Trauma Recovery Flower Essences

The Trauma Recovery Flower Essences set was created in a ceremonial partnership with the Plant Devas, for the purpose of healing and balance during times of trauma, emotional imbalance, loss of relationships and other stressful situations which may impact our nervous systems and immune functions. Flower essences help us align our electrical frequency and also help us walk in a more grounded and harmonious way.

I was called to work with the Plant Devas in the creation of Flower Essences. These were a collaborative spiritual work with my dear friend and fellow healer on the path, Neva Howell. Working together in humble partnership with nature, Neva and I created The SunMoon Flower Essence Set and The SunMoon Totem Essence Set.

It is some two years later now that we have been called to the humbling, challenging and transformative task of co-creating The SunMoon Trauma Recovery Set with the Plant Devas. The idea of this incredible set was borne out of personal and collective tragedy. The first two of these four essences were co-created with the Plant Devas by Neva alone. I excerpt her account of this calling to task:

I began to be called by the Plant Nation to create this set within three days of the September 11 bombing of the World Trade Center but, due to a personal trauma that also unfolded exactly at that time which was about as devastating to me personally as the bombings had been on a collective level, I felt I lacked the strength to do what was being very clearly asked of me... I was so very immersed in my own pain, loss and personal trauma that it took several weeks to see that the actual healing process which nature was providing me would result in an "energy pattern" that the essence set would hold for others. Sweet, abundant and unrelenting nature, in taking me through the deepest and darkest density of my own broken heart, was also instilling in me the vibration necessary to work with the flowers in a way that would generate a coded pattern of healing -- a path thru the pain for others; a candle in the dark night of the soul...

Heal All (with overseeing Dogwood) then called me to sit at her feet and look at my emotional attachments; emotional addictions. If one can see clearly, one can change what no longer serves. Heal All provided clarity and support for letting go of relationships that were compromising to my Spirit and my Truth. Heal All made me see how those relationships had been supported by an emotional imbalance and revealed the core issues that had to be addressed to restore emotional integrity to my thinking.

Spotted Jewelweed was the most demanding of the four, calling me to impeccability. Blaming, acting out, irresponsible anger, co-dependent patterns, emotional shut-down and other ways of avoiding my reality were intensely present during this period of the healing, and it was then that Loretta's objective, sensitive and loving presence were most integral. Spirit will provide the grounding we need if we will but look at ourselves fully and gently. I've often noticed that in any ceremony of four parts, the third is typically the most challenging, seeming to hit us squarely in the ego, breaking down our ideas of what is right and of who we really are in the world. Spotted Jewelweed is an absolute Master at leading you to the removal of masks.

The fourth and final Plant Deva, Turtlehead, did not bloom until the day before the essence was made. It was as if it hid itself away until Loretta's arrival, That morning, it bloomed by the creek, in a place I'd never seen that type of flower before. In fact, I had never seen Turtlehead anywhere in the pasture before that day, in all my seven years of walking the fields and studying the Flowers. It was particularly significant that one of Loretta's main totems is Turtle and that Turtle is associated with grounding energies. This essence, in particular, illuminated a profound but often untraveled path to healing -- the path of grounded experience. Turtlehead Essence energy did not take away the pain, the sense of loss, the fear of change and the unknown. Instead, it "grounded" them. It allowed me to be in those sensations fully, to feel them all flowing through me full strength but without emotionally shutting down, mentally distracting myself by analyzing, or resisting through anger, blame, resentment, victim thinking, etc. Because I no longer pushed the truth of myself away, my Self began to balance the ego reactions flowing thru me and peace returned to my heart, a peace independent of situation or circumstance.

Basically, the journey of the Trauma Recovery Essences is one of discovering that we cannot heal what is not present. In other words, we have to be fully present in our experience before we can even begin to grasp what it is that truly needs healing, much less to allow the hand of Spirit to move in those areas and shift our vibrational frequency from imbalance to balance again. As long as we are resisting, distracting, hiding away, feeding on emotional outbursts, fueling ourselves with outer-directed anger and blame, mentally analyzing ourselves into oblivion or pushing away our own pain, doubt, fear or confusion, it is as if we are trying to heal something that doesn't really exist. Once the reality fully exists for us -- once we are grounded in our own manifested reality -- we become "whole" to ourselves, even though the whole is wounded, and can begin to heal.

If you now deal with personal trauma, loss of an intimate relationship, grief, pain, or fear, it is my prayer, dear Relative, that peace may soon return to your heart as well. I believe these Plant Medicines can help you. It is their intent and their gift.

The Trauma Recovery Set consists of four flower essences, plus two over-seeing essence helpers. Greater Lobelia, Heal All (overseeing helper: Dogwood), Spotted Jewelweed, and TutrleHead (overseeing helper: Lyre Leaf Sage). The overseers are not included in the actual essences but were placed on top of or around the corresponding essence at the time they were made. The best way I can describe these overseers is that they help to provide a foundation or base for the Heal All and the Turtle Head to work in a stronger and more balanced way than would be the case of each alone.

Both Neva and I feel that this set could be used with great effectiveness in any type of weekly support group or meditation group. If you'd like to start a trauma recovery group in your area, we might be able to facilitate the first meeting if you wish, discuss the use of the essences, etc. Cost of sets will be discounted for groups of 8 or more.

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