“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).
“In my lack of defenses and curiousity about what this triggered for him - magic occured.”
~ Nicole Barton
⚡🖤"CAREFUL, YOU'RE BECOMING A NARCISSIST" 🖤⚡
I received this message in my inbox last night, from a man I once knew.
If you know my teachings about Feminine power, you'll know that I teach from a lineage with a deep reverence for the Masculine - I'm open to recieving the Masculine's provisions, rather than rebelling against them - and I see Men as Kings. 👑
“As we more deeply devote to our Feminine soul, and expand into love, and though the challenges become greater, it does actually become more easeful if we choose it that way.”
~ Nicole Barton
🌹⚡"MY GIFTS FEEL TOO BIG FOR ME" ⚡🌹
I remember the first really BIG time that my little girl kicked off and melted down about me fully choosing to step into my gifts to create a legitimate business from them.
The first time my 'hobby' business - my spiritual gifts - became professional, serious, a real thing that I chose consciously to OWN that way.
“Outside of the lens I teach, it can really looks like there's an EITHER/OR. You're either Magical or you are Human.”
~ Nicole Barton
✨🧙♀️ THE TUG OF WAR BETWEEN MUGGLE VS MAGIC 🧙♀️✨
I have been speaking a LOT to common issues of perfectionism, burn out and imposter syndrome recently. And I'll be honest, that's because us spiritual leaders can really struggle with these things on a daily basis.
We are HUMAN.
“Your over reliance on logic and linearity is what has had you burn out in your professional career - and had you open your heart to spirituality and magic in the first place.”
~ Nicole Barton
✨🧪 "I WANT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE" 🧪✨
One of the biggest blocks that magical women hit up against when wanting to more deeply own her Spiritual gifts and create a legitimate professional business from them is their own BRILLIANCE.
By that, I'm referring to the intelligent parts of them that have learned to over-rely on logic and the linear structures of society.
“People are silently begging to be led.”
~ Jay Abraham
🧙♀️👑HEALING THE LEADER WOUND 👑🧙♀️
"People are silently begging to be led." Jay Abraham
I was reminded of this quote the other day and it made me laugh as my experience has not always been that of wanting to be led. And neither is this true of my women at times, when they are in their Leader Wound.
“We have been taught that we should "wait" to feel powerful before we act, when the TRUTH is we have to CULTIVATE our inner POWER.”
- Nicole Barton
⚡🖤 INTEGRATING THE "AM I ENOUGH?" ⚡🖤
Our healing is never complete.
I share this because I know, firstly, that some women can put me on a pedestal thinking that I have already "done the work" and assume I am "healed" - when the reality is, our healing lasts a lifetime, because our core wounds are those we've been called to work with this time around.
“You can BECOME the Feminine healing leader (Feminine Witch Queen) you were BORN to be.”
- Nicole Barton
Archetypal Apothecary™ is a mystery school for aspiring heart-led Feminine healing leaders.
It helps you stop taking the easy option, suffering imposter syndrome, procrastinating and distracting, fearing your success.
And instead get clarity on your gifts, and heal and integrate the real blocks, that stop you from serving your gifts from integrity in a legitimate business - reclaiming your wild Feminine power, using your voice and magic.
“The Mother Archetype is not to be played with - she deserves real reverence, truth and respect.”
- Nicole Barton
✨💃 INTEGRATING THE MOTHER AUTHENTICALLY 💃 ✨
Some of the Archetypal Remedies that I transmit in this path are those that activate and heal the energy of the Mother. They are called the "Matridonals." And I see that, often, my women were born here to work with the Mother energy in one way or another.
“'True vulnerability has us reach the hearts of those who need to feel our authenticity and have it activate them in all the right places (even though that is hard).”
- Nicole Barton
❤️🌹CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART? 🌹❤️
TRUTH TIME: People don't always feel my heart. 💔
Last year I heard some cold hard truths (and hit up against some of my deepest fears) that I've been alchemising - in which much gold has been reclaimed. But it had been *hardcore* lessons.
Firstly, I hit up against what felt like a deep rejection by my sisters in a circle I was part of - where I fully expressed myself and I wasn't received as loving by everyone (and felt I wasn't met with love at the time, because I was in closure).
“The woman who is here to work with her 'inner witch' is here to experience the darkness of being a human fully in form, and she's here to play there, making gold from it - because she's a manifestor here on earth.”
- Nicole Barton
10 Signs You Were Born a Witch
YOU WERE BORN FOR MORE - and you long to be in your Feminine power
YOU HAVE SPIRITUAL GIFTS - and you know you were born to be a healer - even if you don’t know what your gifts are
YOU CAN MANIFEST LIKE A PRO - and because of that, you secretly fear your success more than your failure: what would it require of you?
“The woman who is here to work with her 'inner witch' is here to experience the darkness of being a human fully in form, and she's here to play there, making gold from it - because she's a manifestor here on earth.”
- Nicole Barton
10 Signs You Were Born a Witch
YOU WERE BORN FOR MORE - and you long to be in your Feminine power
YOU HAVE SPIRITUAL GIFTS - and you know you were born to be a healer - even if you don’t know what your gifts are
YOU CAN MANIFEST LIKE A PRO - and because of that, you secretly fear your success more than your failure: what would it require of you?
“I learned to create my abundant healing business as a LEADER in ALIGNMENT with my deepest PURPOSE.”
- Nicole Barton
🔥⚡ SUCCESS = BURN OUT? TRUE OR FALSE? ⚡🔥
Oh woman, is this one thing I wish I had known when I began creating my healing spiritual business?! Yes it is. ⚡
Firstly, I ended up quitting corporate (well over a decade ago now!) because I went up in flames and burned out - so you can trust me that I know this one WELL.
And for almost a decade I played life SMALL because I was scared of being fully in my power and fully in my possibility for true 'success' and abundance.
“It's your STORY of how you've overcome and healed your imperfections that will be a gift to your audience”
- Nicole Barton
⚡💃 💣💣💣
🖤🌟AUTHENTIC OR PERFECT: IS YOUR 'PERFECTION BLOCK' STOPPING YOU BEING REAL? 🌟🖤
One of the things my women often really struggle with - particularly in that time of transition into creating their own spiritual healing business - is being a perfectionist. And, oh my, do I know this one well as it's one I've worked with deeply.
“Your gifts are hidden in your Feminine body - and that means they are hiding in your WOUNDS.”
- Nicole Barton
⚡💃 FEMININE WITCHES: IF YOU'RE NOT DEVOTED TO HEALING YOUR WOUNDS, YOUR GIFTS WILL STAY HIDDEN ⚡💃 [Part 3 of 4]
The truth of what it *requires* of you to create from your Feminine in your spiritual healing business is that it's an initiation firmly into creating a business fully, unconditionally from pure DEVOTION to your heart.
What no one tells you is that this won't always *feel* good (even when it's aligned) - because it will ask you to leave the world of the known and instead venture into the messy spiral of the unknown.
“The deep work is to find and LOVE the parts of you that FEAR SUCCESS, over and over, as you tend your nervous system enough to CHOOSE to discover and take action that's aligned.”
- Nicole Barton
FEMININE WITCHES - IS YOUR SHADOW DISTRACTING YOU TO NOT TAKE ACTION IN YOUR SOUL BIZ? 🖤⚡
The secret thing you don't want to admit as an aspiring Feminine spiritual leader is that you KNOW it is *you* that is really getting in the way of serving your spiritual gifts as a healer.
Your commitment to not hustling (see my last post) doesn't mean that you should sit around taking no action at all (oh hello there, other end of the Feminine shadow pole 💃🖤).
“It's likely your deepest life's work (as is the work of my lifetime) is to open to true Feminine creation.”
- Nicole Barton
ASPIRING FEMININE HEALING LEADERS - IS YOUR SHADOW TRYING TO SPEED YOU UP IN YOUR SOUL BIZ? ⚡🖤
So let's speak truth to a pattern I see in my witchy aspiring heart-led Feminine healers and leaders (aka Feminine Witches).
Often, you will be problem aware - in other words, you'll KNOW that you were born for a life of MORE than you've currently been living.
More deeply, you'll KNOW you want to create a magical, spiritual healing business from Feminine SOUL - not BURNOUT (though you may not call it this yet - you might think of it as your 'spiritual business', not your 'soul' business).
“You can embody *any* archetypal myth you'd like to - it's helpful to remember it's your choice. Your spell. It always has been.”
~ Nicole Barton
WHO EVEN ARE YOU?
One of the things that came up as I was speaking to aspiring heart-led feminine healers and leaders recently was that they find it a real challenge to answer the question "what do you do?".
Every woman squirmed in her seat at trying to answer - their challenge being to define themselves into some sort of logical, linear box that makes sense to the mundane world. A nod to having to 'get it right', perhaps from their corporate days. That and having a millionty things that they are distracting themselves from their soul purpose with
“We all have a witchy dark shadow side that we suppress. We might show up as a rebel, fighting for power, instead of being loving, or we might long for more power, but feel helpless and end up being the submissive good girl when we don’t really want to be.”.
~ Nicole Barton
HOW TO UNLEASH THE KINKY WITCH WITHIN THIS VALENTINE’S DAY
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner (and what’s thought to be the sexiest day of the year), there’s lots of talk of exploring fantasies and expressing your true self. But as British witch Nicole Barton explains, reclaiming and unleashing the kinky witch within doesn’t have to be sexual and for a partner to enjoy. Instead, discovering your own kinky witch is an act of self-connection, self-love and fierce empowerment…
This is about returning to the truth of our Feminine souls. Beyond the stories and ideas we hold about the Feminine (and the Masculine).
~ Nicole Barton
THE FEMININE: A LAZY, WEAK VICTIM OR WISE, MEDICINAL HEALER?
Our bodies tell us, if we listen carefully, exactly what medicine they need.
I've been interviewing heart-led, aspiring healers and Feminine leaders today and each of them held a story about the Feminine. She was (innocently) feared being seen as lazy, weak or in need of empowerment.
Each of these stories is understandable given our cultural conditioning. And each of them is also putting her in victim and denying healing. When she's actually super powerful and can tell us how to honour her needs and create powerfully - if we are prepared to listen and take the aligned-action she calls for, to fulfil her soul's mission.
“Knowing what your soft edge is, is a bit like creating your own personal safe word.”
~ Nicole Barton
CHOOSING TO BE THE REAL, VULNERABLE 'YOU' IS EDGY - WHAT'S YOUR SAFEWORD?
I leaned into another kinky edge recently with sharing my voice. And something I've come to see over the years is that, when we do, MAGIC is created.
I was feeling in victim to a surge of what felt like Dominatrix energy recently - which felt to leave me only in the energetic of Submissive (if you missed my last post about this, read it: I'm talking *energetics* here, not being an actual sexy Submissive, though that's always a place you can play with the dynamic ).
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