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Spirit Guidance
It was the end of January 2000, and my mum was slowly dying in Scotland while I lived in London.
I’d been up to visit her in hospital and hoped that I would somehow be able to do something to heal her; to stop the inevitable. But her body was giving up and it was her time to go. I returned to London, feeling powerless and lost in the face of terminal illness.
So I did the only thing I could do from a distance – I went for healing. During the healing session I could see the angels that were all around my mum’s bed; bigger than the room, shining bright and radiant.
I knew she was in safe hands.
And then Mother Mary appeared in my inner vision during the healing. I wasn’t brought up Catholic or indeed with any religious guidance so I wouldn’t have expected her to appear. I was reading about Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu spirituality at the time so would have expected a deity from those cultures to appear instead.
But no, it was Mother Mary dressed in blue; embodying the divine mother archetype. She held us both during the healing, and we were bathed in her nurturing compassionate energy. Mum died the next morning and I found out that I was pregnant. Mother Mary was the perfect spirit guide to come to us that night.
The spirit guides that come into your life are always those who can help you most.
You will have a lifetime connection with particular guides; others might appear to help you with a specific issue or project.
When I was teaching weekly meditation classes, a smiling Tibetan Buddhist monk started to appear when I was preparing for the class. With his guidance I had the confidence to go into the room without writing the meditation in advance. I would simply connect with him, visualise the energy that I wanted the meditation to embody, close my eyes, open my mouth and the words would come through. I knew that I was absolutely supported and spirit would guide me.
Recently a new guide appeared when I was working on a Soul Message for a particular client, and I thought she was coming through just for that session but she stayed around. She kept appearing when I was in the woods and I began to think she had a particular interest in essence-making.
Then I made hellebore essence and she was right there by my side. I think she might be the hellebore deva but I’m wondering if she is here to help with all my essence-making. I’m excited to see if she appears the next time I make a flower essence from a different plant.
She is particularly aligned to the woodland and the wild sisterhood of the forest. She is helping to reawaken the sacred feminine and the deep riches of the wise womb. I feel so alive and empowered by her energy; I feel like I am finally embodying what I am here to do. I feel earthier, wiser and more sure of myself from knowing her.
Many years ago a kinesiologist told me that I had lots of spirit guides and helpers. My first thought was that I must be really special to have so many guides. Then, hot on its heels, the next thought was that I must be really messed up to NEED so many guides. Our egos are funny, aren’t they?
I believe that we all have lots of spirit guides and helpers, we just don’t necessarily connect with them on a conscious basis.
I’ve noticed that when I’m doing Soul messages, some people’s spirit guides are much more visible and present than others. I believe that this is because those people are working with their spirit guides more than others so their guides are more noticeable.
If I turned up at someone’s house and they didn’t bother to look at me or say hello I probably wouldn’t be as likely to go back as I would if we’d had a really good chat and a cup of tea. I’m pretty sure it’s the same with spirit guides.
The more you consciously connect with spirit guides and welcome them into your life, the more they communicate with you and you can enjoy their guidance and support.
Spirit guides can comfort and reassure; reminding you that you are never alone. They can nudge you to go to particular places or connect with particular people that will open up your world in beautiful new ways. They will give you affirmation and signs to guide you to the best decisions for your highest divine good.
How many times have you felt guided to go to a particular place, or to buy the paper on a particular day to check out job ads, or to attend a particular workshop, only for it to lead to something wonderful?
People often comment on how clear I am about doing what is right for me. I just know; I feel strong yes and no answers in my body. Sometimes I ignore that inner guidance and stubbornly do something that I know is not in my best interests instead but my inner compass is strong. I know that my guides are with me every step of the way.
When you open up to your spirit guides, you will never feel alone. You will always have a circle of love and support to guide you to the most beautiful life for you.
My dear friend Karina created a Spirit Guide Kit to give you all the guidance and support you need to develop a deep and loving relationship with your guides.
She’s offering it on a Pay-What-You-Can basis until midnight tonight so go get yours today. Karina is a channel for love and light and I know that her love-soaked Spirit Guide Kit will add an extra dimension(!) to your spiritual practice.
Is Your Soul or Your Personality Running Your Life?
Dr Edward Bach, who discovered the Bach Flower Remedies, said that true health comes from bringing your personality into alignment with your Soul, but how can you tell if they’re aligned?
What can you do if they’re not? And how can you recognise if your personality (rather than your Soul) is running the show?
Your Soul
Your Soul is the eternal all-loving template for your existence that carries the vibration of your true essence. It’s the compass that is always guiding you to love and light and joy and inspiration.
Your Soul only knows divine qualities like beauty, grace, integrity and surrender so it doesn’t resonate with fear or disrespect or cruelty or control.
Your Soul is your direct pathway to Source energy (which you may think of as God/Goddess, Love, All That Is). The more you are in alignment with your Soul the closer you feel to the Divine.
If you’re feeling inspired, at peace with your choices and have a deep sense of all being well in the world, then your Soul is in charge. Opportunities open up for you and synchronicities happen. You have no regrets, no doubts, just a sense of everything being in the right place at the right time. Life feels good!
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Your Personality
The personality (also known as the ego) defines how you experience your life and it’s guided by your mind and your emotions. The thoughts and beliefs you carry about yourself and the world are expressed through your personality.
If your beliefs and emotions are healthy and loving, then your personality is in alignment with your Soul.
But if you’re feeling unworthy or fearful or in pain or stuck, it’s a sign that your personality is trying to run the show on its own and that’s not its job.
It’s your Soul’s job to run the show, and your personality’s job is to open up to more and more Soul-level guidance. You can think of it like your Soul being the director of the movie of your life and your personality is the lead actor.
Your personality can improvise and add depth and humour to the drama of your life and there would be no movie without it. But it’s your Soul that holds the overall vision for you and sees the bigger perspective, so it needs to guide your choices. Your personality can’t always be trusted to make choices that are for your highest divine good, because it only sees part of the story and can often act from a place of imbalance.
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How to Tell When Your Personality is Running the Show
If you want to write a book or run a workshop or set up a new venture but you’re not doing it because you’re blocked by fear, that’s your personality running the show.
If you lash out in spite when somebody hurts your feelings, that’s your personality running the show.
If you’re in a relationship where you’re not really happy but you don’t think you deserve any better, that’s your personality running the show.
If you’re not charging enough for your product or services because you doubt the value of what you have to offer, that’s your personality running the show.
Your Soul doesn’t know fear or spitefulness or worthlessness or self-doubt.
It’s Soul work to notice the feelings and thoughts that make you doubt how inspirational, compassionate, loveable and empowered you are. But you don’t need to act on them; you don’t need to give them the power to run the show.
Next time you feel an emotion that’s painful or have a thought that’s unloving, remember it’s just your personality showing you what you need to heal.
And remember that your Soul is standing right by you, quietly reminding you to reach out for more love, more light, more hope, more joy, more peace.
When you reach out for those qualities; those experiences, you are walking home to your Soul.
You feed your Soul when you extend kindness, love, compassion, acceptance and forgiveness to yourself.
You starve your Soul when you do the things that make your heart feel heavy or drain your energy or bring you suffering.
Your Soul never intended for you to suffer. Pain is not a Soul quality.
Your Soul expects you to feel loved, peaceful, empowered, inspired, joyful and alive. It doesn’t know any different. So make the choices that bring more of those qualities into your life and you’ll bring your personality into alignment with your Soul.
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5 Ways to Align Your Personality and Your Soul
[for everybody every day but particularly if you’re feeling stuck just now]
1. Your personality connects to your Soul through your heart so the more you let yourself be present with all your emotions, the closer your personality gets to your Soul. The Emotional Balance Kit is filled with resources for understanding and integrating your emotions.
2. Anything that uplifts you aligns you with your Soul. To be uplifted literally means to be lifted up above the everyday experiences of your personality and realigned you with your Soul. Do things that you love and make you feel good. Often. Daily. Hourly!
3. Spiritual practice of any kind brings you into direct contact with your Soul so whether you like to meditate or chant, drum or pray remember to welcome spirit into your day.
4. Spend time in nature. Explore nature through your senses and slow down to nature’s pace. Take your shoes off and take 100 barefoot breaths, knowing you are held. Notice how inspiration flows when you’re outside and how much more peaceful you feel.
5. Use vibrational medicine – it’s liquid light! Flower and crystal essences balance the parts of your personality that aren’t aligned with your Soul, opening up your gateway to Source. When you take essences, it’s easier for your Soul qualities to travel into your personality so you can let go of habits and beliefs that don’t serve you and experience more love, joy and bliss.
The more you make space to connect with Soul qualities every day, the easier it becomes to follow your Soul’s guidance, knowing that your personality is in alignment with your Soul.
Your divine mission is to be happy. That’s the only script that’s worth making into a movie.
You are so precious. You are so loved. All is well.
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Healing the Inner Child – Love Letters
Last week I launched the Inner Child Meditation Kit and I’ve been blown away at the response to it.
Not only have I sold more Inner Child Meditation Kits in a week than anything else I’ve created, but the feedback people have given me has made me cry.
“a tool for allowing powerful shifts that have made significant and tangible changes in my life.“
“I wasn’t aware of how deeply my inner child had been wounded but the deeper I went, the more I could feel how this wound had been created a long time ago. It felt so magical to go from a sense of being held back to the profound acceptance of who I am.”
“It gave me an understanding of something I’d been struggling with for years and brought peace to a restless, conflicted part of me.”
“I was able to draw connections between my present life and the past that I never would have come to on my own.”
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Wow!
I know it doesn’t take much to make me cry but nevertheless it’s incredibly humbling when people have profound shifts in the space that you hold for them. That is always my intention – to hold a safe space for emotions to be felt and lovingly released so I’m delighted when I hear it’s working!
Deep healing happens when we make space to feel rather than to analyse or avoid. We meet our hearts and we grow into our Souls.
Little by little, becoming more of ourselves. Who we truly are.
By healing childhood wounds, you take a radical leap forward in personal healing and empowerment. All of us, to some extent, have inner child healing to do and it changes everything!
This is soul work, most tender. This is healing, soul deep. You can always choose to heal.
To celebrate the launch of the Inner Child Meditation Kit, some of my favourite bloggers are sharing letters they’ve written to their inner children. You’re going to love these letters because they speak universal truths that the children in all of us need to hear.
Writing a letter to your inner child can be incredibly powerful so I invite you to join us by writing a letter to your inner child this week.
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Writing a Letter to Your Inner Child
If you’re using the Inner Child Meditation Kit you can write a letter to yourself at the age that emerged for healing in the meditation, otherwise choose a time in childhood that you know needs healing.
Perhaps your parents were splitting up and you felt responsible; perhaps you were bullied by people who didn’t understand you so you learnt to change to fit in. Perhaps you experienced childhood abuse that prevented you from feeling safe or trusting.
Maybe you felt like you weren’t good enough so had to do certain things to gain approval; a new sibling came along and you felt neglected or you felt stupid or ugly compared to your friends.
What words of love, understanding and support can you offer to your child self?
What does loving adult you have to say to child you that went through difficult times? What did you need to hear at that age? Often it’s something as simple as knowing that you are loveable just as you are and that everything is going to turn out OK.
Set aside 15 minutes, light a candle or incense. Cuddle up in a blanket with your favourite music playing in the background. Write a letter to the child you were. You might find it helpful to pull out a photograph of yourself at that age. Write as though the child receiving your letter is the person you love most in the whole wide world.
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Healing the Inner Child Blog Tour
This week you can read heart-stoppingly beautiful letters to the inner child by visiting the blogs below. I’ll be updating the links here every day as each blog is published.
Hold their words close to your heart and know that they speak of universal truths.
Tues 2nd April It wasn’t your fault that your father died at www.karinaladet.com
Wed 3rd April The truths you needed to hear at www.juliegibbons.com
Thurs 4th April A letter to my inner child at www.lorilynhurley.com
Fri 5th April Letter to my inner child at www.lktamaya.co.uk
Sat 6th April You are allowed to be you at www.arttherapist.ca
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I wish you healing, I wish you love.
I wish you compassion and understanding.
I wish you joy and magic and laughter.
You are so precious. You are so loved. All is well.
The Feral Inner Child
Feral I’m muddy, dishevelled and wild. Tearstained, barefoot, clutching a baby to my breast but it’s not a baby. It’s a tattered piece of skin with no features, no body and I’m wailing like a lost soul. Hammering at the door of the cottage high up in the moors while the rain whips around me….
We Don’t Need to Force
We don’t need to force ourselves to open our hearts. It happens naturally when we let ourselves feel. We don’t need to force ourselves to feel forgiveness or compassion. These qualities arise spontaneously when we stop avoiding the pain that hides in our hearts. So if there’s a person or a situation in your life…
Top 3 Bach Flower Remedies for HSPs
Discovering that I’m a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) was one of those moments when a whole roomful of lightbulbs went on in my head. Here was me thinking I was too sensitive to cope with the world or weird or melodramatic or a bit of a diva, but it turns out I’m just a HSP. Who…
All That Matters
It doesn’t matter whether things turn out the way you’re hoping they will. All that matters is whether you have the courage to keep opening your heart to joy and possibility as the future unfolds in front of you. With love
Sometimes Pain Can Be Your Friend
How did you get interested in personal growth and spirituality? Was it because of a physical health problem or a crisis in your life or an emotional issue you were struggling with? I’m guessing there was something painful going on that you wanted to get rid of. When you go to see a therapist or…
My Word of the Year
My word for 2013 is Expansive. It’s both a template and a touchstone for the year ahead and already I can feel its impact on my life. 2012 was a strange year for me. 2011 was filled with expansion and dreams come true and I expected more expansion in 2012 but I contracted instead. That,…
Spirit Whispers
For weeks Spirit has been whispering to me to create a new meditation on inner peace. But I’d decided I didn’t want to. Every bit of me pushing against it like a rebellious teenager. Inner peace? Yawn. How dull. How passé. I’d much rather do something DEEP and HEALING and TRANSFORMATIONAL. So I manifested a…
An Unexpected Visitor
Yesterday I had an unexpected visitor who I haven’t seen for ages. She hadn’t warned me she was coming and I didn’t expect her to visit me here in the house of breath and light and stars. But she came – she sometimes does at this time of year – so I made space to…
The House of Breath and Light and Stars
We got the keys to this house at October’s full moon, and I have never felt more at home or more at peace. I’m constantly swimming in waves of gratitude that flow from my higher heart and radiate out all around me. Sometimes the beauty and gratitude overwhelm me and I find myself crying because…
All Change!
When we visit somewhere that feels familiar we assume we’ve been there before; wondering if we know it from a past life or a forgotten dream. I think that’s just part of the story. I think we are as likely to recognise somewhere from our future as we are from our past. I think that…
Stag Party
I was at a stag party* yesterday with a group of (mostly) strangers. Today I’m a different woman. Today I feel like I am a woman rather than a girl. We were exploring the wild woman who is initiated in the underground forest, and the theme we worked with throughout the day was how to…
The Alchemy of Fear
It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when we begin any kind of spiritual journey but I remember two experiences that happened around the same time in the mid 90s when I lived in London. I began to use the Artist’s Way to help me work through soul-deep feelings of hopelessness and I was attuned to…
The Courage to Want More
I never wanted to move to this house or this city. It was the location chosen by the man I loved and I finally gave in to the inevitability of it. He had tried to live in the place that I loved and I could see him becoming less and less of himself. His light…
Chasing the Inner Child
All summer I’ve been playing chase with the inner child healing package I’m developing. Months ago I created the inner child healing meditation and then ideas for an accompanying workbook began to come to me in my morning pages, so it evolved from inner child healing meditation to inner child healing package. Everyone who has…
Is Anybody Home?
One of the themes that you will hear about frequently in spiritual circles is the importance of being grounded. We all need to feel physically present here on earth; comfortably at home in our bodies so we can live healthy and fulfilling lives. Yet for many of us that can be difficult to sustain. Many…
Inner Self + Outer World: Finding the Balance
How do you balance your connection to your inner self with the outer world? Where do you find spaces to connect with yourself when family, work and life demand your attention? We’ve just returned from a 10 day holiday to Scotland, spending time with places and people we love. We were welcomed into four different…
These are the Days of Heart Surrender
I told my mum my biggest secret one night when I was helping her to wrap Christmas presents on my parents’ bed. My parents’ bedroom was out of bounds, sacred space where the children didn’t go except that one night of the year when we’d wrap all the Christmas presents that had been hidden in…
Opening Up To Your Spirit Guide
I’m delighted to share a guest post from soul sister Karina of Karina’s Inner Space here today, particularly as she’s writing from the south of France and her words are soaked in the sunshine we’re lacking here in the UK at the moment! I met Karina through the Goddess Circle and instantly fell in love…
My Year in the Goddess Circle
A confession I wasn’t sure about the Goddess Circle and Leonie Dawson at first. She seemed to be suspiciously happy and giggled a lot. Being happy and giggling a lot are qualities that I love in my friends, but the truth is that I made a judgement that it meant that Leonie’s work wasn’t very…
Bach Flower Remedies and Astrology
Astrologers believe that we incarnate at the best possible time to learn the qualities and challenges our souls need for balance. Did you know that there’s a Bach Flower Remedy for your astrological sign that illuminates the soul lesson you are working with in this lifetime? Your Bach Flower shows you the challenge that you…
Tales of the Unexpected
The epiphany I’ve been waiting for came from left of centre. It came in the form of this crazy idea that I would stop doing one-to-one consultations by phone and in person. Controversial. Unexpected. Surprising. The last thing I thought I would do yet the more I thought about it, the better it felt. My…
No Leaflets or Flyers: The Power of No
The final straw was when a leaflet plopped onto the mat entreating me to support a campaign against same sex marriages. I was already feeling annoyed by the endless junk mail that I carry to our recycling bin every day, but that leaflet transformed me from annoyed into irate grizzly bear territory. So I shredded…
You Don’t Have to Do It All On Your Own
Life isn’t meant to be hard, it’s meant to be joyful. We all know that intellectually but how many of us really know it? How many of us live it? Not me for sure. Well, not ‘old’ me but I think ‘new’ me is finally getting the message. As a society we’re determined to…
Postcards from the Void
Do you ever feel like you’re floating in a space of in-between? For months I’ve felt uncertain about where to focus my energy. Usually my passion pulls me heart-first into the decisions I need to make. I’m an all or nothing person. I know the highs. I know the lows. I did not know this…
The Gift
This week Charles Eisenstein’s words about the gift economy have been talking straight to my heart. I want to pass on the gift of his words to you too because gifts are for sharing. “Life itself – our human lives – is a gift. Our lives, our talents, our abilities, our privilege to be human…
What The Flowers Want You To Know
We wouldn’t exist without plants. In the BBC documentary ‘The Power of Flowers’, Professor Iain Stewart revealed how the greatest changes on the planet have been driven by plants. The earliest plants evolved specifically to attract insects to interact with them. These insects drove the evolution of all mammals, which is where our human story…
The Arms of Acceptance
Yesterday – out of nowhere – a tornado of emotional ‘stuff’ picked me up and whirled me round for a few hours. The force of it so great it couldn’t be put on one side to wait until I was ready to look at it. A crisis so apparently huge that I simply had no…
Criticism Can Open Your Heart to More Love
I was waiting outside the school gate watching the other parents gather. A mum was hurrying along the pavement towards school, sucking deeply from the cigarette she dangled over her baby’s buggy as the carrier bag holding 6 cans of cider bashed against her leg. Instantly I could feel myself judging her; thinking she’s a…
The Hidden Heart of Hellebore
I’m wide-legged on my yoga mat looking through the glass doors to the garden as I pour my aching body into triangle pose. It’s so good for releasing that computer-related tightness that gets lodged in my back and shoulders. Suddenly I spot a surge of pink over by the pond and my belly does a…
Beyond Self-Love
“Unless you have achieved alignment between you and You, no other relationship can be a good one.” Abraham Hicks image by Jason Smalley Self-love is the foundation that all other love is built on: our love for family, partner, friends, strangers and planet. When we fall in love with ourselves we fall in love with…
How Do Essences Work? An Elevator Speech
Have you ever come up with an ‘elevator speech’ where you succinctly tell people what you do for a living? I struggle with mine, I really do. You see officially I’m a vibrational medicine practitioner but it’s a peculiar phrase that seems to conjure up strange visions for people. I’ve variously been asked if I…
How to Make a Gem Elixir + A Giveaway
Have you ever wondered how to make your own flower and crystal essences? I’ve made flower essences many times (and will be talking about how you can make your own here this spring) but I’ve never made a crystal essence or gem elixir so I was excited to see a video on creating a gem…
Keen as Mustard? Inner Light for Gloomy Days
Images by Jason Smalley Just when I thought all the flowers in the garden had given way to winter, I noticed the wild mustard (charlock) that Bach’s mustard flower remedy is made from. Flowering since May, these four-petalled yellow flowers are still budding with new growth and that makes me smile. The mustard flowers have…
Secret Rebel Guide to Living Your Dreams in 2012
When you live your dreams you change the world. 2012 is new terrain for us all – a more heart-centred way of being; a new paradigm. This year, more than any other, we will be guided by our Souls and feel the need to live our dreams. So now that we are in the…
Thank You 2011, You Were Lovely
2011, you have been a big and beautiful year filled with dreams come true. If 2010 was the year I fell apart, then 2011 has been the year of rebirth. As 2011 comes to a quiet rainy close, I’m enjoying this pause for breath remembering the wonders that have unfolded during the past 12 months….
