Food for the Soul

A few weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to enjoy the vegetarian cooking classes at Govinda’s in Elizabeth Street, in Brisbane.

Govinda’s regularly host Saturday night classes that explore a range of vegetarian experiences that inspire and nourish.   It was a wonderful evening spent in conversation with new acquaintances and sharing a love of food with Chef Ranchor as he enthusiastically combined his selection of 10 ‘Super Foods’ into a delicious meal, which we then shared.  Chef Ranchor is delightfully entertaining, but what resonated most with me was his passion to nourish not only our bodies but also our Souls.

Nourishing our bodies through exercise and healthy lifestyles has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry and it is important for our optimal functioning. However cooking to nourish our Souls – I wonder if that is something many of us inherently understand, but are rarely aware of.

As an example:   For me vegetarian cooking is really simple – until I think about it!  The moment I attempt to put together a vegetarian meal for someone outside of my immediate family, my brain freezes.  My stress I imagine, is akin to that experienced by contestants in the elimination round of ‘Masterchef’.  Yet, I enjoy creating wonderfully delicious and nourishing meals for my family and do so with little thought.

It was whilst attending this class and watching Chef Ranchor that I realized when I cook for my family – it is a creative process that is undertaken with love.  It is my expression of love for them and it is completely instinctive!

Cooking at home evolves from a ‘feeling’.   However, cooking for others’ takes me into the ‘thinking’ realm (possibly my ego – wanting to impress!) and I no longer trust my instincts.  In essences, the less I think about ‘what to cook’, the more I simply follow my instincts, and the more attuned I am to those I am cooking for.

Chef Ranchors’ class reminded me that our creativity is not in our minds, but in our hearts – even for such simplicities as the family meal.  Creativity in cooking is not simply producing an impressive looking and tasting meal – but also knowing the key ingredients that provide the optimum nourishment and sustenance for both the body AND Soul.

In our fast-paced modern life everything is a competition or quick and easy takeaway or TV dinners.  Whilst they may be sufficient for feeding the body (and most times even that is dubious)  – I believe they don’t even come close to nourishing our inner lives.

As women we are blessed with a wonderful collection of emotions that can be harnessed to inspire us in many ways.  The more we open our hearts, accept our emotions and stay true to ourselves, the more adept we will become at instinctively understanding the nourishing needs of ourselves, others and our environment.

I believe one of our greatest challenges as women is to hold our feminine nature in the multifarious aspects of our daily lives.  Even in the kitchen, which is traditionally the female domain!  As our workshops attest to, women in all walks of life are looking to reconnect with the feminine within and to allow her a voice in the tasks we undertake in our daily lives.  Click here if you interested in finding out more about our next scheduled workshop.

I challenge you to find your inner goddess of the kitchen!  Love and nourish her and awaken to your intuition, so that nourishing those we love is a joy and not merely a burdensome chore.

Please leave comments on your inner goddess journeys to inspire me and other readers of our blogs.

Until next time.  Bon apetito.

Karren

I met with some very dear, old friends recently (not ‘old and grey’ but long time friends!) and one was telling me that she had just attended the Hay House ‘I Can Do It’ weekend retreat in Sydney. Mmmmm……. I was so peeved that I had missed it as it featured my favourite speakers: Wayne Dyer, Carolyn Myss, Brian Weiss, Sonia Choquette and Gregg Braden. Truly this was a gathering of wise elders each sharing their pearls of wisdom about the New Reality coming into being.

Gregg Braden’s work has long fascinated me. Many years ago, in his first book Awakening to Zero Point, he foretold of an ‘envelope of time’ that stretches from the twelve or so years prior to 2000 to the magic 2012, a year that is grabbing many people’s attention as we fast approach it, due to media hype about the ‘end of the world’ as we know it.

Braden spoke of the special conditions that exist within this ‘envelope of time’ that both triggers and enables great changes in the consciousness of humanity. We are in this ’envelope of time’ right now, and what’s more we are witnessing rapid change and massive shifts in the consciousness of humanity.

Braden’s journeys into the remote mountain villages, monasteries, and temples of times past, coupled with his background in the hard sciences, uniquely qualify him to bring the benefit of long-lost traditions to the forefront of our lives today.

One of the phenomena that he speaks about is the relationship between intention, desire and action – I call it the Magician’s Trinity.

This ‘recipe’ for attracting what we want in life was written by the Essenes, an ancient Jewish mystical sect, into the Dead Sea Scrolls and only recently brought to light when technological advances in preserving the old papyrus scrolls allowed them to be read for the first time in two thousand years.

In the ancient texts, it was written that to attract what we want in our lives we must first clarify and set our intention, then we drive it with desire. In other words, once we have decided what we want, we use the strong emotion of desire as the rocket fuel for ensuring that the Universe conspires to give us what we want. The third and final part of this fail-safe ancient method of creating our own reality is to action it; that is, we go out and act as if it has already happened, including being grateful for it – even before it has happened.

The power of emotion is phenomenal. One of the stories Braden tells concerns the regular monitoring by geological scientists of the electro-magnetic field that surrounds the earth. Apparently, it usually registers like an ECG with a stable image of peaks and troughs generating a regular pattern throughout the year.  Scientists were amazed when the peak nearly went off the recording paper on September 11^th, 2001. The conclusion was that the human emotional response to the tragedy around the planet was so powerful over that period of time that it caused the electro-magnetic sheath around the planet to blow out massively beyond any previously recorded readings.

This is the power of e-motion (energy in motion). When we feel it and harness it, it becomes a powerful prime mover on the planet and in our own personal lives. What’s more, it happens whether the emotion is a joyous one or a fearful one, the only difference being the outcome. Imagine what would happen on the Earth if everyone chose to feel joyful and loving all of the time???? Didn’t John Lennon write a song about that?

That’s why flower essences are so timely during this ‘envelope of time’ – they help us to clear out old toxic emotions so that we have space for the feel-good ones.

What are your thoughts???

Human consciousness is undergoing a rapid transformation, an expression the evolutionary drive inscripted into the biology of all living beings.

Known by many as The Shift or the Ascension, this tipping point of the inexorable push to better life expression has been encoded into the very structure of our physical bodies and into the planetary bodies that make up our solar system. In fact, it has been described as a quantum leap in the evolution of Humankind. Many astrologers are watching the heavens and recognising the signs of imminent and powerful progress and linking these indicators with the completion of the Mayan Calendar as evidence of a major change in the state of affairs on this planet and in the universe at large.

Over the past sixty years, human society has been through what can only be described as a revolution in living. This has occurred in the wake of the monumental changes in awareness of the world we live in and how we manipulate our environment. Our knowledge base has increased many-fold with the advent of increased travel, communications, and television, the internet and mobile phones. Most of us nowadays have the same amount of information on our home computers as was once contained in world libraries! If we include what is available to us through our search engines, there is no comparison. We have multiplied our knowledge base as individuals, way beyond what could ever have been imagined only sixty years ago.

Access to knowledge raises our awareness of ourselves and of the world around us. In other words, increasing knowledge raises human consciousness. The speed at which knowledge has been made available to humanity has led to a sharp, swift increase in mass consciousness over the past sixty years (a quantum leap). Additionally, the more knowledge we have the more quickly we can tap into further knowledge. Consequently, consciousness is shifting so rapidly that we are all now able to see the changes and often experience overwhelm because the Shift is coming so thick and fast.

In the old world, governments controlled the masses by keeping them ignorant. But the technological advances of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century mean that no longer are the ‘little’ people being left out of the loop. This means more transparency in government, business and organizations such as the churches, the medical and the legal systems as people question authority from an informed base.

A New Reality is emerging arising from the grass roots level. A higher level of consciousness is more available to more of the people, more of the time and becoming increasingly so. Freed of the tyranny of ‘authority knows best’ many people are drawing on their own inner knowledge base to make decisions about their own lives and about the way that society is meeting their needs.

In the New Reality the individual matters. This is because as conscious individuals we are beginning to realize that we have as much right to planetary resources, peaceful existence, freedom of thought and feeling and the ability to create the life we want as those who have assumed the right to have more, and be more, than their fellow humans. This inequality was perpetrated through wealth and privilege and a tight hold on the knowledge base that existed in the world. With the shift of the knowledge base, more people are now evaluating the terms of their own happiness and contentedness and questioning the world outside of themselves for what it has to offer them and their loved ones. A plundered world is devoid of the resource to support life, so the question is, how can we create a world that is life-enhancing and life sustaining? And the answer is in changing the way that we think.

In the New Reality, success will be measured not by the wealth you have but by how much capacity for joy is in your life – both in your inner and outer worlds. Increased consciousness brings the realization that life is for living now, not in some distant time when we will be ‘ready’ to do the things we love and cherish. That day will never come. There is no room for greed when we live fully in the now.

One of the most important understandings of the New Reality, validated by ‘new science’, is the notion that we create our own reality. We do this by the power of our own thoughts. Thoughts are high frequency energy (known as thought forms), which have the capacity to manipulate and shape the lower frequency energy of our environment. When our thoughts are clear and aligned with our desires they create an energy force that gathers together and orchestrates the energies of the universe to create new realities. This means that what we think and how we feel right now is creating our future. If we are busy ‘getting there’ and never arriving, in our day-to-day thoughts, then we are creating the reality that we will never ‘get’ what we want.

For just a moment, I ask that you imagine the power of thought to change the world when many people across the globe are thinking similarly or in the same way. With the increase in knowledge base, and the recognition that we can create our own reality, many individuals are seeking joy in the here and now. So mass consciousness is changing ….and rapidly! The critical element is the number of people thinking these thoughts. So, you and your thoughts do matter. You can change the world by changing your thoughts.

When we embrace this change in our day-to-day lives we infuse it with a heart-centred reality that dissolves worry, anxiety and stress, simply because these emotions reflect our addiction to the past or future. The past and future dissolve when we focus on the present. We also lose that sinking feeling that time is speeding up and leaving us behind when we focus instead on the magic of the moment.

Remember to breathe – it brings you into the now. Open your heart to your inner dialogue and stay tuned in – you are your best judge of what you need right here and now.

You can explore the New Reality with Spirit of Woman Level 2 workshop. Click here to find out more.

Australian Wild Flower Essences have been developed to attune us into the New Reality. With:

Gift of Time – drop into the moment,

Abundance – tap into your amazing ability to create your own life as you want it to be,

Self- Heal – generate your health by affirming the miracle of your physical body,

Quiet Mind – meditate to bring clarity and stability to your thoughts,

Creative Muse – open your channels of creativity to access your passion in life,

Exploring Spirit – trigger your soul’s discontent so that you step into your soul’s journey,

It won’t just affect some people, or people who understand astrology, but all of us who live out our lives under the great canopy of the stars that blazes across the Heavens.  Each of the heavenly bodies contributes individually and synergistically to the state of affairs of all living beings on this planet.

At the same time the heavenly bodies constantly re-configure themselves in the sky, creating a kaleidoscope of shifting patterns of influence. Right now the great movements in the sky are generating patterns that are transmitting significant and powerful effects on the planet never felt or observed before.

Astrologers are watching the night sky with a mixture of excitement and awe, knowing that it portends significant major upheavals in the way we have been living our lives.  Radical change is upon us, as the galaxy, and beyond, shifts up a notch to a higher vibrational frequency.

In our own relatively insignificant lives, we are constantly under the sway of these powerful energetic influences in the form of increasingly higher frequency radiation, albeit invisible to the naked eye, which impinges on us deeply on all levels of being. But most of the time we are unaware of the influence that brings about real emotional effects and often instead, simply berate ourselves for not managing, not being good enough, feeling bad, stressed, unable to keep up, etc, etc.

Gaia, our planet, has within her cornucopia of treasures, remedies that she has brought forth to assist humankind to ride the wave of change into the next reality, rapidly coming upon us. Flowers are the purified, energetic expression of the plant world, undistorted by  the ego and lower desires that plague humanity.

When transmuted alchemically into essences, these magnificent healing manifestations of Gaia’s highest wisdom assist humanity to transit the changes. It is interesting to note that Flower Essence Therapy has come into vogue at exactly the moment in time when humanity most needs the assistance to transit the changes.

Spirit of Woman Australian Wild Flower Essences provide this assistance providing distilled expressions of the newly emerging Divine Feminine, the higher frequency energy coming into the planet. They work by supporting people to tap into their own inner wisdom (their feminine side), to hold their own space and to listen to their intuitive whisperings. As we balance our inner knowing with the influences that constantly affect us from outside, we shore up our belief in ourselves, reflecting that confidence out into the world. We balance the inner feminine with the outer masculine.

What we transmit we attract. As we give off the confidence that comes with trusting our inner knowing we draw to ourselves events, people and situations into our lives that augment and enhance our opportunities.  We begin to shape our world the way wee want it to be. With the confidence that comes from being in control of our world, we can step through the changes simply because the world around us is reflecting our inner calm –  we have ceased to draw fear into our world.

Let us be so grateful to Gaia that she has been given us safe and powerfully effective natural medicines to help us to ride the changes.

Truly it is the meeting of Heaven and Earth when the Heavens (astrology) portend the changes and Earth (flower essences) provide us with the survival kit to transit the Shift of the Ages!

Jenny came to visit me in my clinic. She looked withdrawn, her eyes were dull, her face scowling and her shoulders hunched. When she began to talk, I detected a whining in her voice and a sense of defeat in her demeanour.

” I seem to be struggling again”, she said. “I thought that I had worked through my old poverty attitude and felt like my business had taken a dramatic shift for the better in direct response to my ‘attitude shift’” she went on. “But lately business has dropped off, I am feeling tired and I seem to have no motivation or ability to move out of my negative thinking patterns. I find I don’t even have the energy to visualise my success any more and I keep wondering what the universe is trying to tell me.”

As we talked I discovered that she had been working really hard over the past couple of months because her business had been flat out for a while there. She had had little time out and spent most of her time interacting with customers or doing the behind-the-scenes paperwork. She was essentially devitalised and her basic resources were depleted.

She was suffering from the Winter Blues! Winter is a time of regeneration, restocking, replenishing, renewing, rejuvenation and re-creation. Our BodyMind is not set up to go, go, go all the time and consequently Nature has built into our yearly calendar a time to re-create ourselves through recreation and rest. It is a time for going within to ‘dream up’ our vision for the next cycle which will start in spring. To read more about the different seasonal energies and how they affect us, emotionally, physically and mentally click here

Nature has given us the beautiful gifts of Spirit of Woman Flower Essences to assist our passage through the ‘dark energies’ of winter. These are the flowers that align particularly with this time of year :

Silver Wattle

Silver Wattle uplifts the pessimism of winter and helps us see the light ahead. Assists in realising that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the dark energy of winter is part of the cycle. Helps us seek the ‘treasure of gold’ (inner wisdom) within. To lift depression. Click here for more information on Silver Wattle and how you can buy it online.

Dandelion

Dandelion assists when you disconnect from your body intelligence which is trying to tell you what is right for you. It helps you to align with your physical needs rather than forcing yourself beyond your capacity under the influence of your mind. It also supports digestive function which is weaker in winter. Click here for more information on Dandelion and how you can buy it online.

White Wandering Jew

White Wandering Jew helps to realign your body clock, which is affected for some in winter through lack of sunlight, causing SAD (Seasonally Affective Disorder). This can lead to severe depression and lack of motivation in winter. White Wandering Jew adjusts the Pineal Gland which regulates the body clock. Click here for more information on White Wandering Jew and how you can buy it online.

Snail Vine

Snail Vine supports where there is loss of libido, depleted sexual energy, fatigue and plundered basic energy resources. It awakens you to the need for rest and re-creation to restore and restock your deep resource energy and assists with cellular regeneration. Click here for more information on Snail Vine and how you can buy it online.

Swamp Lily

Swamp Lily is for exhaustion, feeling over-stretched and dried out. It assists you to re-prioritise yourself in to the equation especially when you are a mother or carer. It helps you to re-focus on your own energy needs. It helps to re-moisturise your body systems. Click here for more information on Swamp Lily and how you can buy it online.

Each of the above essences can be taken singly, or to really blow the winter cobwebs out, take them simultaneously, seven drops of each twice a day. You will emerge from the depths of winter feeling refreshed and renewed and ready to bounce into the new energy of spring.

To read more about the different seasonal energies and how they affect us, emotionally, physically and mentally click here.

My girlfriend made me go, I didn’t want to, I was taking time off from work ‘stress related’. I was in a ‘dead end’ relationship [in hindsight] and I was having my ongoing arguments with my mother.

As the workshop progressed something changed and I became very interested in what was being said about Flower Essences and how they worked and how easy it was to take them.

After the workshop I spoke to Meta and she suggested an Essence for me to take and a spray for clearing negative energy, I was still sceptical.

I started to notice a change in my attitude to some things that were ongoing in my life and I phoned Meta to make an appointment to see her and ask some questions about what was happening.

The first time I saw Meta it was very emotional and I was still blaming every one for my situation, I found it difficult to talk about my problems as I always felt guilty that it was my fault, I wasn’t good enough, I was a bad daughter, If I did more my boyfriend wouldn’t drink and gamble the way he did etc. etc. I didn’t like my job.

Meta was always patient with me and many times I have phoned her in tears and we just talked and tried to calmly work through the current turmoil.

I found the more Flower Essences I took that I seemed to be handling things a bit better and started to see that my boyfriend had problems and it wasn’t my fault at all. After a particular bad bought of drinking and taking my wages from me again, with Meta’s help and my girlfriend I decided to leave him and move away. I lost my job as well at that time and was taking Flower Essences like crazy.

My girlfriend and I moved in together at the coast and I walked on the beach every morning, at Meta’s insistence I tried to just focus on me getting better, it wasn’t easy and pressure from my mother increased about being lazy and not having a job. One morning on my way home I saw restaurant advertising for a waitress and I thought ‘what the heck’. I started on the Monday a quiet day [as a trial] and they were closed Tuesday and they rang and asked me to come back Wednesday. I was a mess emotionally but managed the week. I didn’t drop anything or spill anything on anyone; I felt I was shaking all the time though. They said I smiled nicely at the customers and asked me if I would like a permanent job.

I saw Meta the next week and we changed the drops to something new and I was enjoying talking to most people that came into work. I have been there for a year and love my job and now manage “table bookings” and have a holiday coming up.

My mother is planning a family type reunion and I am not sure if I want to go.

Meta has made me some new essences with Acacia, Black Nightshade, Bleeding Heart, Cassia and Dandelion and a bottle with just Dandelion. I am taking them before I go on my short holiday and then I will see if I can go to the family bash. Meta says I can always walk away, but I have never been able to do that.

I went and I survived! My niece came walking with me and she has similar problems with my family and we started sharing Dandelion and talking and talking and I am starting to look at my mother differently now and noticed that I am not clenching my jaw, which is very painful at night, when I notice it. Now my niece wants Dandelion too.

Meta was so happy when I told her all of this and she has posted me some drops.

It was lovely to get back to the peace and quiet of my unit and my girlfriend keeps remarking about how different I look.

I still love my job even though I get very tired. My girlfriend and I have started a new eating plan together, taking turns at preparing meals is getting easier as there is no criticism about the food we are sharing and I am starting to enjoy my life. I have noticed that my mother hasn’t been phoning as much since I came home, we don’t discuss why and comments about me being a waitress seem to be less, last call my job wasn’t mentioned at all.

After my last visit with Meta I feel that I have opened up to her a lot about my past and for once I don’t feel embarrassed to talk, Meta says there is a big difference and noticed that I had lost weight and looked healthier and that is how I am starting to feel ‘lighter’.

This is also a good thing to write this down for me to look at and I have shared more with Meta, I think I have driven her nuts at times, but she never said.

This is a testament from:

Joyce

Caloundra

February 2010.

Karren Jensen brings a depth of experience in business and is fresh out of University where she added to her skills base with a Bachelor in Social Science, majoring in policy. I first met Karren when both our children attended the Samford Valley Steiner School and then again at the Australian College of Natural Medicine when she was studying. She then went on to study at University of Queensland. And all of this at the same time as raising four children! There is no doubt that Karren is dedicated to evolving her soul with all that self-improvement behind her! I am so happy to welcome Karren.

I was delighted to work with Karren on the recent White Light Expo held on the Gold Coast last weekend. It was a lot of fun and we met many people all of whom were eager to start using Spirit of Woman essences for the first time. A couple even came back after having bought an essence on the first day to tell us that they had already experienced wonderful results, even after using them for only such a short time.

One of the great things about exhibiting at Expos is the network that one connects with. We had so much fun with the other exhibitors, as well as talking with the attendees that came through.

We now look forward to the MindBodySpirit Festival being held in Brisbane 25 – 27 June, 2010. Hope to see you there. I will be giving a presentation – but more about that later on.

The next new face is that of Natarsha Billings who has been with us in some way since the beginning of the year as a sales rep. She is still doing that but now has added making up the essences to her role. I love the way that she makes it a sacred pastime by creating an aura of stillness and focus around her during the process. It is very meditative and so relaxing. Many may remember Natarsha from when she worked at Sowelu in Paddington as a receptionist.

Another fresh and welcome face is Jody Oster. She has joined the team because she is so passionate about birthing and is presently completing her midwifery in mainstream. She is excited that she will be able to stand with a foot in both camps to help those women who are vulnerable within the system to gain the inner strength and personal courage to birth as naturally as possible. The positive outcomes that arise from a satisfying and healthy birth are echoed throughout the lives of both baby and mother, so Jody’s work at the coal-face is vitally necessary.

Amy Kuczynski has a background in research and is keen and enthusiastic to add her valued energy into this area at Spirit of Woman. New information is coming through all the time that upholds and validates the notion of least interference in the natural bodily processes that are part of being a woman, including menstruation, conception (including contraception), pregnancy, child-birth and nurturing a child. With the alarming rates in the usage of the pill and other chemical methods of contraception, many women’s bodies are being denatured giving rise to increasing rates of assisted reproduction (IVF) and Caesarean births. Followup studies are showing beyond doubt that children being born under these non-natural means are proving to be less emotionally and physically resilient. Research is revealing the truth of these understandings. Amy is going to be delving deep into these questions to help women understand the sanctity of naturalness in regard to their body and its processes and how it contributes to the evolution of humanity rather than its degradation.

Lisa Tristram has also offered her services to assist women to express their best on all levels of being. An excellent teacher, and with a journey of self-honouring and dedication to natural healthand beauty  we are very happy to welcome her.

And then of course there are those lovely women who have been with us for some time, training as teachers:the lovely Mary Skorupski, just finishing her studies and ready to leap into final stages of development of our correspondence course, the wise woman Lorraine Collins whose deep connection to the plant world is reflected in the beautiful place where she lives and the exuberant Jocelyn Hansen, now in Victoria and flush with the joy of the arrival of her new son, Ned Hartley Hampshire.

Joc and baby Ned

Ned’s passage into life, from prior to his conception, through his gestation time, his birthing and the early days of his blessed life, was enhanced with Spirit of Woman essences. Joc prepared diligently for his optimal start to life by detoxing, emotionally and physically before his conception. While pregnant Joc used the Pregnancy Support blend and sailed through. By the time Ned was ready to be born he was ready to hit the ground running – he was feet first as as a breech presentation!

Joc had to have a Caesarean in spite of all her best wishes and preparation for a natural birth. She followed up after the surgery with Caesarean Recovery taking it herself and gently stroking it onto Ned’s skin. He is now feeding beautifully and deeply bonded to both his Mum and Dad, Toff.

Welcome to the world Ned!! And congratulations to Joc and Toff.

Joc plans to continue her work with Spirit of Woman essences as soon as Ned is ready to share her!!

