The Secret Witch Show
The Secret Witch Show is the podcast providing a safe and alchemical altar space of conversations which help powerful women escape half-hearted, spiritless mundane lives and rediscover the freedom of living their wild magic. Join us every other week to explore how to cast aside the wounds of shame, guilt and fear connected with fully being yourself, so you can grant yourself permission to stop hiding, ground back into your body, illuminate your whole-souled desires, tend your soul, rediscover your powerful gifts, reclaim your majesty, express your magic and manifest your wildest alchemy.
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How to be a 'healer' as a sensitive soul who 'absorbs others' energy' - without burning out?
03/26/2024
How to be a 'healer' as a sensitive soul who 'absorbs others' energy' - without burning out?
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: 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
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How to deconstruct blame, shame and guilt for deeper self-trust
03/12/2024
How to deconstruct blame, shame and guilt for deeper self-trust
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: Facebook: Website: Shanti facilitates The Clarity of Boundaries - a three week intensive throughout the year. Find out more at 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
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How to step off the Drama Triangle to embody your power as a healer
02/27/2024
How to step off the Drama Triangle to embody your power as a healer
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: There's one opening for a 1:1 client- Website: 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
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How to parent powerfully when you're a sensitive mum with ‘sensitive’ or ‘challenging’ (or ‘neurodivergent’) children
02/13/2024
How to parent powerfully when you're a sensitive mum with ‘sensitive’ or ‘challenging’ (or ‘neurodivergent’) children
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: There’s one opening for a 1:1 client - Website: Lian’s Website: Lian’s 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
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How to stop people-pleasing in relationships so you can open to your gifts as a healer
01/30/2024
How to stop people-pleasing in relationships so you can open to your gifts as a healer
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: There’s one opening for a 1:1 client - Website: The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron The Queen’s Code by Alison A. Armstrong 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
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How to attune to your Feminine body and hormones to receive your highest-level abundance
01/16/2024
How to attune to your Feminine body and hormones to receive your highest-level abundance
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: Free FB group: Email: Instagram: 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
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How to rise tenderly into adult womanhood and become a confident, powerful healer - with Archetypal Gold
01/09/2024
How to rise tenderly into adult womanhood and become a confident, powerful healer - with Archetypal Gold
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Aurum - Website: 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
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How to harness plant medicine for meaningful impact
12/19/2023
How to harness plant medicine for meaningful impact
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Archetypal Aurum (Gold): Website: Books: Other Worlds by David Luke Books: The Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences by Rick Strassman Adam’s website: More information on Adam’s journey - Adam’s podcast, The Transformational Leader: Adam’s Facebook profile: Adam’s LinkedIn: Adam’s Instagram: Adam’s YouTube Channel: 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
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How Understanding your 'Personality Type' can Reveal your Soul Plan
12/05/2023
How Understanding your 'Personality Type' can Reveal your Soul Plan
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Aurum Find out about Nicole’s Archetypal Soul Readings - Website: Book: Maureen Murdoch - The Heroine’s 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
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How to reclaim the magic in our sensitivity and neurodivergence
11/20/2023
How to reclaim the magic in our sensitivity and neurodivergence
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: Elain Aron - The Highly Sensitive Person - https://hsperson.com/books - Lucy’s website - 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 - 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
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How to discover the hidden underlying patterns causing your body's symptoms
11/07/2023
How to discover the hidden underlying patterns causing your body's symptoms
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Website: 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
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How to work with divination and the wisdom of the natural world for soul fulfilment
10/24/2023
How to work with divination and the wisdom of the natural world for soul fulfilment
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Website: Phyllis has a free gift for the Secret Witch listeners: A Step by Step Guide to Spellcasting at. Website: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: YouTube: 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
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The 'What, Why and How' of 'Archetypal Remedies'
10/10/2023
The 'What, Why and How' of 'Archetypal Remedies'
