How to own your brilliance when you feel like hiding

How to own your brilliance when you feel like hiding

December 16, 2025 · 51 min · Season 1 · Episode 126

About this episode

Nicole explores the balance between hiding and shining, encouraging listeners to embrace their inner brilliance and authenticity.

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…

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Host: Nicole Barton

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Products: Clear Quartz

Books & works: Archetypal Apothecary

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