When Flower Essences healed my broken heart…
My marriage had well and truly broken, I had a one year old, my heart had shattered into pieces and my world had collapsed. I honestly didn’t know which way was up…
This was when I had my first true experience with flower essences. When I had lost so much hope and was in the trenches of my life. Battling to understand what had happened and how to get through each day. This was when Rose called to me from my Granny’s garden, the garden that is now ours. Rose, the flower of compassion and unconditional love, called to me at my lowest point, she called to become a flower essence to bring all the shattered shards of my heart together and to help me heal. Little did I know that in making that flower essence was the beginning of the most profound journey of my life…
In this time of healing and emerging, wild flowers from around my home and the flowers from our garden started to call to me to become flower essences… Borage gave me courage, Elder offered me deep roots of wisdom, Hawthorn (my Granny’s maiden name!) offered me deep loving support, Poppy offered me inspiration and creative energy, Crocus supported me to open up my horizons and share my experience… And many other flowers stepped up, calling to be made into flower essences to support me and to be shared.
Somehow going through the heartbreak at that time and piecing myself together again in a new form with the support and inspiration of these incredible flowers, my friends and my family offered me a very new perspective on life.
I started to realise that I was strong, that I was of worth and that I had something to offer.
I had been working with herbs for so long, over 20 years, but had never valued my own passion, knowledge and wisdom. I always felt less than others and that my love of the wildness of nature and herbs was silly and fluffy.
It was the flowers that supported me to truly stand in my power, to recognise that my passion about herbs, wild medicine, nature connection and the natural healing of the body, mind and soul was important. That I had something that others needed. That I could be of benefit to my community and beyond!
As I was healing I started to share about the flower essences I was making and people were interested! I ended up buying bottles, designing labels, a shop in my local town wanted to stock them, I set up a website… All of this happened while I was mending my heart, pulling my life back together, working as a Speech and Language Therapist and bringing up my toddler single handedly! How did I do it???
The answer is that I was driven. Driven by a power that was bigger than myself. Somehow these flower essences had to be made and I just happened to be there at the time. It was like I was the vehicle but the flowers were definitely the drivers.
And then once people started to take them I heard about the results that they were getting… The support, healing and empowerment that others felt from these incredible essences that were made from the wildflowers and flowers from our garden. People moving forward in their lives, making their own dreams come true, children calmed and soothed, people getting sleep and rest like they hadn’t had in years, families beginning to heal…
This is what these flowers offer us. Such deep and profound healing that is given so freely and so gently. Healing us subtly so we become the masters of our own lives, shedding the layers of ancestral trauma, emotional pain, social conditioning… Allowing us to become soul aligned, our true radiant selves, standing in our true potential.
It was after this then that I started to share my love of herbsthrough creating teas, tinctures, creams and much more. I started giving talks and created online herbal courses for others to learn and connect with these incredibly healing plants. I feel that I am still at the start of a long and joyous path, there is so much more to come! And that is so exciting for me.
I feel so honoured to have been there in that broken place and to continue to be here, heeding the call, making these beautiful flower essences and sharing them with the world.
They continue to support me and others ranging as far away as New Zealand, Australia, America, Europe, the UK and dear old Ireland herself.
What a journey it has been, and continues to be!
Sending you love on your soul’s path, may you stand in your true power, clear in knowing your own worth and your incredible potential,
Jane xx
If you would like to start to explore flower essences Rose Flower Essence is a beautiful one to start with. You can find it here
Jane Christie is the Herbalist and Flower Essence Producer at Spiral Soul Apothecary. Jane has been working with herbs and flowers for over 20 years. She believes deeply in the healing powers of nature to bring us back into alignment with our soul, sparking our spirit alive and bringing our body into vibrant health.
Jane offers online Herbal Courses, Herbal teas, tinctures, creams and flower essences, as well as talks and workshops.
You can find her through her website spiralsoul.co.uk
Beautiful story of coming back to your true self and finding your purpose. Thanks for sharing your journey.