The Secret Witch Show

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Nikki Van De Car. Nikki is the author of over a dozen books on magic and crafting, including the bestselling ‘Practical Magic’. She is an indigenous creator, focusing on exploring the ways in which stories inform how we understand the world and ourselves. She is a woman in search of magic, in the crunch of leaves and the scratch of a pencil, the brush of lips on a temple, and the sound of voices raised in song.

In this episode Nicole and Nikki delve into the shadow work and how our shadow can have us hiding ourselves (and our inner witch) - with Nikki sharing her story of how she embraced her identity as a witch by befriending her shadow. We discussed the importance and therapeutic value in feeling our emotions, welcoming and accepting ‘all’, integrating our darkness, and dispelling the stigmas around our fear, guilt and shame - especially for ‘Secret Witches’ who want to become healers. We explored the integration of our shadow through self-illumination - and how it can help us reclaim our wholeness and creativity. Nikki shared some ‘practical’ methods including a beautiful meditation, ritual, working with symbols and nature magic. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Shadow work involves acknowledging and befriending the darker aspects of ourselves, rather than trying to eradicate them - this process helps us achieve self-illumination, self-healing and a return to wholeness

• We tend to suppress our inner witch as adults, though our inner child remembers a time when we were free to express that magic - and we can reclaim this with deconditioning

• Emotions such as anger, sadness and envy are best to be expressed, not suppressed - acknowledging and welcoming these emotions is essential for freedom and creativity

• Shadow magic doesn’t have to be something we carve huge chunks of time out to ‘do’ - we can integrate it into our every day, making shadow work and magic a part of our lives - by being in ongoing self loving illumination. That said, there are also lots of fun practical rituals we explored if you want to journey that way!

• Recognising and loving the inner child is crucial in shadow work - it’s helpful to remember that our shadow is really just the scared, childlike part of us, who wants love. We can provide that love by imagining we are speaking to this part of ourselves as if it were a best friend or a small child

   

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Our Next Group Journey: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk 

• Nikki’s Website: nikkivandecar.com

• Nikki’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkivandecar

• Nikki’s New Books: 

• The Wheel of the Year: A Guide to Sabbats, Lunar Cycles, and the Stars Above

• My Wheel of the Year: A Celebration of Nature's Magic

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores one of the biggest challenges most Secret Witches face: how we can overcome the challenge of balancing our busy lives with our deeper calling to being a healer. She dived into the crucial topic of how to create space for our healer witch, offering a practical ‘workshopy’ episode and guided meditation for women who feel a deep spiritual calling to become healers, but struggle with self-doubt and burn-out - and don’t feel they have space to delve into the deep work.

In this episode, as part of her #HundredHealers vision, Nicole provided both practical steps for time-management, mental and physical space creation and advice on how to integrate magic into our daily life - and a healing journey with an Archetypal Remedy for activation of the part of you that knows how to manifest a magical life: your inner Creatrix, also exploring what resistance to that really means for our healing. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The fear and doubt that arises as part of becoming a healer is normal - and not a sign you’re not cut out for it (it’s the ‘Secret Witch’ wound - and just means there’s healing to do of your wounded healer)

• Feeling we are lacking time and space to do the deep work in our busy mundane lives is part of this wound - and wants some loving healing (the practical workshop and journey in this episode was potent for helping that)

• Cultural views often label necessary healing work as ‘selfish,’ ‘self-indulgent’ or ‘non-essential’ - a perspective that gets internalised by many women, making it harder to prioritise our spiritual growth

• Resistance is a healing invitation. It is showing us there's something butting up here against what we know - and we want to go into that with loving curiosity. Like: “why am I feeling resistance? What is my belief here?”

• There are some very practical steps we can take to create space for our witch - and, if we have resistance to those, it’s a sign there’s more healing to do around choosing ourselves and claiming our purpose as a healer - we can do this by journeying with Archetypal Remedies (and particularly the Creatrix, who knows her manifesting power)

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Join our upcoming 5 week journey with Archetypal Luna: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna

• Listen to the show on the “How, What and Why of Archetypal Remedies” : www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-68

• Download our Starter Pack - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up 

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring how women can connect with the power of the moon to reclaim their Feminine magic and gifts. She explains a ‘new’ magical way to harness the power of the moon - as a deep ‘archetypal’ symbol, or remedy - that can help secret witches overcome their fear and self-doubt of their magic, helping you get in tune with the moon for deep, healing self-illumination. 

In this episode, Nicole also provides more ‘practical’ guidance on cultivating a relationship with the moon, and deeper connection to your natural rhythms and cycles, helping you face any resistance to embracing your inner magic and healing gifts. She briefly explores spiritual ‘ascension’ versus soul ‘descension’ and how you can begin to own your unique gifts and step confidently into your role as a healer.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• So many magical women feel the deep fear of their inner magic - mostly struggling with doubting themselves, and feeling disconnected from their Feminine bodies, magic and unique gifts

• Many women feel the deep and symbolic call to the moon - but perhaps don’t realise that there’s more to her magic than meets the eye; Luna is an archetypal symbol that helps us reclaim our Feminine magic, mystery and stop doubting our healing gifts

• The moon represents an archetypal remedy with deep feminine attributes such as slowness, sensuality, wisdom, and the capacity to be with darkness and emotions.

• Connecting with Luna’s rhythms and cycles can help us attune to our own Feminine body’s natural cycles - something which many Secret Witches are disconnected from in our mundane, logical, head-driven society

• Moon ritual is a powerful way to embody our magic, and there are practical invitations in this episode to help you get started with working with the moon

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Download our Starter Pack - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up 

• Join our Next Group Journey with Archetypal Luna: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna 

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

1. Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Simone Stevens. Sim is an intuitive energy healer, Sekhem practitioner, Psychic medium and practising witch, who is dedicated to offering healing ceremonial sessions, treatments, ritual circles and workshops to guide the mystically and spiritually curious to find their innate magic and alignment. Sim focuses her work around connection to energy and spirit, be that of Spirit realms, plants, ancient energy healing practices, divination tools, sound or crystals. Sim believes that supporting clients to work more closely with their intuition is the portal to profound, positive, and aligned change in their lives.

In this episode we explored how to embrace magic and mystery and how to learn to trust our intuition - even when we are conditioned to mistrust it. We explored the common ‘Healers Journey’ of initiation into the mystery (often via burnout and panic attacks), and how us feeling disconnected from our true selves is often the way we are called into our gifts. We explored the importance of stillness, honouring the natural rhythms and cycles of our bodies - and even navigating mistrust of others in our ‘spirituality’ - to reclaim our innate magic. We dived into some practical steps of tuning into our ‘gut feelings’, and a deeper exploration of intuition versus ego - and the importance of self-compassion along the way. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• For those who long to be healers, embracing magic and mystery is vital - though we can often have wounding and fear around trusting our intuition that wants to be healed for ourselves first

• The mundane world can lead us sensitive souls to manifest symptoms of burn out and panic attacks which can feel like ‘rock bottom’, even when we look like we’ve ‘got it all together’. These are actually a sign of a deeper call into our intuition and magical healing gifts - often these messy dark portals of mystery are catalysts for our deeper purpose - and a required part of the path

• It can be hard to open when we feel like this, and it is often in the moment where we think there’s no other choice that intuition kicks in. Staying curious helps us open more fully to trusting our intuition, begin to hear our body and open to our magic - it often requires us to ‘unlearn’ years of conditioning

• Practising stillness and carving our time for self-illumination are essential to help us tune unto our natural rhythms and intuition - and this can be cultivated with a practice Sim shares regarding listening to our ‘gut feeling’, to build our ‘intuitive muscle’

• The more we heal self-doubt of our magic and intuition, the more others meet us in that - it can be a common fear for the Secret Witch to think that others will judge her as a ‘lunatic’, but when we truly welcome our intuition, and magic, others can too

• It’s important to hear our intuition, and it’s taking aligned-action that actually heals - each time we act on synchronicities or inner nudges we are building trust in our intuitive voice

   

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Join our journey with Archetypal Luna: https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna 

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Simone’s Email -  [email protected]

• Simone’s Instagram - @sensesbysim

• Simone’s Website -  https://www.sensesbysim.co.uk

• Simone’s The Intuitive Shadow Course this October 2024 - https://www.sensesbysim.co.uk/intuitioncourse-1

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is discussing how to harness ‘universal laws’ of healing to become a healer. She explores the interesting intersection of science and magic, highlighting the importance of acknowledging universal laws and principles that are often overlooked by conventional scientific paradigms. The episode illuminates various healing laws - such as the Law of Similars, the Law of Direction of Cure, the Law of Potency, and the Law of Return of Old Symptoms, among others - stressing the importance of understanding these laws for true magical healing, rather than ‘quick fixes’.

In this episode we explore the importance of seeing that there are laws built into magic - and that true magical healing is an inside-out process grounded in universal truth. Nicole invites listeners to observe how these universal laws manifest in their own lives and the practice of healing, inspiring women to embrace their magical gifts and navigate the fear of their ‘magic’ with love - and the ‘unapologetic’ mysterious magic of Archetypal Remedy, Luna.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• There are lots of Universal Laws and Principles of magic, which often get overlooked when magic is dismissed as ‘invalid’ by science’s ‘logical’ approach

• This can have magical women in fear about trusting their gifts - because often, magic is more intuitive and mysterious

• Yet science is beginning to catch up and recognise things that magic has explained for years - for example, homeopathic miasms can be defined by epigenetics now

• These universal laws are baked into magical healing, and teach us so much - for example,

• The Law of Similars explores why it is ‘us’ that is the medicine, rather than our ‘tools - because like cures like - people are activated by our story

• The Law of Direction of Cure explores that true healing works inner to outer, not by ‘fixing’ external symptoms

• The Law of Return of Old Symptoms explores why things can get worse before they get better - and why that’s a good thing!

• Overall, it’s really interesting to dive into these laws, and it’s important to walk a magical healing path that bakes these principles into it. 

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Download our Starter Pack - www.nicolebarton.co.uk/sign-up 

• Sneak Peek of our Next Group Journey with Archetypal Luna: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/luna 

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk 

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you,

Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is William Apple.  William is Founder of Aion Psychodynamic Coaching and with a passion for understanding the depths of the human psyche, and a commitment to personal growth and transformation, William offers a unique approach to coaching and mentoring that transcends traditional "Life Coaching" paradigms.  William's most influential Teacher, and Mentor by proxy - within the realms of Psychology - would be Carl Jung.  Like Jung, William has found a devotion within himself to explore and cultivate an intimacy with Psyche, and Her Mother, The Unconscious, and this Intimacy is driven by a likewise strict devotion to the Child of Logos, Analysis. All of which likewise led William naturally towards Traditional Western Alchemy and Mysticism; making Carl Jung William's most naturally aligned "professor".

In this deep and brilliant episode we explore how to journey with ‘inner child’ work and ‘shadow work’ (rather than the phantasy of ‘quick fixes’) for deep healing. We dived into the psychological reasons we tend to favour ‘quick fix’ approaches to healing, what we mean by ‘real’ inner-child work - and how curiosity, intimacy and self-illumination are key to healing and realising our magic. Listen to the end - William shares truthfully at the end that becoming a healer is one of the most challenging callings we can have, sharing why healing ourselves is important along the way. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Our biggest wounding comes from the ‘unlived life of our parents’ which leaves us with unmet needs that become our wounds - and this can be healed with ‘true’ inner child work.

• The challenge is, much ‘inner child work’ is often related to from a place of ‘quick fix’ projection and phantasy by modern coaching and self-help industries - ideas of ‘go play with your little girl’ embodiment practices - which are helpful in some ways, but often lack the depth of healing

• Caveating that ‘real’ is our own projection, William explores that how he sees the ‘real’ journey of healing is grounded in a lifelong journey of understanding our biases, projections and conditionings - and ‘phantasies’ - with loving, curious self-illumination - which some could call the ‘deep work’

• Projection is not a ‘bad thing’ - we have projected onto ‘projection’ if we think it is!  It is a great thing to get curious about - we are even projecting things that we deem to feel ‘good’ (because that reveals where we have met an unmet need)

• As aspiring healer witches, we have been called to no easy task - the work of healing ourselves isn’t easy (and is ongoing) *and* as healers, we also have a responsibility for accountability, self-awareness and avoiding projecting of our unmet needs 

• Common fears of becoming a healer - including fear of failure, self-doubt and fear of being judged and abandoned are rooted in shame, and can be healed through deep, loving self-illumination

• Inner child work, parts work, shadow work and ancestral healing are all serving to help us reclaim our magic - ultimately all offering us a way of deepening intimacy with ourselves

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• William’s Website:  https://www.aionpsychodynamiccoaching.com/

•  William’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/will.apple.12 

• Brene Brown: Daring Greatly - https://brenebrown.com/book/daring-greatly/  

• Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score - https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score  

• David Bedrick: Unashamed your Life - https://www.davidbedrick.com

• Nicole’s Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Nicole’s Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk 

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you,

Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the importance of being attuned to our ‘intuition’ as healers - especially when we doubt our magic.  Exploring the common challenges of the ‘Secret Witch’ (a secretly wise-woman born here to be a healer) as self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and lacking confidence in - or mistrusting - our gifts, she dives into how to embrace our deeper purpose by healing our healer’s wounding around ‘magic’.

In this episode, Nicole illuminates a practical path for reconnecting to our bodies for deep, intentional healing and reclamation of our inner-wisdom and intuition - to unlock our healing powers, and transmit our unique remedy.  She explores her mission to create a movement of 100 new healers, and the power of working with Archetypal Remedy, Luna - or the moon - to help us learn self-healing tools for healing our inner healer and expressing our gifts.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Many women experience self-doubt and imposter syndrome about their healing gifts and abilities - and rather than this being a sign to give up, it is a call to learn to trust our intuition and connect with our inner wise woman.

• Becoming a healer or wise woman involves learning to heal our fear of that, which often manifests due to cultural conditioning around magic and ancestral trauma (aka the witch wound).

• To begin to heal our witch wound and inner healer’s disconnect from our intuition, we need to cultivate an intimacy with our bodily sensations - rather than just feelings or emotions.

• We must embody our own gifts and healing experiences to be able to teach and guide others - authentic teaching comes from our lived and embodied wisdom.

• *And* we all have something we have embodied - and therefore, so long as we are teaching from where we have been, and where we are now, there’s a gift to be found that we can help others with.

• Learning to attune to our sensations and their meanings takes time - there’s no rush to be a healer - true healing is a slow, deep process (our culture values ‘quick fixes’, yet meaningful transformation takes time).

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Join our Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Social:

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don’t miss it!

Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Salena Walker. Salena is a dedicated Welsh herbalist deeply rooted in her ancestral heritage and native herbal practices, has nurtured a thriving herbal clinic since 2015, expertly growing a diverse range of herbs to benefit her patients and students. With over two decades of teaching experience, her true passion lies in empowering individuals through knowledge, enabling them to cultivate and craft their own herbal remedies.

In this episode we explore the deep-rooted connection between humans and nature through the lens of herbalism, and how we can harness plants, more magically, to heal ourselves. We delved into the topics of rewilding, the spiritual and energetic archetypal power of plants in self-healing, and the gifts to be found in embracing the traditional, non-linear, Feminine herbal wisdom approach with plants - versus a more masculine, clinical way of working with herbs - exploring a more intuitive way we can begin to heal ourselves (and others) as the wise women of the village.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Herbal medicine is deeply rooted in tradition - it’s not actually ‘alternative’, it was original medicine - and we can ‘reactivate’ our innate and ancestral wisdom for self-healing

• There has been a masculinised over-scientification of herbal medicine which can deter women from trusting their feminine, intuitive relationship with plants, and leave them feeling under-confident in their gifts 

• Each individual has an innate capacity to connect with plants for healing - and we don’t need to outsource our healing to others, but others do make good guides into our deeper wisdom

• As aspiring wise women, we hone our gifts by learning to work with self-healing - embodying our skills before helping others, like medicine women would have

• Herbs are potent not just physically, but also emotionally, spiritually and energetically - they are spirit guides, and are living beings with unique individual souls and properties - we can begin to learn from them, as teachers, if we treat them like friends

• Reconnecting with nature and its cycles offers a way to healing and reconnection with our deeper wisdom for healing on all levels - we can begin that by going into the wild, and beginning to cultivate a relationship with plants

   

   

  Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk 

• Salena Walker:

• https://www.salenawalker.earth 

• https://www.youtube.com/salenawalker 

• https://instagram.com/salena_walker

• https://www.facebook.com/salenawalker.earth

• https://twitter.com/NaturalSalena

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the concept of the ‘Secret Witch’ and how to embrace your destiny as a healer. She shares the fears and doubts that women called to be healers often face - illuminating the signs of a calling to ‘healing’ (including feeling lost in a chaotic life, being a sensitive empath, experiencing burnout, and going through a messy portal). The episode provides insights and guidance for ‘Secret Witches’ who are ready to embrace their gifts and step into their role as healers.

Nicole dives into the journey of healing the 'Secret Witch' within and becoming a fully expressed healer, including the need for self-healing, sisterhood, and the importance of embracing all aspects of ourselves (both light and dark). She explains the misconception of ‘quick fixes’ in the healing industry, and the importance of taking time to ‘become’ a healer - and the layers of personal and ancestral wounds that need to be journeyed with, explaining how Soul mapping and Archetypal Remedies can guide the process.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The Secret Witch is a woman who longs to become a healer but is held back by 3 common fears of losing control (failure), security, and approval (which have her hide her gifts)

• Signs that indicate a call to becoming a healer and being a ‘Secret Witch’ include feeling lost in a chaotic life, being a sensitive empath, experiencing burnout, and going through a messy portal

• Embracing the role of a ‘healer’ requires us to learn how to authentically face and heal our ‘Secret Witch’ healer fears, so we can fully step into our deeper gifts and purpose. The journey of healing the 'Secret Witch' within and becoming a fully expressed healer takes time and personal healing (which is not often something that’s taught)

• The true art and science of self-healing involves embracing all aspects of oneself, including the light and dark - the Secret Witch is really a call to deeper LOVE - quick fixes’ and outsourcing our healing to others are not effective in the long run

• Healing personal wounds and ancestral wounds are essential in the process of becoming a healer - and having a soul map for that and our archetypal remedies can guide the healing journey and help discover and express our gifts more easily.

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk 

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Starter Pack: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/subscribe 

• Posts: 

• The truth about ‘belonging’ as a healer: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10168437028860564 

• I see healing through a different lens: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10168440039030564

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Genevieve Davis - or Sasha Stephens as is her real name.  Genevieve was living a miserable, drab life until, at the age of 43, she experienced a profound magical transformation - and she has been teaching and writing about magic ever since.  With a distinctly practical and down to earth approach to magic, her philosophy is simple: magic is available to all, and a good teacher merely nudges people to rediscover the magic they already possess. An author of 22 books, Genevieve runs The Academy of Magic, an online teaching resource for all magically-minded people. 

In this magical episode, we discuss the power of magic in healing life's mundanity. Genevieve shares her personal journey from rock bottom, with a mundane life of debt and disempowerment, to discovering magic and changing her destiny. We dive into the significance of storytelling, the misconception of magic in our culture, and the crucial role of ‘inner healing’ for real manifestation, illuminating the importance of facing fears and opening to self-healing. We also dived into being openly ‘magical’ in a logical world, the empowering importance of ‘honesty’, and practical advice for integrating magic.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Genevieve’s vulnerable story highlights the deep power of self-illumination in our healing, highlighting the moment she realised she had to save herself, and was not a victim - which was her own opening to what she calls real ‘magic’

• Magic is really another word for our internal ‘creative’ power - and it’s really life-changing when we begin to see that change comes from within 

• Real magic is created when we truly self-heal - it is ‘inside out’ healing; we have to do the inner work (that often involves looking at our childhood wounding) to heal our outer world  

• This concept of ‘magic’ transcends traditional views around manifestation and healing, which teach it is all about the external and ‘doing’

• Real magic and healing require honesty, and facing discomfort and fear - stepping into challenges is a necessary part of our healing and expansion, especially as healers

• Magic is something that science can’t explain - and it can be tempting to approach it logically - but it really isn’t a linear process; we have to *feel* it our way into it.

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Social:

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Join our Secret Witch Society: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Website: www.nicolebarton.co.uk 

• Genevieve’s Resources:

• Genevieve’s website and Academy of Magic - https://becomingmagic.com

• Genevieve’s latest book - Feasting on Magic https://www.becomingmagic.com/feasting-on-magic/ 

• Becoming Genevieve - Nicole’s favourite book of Genevieve’s https://www.becomingmagic.com/the-books/ 

• Becoming Magic / Magic Words - Genevieve’s recommended books  https://www.becomingmagic.com/the-books/ 

• Instagram https://www.instagram.com/magicgenevieve/

• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/magicgenevieve/

1. Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIrjWePspxO7eUwKqRQsY0A

Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what comes alive for you in this week’s episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you, Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox