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Have you read our feature on Kindred Spirit? “Reclaiming Wild Wisdom with the She-Wolf Archetype”

Have you read our feature on Kindred Spirit? “Reclaiming Wild Wisdom with the She-Wolf Archetype”

"A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We are so delighted to share a feature we curated for Kindred Spirit Magazine all around our Archetypal Apothecary Remedy She-Wolf 🐺✨

We all know Clarissa Pinkola Estes' work with the Archetype of the wolf is hugely impactful, and working with She-Wolf (or more specifically with Archetypal Remedies, 'Lac Lupinum' - She-Wolf's milk) helps us to reclaim our inner wild woman wisdom.

This is magically timed as, in our recent group journey with Archetypal Rosa, the reclamation of our wildness made itself known as both a desire and medicine needed in the world - and I had no idea this would be the case when I wrote this article.

Can I really TRUST magic?

Can I really TRUST magic?

"But more importantly, there's a practical way we can learn to tend ourselves in the fears that *will* inevitably arise along the journey deeper - and that is the work of learning to have self-compassion, love the parts of our little girls that are trying to keep us safe.”

~ Nicole Barton

How to tend the fear of healing yourself and choosing a more meaningful, soul-led life of *more* purpose...

One thing I hear the most from women who are feeling the call to healing themselves magically and creating their lives differently - perhaps opening to their deeper sense of purpose and meaning, or some secret hidden healing gifts they sense they have (but feel terrified of) - is that of "can I really TRUST magic?"

There's often a preference for ‘logic’ in these women - and an (understandable) resistance to trusting the unknown. 

The Art of True Healing

The Art of True Healing

"Healing isn't something to 'go to someone else for' and expect a "quick fix"; it's about learning how to *integrate* what comes up in our healings for ourselves.”

~ Nicole Barton

I was having a rich conversation with one of my previous guides, and now dear friend, Lian yesterday in which we were talking about what had unfolded since I had a shamanic healing with her a few months ago.

I've been in the deep work, since then, of reclaiming a lost part of my soul from young adulthood - and I have found myself being nudged back to old devotions from that time, including movement, yoga, music and horse-riding (see her post about devotion in the comments).

And what stood out in our conversation for me was something I've been saying for a while about how healing isn't something to 'go to someone else for' and expect a "quick fix"; it's about learning how to *integrate* what comes up in our healings for ourselves.

I was struck this morning at the reminder of the level of courage that's truly required to walk the path of magical healing

I was struck this morning at the reminder of the level of courage that's truly required to walk the path of magical healing

"This work with Archetypal Remedies is the work of two of the most powerful ancient wisdom bodies I know of, working in union. It is a potent unity of the work of Homeopathy combined with Jungian Archetypal depth psychology. Two of the most powerful ancient wisdom bodies helping you to unite with your soul and *become* a medicine woman - firstly for yourself, and then for others.”

~ Nicole Barton

I was struck this morning at the reminder of the level of courage that's truly required to walk the path of magical healing - for both personal healing and the path of becoming a healer (which are really one and the same).

Often, women arrive at the path of magic after an initiation of health of some kind - whether physical, mental or emotional - where they've struggled to create any long-lasting change within the mainstream medical system.

And I know in my bones that 'The Way' for these sensitive ones is always to be found in magical healing.

Something soul nourishing is coming very soon for sensitive women... ✨

Something soul nourishing is coming very soon for sensitive women... ✨

"Because the truth is, these fears are not signs that you're not meant to be a healer, teacher or guide; they are signs that you're *absolutely* meant to be a healer.”

~ Nicole Barton

I remember the feelings that came up when I first truly began to feel and let myself acknowledge the call to becoming a healer, teacher and guide. 

I remember the terrifying fear of not being 'good enough', of feeling like if I stepped in, I'd surely fail. I remember the fear of judgement - the anxiety that if I honoured this strange call to more magic (which I couldn't even really trust myself to know if it was even real), people would think I was mad.

Is your own worthiness getting in the way of you becoming a healer, teacher or guide?

