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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the hidden wound beneath people pleasing - the tendency to abandon ourselves in order to keep everyone else safe, comfortable, cared for, or happy. Through the lens of the Secret Witch, the Healer Wound, and the archetypal medicine of Rosa and She-Wolf, she explores how many women learn to become responsible for everyone except themselves. Drawing on a powerful personal realisation from motherhood, Nicole reflects on how fiercely she protects her daughter's rest, wellbeing, and aliveness - and asks why it can feel so much harder to offer that same protection to ourselves. In this episode we explore how 'people pleasing' is often not a desire to be liked, but a survival strategy rooted in belonging, safety, and over-responsibility. Nicole speaks to the Secret Witch's tendency to become the helper, healer, rescuer, emotional caretaker, and peacemaker - carrying burdens that were never hers to carry in the first place. She explores the hidden cost of self-abandonment, the relationship between people pleasing and burnout, and why so many women become disconnected from their own needs, desires, limits, and truth in an attempt to care for everyone else. Through the archetypal medicines of Rosa and She-Wolf, Nicole explores what true rewilding looks like - not becoming selfish, hard, or uncaring, but reclaiming the fierce Wolf Mother within who knows how to protect her soul. This is an invitation to stop earning belonging, stop carrying the world, and begin offering ourselves the same devotion, tenderness, protection, and fierce love that we so naturally offer those we love. What You'll Learn from this Episode: The Secret Witch's people pleasing often has less to do with being liked and more to do with seeking safety, belonging, and protection from rejection, disappointment, conflict, or abandonment Many women learn to become emotional caretakers, helpers, healers, and peacemakers from a young age - carrying responsibility for everyone else's wellbeing whilst slowly disconnecting from their own Over-responsibility is often a hidden form of self-abandonment, leaving women exhausted, burnt out, resentful, disconnected from their bodies, and unsure of what they truly need or desire The people pleaser often believes love must be earned through usefulness, self-sacrifice, caregiving, or carrying more than her share - yet true belonging can never be earned through performance Rewilding is not about becoming selfish, rebellious, or uncaring - it is about reclaiming the inner Wolf Mother who fiercely protects our energy, wellbeing, truth, boundaries, desires, and aliveness Healing begins when we stop offering all of our protection outward and start turning some of that fierce love inward, learning to mother ourselves with the same devotion, compassion, and care we naturally offer the people we love most  Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Our Links: Journey with She-Wolf and Rosa healing in our self-paced course library - join the Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary    Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Marina Pearson. Marina is an investor, author, speaker and founder of Unshackled Wealth, a pioneering body of work supporting women with inherited wealth. Featured in the Financial Times for her work on the emotional and identity dimensions of inherited wealth, Marina brings a unique perspective to the intersection of wealth, identity and conscious stewardship. Having invested for over 15 years and navigated her own inheritance journey, she combines lived experience with deep expertise in helping women transform their relationship with themselves, their wealth and their identity. She is the author of three books, including an international bestseller translated into four languages, has appeared across international television, radio and print media, and hosts The She Who Inherits Podcast, where she explores the future of wealth through conversations with inheritors, family advisors and thought leaders. In this episode, we explore why money is never really about money. Marina shares how inheriting wealth became an unexpected initiation into sovereignty, feminine leadership and becoming the woman who can truly hold more. Together we dive into receiving, scarcity, self-worth, the journey from Maiden to Queen to Empress, why asking for what you want changes everything, and how expansion often lies just beyond the edge of fear. Whether you're navigating money, business, purpose or simply longing to trust yourself more deeply, this conversation is an invitation to reclaim your power and expand into the fullest expression of who you're here to become. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Wealth is never really about money - it amplifies the unconscious patterns, fears and identities that are already living within us. Inheriting wealth is not the end of the journey - it can become a profound initiation into responsibility, sovereignty and conscious stewardship. Expansion rarely feels comfortable. Restriction often signals where we've outgrown ourselves, while desire points us towards the next version of who we're becoming. Receiving is a feminine practice. Learning to ask for what we want, trust support, and allow ourselves to be held transforms every area of our lives - not just our relationship with money. Fear is not a sign to stop - it is an invitation to deepen our capacity. True safety comes from trusting ourselves, not from trying to control our circumstances. The journey from Maiden to Queen to Empress is one of identity. As we expand into who we are becoming, our relationship with wealth, work, relationships and purpose naturally transforms. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Marina's Links: Discover your She Who Inherits™ Archetype: https://bit.ly/SheWhoInheritsQuiz 🪑 Join The Velvet Lounge: A private monthly conversation for women navigating wealth, identity, relationships and legacy: https://bit.ly/velvetlounge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marinacpearson Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/marinapearson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_unshackled_woman Website: www.marinapearson.com Our Links: Join our Apothecary to unlock your magic: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: The Queen's Code - Alison Armstrong - please link to book / website   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the wild, instinctual wisdom of the body through one of her favourite poems: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. This is a deeply archetypal exploration of the Secret Witch's relationship with perfection, rebellion, desire, instinct, and belonging - and what it truly means to 'let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.' Drawing on her own lived experiences, motherhood, the Witch Wound, and the stories of women inside the Apothecary, Nicole explores how so many women become disconnected from the truth of their bodies through conditioning, hyper-vigilance, shame, and the pressure to be 'good.'  This episode is an invitation back into the body, back into instinct, and back into the wild truth of the soul.  In this episode we explore the difference between instinct and impulse, and how the Secret Witch often misreads fear as misalignment - disconnecting from her deepest desires in an attempt to stay safe, loved, and accepted. Nicole speaks to the 'good girl witch,' feminine desire, visibility, nervous system conditioning, and the longing to reclaim our wildness without swinging into performative rebellion. She explores how desire itself can become an initiation - especially for women taught to suppress hunger, pleasure, erotic truth, and instinct - and why reconnecting to the 'soft animal' of the body is part of reclaiming feminine power, magic, aliveness, and soul truth. This is a poetic, honest, and deeply initiatory exploration of what happens when we stop monitoring ourselves and begin sensing ourselves again. What You'll Learn from this Episode: The Secret Witch often disconnects from the truth of her body through both perfectionism and rebellion - and healing begins by returning to the 'soft animal' wisdom of instinct, sensing, and embodied truth Perfection is often a strategy used to avoid the terror of being fully alive, and the Secret Witch does not heal by becoming 'good enough,' but by reconnecting to the wild truth of her body There is a powerful difference between instinct and impulse - and learning to discern true soul desire from conditioned fantasy, fear, or shadow longing is part of reclaiming feminine power and self-trust We often misread fear as misalignment, when in reality the fear may be the Good Girl trying to protect us from visibility, rejection, and the power of our own wild truth Feminine desire has long been shamed, suppressed, and feared - and many women feel safer speaking about trauma than longing, pleasure, instinct, hunger, or erotic truth Mary Oliver's Wild Geese offers an archetypal invitation home: to release perfection, reconnect to the body, remember belonging, and allow the soft animal of the body to love what it loves Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Our Links: Sign Up for Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Resources: Wild Geese - by Mary Oliver: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Olivia Roff. Olivia Roff is a Mystical Guide for the Soul and a Spirit Baby Channel, who lovingly supports women on their Motherhood journey. In 2020, after experiencing two miscarriages, Olivia received a beautiful call from Spirit Babies, asking her to usher in their Magical Souls to Earth and to guide their Mothers on their Motherhood journey. Since then, Olivia has been on an incredible journey, and has initiated some deep Soul healing. Olivia's children are her greatest Teachers and Guides. They have initiated her deeply into her truth on her Motherhood journey and into becoming the Wild Mother her Soul came here to Be. Olivia is passionate about guiding Women into healing and into becoming the Mother their Soul came here to be. Now Olivia is a very special guest, because she's also a long-standing 1:1 client of mine, so this episode feels deeply meaningful as it's the living alchemy of Olivia's own journey of becoming the remedy for herself, discovering her gifts through that process, reclaiming her voice, and expressing her medicine into the world as a Soul Guide and healer. In this episode, we explore motherhood as initiation - and what it truly means to become the wild, instinctual Mother your soul came here to be. We speak about birth, miscarriage, Spirit Babies, shame, rage, feminine receiving, home education, healing the Good Girl and Rebel shadows, and learning to trust the body's deeper instinctive knowing. Olivia shares how motherhood became the portal that initiated her into her gifts, her truth, and her wild feminine expression - and how the path of healing herself ultimately illuminated the medicine she is now here to share with others, and helped her to create what once felt impossible! What You'll Learn from this Episode: Motherhood is not just a role - it is an initiation into truth. Our children pull us toward the places we've abandoned ourselves, so we can become the Mother our soul came here to be The Wild Mother is not the "perfect" mother - she is the instinctual Mother who learns to trust her body, her truth, and her knowing, even when it goes against conditioning The shadow of the She-Wolf swings between the Good Girl and the Rebel - healing begins when we stop reacting from fear and start expressing from truth Birth, miscarriage, rage, burnout, grief, and overwhelm are not signs that you are broken - they are often initiatory portals calling you deeper into yourself Receiving is a feminine initiation. Learning to ask for help, express our needs, and open to support changes what becomes possible for our lives and families Creating a magical, soul-aligned life often takes years, not weeks. The vision may arrive long before we have the capacity, healing, or support to fully live it - but that does not mean it isn't meant for us. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Olivia's Links: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mystical_birthing/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mysticalbirthing Receive your monthly "Love Letter from your Spirit Babies" - https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1569129/160525404409431388 Our Links: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary To live your own journey of discovering your magical gifts, join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>  Social: Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of her own core medicine topics - reclaiming your voice as a wild woman, and sharing your story as a healer witch. Drawing on over a decade of writing, speaking, and being seen across media, podcasts, and live event spaces, she brings a deeply personal and lived perspective to what it truly means to express your truth in the world. This is not just about storytelling - it's about the initiation of visibility, the courage to be seen in our vulnerability, and the alchemy of turning our wounds into medicine. In this episode, we explore what it really takes to reclaim your voice and truth. Nicole shares her own journey from silence and fear to visibility and authentic expression, and opens a deeper conversation around the Witch Wound, the cost of being seen, and the identity shifts that come with stepping into your power. She explores how our stories are archetypal remedies for others - and how, when we heal and integrate our wounds, our story becomes medicine not just for ourselves, but for others (even just our immediate local community, family and friends). This is a raw, initiatory exploration of visibility, truth, and feminine power - and what it truly means to be seen, even exploring the fantasy of being seen by others, and how the real gold is truly seeing ourselves. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Reclaiming our voice is not about simply being more confident - it's an initiation into being fully seen in our truth, and it will ask us to meet fear, truth, and identity in a deeper way To be seen, we have to speak - and often that is vulnerable, but it's also worth it for the gift of being able to be fully ourselves The Witch Wound often lives beneath the fear of visibility - fear of judgement, rejection, or being too much - and our work is to recognise that this is part of our healing Your story is not just something that happened to us - it is our archetypal remedy, and when alchemised, it becomes medicine for ourselves and others The edge of visibility often begins when we stop sharing what is safe or universal, and start expressing our unique perspective and embodied truth Not everything needs to be shared - discernment is part of power, and knowing what is integrated vs still processing protects both ourselves and our work You don't need to be fully healed to be seen - but your power comes from owning where you are, rather than performing a version of yourself for acceptance We often have a fantasy that being seen and accepted will fulfil us, but the real person we want to be seen and loved by is ourselves. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Our Links: Join our Sisterhood - Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Sign up for our Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: Book - Maureen Murdock - The Heroine's Journey - https://heroinejourneys.com/heroines-journey/   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance. In this episode, we explore what it truly means to become the 'cycle breaker' - via an embodied, initiatory portal into the womb and ancestral lineage. Sara shares how inherited trauma lives in the womb, and how ancestral wounds are carried through the feminine lineage as silence, suppression and fear of power - and how womb healing becomes a somatic portal for discerning what was passed down. We speak about the role of rage and pleasure in healing lineage wounds - and the importance of using our voice and reclaiming our body's natural cycle to stop numbing and reclaim our true feminine power. This is a grounded, mature exploration of reclaiming the womb as the place where inherited pain becomes embodied wisdom, and the trauma stops with you. What You'll Learn from this Episode: You already know if you're a cycle breaker - it's an inner rebellion, an embodied knowing that you're here to create change, even if you don't know how The body shows you the call - the throat closes, you shake, you want to shut down or dissociate - that somatic charge is a portal When you drop into the womb, there's deep remembrance - and moments of realising "this is not just mine." You are feeling the whole maternal line Feminine power is being anchored and grounded in truth - not forcing, dominating, or controlling, but knowing yourself so deeply nothing can shake you Your bleed is a portal. What comes up during your cycle - rage, resignation, ideas, truth - is not 'just PMT' - it's information from the body Healing is integration - daily conscious awareness. Turning toward what triggers us and staying with it until the old energetic charge no longer has us. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Sara's Links: please share what she said at the end of the conversation - listen. Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com  Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih Sambaddha  - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha  Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1  UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership Our Links: To reclaim your feminine power, magic and truth, join our Secret Witch's Apothecary: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Sign Up for Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Subscribe for your Meet Your Witch Ceremony - https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.com Resources: Wild Power - Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope - find the book link from their website. - https://www.redschool.net/wildpower   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

Welcome magical ones! I'm delighted to welcome Sara back to the show today for a Part two of her feminine magic.  On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is entering the Underworld. Speaking to the Secret Witch who feels the weight of collective darkness in her body - the voicelessness, the numbness, the tight-chested freeze in response to misuse of power - she explores what it really means to reclaim power in dark times. Not through spiritually bypassing or pretending everything is love and light, but by descending. This is a conversation for the sensitive, powerful woman who feels horrified and activated, who fears her own intensity as much as she fears the world's, and who senses that there is something in the darkness she must face rather than flee. In this episode we explore the paradox of being both victim and powerful, the difference between ascent and descent, and the Aurum medicine of molten gold under pressure - the kind of leadership that is reclaimed by being honest rather than being perfect. Nicole shares her own Witch Wound around power, exploring why feeling horror does not mean we are powerless, and how feminine sovereignty is reclaimed in the body, not the mind. This is an invitation to stay with yourself in the underworld, to refuse self-abandonment, and to discover that the gold you seek is not found by escaping the dark, but by entering it consciously. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Reclaiming your power in dark times doesn't mean bypassing pain - it means facing it consciously, without abandoning your body Feeling horror, numbness or voicelessness in response to collective trauma does not mean you are powerless; it may be the very doorway into your embodied power The feminine holds a paradox - we can honour real victimhood and still reclaim our power from the darkness Honesty is the real medicine. What we resist persists - and the darkness we avoid is often where our lost power is waiting True feminine power is not logic or dominance; it is the willingness to enter the underworld, stay with discomfort, and return with gold If you are in the underworld right now, the first step is not escape - it is staying, getting honest, and reclaiming the fragmented parts of yourself that were left there. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Our Links: Journey in our Apothecary Sisterhood: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership - Manifesting and Medicine ceremony at New Moon Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Sign up for our Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: The Heroine's Journey - Maureen Murdock - https://maureenmurdock.com/articles/articles-the-heroines-journey/   Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, our guest is James Moran. James is an author, artist, and professional archetypal astrologer. He utilises archetypal astrology to help people make sense of what they've been through, understand the strengths that want to come from their challenges, and anticipate the themes and rhythm of growth ahead - all while helping people connect with the unity of all life. Having studied with the pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. Stanislav Grof, James began an adventure of growth that led him to spend several years living in India. Eventually encountering archetypal astrology, he began studying directly under Richard Tarnas, and realised that his entire life he had been searching for a language to describe reality at its depth. He now utilises archetypal astrology to illuminate the interior depths of the human experience. In this episode, we explore what archetypal astrology really is - not as prediction, reassurance, or quick-fix spirituality, but as a profound language of meaning and a map to the psyche. We speak about how archetypal astrology helps us understand why we've been through what we've been through, how difficult periods can be experienced as initiations rather than personal failure, and how we can consciously participate in the rhythms and cycles shaping our lives. We explore the relationship between astrology and the psyche, planetary archetypes as living psychological forces, and how reconnecting with these patterns can support healing, agency, and soul expansion. This conversation is a grounded, soulful exploration of how to meet life with deeper understanding, integrity, and trust in the intelligence of the path we're walking. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Our most painful life chapters aren't mistakes - they are archetypal initiations, carrying the very strengths and gifts we came here to reclaim Archetypal Astrology is not about prediction or certainty, but about restoring meaning - helping us understand why our lives unfolded the way they did and what is trying to be born through it The birth chart is not fate - it is a mirror of our psyche and soul, revealing core tensions that become sources of power when we consciously integrate them Wounds are not personal failures, but archetypal experiences - when we step to the other side of them, they dissolve isolation and reconnect us to our shared humanity and gifts Pluto, the underworld archetype, offers an insight into the Witch - illuminating why shame, secrecy, and fear often guard our deepest magic - and how descent is the pathway to transformation and reclaimed power Working with planetary cycles and lunar rhythms helps us move with life's intelligence rather than against it - turning chaos into coherence and initiation into agency Resources and Things that We Spoke About: James's Links: James's Website and free Tense Alignments Chart - https://jamesmoran.org/  James's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/astrologyjames/  James's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JamesMoranArtistAstrologer/  Secret Witch Links: Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tamas - https://cosmosandpsyche.com/  How to Know if Magic is Real - Dean Radin - (https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-43 Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the deeper truth of self-love - not the fluffy, bubble-bath version we see everywhere in February, but the raw, often uncomfortable, Rosa-coded kind that meets us right in the places we feel unlovable. Speaking to the Secret Witch who keeps pushing through her tight-chested tension, armouring herself in capability, and abandoning her own needs in fear of disappointing others, she invites us to notice where we've been living as a closed bud - braced, tense, performing 'I'm fine' - instead of softening open into the tenderness our magic actually requires. In this episode we explore why self-love isn't a luxury but the foundation of a Witch's power; how the 'Archetypal Rosa' wound compels us to override our bodies and earn love through self-abandonment; and the real, embodied moment Nicole chose differently - cancelling her day, offering herself softness, and risking being 'too much' or 'not enough' in order to come back home to herself. This is a gentle and powerful invitation into wholeness - into welcoming all parts of ourselves, tending our shadow with love, and remembering the power we keep forgetting we already have. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Self-love isn't superficial - it's the foundation of a Witch's magic, the inner relationship that makes everything else in our lives possible. The Rosa wound is the pattern that makes Secret Witches override their needs, perform capability, and earn love through self-abandonment - even as their bodies whisper for softness. Wholeness isn't perfection; it is the radical act of welcoming all of ourselves home - shadow, fear, doubt and tenderness included. The moment we soften instead of armour, choosing our needs even when it feels undeserved, is the moment our inner Rosa begins to bloom. Practical self-love is both the deep inner work of meeting ourselves in shame and the tender rituals of devotion - tiny acts of beauty, presence and self-honouring. When a Secret Witch chooses to love herself in the exact place she once abandoned herself, her power strengthens, her magic opens, and she becomes truly unstoppable. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Join our Apothecary Membership to journey with Rosa healing: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!   Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance. In this episode, we explore what it really means to listen to your body - not as a surface-level somatic trend, but as a courageous descent into the truth that lives beneath survival, suppression and self-sabotage. Sara shares how the body holds our wild emotions, our ancestral memory, and the younger parts of us that learned to survive through shutdown, people-pleasing or rebellion. We speak about the paradox of wanting power and being terrified of it, how rage protects heartbreak, why numbness is a sensation worth honouring, and how our patterns of self-sabotage, procrastination and resignation are invitations into deeper liberation. This conversation is a raw, honest, embodied journey into creating internal safety, meeting your trauma with compassion, and reclaiming the wild feminine power that has always been yours. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Our deepest resignation and "I don't want to be here" moments are portals - the very places that reveal the gold we're here to reclaim Somatic safety isn't found by chasing calm - it's created by turning toward the sensations we fear, the contractions, the shakes, the numbness The survival mind isn't truth - it is inherited conditioning, ancestral memory, and old protection strategies that once saved us and now sabotage us Wild feminine emotion - especially rage - is power: a sacred force that protects heartbreak, cuts through illusion, and awakens authentic boundaries Suppression shows up in patterns: self-sabotage, procrastination, resentment, people-pleasing - each one is a doorway into deeper liberation Coming home to the body is coming home to power - when we stop outsourcing safety and learn to be with what arises, we alchemise trauma into truth and return to our gold. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Sara's Links: Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com  Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih Sambaddha  - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha  Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1  UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership  Our Links: Vision your 2026 the Witch's Way - Join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  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

Happy New Year witches! A huge welcome back to the show! This new Year is feeling powerful - and, if you're a Witch into manifesting magic - aka creating your magical life - then I want to share and invite you to our free taster event coming up this Thursday. I'll be leading circle in our Meet your Witch ceremony - if you've enjoyed listening to the show, and you're feeling called by some strange pull to taking the tender first steps with your Witch, I invite you to join us in this heart-opening ceremony where you'll begin to open to your heart's deeper vision.  Which is very apt for today's show - you can join us at https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.co.uk/ - claim your free ticket and step into 2026 from your Witchy power! And yes, there's a replay so we will send that if you can't join live. On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole opens the New Year with a deep, magical exploration of what it truly means to create a vision from soul rather than strategy. She speaks to the Secret Witch who longs for manifestation yet fears it, who has learned to either hustle or rebel, who wants to step into her Creatrix power but feels blocked by doubt, burnout, resistance or confusion about what she even desires. Nicole invites us into a different way of creating - one rooted in the Feminine, in 'feeling' rather than 'thinking', and in allowing our hearts to reveal the woman we long to become. In this episode we explore why strategic visioning often collapses our magic, how the Witch can find the 'Third Way' beyond push-or-collapse, and why soul visions feel impossible, terrifying and wildly honest. Nicole shares the personal initiations that shaped her own vision - including withdrawing her daughter from school, and recreating her entire life around creating a soul-business and soul-led homeschooling - a dream that once felt utterly impossible. Through story and deeper teachings of the laws of manifestation, she guides you toward opening your heart, illuminating your resistance, and beginning to discover the soul vision held quietly in the fabric of your cells. What You'll Learn from this Episode: A soul vision can only be accessed through feeling, embodiment and the heart - not through thinking, strategy or the logical Masculine "what do I want?" approach The Witch's true creative power emerges when she moves beyond both poles of hustling /forcing and collapsing/rebelling — and enters the 'Third Way' of soul-led creation Manifestation is not about figuring out the HOW, it's about holding a heart-led, impossible-feeling vision while tending the wounds and shadows that pull us away from it We are always creating - but without a soul vision, we unconsciously create from wounding, fear, doubt and the unmet needs of our inner little girl A true soul vision will feel confronting, unrealistic or even terrifying, because it reveals the deeper truth of who we are and calls us into our power and possibility Soul creation requires vulnerability and courage - the willingness to trust the mystery, meet resistance honestly, and take aligned action even when the path feels impossible or unclear - but it's worth it! Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Our Links: Join our Apothecary Membership for the Witch's Vision workshop: Manifest a Magical 2026 (Jan 22nd): www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership  Claim your space at our free Meet your Witch Taster Event (Jan 15th): https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.co.uk/  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Molly-Anne Chinner. Born from the fairytale landscapes of South West England, Molly is a British sound healer, vocalist, multidimensional musician and founder of The Tone Temple - a growing sanctuary for crystalline sound, practitioner training, and ethically sourced alchemy instruments. Molly's work bridges crystalline sound, devotional voicework, earth magic, and esoteric teachings, guiding students into the deeper currents of sonic alchemy, crystalline resonance, sacred geometry, light body activation, and the art of holding transformational healing spaces with integrity, skill and soul. Molly's creations all carry the same devotion: to awaken remembrance, to restore coherence, and to re-weave our connection to both the Earth beneath our feet and our ancestry in the stars. In this episode, we explore Clear Quartz as both an archetypal remedy and a healing frequency, diving into the deeper currents of sonic alchemy through Molly's lens - from crystalline resonance and sympathetic vibration to the way sound interacts with our bones, cells and the 'crystalline matrix' within us. Molly shares how Clear Quartz reflects the whole cosmic pattern of the universe, how our bodies recognise crystal sound as 'like meets like', and why intention is the true foundation of frequency healing. Exploring the work of Dr Emoto and Veda Austin, revealing how sound, and intention create crystalline coherence in both water and the body, we speak about the unstruck sound within the heart, the soul-song each of us carries, the star-wisdom encoded in our bodies, and the invitation to return to rest and stillness so we can hear the music beneath the noise. This conversation is a remembrance of coherence, belonging, and the truth that we are not separate from the great symphony of the cosmos. What You'll Learn from this Episode: We are made of light and sound - at subatomic levels, the body is a field of vibration constantly moving, shifting and singing Clear Quartz holds a crystalline matrix that reflects the entire cosmic pattern - a fractal of the universe encoded in mineral form Our bones carry silica, which creates sympathetic resonance with crystal bowls - allowing our bodies to 'recognise' and embody their sound Pure intention creates coherence - demonstrated through the cymatic work of Dr. Emoto and Veda Austin, where sound and prayer shape crystalline structure Stillness and silence are essential for hearing the 'unstruck sound' of the heart - the deeper, eternal music beneath the mind Each of us carries a unique soul-song - a personal note in the great cosmic symphony that guides our belonging, coherence and healing. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Molly's Links: Website - www.mollyannechinner.com   Instagram - www.instagram.com/mollyannemusic   Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@mollyannechinner Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ICIKPh9rUz9UwBioCezzn?si=p5zT87neSLGPmn6_2UYuyw iTunes - https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/molly-anne-chinner/1688027006 Frequency of Light course - https://www.mollyannechinner.com/courses  Tone Temple crystal sonic shop - https://www.mollyannechinner.com/category/all-products  Our Links: To journey with Archetypal Clear Quartz, join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: Veda Austin podcast - https://www.vedaaustin.com/podcasts Anne Malone - teacher Sophie Neville - teacher Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.   If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the tender edge between hiding and shining - speaking to the Secret Witch who senses she has a 'brilliance' yet still doubts her gifts. With December's darkness as a mirror, she invites us to notice where we've been dimming the diamond within - the inner Clear Quartz gemstone - and remember that brilliance isn't performance or perfection, but honesty, transparency, and the courage to be seen exactly as we are. Nicole shares the crystalline moment she chose to step off a well-worn path and birth the Archetypal Apothecary™, weaving Clear Quartz medicine through the very real fears of over-preparing, waiting for permission, and feeling 'too much' and 'not enough' simultaneously. This episode is a heart-to-heart on reclaiming both our spiritual and logical brilliance, with gentle enquiries to meet your own soft edge of hiding and beginning to discover, embody and express your unique medicine as a healer. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Owning our brilliance isn't arrogance - it's honesty. It's the willingness to see ourselves clearly, without shrinking or performing, and to let our true light be witnessed Hiding once kept us safe - but it now it keeps us small. The same armour that once protected us has become the veil between us and our magic Brilliance doesn't mean having certainty - it means being courageous enough to speak the truth you do have today You don't need another certificate to validate your gifts. Your lived experience is your qualification - your body of work is already being written through you Fear of being 'too much' or 'not enough' is simply the threshold of growth - when we meet it with love and truth, it becomes the doorway to our genius Clear Quartz teaches us that clarity is born from pressure - the very tension we resist may be what's polishing our brilliance. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Links: Take the first steps in our Meet your Witch free taster ceremony - 15th January 2026 - https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.com  Join our Apothecary Membership to join us for The Witch's Vision: Manifest Magic in 2026 on 22nd January 2026 - or to journey with Clear Quartz (self-paced): www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, our guest is Tad Hargrave. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again). Since 2001, he's been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture work, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into this work of helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace. In this episode, we explore how our deepest wounds often point toward the wisdom we're here to share with the world as healers. Tad offers a refreshing lens on marketing as healing - showing how integrity, honesty, and right-relationship can become sacred acts of service. We speak about transforming our wounds into our gifts, learning to share our magic without manipulation, and reclaiming business as a soulful exchange that honours both the Witch and the world. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Coercion is everywhere - from birth to business - but healing begins when we choose integrity over manipulation We are branded by life - marked by our wounds in ways that show where our true medicine lives Our wounds show us the terrain we know best - the places we can now guide others through with humility and heart True marketing is love in action - remembering that business can be a sacred exchange, not a performance of persuasion Credibility doesn't come from certificates - it comes from 'heft': the weight of having lived, healed, walked the land and returned with wisdom to share When we turn our wounds into architecture - creating real offerings rooted in what we've healed - our work becomes medicine for the world. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Tad's Links: Website - https://marketingforhippies.com/membership/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hippymarketer Instagram - @marketingforhippies You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/user/radicalbusiness Our Links: Join our free Meet your Witch ceremony on 15th January 2026 - http://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.com  Join our Apothecary Membership to journey with Clear Quartz: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>  Social: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: Derick Jenson - A Language Older Than Words / The Culture of Make Believe - https://derrickjensen.org/language-older-than-words/  Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know. If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it! Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is guiding us to unearth the soul's vision buried beneath layers of wounding and shame. She begins with her own story - how for years she doubted the synchronicities, signs, and body-nudges that pointed her toward a deeper calling. From her corporate days of pushing past intuition to the burnout that finally invited her to slow down and meet her inner Witch, Nicole shares how learning to trust what she felt in her heart - rather than what seemed logical - became the first step toward remembering her soul's true vision. With the crystalline clarity of the Oracle Witch, she offers a loving reminder that our visions aren't missing - they're simply hidden beneath the armour we built to stay safe. In this episode we explore how the Archetypal Remedy of Clear Quartz helps us move beyond the logic that once protected us and into the intuitive heart that knows. Together we uncover the Clear Quartz wound - the fear of getting it 'wrong', of being 'too much,' or of not being 'clever enough' - and the way it clouds our inner Oracle Witch. Nicole introduces the shift from compensating manifesting ('I want to get…') to generative creation ('who do I want to become?'), inviting us to meet the part of us who already holds crystal clarity on our purpose. Through a gentle guided mini journey, she teaches how to soften the crystalline armour, listen to the intuitive whispers beneath fear, and reconnect with the luminous vision our soul buried for safekeeping. It's an episode for every Secret Witch learning to trust her magical brilliance! What You'll Learn from this Episode: Your soul's vision isn't missing - it's hidden beneath wounding and shame. The part of you that knows what you're here for has never left; she's simply been locked away under the fear of being 'too much,' 'too magical,' or 'not clever enough' The Clear Quartz wound keeps us trapped in logic and doubt. When safety has meant 'prove it', we disconnect from our hearts, override intuitive nudges, and mistrust our inner Oracle - a survival strategy that Clear Quartz helps to soften and heal Manifesting visions from lack is compensating for pain - not creation from soul. When we fixate on what we don't have ('I want to manifest money'), we create from fear. Generative Manifesting asks: 'who do I want to become?' and shifts the focus of our vision from scarcity to soul alignment Clarity comes from feeling, not figuring out. True vision isn't found through logic or planning; it arises through the heart when we slow down, listen inwardly, and allow intuition - not intellect - to lead Clear Quartz is the Vision Guide who mirrors your brilliance. As the Archetypal Remedy of truth and intuition, she doesn't give you something new - she amplifies what's already in you, helping you hear your heart's wisdom and trust the knowing that lives in your bones Self-trust is the gateway to vision. Each time you soften fear, love the parts that doubt, and follow the smallest intuitive nudge, you unearth another layer of your soul's calling - remembering that you are the crystal; you already hold the clarity you seek. Resources and Things that We Spoke About: Our Links: Connect deeper to your inner Oracle - join us in the Apothecary Membership for Clear Quartz: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>  Social: Join our free Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton  Instagram - @iamnicolebarton Instagram - @archetypalapothecary You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary Sign up for our free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary  Resources: Rebecca Campbell - The Inner Temple Oracle Deck - https://soul.rebeccacampbell.me/innertempleoracle/   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