Episode 85: How 'burnout' can be a portal to connecting with your magic and gifts

With NICOLE BARTON

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is diving into one of the common ‘symptoms’ that shows up for women who have come here with magical gifts: burn out. Burn out is something that many sensitive women experience - and Nicole shares her own point of view and journey with this, explaining her radical worldview that whilst we judge ourselves for not being able to ‘keep up’, burn out is really a deeper call into our magic and gifts.

In this episode Nicole explores why this is, how we’ve been conditioned to shame ourselves for what’s just the sensitive constitution we were born with - and how it’s really a sign that there’s some healing to do of our wounded healer. She explores how, contrary to what we’ve been taught, our wounds become portals to our deepest gifts, offering some enquiry about burn out to help guide you in self-illumination.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

Many women who are here to be ‘healers’ will experience burn out - because we tend to be sensitive souls, who don’t fit into a mundane world
We can often think that being burned out is a sign to give up on our calling to be a healer, we will often shame ourselves for not ‘fitting in’ to the cultural expectations to ‘do more’, ‘be more’ and ‘push’ and ‘force’ - leaving us feeling ‘not enough’ and wondering why we can’t ‘keep up’ like other people
Nicole’s radical point of view, instead, is that this is really just a call from our body to go into deeper self-healing - deeper enquiry and illumination about what wants to be revealed by our ‘symptoms’ - and especially around our wounded healer
If we can drop the shame we feel around being sensitive and burned out, we can begin to open to what it’s really revealing: our true gifts as sensitive, magical healers
If we learn how to open to that, and stop trying to ‘fix’ ourselves because we feel ‘broken’, we can learn how to reclaim the gifts in our portals of burn out - both healing our burn out, and particularly healing our wounds around sensitivity. When we learn how to do that, we become the lighthouse for others, who also have wounds.

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