In today's episode, Nicole explores the four distinct energies that Secret Witches often move through when making life choices - Scarecity, Frenzy, Resistance, and Soul. These subtle but powerful states shape how we choose our path as witches - whether from fear and urgency, or from deep alignment with our inner truth. This episode is an invitation for the woman standing at a threshold, longing to say Yes to her magic, but unsure how to discern a Soul Yes from a shadow-driven No.

Nicole lovingly unpacks how to begin choosing life from Soul alignment, not wounding - sharing the felt difference between reactivity and resonance, and how to listen to your body as a compass. She offers practical tools and powerful reflection to help you notice (and lovingly welcome) the fear that drives your decisions - and guides you home to the part of you that knows how to choose from truth. If you've been hovering between longing and fear, wondering whether to trust the call of your Witch, this one is for you.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Choosing from fear is not wrong - it's a learned protection. Scarecity, Frenzy and Resistance are old survival patterns, not your truth. And they're not stop signs - they're a call to heal

• Our Soul Yes won't always feel easy - but it will feel true. It may come wrapped in fear, but underneath is resonance, aliveness, and a deep body-knowing

• We are always choosing - whether consciously or unconsciously - and recognising that is the beginning of reclaiming our power

• Soul alignment is rarely comfortable - but it's deeply alive. Our body may tremble, the mind may question, but if it's truly soul-aligned, it will nourish us, not deplete us

• Resistance isn't a No - it's a sacred pause. It often arises when our soul is whispering Yes, but our wounds aren't yet sure it's safe to trust it. That's normal - and that too can be loved, and chosen differently

• We don't need to wait until we are fully healed to begin. Choosing from soul is the beginning of our healing. This is how we stop searching for the remedy and become it.

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Our Links:

• Watch our Meet your Witch Ceremony Replay held last September 18th - It is entirely free - just click "Enroll" on the "Threshold Replay" and sign up to our free space in the Apothecary Membership to watch - https://secret-witch-3d0a0f.circle.so/courses

• Join our Apothecary Membership for the live Create Space for your Witch ceremony on 25th September: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership 

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton 

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 

• Resources:

• Book - Martha Beck - How to Find your North Star - https://a.co/d/96CMFm3

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox