“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

1. YOU WERE BORN FOR MORE - and you long to be in your Feminine power

2. YOU HAVE SPIRITUAL GIFTS - and you know you were born to be a healer - even if you don’t know what your gifts are

3. 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

1. YOU WERE BORN FOR MORE - and you long to be in your Feminine power

2. YOU HAVE SPIRITUAL GIFTS - and you know you were born to be a healer - even if you don’t know what your gifts are

3. 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

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 🖤🌟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 ).

The Wildness is no place for the faint-hearted, so come, but bring all your might with you. And maybe, just maybe, you will get a chance to taste your freedom."

~ Alison Napp

I LIED - GOOD GIRL'S GOTTA BURN

Let's talk about truthful self-expression.

My audience is apprehensive recently. I can feel it.

Confusion is in the air.

Where has Nicole the Pastel Swan gone? (Yes, that was an actual description reflected in my soul essence a few years ago, which triggered the shit out of me because - well, I'm no pink swan at home; not to those with whom it feels safe for me to *fully* express my full intensity, anyway).

You aren't truly *integrating* unless you're taking the aligned-actions to do the deep, dark work to consciously and intentionally look at ALL the shadow (and gold) there is to be seen and reclaimed in your wounds.

~ Nicole Barton

ARE YOU REALLY "INTEGRATING"?!

I have lost count of the times I hear women saying they are "integrating" - when largely (whilst they have well-meaning intentions), they are often floating around after their healing waiting for the integration to happen by itself.

Anacardium is an energy of *identity*. She feels torn between the Angel on one shoulder and the Devil on the other. The Good Girl and the Rebel. The Submissive and the Dominatrix. And all are shadow polarity "personalities" that a Secret Witch knows well.

~ Nicole Barton

🖤🤍DOMINATRIX VS SUBMISSIVE: WHICH ARE YOU?! 🖤🤍

Soul is calling me, recently (amidst my pleas to go gently - oh God, please!😆 ) to places I never honestly EVER thought I'd be called to.

To the depths of hell and back - it feels. 🖤

Becoming a shaman or a Medicine Woman isn't a case of logically learning magic and then churning it out as a commercialised thing. It is a process of deep initiation, which takes time, space, devotion, and a willingness to be in the mystery of the Feminine. (And if I'm totally honest, blood, sweat and tears)

~ Nicole Barton

IS YOUR UNWORTHINESS HAVING YOU TRYING TO DOSE MEDICINE BEFORE YOU'VE *BECOME* AN EMBODIED SHAMAN?

Something I've noticed recently in magical ones is the tendency to want to skip over the part where we *become* our remedy.

The biggest lesson I learned from this was NO ONE was coming to save me - and that I was going to have to choose to heal myself. And I'm still spiralling into deeper and deeper lessons of this, because it's my lifetimes's work as a Medicine Woman (whose very shadow and gold is trusting herself).

~ Nicole Barton

NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU...

Medicine Woman first knocked on my door when I was the tender young age of 10. I had suffered grief and trauma on the run up for about 5 years, and it was catching up with me - I was so burned out that one day I just woke up, unable to walk, barely able to move and just numb. I remember being wheeled around on an office chair as a kind of makeshift wheelchair.