On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Nicola Humber. Nicola is the author of four transformational books, including Unbound Writing and the Abundant Author Playbook, and the founder of The Unbound Press, a soul-led publishing imprint for unbound women. After leaving her ‘proper’ job in finance, she’s now devoted to helping magical women shake off the ‘shoulds’ and write the book their Unbound Self is calling them to share - so they can be their fullest, freest, most magnificent selves.

In this episode we explore the healing power of storytelling and what it truly means to write from your soul. Nicola shares her perspective on writing as an initiatory path of unbinding - how it asks us to meet the fears of being too much, or not fitting in, resistance, and perfectionism that arise when we begin to express our witchy truth. We talk about navigating the voice of the Good Girl archetype, reclaiming our intuition and loving ourselves more deeply, and why our book is healing both for us and for others. This is a conversation about writing as a remedy, and learning to trust your voice as medicine.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Unbound writing is about listening to the call of our ‘Unbound’ self. It’s not about pushing or forcing words out, but attuning to a deeper voice within that already knows what wants to be expressed

• Fear is part of the writing process - it will always show up when we start writing from our truth, and part of the practice is learning to write with the fear, not waiting for it to go away

• We don’t have to have it all ‘figured out’ - one of the myths Nicola busts is that we don’t need to have total clarity before we begin. In her words, “we write our way into the book” - it reveals itself as we go

• The Good Girl archetype is often the one writing our first draft - many women unconsciously write from a place of people-pleasing, but unbound writing invites a more truthful voice to come forward

• We’re not just writing a book through the process - we’re becoming more of who we are. The writing journey itself is an initiation - an unbinding from the layers that have kept our voice hidden

• The most potent writing comes when we let ourselves be seen - when we stop hiding behind polished perfection and share the messy, raw parts of our story, it becomes medicine - for us, and for others.

Resources and things that we spoke about:

• Nicola’s Links:

  • Books - 

    • Heal your Inner Good Girl https://a.co/d/45soKRI

    • Unbound: https://a.co/d/dcyXBGG

    • The Abundant Author Playbook: https://a.co/d/4zmYnUO

  • Website: http://nicolahumber.com/

  • Instagram: http://theunboundpress.com/

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolahumber

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicolaahumber/

• Our Links:

  • 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

• Resources:

  • Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way: https://a.co/d/agqhfvb

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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox