) To heal, requires us to face the ‘witch wound' - we have to overcome societal judgement and fear of being a witch and sharing our true, authentic self-expression As we do, bravely own who we are - whether that's a witch or something else - we connect more deeply to those who are like us (including our dream clients, if we are here to be healers) We must embrace the ancient wisdom of our ancestors - they knew that the real route of healing is through story-telling around the fire, ritual, creativity, presence, seasonal living, sisterhood and self-discovery There is no ‘right' or ‘wrong' in practical witchcraft and ritual - it's really individualised and intuitive, and we can play with things to see what works for us (and keep a journal of discovery to note what does and what doesn't) Ritual and witchcraft practices do not have to be long and elaborate - we can weave them into our day, just bringing ourselves to presence and setting intentions.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Our Social Links: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Register interest in our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: coming soon - http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Join our free Secret Witch Sisterhood: http://www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk Emma's Links: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/emmagriffinwitch Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@emmagriffinwitch You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@emmagriffinwitch Website: www.emmagriffinwitch.co.uk Emma's Books: Find Your Soul Path: Discover the Magical Life Within - https://a.co/d/6trRRUu The Witch's Way Home: Magic, Spells and Rituals to Lead You Back to Your Most Powerful Self - https://a.co/d/5Nli4mz Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores her radical approach to health which views ‘mysterious illness' as a transformative initiation into self-healing and a sacred call to our witchy healing gifts. Nicole's point of view is that illnesses that often go unexplained by mainstream medicine - such as chronic fatigue syndrome, ME, burn-out, auto-immune issues and menstrual disorders like endometriosis - are calls to embrace our own magical healing power and wisdom. In this episode, whilst honouring the depths of darkness that mysterious dis-ease can take us to, Nicole shares the importance of seeing illness not as something ‘victimising' (as our society is conditioned), but an opportunity for personal healing and deeper connection to our bodies, inspiring self-love and feminine empowerment that awakens our inner witch and connects us to our self-healing inner apothecary. She also shares some deeper self-enquiry prompts, and explores her way of mapping our health. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Mysterious illnesses - including conditions like chronic fatigue, autoimmune issues, and feminine cycle symptoms - are a secret call to our ‘inner witch' and her self-healing power and magic Our illnesses are actually ‘initiations' - doorways to parts of ourselves that we've not before seen, rather than conditions that are to be passively endured - though this challenges mainstream medical and societal norms around ‘health' which often has us feel victim to health challenges According to universal magical healing laws and principles, suppression is the true cause of dis-ease - anywhere we suppress, creates an energetic block and energy get stuck The law of ‘like cures like' means that what ‘causes' something will also ‘cure' it. Holding up a mirror to aspects within ourselves offers us self-reflection that stimulates ‘self-healing' We can heal ourselves - by working with the elements of ‘self-illumination' and ‘self-love' (via harnessing ‘archetypal remedies' as a ‘mirror' to lost aspects of ourselves that we've shamed), which helps us un-suppress aspects of ourselves that have been hidden and have manifested illness As we heal ourselves, our wounds become our gifts - and that helps us to live our destiny as the healer witches we came here to be We can also map our healing in a Soul Map, which is also a tool we can harness to know our gifts.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Register your interest in our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Join our Secret Witch Facebook Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Like us on Social: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk YouTube episode: https://youtu.be/a88SqDaxR5E Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sri Namaste Moore. Sri Namaste and her husband Baba Richard are co-owners of InfiniteCouple Enterprises rooted in transforming lives and legacies. As an Oracle, Mystic, Master Metaphysician, and Wonder Worker, Sri Namaste's passion is to realign men and women to their innate harmony, honoring their distinctions while celebrating their synergy. She seamlessly integrates metaphysics, mysticism, and elegant philosophical truths, delivering laser-sharp clarity with practical applications. Her work is a testament to leadership, wisdom, and the boundless potential of those who dare to live their genius and leave an indelible legacy. In this episode we explore Namaste's profound, radical worldview of what it means to embody the ‘True Feminine' (and how the Feminine can be both ‘yin' and ‘yang', and we don't have an ‘inner Masculine''). We dived into the distinction between ‘feminist' and ‘feminine', and the cultural conditioning, societal fear and trauma we innocently hold around the Masculine, which often has us ‘competing' with men for ‘power', rather than embracing our polarity and that we *both* have different, unique gifts. We reflected on the different gifts - and explore how the witch's gift is really to heal through love, doing the inner work and embracing the receptive Feminine to work her mysterious magic, rather than rebel against the patriarchy. Namaste also shared a practical womb invitation for beginning to connect with our Feminine ‘essence' (and shared why that's different to our Feminine ‘energy'). What You'll Learn from this Episode: There's a difference between being a ‘Feminist' and being ‘Feminine' - and the witch can (innocently) lean towards being ‘feminist'; competing with, and trying to be, men, rather than embodying the qualities of being feminine that can help us to feel true joy, harmony and synergy - and to be who we came here to be This is a cultural wounding around the Feminine, which Namaste believes is often misunderstood as having an ‘inner masculine'. She believes we don't host ‘inner masculine'; instead, women have Feminine yin *and* yang - Goddess Kali being a great example of Feminine yang, and it still being distinctly feminine essence There's a distinction Namaste makes around Feminine ‘energy' versus ‘essence', and that our True Feminine is found in our essence, and can be viscerally connected to via our bodies. Embracing our essences, rather than focusing on energy is helpful to reclaim the True Feminine The Masculine and Feminine have different gifts that help us create harmony and synergy - they are both unique and yet complementary to each other. For example, men's power is about impact, which is more direct, hard and external, whereas women's power is about influence, relating and subtle heart-based change There is much understandable trauma around this topic - and fear of the ‘patriarchy' (especially for the witch) - and so we are called to work through this trauma with love and patience (Namaste offers a womb practice for this). We can transform traumas by reclaiming the gifts and understanding they bring, turning our wounds into sources of power and insight. What's reflected in the outside world often holds a mirror to more collective patterns - and in the world at the moment there's a lot of fear around powerful Masculine figures, which are calling us into healing and integration of our Feminine essence to create feminine expression and empowerment.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Namaste's Links: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@iamnamastemoore Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnamastemoore/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/IAmNamasteMoore/ Website - https://www.infinitecouple.com/ Body of Work: Feminae - https://learn.infinitecouple.com/feminae Resources: Alison Armstrong - The Queen's Code - https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/products/queenscodebook.html Alison Armstrong's Secret Witch Show episode - https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-24 Nicole's Links: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/iamnicolebarton Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Check our our Secret Witch Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Not ready? Join our Free Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  YouTube episode: https://youtu.be/A4zegV7KUWg Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the profound importance of ‘sisterhood' in the healing journeys of women - especially those who are ‘Secret Witches'. She dives into how Secret Witches can feel resistance to sisterhood, yet being part of a supportive, magical community of likeminded women can truly transform our lives - helping us overcome fears, self-doubt, mistrust and the ‘witch wound' that hold us back from having a voice and expressing our authentic selves and living our true destiny as healers. In this episode we explore the self-healing magic that sisterhood offers us - including self-reflection, a space for vulnerability, a place for discovering our gifts and gold via the mirror that others hold for us to our wounds and triggers. She explores how the ancient feminine wisdom of sisterhood offers provision of a safe and intentional space for us to engage in healing ceremony, share experiences and receive reflections that aid self-illumination - *if* we consciously choose to work with sisterhood this way - with sisters being remedies for us. What You'll Learn from this Episode: For Secret Witches, there's nothing so healing as sisterhood to help us learn how to fully express our true, authentic selves - it can help us overcome our fear of judgement and being outcast - and other fears we have around stepping into our witchy gifts Being able to be intimate with others is important in the journey of becoming a healer for ourselves - and in living our destiny as healers for others  People are remedies and act as mirrors for our own self-illumination (aka loving healing) Safe spaces of vulnerability and reflection are so vital for our healing - especially in a world where we have learned to operate as silos (keeping ourselves disconnected and isolated in our masculinised culture)  Sisterhood serves as a space in which we can discover our gifts, and practice honing our skills as healing practitioners There is opportunity for ‘reflection' within conscious sisterhood spaces that allows us access to our own inner wisdom - which activates real healing (as opposed to advice and ‘quick fix' solutions which take us away from our wisdom) True healing comes from within, facilitated by the supportive environment of a sisterhood that encourages self-reflection and personal growth   Resources and things that we spoke about: Register Interest in our Secret Witch Membership: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: http://www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk  You Tube Episode link: https://youtu.be/wo7b2pCocP0   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Yolanda Williams. Yolanda is a Reiki teacher and host of the fabulous ‘Reiki Radio' podcast. She is an Energetic Alchemist, also certified in Wellness Counseling, through Cornell University. Her work facilitates new levels of self-connection and reveals the dynamics of mind, body and energy. Yolanda's classes include Usui Reiki, all levels, in San Diego, as well as mentoring and intuitive awakening courses, online. In this episode we explore all things ‘energetic alchemy'.  We dived into Yolanda's uniquely deep perspective of Reiki, investigating how it can be a powerful portal of ‘inner work' and self-awakening that offers healing of the mind, body spirit - rather than something ‘external' as it is often seen.  We discussed some of the surface-level misunderstandings of reiki, and explore the nuances of how we can harness energetic alchemy for ourselves - beyond outsourcing our power to others - to actually peel back layers of ourselves, see where we are projecting, connect to our intuition and unlock hidden aspects of ourselves.  Including our unique gifts! What You'll Learn from this Episode: When we first feel a call to energetic alchemy, we can feel alone in our journey - we might know we are sensitive, but can feel ‘weird' or ‘odd' in that.  Energy healing can help us begin to understand this aspect of ourselves - in whatever form that takes Reiki is a tool that can help us find a way into energy healing - and it can be interacted with differently to how we commonly know it to be harnessed.  In other words, we can harness energetic alchemy for ‘ourselves' - rather than simply outsourcing our healing to others - and in doing so, we can own our power to peel back layers and go on an inner journey of self-awakening and transformation There's an interconnectedness between mind, body and spirit - we can't disconnect it, and as we begin to look inwards to what's been suppressed, healing manifests - energy healing helps us learn we can choose that process consciously Energetic alchemy can help us reclaim the gifts of being a sensitive woman and learn how to distinguish our energy from others, empowering our own self-regulation and intuition Not everyone will experience their intuition in the same way - some are visual, some feel things, some know things - and as we become more aware of our own sensitivities and gifts, we can learn to embrace our intuition more fully There's an importance in ascending into a spiritual path to see what's ‘the same' - *and* also surrendering to being the physical ‘vessel' that collects the rain - aka descending into the body and embracing our uniqueness.  All energetic alchemy tools are bringing us ‘home' to both of these things.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Yolanda's Links:  Website: www.theenergeticalchemist.com Download The Energetic Alchemist App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pr7qxgkavurc.psu4m8l95app&pcampaignid=web_share Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/teareiki Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/teareiki Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/reikiradio Nicole on Reiki Radio Podcast - She's a Secret Witch… Are You?: https://open.spotify.com/episode/46eKVpH71CYPxKVcGsvmT9?si=5tD33dRcQmqgLChW_AksHA  Register Interest in our Secret Witch Membership: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/archetypalapothecary/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: http://www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk    Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On this unique, celebratory 100th episode of the Secret Witch Show today Jamie Wozny takes the hostess role for a special interview with Creatrix of the show, Nicole Barton. Nicole is a witch on a mission to help Secret Witches - aka secretly magical women who hide their power - to live their true destiny by expressing their unapologetic magic. She does this by helping women to heal themselves, discover their gifts and heal the fear of expressing their authentic selves. Through her Top 10% Secret Witch Show podcast and her Archetypal Apothecary™ healing modality - which have helped multiple TENS of thousands of listeners - Nicole guides women to understand their soul's unique plan and harness it to become the magical healer witches their souls were destined to be. In this episode we dived into how and why Nicole created the Secret Witch show, how she healed herself through the show by embodying her Feminine power and expressing her magical voice - and how she risked being burned at the stake for her true expression - celebrating all the magic and joy that has been created along the way! We explored that the show has become an ‘apothecary', serving archetypal medicine in each episode, and explored the themes of voice liberation, vulnerability and the healing journey with the witch as an archetypal remedy in her own right. Nicole wants to offer a special thanks to Jamie Wozny for being an incredible hostess for this episode - I love you, woman. What You'll Learn from this Episode: The Secret Witch is a sensitive woman who is secretly powerful and magical and longs to live her destiny but who feels burdened and burned out by her mundane life of busyness where she runs around people-pleasing and feels exhausted. By working with the ‘witch' as a mirror for aspects of ourselves we have shamed, we can open to our inner apothecary for self-healing, discover our healing gifts and learn to express them in the world The Witch as an archetypal remedy - aka a lens for self-discovery - represents healing, creation and feminine power and true soul expression - and that's what she helps us reclaim - if we can have a courageous, vulnerable, open heart to our possibility There can be a lot of fear that arises in the journey of self-healing and becoming a healer. That's normal - our fear is often a confirmation of the path we are being called to. *And* embracing and sharing our vulnerability, fears and authentic selves is crucial in reclaiming our voice and power - even (and especially when people think we are ‘weird'). Reclaiming our gifts and voice is an embodied journey of ‘living into' our medicine. We each have our own unique archetypal remedy to share - and we have to reclaim our gifts through an embodied experience, rather than learning intellectually - and working with archetypal remedies is a great way to do this. The podcast is a great example of how Nicole lived into her medicine as she listened to the intuitive nudges, and healed and expanded herself, leaning into her true soul expression. Healing is an ongoing process; it will never be ‘complete' - the real gift is learning the art and science of loving, compassionate self-healing so we can provide that for ourselves throughout our lives, learning to tenderly meet challenges and reclaim our gifts from our wounds - and celebrate our small victories, taking the next aligned-action as we go Sharing our voice can be scary, because of the witch wound - and if we are fearing that, it's just a sign there's more healing to do of our inner witch (who has often experienced much trauma in her lifetime). This is something that Nicole has lived into - and is still living into - as she's journeyed with creating the podcast - and here we are, with a treasure trove of 100 episodes later, with a Top 10% show that has helped thousands of women! It's so worth the journey.     Resources and things that we spoke about: Register here to hear more about our Secret Witch Membership… http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Sign-up to receive our Luna News: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/subscribe Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sophie French. Sophie supports women to unlock and unleash their unique expression and gifts into the world, to tap into their heart's desires and to go for them with deep self-trust and self-belief. She utilities a combination of neuro-linguistic programming, emotional release and embodiment practices along with energy and strategy work to provide a holistic approach to the woman who is ready to be all she's ever wanted. In this vibrant episode Nicole and Sophie dive into all things ‘unapologetic feminine soul expression', exploring how self-illuminating where we have suppressed ourselves (rather than submitting to pathologising things like ‘depression') helps us heal and discover our true selves and embrace our creative soul expression - and how that can be a healing remedy for others, in ways we don't always expect. Performing her poetry for us and exploring how she rebirthed herself through it, Sophie explores how her self-expression and story-telling became a form of alchemy of darkness to light, and how she tended her nervous system to be able to express her true self in a world where that's scary. What You'll Learn from this Episode: It is vital to our mental and physical health to live out our full, unapologetic expression - numbing and suppressing our true selves literally has us become burned out, depressed and anxious We can begin to heal through unsuppressing ourselves, via self-discovery - which includes facing our darkness, feeling everything fully and challenging the societal tendency to numb and avoid discomfort Expressing our emotions can be an alchemical process which unlocks deeper creativity and joy - Sophie's poetry is a great example of this deep expression of her soul, and came through her in this alchemical way - as I always say, our gifts are found in our wounds That said, we can consciously choose the edge we meet, giving ourselves permission to go at our own pace and choose when we go in - this is an intentional healing process of soul-expression It's important to regulate our nervous systems - much more important than it is made out to be in our society so we can express safely. We must create space for the slowness of this process Healing can be found in anything that has us back in touch with feeling ‘alive' - not just traditional ‘remedies' but through music, and dance, or anything that has us feel alive and connected.     Resources and things that we spoke about:   Sophie's Links: Sophie's Revival Clarity Sessions: www.sophiefrench.co/mentoring Sophie's Heroine's Journey: https://www.sophiefrench.co/journey Sophie's Poetry Book: https://amzn.eu/d/dAnsPAK Sophie's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sophiefrench.co/ Social: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Sign-up to receive our Luna News: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/subscribe Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into all things ‘manifestation' of our magical destiny as aspiring healers, exploring the challenges of manifesting our dream lives, the importance of self-healing, permission-giving and embracing our inner power. She explores the power of the witch - and the difference between manifesting from wounding versus love. Exploring the deeper nuances of the law of ‘manifestation' (one of 8 elements of the Secret Witch path), Nicole emphasises the importance of healing self-illumination of our unconscious wounding so that we can choose to create what we desire. She invites you to tune into your body, open your heart and recognise the hidden power you do already have to create whatever your heart longs for - if you open to the possibility of your inner witch and her apothecary within to help you peel back the layers of trauma and open to magic. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Manifestation is an important element in the journey of embracing our gifts as healers - yet it has a nuance that is often misunderstood in the ‘self-help' world (in that we are *already* powerful creatrixes) We can begin to create what our heart desires by self-healing, and addressing and loving our unconscious inner-wounds, rather than attempting to sticky-plaster, quick fix or bypass them with affirmations We innocently manifest all kinds of thing we don't want from unconscious wounds - physical health issues, such as burn out, often manifest from deeper underlying traumas that have been suppressed - and healing is in learning to express them and become more conscious To truly manifest a more magical life, we must give ourselves permission to embrace our fears and desires, peeling back the layers, welcoming them and loving them into liberation The witch can help us do that, initiating us into our creatrix power, as well as our healing power We must love our inner little girl who often feels fear to create our dreams - she's the one often unconsciously creating what we don't want (innocently) - and if we love her, and make her feel safe, this is the way to true healing and transformation - and embracing our gifts.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Book: Existential Kink, Carolyn Elliot - https://amzn.asia/d/6JDjSdG Join our free Manifesting with the Moon Ritual - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonritual   Social: Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton/ You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: http://www.nicolebarton.co.uk   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Maude Hirst. Maude is a Meditation Specialist, Founder, Speaker, Coach, and Author of the Intuitive Whispers Oracle Deck specialising in making meditation and its life-changing benefits accessible to all. Maude was an actress best known for playing Helga in the hit TV show Vikings before becoming a leading wellness practitioner and founder of the bespoke meditation company EnergyRise. In this episode we dived into the importance of connecting to our ‘intuitive whispers' in the journey of healing transformation - and how to deepen into our wisdom so we can embrace our true selves. Exploring Maude's personal journey of navigating darkness in her life, she highlighted the four stages of healing and how she journeyed from a career in acting - where she felt disconnected - to her spiritual awakening and how she learned to trust her intuitive nudges to embrace who she is, and create an Oracle Deck that helps others access their own intuition. Listen to the end for our perfect card pull! What You'll Learn from this Episode: We are all ‘actresses' in life; most of us need to learn how to stop wearing masks and playing ‘character roles' and truly embrace our authentic selves - and we can begin this journey by tuning into our intuitive whispers The process of healing transformation requires four stages - Listening (to our intuition), Clearing (our limiting beliefs), Rebuilding (consciously creating our true self), and Action (taking aligned steps) Fear can come up in the journey of connecting to our intuitive whispers - and it's important to welcome and embrace that, moving through it, rather than avoiding it - darkness is part of the journey to ourselves Tuning into our intuition is a daily practice - connecting to our bodies and grounding into nature can really help us to hear ourselves - as can intuitive journaling, or pulling Oracle cards It can be challenging to own who we are - especially as healer witches - because there is societal conditioning to overcome - that's just another layer of the onion to be healed, and an invitation into the next spiral around the stages of healing transformation.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Maude's Links: Maude's Website: www.maudehirst.co.uk Maude's Intuitive Whispers Oracle Deck (new release): https://maudehirst.co.uk/intuitive-whispers-oracle Maude's The members Club for the Mind: https://maudehirst.co.uk/membership Maude's 121 Mentorship: https://maudehirst.co.uk/mentorship Maude's Social:   Twitter - https://twitter.com/maudehirst Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/maudehirst You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/c/maudehirst/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/maudehirstyoga/ Our Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the importance of self-healing using our ‘inner apothecary', explaining what exactly that is, and how we can work with anything as a remedy symbolically for deep healing self-illumination work. She explores the role of the Witch (and the aspects of healer and creatrix) in accessing our apothecary for reclaiming lost parts of ourselves, encouraging listeners to know their power to heal themselves - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. In this episode Nicole teaches about the art and science of magical healing and its universal laws, and how important it is to learn to work with these to heal ourselves so that we can become healing activators for others. She empowers you to be able to play with Archetypal Remedies for your own healing, so that you can one day become a guide to others on their healing journey. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Healing is an art and a science, grounded in universal laws and principles - and when we take self-responsibility for learning this art and science, we can heal ourselves Physical manifestations are expressions of lost parts of our souls that are wanting to be reclaimed - and we can do this by working with Archetypal Remedies for self-healing We each have an “inner apothecary” of Archetypal Remedies - energy remedies that we can work with ourselves for self-illumination and healing Anything can be a remedy, as long as we work with it symbolically, intentionally and responsibly We can tune into our inner remedies through archetypes, symbols and nature - examples of Archetypal Remedies include the Rose, the Bee and the Moon - each of these things can teach us about lost, suppressed aspects of our souls (for example, the Bee is a symbol of our busyness) We each have a unique soul map of remedies to work with, and doing so helps us to heal, and reclaim our gifts As we heal ourselves, we become a remedy for others similar to us (“like cures like” principle) - and this is how we truly ‘become' healer witches.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Base Formula Blogs - Essential Oils as Personalities / Using Aromatherapy to Embody your Chosen Archetype: https://www.baseformula.com/blog/essential-oil-personalities  https://www.baseformula.com/blog/aromatherapy-archetypes Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonritual Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Nikki Van De Car. Nikki is the author of over a dozen books on magic and crafting, including the bestselling ‘Practical Magic'. She is an indigenous creator, focusing on exploring the ways in which stories inform how we understand the world and ourselves. She is a woman in search of magic, in the crunch of leaves and the scratch of a pencil, the brush of lips on a temple, and the sound of voices raised in song. In this episode Nicole and Nikki delve into the shadow work and how our shadow can have us hiding ourselves (and our inner witch) - with Nikki sharing her story of how she embraced her identity as a witch by befriending her shadow. We discussed the importance and therapeutic value in feeling our emotions, welcoming and accepting ‘all', integrating our darkness, and dispelling the stigmas around our fear, guilt and shame - especially for ‘Secret Witches' who want to become healers. We explored the integration of our shadow through self-illumination - and how it can help us reclaim our wholeness and creativity. Nikki shared some ‘practical' methods including a beautiful meditation, ritual, working with symbols and nature magic. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Shadow work involves acknowledging and befriending the darker aspects of ourselves, rather than trying to eradicate them - this process helps us achieve self-illumination, self-healing and a return to wholeness We tend to suppress our inner witch as adults, though our inner child remembers a time when we were free to express that magic - and we can reclaim this with deconditioning Emotions such as anger, sadness and envy are best to be expressed, not suppressed - acknowledging and welcoming these emotions is essential for freedom and creativity Shadow magic doesn't have to be something we carve huge chunks of time out to ‘do' - we can integrate it into our every day, making shadow work and magic a part of our lives - by being in ongoing self loving illumination. That said, there are also lots of fun practical rituals we explored if you want to journey that way! Recognising and loving the inner child is crucial in shadow work - it's helpful to remember that our shadow is really just the scared, childlike part of us, who wants love. We can provide that love by imagining we are speaking to this part of ourselves as if it were a best friend or a small child   Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Our Next Group Journey: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Nikki's Website: nikkivandecar.com Nikki's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkivandecar Nikki's New Books:  The Wheel of the Year: A Guide to Sabbats, Lunar Cycles, and the Stars Above My Wheel of the Year: A Celebration of Nature's Magic Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores one of the biggest challenges most Secret Witches face: how we can overcome the challenge of balancing our busy lives with our deeper calling to being a healer. She dived into the crucial topic of how to create space for our healer witch, offering a practical ‘workshopy' episode and guided meditation for women who feel a deep spiritual calling to become healers, but struggle with self-doubt and burn-out - and don't feel they have space to delve into the deep work. In this episode, as part of her #HundredHealers vision, Nicole provided both practical steps for time-management, mental and physical space creation and advice on how to integrate magic into our daily life - and a healing journey with an Archetypal Remedy for activation of the part of you that knows how to manifest a magical life: your inner Creatrix, also exploring what resistance to that really means for our healing. What You'll Learn from this Episode: The fear and doubt that arises as part of becoming a healer is normal - and not a sign you're not cut out for it (it's the ‘Secret Witch' wound - and just means there's healing to do of your wounded healer) Feeling we are lacking time and space to do the deep work in our busy mundane lives is part of this wound - and wants some loving healing (the practical workshop and journey in this episode was potent for helping that) Cultural views often label necessary healing work as ‘selfish,' ‘self-indulgent' or ‘non-essential' - a perspective that gets internalised by many women, making it harder to prioritise our spiritual growth Resistance is a healing invitation. It is showing us there's something butting up here against what we know - and we want to go into that with loving curiosity. Like: “why am I feeling resistance? What is my belief here?” There are some very practical steps we can take to create space for our witch - and, if we have resistance to those, it's a sign there's more healing to do around choosing ourselves and claiming our purpose as a healer - we can do this by journeying with Archetypal Remedies (and particularly the Creatrix, who knows her manifesting power) Resources and things that we spoke about: Join our upcoming 5 week journey with Archetypal Luna: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna Listen to the show on the “How, What and Why of Archetypal Remedies” : www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-68 Download our Starter Pack - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up  Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring how women can connect with the power of the moon to reclaim their Feminine magic and gifts. She explains a ‘new' magical way to harness the power of the moon - as a deep ‘archetypal' symbol, or remedy - that can help secret witches overcome their fear and self-doubt of their magic, helping you get in tune with the moon for deep, healing self-illumination.  In this episode, Nicole also provides more ‘practical' guidance on cultivating a relationship with the moon, and deeper connection to your natural rhythms and cycles, helping you face any resistance to embracing your inner magic and healing gifts. She briefly explores spiritual ‘ascension' versus soul ‘descension' and how you can begin to own your unique gifts and step confidently into your role as a healer. What You'll Learn from this Episode: So many magical women feel the deep fear of their inner magic - mostly struggling with doubting themselves, and feeling disconnected from their Feminine bodies, magic and unique gifts Many women feel the deep and symbolic call to the moon - but perhaps don't realise that there's more to her magic than meets the eye; Luna is an archetypal symbol that helps us reclaim our Feminine magic, mystery and stop doubting our healing gifts The moon represents an archetypal remedy with deep feminine attributes such as slowness, sensuality, wisdom, and the capacity to be with darkness and emotions. Connecting with Luna's rhythms and cycles can help us attune to our own Feminine body's natural cycles - something which many Secret Witches are disconnected from in our mundane, logical, head-driven society Moon ritual is a powerful way to embody our magic, and there are practical invitations in this episode to help you get started with working with the moon   Resources and things that we spoke about: Download our Starter Pack - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up  Join our Next Group Journey with Archetypal Luna: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna  Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Simone Stevens. Sim is an intuitive energy healer, Sekhem practitioner, Psychic medium and practising witch, who is dedicated to offering healing ceremonial sessions, treatments, ritual circles and workshops to guide the mystically and spiritually curious to find their innate magic and alignment. Sim focuses her work around connection to energy and spirit, be that of Spirit realms, plants, ancient energy healing practices, divination tools, sound or crystals. Sim believes that supporting clients to work more closely with their intuition is the portal to profound, positive, and aligned change in their lives. In this episode we explored how to embrace magic and mystery and how to learn to trust our intuition - even when we are conditioned to mistrust it. We explored the common ‘Healers Journey' of initiation into the mystery (often via burnout and panic attacks), and how us feeling disconnected from our true selves is often the way we are called into our gifts. We explored the importance of stillness, honouring the natural rhythms and cycles of our bodies - and even navigating mistrust of others in our ‘spirituality' - to reclaim our innate magic. We dived into some practical steps of tuning into our ‘gut feelings', and a deeper exploration of intuition versus ego - and the importance of self-compassion along the way. What You'll Learn from this Episode: For those who long to be healers, embracing magic and mystery is vital - though we can often have wounding and fear around trusting our intuition that wants to be healed for ourselves first The mundane world can lead us sensitive souls to manifest symptoms of burn out and panic attacks which can feel like ‘rock bottom', even when we look like we've ‘got it all together'. These are actually a sign of a deeper call into our intuition and magical healing gifts - often these messy dark portals of mystery are catalysts for our deeper purpose - and a required part of the path It can be hard to open when we feel like this, and it is often in the moment where we think there's no other choice that intuition kicks in. Staying curious helps us open more fully to trusting our intuition, begin to hear our body and open to our magic - it often requires us to ‘unlearn' years of conditioning Practising stillness and carving our time for self-illumination are essential to help us tune unto our natural rhythms and intuition - and this can be cultivated with a practice Sim shares regarding listening to our ‘gut feeling', to build our ‘intuitive muscle' The more we heal self-doubt of our magic and intuition, the more others meet us in that - it can be a common fear for the Secret Witch to think that others will judge her as a ‘lunatic', but when we truly welcome our intuition, and magic, others can too It's important to hear our intuition, and it's taking aligned-action that actually heals - each time we act on synchronicities or inner nudges we are building trust in our intuitive voice   Resources and things that we spoke about: Join our journey with Archetypal Luna: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna  Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Simone's Email -  sim@sensesbysim.co.uk Simone's Instagram - @sensesbysim Simone's Website -  https://www.sensesbysim.co.uk Simone's The Intuitive Shadow Course this October 2024 - https://www.sensesbysim.co.uk/intuitioncourse-1 Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is discussing how to harness ‘universal laws' of healing to become a healer. She explores the interesting intersection of science and magic, highlighting the importance of acknowledging universal laws and principles that are often overlooked by conventional scientific paradigms. The episode illuminates various healing laws - such as the Law of Similars, the Law of Direction of Cure, the Law of Potency, and the Law of Return of Old Symptoms, among others - stressing the importance of understanding these laws for true magical healing, rather than ‘quick fixes'. In this episode we explore the importance of seeing that there are laws built into magic - and that true magical healing is an inside-out process grounded in universal truth. Nicole invites listeners to observe how these universal laws manifest in their own lives and the practice of healing, inspiring women to embrace their magical gifts and navigate the fear of their ‘magic' with love - and the ‘unapologetic' mysterious magic of Archetypal Remedy, Luna. What You'll Learn from this Episode: There are lots of Universal Laws and Principles of magic, which often get overlooked when magic is dismissed as ‘invalid' by science's ‘logical' approach This can have magical women in fear about trusting their gifts - because often, magic is more intuitive and mysterious Yet science is beginning to catch up and recognise things that magic has explained for years - for example, homeopathic miasms can be defined by epigenetics now These universal laws are baked into magical healing, and teach us so much - for example, The Law of Similars explores why it is ‘us' that is the medicine, rather than our ‘tools - because like cures like - people are activated by our story The Law of Direction of Cure explores that true healing works inner to outer, not by ‘fixing' external symptoms The Law of Return of Old Symptoms explores why things can get worse before they get better - and why that's a good thing! Overall, it's really interesting to dive into these laws, and it's important to walk a magical healing path that bakes these principles into it.  Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Download our Starter Pack - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up  Sneak Peek of our Next Group Journey with Archetypal Luna: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna  Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk    Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is William Apple.  William is Founder of Aion Psychodynamic Coaching and with a passion for understanding the depths of the human psyche, and a commitment to personal growth and transformation, William offers a unique approach to coaching and mentoring that transcends traditional "Life Coaching" paradigms.  William's most influential Teacher, and Mentor by proxy - within the realms of Psychology - would be Carl Jung.  Like Jung, William has found a devotion within himself to explore and cultivate an intimacy with Psyche, and Her Mother, The Unconscious, and this Intimacy is driven by a likewise strict devotion to the Child of Logos, Analysis. All of which likewise led William naturally towards Traditional Western Alchemy and Mysticism; making Carl Jung William's most naturally aligned "professor". In this deep and brilliant episode we explore how to journey with ‘inner child' work and ‘shadow work' (rather than the phantasy of ‘quick fixes') for deep healing. We dived into the psychological reasons we tend to favour ‘quick fix' approaches to healing, what we mean by ‘real' inner-child work - and how curiosity, intimacy and self-illumination are key to healing and realising our magic. Listen to the end - William shares truthfully at the end that becoming a healer is one of the most challenging callings we can have, sharing why healing ourselves is important along the way. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Our biggest wounding comes from the ‘unlived life of our parents' which leaves us with unmet needs that become our wounds - and this can be healed with ‘true' inner child work. The challenge is, much ‘inner child work' is often related to from a place of ‘quick fix' projection and phantasy by modern coaching and self-help industries - ideas of ‘go play with your little girl' embodiment practices - which are helpful in some ways, but often lack the depth of healing Caveating that ‘real' is our own projection, William explores that how he sees the ‘real' journey of healing is grounded in a lifelong journey of understanding our biases, projections and conditionings - and ‘phantasies' - with loving, curious self-illumination - which some could call the ‘deep work' Projection is not a ‘bad thing' - we have projected onto ‘projection' if we think it is!  It is a great thing to get curious about - we are even projecting things that we deem to feel ‘good' (because that reveals where we have met an unmet need) As aspiring healer witches, we have been called to no easy task - the work of healing ourselves isn't easy (and is ongoing) *and* as healers, we also have a responsibility for accountability, self-awareness and avoiding projecting of our unmet needs  Common fears of becoming a healer - including fear of failure, self-doubt and fear of being judged and abandoned are rooted in shame, and can be healed through deep, loving self-illumination Inner child work, parts work, shadow work and ancestral healing are all serving to help us reclaim our magic - ultimately all offering us a way of deepening intimacy with ourselves Resources and things that we spoke about: William's Website:  https://www.aionpsychodynamiccoaching.com/  William's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/will.apple.12  Brene Brown: Daring Greatly - https://brenebrown.com/book/daring-greatly/   Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score - https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score   David Bedrick: Unashamed your Life - https://www.davidbedrick.com Nicole's Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Nicole's Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the importance of being attuned to our ‘intuition' as healers - especially when we doubt our magic.  Exploring the common challenges of the ‘Secret Witch' (a secretly wise-woman born here to be a healer) as self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and lacking confidence in - or mistrusting - our gifts, she dives into how to embrace our deeper purpose by healing our healer's wounding around ‘magic'. In this episode, Nicole illuminates a practical path for reconnecting to our bodies for deep, intentional healing and reclamation of our inner-wisdom and intuition - to unlock our healing powers, and transmit our unique remedy.  She explores her mission to create a movement of 100 new healers, and the power of working with Archetypal Remedy, Luna - or the moon - to help us learn self-healing tools for healing our inner healer and expressing our gifts. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Many women experience self-doubt and imposter syndrome about their healing gifts and abilities - and rather than this being a sign to give up, it is a call to learn to trust our intuition and connect with our inner wise woman. Becoming a healer or wise woman involves learning to heal our fear of that, which often manifests due to cultural conditioning around magic and ancestral trauma (aka the witch wound). To begin to heal our witch wound and inner healer's disconnect from our intuition, we need to cultivate an intimacy with our bodily sensations - rather than just feelings or emotions. We must embody our own gifts and healing experiences to be able to teach and guide others - authentic teaching comes from our lived and embodied wisdom. *And* we all have something we have embodied - and therefore, so long as we are teaching from where we have been, and where we are now, there's a gift to be found that we can help others with. Learning to attune to our sensations and their meanings takes time - there's no rush to be a healer - true healing is a slow, deep process (our culture values ‘quick fixes', yet meaningful transformation takes time). Resources and things that we spoke about: Join our Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Social: Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Salena Walker. Salena is a dedicated Welsh herbalist deeply rooted in her ancestral heritage and native herbal practices, has nurtured a thriving herbal clinic since 2015, expertly growing a diverse range of herbs to benefit her patients and students. With over two decades of teaching experience, her true passion lies in empowering individuals through knowledge, enabling them to cultivate and craft their own herbal remedies. In this episode we explore the deep-rooted connection between humans and nature through the lens of herbalism, and how we can harness plants, more magically, to heal ourselves. We delved into the topics of rewilding, the spiritual and energetic archetypal power of plants in self-healing, and the gifts to be found in embracing the traditional, non-linear, Feminine herbal wisdom approach with plants - versus a more masculine, clinical way of working with herbs - exploring a more intuitive way we can begin to heal ourselves (and others) as the wise women of the village. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Herbal medicine is deeply rooted in tradition - it's not actually ‘alternative', it was original medicine - and we can ‘reactivate' our innate and ancestral wisdom for self-healing There has been a masculinised over-scientification of herbal medicine which can deter women from trusting their feminine, intuitive relationship with plants, and leave them feeling under-confident in their gifts  Each individual has an innate capacity to connect with plants for healing - and we don't need to outsource our healing to others, but others do make good guides into our deeper wisdom As aspiring wise women, we hone our gifts by learning to work with self-healing - embodying our skills before helping others, like medicine women would have Herbs are potent not just physically, but also emotionally, spiritually and energetically - they are spirit guides, and are living beings with unique individual souls and properties - we can begin to learn from them, as teachers, if we treat them like friends Reconnecting with nature and its cycles offers a way to healing and reconnection with our deeper wisdom for healing on all levels - we can begin that by going into the wild, and beginning to cultivate a relationship with plants     Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Salena Walker: https://www.salenawalker.earth  https://www.youtube.com/salenawalker  https://instagram.com/salena_walker https://www.facebook.com/salenawalker.earth https://twitter.com/NaturalSalena Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the concept of the ‘Secret Witch' and how to embrace your destiny as a healer. She shares the fears and doubts that women called to be healers often face - illuminating the signs of a calling to ‘healing' (including feeling lost in a chaotic life, being a sensitive empath, experiencing burnout, and going through a messy portal). The episode provides insights and guidance for ‘Secret Witches' who are ready to embrace their gifts and step into their role as healers. Nicole dives into the journey of healing the 'Secret Witch' within and becoming a fully expressed healer, including the need for self-healing, sisterhood, and the importance of embracing all aspects of ourselves (both light and dark). She explains the misconception of ‘quick fixes' in the healing industry, and the importance of taking time to ‘become' a healer - and the layers of personal and ancestral wounds that need to be journeyed with, explaining how Soul mapping and Archetypal Remedies can guide the process. What You'll Learn from this Episode: The Secret Witch is a woman who longs to become a healer but is held back by 3 common fears of losing control (failure), security, and approval (which have her hide her gifts) Signs that indicate a call to becoming a healer and being a ‘Secret Witch' include feeling lost in a chaotic life, being a sensitive empath, experiencing burnout, and going through a messy portal Embracing the role of a ‘healer' requires us to learn how to authentically face and heal our ‘Secret Witch' healer fears, so we can fully step into our deeper gifts and purpose. The journey of healing the 'Secret Witch' within and becoming a fully expressed healer takes time and personal healing (which is not often something that's taught) The true art and science of self-healing involves embracing all aspects of oneself, including the light and dark - the Secret Witch is really a call to deeper LOVE - quick fixes' and outsourcing our healing to others are not effective in the long run Healing personal wounds and ancestral wounds are essential in the process of becoming a healer - and having a soul map for that and our archetypal remedies can guide the healing journey and help discover and express our gifts more easily. Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Starter Pack: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/subscribe  Posts:  The truth about ‘belonging' as a healer: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10168437028860564  I see healing through a different lens: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10168440039030564 Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Genevieve Davis - or Sasha Stephens as is her real name.  Genevieve was living a miserable, drab life until, at the age of 43, she experienced a profound magical transformation - and she has been teaching and writing about magic ever since.  With a distinctly practical and down to earth approach to magic, her philosophy is simple: magic is available to all, and a good teacher merely nudges people to rediscover the magic they already possess. An author of 22 books, Genevieve runs The Academy of Magic, an online teaching resource for all magically-minded people.  In this magical episode, we discuss the power of magic in healing life's mundanity. Genevieve shares her personal journey from rock bottom, with a mundane life of debt and disempowerment, to discovering magic and changing her destiny. We dive into the significance of storytelling, the misconception of magic in our culture, and the crucial role of ‘inner healing' for real manifestation, illuminating the importance of facing fears and opening to self-healing. We also dived into being openly ‘magical' in a logical world, the empowering importance of ‘honesty', and practical advice for integrating magic. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Genevieve's vulnerable story highlights the deep power of self-illumination in our healing, highlighting the moment she realised she had to save herself, and was not a victim - which was her own opening to what she calls real ‘magic' Magic is really another word for our internal ‘creative' power - and it's really life-changing when we begin to see that change comes from within  Real magic is created when we truly self-heal - it is ‘inside out' healing; we have to do the inner work (that often involves looking at our childhood wounding) to heal our outer world   This concept of ‘magic' transcends traditional views around manifestation and healing, which teach it is all about the external and ‘doing' Real magic and healing require honesty, and facing discomfort and fear - stepping into challenges is a necessary part of our healing and expansion, especially as healers Magic is something that science can't explain - and it can be tempting to approach it logically - but it really isn't a linear process; we have to *feel* it our way into it.   Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Genevieve's Resources: Genevieve's website and Academy of Magic - https://becomingmagic.com Genevieve's latest book - Feasting on Magic https://www.becomingmagic.com/feasting-on-magic/  Becoming Genevieve - Nicole's favourite book of Genevieve's https://www.becomingmagic.com/the-books/  Becoming Magic / Magic Words - Genevieve's recommended books  https://www.becomingmagic.com/the-books/  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/magicgenevieve/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/magicgenevieve/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIrjWePspxO7eUwKqRQsY0A   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into one of the common ‘symptoms' that shows up for women who have come here with magical gifts: burn out.  Burn out is something that many sensitive women experience - and Nicole shares her own point of view and journey with this, explaining her radical worldview that whilst we judge ourselves for not being able to ‘keep up', burn out is really a deeper call into our magic and gifts. In this episode Nicole explores why this is, how we've been conditioned to shame ourselves for what's just the sensitive constitution we were born with - and how it's really a sign that there's some healing to do of our wounded healer.  She explores how, contrary to what we've been taught, our wounds become portals to our deepest gifts, offering some enquiry about burn out to help guide you in self-illumination. What You'll Learn from this Episode: We are taught that all the things that are Feminine - our bodies, our softness, our tenderness, our radiance, our joy, our pleasure, our vulnerability, our depth, our hearts - don't matter, and to forget about them and be more in the ‘Masculine' logic, drive, force, push - but really it is being embodied in our ‘Feminine' essence that creates miracles It is the deeper ‘energetic' choice into that which has us embody our feminine - and when we make that deeper ‘energetic' choice into our Feminine magic, the world sees it and shifts how it responds to us Being in the body helps that - and what has us embodied in our Feminine essence is unique for us all - some helpful prompts to discover how to embody your Feminine magic include asking: what would feel luxurious for me? What would feel softening for me?  What would feel joyful for me?  What do I need?   Being in our Feminine actually has us create miracles without forcing - creative ideas flow through us when we follow the joy, though this can be hard to trust.  It can be helpful to be in a journaling exercise of looking for ‘disconfirming evidence' that we ‘can't' trust magic - look for proof of the miracles that occur when we are following our Feminine joy and flow Part of Feminine magic is also being with the darkness - fully feeling our feelings - letting them move through us - and so it's important to love and welcome these aspects of ourselves for deeper healing and opening to magic - it's what transmutes us to our divinity. Vulnerability is a key piece of the alchemy - when we learn to show up in the truth of our hearts, we are received and can experience our true radiance and being fully seen as who we are - and that's the biggest miracle of all Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Website: www.jamiewozny.com Instagram: @jamiewozny Lightworkers academy- https://app.arketa.co/iframe/denmeditation/series/dcnwEq2SNKEDRhCQILe8 Soul Medicine: Finding Your Power Through Healing and Transformation from Within® to Fulfill Your Soul Purpose - https://momence.com/Divinely-Human%2C-Inc./Soul-Medicine%3A-Finding-Your-Power-Through-Healing-and-Transformation-from-Within%C2%AE-to-Fulfill-Your-Soul-Purpose-/100326781   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Jamie Wozny. Jamie is a modern day seer and priestess of the Divine and she uses her own powerful, intuitive and energetic mind, body & spirit healing gifts to assist to liberate the light seekers of this world. She does this by guiding you to embody your power, live in your flow & live as your unique divine truth; divinely connected, soul, heart & Source led. Working with her activates fulfilment of your Divine Mission. In this episode Jamie and Nicole explored how to open our hearts to miracles, by embodying our inner Feminine magic.  We explore what our inner ‘Feminine magic' even is, and how the ‘energetic' shift into our Feminine essence - which Jamie defines as softness, vulnerability, openness and joy - can help us come down into our bodies and open our hearts to being the fullness of our souls. And, of course, create miracles in life and help us embrace our healing gifts! What You'll Learn from this Episode: We are taught that all the things that are Feminine - our bodies, our softness, our tenderness, our radiance, our joy, our pleasure, our vulnerability, our depth, our hearts - don't matter, and to forget about them and be more in the ‘Masculine' logic, drive, force, push - but really it is being embodied in our ‘Feminine' essence that creates miracles It is the deeper ‘energetic' choice into that which has us embody our feminine - and when we make that deeper ‘energetic' choice into our Feminine magic, the world sees it and shifts how it responds to us Being in the body helps that - and what has us embodied in our Feminine essence is unique for us all - some helpful prompts to discover how to embody your Feminine magic include asking: what would feel luxurious for me? What would feel softening for me?  What would feel joyful for me?  What do I need?   Being in our Feminine actually has us create miracles without forcing - creative ideas flow through us when we follow the joy, though this can be hard to trust.  It can be helpful to be in a journaling exercise of looking for ‘disconfirming evidence' that we ‘can't' trust magic - look for proof of the miracles that occur when we are following our Feminine joy and flow Part of Feminine magic is also being with the darkness - fully feeling our feelings - letting them move through us - and so it's important to love and welcome these aspects of ourselves for deeper healing and opening to magic - it's what transmutes us to our divinity. Vulnerability is a key piece of the alchemy - when we learn to show up in the truth of our hearts, we are received and can experience our true radiance and being fully seen as who we are - and that's the biggest miracle of all Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Website: www.jamiewozny.com Instagram: @jamiewozny Lightworkers academy- https://app.arketa.co/iframe/denmeditation/series/dcnwEq2SNKEDRhCQILe8 Soul Medicine: Finding Your Power Through Healing and Transformation from Within® to Fulfill Your Soul Purpose - https://momence.com/Divinely-Human%2C-Inc./Soul-Medicine%3A-Finding-Your-Power-Through-Healing-and-Transformation-from-Within%C2%AE-to-Fulfill-Your-Soul-Purpose-/100326781   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the juicy topic of one of the most common fears of becoming a healer, teacher or guide: the fear of ‘judgement' and ‘rejection - and how to heal it so you can share your gifts authentically.  She explores the Archetypal Remedy that you can harness to begin to unconditionally love and approve of yourself enough to not need approval, sharing a vulnerable story about her own experience of rejection and how going *into* the experience of rejection helped her heal her fear.    In this episode we explore the 3 stages of reclamation of our wild, authentic, true expression, why it's important for healers that we are authentic, the signs we are being called to heal our fear of judgement and rejection - and the most important things to do as a beginning step into this self-healing. What You'll Learn from this Episode: The common fear of being a healer and being ‘judged' and ‘rejected' is part of the Witch Wound, which makes sense due to epigenetics and how we feel this fear ingrained in our bodies The challenge with healing our fear of ‘judgement' and ‘rejection' is that we have to experience it to fully liberate ourselves from it We can take small, tender steps into learning to heal our expression, rather than having to make big leaps - steps that have us expand with a well-tended nervous system The deep work of healing involves us learning to unconditionally love ourselves, harnessing Archetypal Mama She-Wolf's (or Lupa's) self-motherly energy.  When we love ourselves deeply enough, others rejecting us can't have the same impact There's a swing between the poles of Good Girl and Rebel that is often needed as we begin to heal our fear of judgement and rejection - and claim our true ‘wildness' - but the real alchemy is in the ‘third way'; the way of learning to be our true, authentic selves, from love and vulnerability - baring our souls as the medicine they are. Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/lupa  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Books: Peter Levine;  Waking the Tiger https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/se-books     Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the sense of ‘overwhelm' that can often be felt in knowing ‘where to start' in the journey of opening to becoming a healer - especially with the amount of ‘quick fix' false promises on offer, that can leave us disheartened.  She explores how you might know you are feeling the call to be a healer (even amidst the fears) - and how to get clarity on your next tender steps in your journey, helping you answering the question: “where do I begin?” In this episode Nicole explores the most potent ‘Archetypal Apothecary' resources that can help you begin to open to your gifts - inviting you to begin with our potent ‘Starter Pack' which is packed with all the information you need to begin to access your own wisdom about how to become a healer from integrity and honesty.  She shares how to work with the ‘Illumination Workbook' in particular, which provides a guide to self-illumination and self-discovery of 3 things that will help you get clarity to move forwards: your ‘Fears' (what's holding you back), your ‘Soul's Vision' (which should always be your ‘compass') and your ‘Next Steps' (what's the next breadcrumb for you to follow) - whether that's something in our path, or something else entirely. What You'll Learn from this Episode: It can so often be overwhelming when we begin to open to the journey of becoming a healer - there are so many opinions ‘out there', externally, as to where to begin - including many ‘quick fix' promises, that heart-breakingly often leave us feeling disappointed And yet, the most potent place to begin is by accessing your own wisdom; via self-illumination and self-discovery (one of the 8 Elements of our path) which can help you begin to heal yourself The Archetypal Apothecary ‘Starter Kit' and ‘Illumination Workbook' are the resources that guide you into the 3 potent explorations of your ‘Fears' (what holds you back), your ‘Soul Vision' (which becomes your compass) and offers clarity on your ‘Next Steps' (the next breadcrumb you're being called to take) If you don't know where to begin, start there - there's so much gold in this resource; it's not like your average ‘free' resource; we put *everything* we possibly can into our free resources (just as we would a paid journey), and there's hundreds of pounds worth of value in them The invitation is to not rush your journey with the Starter Pack and Illumination Workbook - there's gold in these resources that's been intentionally designed as the tender first steps, but they won't be a ‘quick fix', they do require you to take some time working through the potent enquiries, practices and rituals in there for you You can find a link to download yours below in the resources section: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up   Resources and things that we spoke about: Download your free Starter Pack and Illumination Workbook: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up  Follow us on Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Join our Next Journey: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/lupa  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk    Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Loren Cellentani. Loren used to feel like a victim to her body and emotions sabotaging her dreams. It led her to deeply listen and work with the body to uncover how to harness life force energy, process emotions & alchemise her pain into power - all through breathwork, somatic movement and visualization. Her mission is to help lightworkers get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can fulfil their purpose and potential in this lifetime. Loren guides women to own their power, rule their reality and live their purpose in her group program, Sovereign Mastermind, and her podcast, Witchy Wellness Radio. In this episode Loren and I co-create around so many synergies in our worldview; in particular, the importance of embodiment.  Exploring ‘somatic movement' as an embodiment practice for ‘moving' our emotions and discovering the hidden patterns held in our cells, Loren explored how our inner little girl carried old stories in her body - and that to truly ‘rule our reality', we need to alchemise these and embody who we long to become - harnessing movement for both things.  We spoke about the importance of connecting to our emotions and healing via movement - with Loren offering some very practical tools and tips for beginning to work with it and what practices to get started with.   What You'll Learn from this Episode: The etymology of ‘somatic' means the ‘body' - and the body feels emotion - or ‘energy in motion'.  We harness movement to combine the two - to move energy, to heal, to manifest our desires - and to do that, we have to get out of our own way (out of our mind into our body) We are not ‘victims' to our bodies - our bodies are not ‘in the way', they are ‘the most spiritual thing about us' - they act as an ‘alarm system' saying “this is not for you” (or “this *is* for you”).  And our bodies want to heal The true definition of “Sovereign”, according to Loren,  is the “Divine right to rule our reality” - and every moment we have the opportunity to own the gold that can be found in our wounds, when we are courageous enough to go into the body and alchemise the energy in there into our Sovereign power Our menstrual cycle is powerful - our bodies show us, via our cycle, where we have avoided looking at things for the month - even small things. When we give our bodies grace, love them and let them guide us , and learn to trust them, we are able to manifest what we truly desire It doesn't have to be scary - we just take the next small step, and the next - beginning to tune into our bodies - until the big decisions eventually become the next small step too Somatic movement can be anything that moves the body - it can be yoga, ecstatic dance, working out, going for a run, slow dancing - but essentially it's anything where we are ‘making love' to our bodies - and it doesn't have to be in a sexual way, but a ‘sensual' way, where we are present with our body's senses   We can begin with a simple exercise of asking “how does my body want to move?” and notice if you were judging yourself, or feeling resistance, and loving yourself in that, and letting the body lead the way. We can work with embodiment in two ways - both for processing wounding and also for embodying the woman we long to become.    Resources and things that we spoke about: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/lupa Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Get Calm & Gain Clarity eBook: https://tinyurl.com/gcgcebook/ Anxious Personality Quiz - Manifest with your Emotions: https://www.anxiousquiz.com/ Website: https://lorencellentani.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorencellentani/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lorencellentani Sovereign Mastermind: https://lorencellentani.com/sovereign   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of the common fears that comes up for aspiring healers: the deep fears of ‘absorbing other's energy' and ‘burning out' that often stop women from fully stepping into the journey of becoming a healer - thinking that they're ‘too sensitive' for it.     In this episode Nicole discusses how women born to be ‘healers' are born with a deep natural sensitivity, and what this really means for them, exploring the birth constitution (or make up) of a ‘healer'.  She explores a way of working with reclaiming the deep self-honouring that's required - and the capacity to hold inner boundaries - in order to reclaim our gifts without burning out and taking on others' energy.  She also explores the one deeper underlying fear that often stops us fully self-honouring and protecting our energy. What You'll Learn from this Episode:   ‘Sensitivity' is one of the things that most aspiring healers - who are constitutionally ‘Archetypal Phosphorus' - shame about themselves, and fear will stop them becoming healers - yet it also holds a deep gift; without sensitivity, we wouldn't *be* healers To begin healing this ‘Surface Layer' wound of sensitive, ‘Phosphoric' women - and to stop absorbing energy and burning out - we need to work with the Archetypal Remedy, ‘She-Wolf' (or Lupa); and especially the Motherly energy of the milk of the She-Wolf, which is about reclaiming our inner wildness and honouring our inner-boundaries (in a nurturing way, from love) We will often fear our ‘inner wild' will be rejected as ‘too much', ‘too wild', or be ‘disapproved of' or ‘judged', and so we - as sensitive women - often deny our *true* needs and burn ourselves into the ground; and it's at that point where other people's energy will feel too much Other people are only ever acting as mirrors for aspects of ourselves that want reclaiming; if we learn to receive ‘triggers' from others ‘taking our energy' as a call to honour our true needs as sensitive women, we can, too, heal and open to reclaiming our gifts as healers Outer-boundaries are often set 'first, and then we get upset when they are ‘dishonoured' by others - yet, the really deep work is to learn to ‘honour' our own ‘inner boundaries' for ourselves' the world shifts as we do, energetically The work is to begin to hear our wild ‘inner No', so that we can then begin to open to our true deep ‘Yes' to the desire and vision of becoming the healer we were born to be; otherwise, we *will* end up burning out, pleasing everyone and taking on everything from everyone else. Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/lupa  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With The Wolves https://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/ Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Shanti Zimmerman. Shanti described herself as “a human, just like you”.  She has learned how to navigate being human with deep integrity, clarity, and a focus on growth and real life. She has complex and compound trauma from her childhood that, for a portion of her life, made it hard to be alive. The work that she facilitates is based on how she found her way to a life worth living.  She had a whole lot to unlearn and a ton of adult skill-sets she had to develop and practice and she shares everything she knows from her lived experience. She believes that liberation is our natural default setting as human beings and she contributes to it in every moment of her life.   In this episode we explore the notion of ‘healing' and the language around it - and especially how we don't need to outsource our power to ‘quick fixes', but if we learn to deconstruct blame, shame and guilt, we can learn to embody our adulthood, make new choices and embody deep self-trust.  Shanti describes blame, shame and guilt as “synthetic” constructs - “behaviour controllers”  that are not our innate natural emotions - and narratives that invoke emotional response, or a ‘habit' that creates somatic response in our bodies - exploring how it is possible we can alchemise shame and radically refuse to engage with our self-oppression.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Blame, shame and guilt are the foundational ‘root' of other ‘synthetic' emotions that feel awful in our bodies - that's usually how we know we are experiencing them Yet, blame, shame and guilt are not ‘natural' emotions to us as human beings; they're what we've been taught and conditioned into We each have our own ‘inner Gollum' who helps us actively engage in these shame habits by beating ourselves up - yet we would never dream of speaking to others in this way, and our innate self wouldn't think like that We didn't do it to ourselves; shame was usually done to us, but as *soon* as we become ‘aware' of that, we can no longer say that because we are beginning to do it to ourselves - and now, we have a new choice The deconstruction of these ‘unnatural' emotions requires us to become curious and open to more awareness.  From there, we can choose to grow into adulthood and begin to take radical care of ourselves - from the inside - most often we have an “adolescent mind-frame” (because we've learned to, innocently) - as we grow in awareness we can begin to say “no, thank you” As aspiring ‘healers' - real healers - it is so important that we embody healing shame and embody what we are teaching for ourselves first (or be in the practice of) - we need to feel absolutely 100% in our own bodies with lived experience of being grounded in that role. Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/lupa  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shanti.zimmermannBeingShanti Website: www.beingshanti.com Shanti facilitates The Clarity of Boundaries - a three week intensive throughout the year. Find out more at www.beingshanti.com Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

In this unique, ‘experiential' episode, Nicole mixes up the format, sharing the signs we are being called into our power as a healer, hosting a little bit of a ‘workshop' around the ‘Drama Triangle' to help you illuminate the 3 ways you might be leaking your power (because Secret Witches often innocently misuse their power to create drama).  She explores how Archetypal Aurum (the essence of ‘Gold', and universal symbol of ‘power') can help, guiding you in a ritualistic and ceremonial journey with Aurum's Archetypal Remedy to help you begin to activate and reclaim your inner Feminine soft-power, to become a healer.  Disclaimer: there's healing activation in this one - listen only if you're ready!   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   There are some key wounds we struggle with as aspiring healers - and this is a normal part of the journey of becoming a healer - one of those wounds we need to heal is reclaiming our power Often we have missed our initiation into Feminine power - which traditionally happened at first bleed, in ancient times - and along with that, we don't get to choose into being an adult woman This leaves us trapped on the Drama Triangle as a little girl in a woman's body, never knowing our power to choose ‘off' the triangle and create from Feminine soft-power - or womb wisdom and our heart-led, soul-led truth Self-illumination is key to that initiation - and in particular, self-illuminating where we are on the ‘Drama Triangle' - i.e. in ‘victim, persecutor or rescuer' - holds gold to be reclaimed in honestly looking here The power centre of women is in our hearts and wombs - only we often don't let those Feminine power-centres lead; because we are used to a ‘Masculine powered' way of being - and in that way, we armour up When we learn to love our little girl and enter an initiation to reclaim our Feminine soft-power, that's when we can step off the Drama Triangle, and become the healers we were born to be - also having improved relationships, and living magical lives, all round.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: There's one opening for a 1:1 client- www.nicolebarton.co.uk/initiatrix  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Lian Brook-Tyler. Lian is one of my own long-standing, trusted guides - she's a shamanic healer, teacher of wild magic, podcaster and co-founder of Waking The Wild. Her mythical journey truly began when she was ruptured open to Spirit with the sudden death of her father – which led to her mysteriously recovering from 15 years of chronic pain, panic attacks and anxiety. That inexplicable transformation inspired her to leave a leadership role in the corporate world to immerse herself in discovering what creates pain and struggle, and conversely, how to create a life overflowing with love, magic, beauty and truth.   In this episode we explore the crucial work of soul and sovereignty through the lens of ‘parenting.'  We dive into the common challenges that many women face around parenting children who can be often be experienced and labelled as ‘sensitive', ‘different' or ‘challenging' in some way - perhaps also labelled as ‘neurodivergent - and how we can navigate this when we ourselves are sensitive (and possibly neurodivergent) ourselves.  We explored how parents of the ‘sensitive young souls' of the world often heartbreakingly feel like ‘bad mums', and what we really mean by ‘sensitivity', how it is actually a superpower rather than a disadvantage - and how we can begin to parent from our power, meeting everyone's needs and modelling a new way of love and understanding. What You'll Learn from this Episode:   We can often judge ourselves as “bad mothers”, yet what this really means is we are feeling “my children are not behaving in a way that my family, culture or school deems is an okay way to behave” - we are actually making ourselves and our children wrong for something that is a neutral difference (or ‘divergence') to the cultural norm If we look at indigenous cultures, we can see we are all innately wired to be sensitive. Humans weren't born for the modern world and its bright lights, smells, chemicals, electricity, devices - and so we learn to close down, to even just function If we have been raised in a culture that has us try and fit nicely into a system where we follow the rules, we will value ‘fitting in,' and it will require us to heal those wounds and free ourselves from the conditioning to welcome these sensitive aspects of ourselves and our children, and free ourselves from judgement The things we think are our ‘problems' are actually literal gifts.  Those wounds and gifts will be different for everyone, depending on what our soul is here for, but, for example, Lian's sensitivity to what's going on and her heightened awareness to spirit, was a gift as she was here to be a shaman.  Sensitivity is a gift if we are here to be healers To parent powerfully, we need to know and honour our boundaries - without that we won't be able to parent - at least not in a conducive and sustainable way. Yet, that's been made culturally wrong, too.  We're told we should be “access all areas” to our children and not have time to ourselves - that we shouldn't have needs - and it takes deep healing to recognise we need boundaries in place Powerful parenting requires leadership - which needs us to look sovereignly at what's right for us as parents, and what's right for our children, and make powerful aligned choices. Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: There's one opening for a 1:1 client - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/initiatrix Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Lian's Website: https://www.wakingthewild.com/ Lian's Podcast: https://www.wakingthewild.com/podcast Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of the common patterns of the many sensitive souls who were born here with healing gifts: people-pleasing.  Exploring how people-pleasing is almost a ‘sign' of being a healer, she dives into the fears and patterns beyond people-pleasing, and how self-illumination is a powerful tool to help women begin to heal themselves of this wound.   In this episode Nicole explores how and why our culture has had us learn to run around looking after everyone else first, along with the importance of self-healing inner work around people-pleasing - and especially why it's one of the most important patterns to liberate if you're wanting to help others heal themselves.  And, why vulnerability is the key to it all! What You'll Learn from this Episode:   People pleasing is often a sign of being a healer - because healers commonly want to ‘help' people It's also a wounded pattern, learned in childhood - possibly when our own needs weren't met, and we shamed our own needs, and learned to put them last We leak our true healing power by people pleasing - especially if we are here to be healers of others - often we will go into ‘rescuer' mode  Loving self-illumination is the key to beginning to heal this pattern - noticing what's underneath our automatic unconscious way of relating in the world this way is really powerful to help us begin to liberate ourselves The other important thing in reclaiming our ‘inner people-pleaser' is learning to show up vulnerably and share our truth and our own needs.  The Feminine expresses her feelings, rather than rebelling and being a tyrant who sets hard outer boundaries.  It's our energetic ‘inner boundaries' that matter most. If we don't heal this wounding, we will end up ‘quick fixing' people, instead of allowing people who come to us for healing to experience their own healing initiations and reclaim their gold   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: There's one opening for a 1:1 client - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/initiatrix  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron hsperson.com  The Queen's Code by Alison A. Armstrong www.alisonarmstrong.com Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you,   Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Dr. Stephania Sciamano. Stephania is a doctor, metaphysical specialist, and awakening mentor to high-achieving women. She specialises in helping successful women open wide to receive at their highest potential, but in a way that is good for the feminine body. Stephania's protocols are simple, elegant, and powerful. Her clients lose the anxiety and the body dips, create a more spacious life, begin a love affair with their Divinity, become sexy again to their partners and themselves, and watch life come to them like a ravenous lover.   In this episode we explored how the modern woman innocently exhausts and depletes herself by trying to keep up with men, in a culture that is so oriented towards ‘success' and ‘goals', and Stephania explained the impact of this on our hormones and our Feminine bodies - which are coded differently to men's.  We dived into how the secret to wealth - in all areas of wealth: Money, Love, Life-force, Spirit and Freedom - is to learn to attune to our Feminine body and hormones, and reclaim all the ‘clairs' (our senses) so we can physiologically soften and open to receive abundance.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Women learn culturally to operate from a logic-based paradigm, when they are really built to be in their bodies - logic dries women out When we push, push, push and are ‘goal' oriented, as women in Feminine bodies, everything becomes very high adrenaline and cortisol and we become impulsive, irritable, exhausted, anxious and depleted  These hormones compete with our Feminine progesterone hormone biochemically, which helps us align with our natural Feminine cycles and soften and open (dilate) to being more receptive - and this competition needs to be healed, for us to receive our heart's desires There are some simple and practical things that we can do to improve our hormones - which Stephania dived into in the show - including more sunlight and less blue light, more protein in the morning, incorporating healthy carbs for evening meals and integrating electrolytes - which can make a difference in even 3 days These simple and natural swaps - like going out in the sunshine first thing, instead of being on our phones - can often be a challenge in a world where we are used to ‘quick fixes' where we just go and get more supplements, but they are important for our hormones - and our wealth The true secret to wealth - in all areas of wealth: Money, Love, Life-force, Spirit and Freedom - is to learn to attune to our Feminine body and hormones, and reclaim all the ‘clairs' (our senses) so we can physiologically soften and open to receive abundance Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/aurum Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Free FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wealthbodycollective Email: info@stephaniasciamano.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstephaniasciamano/ Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the commonly missed initiation into ‘womanhood' that so many sensitive women, who were born to be ‘healers,' often experience - and how this can leave them feeling ‘powerless' and ‘unconfident', and fearing that the path of becoming a healer isn't for them (when in fact it is).   In this episode Nicole dives into the rites of passage into adulthood that we often miss in today's busy, chaotic culture - which often sees the true heart-led ‘softpower' of the Feminine as ‘weak,' ‘lazy' and ‘shameful', and leads us to suppress ourselves and people-please to fit in.  She explores how - even when we feel powerless, and like a little girl in an adult's body - we are really being called into learning to heal our wounding around power so that we can become confident women - and healers who lead powerfully from body wisdom, heart and soul.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Women in today's crazy modern culture will often miss the ‘initiation' into adult womanhood that our Ancestresses would have had, which leaves them feeling a lack of power - or like a ‘little girl stuck in an adult woman's body' When we don't know our power, we will doubt ourselves and lack confidence - and fear that we aren't cut out to be a healer - and this isn't true, it's just a sign that we have wounding around our power to heal first What's required is for us to tenderly learn to heal our wounding around ‘power' and learn to embody our true Feminine ‘soft-power' - the Feminine power that is innate in us that is soft, tender, open, relaxed and soul-led (which gets shamed in our society as ‘weak' and ‘lazy') Archetypal Remedy, Aurum is the antidote to this, initiating us into our Feminine soft-power and helping us to begin to illuminate and self-heal our power wounding, with self-love and compassion Without choosing into an initiation - or rite of passage - into our soft-power, we will feel stuck with our inner little girl (innocently) running the show - and largely she is making decisions from a place of fear and a ‘fight, flight, freeze or fawn' nervous system response For those sensitive women who are here to become healers - those of us who want to discover and express our gifts - we need to embody our power so that we can face the common challenges along the path of becoming a healer; and this is why our power wounding is so important to heal.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: Aurum - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/aurum  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the commonly missed initiation into ‘womanhood' that so many sensitive women, who were born to be ‘healers,' often experience - and how this can leave them feeling ‘powerless' and ‘unconfident', and fearing that the path of becoming a healer isn't for them (when in fact it is).   In this episode Nicole dives into the rites of passage into adulthood that we often miss in today's busy, chaotic culture - which often sees the true heart-led ‘softpower' of the Feminine as ‘weak,' ‘lazy' and ‘shameful', and leads us to suppress ourselves and people-please to fit in.  She explores how - even when we feel powerless, and like a little girl in an adult's body - we are really being called into learning to heal our wounding around power so that we can become confident women - and healers who lead powerfully from body wisdom, heart and soul.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Women in today's crazy modern culture will often miss the ‘initiation' into adult womanhood that our Ancestresses would have had, which leaves them feeling a lack of power - or like a ‘little girl stuck in an adult woman's body' When we don't know our power, we will doubt ourselves and lack confidence - and fear that we aren't cut out to be a healer - and this isn't true, it's just a sign that we have wounding around our power to heal first What's required is for us to tenderly learn to heal our wounding around ‘power' and learn to embody our true Feminine ‘soft-power' - the Feminine power that is innate in us that is soft, tender, open, relaxed and soul-led (which gets shamed in our society as ‘weak' and ‘lazy') Archetypal Remedy, Aurum is the antidote to this, initiating us into our Feminine soft-power and helping us to begin to illuminate and self-heal our power wounding, with self-love and compassion Without choosing into an initiation - or rite of passage - into our soft-power, we will feel stuck with our inner little girl (innocently) running the show - and largely she is making decisions from a place of fear and a ‘fight, flight, freeze or fawn' nervous system response For those sensitive women who are here to become healers - those of us who want to discover and express our gifts - we need to embody our power so that we can face the common challenges along the path of becoming a healer; and this is why our power wounding is so important to heal.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: Aurum - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/aurum  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Adam Quiney. Adam is an executive leadership coach specialising in working with the “Smartest People in the Room.” A former software developer and attorney, Adam's learned the hard way about the costs that come from keeping your heart safe and chasing after external rewards to feel whole and complete.  From love, Adam is connection, passion, presence, wit and brilliance. From fear, he is awkward, robotic, apathetic, irrelevant and arrogant. He's learned to embrace all these parts of himself, and works with others to do the same in their own lives. Living with his beautiful wife and their dog in Victoria, B.C, he is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place.   In today's episode, Adam and I explore how to harness plant medicine to create meaningful impact in the world - in particular, discussing the power of plants as ancient “medicine” - in whatever form they are worked with, whether herbal, psychedelic, or archetypally.  We begin to understand how plant medicine can help us heal and step more deeply into the meaningful work we are born to do, and how we can integrate the journey with plant medicine to fully express our gifts.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   The purpose of plant medicine is to help us to  heal. We think that we already have “medicine” in the world, but the medicine we know in the Western world is actually “drugs” that temporarily halt the symptoms and disconnect us Instead, “medicine” is something which supports us to do our own healing and reconnect us to our soul's wholeness.  This is often more challenging because we have to confront the wound that got created in us that has been stored for years Genuine healing, like this, can feel like we are getting ‘worse' before we get better - because we have to go through ‘breakdown' - or healing response - before the ‘breakthrough' - the hardest part is staying the course in the midst of us doing that whilst everyone else is popping pills We have learned to relate to ourselves as “this is just the way I am ” - which has us numb our possibility.  Possibility often looks like ‘impossibility' because it's found in the unknown and creates us to fear that “there's no way I can do that” What plant medicine does is to support us to come out of our conscious mind, drop our ego and personality - and connect with pure spirit - so that we can lean into the areas we have shut the door on - unconsciously - and visit them to reveal and face the fears we have and start to heal them, making them conscious The more healing we do - the more wounds we heal - the more we reconnect to who we were born as, and the more we can discover our true purpose. In fact, the more we heal, the more magnetic we become to be around, and the more of a clear channel we are as healing activators of others - aka the more we can step into our gifts as healers.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: Archetypal Aurum (Gold): www.nicolebarton.co.uk/aurum  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Books: Other Worlds by David Luke https://www.instagram.com/drdluke/?hl=en-gb  Books: The Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences by Rick Strassman https://www.rickstrassman.com/  Adam's website: http://adamquiney.com More information on Adam's journey - https://adamquiney.com/ayahuasca/  Adam's  podcast, The Transformational Leader: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/get-lit/id1386362594 Adam's  Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/aquiney Adam's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamquiney/ Adam's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamquiney_/ Adam's  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHz_zDZJOeYp9V-6I0P6qcw   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into all things ‘personality profiling', exploring how ‘psychology type' tools can be harnessed powerfully for deep healing, via self-enquiry and self-illumination.  She explains why she believes we were each born with a unique soul purpose to live out - and how exactly we can reveal the soul plan and more meaningful purpose that's in store for us, via archetypal personality mapping tools (and specifically, her uniquely magical Archetypal Soul Readings).   In this episode she explores how ‘Archetypal Remedies' (which we work with in the Archetypal Apothecary path) are personality profiles that can be mapped out to ascertain our unique “soul plan” - especially with reference to sensitive souls who were born with healing gifts.  She shares the 4 “layers” of our soul plan, and how knowing each of these layers - and our unique Archetypal Remedies - can support us to learn to heal ourselves (rather than outsource our healing to others), discover our gifts, and journey through the layers of wounding in the way of us actualising our purpose. She also invites us into a simple exercise to begin to reclaim the gifts in our wounds.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Psychological personality profiling is something that is primarily used for deeper self-illumination, to understand aspects of ourselves that we hadn't seen before - our core personality, our gifts and our challenges You could call these ‘personality types' Archetypes, or mirrors to our soul - and the combination of Archetypes with Homeopathy is what created “Archetypal Remedies” - which help us to understand ourselves for deeper healing and discovery of our gifts  Archetypal Remedies have distinct patterns that make our wounds - and our healing of them - and our gifts identifiable.  They are like personality types, only much more magical. We are born into this world with unique gifts - a plan that our soul came here to live out - and that means that our soul has particular “remedy relationships” it came here to live out, which can be “mapped” to provide a clear roadmap for our next steps - even (and especially) when we feel lost We are all like an onion - whole in the middle, with lots of layers of wounding over the top.  There are 4 layers of an Archetypal Soul Map - 1. our Birth Constitution, 2. our Soul Remedy (our core wound, which holds our gift), 3. our Surface Layers and 4. our  Ancestral Layers - and working through healing each of these layers allows us to become who we were born to be. When we understand our Archetypal Soul Map, we can learn to work with it to heal ourselves, rather than outsource our healing to others. This is important because healers need to heal themselves first. Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible: Aurum www.nicolebarton.co.uk/aurum  Find out about Nicole's Archetypal Soul Readings - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/soulreading  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Book: Maureen Murdoch - The Heroine's Journey - https://maureenmurdock.com/articles/articles-the-heroines-journey/ Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Lucy Pearce. Lucy is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix. Her writing focuses on women's healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity. An award-winning graduate in History of Ideas with English Literature from Kingston University, and a PGCE from Cambridge University, Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, creating paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014. The mother of three children, she lives in East Cork, Ireland   In this episode we explore how to reclaim the magic in our sensitivity - and in particular, neurodivergence.  We dive into what “neurodivergence” is, and means, and what signs might help sensitive souls illuminate that they are neuro-diverse - as well as why and how women who resonate with this label must meet their sensitive needs, rather than try to mask and fit into a culture that doesn't suit them.  Most importantly, we shared our important worldview on how neurodivergence can actually be a gift - and especially a super-power that allows magical women to be powerful healers, teachers and guides.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Highly sensitive women are often also ‘neurodivergent' - a word which is commonly understood by labels such as autism, ADHD or things like dyslexia or dyscalculia - and mean that we have different from ‘typical' brains Neurodivergence (ND) can show up in lots of different ways, but the main way it can present itself is having a sensitive nervous system that is over-primed - as well as feeling burned out, touched out and overwhelmed by our senses (we have a deep sensitivity to noise, scents, clothes on our skin, lights, electricity, and other things) The label of neurodivergence can be really helpful in aiding us to see that there's actually nothing wrong with us as a sensitive soul - and that we are just wired differently, and struggling to fit into a world that wasn't built for us; owning it this way can help us learn to navigate the world in an aligned way As sensitive women, and ND women, we must learn to honour and meet our own needs, so that we aren't constantly overwhelmed and our nervous systems don't reach meltdown.  As we do meet our needs, we can reclaim the gifts in our sensitivity And there are many gifts - creativity, brilliant minds, the capacity to spot patterns, entrepreneurial skills, deep passion for things, high empathy and sensitivity to other worlds (in other words, all the ‘clairs' - e.g. clairvoyance), a capacity for lucid dreaming, a high importance for truthful expression, hyper-focus and a real affinity with nature It is common for these gifts to make sensitive souls excellent ‘healers' - as long as we can reclaim the gifts in our sensitivity.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible:  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Elain Aron - The Highly Sensitive Person - https://hsperson.com/books www.lucyhpearce.com - Lucy's website  www.womancraftpublishing.com  - her newest books are Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods and The Kitchen Witch Companion, which she illustrated and co-authored with Sarah Robinson.  I am a Unicorn Blog - https://dreamingaloud.net/2019/02/i-am-a-unicorn/    Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you,   Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into the worldview that our body's physical sensations and symptoms are revealing hidden, underlying patterns that want to be loved for deep self-healing.  She explores the common lenses that contribute to this ‘holistic health' worldview, sharing her own embodied journey and experiences with what she has been guided to see by her body's wisdom that has allowed her to heal herself and powerfully reclaim her soul path as a healer, teacher and guide.   In this episode Nicole explores how to take responsibility for your own healing, by listening to your body's deeper wisdom, sharing the core elements required to self-illuminate your unconscious patterns and begin to manifest health (and your heart's deep desires) - and how the body is really guiding you into your soul's deeper plan as a healer.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   The holistic worldview of the body is one that widely accepts that there are ‘hidden patterns' under our body's symptoms; right from the early days, Louise Hay illuminated that - and yet, often this wisdom is still often journeyed with from a ‘quick fix' perspective Our physical symptoms or sensations are usually calling us into some form of ‘initiation' - they're an invitation into seeing what we need to feel, heal or reveal and owning our power to do so (and that can feel like a lot of responsibility at first, but it's so worth it) Self-illumination is how we discover those patterns - we have to open to the journey of hearing our bodies, love ourselves enough to have the courage to go there (amidst the fear), embody our power and go into the body to truly listen; all of our Archetypal Remedies help women do this What's also key is understanding the *true* laws of manifestation - so often these are related to as if we have to make a wish and ask the universe to provide something; yet the truth is, we are already creating health, just largely *unconsciously*.  This is usually the reason we have physical symptoms - because we have been creating what we *don't* want, without knowing, based on wounding.  Healing is making that process conscious, so we can create differently by healing that wounding   We each came here with a ‘soul plan' - a group of remedies to live out, if you like, with set physical manifestations and patterns - and the work we do in this path of mapping out our soul path, with Archetypal Remedies, helps us to reveal where our healing is, because each of them holds a mirror to our particular patterning of health (including physicals) For example, Archetypal Phosphorus - which is our typical listener - is the energy of the substance on the end of a match.  Phosphoric women tend to physically burn out because they are wildly sensitive, like fire, which illuminates how we need to honour our sensitivity.  Burn out equals the manifestation of the deeper underlying pattern of not honouring our sensitivity.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Books mentioned: Louise Hay, Heal Your Life Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Phyllis Curott. Phyllis is one of America's first public Witches and a Wiccan Priestess.  She's an attorney whose groundbreaking cases secured the rights of Witches, and she's the most widely published, internationally best-selling Wiccan author in the world. She's the creator of the ‘Witches Wisdom Tarot', and the online course Awaken the Witch Within, and her book ‘Spells for Living Well, A Witch's Guide to Manifesting Change, Wellbeing and Wonder'.  The recipient of numerous honors, Phyllis was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Clergy and is a Trustee and Program Chair of the Parliament of the World's Religions.   Phyllis is a third time guest to the Secret Witch Show, and in today's episode, we dive into all things divination.  We explored what divination is, and how it can help sensitive souls heal and connect to your soul, exploring how everyone has a magic within and everyone is connected to the natural world - and how tarot can help you open to your gifts and fulfil your unique purpose. What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Tarot is a tool that guides us home to ourselves - that helps us heal, reconnect to our wellbeing and soul; and it does this by providing answers to questions that help us access our own inner guidance system We learn, through tarot, to access our own wisdom, rather than to outsource our power to others - like some patriarchal models.  The more we practise tarot, the more we learn to cultivate our own inner wisdom We can also access our inner wisdom by communing with the spirits of nature and see what they reveal to us. These spirits show us that we are never alone; we are constantly surrounded by wisdom and guidance - if we are open to receive its signs and synchronicities.  Nature's magic is organised in a way to support us and heal us and help us and guide us and all we have to do is pay attention and participate  We can sometimes feel that there's a fight between logic and magic, when we come to heal ourselves magically, and the truth is, there's a way that we can embrace both - it's not an either/or We each have unique soul gifts, and the route to finding them is through healing ourselves first, because it is in our wounds that our gifts are found.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Phyllis has a free gift for the Secret Witch listeners: A Step by Step Guide to Spellcasting at. www.phylliscurott/spellcasting Website:   phylliscurott.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/phylliscurott Instagram: www.instagram.com/phylliscurott/ Twitter:     https://twitter.com/phylliscurott YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PhyllisCurottWitchcrafting Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is doing a deep dive into all things “Archetypal Remedies”.  This is a very special episode where Nicole explores the art and science of her “Archetypal Apothecary” healing modality for sensitive women who are burned out and want to discover their purpose (and especially for those women who long to be healers, teachers or guides - even if that feels terrifying).     In this episode, Nicole explores the three ancient healing wisdom bodies that combine to create her unique modality and formula, sharing what ‘Archetypal Remedies' are, why they matter, how they work, what the basics we need to know are when working with Archetypal Remedies, and how Archetypal Remedies complement other healing modalities to super-charge self-healing - and some of the natural fears that come up when beginning the deep work of soul healing and actualisation, which are actually a sign that you are ready.   What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Archetypal Remedies offer a unique modality that is grounded in the three ancient healing wisdom bodies and lineages of homeopathy, archetypal psychology and energy healing The unique combination of them offers a path to true, deep self-healing (or ‘soul healing') that stimulates healing and kindles deep self-enquiry to help you heal yourself - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually - as well as discovering your gifts and actualising your soul purpose in the world We all have the power and wisdom to heal ourselves - and this is the ‘WHY' of Archetypal Remedies.  The path is unique in that it helps women to learn to heal themselves - helping you activate your own ‘inner apothecary', rather than rely on other healers; it superpowers the way we experience other healings because it allows us to integrate them more deeply ourselves So many women try and ‘fix' themselves, when the truth is we aren't broken. Real healing is grounded in self-love and the reclamation of ‘fragmented,' wounded parts of ourselves (or our souls) that have been unconsciously shamed and suppressed - and Archetypal Remedies help us to heal these parts of ourselves and peel back the layers of our wounding until we return to knowing our wholeness Archetypal Remedies work on the principle that ‘like cures like' - which also explains why we magnetise and feel a draw to certain people - because people are Remedies. Archetypal Remedies also offer us a roadmap for our healing and soul-purpose, that's similar to other personality profiling models like Human Design - we each have 4 Layers of Archetypal Remedies that help us know our natural make-up from birth, the unique Remedy we came to live out (our soul purpose), and the Surface and Ancestral layer Remedies that need healing for us to fully actualise our gifts Fear is a natural part of the process, and resistance can mean that you are ready to begin the journey (rather than meaning that you're not - which most women think when they feel the call to self-healing).  The deep invitation when fear arises is into the self-enquiry of the path around what the fear is, and which part of you wants love to tenderly move forwards.  Healing the fear is a huge part of the work with Archetypal Remedies - and it's done with the tenderness and softness and nervous system tending that Archetypal Remedy ‘Rosa' (the rose) offers. Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Free Secret Witch Society Community: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Resources:  Archetypal Rosa taster event and 4 week journey starting 19th October - the tender first step: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/rosa Free monthly healing circles - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonritual ⭕  Initiatrix - for deep 1:1 support with healing your soul and discovering your purpose - reach for an Alchemy Call - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/initiatrix ✨ Subscribe to Luna News - for rituals, tips and invitations each month to healing - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/subscribe

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Dean Bentley. Dean is a mentor, story teller, soul worker, and walker of the underworld. His mission is to bring light into the dark, allowing others to transverse the depth of their own soul to bring forth their unique medicine. He helps people turn their pain into art; in the process, rewriting the old stories of their life so that they may live powerfully, purposely, and pleasurably. He gives rise to a new collective story of what is possible.   In this episode we explored the importance of soul work - of the descent into returning to our bodies - and how dream work is a really valuable ‘way in' to that reclamation of soul.  We dived into some mind-blowing truth about how the dreamworld is a portal to soul - how our dreams are already showing us where to look to reclaim our soul's wholeness and heal - if only we would choose to look. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Healing is a journey of coming back into the body - of pulling things down into the world - which is important, because trauma is held in our bodies - and we need to move it though, to heal; it takes a journey down into the body to do that There can be a temptation to bypass that because of the fear - by numbing ourselves with food, drugs, alcohol, work or wheatever our guilty pleasure is - and even spiritual forms of ascension which have us only see the ‘oneness' of life, when really it's a co-creation, can be a form of numbing The ‘Dreamworld' is a portal to our soul, where we can start to work with the symbolic themes that are being reflected to us - dreams are like Archetypal guides that are there to reflect what is unconscious and wanting to be seen If we aren't choosing to do the work to uncover what's unconscious, in effect, our dreams are doing that for us at night - and we can either choose to look there, or not If we do choose to look there, and work with our dreams more consciously there's so much healing of the patterns that have been held there unconsciously - Dean shares more on how to do this in the episode.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Dean's Instagram: @thedeanbentley  Secret Witch Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Our upcoming crucible Rosa: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/rosa Sign up to Dean's mailing list: https://gmail.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e80f56f120c8a4d0d3f25c824&id=4c02f79ce5 Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Dana da Ponte. Dana is a professional intuitive and certified MAP practitioner who helps highly sensitive people manage their sensitivities and enjoy the superpowers that come with them. She believes healing trauma is important if you want to work your magic from a clear place.   In today's episode we explore the role of trauma and shadow in highly sensitive magical women, and how we can heal and fully express who we are. We dived into how deep shadow work is the way to self-healing, and how magic can help us to heal and discover our gifts. What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Being Highly Sensitive as a Witch is a gift - which isn't how most people hold it - it gives you access to invisible realms, and fine attunement to parts of our experience that not everyone can sense And, it doesn't always feel like a gift - and it's important to be with that, as part of the journey - as part of healing - to feel what wants to be felt Our shadow is the young parts of us that want to get into the driver's seat, when spirit should be driving - they are the parts looking for whatever is dangerous and unsafe, and which try and stop us from shining   Being in a trauma response can feel frustrating but the more we deal with our trauma and work with these parts to learn why they are scared, and let them know it is safe, the more we can actually feel and live in our bodies - and be with our spirit and embody what we are actually here for When we love and accept ourselves as we are, alternative solutions pop up - creative ways of getting to the same destination, but maybe not in the way we saw Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible:  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/rosa Website: www.danadaponte.com   Free Creative Moon Guide here:  https://danadaponte.com/creative-workbook/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danadaponte/  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox  

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into how we can trust our magical power - even when we are in fear.  She explores how trust issues can commonly show up for women who are here to be healers, teachers or guides, which has them lacking confidence in their choices and not choosing their gifts fully.   In this episode Nicole shares more around why magic is so much harder to choose to trust compared to the logical linear mundane world - and why choosing it is actually important if you are to step into your gifts (and how to do this lovingly), also exploring how to TRULY learn to trust our bodies and their wisdom (even if you think you already are!). What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Trusting our magic is something that women often struggle with - especially when they are stepping into their healing gifts  The logical linear world prefers us to be ‘certain' and know - and we've been conditioned into this way - yet the magical healing lens is one of being in the Feminine mystery, so this same approach just won't work Searching for proof that we can trust magic isn't the way - because magic is everything that isn't yet explained; the real liberation is in choosing to lean into trust - into the uncertainty  When we start to illuminate our shadows, we start to learn that we can actually trust our souls - the truth that is hidden underneath our fears - and that's the way to create magic. We are powerful creatrixes, and part of the reason we don't trust magic is because we don't see that - we feel helpless and out of control, which has us mistrust our souls.  If we choose to reclaim our power and heal the parts of ourselves that are scared, we can begin to trust ourselves to create what we do want, in alignment with our souls. Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Next Crucible:  Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk  Resources Dean Radin's How to Know if Magic is Real episode: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-43  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Camille Busson-Thompson. After becoming a mother, her priorities shifted: she wanted to be more present, so she became a yoga teacher who specialised in love, sex and relationships. That was the first step closer to reclaiming who she was - and more and more she learned to listen to her body and her inner wisdom and less to the voice and opinions of others. Today, Camille is a holistic business & visibility coach with a passion for empowering women.    In this episode we explored the importance of self-expression for our business and magnetism, the value of harnessing yoni eggs for Feminine embodiment and self-expression – and we dived into the role of pleasure in creating a soul-led business, and connecting more deeply with our wombs. What You'll Learn from this Episode:   Yoni eggs come from the Taoist tradition and are grounded in ancient Chinese energy work - and they can be used for all sorts of purposes; self-expression being a key one Working with our wombs and yoni eggs connects us, first and foremost, to our Feminine bodies as an embodiment practice - it helps us listen to ourselves, hear our desires and tune into our deeper purpose - as well as heal our shame and self-judgement Becoming aware of these things helps us to reclaim our power because we start to listen to ourselves and be able to express things - say things - out loud that we'd ignored, and not tuned into before   Our pelvic floor is linked to our mouth and throat - there is a connection between our sacral and throat chakras, and this is why working in the pelvic area can help us free up self-expression There's a difference between Feminine power and Masculine power - and Jade eggs can help us to relax, release and open up, as is important to the Feminine. The more open we are to receiving, the more able we are to hold pleasure, abundance and money We can get really intentional and creative with ritual for yoni eggs and bring in all sorts of embodiment tools - meditation, breathing, visualisation.  It can be simple or in-depth, but the real key is that this is your own practice; yoni eggs can be used as a way to self-heal, which is reclaiming your power,  in and of itself Many women are used to the mundane lens of business creation - and a key takeaway here is that that magical business is different - harnessing sacred magical technology (including of yoni eggs) is an integral part of creating a business from Feminine heart and soul.   Resources and Things that We Spoke About:   Social: Camille: Camille's Website: www.camillebussonthompson.com  Camille's Instagram: www.instagram.com/camille.busson.thompson   Our Links: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox