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13 Aug 2024
How to harness Universal Laws of Healing to become a healer
01:02:45
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is discussing how to harness ‘universal laws’ of healing to become a healer. She explores the interesting intersection of science and magic, highlighting the importance of acknowledging universal laws and principles that are often overlooked by conventional scientific paradigms. The episode illuminates various healing laws - such as the Law of Similars, the Law of Direction of Cure, the Law of Potency, and the Law of Return of Old Symptoms, among others - stressing the importance of understanding these laws for true magical healing, rather than ‘quick fixes’.
In this episode we explore the importance of seeing that there are laws built into magic - and that true magical healing is an inside-out process grounded in universal truth. Nicole invites listeners to observe how these universal laws manifest in their own lives and the practice of healing, inspiring women to embrace their magical gifts and navigate the fear of their ‘magic’ with love - and the ‘unapologetic’ mysterious magic of Archetypal Remedy, Luna.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
There are lots of Universal Laws and Principles of magic, which often get overlooked when magic is dismissed as ‘invalid’ by science’s ‘logical’ approach
This can have magical women in fear about trusting their gifts - because often, magic is more intuitive and mysterious
Yet science is beginning to catch up and recognise things that magic has explained for years - for example, homeopathic miasms can be defined by epigenetics now
These universal laws are baked into magical healing, and teach us so much - for example,
The Law of Similars explores why it is ‘us’ that is the medicine, rather than our ‘tools - because like cures like - people are activated by our story
The Law of Direction of Cure explores that true healing works inner to outer, not by ‘fixing’ external symptoms
The Law of Return of Old Symptoms explores why things can get worse before they get better - and why that’s a good thing!
Overall, it’s really interesting to dive into these laws, and it’s important to walk a magical healing path that bakes these principles into it.
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
28 Sep 2021
How to Soulfully Embody the Power of Mother Earth's Cycles
00:59:53
On the Secret Witch show today, Nicole is delighted to be freestyling on the wild topic of how to soulfully embody the power of Mother Earth’s natural cycles. Most Secret Witches have been disconnected from the wild (and their bodies) - or if they do connect with the wild they will have been doing it unconsciously, and yet there is another way to commune with the wild that will allow you to embody your Soul path.
In this episode I illuminate how important the Wild is in walking the magical path - and how you *are* Wild, and can co-create with Wild. I help you discover the natural cycles Mother Earth offers which can support you in listening more deeply into your body, and I illuminate how Mother Earth’s powerful cycles can be harnessed to embody Soul. And, I invite you into conscious liberation of your Witch Wounds by intentionally harnessing re-wilding!
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
There is synchronicity everywhere - Friday 13th is a day of celebrating the magical cycles of Mother Earth and it happened to be the day I recorded this episode, magically!
Your Wild Witch isn’t bold and bolshy as much self-help portrays - she is deeply connected to nature’s cycles and her heart and her rewilding helps her be her truth from love
Mother Nature reveals her secrets to those who walk her path, and that’s what I invite you to do in order to connect with and embody the wild cycles of life - death and rebirth being critical ones for soul embodiment
We are nature *and* we also have bodies - life is a magical co-creation of the Divine wild and our wild Soul that helps us live our truth
Nature’s other wild cycles like the seasons and the Moon teach us so much about ourselves and our truth - and so we need to listen in deeply to create magic.
We must harness the power of the wild intentionally and choose this path - there is no half-hearted here.
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
01 Mar 2022
How Cultivating a Divine Union in Our Relationships Creates a Magical Life
01:05:15
My guest today is Alison Armstrong, author of The Queen’s Code. Alison’s exploration of human behavior began in 1991, with her decision to study men to find out how she was bringing out the worst in them. And hopefully, how to bring out the best. Her success in understanding men naturally led to studying women’s behavior and making vital connections between the two. As her work evolved, Alison illuminates human characteristics that precede and express themselves regardless of gender, age and upbringing. She distinguishes normal human instincts that compel both men and women to behave in ways that contradict and undermine our own purposes, goals, values, needs and relationships.
In this episode we dived into how women innocently emasculate men - and the importance of owning what Alison calls ‘Frog Farming’, how the Queen’s Code can help us to be more in our Feminine Power from compassion, and how we can begin to cultivate a magical divine union in our relationships, instead of acting from compelled conditioning.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
I absolutely adored this episode with Alison and I particularly loved that she is Claudia from her book the Queen’s Code - and highly recommend reading it. My takeaways are
We make a choice as to what we want to create in life - even in our relationships - and often we unconsciously choose to emasculate men by criticising or withholding from them - because of our old beliefs that they are incompetent
Men’s instincts are wired to protect and provide, but our emasculation puts them into protection mode of *themselves* before they can even get to protecting and providing for us
There’s a new way available to all of us, when we become more conscious of what we are creating - and asking questions that we wouldn’t usually ask - questions from curiosity and love about what the other person needs, rather than from our assumptions
Likewise, we can make deals and agreements, so that we are not living in expectations that compel the other into protect mode
Relationships that work seek a balance of Focused and Open - Alison’s exploration of Masculine and Feminine polarity helps us to create balance
There are some small steps you can take to create your relationship differently; one is to have your own cup overflowing by honouring yourself first, another is making you get enough sleep, and also waiting longer for men to speak and believing them. This will have you create a new way of being.
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
04 Jun 2024
How to open your heart to magic - even when you feel stuck in the mundane
01:05:17
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Genevieve Davis - or Sasha Stephens as is her real name. Genevieve was living a miserable, drab life until, at the age of 43, she experienced a profound magical transformation - and she has been teaching and writing about magic ever since. With a distinctly practical and down to earth approach to magic, her philosophy is simple: magic is available to all, and a good teacher merely nudges people to rediscover the magic they already possess. An author of 22 books, Genevieve runs The Academy of Magic, an online teaching resource for all magically-minded people.
In this magical episode, we discuss the power of magic in healing life's mundanity. Genevieve shares her personal journey from rock bottom, with a mundane life of debt and disempowerment, to discovering magic and changing her destiny. We dive into the significance of storytelling, the misconception of magic in our culture, and the crucial role of ‘inner healing’ for real manifestation, illuminating the importance of facing fears and opening to self-healing. We also dived into being openly ‘magical’ in a logical world, the empowering importance of ‘honesty’, and practical advice for integrating magic.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Genevieve’s vulnerable story highlights the deep power of self-illumination in our healing, highlighting the moment she realised she had to save herself, and was not a victim - which was her own opening to what she calls real ‘magic’
Magic is really another word for our internal ‘creative’ power - and it’s really life-changing when we begin to see that change comes from within
Real magic is created when we truly self-heal - it is ‘inside out’ healing; we have to do the inner work (that often involves looking at our childhood wounding) to heal our outer world
This concept of ‘magic’ transcends traditional views around manifestation and healing, which teach it is all about the external and ‘doing’
Real magic and healing require honesty, and facing discomfort and fear - stepping into challenges is a necessary part of our healing and expansion, especially as healers
Magic is something that science can’t explain - and it can be tempting to approach it logically - but it really isn’t a linear process; we have to *feel* it our way into it.
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
15 Feb 2022
How to Harness Our Wounded Feelings as Alchemists
01:05:50
In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the important conversation about why our wounds are “not just a thought” - and how we can harness our wounded feelings as alchemists. This is something that often understandably comes up as resistance for many women who have come to this path from the path of ascension.In this episode I explore my own path into Soul as the next breadcrumb from my 3P journey, sharing how valuable Spiritual ascension can be when in co-creation with Soul, as well as explaining how we can heal our wounds and discover our gold from within them - the unique gifts that make us medicine for the world.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Walking an Ascension path is incredibly valuable for us to come to deeply know that we are part of a greater natural intelligence - whether God, Divinity, Spirit, Love, Nature or whatever your label is for that
And still, there is a deeper breadcrumb to follow to expand into the wholeness of who you are - in order to become the fullness of your Soul
When we dismiss our thoughts as illusions we simultaneously push them into shadow, making them unconscious - and from there they indirectly rule our lives without us knowing
Instead, if we look directly at them, with love, and allow ourselves to fully *feel* our wounds deeply in our bodies, we can choose to alchemise them from shadow and liberate them; and this allows us to discover and step more fully into the unique gifts our Soul came here to be
If we ignore our wounds, we also ignore our bodies, our desires and our gifts - and we can only create a magical life by looking here. This is the path of a Witch Queen, who consciously chooses to go into the darkness and alchemise it into her gold - and she does this in co-creation between Spirit and Soul
We can alchemise our shadow by Opening, Devoting to choosing a new way, and Noticing it as the first step into choosing to change it
Epigenetics explains why our wounds are literally in our DNA - and therefore in our cells, passed down from our ancestors - and how dismissing this as ‘just thought’ is not as helpful, and how we have the capacity to change it
We literally came here to experience the wounding we have - so that we could become our medicine for the rest of the world. Will you choose to be yours?
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
05 Nov 2024
How to follow the intuitive whispers and become who you really are
00:51:40
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Maude Hirst. Maude is a Meditation Specialist, Founder, Speaker, Coach, and Author of the Intuitive Whispers Oracle Deck specialising in making meditation and its life-changing benefits accessible to all. Maude was an actress best known for playing Helga in the hit TV show Vikings before becoming a leading wellness practitioner and founder of the bespoke meditation company EnergyRise.
In this episode we dived into the importance of connecting to our ‘intuitive whispers’ in the journey of healing transformation - and how to deepen into our wisdom so we can embrace our true selves. Exploring Maude’s personal journey of navigating darkness in her life, she highlighted the four stages of healing and how she journeyed from a career in acting - where she felt disconnected - to her spiritual awakening and how she learned to trust her intuitive nudges to embrace who she is, and create an Oracle Deck that helps others access their own intuition. Listen to the end for our perfect card pull!
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
We are all ‘actresses’ in life; most of us need to learn how to stop wearing masks and playing ‘character roles’ and truly embrace our authentic selves - and we can begin this journey by tuning into our intuitive whispers
The process of healing transformation requires four stages - Listening (to our intuition), Clearing (our limiting beliefs), Rebuilding (consciously creating our true self), and Action (taking aligned steps)
Fear can come up in the journey of connecting to our intuitive whispers - and it’s important to welcome and embrace that, moving through it, rather than avoiding it - darkness is part of the journey to ourselves
Tuning into our intuition is a daily practice - connecting to our bodies and grounding into nature can really help us to hear ourselves - as can intuitive journaling, or pulling Oracle cards
It can be challenging to own who we are - especially as healer witches - because there is societal conditioning to overcome - that’s just another layer of the onion to be healed, and an invitation into the next spiral around the stages of healing transformation.
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
10 May 2022
How to Harness the Art of Sacred Ritual to Powerfully Manifest Magic
00:57:28
In today’s episode I am delighted to be exploring and creating on the very witchy topic of how to harness the art of sacred ritual to powerfully manifest magic. The sacred art of ritual is something longed for (and also feared by) the Secret Witch - it’s built into her DNA to create this way and she often feels a deep call to ritual and ceremony.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Today’s episode was really illuminating of all things suppression and expression. Here are my takeaways:
As magical ones, women who resonate with the Witch archetype can often have a deep soul call to the magic of ritual, as well as a deep fear of harnessing their power via sacred ritual - and the deeper invitation is to choose to use it consciously
Often the Secret Witch will have either rejected it, because of this - or dabbled in magic or played with it, rather than using it with full intention. This path - and where the real magic lies - is all about harnessing ritual magick really powerfully - as the sacred, magical art and science it really is - in a way that truly works
My women will likely also fear getting it ‘wrong’ - so the deep invitation is to learn to trust your own wisdom in ritual creation - I provide three useful questions that will help you to create powerful and intentional magic via ritual - as well as some examples of ritual
Ritual brings our conscious intentions to life in form, via the elements we choose to include in it - which help us embody our specific intentions; for example, if we desire to energise, we can bring that to life through using Lemon essential oil which is energising
Different rituals work differently for different people; the deep invitation is to note down your ritual practices and allow yourself to witness when they work, so that you have evidence to inform your confidence.
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
23 May 2023
How to Commune with your Womb for Deep Healing
01:07:48
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.
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
14 Mar 2023
How To Get Clarity and Focus On Your True Spiritual Gifts
00:52:27
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.
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
12 Oct 2021
How the Mystery of Blood offers us a Sacred Rebirth
00:56:13
On the Secret Witch Show today we have the divine Sian Marie Pilkington.A woman of wordcraft, mother to four, deep rooted energy worker, herbalist, birth attendant, retreat facilitator and a community creator, Sian walks women through the rites of passages and blood mysteries of life, from menarche to birth, miscarriage and menopause. She is a spiritual midwife to women resisting the modern disturbance of the mysteries in order to heal and reclaim old ways in a modern world.
In her own words she honoured the medicine of The Mother by hearing + following the call to become a birth worker where she learned about the ignorance of patriarchy in a goddess’ birthing space, the divinity of family led birth and the sacred rage + glowing holiness of women all at once.’
In this episode, we begin to understand the reverence of blood and our Feminine cycle, what “blood mysteries” are and their importance as a Wild Creatrix. We also explore how the cycles of our blood mysteries offer us a Sacred Rebirth, and how we can honour these rites of passage with the reverence and respect they deserve so we can move through each stage our of life, expanding into our fullest selves.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The blood mysteries - first blood, moon cycles, birth, and menopause - offer us an opportunity for sacred rebirth into our Feminine bodies when we fully embrace them
There’s often shame felt around these rites of passage - imprinted at first blood - and that can be alchemised by beginning to reconnect to our bodies - both with ourselves and with our partners and families
Each blood cycle offers us a dark void of potential in which we experience death and rebirth and along with this comes a sense of grief.
This is often why we experience pain and disconnect with our bleed and despite resistance and the expectations of society, we must honour our grief and welcome it
The power of ritual and ceremony is huge in reclamation of our blood. Instead of shaming the rites of passages all women go through, they can be consciously celebrated and honoured in various ways to help us move into the next stage of our lives
Offering invitations into each rite of passage can be really powerful as an initiation into choosing into the next Archetypal phase of our lives
Each rite of passage is a doorway into the next phase of our lives - and this is to be absolutely celebrated. Without doing so, we can get stuck and unable to move out of each Archetypal Feminine stage meaning we are trapped in our younger ways of being
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
09 Jan 2024
How to rise tenderly into adult womanhood and become a confident, powerful healer - with Archetypal Gold
01:03:02
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.
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
31 Oct 2021
How to Shine Radiantly as your Powerful, Magical Truth
00:53:17
On the Secret Witch Show today we have Samantha Giles. Samantha is best known as an actress who has played comedy character Bernice Blackstock in ITV 1's Emmerdale for several years. She has also been a regular character in three series of Where The Heart Is and Hollyoaks, as well as lead guest roles in many other well-known TV programmes.
She started writing about 4 years ago, inspired by a dream she had about the four witch characters that feature in her debut, Rosemary and The Witches of Pendle Hill. Other than writing and acting she has her own website,www.thesamanthagiles.co.ukwhere you can find out more about Samantha, including her interest in Wicca and where she sells her spell kits. Her children's books feature many of the foundations of wicca including the basic law of “harm ye none” as well as fun spell weaving and they have just been sold internationally.
In this episode we explorehow to shine radiantly as your powerful, magical self, diving into how to harness real magical technology, and how Samantha devoted herself to Soul in order to create a magical life, both as an actress and an author.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Being a Witch doesn’t necessarily mean that we practice spells - it’s actually more of a way of being - and a potent lens we can use to really see our capacity to harness our power to create a magical life
Our dreams are so powerful that they can bring our imaginations to life - including those things we deem impossible - such as being an actress and an author
It’s not just a case of making a wish and waiting for the Universe to provide to us; there is a co-creation required to create a magical life, which involves us taking aligned action towards our goals
This can require some Devotion from us - even in the face of adversity - and it’s not always easy, but it’s worth it if we want to shine radiantly as out truth, as modelled so beautifully by Samantha
Other people can put whatever labels on us they like, but it is what we believe that matters - and the more we can embody our new, magical stories, the more we are able to harness our magic
It is important that we use magic responsibly in alignment with our Soul Will - whatever we embody *will* manifest - if we are acting, we will get whatever role our character embodies. We get to powerfully choose the roles we desire, and can create those, but we need to harness our power intentionally
Saturday 6 November, 2-5pm, The Witch On The Green, Battlesbridge, Essex
Saturday 13th November 2-3pm, Write Blend bookshop, Waterloo, Liverpool
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
11 Oct 2022
How to Harness the Magic of Energetic Medicine
01:24:35
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Ian Watson. Ian is a writer, educator and trainer who has worked in the field of energy medicine, natural healing and personal transformation since 1988. He was the founder of a homeopathic training school in 1993 and is the author of four popular homeopathic textbooks. After a long exploration into various forms of psychological and emotional healing, Ian was introduced to the Three Principles understanding in 2011, and this has been the foundation of his work ever since as he now trains practitioners in the innate wellbeing paradigm.
In this episode - which was so full of gems - Ian and Nicole explore what we mean by “energetic medicine” - and illuminate how Phosphoric Secret Witches often have a deep call within them towards magical, energetic work (which is often lying as a dormant susceptibility, and usually expressed as ‘shamed’ sensitivity). We discuss magic versus science, and how to harness energetic medicine for our own, magical healing - and the importance of healing energetically ourselves, before learning to become our medicine for others.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Magical ones do not always grow up having had magical initiations - it is a conscious choice to initiate ourselves into our magical, medicinal powers. It’s also likely inevitable that we eventually follow the call to invoking energetic medicine - if we grant ourselves permission to, despite our many distractions. If we don’t, largely soul finds a way to make it happen.
Not everyone is here to be a Magical One - it’s a unique gift - and yet one that most Witches deny themselves because of fear. Magical women are often born as Phosphoric constitutions - which is the personality everyone longs to be born as for their magical, open, bubbly, light, effervescent energy - but often, in the mundane world and through fear, Phosphorus burns out from seeking approval and shaming her deep sensitivity - and not knowing how to harness her open, magical energy, which can leave her not trusting.
The Remedies of the Wild and their homeopathic lineage are forms of energetic medicine - and yet, these paths can often be doubted by those looking for logical, linear ways to heal (which we are taught are the “right way” by the modern world). Science - whilst wonderful - often looks at the homeopathy in a reductionist way which doesn’t support the way it works to return people to their Unique Expression of Whole-Souledness. Science created its own way of measuring everything - and homeopathy doesn’t necessarily fit into that way, but it doesn’t mean it’s wrong; it’s just mysterious and yet unknown because it is magic.
We are all susceptible to specific remedy relationship patterns, and within those, we can heal our wounds, in order to discover our gifts - and this can become our unique medicine for the world.
The Witch Wound - as a homeopathic miasm - makes sense from the perspective of epigenetics: AND, it doesn’t mean we can’t heal from it and expand past being stuck with it. The deep invitation is to learn to heal ourselves, and reclaim our power to heal (rather than giving that power away, innocently).
Although energetic medicine is aimed to be “rapid, gentle and permanent”, we can sometimes experience healing responses - also called “Material for Liberation” or activation or trigger - when working with energetic medicine, but these are not to be feared as they are good signs that healing is working.
Anything can be a healing remedy - even a piece of music - and it’s about listening into our hearts as to what is medicine for us. It is the resonance that matters, as like-cures-like, so a resonance will be healing. We can also dose Remedies of the Wild energetically - working in an honouring and sacred way with each remedy as an archetypal personality.
Join Nicole’s Invoke your Wild Apothecary crucible to learn to harness energetic medicine for your deep healing
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Nicole xox
07 May 2024
How to Create Miracles by Embracing your Feminine
01:02:23
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Jamie Wozny. Jamie is a modern day seer and priestess of the Divine and she uses her own powerful, intuitive and energetic mind, body & spirit healing gifts to assist to liberate the light seekers of this world. She does this by guiding you to embody your power, live in your flow & live as your unique divine truth; divinely connected, soul, heart & Source led. Working with her activates fulfilment of your Divine Mission.
In this episode Jamie and Nicole explored how to open our hearts to miracles, by embodying our inner Feminine magic. We explore what our inner ‘Feminine magic’ even is, and how the ‘energetic’ shift into our Feminine essence - which Jamie defines as softness, vulnerability, openness and joy - can help us come down into our bodies and open our hearts to being the fullness of our souls. And, of course, create miracles in life and help us embrace our healing gifts!
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
We are taught that all the things that are Feminine - our bodies, our softness, our tenderness, our radiance, our joy, our pleasure, our vulnerability, our depth, our hearts - don’t matter, and to forget about them and be more in the ‘Masculine’ logic, drive, force, push - but really it is being embodied in our ‘Feminine’ essence that creates miracles
It is the deeper ‘energetic’ choice into that which has us embody our feminine - and when we make that deeper ‘energetic’ choice into our Feminine magic, the world sees it and shifts how it responds to us
Being in the body helps that - and what has us embodied in our Feminine essence is unique for us all - some helpful prompts to discover how to embody your Feminine magic include asking: what would feel luxurious for me? What would feel softening for me? What would feel joyful for me? What do I need?
Being in our Feminine actually has us create miracles without forcing - creative ideas flow through us when we follow the joy, though this can be hard to trust. It can be helpful to be in a journaling exercise of looking for ‘disconfirming evidence’ that we ‘can’t’ trust magic - look for proof of the miracles that occur when we are following our Feminine joy and flow
Part of Feminine magic is also being with the darkness - fully feeling our feelings - letting them move through us - and so it’s important to love and welcome these aspects of ourselves for deeper healing and opening to magic - it’s what transmutes us to our divinity.
Vulnerability is a key piece of the alchemy - when we learn to show up in the truth of our hearts, we are received and can experience our true radiance and being fully seen as who we are - and that’s the biggest miracle of all
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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08 Nov 2022
How to Know if Magic is Real
01:13:53
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Dean Radin. Dean is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He has earned a Masters (in electrical engineering) and a PhD (in psychology), and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India (an institution of higher learning accredited by the Indian government and specializing in yoga practice and research). He is author or coauthor of some 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and nine books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: including “Real Magic”.
In this episode we explore the key question at the forefront of every Secret Witch’s mind: is magic actually real - and can magic really be measured by science (and is it even helpful to measure it that way)? This paradigm shifting episode explores magic in a way that will help you come to love both magic AND science - which is heart-warmingly healing for all those magical ones who have doubted and resisted both at times.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Magic is real, it works and it can be proven by science - this is the most healing statement that I’ve ever been able to say as a takeaway - because it’s the one thing that Secret Witches doubt and fear most, which stops them from being their gifts
There’s always been a conflict between the scientific worldview and the magical worldview - science doesn’t allow for magic - and yet, we are coming to a place, finally, where the two can eventually come together in union
All magical practices can be classified into three categories - Divination, Force of Will and Theurgy - and all have evidence, which is growing
It makes sense that magic was suppressed by society into the underworld - it’s because of how it can be harnessed powerfully from fear, opens up the possibility of fraud and challenges religion and control. And still, it can also be powerfully used for healing.
Magic should be harnessed with ethics - love is the law, love under will - conscious and intentional use of healing is so important for magical ones
It is both important and possible to measure magic with science - even if some aspects of magic cannot yet be measured as we’d like. Science is advancing to meet the measuring of magic and, in the future, so much more will be discovered - it is a really exciting time to be studying magic in the world
Dean’s research is advancing magic in all the ways - he’s even found that 94% of academic scientists and engineers will admit that they themselves have had at least one of twenty-five psychic experiences or abilities. At that point, the 6% that haven’t become the outlier! That’s mind-blowing evidence for magic being true.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole xox
18 Jul 2023
How To Reconnect To Your Wild Animal For Powerful Self-Expression
00:57:42
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
20 Dec 2022
How to Heal your Fear of Failure - and Meet your Edge Anyway
01:02:15
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring how magical women can keep their truth hidden due to the fear of failure - and how they can work with the Archetypal Remedy Aurum to lovingly heal their sense of failure, harnessing it as Material for Liberation.
In this episode we explore how often, the fear of failure can hold women back from dreaming their big dreams - and how it can actually be a powerful healing portal to transformation and liberation of our true selves - and our full expression of our soul’s vision.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Fear of failure is often something that stops magical women from even allowing themselves to get in touch with their soul’s longings - and yet, when lovingly and consciously illuminated, we can learn to heal this fear and choose into liberating it
The Archetypal remedy for this wound is Aurum - gold - and it has themes of fear of failure, often accompanied with perfectionism. The irony is, the gift of this remedy state, is that, if you have this particular fear, it’s because in your natural essence, whatever you create *is* perfect by its very nature - and all you need to do is learn to show up as your truth
We can meet our edge in loving ways to alchemise and liberate ourselves - the key is to do this in aligned ways, rather than pushing and forcing, like many other methods have us do - this really is about lovingly self-healing
Our triggers are our Material for Liberation or a healing response - and if we choose to see them as that, this is where the opportunity for loving healing is. Mostly we choose unconsciously to not see it this way, but if we can open to it, there’s so much alchemy
In order to truly heal, we need to open to magic - and the unknown - allowing more to be revealed. That really is where we will learn we can truly fly, and that our fear of failure doesn’t have to lead.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole xox
18 Jun 2024
Secret Witch 101 - how to heal your 'Secret Witch' so you can stop hiding and live your destiny as a healer
00:58:35
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the concept of the ‘Secret Witch’ and how to embrace your destiny as a healer. She shares the fears and doubts that women called to be healers often face - illuminating the signs of a calling to ‘healing’ (including feeling lost in a chaotic life, being a sensitive empath, experiencing burnout, and going through a messy portal). The episode provides insights and guidance for ‘Secret Witches’ who are ready to embrace their gifts and step into their role as healers.
Nicole dives into the journey of healing the 'Secret Witch' within and becoming a fully expressed healer, including the need for self-healing, sisterhood, and the importance of embracing all aspects of ourselves (both light and dark). She explains the misconception of ‘quick fixes’ in the healing industry, and the importance of taking time to ‘become’ a healer - and the layers of personal and ancestral wounds that need to be journeyed with, explaining how Soul mapping and Archetypal Remedies can guide the process.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The Secret Witch is a woman who longs to become a healer but is held back by 3 common fears of losing control (failure), security, and approval (which have her hide her gifts)
Signs that indicate a call to becoming a healer and being a ‘Secret Witch’ include feeling lost in a chaotic life, being a sensitive empath, experiencing burnout, and going through a messy portal
Embracing the role of a ‘healer’ requires us to learn how to authentically face and heal our ‘Secret Witch’ healer fears, so we can fully step into our deeper gifts and purpose. The journey of healing the 'Secret Witch' within and becoming a fully expressed healer takes time and personal healing (which is not often something that’s taught)
The true art and science of self-healing involves embracing all aspects of oneself, including the light and dark - the Secret Witch is really a call to deeper LOVE - quick fixes’ and outsourcing our healing to others are not effective in the long run
Healing personal wounds and ancestral wounds are essential in the process of becoming a healer - and having a soul map for that and our archetypal remedies can guide the healing journey and help discover and express our gifts more easily.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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03 Dec 2024
How to express your Feminine magic - unapologetically - in a world where that's terrifying
00:58:45
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sophie French. Sophie supports women to unlock and unleash their unique expression and gifts into the world, to tap into their heart's desires and to go for them with deep self-trust and self-belief. She utilities a combination of neuro-linguistic programming, emotional release and embodiment practices along with energy and strategy work to provide a holistic approach to the woman who is ready to be all she's ever wanted.
In this vibrant episode Nicole and Sophie dive into all things ‘unapologetic feminine soul expression’, exploring how self-illuminating where we have suppressed ourselves (rather than submitting to pathologising things like ‘depression’) helps us heal and discover our true selves and embrace our creative soul expression - and how that can be a healing remedy for others, in ways we don’t always expect. Performing her poetry for us and exploring how she rebirthed herself through it, Sophie explores how her self-expression and story-telling became a form of alchemy of darkness to light, and how she tended her nervous system to be able to express her true self in a world where that’s scary.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
It is vital to our mental and physical health to live out our full, unapologetic expression - numbing and suppressing our true selves literally has us become burned out, depressed and anxious
We can begin to heal through unsuppressing ourselves, via self-discovery - which includes facing our darkness, feeling everything fully and challenging the societal tendency to numb and avoid discomfort
Expressing our emotions can be an alchemical process which unlocks deeper creativity and joy - Sophie’s poetry is a great example of this deep expression of her soul, and came through her in this alchemical way - as I always say, our gifts are found in our wounds
That said, we can consciously choose the edge we meet, giving ourselves permission to go at our own pace and choose when we go in - this is an intentional healing process of soul-expression
It’s important to regulate our nervous systems - much more important than it is made out to be in our society so we can express safely. We must create space for the slowness of this process
Healing can be found in anything that has us back in touch with feeling ‘alive’ - not just traditional ‘remedies’ but through music, and dance, or anything that has us feel alive and connected.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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06 Jul 2021
How to Tend your Nervous System & Create the Safety Required to be Yourself
00:59:50
In today’s episode, Nicole is thrilled to be diving into How to Tend your Nervous System & Create the Safety Required to be Yourself. The Secret Witch has a really poorly modelled relationship with fear; in fact, her nervous system is usually a bit fried and she feels unsafe - and on top of that, she is often disconnected from her body. In this way of being, it’s difficult to tune into our heart’s longings and live our Soul-aligned path.
In this episode Nicole dives into how to do the work to liberate your relationship with fear, heal your disconnection with your body and create autonomy for your own nervous system so that you can consciously and courageously choose into ways of being that align with Soul in order to create a magical life.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Often the Secret Witch won’t feel safe because she’s disconnected from her body, and her nervous system is in trauma - and often, from that, she’s understandably and unconsciously created more drama and trauma which has created a negative relationship with fear
This means that any fear she feels about being her full magnificence is literally pushed into the darkness, and she sells her soul for the love, approval and safety she gains from others because of the misunderstanding that she has the power to create safety for herself
There are real costs (and benefits) of not choosing to liberate our relationship with fear and create safety in our nervous systems - the main one being that we can never truly become the woman we long to be and show up as our true selves because we stay too fearful. We pay the Victim price.
Without feeling *safe* and tending our NS, we will not feel safe enough to dream our big dreams, we may feel lost and like we still need to discover our gifts, even though we have a sense we are made for *more* - if you can’t access your dreams and vision, it’s likely you just don’t feel safe to.
If, however, we do the work to liberate our dark experiences, and reclaim our relationship with fear, we can harness it to more consciously choose into ways of being that align with our Soul and take us to our soft edge in order to live our wild alchemy and create magical lives
This process requires a *great* amount of love - anything that isn’t love is still fear, and comes from shadowy ways of being. The aim is that we begin to feel safe, and to do so, we must love ourselves through our fear.
A great simple exercise is to begin to reconnect with your body to invite your Soul back into your body - simply tapping your body and saying “this is my arm, I welcome you back” offers your body the deep knowing that someone with powerful majesty has shown up to listen to it and create safety.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what you think of this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
21 Dec 2021
How to Fully Embody and Express your Powerful Magical Energy
01:07:18
In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on a topic that encompasses the whole path of the Secret Witch - i.e. How to Embody and Express Your Powerful, Magical Energy. There are often challenges that arise as magical women begin to walk this path and so, as I couldn’t fit how to walk the whole path into one episode, I explored some of the ways we experience these challenges so that you can have the courage and vulnerability to keep walking.
In this episode I explore the difference between Embodying and Expressing who we are, sharing the power of seeing the Witch as an energetic rather than logical and linear. I share the common challenges that come up on this path so that you can feel how normal they are so you can keep choosing to embody and express your powerful, magical energy. This episode calls you deeper into your devotion to the fullness of your Soul.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Embodiment and expression are so important and whilst it isn’t linear embodiment is generally first, and expression comes after, for example, we embody the Witch archetype and then we are able to express her into the world.
Embodying and expressing the Witch’s powerful, magical energy is the work of this path - it’s not a logical or linear - we are in the work of embodying an energetic - it’s an invitation into truth
The Witch has lots of aspects - she is a powerful Creatrix, Medicine Woman, Wild Woman, Wise Woman, Feminine Lover and Earthkeeper. The work is to discover and embody these different aspects that resonate with you, that call to your Soul, as a way of becoming who you really are.
There are lots of challenges to embodying and expressing your Soul’s fullness - from fear, resistance, uncertainty, the unknown, unconscious shadow, material for liberation and resistance to ‘doing’ more - and I dive into these to help you choose more consciously to keep walking and devoting to the path.
The path of Soul isn’t easy - and it’s not for everyone, but if you want to embody and express your power and magic, it is likely for you. It calls for your loving devotion and choice and following of the next breadcrumb. The real question is, will you keep walking?
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
04 Jan 2022
How to Harness Your Focus to Create Intentional Magic
01:04:58
On the Secret Witch Show today we haveWilliam Whitecloud. Inthe early 90’s, with his life shattered by a host of dismal circumstances, William was compelled to embark on a quest to discover what it would take to create what he truly wanted. This search brought William into contact with the Alchemical principles of Hermetic Philosophy and Technologies for Creating. After completely turning around his life, William was inspired to found Natural Success, a creative development curriculum dedicated to empowering participants in discovering and living their highest potential. He is author of best selling book, The Magician’s Way, The Last Shaman and Secrets Of Natural Success, and his foundational 5 day training, Create Your Destiny has been delivered to over 12,000 people.
In this episode we dive into howmagic is *real* technology, and how important it is to harness our focus intentionally and consciously to create magical lives. We explored the importance of owning our Witch power and what keeps it Secret - and dived into how shadow can pull our focus away, which is why it is important to do the work to reclaim it. And we explored the role of creating from True or Soul Will.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
This show was truly magical in the presence of a real magician! My takeaways are:
Our reality is created entirely by our Focus - and yet, most people don’t know what they are focused on. The way to harness that is to really ensure we are focusing our attention on pure, true intentions, rather than creating from lack or “compensating focus” - aka shadow agendas
The more we are available to own that we create what we don’t want, the more power we have - it is important to not abandon this knowing and blame your circumstances, because owning it yourself leaves you in the position of a creator. We can only heal if we admit we have a problem and realise we are creating it - even if we don’t know how - when we are the observer of a problem, we are not the problem, and that’s so powerful.
Harnessing our focus takes training - it takes work, we have to learn to harness the skills, such as that of intuition. Intuition is a Superconscious mode of awareness that we can access on demand, but we have to learn to harness it.
Conflict is how we know we are focusing the wrong way - any time we are uncomfortable, upset, triggered, worried, annoyed, angry - it is a sign we are “conflicted” - and this is when we are in shadow, rather than pure focus.
We don’t like this tension; and we try to resolve it and kill the messenger - yet, it is offering us really valuable creative information - if I am a powerful Witch, I can handle the shadow - looking at the trigger and then refocusing has us create what we desire.
In shadow we hold all sorts of untrue beliefs and they take on lives of their own. And yet, we can take on whatever story we want to take on - ultimately, we can choose to be our Wild Witch, rather than our Secret Witch. Knowing what we want is a skill very few people have - and it’s so important - focus there, on desire, rather than on the problems.
Our Will is much misunderstood; it is really just the mechanism to assign power in our consciousness - we can use it to either focus on our Truth or Fear - but knowing that we have will is powerful for creation.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
03 Jan 2023
How to Lead from Feminine Softpower: with Humanity, Heart and Wisdom
01:08:56
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Elizabeth Lovius. Elizabeth Lovius is a Changemaker and Leadership Mentor who teaches how to live and lead from ‘Softpower’. She offers people the headspace to have fresh insight, let wisdom lead and cultivate a culture for humans; all of which helps leaders navigate and lead real change. She is an international speaker, author, award-winning trainer and social entrepreneur, and for over 25 years, she has worked across most business sectors and discovered that what really works in any business is the capacity of the leaders to understand the human factor; what makes us all tick. She develops leaders grounded in clarity, collaboration, creativity and confidence.
In this episode Elizabeth and Nicole explore what we mean by “Softpower” - and its difference to “Hard power”, begin to get a feel for the Feminine energetic of Softpower, with heart-led leadership, understand why the Feminine has to lead, and the importance of Divine Union (i.e. equality) - and begin to understand the practical embodiment of this energetic for women who want to become magical leaders by becoming their remedy in the world.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
We can learn a lot from the power of Archetypes (or Remedy Personalities) - which activate truth in us, that wants to be heard - for example, Elizabeth’s discovery of herself as the ‘Natural Romantic,’ instead of the Masculine led her to her deeper purpose and wisdom to wake people up to the value of Softpower (which women especially lead from).
The Masculine is New York City - big thrusting things that point up. The Feminine is like the Earth - it holds the thing that’s thrusting; the things that hold aren’t visible, yet everything is birthed in it.
Goals are only part of the story; the Feminine is interested in the deeper heart-led purpose of what nourishes the Earth - and serves the whole.
There can be a deep resistance and rebellion to the Masculine - and we must honour that because ancestrally that fear of the Shadow Masculine is inbuilt into our cells - but we are actually here to create Union - there’s an opportunity to rethink our relationship with the Masculine
The Masculine is ultimately here to honour the Feminine’s soul desires - a bit like the Queen’s Funeral, which went without a hitch due to order, structure and everyone submitting to that, as the goal was in deep service to the Death of a Queen - the Ultimate Feminine - and it was her desires that were being provided for fully by the Masculine
We are only used to the Masculine expression of power which can make us forget that the Feminine holds power too - it’s just that often power shows up in shadow. Masculine and Feminine energetics each have gifts - the Masculine’s are Clarity and Confidence, and the Feminine’s are Connection and Creating - and they each have their own shadows, too - all of which are showing us where we can heal and become the healthy expression of our Softpower.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
21 May 2024
How 'burnout' can be a portal to connecting with your magic and gifts
01:01:05
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into one of the common ‘symptoms’ that shows up for women who have come here with magical gifts: burn out. Burn out is something that many sensitive women experience - and Nicole shares her own point of view and journey with this, explaining her radical worldview that whilst we judge ourselves for not being able to ‘keep up’, burn out is really a deeper call into our magic and gifts.
In this episode Nicole explores why this is, how we’ve been conditioned to shame ourselves for what’s just the sensitive constitution we were born with - and how it’s really a sign that there’s some healing to do of our wounded healer. She explores how, contrary to what we’ve been taught, our wounds become portals to our deepest gifts, offering some enquiry about burn out to help guide you in self-illumination.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
We are taught that all the things that are Feminine - our bodies, our softness, our tenderness, our radiance, our joy, our pleasure, our vulnerability, our depth, our hearts - don’t matter, and to forget about them and be more in the ‘Masculine’ logic, drive, force, push - but really it is being embodied in our ‘Feminine’ essence that creates miracles
It is the deeper ‘energetic’ choice into that which has us embody our feminine - and when we make that deeper ‘energetic’ choice into our Feminine magic, the world sees it and shifts how it responds to us
Being in the body helps that - and what has us embodied in our Feminine essence is unique for us all - some helpful prompts to discover how to embody your Feminine magic include asking: what would feel luxurious for me? What would feel softening for me? What would feel joyful for me? What do I need?
Being in our Feminine actually has us create miracles without forcing - creative ideas flow through us when we follow the joy, though this can be hard to trust. It can be helpful to be in a journaling exercise of looking for ‘disconfirming evidence’ that we ‘can’t’ trust magic - look for proof of the miracles that occur when we are following our Feminine joy and flow
Part of Feminine magic is also being with the darkness - fully feeling our feelings - letting them move through us - and so it’s important to love and welcome these aspects of ourselves for deeper healing and opening to magic - it’s what transmutes us to our divinity.
Vulnerability is a key piece of the alchemy - when we learn to show up in the truth of our hearts, we are received and can experience our true radiance and being fully seen as who we are - and that’s the biggest miracle of all
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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07 Nov 2023
How to discover the hidden underlying patterns causing your body's symptoms
00:55:45
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.
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30 Jan 2024
How to stop people-pleasing in relationships so you can open to your gifts as a healer
00:59:18
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
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
15 Aug 2023
How To Work With Yoni Eggs For Deeper Self-Expression In Business
00:54:16
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
01 Sep 2021
How to Open your Heart to Visioning Your Magical Desires
01:15:44
On the Secret Witch Show today Nicole is freestyling on the important topic of How to Open your Heart to Visioning your Magical Desires, exploring how you can begin to feel safe to take the first steps into visioning and dreaming, how to illuminate what holds you back, and the benefits of visioning as the necessary process of life-creation.
In this episode Nicole helps you understand how to open your heart with the ultimate of love, as well as how you’re already powerfully visioning (just with your focus in the wrong way) - and explore how to take the first steps into a more powerful and focused visioning practice.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Visioning is not what it seems in the world of self-help. It isn’t something new to learn how to do; we are already doing it - it’s just likely we are focused the wrong way, and instead need to do the work to open up our hearts in order to create what we long for.
It’s likely visioning doesn’t feel easy - soul-aligned visioning will feel scary as you slow down and begin to consciously tune into your heart - but it’s something you have to choose into to receive the benefits - and you have the power to do so (even if it doesn’t feel like it because your power if Secret to you too)
You can start gently - one of the first steps is consciously giving yourself permission to go into the well of your body and listen to its soft animal. We need to become familiar with our body’s signals for desire.
To access our desire, we need to feel safe - and to create this safety for ourselves, we must illuminate all the old stories holding us back. Noticing is a powerful practice.
The central purpose of visioning is about letting ourselves feel into who we long to become - ask yourself: who is the woman I long to become, in the absence of “how” I’ll create that?
It’s almost a beautiful two step process - the Feminine opening and the Masculine holding space for and focusing on the Vision. During both, there is a lot of love required - love is the magical key!
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Nicole xox
09 May 2023
How to Overcome Fear of Rejection and Judgement to Create your Spiritual Business
00:54:59
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
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11 Feb 2025
How to self-heal 'mysterious' illness (and why this is also a 'mysterious' call to your witch)
01:04:32
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores her radical approach to health which views ‘mysterious illness’ as a transformative initiation into self-healing and a sacred call to our witchy healing gifts. Nicole’s point of view is that illnesses that often go unexplained by mainstream medicine - such as chronic fatigue syndrome, ME, burn-out, auto-immune issues and menstrual disorders like endometriosis - are calls to embrace our own magical healing power and wisdom.
In this episode, whilst honouring the depths of darkness that mysterious dis-ease can take us to, Nicole shares the importance of seeing illness not as something ‘victimising’ (as our society is conditioned), but an opportunity for personal healing and deeper connection to our bodies, inspiring self-love and feminine empowerment that awakens our inner witch and connects us to our self-healing inner apothecary. She also shares some deeper self-enquiry prompts, and explores her way of mapping our health.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Mysterious illnesses - including conditions like chronic fatigue, autoimmune issues, and feminine cycle symptoms - are a secret call to our ‘inner witch’ and her self-healing power and magic
Our illnesses are actually ‘initiations’ - doorways to parts of ourselves that we’ve not before seen, rather than conditions that are to be passively endured - though this challenges mainstream medical and societal norms around ‘health’ which often has us feel victim to health challenges
According to universal magical healing laws and principles, suppression is the true cause of dis-ease - anywhere we suppress, creates an energetic block and energy get stuck
The law of ‘like cures like’ means that what ‘causes’ something will also ‘cure’ it. Holding up a mirror to aspects within ourselves offers us self-reflection that stimulates ‘self-healing’
We can heal ourselves - by working with the elements of ‘self-illumination’ and ‘self-love’ (via harnessing ‘archetypal remedies’ as a ‘mirror’ to lost aspects of ourselves that we’ve shamed), which helps us un-suppress aspects of ourselves that have been hidden and have manifested illness
As we heal ourselves, our wounds become our gifts - and that helps us to live our destiny as the healer witches we came here to be
We can also map our healing in a Soul Map, which is also a tool we can harness to know our gifts.
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26 Apr 2022
Is it all 'Just Thought' - or Do we Need Healing to Manifest Magical Lives?
01:37:39
My guest today is the brilliant Dominic Scaffidi - and oh, did I love this magical conversation. Dominic is an ICF Master Certified Coach and partners with clients to point them to the unlimited potential of who they really are. Through accessing their own innate wisdom, clients are supported as they create a life that they love, both personally and professionally. Grounded in the teachings of Sydney Banks, he applies a deep and practical understanding of the teachings of Abraham-Hicks for how we create our own reality.
Dominic and I have both walked the path of Ascension and the Three Principles, and in this unique episode, we explored a juicy debate commonly found in the worlds of Ascension and Descension: is it all Just ‘Thought’, or do we need healing to manifest magical lives? What we co-created was a beautiful synergistic expression of what healing actually is, how contrast creates healing if we stay open to it and choose it that way. We alchemised some common myths and misunderstandings around the Three Principles and Ascension paths, and explored how our bodies are central to manifesting magical lives - and the power that can be found in descending into the body to heal and alchemise its wisdom and expand into embodiment of our True magic.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Today’s episode was really illuminating of all things suppression and expression. Here are my takeaways:
It can be so tempting to dismiss something we don’t agree with - e.g. the idea we may need to ‘heal’ - yet the real alchemy is found in openly going into our resistance and contrast with curiosity as to where the synergy can be found
Healing is really an “expansion” - a seeing of all that is held unconsciously (in shadow) - which could be called our wounding - and expanding into the fullness that we have always been beyond our shadowy fears and doubts (aka Thought)
Our work in healing, really is to catch all the places we don’t see where we are creating what we don’t want - and expand beyond that.
And the Secret Witch (actually, all of us) is already creating her reality - and it’s so healing to recognise this; as we come to know this more fully, through our expansion, we become the True and fully integrated expression of our Witch Queens - creating as our divine Soul’s essence.
The Witch really is a powerful symbol - a lens or an Archetypal story that acts as a mirror to reflect our true power and magic. The Witch, after all, is a powerful, wise, magical, creative force.
There are really no limitations; for you to be ‘less than,’ only you are creating it (and we must go into that powerful ownership only with the utmost love and compassion for ourselves, as otherwise we won’t see it)
The only place we can create magic is in our body. Dismissing our bodies, which is often done in Ascension path, innocently, devalues our experience in form; creating separation. And yet, there’s no such thing as unexpressed formless energy; Spirit and Soul are always expressing through you.
If we dismiss the physical body, we dismiss our full expression; and this is how we know we need healing (or expansion) - our bodies offer us the signs - via illness, dis-ease, imbalance, etc - until we choose to expand, heal and fully express.
In fact, we choose our bodies; we came here to live in our unique contrasts, because it allows us to expand (heal) into the Creator/Creatrix that you really are. And you choosing that will be healing for others on the same path as us. You wanted this life for your expansion - for the healing that is beyond the experience that restores aliveness where it was limited
There is nothing to do, but there is always aligned-action to take - you are a unique expression of the Universe, and you are here for 100 years - do you think the Universe wanted to show up here physically as you for 100 years and do nothing? You are here to expand into living fully as your unique expression - as Witch Queen (who knows her power and magic) - and you get to choose to do that.
You are the magic. And it does take a great level of Sovereign power to be able to fully own our innocent creation of it that we are not. This is the beauty of the path of Soul for the Secret Witch - who feels her wounding so deeply - walking the path towards her Witch Queen guides her into that power to own her creation and begin to express her fullness to become her expression of magic. And there’s a real power in having a Soul Guide who will know you are *already* a Witch Queen, along the way - until you know it yourself.
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Nicole xox
27 Feb 2024
How to step off the Drama Triangle to embody your power as a healer
01:06:07
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
16 Aug 2022
How Birth is a Powerful Portal into Soul Transformation
01:00:20
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sian Marie Pilkington. Sian is a woman of word~craft, mother of what some see as many, a space holder in ceremony around the blood mysteries, a proficient retreat facilitator and herbalist and full spectrum birth attendant and energy worker. She works as a birth doula and mentor, reiki master, theta healer, holds pregnancy retreats & conducts ceremony for those in the child bearing years.
Making her second appearance on the show, Sian beautifully explores birth as a powerful portal for soul transfomation, exploring how Birth opens us up to a descent into our Feminine soul, and how this creates a deeper connection to truth, love, and our own power and magic. She provides some beautiful initiations for the journey from Maiden to Mother, which make an illuminating episode that is relevant to all women, who long to reconnect to their souls - regardless of whether they are Mothers or not.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Birth is a powerful descent into the sacred land of your own body, which initiates you into trusting yourself, your power and your body - it’s an initiation into leading ourselves to the underworld and back up
Men have made rules and regulations around something that was always women’s work, and this can create trauma, but it also doesn’t mean we are victims to the Masculine - there’s a beautiful union that can be created as we welcome Kingly Protective Warriors into the birth space to hold and witness - which is a transformational healing in and of itself
It is important to do the work in pregnancy - the work is never in birth - so that you can be relaxed and open as you transition through birth. You can do the work through methods like a time-spiral, which she explains in this episode, and ritual and ceremony that consciously initiates you into the phases of the Feminine, as well as connecting to your baby
We fear being the hysterical women, which has us suppress our beautiful wildness in birth - we suppress our sacred rage - we think we have to play the role of Good Girl. Moving through our truthful emotions without disruption is really helpful - and inner child work is powerful here
Positive birth experiences aren’t fluke - we are build to open, yield and give birth - and it can be helpful to have a birth story listener if you’ve had a traumatic experience instead
The Mother Archetype is a powerful one to embody for all women - she is rooted to the earth and knows how to respond rather than react, and she’s the one who births all of creation into the world, so working with her is deeply powerful and magical, especially for a Witch
Our triggers are the place we can reclaim gold from our wound, but often we dismiss them due to shame; it is important we open to sharing our triggers
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Nicole xox
16 Jan 2024
How to attune to your Feminine body and hormones to receive your highest-level abundance
00:55:40
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
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
04 Jul 2023
How to Do Inner Child Work to Discover your Healing Power
00:50:36
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
19 Nov 2024
How to manifest your magical dream life as a healer witch
00:54:27
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into all things ‘manifestation’ of our magical destiny as aspiring healers, exploring the challenges of manifesting our dream lives, the importance of self-healing, permission-giving and embracing our inner power. She explores the power of the witch - and the difference between manifesting from wounding versus love.
Exploring the deeper nuances of the law of ‘manifestation’ (one of 8 elements of the Secret Witch path), Nicole emphasises the importance of healing self-illumination of our unconscious wounding so that we can choose to create what we desire. She invites you to tune into your body, open your heart and recognise the hidden power you do already have to create whatever your heart longs for - if you open to the possibility of your inner witch and her apothecary within to help you peel back the layers of trauma and open to magic.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Manifestation is an important element in the journey of embracing our gifts as healers - yet it has a nuance that is often misunderstood in the ‘self-help’ world (in that we are *already* powerful creatrixes)
We can begin to create what our heart desires by self-healing, and addressing and loving our unconscious inner-wounds, rather than attempting to sticky-plaster, quick fix or bypass them with affirmations
We innocently manifest all kinds of thing we don’t want from unconscious wounds - physical health issues, such as burn out, often manifest from deeper underlying traumas that have been suppressed - and healing is in learning to express them and become more conscious
To truly manifest a more magical life, we must give ourselves permission to embrace our fears and desires, peeling back the layers, welcoming them and loving them into liberation
The witch can help us do that, initiating us into our creatrix power, as well as our healing power
We must love our inner little girl who often feels fear to create our dreams - she’s the one often unconsciously creating what we don’t want (innocently) - and if we love her, and make her feel safe, this is the way to true healing and transformation - and embracing our gifts.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
07 Dec 2021
How to Manifest via the Powerful Portal of Intimacy and Sex Magic
00:54:19
On the Secret Witch Show today we haveAmy White. Amy is a sexual healing and embodiment coach, crystal yoni tool provider and founder of Temple of the Feminine. She is known for her enlightening and educational content on her social media channels on the concepts of masculine & feminine energy as well as conscious sexuality for the mind, body and soul. Amy facilitates transformative group courses, 1-1 mentorship programmes and her signature Feminine Awakening Classes and Sex Magic Rituals.
In this episode we dive into the magic of our sexual energy and how both the Witch Wound and childhood trauma create patterns of shame which have us disconnect from pleasure and desire. We explore the beauty of embodiment, being Feminine and receiving the Masculine, the magic of Manifestation and the powerful portal of Sex Magic Ritual, offering some first steps into deepening into the important role of intimacy with ourselves that helps us to create magical lives.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
As women, we have been culturally encouraged to disconnect from our bodies, and from that we have created stories around pleasure and desire being wrong. This plays out into our creation of life - feeling shame if we experience self pleasure - or even joy.
The Witch wound plays into this avoidance, creating us to hide and keep ourselves small, so that we aren’t outcast for being powerful, magical women, in our power with sexual energy
Because of the shame we feel, we avoid the intimacy required in life to create magic by being vulnerable. There is a lot of fear around being in our power, and we dissociate from intimacy with our bodies.
Our triggers around shame offer opportunities for us to make conscious ways that we hold ourselves back from our power and magic. Being intimate with our body via self-pleasure offers us liberation of all the places that require liberating. Shadow work is a really powerful way of liberating our unconscious patterns
And yet, our sexual energy is our life force energy. It is the source of all creation, so it is really important to deepen intimacy with this aspect of ourselves
There’s a real power in embodying the Feminine polarity - especially with regards to embodying our capacity to receive - which is important if we want to manifest our desires
How we are in sex is how we are in life; generally, whatever our ways of being and triggers are with sex are often the same triggers that show up in other areas of our lives - for example, if we can’t receive the penetration of the masculine, we can’t receive the penetration of money.
Sex Magic is a powerful Ritual which offers us a little pocket of intentional and conscious focus on what we desire to manifest - and we can start small, there are some powerful first steps into the body in this episode.
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22 Nov 2022
How to Build a Magical Healing Soul Business
01:25:20
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into how to build a magical, healing soul business. She explores how the key to creating a real magical business is doing the deep work to discover and *become* your unique remedy - firstly for yourself, and (only) then for others - in a Feminine way that honours the way magic truly works.
In this episode Nicole explores how most magical ones have collective ‘Witch Wound’ fears to heal in order to birth a truly soul-aligned business into the world - and why it’s important to focus on loving ‘alchemy’ of our ‘core wounds’ into gold (instead of ‘fixing’). She shared how this alchemy of our wounds helps us know our ‘niche’ (if we’re being all ‘mainstream’ about it) - and that this is the most powerful way to create a healing business that is truly in service of deep, conscious and intentional magical healing.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Phosphoric Secret Witches (who have a burning fire in their bellies to be healers) often feel a deep call to be healers, whilst also feeling #allthefears about creating a business from it.
This often leaves them offering their medicine in a mundanely-packaged box to make it more palatable to the mainstream - which doesn’t have them create much success
To fully heal that, we need to heal our Collective Witch Wounds - the wounds of self-expression that are having us hide who our souls really are, watering down our remedy (in case you’re chased out the village with pitchforks for being magical)
It is fundamental to building a magical healing soul business that we firstly do the deep soul work to know our true purpose - to discover, heal and alchemise the Unique Remedy we came here to be - our deepest wound is actually our niche (if we do the work to heal it for ourselves first)
This process is the energetic work that underlies the ‘Archetypal Apothecary’ path. It is magical, Feminine Witch work - the work of mystery and magic - rather than logical, linear work - though magical ones often tend to have looked externally for all the tools (both healing and business) before arriving at this deep inner work
It’s not an easy path to walk, which is why it requires the inner fire that Phosphoric Secret Witches tend to have - the passion (even if it’s hidden) and a vision to truly liberate their Secret Witch and become their Phosphoric remedy in the world - but you have to choose it.
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Nicole xox
13 Feb 2024
How to parent powerfully when you're a sensitive mum with ‘sensitive’ or ‘challenging’ (or ‘neurodivergent’) children
01:12:16
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
16 Jul 2024
How to connect to our intuition so we can become true wise women (even if we doubt our magic)
00:52:20
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the importance of being attuned to our ‘intuition’ as healers - especially when we doubt our magic. Exploring the common challenges of the ‘Secret Witch’ (a secretly wise-woman born here to be a healer) as self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and lacking confidence in - or mistrusting - our gifts, she dives into how to embrace our deeper purpose by healing our healer’s wounding around ‘magic’.
In this episode, Nicole illuminates a practical path for reconnecting to our bodies for deep, intentional healing and reclamation of our inner-wisdom and intuition - to unlock our healing powers, and transmit our unique remedy. She explores her mission to create a movement of 100 new healers, and the power of working with Archetypal Remedy, Luna - or the moon - to help us learn self-healing tools for healing our inner healer and expressing our gifts.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Many women experience self-doubt and imposter syndrome about their healing gifts and abilities - and rather than this being a sign to give up, it is a call to learn to trust our intuition and connect with our inner wise woman.
Becoming a healer or wise woman involves learning to heal our fear of that, which often manifests due to cultural conditioning around magic and ancestral trauma (aka the witch wound).
To begin to heal our witch wound and inner healer’s disconnect from our intuition, we need to cultivate an intimacy with our bodily sensations - rather than just feelings or emotions.
We must embody our own gifts and healing experiences to be able to teach and guide others - authentic teaching comes from our lived and embodied wisdom.
*And* we all have something we have embodied - and therefore, so long as we are teaching from where we have been, and where we are now, there’s a gift to be found that we can help others with.
Learning to attune to our sensations and their meanings takes time - there’s no rush to be a healer - true healing is a slow, deep process (our culture values ‘quick fixes’, yet meaningful transformation takes time).
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20 Jun 2023
How To Own Your 'Weird' In Business
01:00:39
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
29 Aug 2023
How To Trust Your Magical Power - Even When You’re In Fear
00:48:32
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
28 Mar 2023
Healing The Shame Around Sexuality, Intimacy, And Pleasure
01:03:01
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.
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Nicole xox
10 Sep 2024
How to work with the power of the moon to own our Feminine magic and gifts
00:49:32
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring how women can connect with the power of the moon to reclaim their Feminine magic and gifts. She explains a ‘new’ magical way to harness the power of the moon - as a deep ‘archetypal’ symbol, or remedy - that can help secret witches overcome their fear and self-doubt of their magic, helping you get in tune with the moon for deep, healing self-illumination.
In this episode, Nicole also provides more ‘practical’ guidance on cultivating a relationship with the moon, and deeper connection to your natural rhythms and cycles, helping you face any resistance to embracing your inner magic and healing gifts. She briefly explores spiritual ‘ascension’ versus soul ‘descension’ and how you can begin to own your unique gifts and step confidently into your role as a healer.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
So many magical women feel the deep fear of their inner magic - mostly struggling with doubting themselves, and feeling disconnected from their Feminine bodies, magic and unique gifts
Many women feel the deep and symbolic call to the moon - but perhaps don’t realise that there’s more to her magic than meets the eye; Luna is an archetypal symbol that helps us reclaim our Feminine magic, mystery and stop doubting our healing gifts
The moon represents an archetypal remedy with deep feminine attributes such as slowness, sensuality, wisdom, and the capacity to be with darkness and emotions.
Connecting with Luna’s rhythms and cycles can help us attune to our own Feminine body’s natural cycles - something which many Secret Witches are disconnected from in our mundane, logical, head-driven society
Moon ritual is a powerful way to embody our magic, and there are practical invitations in this episode to help you get started with working with the moon
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20 Nov 2023
How to reclaim the magic in our sensitivity and neurodivergence
01:04:55
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.
www.womancraftpublishing.com - her newest books are Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods and The Kitchen Witch Companion, which she illustrated and co-authored with Sarah Robinson.
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09 Apr 2024
How to heal hidden emotions with somatic movement
01:04:38
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Loren Cellentani. Loren used to feel like a victim to her body and emotions sabotaging her dreams. It led her to deeply listen and work with the body to uncover how to harness life force energy, process emotions & alchemise her pain into power - all through breathwork, somatic movement and visualization. Her mission is to help lightworkers get out of their heads and into their bodies so they can fulfil their purpose and potential in this lifetime. Loren guides women to own their power, rule their reality and live their purpose in her group program, Sovereign Mastermind, and her podcast, Witchy Wellness Radio.
In this episode Loren and I co-create around so many synergies in our worldview; in particular, the importance of embodiment. Exploring ‘somatic movement’ as an embodiment practice for ‘moving’ our emotions and discovering the hidden patterns held in our cells, Loren explored how our inner little girl carried old stories in her body - and that to truly ‘rule our reality’, we need to alchemise these and embody who we long to become - harnessing movement for both things. We spoke about the importance of connecting to our emotions and healing via movement - with Loren offering some very practical tools and tips for beginning to work with it and what practices to get started with.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The etymology of ‘somatic’ means the ‘body’ - and the body feels emotion - or ‘energy in motion’. We harness movement to combine the two - to move energy, to heal, to manifest our desires - and to do that, we have to get out of our own way (out of our mind into our body)
We are not ‘victims’ to our bodies - our bodies are not ‘in the way’, they are ‘the most spiritual thing about us’ - they act as an ‘alarm system’ saying “this is not for you” (or “this *is* for you”). And our bodies want to heal
The true definition of “Sovereign”, according to Loren, is the “Divine right to rule our reality” - and every moment we have the opportunity to own the gold that can be found in our wounds, when we are courageous enough to go into the body and alchemise the energy in there into our Sovereign power
Our menstrual cycle is powerful - our bodies show us, via our cycle, where we have avoided looking at things for the month - even small things. When we give our bodies grace, love them and let them guide us , and learn to trust them, we are able to manifest what we truly desire
It doesn’t have to be scary - we just take the next small step, and the next - beginning to tune into our bodies - until the big decisions eventually become the next small step too
Somatic movement can be anything that moves the body - it can be yoga, ecstatic dance, working out, going for a run, slow dancing - but essentially it’s anything where we are ‘making love’ to our bodies - and it doesn’t have to be in a sexual way, but a ‘sensual’ way, where we are present with our body’s senses
We can begin with a simple exercise of asking “how does my body want to move?” and notice if you were judging yourself, or feeling resistance, and loving yourself in that, and letting the body lead the way.
We can work with embodiment in two ways - both for processing wounding and also for embodying the woman we long to become.
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31 Jan 2022
How Wild Woman Intimacy & Pleasure can Unlock Your Life
01:00:48
On the Secret Witch Show today is Michaela Boehm. Michaela travels and teaches internationally as an expert in intimacy, relationship and sexuality. A gifted speaker and counselor, her unique body of work centers around the intersection of intimacy and embodiment. Her work with celebrity couples has been featured in international print publications, TV programs and online talk shows, including Netflix Series [UN] WELL and Love, Sex and Goop. Michaela is author of The Wild Woman’s Way and creator of The Non-Linear Movement Method®, a somatic release modality which utilizes principles of trauma therapy, polyvagal theory and movement for nervous system regulation.
In this episode we dive into how the Wild Woman archetype helps us more fully understand the power of the Witch, exploring the role of pleasure in magical life-creation and understanding ways to unlock pleasure via intimacy and embodiment, and the importance of polarity in relationship.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The Wild Woman Archetype is a hugely important aspect of the Witch - centred around the deep connection we have to nature and our bodies and the rhythms and cycles in both
In the past, our intuition was valued as a survival tool - it is a natural genius of our body, felt through our sensual perception
Sensual perception is not a requirement in today’s society, but it is crucial that we choose it if we want to create pleasurable, juicy, alive-feeling, magical lives
Pleasure is our birthright - but we have to choose it and be devoted to it - bringing our five senses alive through practices of awareness - firstly cultivating background pleasure and then being able to receive external pleasure
There may be trauma hidden in our bodies that needs cleansing - and we can trust our wisdom to know how to release this
Non-linear movement is the best route to cleansing and reconnecting to our bodies - which is movement that is unorganised - for example, free form movement or dancing
Pleasure is different and unique for everyone - and Michaela’s book offers some excellent hacks for how we can integrate pleasure into our lives in simple, easy ways.
Polarity is important in relationships to create deeper intimacy and pleasure - and this simply means we need “opposites” - one person to Go, and one person to Flow.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
08 Jul 2023
BONUS EPISODE - How To Open to Becoming A Healer, Teacher or Guide - Even If You're Terrified
00:56:07
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.
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23 Nov 2021
How to Use Your Body's Sensations as a Compass for Life
00:56:12
On the Secret Witch Show today I vulnerably freestyle on the topic of how to use our body’s sensations as a compass for life. I had in mind to talk about desires in this episode, but had an unexpected change as I shared from the heart on what was present for me about how it is necessary to go into our darkness to find our gold and express our Soul’s truth.
In this episode I illuminate how without honouring the sensations we experience in our darkness, we can’t begin to fully feel the sensations of Soulful aliveness. I explore how there is always a price to pay for either ignoring our bodies calls or diving into them to feel them fully - and how the benefits of diving in far outweigh the suppression of sensation we are used to in our modern culture. Finally, I invite you into the deepest unconditional love of your body - in all its sensation, and to harness it as a powerful and wise messenger.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
It is a huge part of magical women’s journeys to suppress and numb their body’s sensations in this culture - and yet, we have the choice to choose out of that in order to create a magical life.
Through the magical lens, sensation is a powerful messenger, and we can learn to communicate with our bodies and harness their wisdom to heal - we are our own medicine
To fully feel the aliveness of Soul we must be willing to give ourselves permission to really descend into our darkness to alchemise it into gold; that can be inconvenient and messy and painful - we can have to deal with feelings of pain, shame, guilt and fear - but it’s also the only path worth walking if we desire to live a magical life
Only when we are willing to descend - even if we take it very softly and gently - can we be fully living our truth and able to shine our light into the world
Often, our gold is found in the depths of our wounds - and that can be so beneficial for others and allow them to heal and alchemise too, so your darkness is a gift for the world.
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Nicole xox
12 Mar 2024
How to deconstruct blame, shame and guilt for deeper self-trust
01:01:53
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.
Shanti facilitates The Clarity of Boundaries - a three week intensive throughout the year. Find out more at www.beingshanti.com
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
18 Jan 2022
How to Tune into Your Inner Medicine Woman
00:57:58
In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the topic of how to tune into your inner Medicine Woman. Medicine Woman is a powerful aspect of the Witch Archetype, and I explore what’s possible for you if you invoke her.
In this episode I explore who Medicine Woman is, what her wounds and fears are, and how her healing gifts of wisdom, intuition and alchemising darkness into gold can be medicine not only for yourselves but your gift for the world. This episode brings this powerful archetype alive for you, offering a practical embodiment practice if you truly long to choose to devote yourself to tuning into your inner Medicine Woman.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Medicine Woman is a powerful healing aspect of the Witch Archetype; a Divine Feminine Soul guide who offers us a lens to explore the healing oracle we really are.
Medicine Woman helps us more deeply descend into our bodies - she rips off the plasters and has us look deeply into our wounds, in order to consciously choose to heal them. She is the ultimate alchemist.
But she’s not *just* about healing - she is an Archetype that, if we choose to embody her and own our power - instead of being a victim to our healing - can really help us to step into the power and magic of the Witch Queen in order to begin to see our capacity to create all of life.
Medicine Woman not only initiates us into our own healing, but her alchemy of our wounds helps us see our own medicine for the world. She helps us begin to see how we can be of deeper service in our gifts to the world. I wouldn’t be where I am - guiding magical ones - without her.
It can be scary to initiate her, but ultimately, if she calls to us, we can’t walk the path of Soul without her. The choice is yours - what will you decide?
One of the first easy steps you can take - if you answer her call - is to devote yourself to a practice of tuning into your body and letting it be your guide - for 10 minutes each morning. If she’s calling you deeper, though, perhaps it’s time to reach out to Nicole to see if there is a space left in Invoke Your Medicine Woman, next week.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
14 Sep 2021
How to Connect to the Wild to Discover Your Truth
01:07:05
On the Secret Witch Show today we have Salena Walker. Salena lives off-grid in the woods. She loves growing organic herbs, flowers, fruit and vegetables and focusing on creating a healthy body, healthy mind and healthy planet. Her mission in life is to connect others to their internal and external environment, focusing on what they drink, eat, breathe, think - and even excrete!
Her real deep dive into the world of naturopathy and nutrition began back in 2008 when she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Pernicious Anaemia. She started her studies with the intention of learning and she healed my autoimmune dis-ease and ended up becoming a practitioner, a naturopathic teacher, writer and a motivational wellness speaker!
In this episode we begin to understand the importance of rewilding for the Secret Witch. We illuminate how the Wild can help us discover our truth and power. We dive into how we can talk to the Wild and let it speak to us, what we can learn from the wild’s cycles, how we can take powerful, Soul-aligned action to align with nature, and how the wild can help us connect to our bodies.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Why our bodies need rewilding - we can so often think we are on track to having our dream life when we are living unconsciously in this spiritless society, but it may not be fulfilling and can leave us feeling we are lacking - and our bodies can take the physical hit on that.
The best way to navigate our lacking of wildness is to begin to listen in deeper to our wisdom and the wisdom of the natural world
We *are* the wild - in fact, we are wild *animals* so we need to be exposed to the wild in order to thrive and balance our inner and outer worlds
We need to give ourselves permission to invite the wild in and then get intimate with it. There’s no right or wrong way of doing this, so let yourself be guided by intuition
Every interaction with the wild should be intentional to harness the real magic of it, so we simply need to set an intention for our interaction with the wild and how it can support us in reclaiming our power and creating a magical life.
Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells and the wild can help us look after them. If we eat food from the wild that supports our cells, it becomes inevitable to eat a more plant-based diet because we are only putting things in our body that it longs for. However, we have to meet our body where it’s at and start small.
Our bodies and the wild all operate on natural cycles - nature and the female body are both cyclical - e.g. the moon has a cycle. Again, there’s no right or wrong, but to connect back into a rhythm with it, bathe in the full moon to remind your body what it should be doing.
Our Wild Witch can be found in nature, and we need to give ourselves permission to find her there.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
16 Apr 2024
Where to begin in your journey of opening to becoming a healer - how to work with our Starter Pack and Illumination Workbook - BONUS EPISODE
00:41:18
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the sense of ‘overwhelm’ that can often be felt in knowing ‘where to start’ in the journey of opening to becoming a healer - especially with the amount of ‘quick fix’ false promises on offer, that can leave us disheartened. She explores how you might know you are feeling the call to be a healer (even amidst the fears) - and how to get clarity on your next tender steps in your journey, helping you answering the question: “where do I begin?”
In this episode Nicole explores the most potent ‘Archetypal Apothecary’ resources that can help you begin to open to your gifts - inviting you to begin with our potent ‘Starter Pack’ which is packed with all the information you need to begin to access your own wisdom about how to become a healer from integrity and honesty. She shares how to work with the ‘Illumination Workbook’ in particular, which provides a guide to self-illumination and self-discovery of 3 things that will help you get clarity to move forwards: your ‘Fears’ (what’s holding you back), your ‘Soul’s Vision’ (which should always be your ‘compass’) and your ‘Next Steps’ (what’s the next breadcrumb for you to follow) - whether that’s something in our path, or something else entirely.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
It can so often be overwhelming when we begin to open to the journey of becoming a healer - there are so many opinions ‘out there’, externally, as to where to begin - including many ‘quick fix’ promises, that heart-breakingly often leave us feeling disappointed
And yet, the most potent place to begin is by accessing your own wisdom; via self-illumination and self-discovery (one of the 8 Elements of our path) which can help you begin to heal yourself
The Archetypal Apothecary ‘Starter Kit’ and ‘Illumination Workbook’ are the resources that guide you into the 3 potent explorations of your ‘Fears’ (what holds you back), your ‘Soul Vision’ (which becomes your compass) and offers clarity on your ‘Next Steps’ (the next breadcrumb you’re being called to take)
If you don’t know where to begin, start there - there’s so much gold in this resource; it’s not like your average ‘free’ resource; we put *everything* we possibly can into our free resources (just as we would a paid journey), and there’s hundreds of pounds worth of value in them
The invitation is to not rush your journey with the Starter Pack and Illumination Workbook - there’s gold in these resources that’s been intentionally designed as the tender first steps, but they won’t be a ‘quick fix’, they do require you to take some time working through the potent enquiries, practices and rituals in there for you
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
09 Nov 2021
How To Embody The Energetic of Your Witchy Goddess
01:09:32
On the Secret Witch Show today we haveZakiya Gayle. Zaki is the artist that women find when they are at a crossroads. For over a decade, she has assisted hundreds of women to rediscover their individuality, reclaim their power, and change their world. If you have ever felt like you are going through life around 60 -70% of what you are capable of being, and you are ready to change that, this is where Zakiya steps in. Through physical works or in-person experiences, she reinforces the person you are Becoming. Her success rate has caused her clients to call her “The Confident Woman’s Secret Weapon”
In this episode we dive into the importance of connecting to our Feminine bodies to create a life of magic, the importance of our body’s senses, the importance of going into our darkness and practical ways we can embody the energetic we desire to live from.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The work of Soul is as important as the work of a doctor who heals the body - without it, we are empty vessels
As women, we often feel we have to operate from logic and we place a lot of value on our sense of sight because that is most valued by the world we live in; and yet, as a woman, there are so many more senses - such as our deep intuition - *all* our senses are important if we want to live a magical life
The body needs to understand, not just the mind - in ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were created via symbols in order to help the body remember the energy - a bit like if we take a photo we remember the energy of the moment in our bodies
To appreciate all of our senses, we must be willing to go into the darkness which is where we begin to feel them all
The most important thing, if we want to embody our Goddess, is that we intentionally embody the energetic we desire. This can be done in lots of ways, but we must bring the energetic we desire into everything we create or consume. Our senses can be the portal for this, too.
There are so many embodiment practices to support us in this - being naked is a great practice to allow ourselves to get comfortable with our truth, as well as alivening all of our senses
We so often shame our bodies, and yet the real work is in offering them enough love that we can radically approve of them - the way to do this is to be willing to go into the darkness and be with it
Firstly, we must be willing to choose ourselves, even (and especially) when that choosing feels uncomfortable - can we still choose ourselves when others need us? We can only embody our Goddess when we are willing to put ourselves first - otherwise, we are left with half-hearted versions of ourselves.
Choosing ourselves allows us to be of deeper service to the world in our whole, magical gifts
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
26 Sep 2023
How To Work with the Ancient Technology of Dreams for Healing
01:01:45
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
17 Aug 2021
How to Embrace the Power of the Divine Feminine
01:03:55
On the Secret Witch Show today we have Mariana Louis. Mariana is a tarot reader, scholar, and writer from New York City. She is the creator of Persephone's Sister, a platform for spiritual education and magical guidance, blending depth psychology, sacred feminism, and witchcraft. She works both with one-on-one clients as an intuitive reader, and leads community seminars and circles for soulful deepening and learning. She is also a lover of the poetry of Rilke, the music of Hildegard von Bingen, and the sweetness of her husband and kitty familiars.
In this episode, we explore the Divine Feminine and Her Archetypes as a mirror for our lives, illuminating the role of the Divine Feminine in our capacity for creating magical lives - and understanding how we can embrace the Feminine lens to liberate our wounds and harness our own personal power - as well as sharing some practical tips!
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The Divine Feminine lens and archetypes are really a powerful mirrors that we can use to make sense of our experiences in life - there are so many different powerful stories within us that we can resonate with to learn more about our experience of life.
Our wounds - even our simple day to day dramas - are pointing us to dive deeper into exploring where we are expressing different archetypes - and archetypes can be a really powerful tool to illuminate the wounds we have and begin to reclaim our power
Often our wounds are pointing us to what needs to be illuminated and freed - e.g. our old stories about the Masculine are ready to be seen and liberated for us to move into new ways of being with our Feminine
The word ‘power’ can conjure up images of masculinity, but our Feminine power is felt as a quiet, pure Sovereignty - a power from love - and a great archetype that represents this is the Black Madonna.
It is important when looking at the Divine Feminine that we also balance the Divine Masculine - a really interesting lens is that the feminine is felt in the body and represents the soul, and the masculine is representative of as Spirit - and life is a beautiful co-creation of the two
We can harness the Divine Feminine practically in our lives in ways such as using our words more consciously - e.g. using the word Goddess instead of God, lighting a candle to be shown more about our complexity, and being more embodied. It’s about finding your own unique expression of the Feminine.
Dancing in the Flames - The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness - Marion Woodman
Coming Home to Myself - Marion Woodman and Jill Mellick
When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone
Goddesses in Everywoman - Jean Bolan
The Spiral Dance - Starhawk
The Queen’s Code - 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!
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Nicole xox
12 Sep 2023
How To Magically Tend To Your Trauma So You Can Fully Express Your Truth
01:03:51
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
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
14 Feb 2023
How To Liberate Your Soul's Unconscious Shadow Patterns
00:58:11
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of the most important facets of our path here at Team Secret Witch - liberating your soul’s unconscious shadow. She explores how real, deep shadow work is often the missing piece of the puzzle in becoming a true, heart-led Feminine healing leader, and serving your soul gifts to the world.
In this episode we dive into all things shadow work and wound healing, explaining how the Witch Wound is one of the big collective shadows that needs self-healing for you to live the life your soul came here for - and how your unique gift is hiding in your deepest wound.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
True deep shadow work is the secret solution to creating *everything* your heart longs for - for witches, it’s what unlocks their capacity to discover their gifts and create a legitimate business as a heart-led, Feminine healing leader
The thing about shadow is, it is unconscious and really confronting to face - and you also get a hella lot of kinky pleasures from being in it. This makes shadow challenging to spot easily by ourselves - which can be hard to work with; the deep work is to make what’s unconscious conscious so you can reclaim your power
Unless you’re doing the deep self-healing work of illuminating your unconscious shadow patterns and loving your little girl’s shame so that you can reclaim your soul’s wholeness, you are NOT integrating - even though you may have been taught that you are, by those ‘goddess lite’ paths which often play archetypal dress up and call it shadow work
One of the core shadow wounds for a Witch is that of the Witch Wound - about self-expression (which is required to heal to discover your medicine)
Your deepest wound contains your gifts - so you have to be willing to go into your shadow to heal yourself, in order to discover your true soul purpose - and serve your gifts into the world
Self-healing yourself of shadow is necessary for you AND others - you can’t serve your spiritual gifts with integrity without having integrated and healed your own shadow (and no one can do that for you, either!)
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
05 Dec 2023
How Understanding your 'Personality Type' can Reveal your Soul Plan
00:48:37
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
17 Dec 2024
Sharing My Magical Voice and Risking Being Burned at the Stake - Special Interview with Nicole Celebrating 100 Episodes
01:21:56
On this unique, celebratory 100th episode of the Secret Witch Show today Jamie Wozny takes the hostess role for a special interview with Creatrix of the show, Nicole Barton. Nicole is a witch on a mission to help Secret Witches - aka secretly magical women who hide their power - to live their true destiny by expressing their unapologetic magic. She does this by helping women to heal themselves, discover their gifts and heal the fear of expressing their authentic selves. Through her Top 10% Secret Witch Show podcast and her Archetypal Apothecary™ healing modality - which have helped multiple TENS of thousands of listeners - Nicole guides women to understand their soul’s unique plan and harness it to become the magical healer witches their souls were destined to be.
In this episode we dived into how and why Nicole created the Secret Witch show, how she healed herself through the show by embodying her Feminine power and expressing her magical voice - and how she risked being burned at the stake for her true expression - celebrating all the magic and joy that has been created along the way! We explored that the show has become an ‘apothecary’, serving archetypal medicine in each episode, and explored the themes of voice liberation, vulnerability and the healing journey with the witch as an archetypal remedy in her own right.
Nicole wants to offer a special thanks to Jamie Wozny for being an incredible hostess for this episode - I love you, woman.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The Secret Witch is a sensitive woman who is secretly powerful and magical and longs to live her destiny but who feels burdened and burned out by her mundane life of busyness where she runs around people-pleasing and feels exhausted. By working with the ‘witch’ as a mirror for aspects of ourselves we have shamed, we can open to our inner apothecary for self-healing, discover our healing gifts and learn to express them in the world
The Witch as an archetypal remedy - aka a lens for self-discovery - represents healing, creation and feminine power and true soul expression - and that’s what she helps us reclaim - if we can have a courageous, vulnerable, open heart to our possibility
There can be a lot of fear that arises in the journey of self-healing and becoming a healer. That’s normal - our fear is often a confirmation of the path we are being called to. *And* embracing and sharing our vulnerability, fears and authentic selves is crucial in reclaiming our voice and power - even (and especially when people think we are ‘weird’).
Reclaiming our gifts and voice is an embodied journey of ‘living into’ our medicine. We each have our own unique archetypal remedy to share - and we have to reclaim our gifts through an embodied experience, rather than learning intellectually - and working with archetypal remedies is a great way to do this. The podcast is a great example of how Nicole lived into her medicine as she listened to the intuitive nudges, and healed and expanded herself, leaning into her true soul expression.
Healing is an ongoing process; it will never be ‘complete’ - the real gift is learning the art and science of loving, compassionate self-healing so we can provide that for ourselves throughout our lives, learning to tenderly meet challenges and reclaim our gifts from our wounds - and celebrate our small victories, taking the next aligned-action as we go
Sharing our voice can be scary, because of the witch wound - and if we are fearing that, it’s just a sign there’s more healing to do of our inner witch (who has often experienced much trauma in her lifetime). This is something that Nicole has lived into - and is still living into - as she’s journeyed with creating the podcast - and here we are, with a treasure trove of 100 episodes later, with a Top 10% show that has helped thousands of women! It’s so worth the journey.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
12 Apr 2022
How to Stop Suppressing Your Soul and be your Fullest Energetic Expression
01:11:03
In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the medicinal topic of how to stop suppressing your Soul and be the fullest energetic expression of yourself. This is one of those subjects that is so core to the Secret Witch - in fact, it’s why she’s called “Secret” - because she hides her full expression.
In this episode I explore how any feelings of burn-out, illness, dis-ease or disconnection are often signs of Soul sickness and suppression, calling for us to listen. I illuminate some Alchemy Queendoms that explore ways the Secret Witch typically suppresses herself, along with how these can be alchemised into our gold, so that we can become the fullest expression of our gifts into the world.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Today’s episode was really illuminating of all things suppression and expression. Here are my takeaways:
Secret Witches often innocently and unconsciously suppress their Souls, and yet actually have a deep call to being their fullest Truth - the language of expressed Truth is my deep Soul language
Our energy is taken up by shadow working hard to suppress the parts of ourselves that we feel will not gain us approval, control or security. And yet, we are an unlimited source of energy. If we don’t feel that, it’s likely because we are suppressing ourselves somewhere.
In each of these energetic suppressed states, there is gold available for us - and I explored some of the ways that this shows up in the Secret Witch, through our Alchemy Queendoms
We literally feel suppression in our bodies - we contort our bodies into being small - and that’s why the work of this path is to embody an expanded energetic of power from love
When we learn to love ourselves enough to be our fullest expression in the world, this is not only medicine for ourselves, but also for others - and the effects of us being in our full energetic expression ripple love into the world
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
30 Aug 2022
How to Lovingly Liberate your Money Fears
01:25:51
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole dives into how magical women often have deep money fears that prevent them from being the magical, beautiful, medicinal gifts their souls came here to be. She dives into how and why these fears often show up for the Secret Witch (who doesn’t know her power and magic), and how women can begin to alchemise these, to be intimate and deeply in love with money.
In this magical episode, Nicole shares her own journey with money alchemy - and especially around creating abundance from living a soul-led life, embodying her Feminine, which was where much of her alchemy was. She also explores the truth that “how we are with money is typically how we are in life” - and what money can reveal about the deeper patterns at play in our choices to live from soul
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Money is a common fear of the Secret Witch - who doesn’t yet know her power and magic - and it is important not to bypass this fear, but to look at it directly with love, so that the fears can begin to be alchemised
How we are with money is typically how we are in life - our fear is often not really about the money, but the underlying patterns - which can often be Control, Approval, or Security based
The Remedy of the Wild - Arsenicum - can help Nicole’s Phosphoric women to unravel the layers of money trauma that allow them to be back in the full expression of their soul and who they came here to be - which is magical, sensitive women who have come here with a burning desire to create something
Money can often feel very Masculine and hard - and as women, we are built to receive the Masculine - but it takes us to soften, open and receive the Masculine in order to receive His provisions fully - the more we can embody our Feminine, the juicier our relationship will be
Choosing to create abundance is really a deeper energetic choosing, into a new story - we do this by lovingly illuminating our Old Stories and noticing them - until we can look at money and feel money from a place of love - create it from alignment with soul. And it is possible to be in love with money!
The first step is choosing to deepen into intimacy with money - there are some really powerful, practical ways to do this - via the noticing enquiry in the mini workshop in this episode, and also the 5 practices offered
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Nicole xox
08 Oct 2024
How to engage with shadow work to claim your inner magic as a healer
01:05:22
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Nikki Van De Car. Nikki is the author of over a dozen books on magic and crafting, including the bestselling ‘Practical Magic’. She is an indigenous creator, focusing on exploring the ways in which stories inform how we understand the world and ourselves. She is a woman in search of magic, in the crunch of leaves and the scratch of a pencil, the brush of lips on a temple, and the sound of voices raised in song.
In this episode Nicole and Nikki delve into the shadow work and how our shadow can have us hiding ourselves (and our inner witch) - with Nikki sharing her story of how she embraced her identity as a witch by befriending her shadow. We discussed the importance and therapeutic value in feeling our emotions, welcoming and accepting ‘all’, integrating our darkness, and dispelling the stigmas around our fear, guilt and shame - especially for ‘Secret Witches’ who want to become healers. We explored the integration of our shadow through self-illumination - and how it can help us reclaim our wholeness and creativity. Nikki shared some ‘practical’ methods including a beautiful meditation, ritual, working with symbols and nature magic.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Shadow work involves acknowledging and befriending the darker aspects of ourselves, rather than trying to eradicate them - this process helps us achieve self-illumination, self-healing and a return to wholeness
We tend to suppress our inner witch as adults, though our inner child remembers a time when we were free to express that magic - and we can reclaim this with deconditioning
Emotions such as anger, sadness and envy are best to be expressed, not suppressed - acknowledging and welcoming these emotions is essential for freedom and creativity
Shadow magic doesn’t have to be something we carve huge chunks of time out to ‘do’ - we can integrate it into our every day, making shadow work and magic a part of our lives - by being in ongoing self loving illumination. That said, there are also lots of fun practical rituals we explored if you want to journey that way!
Recognising and loving the inner child is crucial in shadow work - it’s helpful to remember that our shadow is really just the scared, childlike part of us, who wants love. We can provide that love by imagining we are speaking to this part of ourselves as if it were a best friend or a small child
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22 Oct 2024
How to heal ourselves with our own 'Inner Apothecary' - so that we can pass that wisdom on as healers
00:53:54
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the importance of self-healing using our ‘inner apothecary’, explaining what exactly that is, and how we can work with anything as a remedy symbolically for deep healing self-illumination work. She explores the role of the Witch (and the aspects of healer and creatrix) in accessing our apothecary for reclaiming lost parts of ourselves, encouraging listeners to know their power to heal themselves - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
In this episode Nicole teaches about the art and science of magical healing and its universal laws, and how important it is to learn to work with these to heal ourselves so that we can become healing activators for others. She empowers you to be able to play with Archetypal Remedies for your own healing, so that you can one day become a guide to others on their healing journey.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Healing is an art and a science, grounded in universal laws and principles - and when we take self-responsibility for learning this art and science, we can heal ourselves
Physical manifestations are expressions of lost parts of our souls that are wanting to be reclaimed - and we can do this by working with Archetypal Remedies for self-healing
We each have an “inner apothecary” of Archetypal Remedies - energy remedies that we can work with ourselves for self-illumination and healing
Anything can be a remedy, as long as we work with it symbolically, intentionally and responsibly
We can tune into our inner remedies through archetypes, symbols and nature - examples of Archetypal Remedies include the Rose, the Bee and the Moon - each of these things can teach us about lost, suppressed aspects of our souls (for example, the Bee is a symbol of our busyness)
We each have a unique soul map of remedies to work with, and doing so helps us to heal, and reclaim our gifts
As we heal ourselves, we become a remedy for others similar to us (“like cures like” principle) - and this is how we truly ‘become’ healer witches.
Resources and things that we spoke about:
Base Formula Blogs - Essential Oils as Personalities / Using Aromatherapy to Embody your Chosen Archetype:
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23 Apr 2024
How to heal your 'inner healer's' fear of judgement and rejection so you can share your gifts authentically
01:09:50
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the juicy topic of one of the most common fears of becoming a healer, teacher or guide: the fear of ‘judgement’ and ‘rejection - and how to heal it so you can share your gifts authentically. She explores the Archetypal Remedy that you can harness to begin to unconditionally love and approve of yourself enough to not need approval, sharing a vulnerable story about her own experience of rejection and how going *into* the experience of rejection helped her heal her fear.
In this episode we explore the 3 stages of reclamation of our wild, authentic, true expression, why it’s important for healers that we are authentic, the signs we are being called to heal our fear of judgement and rejection - and the most important things to do as a beginning step into this self-healing.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The common fear of being a healer and being ‘judged’ and ‘rejected’ is part of the Witch Wound, which makes sense due to epigenetics and how we feel this fear ingrained in our bodies
The challenge with healing our fear of ‘judgement’ and ‘rejection’ is that we have to experience it to fully liberate ourselves from it
We can take small, tender steps into learning to heal our expression, rather than having to make big leaps - steps that have us expand with a well-tended nervous system
The deep work of healing involves us learning to unconditionally love ourselves, harnessing Archetypal Mama She-Wolf’s (or Lupa’s) self-motherly energy. When we love ourselves deeply enough, others rejecting us can’t have the same impact
There’s a swing between the poles of Good Girl and Rebel that is often needed as we begin to heal our fear of judgement and rejection - and claim our true ‘wildness’ - but the real alchemy is in the ‘third way’; the way of learning to be our true, authentic selves, from love and vulnerability - baring our souls as the medicine they are.
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27 Aug 2024
How to embrace the mystery and trust our natural rhythms - even when we are tempted to mistrust
01:04:55
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Simone Stevens. Sim is an intuitive energy healer, Sekhem practitioner, Psychic medium and practising witch, who is dedicated to offering healing ceremonial sessions, treatments, ritual circles and workshops to guide the mystically and spiritually curious to find their innate magic and alignment. Sim focuses her work around connection to energy and spirit, be that of Spirit realms, plants, ancient energy healing practices, divination tools, sound or crystals. Sim believes that supporting clients to work more closely with their intuition is the portal to profound, positive, and aligned change in their lives.
In this episode we explored how to embrace magic and mystery and how to learn to trust our intuition - even when we are conditioned to mistrust it. We explored the common ‘Healers Journey’ of initiation into the mystery (often via burnout and panic attacks), and how us feeling disconnected from our true selves is often the way we are called into our gifts. We explored the importance of stillness, honouring the natural rhythms and cycles of our bodies - and even navigating mistrust of others in our ‘spirituality’ - to reclaim our innate magic. We dived into some practical steps of tuning into our ‘gut feelings’, and a deeper exploration of intuition versus ego - and the importance of self-compassion along the way.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
For those who long to be healers, embracing magic and mystery is vital - though we can often have wounding and fear around trusting our intuition that wants to be healed for ourselves first
The mundane world can lead us sensitive souls to manifest symptoms of burn out and panic attacks which can feel like ‘rock bottom’, even when we look like we’ve ‘got it all together’. These are actually a sign of a deeper call into our intuition and magical healing gifts - often these messy dark portals of mystery are catalysts for our deeper purpose - and a required part of the path
It can be hard to open when we feel like this, and it is often in the moment where we think there’s no other choice that intuition kicks in. Staying curious helps us open more fully to trusting our intuition, begin to hear our body and open to our magic - it often requires us to ‘unlearn’ years of conditioning
Practising stillness and carving our time for self-illumination are essential to help us tune unto our natural rhythms and intuition - and this can be cultivated with a practice Sim shares regarding listening to our ‘gut feeling’, to build our ‘intuitive muscle’
The more we heal self-doubt of our magic and intuition, the more others meet us in that - it can be a common fear for the Secret Witch to think that others will judge her as a ‘lunatic’, but when we truly welcome our intuition, and magic, others can too
It’s important to hear our intuition, and it’s taking aligned-action that actually heals - each time we act on synchronicities or inner nudges we are building trust in our intuitive voice
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
02 Aug 2022
How to Harness Magic to Grow Hope into Possibility and Belief
00:58:19
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into how magical women often doubt and resist their own magic, leaving them struggling to choose it - which can keep them from walking into the gateway to their possibility, and deeper devotion to their souls. She explores how women often arrive at this path with burning soul desires, that requires them to alchemise it from simply being a ‘hope,’ into coming to know and believe in it being possible for them to actually create.
In this episode we explore how to keep powerfully choosing into the next gateway, so you can manifest what your heart longs for, how and why we create material for our liberation and come up against wounds along the way, which requires us to love ourselves enough to stay open and keep choosing it. And how, if we do keep choosing into our belief in magic, it becomes inevitable that we become who our soul came here to be.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Often Secret Witches, who doubt their magic and power, will have a burning desire and longing, that is sabotaged by us choosing out of cultivating hope, belief and knowing of what’s possible.
We can heal this, by becoming our own remedy, rather than thinking we have to wait for hope and possibility to arrive to us - discovering that we can cultivate it ourselves is revolutionary - to know our own capacity to create even hope is powerful
There are some gateways to walk through - it starts with cultivating hope, then when you’ve got that, you move to cultivating belief, and knowing of the possibility - and eventually that creates a deeper devotion to soul and your own magic
You can spot which level you are in by noticing the phrases that you say - e.g. “I hope I can heal” versus “I know I can heal”
At each gateway, we will get sent tests - our material for liberation - to choose into a deeper level of commitment to our visions - and this is really our initiation into the next gateway, at which point we are asked to keep choosing to cultivate possibility. It is all an uplevelling of our possibility.
And we have to choose whether we really want to commit to that burning desire, or not choose it - and either way we are choosing something.
The Secret Witch will innocently struggle with this because one of her key shadows is helplessness, which she has learned, so innocently as a pattern, and which stops her seeing the possibility unless she learns to love that about herself
Really, it is all really about choosing past that helplessness fear in order to become ‘generative,’ which is the key to magic - seeing the possibility, instead of lack.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
14 Jan 2025
Why sisterhood is vital in our healing (especially for your Secret Witch, who may want to hide)
01:09:13
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the profound importance of ‘sisterhood’ in the healing journeys of women - especially those who are ‘Secret Witches’. She dives into how Secret Witches can feel resistance to sisterhood, yet being part of a supportive, magical community of likeminded women can truly transform our lives - helping us overcome fears, self-doubt, mistrust and the ‘witch wound’ that hold us back from having a voice and expressing our authentic selves and living our true destiny as healers.
In this episode we explore the self-healing magic that sisterhood offers us - including self-reflection, a space for vulnerability, a place for discovering our gifts and gold via the mirror that others hold for us to our wounds and triggers. She explores how the ancient feminine wisdom of sisterhood offers provision of a safe and intentional space for us to engage in healing ceremony, share experiences and receive reflections that aid self-illumination - *if* we consciously choose to work with sisterhood this way - with sisters being remedies for us.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
For Secret Witches, there’s nothing so healing as sisterhood to help us learn how to fully express our true, authentic selves - it can help us overcome our fear of judgement and being outcast - and other fears we have around stepping into our witchy gifts
Being able to be intimate with others is important in the journey of becoming a healer for ourselves - and in living our destiny as healers for others
People are remedies and act as mirrors for our own self-illumination (aka loving healing)
Safe spaces of vulnerability and reflection are so vital for our healing - especially in a world where we have learned to operate as silos (keeping ourselves disconnected and isolated in our masculinised culture)
Sisterhood serves as a space in which we can discover our gifts, and practice honing our skills as healing practitioners
There is opportunity for ‘reflection’ within conscious sisterhood spaces that allows us access to our own inner wisdom - which activates real healing (as opposed to advice and ‘quick fix’ solutions which take us away from our wisdom)
True healing comes from within, facilitated by the supportive environment of a sisterhood that encourages self-reflection and personal growth
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10 Oct 2023
The 'What, Why and How' of 'Archetypal Remedies'
01:36:30
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.
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05 Jul 2022
How to Express your Witch in a Modern World that Doesn't Approve
01:05:43
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of the biggest fears of the Secret Witch: how to express your Witch in a modern world that doesn’t approve. Nicole explores why magical women often struggle with the Witch Wound fear of being outcast from the world - and why they often avoid being their medicine because of that - as well as how going into the wild and leaning into love yourself deeper can liberate your shadow fear of approval.
In this episode Nicole explores what’s possible when you begin to embody your Witch Queen for yourself before beginning to express her into the world, why there’s no “quick fix” for the Witch, and why women need the Remedy of the Feminine to liberate the old stories that they have around being a Good Girl (or even rebelling against being approved of), so you can live as your full expression of your Witch.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The Secret Witch often feels the fear of approval, from not only her Old Stories, but also from the Old Stories of generations that have been held in her body’s cells as truth; if this is you, these stories are ready for liberation
Often, this will have Nicole’s magical women arrive at this podcast feeling burned out and burdened from having run around looking after everyone else’s needs, rather than tending to her own true needs, and she will be exhausted.
It is important as a Witch to plug yourself back into to Mama Earth - the Witch’s natural habitat - in order to restore your vital life force energy. The more you embody this for yourself, the more your nervous system will feel at ease, so that you can begin to be in the work of liberating some of these old shadowy fears about approval
Often Nicole’s women are deeply sensitive - and sometimes Neurodivergent - yet rarely they see this - or their Witchy capacity to hold and love the darkness in life - as a gift, and instead try to fit into a modern world that just doesn’t suit them and their uniqueness. The work of this path is to come to see your sensitivity and Witchiness as a deep gift and medicine for others who experience the same.
Our Maidens learned we were victims to the modern world; and this often, innocently, keeps them on the drama triangle - yet, we simply missed our initiation into our power - and that rise into adulthood can be reclaimed via walking the path of embodying your Feminine Mystery and your Witch Queen
The deep invitation here is to return to unconditional love - and reclaim your power from love; where is the lack of approval really coming from? Is it your own story - and where does that need love?
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
31 Jan 2023
How to Harness the Secret Healing Intelligence of Water
01:38:11
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Veda Austin. Veda is a water researcher, public speaker, mother, artist and author. She has dedicated the last 8 years to observing and photographing the life of water and believes that water is fluid intelligence, observing itself through every living organism on the planet and in the Universe. Her primary area of focus is photographing water in its ‘state of creation’ - the space between liquid and ice - and her remarkable crystallographic photos are nothing short of amazing. Veda has demonstrated how water responds to our thinking - in ways that we would have thought unimaginable.
In this episode we take a deep dive into exploring water science - i.e. how water has a secret fluid intelligence - and the implications of that, exploring how we can harness this science and art for deep self-healing.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
We are 99% water, which means there are more water molecules in our bodies than stars in the Milky Way - when we cry, cut ourselves, go to the bathroom, exercise, we leak. We are fluid; but we look in the mirror with our fourth phase, 99% liquid crystal eye lenses and we see our bodies as solid.
If eyes are the windows to the soul, then tears are an expression of spirit. We can engage in relationship to the Spirit of Water for deep healing. The Spirit of Water is able to be the observer, and come and go from the body, but its tether is the electrical charge - and one of the reasons that people who have had near death experiences have been able to come back to their bodies is because there is a very weak electrical charge coming from the brain for 10-15 minutes after death.
If we think about this fact that water has something to do with spirit, then that applies to plants and other kinds of remedies - and when something is diluted, the closer to spirit it becomes - this makes sense of energetic remedies like homeopathy. We are essentially invoking the spirits of the remedies (which is the lineage of this path) - and water can demonstrate the spirits of these remedies in its crystalised form - water is hungry for information and will observe it and show you.
Water itself is a remedy - and, given that it observes the energy of things, when we crystallize energies in water, they can be consumed in ice to have healing effects.
Spinal fluid is the portal to Cosmic Consciousness. When we sleep, our brain is bathed in this fluid that moves like the ocean, in and out - in essence, we have an ocean within us (which reminds us of the quote “you are not a drop in the ocean, you are an ocean in a drop” by Rumi)
Water responds to us - and we can play with it by using Veda’s technique - more details are in the show notes as to how to find her work.
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Nicole xox
17 Jan 2023
How Unconscious Distraction And Chaos Pulls You From Your Soul's True Purpose
00:49:06
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores how unconscious distraction and chaos stops you living your soul’s purpose and expressing your gifts. She dives into the ways that magical ones typically distract from their mission - and why - and explains how we can own our power.
In this episode Nicole explored her own journey with liberating her voice and serving her medicine - and all the distractions that she faced along the way (and how she was actually the creatrix of them). And how owning her power helped her to keep showing up.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
As magical ones, when we are called into living from truth and expressing our soul’s gifts and medicine, we *will* hit up against fear - and fear will create distraction and chaos for us, unconsciously.
It is painful, at times, to own our Witchy power that we are even creating what we say we don’t want - but when we look that in the eyes honestly, it offers us the chance to choose to own our power to create what we do want.
Your shadow creates unconsciously - and that’s why this is innocent, and it’s important to love ourselves as that’s the only way we can come back to our soul’s wholeness - which really is the medicine we need.
Our inner Good Girl shadow creates distractions and our inner Rebel shadow creates chaos. And neither are the real you. The invitation is to dive deeply into finding your voice - your true voice - which lies beyond this shadow polarity.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole xox
20 Jul 2021
How to Listen Deeply to Your Body to Create Healing Magic
01:02:21
On the Secret Witch Show today, we have the wonderful Charlie Merton. Charlie began teaching yoga in 2011 after a decade of self-practice. Since then, her style has evolved into a slow, creative hatha and breath-based flow practice. She offers a unique combination of integral practices in which people chant, breath, move and relax deeply into their bodies. She has a Masters in Music Psychotherapy and is certified in various yogic disciplines such as Sivananda, Yin, Restorative yoga, Yoga nidra, pranayama, Kundalini and Tantra, as well as being a certified crystal and sound therapist. She runs her own yoga practice in London and also enjoys playing her many gongs.
We dived into a *lot* in this show - from how we can be so disconnected from our bodies via trauma that we can’t create healing magic, to how our bodies are a beautiful guidance system to be nurtured, that are simply inviting us to listen in. Enjoy!
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
We can become very disconnected from our bodies in our trauma, and this leads us to dissociate and go away to some other planet. It’s a defense mechanism - a way of checking out - and it’s common, often, especially when we feel *everything* so very deeply.
We can tell what’s *for us* and what’s *not* from the sensations in our body - often we ignore these, but even still, we *know* on a deep Soul level - we just often ignore it. This might show up as us “asking for permission” for what’s really aligned for us - e.g. Charlie shared her own unique experience of wanting permission from her parents to not get married - because we are so used to people pleasing - and often don’t have enough faith in our own power.
If we don’t listen to our bodies, we will pay the price through the manifestation of dis-ease in the body - for example, being unable to breathe, suffering panic attacks and unpleasant sensations and illness - and even accidents that may “wake us up” - and crack us open
At any point, though, we can begin again to learn to tune in and listen with our Body Guidance System - our heart compass - and trust our Soul’s instincts to be able to feel into different things in life.
The way to listening in is really unique and individual, but we can begin to openly, lovingly and curiously listen to sensation as a messenger about the mystery of ourselves! A good question to ask is: “how is my body responding to this?” - and we can ask this question of everything - including whether we are following our Soul’s path.
We need to create safety for ourselves to feel everything - digesting our emotions is a practice - and emotional intelligence is a skill for life! Bringing our awareness to basic level sensation is a powerful practice to create autonomy with our nervous system, and we get better at feeling - and welcoming all feelings - and working to our edge.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
17 May 2022
How to Heal from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Bonus Episode
01:05:34
We have a special bonus episode for you this week to celebrate our 1 Year Secret Witch Show Birthday! On the show today, Nicole is honoured to be exploring a topic close to her heart - how magical women can begin to heal from Chronic Fatigue by allowing their fullest expression of soul to begin to express itself. She shares her own journey of healing and invites you into seeing the possibility for you to begin to heal yourselves, and move from hope into belief that it is possible for you. What’s the alternative?
In this episode Nicole explores how CFS is a symptom of our soul being suppressed - and what’s the deeper cause of this, as well as exploring how the body tries to wake us up. She invites you into deeper enquiry and reflection so that you can continue to take aligned action to begin your own deeply healing journey.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Chronic Fatigue is a common expression of the Secret Witch - yet there can be some resistance to the Witch archetype in women who are here to learn to heal themselves
Often women who do have CFS will be where Nicole once was; in hope that there’s some way of healing, but not yet fully in their possibility - and it is the work of soul and magic that helps you to cultivate the belief in your own power and magical healing
We live in a society that values Masculine ways of being - linear solutions, forcing, pushing, doing, knowing, keeping up with time, and being busy - and yet the Witch is a deeply Feminine being; this is why she often has CFS - fitting into a world that doesn’t suit her
The deepest creation of CFS comes from our soul suppression; it takes so much energy to suppress ourselves from being who we really are - and the healing lies in our soul’s expression
We need to go into deeper enquiry to see the shadow fears creating CFS - and we must go there with complete love, so love is on the most important first steps to healing
It is often our shadowy, fearful patterns of being the good girl, seeking approval, rescuing others, and feeling unworthy, shameful, or guilty. These things can keep us from allowing ourselves to listen to the call of soul - and it’s in these patterns that our bodies begin to send symptoms to wake us up.
Nicole invites you to consider the costs and benefits of continuing to suppress your soul and to choose to begin to take small steps to liberate yourself for deep healing. It is important to choose this consciously as the path of soul is often a journey that isn’t easy - but it’s the only journey that is so worth it.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
19 Dec 2023
How to harness plant medicine for meaningful impact
00:48:44
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
31 Dec 2024
How to work more deeply with reiki and energetic alchemy for self-awakening
01:14:49
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Yolanda Williams. Yolanda is a Reiki teacher and host of the fabulous ‘Reiki Radio’ podcast. She is an Energetic Alchemist, also certified in Wellness Counseling, through Cornell University. Her work facilitates new levels of self-connection and reveals the dynamics of mind, body and energy. Yolanda's classes include Usui Reiki, all levels, in San Diego, as well as mentoring and intuitive awakening courses, online.
In this episode we explore all things ‘energetic alchemy’. We dived into Yolanda’s uniquely deep perspective of Reiki, investigating how it can be a powerful portal of ‘inner work’ and self-awakening that offers healing of the mind, body spirit - rather than something ‘external’ as it is often seen. We discussed some of the surface-level misunderstandings of reiki, and explore the nuances of how we can harness energetic alchemy for ourselves - beyond outsourcing our power to others - to actually peel back layers of ourselves, see where we are projecting, connect to our intuition and unlock hidden aspects of ourselves. Including our unique gifts!
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
When we first feel a call to energetic alchemy, we can feel alone in our journey - we might know we are sensitive, but can feel ‘weird’ or ‘odd’ in that. Energy healing can help us begin to understand this aspect of ourselves - in whatever form that takes
Reiki is a tool that can help us find a way into energy healing - and it can be interacted with differently to how we commonly know it to be harnessed. In other words, we can harness energetic alchemy for ‘ourselves’ - rather than simply outsourcing our healing to others - and in doing so, we can own our power to peel back layers and go on an inner journey of self-awakening and transformation
There’s an interconnectedness between mind, body and spirit - we can’t disconnect it, and as we begin to look inwards to what’s been suppressed, healing manifests - energy healing helps us learn we can choose that process consciously
Energetic alchemy can help us reclaim the gifts of being a sensitive woman and learn how to distinguish our energy from others, empowering our own self-regulation and intuition
Not everyone will experience their intuition in the same way - some are visual, some feel things, some know things - and as we become more aware of our own sensitivities and gifts, we can learn to embrace our intuition more fully
There’s an importance in ascending into a spiritual path to see what’s ‘the same’ - *and* also surrendering to being the physical ‘vessel’ that collects the rain - aka descending into the body and embracing our uniqueness. All energetic alchemy tools are bringing us ‘home’ to both of these things.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
06 Dec 2022
How to Cast Powerful Spells for Magical Self-Healing
01:27:26
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Phyliss Curott. Phyllis Currott 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 new 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.
In this episode we dive into spellcasting as a spiritual, energetic healing practice, exploring the importance of spellcasting as a way of working with the spirits of the nature, as a powerful witch. We how to cast powerful spells, and the art of that - how to get it “right” - and, how to invoke the energetic of the Phosphoric Witch’s fire element in spells, with deep reverence, so you can become the magical one, or even healer, you came here to be.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Spells are a spiritual practice - they are a way of working with the spirits of the elements and nature, which is very different to your average use of a spell, but each of the elements are their own independent, natural, organic forces with a spiritual wisdom. That’s what we are working with to create magic - and you can have conversations with them.
Fire is an agency of change - and it can destroy if you don’t have the right reverence and relationship with it; use it well and you’ll create magic that changes the world, use it with a negative intention and it will be destructive. This is the gift for our Phosphoric women, when they harness their fire from love, they create magic.
Witches are healers - and in order to heal, we must be wounded - there’s a deep gold to be found in those wounds; and, by working with spellcasting, we learn to heal ourselves, via alchemy
It’s not so much about the words we use in spells, as much as the deeper energetic place they come from and the emotion that charges them. You are the creator of the spell, but you are also the spell itself; and when you wake up to that, that’s the empowerment.
Spells are also a way of embodying your intention, rather than just a way to set intentions. In casting a spell, you are opening yourself up to the divine - to spirit - but you also have to take action on the spell, otherwise nothing will manifest.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
30 Jul 2024
How to journey with real, healing 'inner child' work (rather than the phantasy of 'quick fixes') to realise our magic
01:39:49
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is William Apple. William is Founder of Aion Psychodynamic Coaching and with a passion for understanding the depths of the human psyche, and a commitment to personal growth and transformation, William offers a unique approach to coaching and mentoring that transcends traditional "Life Coaching" paradigms. William's most influential Teacher, and Mentor by proxy - within the realms of Psychology - would be Carl Jung. Like Jung, William has found a devotion within himself to explore and cultivate an intimacy with Psyche, and Her Mother, The Unconscious, and this Intimacy is driven by a likewise strict devotion to the Child of Logos, Analysis. All of which likewise led William naturally towards Traditional Western Alchemy and Mysticism; making Carl Jung William's most naturally aligned "professor".
In this deep and brilliant episode we explore how to journey with ‘inner child’ work and ‘shadow work’ (rather than the phantasy of ‘quick fixes’) for deep healing. We dived into the psychological reasons we tend to favour ‘quick fix’ approaches to healing, what we mean by ‘real’ inner-child work - and how curiosity, intimacy and self-illumination are key to healing and realising our magic. Listen to the end - William shares truthfully at the end that becoming a healer is one of the most challenging callings we can have, sharing why healing ourselves is important along the way.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Our biggest wounding comes from the ‘unlived life of our parents’ which leaves us with unmet needs that become our wounds - and this can be healed with ‘true’ inner child work.
The challenge is, much ‘inner child work’ is often related to from a place of ‘quick fix’ projection and phantasy by modern coaching and self-help industries - ideas of ‘go play with your little girl’ embodiment practices - which are helpful in some ways, but often lack the depth of healing
Caveating that ‘real’ is our own projection, William explores that how he sees the ‘real’ journey of healing is grounded in a lifelong journey of understanding our biases, projections and conditionings - and ‘phantasies’ - with loving, curious self-illumination - which some could call the ‘deep work’
Projection is not a ‘bad thing’ - we have projected onto ‘projection’ if we think it is! It is a great thing to get curious about - we are even projecting things that we deem to feel ‘good’ (because that reveals where we have met an unmet need)
As aspiring healer witches, we have been called to no easy task - the work of healing ourselves isn’t easy (and is ongoing) *and* as healers, we also have a responsibility for accountability, self-awareness and avoiding projecting of our unmet needs
Common fears of becoming a healer - including fear of failure, self-doubt and fear of being judged and abandoned are rooted in shame, and can be healed through deep, loving self-illumination
Inner child work, parts work, shadow work and ancestral healing are all serving to help us reclaim our magic - ultimately all offering us a way of deepening intimacy with ourselves
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
06 Jun 2023
How to Heal Fear of your Power and Own Power from Love
00:54:01
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
24 Oct 2023
How to work with divination and the wisdom of the natural world for soul fulfilment
01:12:29
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
26 Oct 2021
How to Manifest in Alignment with your Soul
01:10:57
On the Secret Witch show today, Nicole is thrilled to be freestyling on her favourite of all topics - manifesting in alignment with Soul. Much traditional self-help and spiritual teachings often point Secret Witches in the direction of simply waiting for the universe to provide for what they desire, having magical women miss the co-creative way required to manifest our unique Soul magic.
In this episode Nicole illuminates a deeper path that isn’t just about witch play, but harnesses real magical technology. She explores the difference between traditional Manifestation vs Manifesting from Soul as co-creators of our lives, helping you to get in touch with responsible manifestation of what is actually in alignment for you, rather than approaching it from fear. She explains how fear can sabotage the initial dreaming process, and invites you to discover the vulnerability and courage to step into manifesting what is really *for* you.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The path of manifesting from Soul is uniquely different to traditional self-help manifestation approaches, focusing on what is aligned for who you came here to be
The best way into this path is to go gently and slowly, starting with playing with small manifestation from the heart, so that you can harness your power
You are already a powerful creatrix, you just need to learn how to harness your power in the direction of what is aligned for you
Fear can jump in and try and take you off course; the invitation here is to listen deeper into your body and courageously choose past the fear, if your heart and Soul is telling you that something is in alignment for you
We must liberate all the shadow that is in the way of us manifesting our heart’s desires
Only then can we take the aligned-action required for us to co-create with the Universe from Soul
Books - “Witch” by Lisa Lister, “Six Ways” by Aiden Wachter, and also we’d highly recommend “High Magic” by Damien Echols
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
02 Jul 2024
How to heal ourselves with wild herbs
00:57:54
On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Salena Walker. Salena is a dedicated Welsh herbalist deeply rooted in her ancestral heritage and native herbal practices, has nurtured a thriving herbal clinic since 2015, expertly growing a diverse range of herbs to benefit her patients and students. With over two decades of teaching experience, her true passion lies in empowering individuals through knowledge, enabling them to cultivate and craft their own herbal remedies.
In this episode we explore the deep-rooted connection between humans and nature through the lens of herbalism, and how we can harness plants, more magically, to heal ourselves. We delved into the topics of rewilding, the spiritual and energetic archetypal power of plants in self-healing, and the gifts to be found in embracing the traditional, non-linear, Feminine herbal wisdom approach with plants - versus a more masculine, clinical way of working with herbs - exploring a more intuitive way we can begin to heal ourselves (and others) as the wise women of the village.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Herbal medicine is deeply rooted in tradition - it’s not actually ‘alternative’, it was original medicine - and we can ‘reactivate’ our innate and ancestral wisdom for self-healing
There has been a masculinised over-scientification of herbal medicine which can deter women from trusting their feminine, intuitive relationship with plants, and leave them feeling under-confident in their gifts
Each individual has an innate capacity to connect with plants for healing - and we don’t need to outsource our healing to others, but others do make good guides into our deeper wisdom
As aspiring wise women, we hone our gifts by learning to work with self-healing - embodying our skills before helping others, like medicine women would have
Herbs are potent not just physically, but also emotionally, spiritually and energetically - they are spirit guides, and are living beings with unique individual souls and properties - we can begin to learn from them, as teachers, if we treat them like friends
Reconnecting with nature and its cycles offers a way to healing and reconnection with our deeper wisdom for healing on all levels - we can begin that by going into the wild, and beginning to cultivate a relationship with plants
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
19 Jul 2022
How to Unlock the Healing Gifts of Sacred Cyclical Living
01:13:08
My guest today is the healing author, Stella Tomlinson. Stella is a Priestess and author of three books, including 'Cycles of Belonging: Honouring ourselves through the sacred cycles of life', published by Womancraft Publishing. Her offerings are based on over 20 years' experience in personal and spiritual healing and development through meditation, yoga, mindfulness, energy healing and Goddess and nature spirituality and she's been teaching and writing in these fields since 2011.
In this episode we explored the relevance of the various cycles of life - including breath, circadian, sacred blood, the moon, the life cycles and goddess archetypes.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Often our first experience of feminine cyclical living can be that of shame, when we experience our first bleed - connecting to our cycles in adulthood as we learn more about them can be very healing
Life is not linear, it operates in spirals - yet often we can fear the spiral path because it is messy and we long for control. Yet, a life of magic isn’t linear, so we have to choose to unlock cyclical living to fully embrace soul
There’s often a beauty found in the darkness of the winter of each cycle - an initiation into death and rebirth that is so powerful
The temptation in the spiritual path is to ascend beyond the darkness, and this is the beauty of working with both the Witch archetype and the winter of our cycles; they show us the beauty to be found in facing our truth and the possibility there is to be reborn.
In each of our cycles, we have a liminal space - that phase between where we are and where we are going, or the phase between wake and sleep - and it is in this liminal space where the magic occurs.
The various stages in the lifecycles of the goddess archetypes of Maiden, Lover, Mother, Queen and Crone offer us a chance to choose to reinitiate ourselves into
Resources and things that we spoke about:
The Highly Sensitive Person - Elaine Aron
Code Red - Lisa Lister
Red School - Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope - (We highly recommend reading ‘Wild Power’ by them, too)
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
11 Apr 2023
How To Navigate Imposter Syndrome Around Your Spiritual Gifts
00:46:38
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.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
21 Jun 2022
How to Own the Gold of your Soul’s Essence
01:07:51
My guest today is Adam Quiney. Adam is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the Smartest People in the Room. 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 two dogs (one of which is a cat) in Victoria, B.C, he is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place. His soon to be published book, “Who Do You Think You Are” shows people how to see the underlying light in all of us, and develop THAT, as opposed to fixing what occurs as broken on the surface.
In this episode we dived into the truth that our Soul has a unique essence, which can be distilled consciously to help us to begin to express who we are from love. We explored how to find our Soul’s gold and why our gold can be found in our shadowy wounds - because we often unconsciously express who we are as fear. We also explored some of the core essences that some of our Secret Witches may be - Magic, Power and Radiance.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Fundamentally at the heart of every human being is a set of ways of being; we each bring things naturally into the space - a bit like having a coloured lightbulb behind our heads that has a unique colour - and in this we can see our Soul, spirit, or essence.
As babies we are just expressed as that essence, and then we learn that what is natural in us is not ok, and so we split from our Soul - it becomes somewhat of a minor trauma and we learn that who we are is too much or not enough.
When we learn to split, we suppress who we are, and express it as fear, instead of love. We become Secret Witch, instead of fully expressed Witch - without realising, our Soul essence is who we are.
If we are feeling that split from Soul, if we notice that something is missing from our essence - e.g. joy - it is because it is actually part of our essence. We can’t miss something that wasn’t there in the first place.
There are polarities of these fearful expressions of our Soul - e.g. Magic can be hyper rational, or at the opposite end of the pole it can show up as escapist, like Peter Pan. We tend to swing between both ends of the pole until we do the work to fully embody our Soul’s gold - our true essence - to be our natural selves, from love.
When we do embody our Soul’s gold, it is magical. It is important to have a guide for this, who can tap you on the shoulder and say “you’re just a little bit too far to the left on the path, just come back to centre.”
Really, all of this deep work is the alchemy of our Soul.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
01 Aug 2023
How To Reclaim the Gifts in your Sensitivity and Overwhelm - Even when it Doesn’t Appear to Be a Gift
00:41:39
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
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
25 Apr 2023
How to Harness Magical Sabbats to Discover Your Purpose
01:01:27
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
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Nicole xox
24 May 2022
How to Connect with the Sacred to Create an Enchanted Life
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My guest today is spiritual pioneer, Phyllis Curott. Phyllis is an attorney, writer and one of America’s first public Witches. Her five international best-selling books have been published in 14 languages, making her the most widely published Wiccan author. An outspoken advocate in the courts and media, she handled or consulted on groundbreaking cases securing the legal rights of Witches. New York Magazine has called her teaching on Witchcraft the culture’s “next big idea” and Time Magazine has published her as one of America’s leading thinkers. Phyllis continues to write, teach, and lecture internationally on the embodied spiritual wisdom of Mother Earth, Nature’s “secret magic” and why the world needs its Witches.
In this episode we dived into why the world needs Witches, exploring the importance of the Sacred and how to connect to spirit more deeply to create a magical life - as well as understanding how we can practically harness energy to manifest magic in the world.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
This show was such a delight - Phylis is one powerful woman. My takeaways are:
We all get tapped on the shoulder by Spirit (aka the Sacred) at at some point - the question is whether we are paying attention and whether we are willing to turn around a look at that
The world is full of magic. We know that when we're children were playing in it and participating in it - but often we lose that sense, so we need to reconnect to it
The word Wicca means “wise one” - a “seer of the Sacred” - this is one who knows the Spirit world and knows that Spirit is embodied in creation
In the modern revival of Witchcraft, there are very patriarchal ideas that the Divine is someplace else - it’s all about Spirit, rather than Spirit embodied - the reason the world needs her Witches is because everyone has the gift of sight, but we’re also here to embody it in this world.
Spirit takes form through life and creation - that’s how you make magic - you bring the flow of energy into form.
We are connected to everything - and we can discover that by going out into the wild - into nature. And that’s where you’ll drop back into your heart - which is the best place to create from. The best thing to do is ask: “what do I need to know?” And to create from there
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
28 Jan 2025
How to heal by reclaiming your 'True Feminine' - the Witch as you've not yet met her
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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sri Namaste Moore. Sri Namaste and her husband Baba Richard are co-owners of InfiniteCouple Enterprises rooted in transforming lives and legacies. As an Oracle, Mystic, Master Metaphysician, and Wonder Worker, Sri Namaste’s passion is to realign men and women to their innate harmony, honoring their distinctions while celebrating their synergy. She seamlessly integrates metaphysics, mysticism, and elegant philosophical truths, delivering laser-sharp clarity with practical applications. Her work is a testament to leadership, wisdom, and the boundless potential of those who dare to live their genius and leave an indelible legacy.
In this episode we explore Namaste’s profound, radical worldview of what it means to embody the ‘True Feminine’ (and how the Feminine can be both ‘yin’ and ‘yang’, and we don’t have an ‘inner Masculine’’). We dived into the distinction between ‘feminist’ and ‘feminine’, and the cultural conditioning, societal fear and trauma we innocently hold around the Masculine, which often has us ‘competing’ with men for ‘power’, rather than embracing our polarity and that we *both* have different, unique gifts. We reflected on the different gifts - and explore how the witch’s gift is really to heal through love, doing the inner work and embracing the receptive Feminine to work her mysterious magic, rather than rebel against the patriarchy. Namaste also shared a practical womb invitation for beginning to connect with our Feminine ‘essence’ (and shared why that’s different to our Feminine ‘energy’).
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
There’s a difference between being a ‘Feminist’ and being ‘Feminine’ - and the witch can (innocently) lean towards being ‘feminist’; competing with, and trying to be, men, rather than embodying the qualities of being feminine that can help us to feel true joy, harmony and synergy - and to be who we came here to be
This is a cultural wounding around the Feminine, which Namaste believes is often misunderstood as having an ‘inner masculine’. She believes we don’t host ‘inner masculine’; instead, women have Feminine yin *and* yang - Goddess Kali being a great example of Feminine yang, and it still being distinctly feminine essence
There’s a distinction Namaste makes around Feminine ‘energy’ versus ‘essence’, and that our True Feminine is found in our essence, and can be viscerally connected to via our bodies. Embracing our essences, rather than focusing on energy is helpful to reclaim the True Feminine
The Masculine and Feminine have different gifts that help us create harmony and synergy - they are both unique and yet complementary to each other. For example, men’s power is about impact, which is more direct, hard and external, whereas women’s power is about influence, relating and subtle heart-based change
There is much understandable trauma around this topic - and fear of the ‘patriarchy’ (especially for the witch) - and so we are called to work through this trauma with love and patience (Namaste offers a womb practice for this). We can transform traumas by reclaiming the gifts and understanding they bring, turning our wounds into sources of power and insight.
