FEP67 Creating Potent Flower Essences Formulas with Lindsay Fauntleroy
Release Date: 05/30/2024
FEP83 Adoption Trauma & Healing with Charlene Briggs
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Joining us to talk about the energetics of adoption trauma and healing with flower essences is Charlene Briggs of Botanical Energetics. As a Flower Essence Practitioner since 1999, Charlene specializes in working with adoptees and helps clients frame and recalibrate from the many losses associated with relinquishment, adoption, and subsequent adaption. According to Charlene, adoption is hard on everyone. For the adoptee it’s an energetic fracture and a lifetime of recalibration. For the first mothers it’s heartbreak, and for the adoptive parents it’s an unspoken debt that often...
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FEP82 Flower Essences & Prayer with Heidi Smith
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Kathleen and Rochana welcome Heidi Smith back to the podcast! Author of The Bloom Book - A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance, Heidi is a psychosomatic therapist, registered herbalist, and flower essence practitioner based in New York. In this episode we dive into her latest book, The Uncommon Book of Prayer: A Guide to Co-Creating with the Universe. After unraveling and reframing the term “prayer”, we explore flower and vibrational essences that support divine connection, ritual, affirmation, and intention. Enjoy this illuminating discussion just in time for the Winter...
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FEP81 The Gift of Soul-Aligned Community
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Kathleen and Rochana discuss the magical and healing benefits of belonging to a safe and soul-aligned community, while acknowledging the challenges faced by empaths and those recovering from toxic community experiences. We exlore flower and gem essences for maintaining healthy discernment, grounding, and boundaries, for feeling more at ease so you can show up as who you actually are, and for feeling coherence in spaces with others. No matter where you are in the process, the community of Nature, plants, and animals is always there for you. And if you use flower essences and yearn to talk about...
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FEP80 Windows of Plant Perception | Learning to read the book of Nature
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In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana introduce the 12 Windows of Plant Perception, a multi-dimensional approach to plant study developed by the Flower Essence Society. It's a significant component of our Flower Essence Practitioner Training Program, and helps us to cultivate a living, holistic understanding of a plant and its healing signatures. We discuss our experience with this approach and some of the "windows" explored during our in-depth study of the Chicory and Queen Anne's Lace flower essence plants. Learn about the objective and subjective practice of plant observation, how plant...
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FEP79 Bach Flowers for Relationship Patterns
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In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana bring you an excerpt from their new course, Bach Flower Foundations, now open for registration at the School for Flower Essence Studies. We share a segment from the module, Bach Flowers for Modern Life, where we springboard from Dr. Bach’s original insights on personality types to think in terms of the Bach flowers as archetypes representing personality “parts” and how they interact in relationships. It’s a fascinating discussion highlighting some of the most “active” Bach flower archetypes and some corresponding “reactive” patterns,...
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FEP78 Impostor Syndrome: Flower Essences to Quiet the Inner Critic
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Have you ever felt like an impostor when presenting yourself in a new job, role, or project? It's a common obstacle when putting ourselves "out there" in the world. Perhaps you doubt your abilities or don't feel like you have enough knowledge. Perhaps you fear making mistakes, especially if a past failure haunts you. There may even be a deep seated unworthiness at the core, keeping you from following your dreams. In this episode Kathleen Aspenns and Rochana Felde talk about the facets of imposter syndrome and how Flower Essence Therapy can be tuned to each nuance. We explore the key flower and...
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FEP77 Finding Peace and Clarity in Chaotic Times
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With all that's going on in the world, many are struggling to stay grounded, find perspective and feel a sense of stability. It's a crucial time to maintain centeredness and peace so no matter what we're doing and what we choose to do, our best selves can show up. Kathleen and Rochana bring in ancient and powerful plant allies that have a long history of helping humans on this planet. These flower essences and gem elixirs help us cultivate resilience, perspective, and heart connections with the earth and each other to increase our light and promote peace in our every step. Full show...
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FEP76 Psychic Self-Defense with Gemstones & Essences | Nicholas Pearson
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Nicholas Pearson returns to the podcast after the release of his latest book, Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense. Starting with a grounded understanding of the sources of psychic and energetic harm, we discuss the importance of good energy hygiene including grounding, centering, and cleansing. We explore a host of techniques for protecting and shielding ourselves and our spaces with the use of physical gemstones, gem elixirs/waters, and flower essences. Join us for this in-depth download from our favorite author and teacher at the intersection of gemstones and plants for vibrational healing and...
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FEP75 Tapping into Creativity for Vitality & Healing
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Kathleen Aspenns and Rochana Felde are joined by Ruth Toledo Altschuler to embrace the energy of creativity as a lifeline that sustains us with aliveness during challenging times. We discuss: How flower essences and gem elixirs can be used to spark and nourish creativity whether or not we think we’re creative How the creative process itself can be liberating and an integral part of healing because it's connected to the vital life force within us How using art, writing, and creative acts as therapeutic tools in conjunction with Flower Essence Therapy can be synergistic for both...
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FEP74 Drowning in Overwhelm? Build resilience with flower essences and gem elixirs
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In this episode Kathleen and Rochana dive into the current energy of overwhelm that so many are feeling. We bring in our favorite tried and true flower essences and gem elixirs for not only managing the onslaught, but also strengthening our fields and building resilience. Whether the overwhelm comes from too much information, energy, emotions, sensory signals, environmental factors, or all of the above, Nature helps bring us back into balance. Full show notes and transcript on the . 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of , and...
info_outlineLindsay Fauntleroy joins us in exploring creative methods of formulating potent flower essence blends. Lindsay is a medicine maker, acupuncturist, author, educator, and founder of The Spirit Seed.
This recording was excerpted from a live community event held for students of the School for Flower Essence Studies and students of Lindsay's school.
We had a fascinating discussion about various approaches for creating potent blends, including formulation frameworks borrowed from eastern and western herbalism, perfumery, numerology, and sacred geometry.
Lindsay's new course, Archetypal Flower Essence Formula Design, begins June 3rd, 2024. Use code FESTUDIES for a nice discount.
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