How to Engage with The Witch Archetype to Reclaim your Gifts

My guest today is the brilliant Lucy H Pearce.  Driven by a need to create, connect and inspire, Lucy is a best-selling author of many books, including Burning Woman, Creatrix, Medicine Woman, and She of the Sea.  She is also a vibrant artist, respected publisher and editor and founder of Womancraft Publishing.  Her work focuses on self-knowledge and healing through creativity, archetypes and cyclical living. She gives voice to the soul: the spiritual, the liminal, the darkness and discomfort and the magical in the midst of the mundane. Often described as raw, authentic and life-changing, her work encourages authentic paths to self-expression and is celebrated particularly by highly sensitive and neurodivergent women.    In this episode we dived into how to engage with shadow to reclaim our power, including the power of harnessing archetypes, the importance of getting naked and returning to our truth, and how to integrate shadow in a loving way so that we can embrace our Witch Queen. What You’ll Learn from this Episode:   Well, this was my first guest who showed up naked, and I loved that so much as it was just the most beautiful embodiment of our conversation.  This show was just filled with raw natural and beautiful naked truth - my top takeaways are We grow up in a world where we create lessons - from our childhood experiences - that the safest way to be in life is to be the ‘good girl’ - and yet magic is created in discovering we can actually choose consciously to be ourselves It’s scary to show up naked, and there’s a lot of shame and it feels like a genuine risk - but it’s really the only way to live a life of Soul - to have our full, creative self-expression.   The main thing to know is, we can choose into showing up as ourselves (or not) consciously - that’s where the power is. At some point in life we are initiated into our power - quite often in pregnancy, which is deeply connected to our creativity - our womb is the creative cauldron of power We are taught to be scared of the dark in all ways, but it’s actually a place where we transform and what can help us is becoming familiar with the sensations and going gently There’s a real parallel between Witches and neurodivergent brains - and there’s a gift in this - but witches get really good at masking it.  Being able to mask and shapeshift  means we are also really good at embodying archetypes so that we can embrace the fullness of the Witch and be our true selves The Witch Wound is a fear of being called a Witch, but by owning ourselves as a Witch we are reclaiming the power in it.  Being a Witch is really a symbol of our Feminine power. Resources and things that we spoke about:   Lucy’s website Lucy’s Publishing house Lucy’s Insta I am a Unicorn Blog Elaine Aron’s work    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 xox