Ep 126 - How to own your brilliance when you feel like hiding

WITH nicole barton

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole explores the tender edge between hiding and shining - speaking to the Secret Witch who senses she has a ‘brilliance’ yet still doubts her gifts. With December’s darkness as a mirror, she invites us to notice where we’ve been dimming the diamond within - the inner Clear Quartz gemstone - and remember that brilliance isn’t performance or perfection, but honesty, transparency, and the courage to be seen exactly as we are.

Nicole shares the crystalline moment she chose to step off a well-worn path and birth the Archetypal Apothecary™, weaving Clear Quartz medicine through the very real fears of over-preparing, waiting for permission, and feeling ‘too much’ and ‘not enough’ simultaneously. This episode is a heart-to-heart on reclaiming both our spiritual and logical brilliance, with gentle enquiries to meet your own soft edge of hiding and beginning to discover, embody and express your unique medicine as a healer.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

Owning our brilliance isn’t arrogance - it’s honesty. It’s the willingness to see ourselves clearly, without shrinking or performing, and to let our true light be witnessed
Hiding once kept us safe - but it now it keeps us small. The same armour that once protected us has become the veil between us and our magic
Brilliance doesn’t mean having certainty - it means being courageous enough to speak the truth you do have today
You don’t need another certificate to validate your gifts. Your lived experience is your qualification - your body of work is already being written through you
Fear of being ‘too much’ or ‘not enough’ is simply the threshold of growth - when we meet it with love and truth, it becomes the doorway to our genius
Clear Quartz teaches us that clarity is born from pressure - the very tension we resist may be what’s polishing our brilliance.

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