Pomegranate Flower Essence and the Sacred Feminine
Images by Lars Hammar Pomegranate ushers us down to meet The Sacred Feminine and her seeds so sweet Bearing fruit, luscious and red Into her labyrinth I am led Isha Lerner, Power of Flowers Do you ever lose sight of yourself and your sacred femininity in the push and hurry of life? Would you like…
The Hidden Dangers of Doing What You Love
Photographs by Jason Smalley Most people dream of making a living from doing what they love but it’s a dangerous business. When I was 17 I went off to university to study English literature because I loved books and dreamt of working in publishing. After 4 years of literature I’d had my fill of analysing…
Unravelling Soul Truths
words by Jackie Stewart | images by Jason Smalley Sometimes we find our Soul medicine in the most unexpected places and we can’t even guess what it will heal in our hearts. I woke to a feeling of vulnerability and smallness, a trickling fear in my belly that I couldn’t quite place. I knew it…
I’ve Been Flirting
Dear Blog I’m feeling a little awkward because you and I haven’t been spending much time together lately. We used to sit down regularly and words about flower essences and emotional healing would emerge in the space we held together. I loved that. I looked forward to that. Maybe you did too. Lately though, I’ve…
Radiating Light from Within
Every morning I take 100 barefoot breaths in the garden and spend a little time with each of the flowers. For months buttercups have been growing abundantly in the front garden which doesn’t get much light. Lit from within, these bright yellow cups of sunshine radiate simple beauty without posing and posturing like the sun-worshipping…
Cave Medicine: 5 Truths About Emotional Pain
{July is when my wild and lovely garden bursts into rainbow colours} Whatever you say about this month it’s certainly going to be remembered as significant. You know how sometimes there are months when you look back and think nothing much happened? July 2011 isn’t going to be one of those! About half of the…
Pushing Less, Allowing More – Vervain
Do you want to change the world? Do you really really want to change the world …. so much so that the fire is burning in your belly and you won’t stop till you’ve done it? Your all-consuming passion means you can’t rest until you’ve convinced everyone else too and you’re pretty sure that it…
All is Well with Gentian
Gentian flower essence is the Bach Flower Remedy for Taureans who, like me, are celebrating their birthdays just now. Gentian embodies positive faith; a deep inner knowing that all is well – something which many people struggle to feel. Do you ever feel negative, pessimistic or doubtful? Are you easily disappointed or even depressed when…
The Essence of Interconnectedness
Water violet flower essence aids the soul’s journey from feelings of lonely separation to interconnectedness. It was one of the first 12 Bach Flower Remedies discovered by Edward Bach in the 1930′s. He made it near Lewes in East Sussex and I took this photograph on a pilgrimage to find it close to where he…
Bach Flower Remedies for Sustainable Communities
Back in the 1930s a Harley Street doctor turned his back on conventional medicine to find cures for his patient’s health problems in nature. He abandoned his medical practice and devoted his life to finding natural remedies to heal the emotional states that he believed were causing his patient’s physical ill-health. He claimed “in those…
Speak Your Truth With Agrimony
Agrimony flower essence is the Bach Flower Remedy for Sagittarians who are celebrating their birthdays just now. It helps you to speak your truth without worrying what others are thinking, enables you to get in touch with your emotions and releases feelings of inner torment and restlessness. The keynote of this essence is fear of…
My Chemical Romance is Ending
Here’s a story about my long affair with chemical hair dye and why it’s time to say goodbye. In the summer a friend came to visit, and after brushing her hair she cleared the hairs from her hairbrush and put them into the compost bin that sits on the kitchen window sill to feed the…
Find Balance with Scleranthus
When I designed my first practitioner leaflet it promised ‘emotional balance with flower and gem essences’. “You’ll attract all Libran clients”, my Libran friend informed me. Librans seek harmony and balance in all things. This journey to find a centred state of balance is the soul lesson for Librans who are celebrating their birthdays just…
Find Your Inner Power
Centaury (Erythraea centaurium) is the Bach Flower Remedy for all the Virgos celebrating their birthdays just now. Even if you aren’t a Virgo, centaury flower essence is brilliant for bringing more willpower, feistiness and the determination to manifest what you’re here for. Virgos are empathetic and helpful, responding to the needs of others before their…
