Beauty Plant Flower Essence

Bright Red Torch Ginger blossom standing tall on green stalk utilized in Beauty Plant Flower Essence

Beauty Plant Flower Essence helps to support and shift our relationship with “beauty”. Our culture often has such rigid standards for what is considered beauty or beautiful. Beauty Plant aka Torch Ginger helps us to release the restraints and find our own beauty as well as to see the beauty that surrounds us. Healing Gifts…

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A Revolution of Beauty

Your Input is Important Several years ago, I was working on a project with someone and I mentioned the word beauty. They told me that this is a charged word which elicits negative reactions in many people, including shame and suggested that I not include this word.  I was surprised by their reaction and have…

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A Few Questions

I have some questions for you and these aren’t rhetorical. I truly am interested in hearing your responses. I love listening to people’s stories. Are you frustrated with the World? Do you look around and think, things don’t need to be this way or life shouldn’t be such a struggle? Are you overwhelmed by Earth’s…

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Through New Eyes

I was recently driving with one of my students. It was a gorgeous morning with a light fog, the sun was rising, illuminating the golden fields of Corn. He was busy taking pictures of the Corn and the houses and the countryside, while I drove. It has been an interesting experience to spend time with…

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Lessons and Gifts from Pink Lady’s Slipper

Two Pink Lady's Slipper Orchids

Pink Lady’s Slipper is a rare native Orchid which grows in the Northeast.  After a twenty-nine year search, I recently reencountered her.  This is a sharing of some of the lessons which I have learned from her.  (I have learned more and I know that there are many more to come.)

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Of Plants and Magic

Someone asked me, “Was the wait worth it?”  The short answer: “YES!”  The real answer is that I have learned there wasn’t a wait, there was a journey.  Had I met Pink Lady’s Slipper before this day, it would not have been the same experience.  The dreams, the shamanic journeys, my life events, even the walk up the mountain all contributed to the magic.

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