What’s reflected in the outside world often holds a mirror to more collective patterns - and in the world at the moment there’s a lot of fear around powerful Masculine figures, which are calling us into healing and integration of our Feminine essence to create feminine expression and empowerment.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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25 Feb 2025
How 'practical witchcraft' and 'ritual' can help us reclaim our self-healing power
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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Emma Griffin. Described as a real-life embodiment of Molly Weasley from Harry Potter, Emma is a modern-day full-time witch, healer, and author whose work guides women back to alignment by reconnecting with the ancient wisdom of their ancestors. Rooted in the interconnectedness of nature and the soul, Emma’s teachings aim to awaken the innate magic within us all, helping women rediscover their purpose and authentic selves. Emma’s new book, ‘The Witch’s Way Home’ serves as a roadmap for self-discovery, healing, and stepping into authentic power.
In this juicy episode we explore Emma’s personal journey, marked by moments of stress, illness, grief, and self-discovery, and how it awakened her to the transformative self-healing power of witchcraft and ritual. Exploring challenges like infertility and cancer diagnosis, we explore how healing the ‘witch wound’ - aka reclaiming our true, authentic full expression of who we are - can help us manifest health. Diving into ancient, feminine, ancestral wisdom, seasonal living, emotional release - and the importance of presence, self-love and sisterhood - we explored the healing process and how the witch can help us reclaim ourselves.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Witchcraft can save our lives - literally. By embracing the power, magic and authenticity of the witch, we can heal on all different levels - including physical, mental-emotional and spiritual
Whether we are ‘witches’ or not, the route of healing is really via healing our suppression and suppressed trauma - and reclaiming our authentic voices (which the witch holds a mirror to)
To heal, requires us to face the ‘witch wound’ - we have to overcome societal judgement and fear of being a witch and sharing our true, authentic self-expression
As we do, bravely own who we are - whether that’s a witch or something else - we connect more deeply to those who are like us (including our dream clients, if we are here to be healers)
We must embrace the ancient wisdom of our ancestors - they knew that the real route of healing is through story-telling around the fire, ritual, creativity, presence, seasonal living, sisterhood and self-discovery
There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in practical witchcraft and ritual - it’s really individualised and intuitive, and we can play with things to see what works for us (and keep a journal of discovery to note what does and what doesn’t)
Ritual and witchcraft practices do not have to be long and elaborate - we can weave them into our day, just bringing ourselves to presence and setting intentions.
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25 Oct 2022
How to Love Yourself Through Anxiety and Overwhelm
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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole dives into how a symptom of being a Secret Phosphoric Witch (who doesn’t know her own magic or power) can often be anxiety and overwhelm. She explored how women can begin to learn to love themselves through this, in a way that all is welcome, in order to reconnect to their whole-souled expression - rather than attempting to ‘fix’ it as if it is something ‘wrong’.
In this episode we explore the different views of anxiety from the mainstream and magical lenses, how the Witch came here to find the gold in her wounds (including anxiety and overwhelm as an expression of our wounds), and how to love ourselves through all of that, to see the deeper wisdom contained within our melt downs.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The mundane lens looks at anxiety and overwhelm as mental illness, but there is starting to be research that sees our different cognitive styles can make mental disorders valuable to society, not burdensome and something to fix
The magical lens often also treats anxiety and overwhelm as something to ‘fix’ (and to be fixed by an external) - and this is often because healers have (innocently) tried to fit magic into a mundane box to make it more palatable because they don’t feel they can be unapologetically magical (and this is a path that doesn’t honour the real magical technology available to us)
There is scope for a model (which is what I’m creating in this path of Wild Apothecary) that transforms the ‘healing sickness’ model of traditional ‘woo’ into a model that teaches people to return themselves to their whole-souled expression - to heal themselves, so that they can fully express who their soul was born to be
A generative and loving focus which welcomes anxiety with love, is what helps us to return to our soul - unlike a degenerative compensating focus that has us try and ‘fix’ our anxiety (and it’s helpful to know that we are always manifesting whatever our focus is on)
A witch came here for the human darkness - so if you’re listening, know you have got this, and you can hold your anxiety and overwhelm - and in fact, it can actually be a gift that points you to some gold (although it may not feel like it at the time)
It is loving and welcoming our anxiety that will help us to alchemise it magically. The more we can love ourselves, the more healing we can create for ourselves. You can start this process by tending to your nervous system, and being in the enquiry of “what’s the deeper fear of even allowing myself to hear what my anxiety and overwhelm wants me to know?”
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole xox
28 Feb 2023
How to Come Out of the Magical Closet
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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?”
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
07 Jun 2022
How to Magic Time by Creating Life via Your Nightly Dreams
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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is excited to be exploring one of the Secret Witch’s biggest challenges: the idea of having no time. Nicole explores the struggles and fears her women often experience, along with how it’s possible - if we stay open to magic and to creating life differently - to magic up time by living in the flow of the Feminine, and allowing ourselves to dream our lives into reality.
In this episode Nicole explores what’s possible as we begin to explore the polarity of creating from the Feminine, how supported we can be as women by the masculine’s provisions of structure, and how to create by invoking your sacred dream guides - to not only begin to free up more time, but also to create from flow and ease. And, the deeper invitation is to open your heart to all of this magic even being possible (because usually the Secret Witch thinks it isn’t).
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Time is a linear constraint created by us that we are conditioned into - and it’s one not to bypass, but it’s also something that we don’t have to be in victim to.
Time is particularly something that the Secret Witch struggles with, as there are deep Witch Wounds around giving up her power to comply with the Masculine structure, focus and control that ‘time’ represents. She’d have been burned at the stake for being in her feminine, messy, non-linear magic. - and yet, that’s no longer a real threat.
The Feminine works in mysterious ways; and when we aren’t embracing of those, we will swing from being in the Masculine to avoiding being in the Masculine - and none of these are embodying the Feminine. There are both shadowy ways of operating in the world. The deeper invitation is to embody the Feminine in her flow, supported by the structure and support that the Masculine provides - including creating time for ourselves to flow.
We can create pockets of time in the most unlikely places - including a space for the Feminine to flow at night, in our dreams - by invoking our sacred dream self - and Nicole shared a ritual for this to help you intentionally create via dreaming.
We often have resistance to dreaming because we have rejected parts of our Feminine selves in Maidenhood, when we learned that dreaming was not approved of; so illuminating your resistance to this is a great enquiry to be in to begin with. Where do you shut down your dreaming?
Nicole’s women often will also have deep fears that magic is a scam, which also needs tending, so that they can open to possibility. Which part of you doubts the magic of your dream self? And will you choose to open your heart to a new way, or choose to continue to stay as you are?
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
13 Sep 2022
Menopause Magic: How to Reclaim your Power and Potential
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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Alexandra Pope. Alexandra and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer are the co-founders of Red School, authors of the Hay House books Wild Power and the soon to be released Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging. They spent over 10,000 hours researching and refining their radical new approach to health, creativity, leadership and spiritual life. And the best bit? It's rooted in the bloody, wild, radical power of the menstrual cycle and menopause. Their new book - Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging, is being released on 20th September 2022.
In this magical episode, Alexandra and Nicole explore menopause as a powerful initiatory portal for reclaiming power and the potential of our souls, diving into the Wise Woman archetype and how it is an especially potent one for the Witch, as well as how we can reframe the cultural narrative around menopause to rediscover its hidden medicinal gifts. Whilst this episode is framed around the menopause, it’s really one full of gold for any woman to listen to, because it is really all about the power of initiation into soul.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The menopause is ultimately an initiation that awakens the power within us; and really, it is a descent into soul. That means it isn’t all smooth-sailing because - unless you’ve done the deep work to connect to your Wise Woman via the power of your cycle, which makes it a smoother ride, like Alexandra had - descents to soul aren’t all rosy
There becomes a clear “No”, along with an opening to your deeper calling, often, at menopause - where you are being called deeper into your power - into a deeper purpose that is asking you to listen, and it becomes time to trust your body and its wisdom.
Often women can experience this the same way via the initiation of the Wise Woman - who can be initiated earlier, via illness like Chronic Fatigue, or some other deeper calling - where we learn deep lessons about listening to our bodies and their deep wisdom.
Menopause can kick us in the ass as a right of passage - it demands from us that we meet oursleves - and the invitation is to allow ourselves to be touched and moved - to not be in victim to our bodies, but to make a deeper choice to make something meaningful from the sensations. We have to trust that there’s something wanting to come through us, and drop out egoic agenda and trust the work of soul
It is often seen as a problem in our culture. It can feel like we have been broken open in this initiation, but if we harness and trust our power there, it is so worth it. It opens us to incredible magic.
Practically, we have to support ourselves through this initiation by tending our nervous systems, our bodies, allowing our rage to express and celebrating ourselves and the magic that is unfolding.
Ultimately, it is all a death and rebirth - as who our soul came to express as. That’s the real magic of the menopause.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
03 Aug 2021
How to Invoke the Power of Your Liberated Witch
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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is excited to be freestyling on the juicy topic of how to invoke the power of your liberated, wild witch. For most Secret Witches, their creation of life is unconscious, yet to *truly* tread the path of living your wild alchemy, we must engage in the practice of magic to invoke our power to create what we truly desire. This is real life magical practice, and it’s not just a ‘nice to have’ - it’s essential for life creation.
In this episode, Nicole helps you begin to understand how to begin to take the next steps into harnessing your power from love, consciously choosing to devote yourself to the path of your liberated witch, illuminating what might be holding you back and beginning to fully embody your unique power.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Power is not really created how we know it in society - it comes from love - love is the law of everything we do
We are all powerful creators of our whole lives - owning that we have created a life we don’t want is the first step into reclaiming our majesty and power.
We need to get intimate with the Liberated Witch we long to be so she feels welcome to express in our everyday life
There are some unconscious reasons why even though we may say we long to liberate our power, that we may not actually create from it - and these need to be illuminated so we can make the conscious choice to liberate our Powerful Witch
The journey is about illuminating the darkness of our old stories that hold us back from embodying and expressing our power in beautiful, soul-aligned ways - it’s no good to just undertake parts of the journey in isolation, though - the journey requires illumination, tending of wounds and commitment to our new story
It also absolutely involves practices that help us embody new ways of being with our power - and whilst this can be fun, it’s also essential - but only when chosen consciously
This practice of invoking our power is real magic - it’s not just a “nice to have” - it is absolutely crucial for life-creation.
Resources and things that we spoke about:
Reflective Questions:
Which Old, Mundane stories are familiar that keep coming up again and again that hold you back from your power?
What are the New, Magical Stories? It’s best to let these emerge after seeing as much as you can about the Old Stories first. Don’t rush it - this is important work, as these will be the stories that help you call in and invoke your power.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
15 Mar 2022
How to Know what Your Gifts Are
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In today’s episode I am delighted to be freestyling on the magical topic of how to know what your gifts are. Discovering our gifts is one of those things that is often approached purely by looking into the light; and yet, I share on why it is crucial to descend into the darkness of shadow to fully know our gifts intimately.
In this episode I explore why we must go into the dark to reclaim our gold, to discover our gifts from our wounds, the importance of shadow work in making our gifts conscious, and how to alchemise our shadows so that we are fully expressing and embodying our Soul - i.e. the gifts we came here to be.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Today’s episode was filled with goosebumps. Here are my takeaways:
We must be willing to go into the darkness to find our gold. As we do, we discover our gifts in our wounds.
Shadow work is all about making the unconscious conscious - as we engage with our shadow, it reveals our gifts so that we can choose into expanding and embodying the fullness of our Soul
There’s a difference between processing our wounds and alchemising them - alchemising them means we transform them into gold
Archetypes offer us a powerful mirror to be able to find out gifts - working with the Witch is helpful to find our gold in our wounds
We are often tempted to work in our Zone of Excellence, rather than our Zone of Genius - which is really the Zone of our Soul. Really our deepest gifts are in Soul - we must really be asking the question: who did I come here to be?
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Nicole xox
29 Mar 2022
How to Engage with The Witch Archetype to Reclaim your Gifts
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My guest today is the brilliant Lucy H Pearce. Driven by a need to create, connect and inspire, Lucy is a best-selling author of many books, including Burning Woman, Creatrix, Medicine Woman, and She of the Sea. She is also a vibrant artist, respected publisher and editor and founder of Womancraft Publishing. Her work focuses on self-knowledge and healing through creativity, archetypes and cyclical living. She gives voice to the soul: the spiritual, the liminal, the darkness and discomfort and the magical in the midst of the mundane. Often described as raw, authentic and life-changing, her work encourages authentic paths to self-expression and is celebrated particularly by highly sensitive and neurodivergent women.In this episode we dived into how to engage with shadow to reclaim our power, includingthe power of harnessing archetypes, the importance of getting naked and returning to our truth, and how to integrate shadow in a loving way so that we can embrace our Witch Queen.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Well, this was my first guest who showed up naked, and I loved that so much as it was just the most beautiful embodiment of our conversation. This show was just filled with raw natural and beautiful naked truth - my top takeaways are
We grow up in a world where we create lessons - from our childhood experiences - that the safest way to be in life is to be the ‘good girl’ - and yet magic is created in discovering we can actually choose consciously to be ourselves
It’s scary to show up naked, and there’s a lot of shame and it feels like a genuine risk - but it’s really the only way to live a life of Soul - to have our full, creative self-expression.
The main thing to know is, we can choose into showing up as ourselves (or not) consciously - that’s where the power is.
At some point in life we are initiated into our power - quite often in pregnancy, which is deeply connected to our creativity - our womb is the creative cauldron of power
We are taught to be scared of the dark in all ways, but it’s actually a place where we transform and what can help us is becoming familiar with the sensations and going gently
There’s a real parallel between Witches and neurodivergent brains - and there’s a gift in this - but witches get really good at masking it. Being able to mask and shapeshift means we are also really good at embodying archetypes so that we can embrace the fullness of the Witch and be our true selves
The Witch Wound is a fear of being called a Witch, but by owning ourselves as a Witch we are reclaiming the power in it. Being a Witch is really a symbol of our Feminine power.
Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know!
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Thank you,
Nicole xox
24 Sep 2024
How to create space for your healer witch in a busy, mundane world
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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores one of the biggest challenges most Secret Witches face: how we can overcome the challenge of balancing our busy lives with our deeper calling to being a healer. She dived into the crucial topic of how to create space for our healer witch, offering a practical ‘workshopy’ episode and guided meditation for women who feel a deep spiritual calling to become healers, but struggle with self-doubt and burn-out - and don’t feel they have space to delve into the deep work.
In this episode, as part of her #HundredHealers vision, Nicole provided both practical steps for time-management, mental and physical space creation and advice on how to integrate magic into our daily life - and a healing journey with an Archetypal Remedy for activation of the part of you that knows how to manifest a magical life: your inner Creatrix, also exploring what resistance to that really means for our healing.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
The fear and doubt that arises as part of becoming a healer is normal - and not a sign you’re not cut out for it (it’s the ‘Secret Witch’ wound - and just means there’s healing to do of your wounded healer)
Feeling we are lacking time and space to do the deep work in our busy mundane lives is part of this wound - and wants some loving healing (the practical workshop and journey in this episode was potent for helping that)
Cultural views often label necessary healing work as ‘selfish,’ ‘self-indulgent’ or ‘non-essential’ - a perspective that gets internalised by many women, making it harder to prioritise our spiritual growth
Resistance is a healing invitation. It is showing us there's something butting up here against what we know - and we want to go into that with loving curiosity. Like: “why am I feeling resistance? What is my belief here?”
There are some very practical steps we can take to create space for our witch - and, if we have resistance to those, it’s a sign there’s more healing to do around choosing ourselves and claiming our purpose as a healer - we can do this by journeying with Archetypal Remedies (and particularly the Creatrix, who knows her manifesting power)
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27 Sep 2022
How and Why Your Doubt of Magic is a Sign You're a Magical One
01:01:24
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole dives into how and why women’s doubt of magic is a common sign they may be a Magical One. She explores the typical journey of a Phosphoric Witch, in alignment with her new philosophy of the Remedies of the Wild, dosing healing for all the magical ones who are scared of being their magical medicine.
In this magical episode, Nicole shares the common place her women begin their journeys, the deep, open-hearted, sensitivity and the layers of trauma from living in the linear mundane world that have magical ones armour up, instead of believe in magic, and talks to the magic vs science debate and how the fact that science hasn’t yet explained magic doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Only true Magical Ones suppress and feel a deep resistance to magic, because it wouldn’t even occur to them, if it wasn’t in their field. Likewise, we can only notice that something is missing because it was there in the first place, so if you’re feeling you miss magic, it’s likely it was there always there.
Magical, Phosphoric women are so deeply sensitive and open that when they come across the criticism of magic from the mundane world, they often immediately shut it down, armour up and close off to their souls - which results in them denying magic
This is one of the great paradoxes of being a Magical One - that in the early phases, we have to learn to both love magic and also be ok with not always loving it due to our trauma responses and fear
The conditioning to deny magic and choose and favour logic - which underlies their armour - is actually a trauma response to the Phosphoric woman’s fear of her sensitivity and openness. There are lots of things that can layer over a Magical One’s core and stop her believing in her magic. The deep work is to love ourselves in that.
Science is wonderful - AND - like everything, has a point where it isn’t all the everything. Science by its very nature is here to try and explain the unexplainable, so magic is everything that science has not yet explained.
There is always doubt in magic for magical ones, and ultimately, you have a choice: you can continue to live as you are in logic and control (and in the mundane world) - or, you can follow your deep, burning fire and passion, and grant yourself permission to be magical. This isn’t easy work, but it’s well worth it to be who your soul came here to be.
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Nicole xox
26 Mar 2024
How to be a 'healer' as a sensitive soul who 'absorbs others' energy' - without burning out?
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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.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With The Wolves https://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
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