When Connecting With Nature Feels Sad
For many days I’ve felt a call to the river. To walk beyond my usual places on the edge of the woodland. To explore where the path becomes overgrown and the mud flattens onto a grey beach. Where seabirds feast and ducks fly low to the water, where litter sits on the tideline and the…
Deepen Your Connection to the Earth
Clematis is the Bach Flower Remedy for Cancerians who are celebrating their birthdays just now. While there are many varieties of garden clematis, it’s made from the wild Clematis vitalba, known colloquially as ‘Traveller’s Joy’ or ‘Old Man’s Beard’. It’s one of the ingredients of world famous Rescue Remedy and is the best Bach Flower…
Nature Nurtures Mental Health
New research reveals that just five minutes spent taking exercise outside in a ‘green space’ (like a garden, park or woodland) boosts mental wellbeing. UK researchers examined evidence from 1,250 people in 10 studies and saw fast improvements in mood and self-esteem when respondents had regular access to nature. Interestingly the effects were stronger when…
Deepen Your Connection to Self
Cerato flower essence is the Bach Flower Remedy for Geminis who are celebrating their birthdays just now. Dr Edward Bach prescribed Cerato for ‘those who have not sufficient confidence in themselves to make their own decisions. They constantly seek advice from others, and are often misguided’. You’ll know you need Cerato if you ask other…
On Not Being a Healer
Someone recently called me a healer and it jarred with me because I don’t think any human being is a healer. I believe that love heals and human beings can help to facilitate that process but there’s no such thing as a healer. Am I being pedantic? Am I tripping myself up on semantics? Possibly,…
Confidence Shines From Within
Larch is the Bach flower remedy for confidence so you can take it for everyday situations where you want to feel more confident. Meeting new people, going for a job interview, giving a presentation or talk, sitting an exam or driving test are all situations that could make anyone feel lacking in confidence. Yet lack…
Slow Down and Be Present
Impatiens flower essence is the Bach Flower Remedy for Aries people who are celebrating their birthdays just now. It’s a brilliant stress-buster, one of the ingredients of the world famous Rescue Remedy and is useful for anyone living in our modern, fast-paced society. Aries people have wonderful leadership qualities, a lot of fiery enthusiasm and…
Leaf Litter
Hazel, yew, silver birch, elder, beech and lime greet me in the woodland park near my house where I like to wander or go running. I love that somewhere so earthy and natural exists in an urban landscape, but it bears the scars of urban life. There’s litter in that there leaf litter, and lots…
Happy Mother’s Day to our Earth Mother
It’s Mother’s Day in the UK and there’s no better time to show our love and appreciation for Mother Earth. Try to do at least one of these 10 activities to connect with the earth. 1.Bring your awareness into your heart, and think of what Mother Earth gives you that you really appreciate. Flowers,…
Photographs to Soothe the Soul
Since last summer I’ve been using Jason Smalley’s healing images of flower essence plants in my sessions with clients, with wonderful results. In Essence flower essence journal asked us to write about our approach and the article has just been published. Healing images have been used throughout time from cave paintings, sacred geometry, mandalas and…
Defrost Grief with Snowdrops
Yesterday I spent most of the day in mossy woodland, connecting with snowdrops and taking photographs of them with Jason from Wildscape. An elderly couple who walked past asked me eagerly if I’d got any good photos. ‘Oh I don’t know, but I’m having a lovely time.’ I smiled from my little mossy nest on…
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly?
In my work with clients and my own journey, I am constantly reminded of the importance of integrating the aspects of ourselves we don’t like to look at. Hands up if you want to process your feelings of anger, fear, obsession, loneliness, bitterness, emotional neediness, self-hatred, hopelessness or low self-worth? Any takers? What, nobody? How…
Love and Appreciation
Many years ago I attended a Flower of Life workshop run by Anne Ward, a spiritual teacher in Scotland. It was a four day workshop that opened my heart and deepened my spiritual connection. The core of Anne’s teachings is to help students connect more deeply with their heart and the vibrations of love and…
Relight Your Fire
Dr Edward Bach discovered the Bach Flower Remedies, which form the core of flower essence work to this day. When Bach was 29 he had a severe haemorrhage and was given three months to live. He was on the brink of discovering the key to healing that he knew was his life’s work, and was…
