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How to embrace the mystery and trust our natural rhythms - even when we are tempted to mistrust
27 Aug 2024
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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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
How to harness Universal Laws of Healing to become a healer
13 Aug 2024
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
Where to begin in your journey of opening to becoming a healer - how to work with our Starter Pack and Illumination Workbook - BONUS EPISODE
16 Apr 2024
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.
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
How to heal hidden emotions with somatic movement
09 Apr 2024
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.
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
How to be a 'healer' as a sensitive soul who 'absorbs others' energy' - without burning out?
26 Mar 2024
00:59:52
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/
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
How to deconstruct blame, shame and guilt for deeper self-trust
12 Mar 2024
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
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
How to step off the Drama Triangle to embody your power as a healer
27 Feb 2024
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.
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
How to parent powerfully when you're a sensitive mum with ‘sensitive’ or ‘challenging’ (or ‘neurodivergent’) children
13 Feb 2024
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.
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
How to stop people-pleasing in relationships so you can open to your gifts as a healer
30 Jan 2024
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
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
How to attune to your Feminine body and hormones to receive your highest-level abundance
16 Jan 2024
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
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
How to rise tenderly into adult womanhood and become a confident, powerful healer - with Archetypal Gold
09 Jan 2024
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
How to harness plant medicine for meaningful impact
19 Dec 2023
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.
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How to journey with real, healing 'inner child' work (rather than the phantasy of 'quick fixes') to realise our magic
30 Jul 2024
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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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
How Understanding your 'Personality Type' can Reveal your Soul Plan
05 Dec 2023
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
How to reclaim the magic in our sensitivity and neurodivergence
20 Nov 2023
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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How to discover the hidden underlying patterns causing your body's symptoms
07 Nov 2023
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.
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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How to work with divination and the wisdom of the natural world for soul fulfilment
24 Oct 2023
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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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
The 'What, Why and How' of 'Archetypal Remedies'
10 Oct 2023
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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How To Work with the Ancient Technology of Dreams for Healing
26 Sep 2023
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
How To Magically Tend To Your Trauma So You Can Fully Express Your Truth
12 Sep 2023
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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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
How To Trust Your Magical Power - Even When You’re In Fear
29 Aug 2023
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
How To Work With Yoni Eggs For Deeper Self-Expression In Business
15 Aug 2023
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.
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
How To Reclaim the Gifts in your Sensitivity and Overwhelm - Even when it Doesn’t Appear to Be a Gift
01 Aug 2023
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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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
How to connect to our intuition so we can become true wise women (even if we doubt our magic)
16 Jul 2024
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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How To Reconnect To Your Wild Animal For Powerful Self-Expression
18 Jul 2023
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
BONUS EPISODE - How To Open to Becoming A Healer, Teacher or Guide - Even If You're Terrified
08 Jul 2023
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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How to Do Inner Child Work to Discover your Healing Power
04 Jul 2023
00:50:36
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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
How To Own Your 'Weird' In Business
20 Jun 2023
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
How to Heal Fear of your Power and Own Power from Love
06 Jun 2023
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
How to Commune with your Womb for Deep Healing
23 May 2023
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
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How to Overcome Fear of Rejection and Judgement to Create your Spiritual Business
09 May 2023
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.
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How to Harness Magical Sabbats to Discover Your Purpose
25 Apr 2023
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
How To Navigate Imposter Syndrome Around Your Spiritual Gifts
11 Apr 2023
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.
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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox
Healing The Shame Around Sexuality, Intimacy, And Pleasure
28 Mar 2023
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
How to heal ourselves with wild herbs
02 Jul 2024
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
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How To Get Clarity and Focus On Your True Spiritual Gifts
14 Mar 2023
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.
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Nicole xox
How to Come Out of the Magical Closet
28 Feb 2023
01:12:06
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?”
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How To Liberate Your Soul's Unconscious Shadow Patterns
14 Feb 2023
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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Nicole xox
How to Harness the Secret Healing Intelligence of Water
31 Jan 2023
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
How Unconscious Distraction And Chaos Pulls You From Your Soul's True Purpose
17 Jan 2023
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
How to Lead from Feminine Softpower: with Humanity, Heart and Wisdom
03 Jan 2023
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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Nicole xox
How to Heal your Fear of Failure - and Meet your Edge Anyway
20 Dec 2022
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.
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Nicole xox
How to Cast Powerful Spells for Magical Self-Healing
06 Dec 2022
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.
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Nicole xox
How to Build a Magical Healing Soul Business
22 Nov 2022
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
How to Know if Magic is Real
08 Nov 2022
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.
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Nicole xox
Secret Witch 101 - how to heal your 'Secret Witch' so you can stop hiding and live your destiny as a healer
18 Jun 2024
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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How to Love Yourself Through Anxiety and Overwhelm
25 Oct 2022
01:01:59
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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Thank you,
Nicole xox
How to Harness the Magic of Energetic Medicine
11 Oct 2022
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
How and Why Your Doubt of Magic is a Sign You're a Magical One
27 Sep 2022
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
Menopause Magic: How to Reclaim your Power and Potential
13 Sep 2022
01:04:36
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.