“Readiness is a myth. Fear isn’t a stop sign — it’s the first doorway into your healing.”
- Nicole Barton
“For centuries, witches were silenced, shamed, and burned for their truth. And yet here she is - right there on the cover - being celebrated for bringing her magic home.”
- Nicole Barton
“Wild Creatrix's first initiation is into the reminder of woman's power to create. This is the very power we were born with - after all, we have wombs which quite literally birth magic."
~ Nicole Barton
Most Secret Witches arrive here to this path not knowing that they are already creating. "But why would I create this?" they might ask, referring to the way they've been innocently and unconsciously creating everything they *don't* want.
“The benefit of devotion is the full aliveness found in the fullest expression of our Soul. The cost is our discomfort, the benefit is we find ourselves.”
~ Nicole Barton
This morning I went for an early morning walk in my devotion to Soul, Magic and the Feminine. It was raining as I got out of bed. I haven't got a rain mac for this rainy weather that is waterproof. I hadn't thought about what would happen in my devotion to early morning walks if it was raining. And so, I found myself feeling the resistance in my body to going out in the rain. Tension, heaviness, and excuses galore.
“It may be the first day of your life, the prime of youth or several decades in, when Medicine Woman calls you. She crept in… when you… pushed too hard just one time too many.”
- Lucy Pearce
Back when I had Chronic Fatigue, when I was age 10, I had no idea I was being initiated into magic. I had little idea of any of what was going on, really - I was too young, though I do remember the various holistic healing techniques we explored, and the haunting call of the Doctors "there nothing you can do to heal from this yuppy flu."
The more courage and vulnerability we have on this journey, the deeper we can embody the Witchy fullness of our Souls ~ Nicole Barton
I’ve been sitting in a women’s circle myself for the last few months, with some magical, powerful women - all coaches need their own space for expansion, and so my own deepening was into the Feminine, which I had experienced some resistance to (much like I explored the resistance many of my own women have to the word ‘Witch’ in my last blog). Where there’s resistance, there’s also usually gold - which is really what we are here exploring this this blog post today, as it’s all about embracing the darkness.
“For me, magick is love. Whenever you bring in Divine light to manifest one thing or the other in the world, what you’re actually doing is pulling in love. ~ Damien Echols
I adore this because it points to the critical interweaving of spirit and soul that I share along the journey to liberating your Wild Witch - when we co-create magic, we are ultimately calling in Divine love through our human Soul. Ultimately, that’s what magic really is; a manifestation of *love* itself. Wow……..
“Witch wound: a deep-seated fear of being your fullest expression of self in case you are burned at the stake.” ~ Nicole Barton
Mmm, we are releasing this blog on the run up to Full Moon so, given September’s Secret Witch Circle Facebook Group theme of ‘Rewilding’, it feels like a great time to offer some support around how getting out in the wild can offer you deep healing for your witch wound…….
“Your power only feels absent because it has been felt so deeply in every fibre of your being - and it’s still there.” ~ Nicole Barton
This month, in August, our theme in the Secret Witch Circle Facebook group is all about opening to your power - and it has occurred to me that usually, it is often a surprise to many of the women I work with how almightily powerful they really are…
“Without our bodies, our Souls would not have anywhere to dance...” ~ Nicole Barton
I've been in some of the most powerful work of my life recently - the work of reclaiming parts of me that I had pushed into the darkness – and that uncovering has shed much light (and darkness!) on my work and how I support others in liberating themselves.
“You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” ~ Mary Oliver
Fear is something inbuilt to us; it’s evident throughout nature in the way animals instinctively respond to danger, and it operates just the same in us. And yet, whilst it’s such a primal and natural piece of our cycle of wisdom…
“We are all formless energy, dancing as form.” ~ Dicken Bettinger
For many years now, I’ve been an advocate for what feels very truth to me – the idea that there is ‘nothing to do’ to find peace, joy and happiness. I can see so clearly that it is ingrained in our very essence that we are already everything that we might seek outside of ourselves for. But what if we can still choose to dance as whatever we long to create?
“Cells upon cells are just intelligently collecting and arranging themselves into a new human being, urging our bodies to adapt, and this offers us a real-life, living proof that truly anything is possible.” ~Nicole Barton
It wasn’t until the first week of lockdown that panic started to set in. I’m not usually one to look outside of this moment right now - for this is the only time we really ever have - but there’s something about being 5 months pregnant during Covid-19 that has felt, at times, more turbulent and overwhelming than usual.
“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.
“I hadn’t known it, but all I had really ever needed was nothing more than someone to hold my hand and deeply listen.” ~ Nicole Barton
About 5 years ago, I was deeply suffering in a life that didn’t feel like it was my own, but felt more as if it were a bad dream. I remember feeling a sense of hopelessness, and much of the time it manifested as anger.
“We have been conditioned to look outside of ourselves for answers for many years instead of looking at the fact that we have all the wisdom already within us.” ~ Nicole Barton
Aren’t New Year’s Resolutions so old school? I have grown up in a society that sees fixing, changing and ‘doing’ as critical to our existence. But what if in the new decade, we could see something different about this that offers us freedom?
“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.