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Free Secret Witch Society Community: Resources: Archetypal Rosa taster event and 4 week journey starting 19th October - the tender first step: Free monthly healing circles - ⭕ Initiatrix - for deep 1:1 support with healing your soul and discovering your purpose - reach for an Alchemy Call - ✨ Subscribe to Luna News - for rituals, tips and invitations each month to healing - 🌙 Blog Resources - ♥️ Secret Witch Show Episodes - 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
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How To Work with the Ancient Technology of Dreams for Healing
09/26/2023
How To Work with the Ancient Technology of Dreams for Healing
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: Secret Witch Social: Tiktok - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Website: Our upcoming crucible Rosa: Sign up to Dean’s mailing list: 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
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How To Magically Tend To Your Trauma So You Can Fully Express Your Truth
09/12/2023
How To Magically Tend To Your Trauma So You Can Fully Express Your Truth
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: Website: Free Creative Moon Guide here: Instagram: 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
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How To Trust Your Magical Power - Even When You’re In Fear
08/29/2023
How To Trust Your Magical Power - Even When You’re In Fear
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 - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: Resources Dean Radin's How to Know if Magic is Real 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
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How To Work With Yoni Eggs For Deeper Self-Expression In Business
08/15/2023
How To Work With Yoni Eggs For Deeper Self-Expression In Business
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: Camille’s Instagram: Our Links: Tiktok - Instagram - Instagram - Secret Witch Society: YouTube - 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
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How To Reclaim the Gifts in your Sensitivity and Overwhelm - Even when it Doesn’t Appear to Be a Gift
08/01/2023
How To Reclaim the Gifts in your Sensitivity and Overwhelm - Even when it Doesn’t Appear to Be a Gift
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into how our sensitivity and overwhelm - and even our anxiety - is really a deep sign that we were born to be magical ones, even though that may not feel like a gift. She shares how sensitivity and overwhelm are secret calls to becoming healers, guides or teachers, and how you can create life differently - if you go inwards and do the work to heal the one common fear that comes up when women begin to lean in. In this episode Nicole explores the ways that sensitivity can show up, the typical constitution of a magical woman - and how shaming our sensitivity can have us not meet the needs that we need to meet in order to become healers (as well as how we can begin to meet these needs from love). What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Being a magical woman naturally means you are ‘sensitive’ - and when we try to fit into the mundane world, we can shame ourselves for that. This is largely due to the fear of losing ‘approval’ - and because of this fear often women don’t meet their needs, and can become overwhelmed. It can mean women who are here for a more magical purpose experience panic, exhaustion and anxiety - which in the mundane lens will be treated as if it needs to be ‘fixed’ - yet it is really an initiation into your gifts. This is a call to healing - especially if you are feeling the call to become a healer, teacher or guide - because if you choose to heal and honour your needs for yourself, you can create the life of your dreams *from* your deep sensitivity Your sensitivity is really a gift because it’s what allows you to communicate with other worlds and be open to spirit - it’s really what allows you to access your gifts Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Social: Tiktok - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: Resouces: The Queen’s Code by Alison Armstrong 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
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How To Reconnect To Your Wild Animal For Powerful Self-Expression
07/18/2023
How To Reconnect To Your Wild Animal For Powerful Self-Expression
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Claire Eccleston. Claire is a mother and grandmother, an experienced registered midwife, who is passionate about the ancient and sacred arts of birth work, bodywork and where they meet. She has a deep reverence for our bodies, the rhythms of our physical nature and our earthy intelligence. She honours this womb work with deep reverence, respect and gentleness. She is also a wild dancer. In this episode, we explored the importance of connecting to our inner wild animal - aka our bodies - very much through the lens of the Feminine initiation of birth and the sacred portal of sexuality - and how finding pleasure in being in our bodies is deeply healing. We dived into the shame we hold around the body and how that can stop us being fully in our bodies, how to begin to heal trauma and the beautiful gift of our nervous system - and how we aren’t ‘broken’ if we are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn, but responding to the body’s natural intelligence (as well as how to start to work with the body). What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Our ‘inner wild’ is our connection to our ‘mammalian intelligence’ - the intelligence of being a mammal - our body is a conduit of where spirit meets matter. Wild animals aren’t always nice, though - being ok with our wild anger, our wild No, our wild pleasure is the work of rewilding ourselves back to wholeness - and it’s helpful to know that that’s really what we are doing when we talk about ‘healing’; there’s no ‘fixing’ but a reclamation of our wholeness. Shame can stop us being in connection to our wild pleasure and our bodies - for example, when we feel our bodies are ‘too fat’ or ‘too ugly’, or ‘too wrinkly’, we are not focused on having good pleasure in our bodies - and shame can suppress our connection to truth - and that can have costs of our bodies creating health challenges It’s conditioning that has us disconnect from our primal instincts - and trauma - and it’s easy to beat ourselves up for that, but really, being numb or being in a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response is a natural and healthy response that our body has to keep ourselves safe. We can start to tune back into our bodies in lots of different ways - via the breath, via dance, via self-pleasure, via connecting to our womb - often sexuality or birth are big portals or initiations back into our bodies. To rewild is very healing - and we can do this by getting back in touch with our own natural rhythms and cycles - in connection with the wild cycles of life. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Social: Tiktok - Instagram - Instagram - You Tube - Claire’s Instagram: Claire’s Facebook: Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Rosa; Website: Claire’s website: 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
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BONUS EPISODE - How To Open to Becoming A Healer, Teacher or Guide - Even If You're Terrified
07/08/2023
BONUS EPISODE - How To Open to Becoming A Healer, Teacher or Guide - Even If You're Terrified
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the journey into moving through the fear of opening to becoming a healer, teacher or guide, which is such a common fear for many women who have a sense they are here for *more* than the mundane. Often, women may be so scared of stepping into their gifts that they will even find it scary to own their desire for more - but what they will likely know is, they’ve had enough of their dull, grey mundane lives. In this episode Nicole explores in a bit of a mini workshop where your fear levels are, and explore how ‘Rosa’ energy - softness, tenderness and vulnerability - can help - and that this is especially needed for sensitive women who are here with gifts to help others. Nicole dives into the three steps to take to navigate the fear, along with the eight elements that help you heal and open your heart to your deeper purpose. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: One of the biggest things that comes up for women who are feeling a deeper call to be a healer, teacher or guide (or whatever they want to call it) - or who know they are here for a deeper, more meaningful purpose - is fear; especially fear of judgement and failure. Women shame themselves for it, instead of realising it’s just part of the path For many women, who have woken up to this deeper sense of purpose, they can have experienced some kind of transformation in an area of their lives, but will then feel frustration setting in, because mundane life is becoming increasingly unbearable It is so disheartening to see that so many women have been burned by other ‘quick fix’ paths, because they then doubt that it is possible to transition into healing - and yet, it’s totally possible; the truth is, there’s just some deeper work still to do There are three steps to journey through - in order to heal the fear and express your gifts. And it begins with healing yourself first, discovering and embodying your unique medicine (which isn’t your tools, by the way) and learning how to express your gifts into the world in practice. If you don’t take those steps, it’s likely you’ll spend a lot of time, money and energy and end up disappointed. If you’re wanting to open to your gifts, yet you’re terrified, and haven’t started - or if you’ve tried and not yet “got there” - it’s not your fault, you’re not a failure and it doesn’t mean you ‘don’t have gifts’; it simply means that you need to do some more healing first. Your vision isn’t ‘too big’ - you’re just trying to rush it. And this is why all women need Rosa’s energy to allow themselves to sink into their soul, begin where they are - and start setting a solid foundation for their vision. You can do that now, alongside your current life - without having to run away to the woods to open to your soul path. Rosa’s gentle medicine will show you how. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Rosa: Join our Secret Witch Society: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - 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
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How to Do Inner Child Work to Discover your Healing Power
07/04/2023
How to Do Inner Child Work to Discover your Healing Power
Description: On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into one of the core elements of the path that helps women heal themselves and move from mundane lives to a life of magic: inner child work. She explores what ‘healing’ even is, as well as some common misconceptions about working with our inner child, and the popular ‘do we need fixing?’ debate. In this episode we explore why inner child work is so important and how we can open to begin our healing journey, from a place of loving alchemy, tending, softness and expansion - and how important it actually is when we desire to manifest more magical lives. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Inner child work is not about ‘fixing’ - we need to remove the ‘blame’ and the sense that something is ‘wrong’ with our wounded little girl if we are to get anywhere with healing ourselves The reason why inner child work is so important is because largely, it is our unconscious inner child who is manifesting for us - without us even knowing. The path of healing requires deep love for the tender young parts of ourselves that are trying to create for us (which we are largely unconscious of) It’s helpful to see our inner child as a real, live human who is trying to let us know she is scared - and to treat her as you would an innocently scared loved one If we are missing inner child work in our healing, then we are missing the true art of healing - and yet, we must also work with her in a way that is generative and holding her hand to move towards magic. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Join our Secret Witch Society: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Next Crucible: Rosa - open your heart, soften your body, 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