Is your own worthiness getting in the way of you becoming a healer, teacher or guide?

"If your soul is calling you to this path, listen to it. Follow your heart - your soul knows. You can create your soul desires.  And you are worthy of creating your soul desires. You're worthy of this support."

~ Olivia Roff

Is your own worthiness getting in the way of you becoming a healer, teacher or guide?

One of the most common objections I hear from my women is their deep sense of unworthiness to soften and live from soul, and step into something more meaningful and magical.  They often feel they are here only to live life for others, rather than to create their dreams.  I know this one well, because I have struggled with feeling worthy in my own journey, and I know how hard this particular fear can feel to choose past.

“But I can’t” = a call to your magical power as a healer, teacher or guide…

“But I can’t” = a call to your magical power as a healer, teacher or guide…

" I am here to help you create a life that is in total soul alignment with the healer, teacher or guide you were born to be - and ironically, I see that creating abundance happens as a direct consequence the deeper we step into alignment, but it’s a byproduct and bonus of the deeper richness of truly living your purpose."

~ Nicole Barton

"But I can't" = a call to your magical power...  

Musings on the common money fear magical women who are here to be healers, teachers and guides often feel…

I hear so many women say "I feel so called to this... But I can't". And oh my heart do I understand that feeling more than you could believe.

I've felt the lack of possibility, the hopelessness, the trappedness in my life. I've felt the lack of belief in my own power. I've felt the mistrust in life and the need to micromanage and stay as I am. I've felt the tension, the tightness of the contraction.

And sometimes I still do.

Going into the sensitive wisdom of the body…

Going into the sensitive wisdom of the body…

"I had no trust, back when I had a paralysed face, that I could heal myself (even though I had done it before, a million times over, and healed others) - and yet, taking the deepest plunge yet into trusting my body wisdom, even when it was terrifying had me not only heal my supposedly ‘incurable’ face, but it was also the initiation that had me discover my deepest purpose…  These portals often are."

~ Nicole Barton

Unfurling into our body wisdom...  🌹💃

Today, I remembered back to a time three years ago when, despite  having a great deal of wisdom about listening to my body (it’s been a lifetime’s initiation for me), I was still unconsciously choosing to ignore it - and it left me with an entirely paralysed face on the right side.

It was mid-pandemic and I was about to give birth and I’d been pushing and forcing my way through life, despite knowing that there was a deeper intelligence to life - a universal wisdom in my body - that was growing my baby.  

I was still ignoring the wise nudges of my body saying “slow down, please”.  And because of that, my body manifested numbness (quite literally).

I am woman- I am *all* faces of the Feminine

I am woman- I am *all* faces of the Feminine

“I realised I had some resistance to showing up as the tender, soft pinkness of the Rose, because when I started this journey into my power, I rejected parts of myself that I called "Pastel Swan" - for the parts of me that were wilder. And this week, I realised - I am the union of them all. And even Rosa herself is the alchemy of her seeming opposites of thorns and softness, into a third way. “

- Nicole Barton

I've been feeling a lot recently into how soft and gentle Rosa's energy feels - and how different she feels to some of the other "faces of the Feminine" Archetypal Remedies we serve. Shes vastly contrasting to Naja's fierce truthfulness, and she will feel different again to Luna's magic and Aurum's power and She-Wolf's wildness.

You see, each of the Archetypal Remedies we serve in this path have their own unique medicine.

Their own personalities. 🎭

⚡ And each of these Archetypes is within us already - awaiting our activation and invocation.

Manifesting our heart's desires, magically- by working with Archetypal Rosa's soft, opening healing

Manifesting our heart's desires, magically- by working with Archetypal Rosa's soft, opening healing

"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter till they bloom. Till you, yourself, burst into bloom."

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Yesterday the scared 'Secret Witch' in me (who doesn't know her own power and magic) had been feeling some contraction, some fear, some uncertainty. She was full of self-doubt and sadness, grief and loss because there's a lot to hold at the moment. I know we all feel that, collectively.

And a few years back I'd have just either spun deeper and deeper down, or bypassed how I was feeling entirely.

I found myself reflecting, later, on what was different about how I hold that now, and I started to honour the powerful part of myself.

Firstly, instead, I cancelled anything I'd planned for the afternoon to simply sit in the garden listening to the birds, journaling, journeying with my inner child. Letting my tears fall, feeling, healing and alchemising by being with what was there.

Being with my little girl.

Why I chose to look more closely at being "too busy"

Why I chose to look more closely at being "too busy"

  It takes deep love to heal that belief and cultivate the knowing for ourselves that we *are* worthy of more. It's taken me deep psychological + magical work that no amount of floral baths would have fixed in isolation.”

~ Nicole Barton

For many modern women the idea of self-care is a fantasy. Back in the day where I was living a mundane life, I'd have said I didn't have time for it. I'd have said I was "too busy" as I ran around doing what the world expected, working my bum into the ground in a professional career that exhausted me, bending to other people's desires, saying "I don't mind".

So the fact that today, I 'indulge' in rose petal + herbal paths whilst supping hot cacao and open my heart to my desires being provided + allowed is a far cry from who I used to be (I write in inverted commas as I no longer see these things as 'indulgent' but necessary).

There can be a misconception about my work - you see, I'm not simply guiding women into more self-care and bubble baths (though of course that's always part of the invitation).

An invitation into deeper connection to yourself...

An invitation into deeper connection to yourself...

“Luna’s energy - first and foremost - represents MAGIC - she is part of the unexplainable mystery of life, which is so often rejected in our society.  Magic is really a word for all that can’t be explained ‘yet’.”

~ Nicole Barton

One of the invitations I often make to women who are feeling trapped in their mundane lives, burned out in their careers, numbing themselves to cope with the pain of being a sensitive woman who is stuck on the dull, busy hamster wheel of life, is one that equally (for some) also comes with some deeper (understandable) resistance.

It’s an invitation to begin to get in tune with the moon and her rhythms - and to begin to open to your power to manifest magic.

Wildling Magazine Feature: Pregnancy During a Pandemic

Wildling Magazine Feature: Pregnancy During a Pandemic

“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.

Kindred Spirit Magazine Feature: What It Really Means To Be In Love

Kindred Spirit Magazine Feature: What It Really Means To Be In Love

“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.

How Listening Deeply Can Transform Our Lives

How Listening Deeply Can Transform Our Lives

“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. 

Kindred Spirit Magazine Feature: 3 Ways to Embrace the Art of Doing Nothing

Kindred Spirit Magazine Feature: 3 Ways to Embrace the Art of Doing Nothing

“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.

Ditch Self Help and #DoNothing This World Mental Health Day October 10th

Ditch Self Help and #DoNothing This World Mental Health Day October 10th

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. 

Thrive Global Feature: What We Can Learn About Suffering from Trees As Autumn Ushers In

Thrive Global Feature: What We Can Learn About Suffering from Trees As Autumn Ushers In

“Look deeper into nature, and then you will understand everything.” ~ Albert Einstein

As the dark evenings drawn in earlier, and the leaves begin to change colour, and it gets just that little bit colder, we can begin to get jittery; and it’s not just because we are heading towards winter, either.

Wellbeing Writer Feature: Why it is OK to Experience Suffering, and How to Find Freedom

Wellbeing Writer Feature: Why it is OK to Experience Suffering, and How to Find Freedom

“Suffering is not holding you; you are holding suffering” ~ Buddha

Someone challenged me the other day in a way that I didn’t expect. They asked me if I ‘suffered.’ At first I had a lot of resistance to suffering.

Tiny Buddha Feature: Why I Stopped Trying to Fix Myself and How I Healed by Doing Nothing

Tiny Buddha Feature: Why I Stopped Trying to Fix Myself and How I Healed by Doing Nothing

“Everything in the universe is within you.” ~Rumi

When I was twenty-three, I lost my job through chronic illness. I thought my life had ended, and I spent the next few years an anxious, panicky mess—often hysterical.