02/21/08
Dear Wendy:

“I have to say that I am not usually one for follow ups but I felt it necessary to convey my appreciation and thanks for your help and patience. I received all three of the essences you had recommended (Cherry Plum, Red Chestnut,and Star of Bethlehem) and though I admit I was skeptical the results have been tremendous.

Whether it was the opening of my mind itself under duress or simply the inherent nature of herbal science, either way thank you for your time and consideration.”

Sincerely,

Ron

Communicating with Compassion
These days, life is fast. Life is rushed. In my humble opinion, in creating computers and on-line abilities, it has made us want to get that much more done in that much less time. How many times have you received an e-mail and thought “She’s in a bad mood!”

Communicating with Compassion is a truly remarkable gift to have. It allows love to flow among us despite what goes on in the outside world. So many times we are tired, rushed, or in a negative space (especially when we watch the news). A little compassoin and hope spans miles in the face of mankind.

Calendula Flower Essence is like bringing Mother Mary Energy right into your room, into your home, into your life. What would SHE say? Enjoy…
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Keep the Peace,
Wendy

Do you have a feeling of heaviness in your heart? Are you bored, tired, and can’t seem to find that enthusiastic energy you used to have?

Borage Flower Essence helps us gain back our young feelings of enthusiasm that have been thwarted by grief, death and dying experiences, mid-life crisis, menopause, and other life throes. Its no laughing matter, this thing called life.

As declared in the movie In the Land of Women with Meg Ryan, Carter says to Lucy: “Get ready for that world out there, its chaotic, its cruel and its never what you expect!”

If you are seeking to live the philosophy Life is Good, borrow the wisdom of borage with our Borage Flower Essence.

It is said that this essence brings back a buoyance to the soul which helps us to rise above, rather than sink into the weight of discouragement or depression. Look at Borage’s enthusiasm with those puppy fur hairs standing on end, exuding puppy dog energy.

Many people have used Borage Flower Essence successfully with their pets who seem to have lost their puppy dog zeal also. A few drops in your pet’s water will be their tails wagging again!

Its yet another wonderful gift from Mother Nature, bringing us back in balance.
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Wendy J. Stevens is a Certified Flower Essence Practitioner currently working at GardenPlum.com.

“I can’t believe this happened again! Am I cursed? What am I doing wrong?”

Often times as we set to achieve life goals, we reach roadblocks and hurdles that prevent us from reaching those life goals. Why is it sometimes difficult to reach a set goal?

In some cases, obstacles appear because the Universe wants us to gain wisdom before we can achieve the goals we have set. In a nutshell, we are not ready for the goals we set, and so we do not attain these goals until we have attained the wisdom necessary to not only reach the goals we set, but to be able to handle what they bring.

Here are a few simple examples:

“I want to lose weight”.
Will you be able to handle what a new slim body and new healthy eating habits will bring? Are you ready for a new identity, one that will attract new things?

“I want buy a house”.
Will you be able to maintain a yard? To pay for insurance? To pay taxes? To fix the plumbing?

“I want to have a baby”.
Are you ready to care for someone else over your career? Have you addressed issues with your own parents? Are you healed and ready to create another being?

The above scenarios are very simple and stereotypical scenarios… but they give a birdseye view of the soul lessons the Universe is waiting for you to learn before goals can be reached and new levels of awareness can be attained.

Chestnut Bud helps us when we get into those stuck places. Those stuck patterns. At that time when we are standing here scratching our heads, wondering what we are doing wrong, Chestnut Bud helps to gently allow us to see karmic lessons, patterns, and wisdom so that we can jump over life hurdles and continue on an upward journey.

Please feel free to contact me for a Flower Essence Consultation.

Reclaim Your Right to a Full Life
When we are raised in a healthy, nurturing environment, we are given the full framework to go forward and live a full life. If this is not provided, healing is required in order to overcome the empty “shattering of the soul” that some experience during an abusive childhood experience. Echinacea helps to rebuild our foundational building blocks, and take our inner child under our own wings in order to live life fully. More >>

I was poised two mornings ago as I watched this doe munch on blackberry leaves, hostas, poison sumac leaves (she ate the branches right down!), as well as iris leaves. The latter two are known to be poisonous if taken internally.

It is said that Native Americans observed animals in nature to take in what they eat, and follow their teachings, learning about the medicine of natural animal diet. It makes me curious about the medicinal value of sumac leaf and iris leaf. Please share any information you may have about these.

The flower essence Iris, however, is not poisonous as it contains only small amounts of the flower, and it is for spiritual creativity and complete opening of this channel. It is for “Making Your Life Your Art”. Well that might make sense since it is hunting season and the Doe is in my backyard practicing the Art of Evading the Hunter. Its a very curious world we live in, I may try a nibble myself one at a time and live to tell a tale or two.

I received this photo from a friend today, It was a good chuckle at first, these two cars somehow smushed into a toll booth. Then I had a thought about how busy we are in the world today. Then - of course the flower essences for this situation popped into my mind. I mean, how many of us are in a state of critical busy-ness in our daily lives? This picture is a perfect metaphor for how life can get… an extreme example of the things that can happen when we are “too busy to look up and see where we are headed”. With today’s technology and social and economical demands, it can be tricky finding a balance!

We can reset our perspective and regain the “bigger picture” with the gentle help of flower essences.

Get Back in the Flow of Time
Impatiens flower essence, in a nutshell, is for Patience. The product description states “for people not in the flow of time”. That fits this picture!

Transmute Aggression Into Positive Social Impulses
Tiger Lily is for too much masculine (yang) energy; aggression. I have prescribed this remedy for physical, mental and emotional aggression found in both men and women. We all have a mixture of feminine and masculine energy within us. Tiger Lily helps in addressing aggressive impulses and finding a healthy outlet for them… in which a toll booth is definitely not a healthy outlet!

Although this is a very rudimentary assesment of the picture, I don’t know what really happened with these two drivers, I wanted to take the opportunity to use the metaphor for a good storytelling, sharing these two very important flower essences with you.

If you have any questions about flower essences, feel free to enter the store and click on the live help operator, that comes directly through to me.

Here’s to Your Flowering Health,

Wendy J. Stevens
Certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Fascinating Yerba Santa Flower Essence
We all deal with intense sadness and grief in different ways. We would do anything to get rid of it; ignore it, stuff it away, hold onto it, wear it like a badge… the pain can be so intense that we are physically and spiritually impaled. Hence Yerba Santa is used for treating the feeling of your soul being hollowed out by these intense emotions. In some cases, a deep inner sadness develops within the physical heart.

Experiencing intense emotions is a learning part of life. Flower Essences offer their gentle wisdom in learning and healing from these darker life experiences. Yerba Santa assists in gently reopening the heart, releasing sadness and freeing the soul. Read full description.

If you could bottle love, this would be it.

Here you see Milky Oats tincturing (the green jar), as well as Calendula flowers (the yellow jar). In the middle is a handy little concoction I made, Meadowsweet Vinegar. Meadowsweet contains salisylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. So I combined the healing power of Meadowsweet with the alkalyzing effects of vinegar and am hoping for a pain free winter! In a few days it turned the vinegar pink which is just fine with me!

Aren’t they beautiful?
Medicine.
This is medicine.

Purple coneflower, echinacea purpurea
Well look who is professing the popular healing qualities of Echinacea, its Mother Nature herself! Look at these species all minding their own business on one of the first echinacea blooms of the year!

Yes this bloom is a precious commodity in the natural world. Its vibrant color tells the watchful eye of its exceptional use in ridding our bodies of bacterial infections, colds, and of its’ immune boosting qualities.

It is difficult to find a coneflower bloom without some species showing its’ gratitude and appreciation for it.
Happy Summer!

Read more about the medicinal qualities of echinacea

Read more about the flower essence’s vibrational healing quality of Echinacea:
Shattered Dignity of Self