Last but not least, I want to introduce you to Charyn Mc Lean, astrologer extraodinaire. Charyn did the first workshop series in 2009 and felt very connected to the Spirit of Woman essences as tools to work with her clients. Charyn does amazing healing work in counseling her clients through life changes, by understanding the unique configuration of celestial energies influencing them throughout this lifetime. Charyn specialises in the Asteroid Goddesses and found an astonishing resonance with the Spirit of Woman essences.

The exciting news is firstly, that Charyn has contributed two exciting and informative chapters to the reprint of the Spirit of Woman book and secondly, that she and I will be doing a workshop in the last quarter of 2010 (date to be announced) which will be both revealing and empowering fro women…..stay tuned.

That’s enough for now……… The vision is big and the groundwork is being laid as we speak.

For my part, I want to thank Sandy. Her contribution to the Spirit of Woman essences cannot be measured – it was enormous……….and still is.

And I also want to welcome on board the whole new team, at the same time as expressing appreciation to those who have moved with me, through the changes.

It seems that we at Spirit of Woman are working in the way that women best do  - through networking, co-operating, supporting and maintaining connection.  How exciting that we are on the brink of the Shift – with the emergence of the Divine Feminine the emphasis will be on the conservation and maintenance of the planet and world peace. And, as women, our lives will deepen with a return to connection, and our menfolk will benefit through being able to be true to their gender.

I recently experienced an episode of workplace bullying from a registered nurse, in the nursing home I work in. I wasn’t the only one on the receiving end of her passive aggressive behaviour, everyone in our area of work was walking on egg shells. It culminated in an explosion of vexacious words on her part one day with her seemingly objective to have me reported to management. I felt i was being bullied because i was coping with the work load and initiating things she had missed and or bringing them to her attention.

Prior to a meeting with management, which I had been informed I could bring a witness along, but declined: I dowsed upon your essences and another for fear, and I have to tell you, the results were amazing. I made up a 15ml bottle and had a third of it before the meeting and carried the rest in my pocket during the meeting.

I stood up for myself, didn’t allow emotion to become involved and told the truth. I also felt confident in myself, which considering the day before I was a total wreck and in shock, was amazing. I was also unbelievably relaxed and calm considering the events.

The outcome was that I was treated with respect in the meeting, management moved the nurse to another area, and I have since been told she had stated to management that she was burnt out.

I now carry the remainder of that bottle of essence in my pocket every day I go to work and indirectly another good thing regarding the outcome of this event, is that I have now pushed on with my own flower essence business. I’m gradually building the business small steps at a time. The website is now finished and I’m more focused in where I’m going in life, and in my own abilities and standing up for myself.

Thank you Annie.

Blue Mink was chosen for its  soothing properties on the skin, and it was the only essence used initially.

At first, she enjoyed the spray, and used to “ask” her “mother” for it . This went on for several days but suddenly, she avoided any contact with the spray. We changed the application to drops in her food, but she sensed that her “mother” was doing something odd, so she stopped eating.

We added Woman Worth to the Blue Mink, as an aid to Scrappy feeling more comfortable in herself. She had been with her male owner long before he married.

The battle of wills continued, each of the main “women” in this man’s life determined to have her way. The breakthrough happened when Ryan, the eldest boy in the family took the dog, and lovingly told her what his mother was trying to do to help her.

She willingly accepted the drops in her food, and now is bright, happy, and no longer self mutilating, even though the relationship with her “father” doesn’t seem to have changed.

Animals are people too, and the essences work wonderfully on them.

She suffers from allergies to mosquito bites, which manifest as open  lesions on  her skin. She also had some areas of rain scald, a condition where the hair falls out, and the skin is bare.

These itch constantly, and cause her great distress, as she constantly scratches them.

I applied Blue Mink in a spray to the affected areas. This was intended to soothe the area, and ease the itching.  The spray was used twice a day, and because it was applied to the lesions topically, she had to have several areas sprayed each time.

The effect was immediate. She stopped scratching, and the sores, that had been open and sensitive to touch became dry, and within a week the hair began to regrow.

Trixie is now happier than before the treatment, and instead of scratching on the trees, she spends her time catching up on some serious eating.

She also now wants the spray, instead of walking away when I approach her with it.