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How To Own Your 'Weird' In Business
06/20/2023
How To Own Your 'Weird' In Business
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Jade Scarfone. Jade is a tech and systems witch on a mission to support those who are drawn to working in the spiritual business realms but don't necessarily want to be coaches or facilitators - and she also connects spiritual entrepreneurs with those who have trained as Tech WItches so they can have more support in their Queendom. Having supported many spiritual entrepreneurs with their systems, launches, social media, and content over the last 5 years Jade has now founded a school for Tech Witches to do just that. She’s a great example of a woman who has learned how to own her ‘weird’ in business. In this episode we explore her journey with the Witch Wound, and how she journeyed some of the blocks of owning the label ‘witch’ - including the ‘Good Girl’ wound and her fear of dis-approval and judgment, the fear of her Feminine power, the fear of trusting magic, and being her fullest truthful expression. We talked religious deconditioning, embodiment and sexuality - and how owning your full expression is magnetic - and a healing Archetypal Remedy for those who need your gift. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: When owning our ‘weird,’ some of the fears that come up are fear of losing love and approval - and we have to learn to hold ourselves through the transition from Good Girl - and Rebel! - until we arrive at a place of our true self-expression There’s often a deep fear of owning our power - because if we do, we can be burned at the stake for saying stuff that will have people talk about us Community is important in owning your inner witch - if we are surrounded by other witches, it doesn’t seem so weird anymore. Grounding and being embodied is important in helping us trust our full expression - we can’t know ourselves without being embodied. Magical practice is real, and we have to trust it to reveal more of ourselves - it’s different to working in the logical lens we are used to in our culture - for Jade, sex magic is a core practice that helps her get into a trance state - to get out of her head and into her body to know what business wants to be birthed through her and into the world Even when our tools don’t look like they are ‘healing’, when we remember we are the medicine, we can see what a gift we offer. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Instagram: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Private Facebook Group: Website: - check out our other episodes Jade’s Website: https://www.techwitchschool.com/ Find out your Tech Witch Archetype at: Instagram: Facebook: 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
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How to Heal Fear of your Power and Own Power from Love
06/06/2023
How to Heal Fear of your Power and Own Power from Love
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole dives into the topic of owning our power, vulnerably sharing her journey of integrating her power from love - and the nuance of owning our heart-led Feminine magical power, instead of the culturally conditioned ‘Masculine power’ we perceive power to be about. In this episode Nicole explores the importance of making a conscious choice about owning our power, and some of the key shadow work and soul work enquiries + practices that help us to heal our fear of our power, offering rich enquiry to help women own their truthful power from love. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Vulnerability is essential in owning our power - we have to be willing to do the work to own our own wounds and love ourselves there, so we can express cleanly The choice to own our power isn’t about Goddess dress up, wearing a crown - it’s about owning our responsibility and going into the darkness to face aspects of ourselves we didn’t want to face - and we can do this through the lens of sacred magical technology The Victim Triangle is a helpful lens in sovereignty work - and something I use frequently - AND it should be used with love. Love is the alchemical ingredient in owning our power. The coaching industry encourages ownership of power in a shadowy way - a rebellious way - which doesn’t sit well - it makes it hard for women to trust fully and be vulnerable When we own our power from love, it opens us up to so much more - to heart-led service - which truly opens us to abundance. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Victim Triangle Resource: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Join our Secret Witch Society: Next Crucible: Website: 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
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How to Commune with your Womb for Deep Healing
05/23/2023
How to Commune with your Womb for Deep Healing
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest Andrea Clarke. Andrea is a Feminine Embodiment Coach, holistic pelvic care practitioner and intuitive healer having cut her teeth in bodywork & energy medicine over 20 years ago. She helps women who feel numb & disconnected to reawaken their creative flow and align with clarity and direction with their soul purpose. Her womb space is her guide & muse & she seeks to fulfil her deepest desires ~ that which she wishes to birth through her. In this episode we dived into Womb Communion and how healing Feminine reclamation is, for any woman - but especially for those women wanting a gateway to their soul gifts. We explored into the nuance in the depth of Feminine Embodiment and how true intimacy with the wisdom of your womb is two way - including both listening and communing. We also dived into the Archetypal Remedy of the Rose and how softening, opening and relaxing leads to our full expression - and how the healing power lies in our womb space. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Womb Communion is opening to a two way intimate conversation with our wombs - about feelings, allowing space for our womb to fully express what she’s holding. Our wombs are aspects of our consciousness and they have traveled with us for many lifetimes Our wombs carry and hold so much - from trauma to shame, to fear - and we want them to know they are able to release that holding - that is the aim of as well as finding out what it wants us to know our soul purpose We’ve often experienced a sense of disconnection from our wombs in this culture - things like addiction, alcohol, TV, social media, and even work hustle can be ways of us ignoring the secret wisdom of our wombs - and this is really an invitation to go deeper. It can feel scary to begin to commune with our wombs - we can hit up against harsh, masculine-feeling energy and fear, but it really offers us a chance to hear our souls Communing with our wombs helps us to go deeper into understanding ourselves - and a simple way of doing that is by asking Her - “what do you want to express?” We can also journey with her physically - moving energy with our hands and placing our hands over our womb space and being open to seeing what arises Overall, our wombs hold so much wisdom that’s invaluable to our true purpose. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Social: Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - Andrea’s email - Andrea’s Instagram - @ Andrea’s Facebook- @ Join our Secret Witch Society: Archetypal Apothecary Website: Andrea’s website: Books: Tami-Lynn Kent - Wild Feminine / The Heroine’s Journey - Maureen Murdock / The Queen’s Code - Alison Armstrone 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
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How to Overcome Fear of Rejection and Judgement to Create your Spiritual Business
05/09/2023
How to Overcome Fear of Rejection and Judgement to Create your Spiritual Business
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the common and innocent fears of rejection and judgement that call for women to love themselves whilst creating magical business - and the real, underlying Ancestral wound that lies beyond these surface blocks. In this episode Nicole explores how the Witch Wound could be holding you back, the gold of learning to love ourselves in our triggers, and how to work with magical technology such as Archetypes and shadow work to hold up a mirror and heal this deeper wound. Nicole also shared from the heart about the power of vulnerability - and the underlying magical principle as to why vulnerability is deep medicine for those women who need the same medicine which we have drunk ourselves. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: When we feel the fear of rejection and judgement, it’s never really about healing our surface level blocks - including that of feeling like we are failures for not bringing our spiritual business into the world - there’s a deeper underlying wound that wants love The self-help and personal development world has us fixated on ‘fixing’ our blocks, but the lens of real magical technology opens us a new opportunity to heal and alchemise this wound Naja as an Archetypal Remedy helps us to alchemise our self-expression Witch Wound fear of rejection and judgement and heal the parts of ourselves that feel split between the opposing forces of spiritual business vs professional ‘earth career’. Sharing vulnerably is the medicine - but from our healed wounds, not from our open wounds. This is what has us call in our soul clients - those who really understand and feel our medicine - and those who we can serve fully. We won’t always be immune from judgement and rejection as spiritual leaders - and that’s ok; if we are here to be Witchy leaders and medicine women, not everyone will love us. And that’s a gift - because it creates space for those who do. 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: Archetypal Apothecary Website: Join our Naja Group Crucible in June - Poem - Sukvinder Sircar - 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
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How to Harness Magical Sabbats to Discover Your Purpose
04/25/2023
How to Harness Magical Sabbats to Discover Your Purpose
Welcome, Medicine Witches! I’ve been in an absolutely FIERY portal of transformation recently in which I’m being called to show up in my FULL expression so I’ve been sharing all aspects of the Witch playing out in life - including the archetype of the Dominatrix and the Submissive - so be prepared for the energetic that’s coming to this show as we move forward! That said this is quite a gentle dose of archetypal medicine today, but just potent. I’m really seeing how everything I dose is energetic medicine - whether it be a podcast episode, or a social post - and I’m playing with the potency I dose (in homeopathic language, which is the lineage of our Archetypal Apothecary model) we dose in different levels - Centesimal and Millesimal - and centesimal is dosing lower, where milesimal is higher - so I’m consciously playing with my dosing at the moment via all mediums (and let me tell you, if you choose into one of my crucibles, I’ll be dosing 10M - which is about as punchy as you can get!) Follow on Instagram On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Dr Rebecca Beattie. Rebecca is a Wiccan Priestess with a PhD in Creative Writing. She grew up on Dartmoor, which gave her an early appreciation of the power and joys of nature and she has been practicing witchcraft for twenty years. She is acclaimed for her highly informed teaching of witchcraft subjects at Treadwell’s Books in Bloomsbury. In this episode we explored how to harness magical sabbats to discover your purpose, diving into how they can be harnessed as archetypal energies to work with as a lens for self-discovery of our purpose. We talked about learning to work cyclically and discern between intentionally and consciously choosing soul-aligned living - and how being ourselves is the only way to truly living from our soul’s gifts. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: The more “me” we become, the better life gets - when we are unapologetically ourselves, then we live from purpose We need to heal ourselves before we can heal the world - and that starts with going into the darkness and facing things that most people just wouldn’t want to face - but the Archetypal Witch is actually really good at that The Wheel of the Year is a modern iteration of something very ancient that is grounded in nature - but we don’t work with it in an orthodox way; it’s essentially an archetypal embodiment model that’s a nurturing guide, rather than a prescription for what we do We can use each sabbat festival as a means of self-discovery - for example, Beltane is about fire and joy - how do we relate to these in our lives? We created ‘story’ (and each festival has its own story) so that we can understand ourselves more deeply - and this is how we self-heal and discover our purpose - we aren’t here to to be fixed Resources and things that we spoke about: Instagram: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Private Facebook Group: Website: - check out our other episodes Rebecca Beattie Website: Rebecca Beattie Instagram: Rebecca Beattie Facebook: 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 xox
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How To Navigate Imposter Syndrome Around Your Spiritual Gifts
04/11/2023
How To Navigate Imposter Syndrome Around Your Spiritual Gifts
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is freestyling on the topic of Imposter Syndrome - the one block that often has aspiring Feminine spiritual leaders procrastinating and distracting from their gifts. She explores the deeper ancestral wounds beyond not believing that success is deserved or created from your own skills. In this episode we dive into why we can’t judge our worth on other people, why the deep work to heal Imposter Syndrome is in cultivating our own worthiness, and how we can choose to expand into our spiritual gifts - and approach that expansion like yin yoga for our business! What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Imposter syndrome is a block that all aspiring spiritual leaders hit up against - you are not alone in feeling you aren’t ‘enough’ for your spiritual gift; this is the one block that has women struggling to take aligned-action in creating a purpose-led business It’s also a manifestation of a deeper Ancestral wound - the Witch Wound - what underlies it is fear of your power, magic or full expression. The good thing is that it is not your ‘tools’ that are your gifts - so you don’t have to worry about perfecting those. AND that also means it is YOU that is the gift - your story of transformation is the real medicine, so the real way to heal Imposter Syndrome is the inner work on your deeper wounds. We cannot judge our worth, our success, our skills, or our spiritual gifts on other people - we can only show up and serve to our best capacity, coming from love and truth. Instead, the work is to hold the sensation and cultivate our own worthiness - like yin yoga - by descending into holding the tension of our deeper fears and loving ourselves with them, and also connecting to spirit and expanding into our full expression - I offered some practical enquiries and practices for this in the episode. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Instagram: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Private Facebook Group: Website: - check out our other episodes 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
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Healing The Shame Around Sexuality, Intimacy, And Pleasure
03/28/2023
Healing The Shame Around Sexuality, Intimacy, And Pleasure
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sarah Lajeuness. Sarah is a certified and award-winning coach, writer, speaker and “shmealer” (shame healer) whose life’s work is devoted to helping humans heal the guilt, shame, and experiences from the past that prevent them from moving forward and experiencing a greater and richer quality of life that’s possible. She’s witnessed the long-term damage and detrimental impacts that the weight of shame can carry (if left unaddressed) - from the boardroom to the bedroom, and everywhere in between. In this episode we explore the role of shame - particularly in relation to sexuality, intimacy and pleasure - and how it can unconscious create our lives for us, if we aren’t aware of it. We dive into how the core essence of who we are can be clouded by shame - and how we can begin to heal that, by loving ourselves back to wholeness. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Shame is a state in which someone feels unworthy, not enough, and unlovable as they are - and it requires them to seek approval and validation externally Our guilt and shame affects all of us - we can’t compartmentalise it - our same shameful beliefs show up everywhere; from the bedroom to the boardroom and everywhere in between We aren’t meant to suffer through life - we are meant to feel deep pleasure, joy and happiness and inner peace and confidence. We are born in love - and this core essence of who we are, over time, gets blocked and disconnected by deep layers of shame and guilt - the weight of the shame and guilt that we carry can be so detrimental to our lives as we create from there, unconsciously Where you think people hate you, is actually where you hate yourself. Shame is self-harming. And, when we aren’t aware that this is what is happening, it is exhausting. There’s no ‘quick fix’ for shame - it requires of us to go deeply into our unconscious beliefs from childhood and identify where our worldview has been created unconsciously. Resources and things that we spoke about: Sarah Lajeuness Website: Sarah Lajeuness Instagram Instagram: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Private Facebook Group: Website: - check out our other episodes 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 xox
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How To Get Clarity and Focus On Your True Spiritual Gifts
03/14/2023
How To Get Clarity and Focus On Your True Spiritual Gifts
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores how to get clarity and focus on your authentic spiritual gifts, illuminating why our tools are not our true gifts, and discussing the role of the Feminine and Masculine in the process of creating clarity in your transition into being a healing leader. She dives into her belief that magical women are all born with a legacy to live out, and how we can truly discover what that is (and why it’s not through ‘affirmations’!) In this episode Nicole also explores her own journey of discovering her unique gifts - and how she has come to understand that people themselves are the real medicine. She believes we are all walking around unconsciously serving our gifts - and the real work is to consciously harness them so they can be served from love, not fear. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: When trying to get clarity on their spiritual gifts, most aspiring Feminine leaders tend towards logical, linear lenses and try to ‘think’ their way into them. This is how we’ve been conditioned, so it’s innocent - and yet, the true nature of the Feminine is to be in the messiness of the spiral, which will have you discover your authentic gifts Magical women are all born with a legacy to leave - it is they, themselves, that are the gifts - and knowing that takes an initiation because our true gifts are found in our wounds. Which means we need to be willing to heal our own wounds if we are to truly have clarity on the gift we were born here to live out I say born here to live out, because our Feminine souls chose to come here to live out certain experiences so that we could heal from them and serve the story out as medicine The ‘Law of Similars’ (similia similibus) that is one of the foundational principles of our Archetypal Apothecary healing modality explains this - it explores that “like cures like” - and that if you can cleanly transmit your remedy, it will magnetise and activate healing in those who are similar to you We have to choose to get clarity - because there will be always blocks that show up in the process. An ‘Affirmation’ is simply a wish that you don’t necessarily believe will happen; SO, it is a powerful ‘Declaration of Intention’ that will have you more deeply choose something from your heart and commit to the journey of liberating all that you come up against on the way to knowing your gifts. Resources and things that we spoke about: Instagram: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook: Private Facebook Group: Website: - check out our other episodes 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 xox
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How to Come Out of the Magical Closet
02/28/2023
How to Come Out of the Magical Closet
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Dane Tomas. Dane is a fellow magical one, and in short is an Esoteric Entrepreneur, Rap Ritualist, and self-proclaimed Spiritual Smart-ass, who is also known as the ‘Dark Wizard.’ In this episode we explored the very popular question that most magical women have: how to come out of the magical closet. In this episode we dived into some of the ways that we can begin to heal the self-expression wounding that often keeps the Secret Witch in the magical closet, hiding and shaming her gifts for the fear of being approved of, and the fear of being persecuted by the patriarchy. Dane so perfectly modelled in this episode what it is to be and speak loving truth - even to the most provocative of topics, including being projected on and branded an abusive cult leader (which he handles with such integrity) for being his full expression of his magical Dark Wizard archetype. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Magical healing really requires us to do shadow work and emotional body work and deconditioning - Dane advocates emotional clean up, reparenting and healing the nervous system as hugely important in our expansion When we look at things through the magical lens, we are not subject to the outside world. The outside world is just “me looking back at me” - if I’m triggered, it’s a nice indication that there’s work to be done - and that can be done through ritual and an integral approach to magic Whatever we look at is a reflection of us - for example, if you are triggered by the patriarchy, it’s helpful to remember that you are also the patriarchy! If you don’t like that, Dane’s advice is to stick with that for a month, and see what happens if you can integrate more ease - ie love yourself back to wholeness When you’re coming out of the magical closet, people can project their stuff on you, and it can feel very hard. They get to have their projections - if you are out in the world being magical, people will have something to say on it; and it’s a great way to learn which of our wounds need to be healed. It’s also a great way to implement upgrades on some of the feedback and look at what is truly, honestly there for us. We have to step out of the hope that everyone approves of us - and there are a lot of cultural pieces that are designed to keep women ‘agreeable’ and ‘nice’, so it really is a choice to move out of that The best way to move into magical creation is to just keep taking baby steps that are in alignment with your soul - taking action towards what’s in your heart. A good question is “what could open up the possibility for that?” Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Instagram TikTok Facebook Private Facebook Group Dane Tomas Instagram Dane Tomas Podcast Dark Wizard Video: “The Formula” - book coming up Dane Tomas website 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
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