The Secret Witch Show

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance.
In this episode, we explore what it truly means to become the 'cycle breaker' - via an embodied, initiatory portal into the womb and ancestral lineage. Sara shares how inherited trauma lives in the womb, and how ancestral wounds are carried through the feminine lineage as silence, suppression and fear of power - and how womb healing becomes a somatic portal for discerning what was passed down. We speak about the role of rage and pleasure in healing lineage wounds - and the importance of using our voice and reclaiming our body's natural cycle to stop numbing and reclaim our true feminine power. This is a grounded, mature exploration of reclaiming the womb as the place where inherited pain becomes embodied wisdom, and the trauma stops with you.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
You already know if you're a cycle breaker - it's an inner rebellion, an embodied knowing that you're here to create change, even if you don't know how

The body shows you the call - the throat closes, you shake, you want to shut down or dissociate - that somatic charge is a portal

When you drop into the womb, there's deep remembrance - and moments of realising "this is not just mine." You are feeling the whole maternal line

Feminine power is being anchored and grounded in truth - not forcing, dominating, or controlling, but knowing yourself so deeply nothing can shake you

Your bleed is a portal. What comes up during your cycle - rage, resignation, ideas, truth - is not 'just PMT' - it's information from the body

Healing is integration - daily conscious awareness. Turning toward what triggers us and staying with it until the old energetic charge no longer has us.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Sara's Links: please share what she said at the end of the conversation - listen.

Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com 

Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih

Sambaddha  - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha 

Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1 

UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership

Our Links:

To reclaim your feminine power, magic and truth, join our Secret Witch's Apothecary: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership 

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Resources:

Wild Power - Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope - find the book link from their website. - https://www.redschool.net/wildpower

 
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Welcome magical ones! I'm delighted to welcome Sara back to the show today for a Part two of her feminine magic. 
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is entering the Underworld. Speaking to the Secret Witch who feels the weight of collective darkness in her body - the voicelessness, the numbness, the tight-chested freeze in response to misuse of power - she explores what it really means to reclaim power in dark times. Not through spiritually bypassing or pretending everything is love and light, but by descending. This is a conversation for the sensitive, powerful woman who feels horrified and activated, who fears her own intensity as much as she fears the world's, and who senses that there is something in the darkness she must face rather than flee.
In this episode we explore the paradox of being both victim and powerful, the difference between ascent and descent, and the Aurum medicine of molten gold under pressure - the kind of leadership that is reclaimed by being honest rather than being perfect. Nicole shares her own Witch Wound around power, exploring why feeling horror does not mean we are powerless, and how feminine sovereignty is reclaimed in the body, not the mind. This is an invitation to stay with yourself in the underworld, to refuse self-abandonment, and to discover that the gold you seek is not found by escaping the dark, but by entering it consciously.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Reclaiming your power in dark times doesn't mean bypassing pain - it means facing it consciously, without abandoning your body

Feeling horror, numbness or voicelessness in response to collective trauma does not mean you are powerless; it may be the very doorway into your embodied power

The feminine holds a paradox - we can honour real victimhood and still reclaim our power from the darkness

Honesty is the real medicine. What we resist persists - and the darkness we avoid is often where our lost power is waiting

True feminine power is not logic or dominance; it is the willingness to enter the underworld, stay with discomfort, and return with gold

If you are in the underworld right now, the first step is not escape - it is staying, getting honest, and reclaiming the fragmented parts of yourself that were left there.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Our Links:

Journey in our Apothecary Sisterhood: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership - Manifesting and Medicine ceremony at New Moon

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

Sign up for our Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 

Resources:

The Heroine's Journey - Maureen Murdock - https://maureenmurdock.com/articles/articles-the-heroines-journey/

 
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On the Secret Witch Show today, our guest is James Moran. James is an author, artist, and professional archetypal astrologer. He utilises archetypal astrology to help people make sense of what they've been through, understand the strengths that want to come from their challenges, and anticipate the themes and rhythm of growth ahead - all while helping people connect with the unity of all life. Having studied with the pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. Stanislav Grof, James began an adventure of growth that led him to spend several years living in India. Eventually encountering archetypal astrology, he began studying directly under Richard Tarnas, and realised that his entire life he had been searching for a language to describe reality at its depth. He now utilises archetypal astrology to illuminate the interior depths of the human experience.
In this episode, we explore what archetypal astrology really is - not as prediction, reassurance, or quick-fix spirituality, but as a profound language of meaning and a map to the psyche. We speak about how archetypal astrology helps us understand why we've been through what we've been through, how difficult periods can be experienced as initiations rather than personal failure, and how we can consciously participate in the rhythms and cycles shaping our lives. We explore the relationship between astrology and the psyche, planetary archetypes as living psychological forces, and how reconnecting with these patterns can support healing, agency, and soul expansion. This conversation is a grounded, soulful exploration of how to meet life with deeper understanding, integrity, and trust in the intelligence of the path we're walking.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Our most painful life chapters aren't mistakes - they are archetypal initiations, carrying the very strengths and gifts we came here to reclaim

Archetypal Astrology is not about prediction or certainty, but about restoring meaning - helping us understand why our lives unfolded the way they did and what is trying to be born through it

The birth chart is not fate - it is a mirror of our psyche and soul, revealing core tensions that become sources of power when we consciously integrate them

Wounds are not personal failures, but archetypal experiences - when we step to the other side of them, they dissolve isolation and reconnect us to our shared humanity and gifts

Pluto, the underworld archetype, offers an insight into the Witch - illuminating why shame, secrecy, and fear often guard our deepest magic - and how descent is the pathway to transformation and reclaimed power

Working with planetary cycles and lunar rhythms helps us move with life's intelligence rather than against it - turning chaos into coherence and initiation into agency

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
James's Links:

James's Website and free Tense Alignments Chart - https://jamesmoran.org/ 

James's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/astrologyjames/ 

James's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JamesMoranArtistAstrologer/ 

Secret Witch Links:

Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: 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:

Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tamas - https://cosmosandpsyche.com/ 

How to Know if Magic is Real - Dean Radin - (https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-43


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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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the deeper truth of self-love - not the fluffy, bubble-bath version we see everywhere in February, but the raw, often uncomfortable, Rosa-coded kind that meets us right in the places we feel unlovable. Speaking to the Secret Witch who keeps pushing through her tight-chested tension, armouring herself in capability, and abandoning her own needs in fear of disappointing others, she invites us to notice where we've been living as a closed bud - braced, tense, performing 'I'm fine' - instead of softening open into the tenderness our magic actually requires.
In this episode we explore why self-love isn't a luxury but the foundation of a Witch's power; how the 'Archetypal Rosa' wound compels us to override our bodies and earn love through self-abandonment; and the real, embodied moment Nicole chose differently - cancelling her day, offering herself softness, and risking being 'too much' or 'not enough' in order to come back home to herself. This is a gentle and powerful invitation into wholeness - into welcoming all parts of ourselves, tending our shadow with love, and remembering the power we keep forgetting we already have.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Self-love isn't superficial - it's the foundation of a Witch's magic, the inner relationship that makes everything else in our lives possible.

The Rosa wound is the pattern that makes Secret Witches override their needs, perform capability, and earn love through self-abandonment - even as their bodies whisper for softness.

Wholeness isn't perfection; it is the radical act of welcoming all of ourselves home - shadow, fear, doubt and tenderness included.

The moment we soften instead of armour, choosing our needs even when it feels undeserved, is the moment our inner Rosa begins to bloom.

Practical self-love is both the deep inner work of meeting ourselves in shame and the tender rituals of devotion - tiny acts of beauty, presence and self-honouring.

When a Secret Witch chooses to love herself in the exact place she once abandoned herself, her power strengthens, her magic opens, and she becomes truly unstoppable.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Join our Apothecary Membership to journey with Rosa healing: 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 

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

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance.
In this episode, we explore what it really means to listen to your body - not as a surface-level somatic trend, but as a courageous descent into the truth that lives beneath survival, suppression and self-sabotage. Sara shares how the body holds our wild emotions, our ancestral memory, and the younger parts of us that learned to survive through shutdown, people-pleasing or rebellion. We speak about the paradox of wanting power and being terrified of it, how rage protects heartbreak, why numbness is a sensation worth honouring, and how our patterns of self-sabotage, procrastination and resignation are invitations into deeper liberation. This conversation is a raw, honest, embodied journey into creating internal safety, meeting your trauma with compassion, and reclaiming the wild feminine power that has always been yours.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Our deepest resignation and "I don't want to be here" moments are portals - the very places that reveal the gold we're here to reclaim

Somatic safety isn't found by chasing calm - it's created by turning toward the sensations we fear, the contractions, the shakes, the numbness

The survival mind isn't truth - it is inherited conditioning, ancestral memory, and old protection strategies that once saved us and now sabotage us

Wild feminine emotion - especially rage - is power: a sacred force that protects heartbreak, cuts through illusion, and awakens authentic boundaries

Suppression shows up in patterns: self-sabotage, procrastination, resentment, people-pleasing - each one is a doorway into deeper liberation

Coming home to the body is coming home to power - when we stop outsourcing safety and learn to be with what arises, we alchemise trauma into truth and return to our gold.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Sara's Links:

Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com 

Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih

Sambaddha  - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha 

Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1 

UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership 

Our Links:

Vision your 2026 the Witch's Way - Join our Apothecary Membership: 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 


Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.
 
If you loved it, there's a fresh episode every other week - subscribe so you don't miss it!
Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox