“We don't need to follow prescriptions to be pure angels, or wild rebels, wearing capes, riding tigers and copying other guides - or partaking in other 'quick fix' strategies - to become successful healers.We must be everything we are. The beautiful, paradoxical soft, wild magic of our truth - we can be it *all.* There's no choosing between seemingly opposing aspects of ourselves.”
- Nicole Barton
We often begin a journey into opening to our magical gifts with a 'perception' of what it looks like to be a "healer" - and some fear about 'belonging' in that community.
There are so many 'quick fix' narratives out there to reinforce that there's 'one way' - a way that we have to be, in order to 'belong' in the world.
It's conditioned. Perhaps it is even a story of: "Don't be a healer/witch at all, that's "too woo'" - as we find ourselves donning our corporate mask one more time to fit in, or contorting ourselves into a life we no longer fit in, so that we stay safe. Not really knowing *where* we fit any more.
And we're so used to doing that, that even when it comes to owning the title of 'healer', we begin to imagine that maybe we don't even fit into the 'healer' box that the constructs of our minds have created.
We wonder, "what if I don't fit there, either?!"
I used to channel poetry and today, out in the woods, She-Wolf had me reclaim this lost part of my soul expression... So....
Introducing my new poem, 'Phosphoric Woman'...
Sensitive woman,
You weren't born here to play 'small.'
You are made of Phosphoric fire and moons:
You are a beautiful, glorious, messy paradox
of roses and she-wolves.
“Highly sensitive and magical souls – who actually have the power to heal themselves (and are often the ‘secret healers’ of the world) – often spend years seeking fixes externally, thinking they need others to heal them. In their feelings of brokenness, they begin to innocently ‘outsource’ their healing power..”
~ Nicole Barton
We are so delighted to share a feature we curated for Kindred Spirit Magazine all around how to work with Archetypal Remedies for Deep Self-Healing 🌙🐺🌹✨
“Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered...”
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
Years ago, I was not living my unapologetic wildest dreams and desires as a healer. I didn't even resonate with the idea of being ‘wild’ (quite honestly, the idea terrified me).
There were lost pieces of my wild soul, wounded and shattered, hidden out of sight in my ‘shadow bag’ of wounding, that I’d suppressed and shoved behind me, never to be seen again.
Secretly, I deeply feared *rejection* and I felt *unworthy* - inside and out. I was full of shame.
‘It may be the first day of your life, the prime of youth or several decades in, when Medicine Woman calls you. Your name on her list. Her new initiate. She crept in whilst you were sleeping, when you over-exerted, when you kissed him, or ate that, or lived there or pushed too hard just one time too many. She crept in and curled up in your cells, your heart, waiting to meet you. Longing to know you. Longing for you to know her, at last.
And what feels like the end is in fact a beginning, of a new road, an unknown path of pain and healing. She will show you how to slow down, she will run her fingers roughly through your life and help you sort the busyness from what matters, she will show you how to find support… and who you really are, beyond your roles and expectations… and even more beyond the System the world has forced you into. She transports you into the timelessness of big pains and tiny joys. Initiates you into your strength. Into your love. Into your courage. Into a world beyond your control.
She has sent me an invitation. I see yours too, tucked in your bag, amongst all the receipts and bills, the pens and detritus of life. Take it out.
It is time.’
~ Lucy H. Pearce
Hello, sensitive soul,
One of the common fears that can come up when we contemplate a journey into our self-healing and more meaningful gifts is the idea that we will be judged as ‘selfish’ for creating time and space for ourselves (I was contemplating that this may be showing up for women this Easter holiday, so if that’s you, I feel your heart so deeply).
There’s often the deep fear of ‘what will people think of me if I choose this journey of healing myself and opening to my healing gifts?’ - alongside a simultaneous ‘knowing’ that you just can’t keep carrying on juggling ‘all the balls’ anymore, and that you’re being called to be more true to yourself and carve out time to honour your needs and desires (and who you really are).
“Being in love isn’t really about the hearts and flowers of Valentine’s day; this is a very ‘outside-in’ way of looking at love.” ~Nicole Barton
When we get too attached to this consumerism-driven celebration, not being in a relationship can leave us feeling alone. Feeling that love had disappeared is some of the deepest suffering I’ve experienced – but it also taught me a lot; I saw that if we just look a little deeper, we can see something different.
“What if we could find freedom from all of our suffering by simply embracing the art of doing nothing?” ~Nicole Barton
I’m here to share exactly how we can do that, offering three ways we can begin to reconnect to our inner wisdom, instead of looking outside of ourselves for even more ‘to do’ in order to feel better.
As World Mental Health Day October 10th approaches, I explain why it’s time we all ditched self help and #DoNothing…
In an age where our society is deeply suffering with uncertainty; with the social illumination of issues like #metoo, increasing suicide rates and mental health challenges such as stress, anxiety and depression at an all-time high – not to mention the prevalence of huge political and environmental unrest, we are constantly living in our heads.
