Flower Essences
Our journeys to motherhood are unique unto themselves, and yet there are common themes that run throughout. We experience parallel worries, physical symptoms, and the desire to create a fluid identity around motherhood without losing ourselves. The emotional landscape of pregnancy, postpartum and breastfeeding is complex. There can be the highest highs and then the most sleepless, most frightful, lows. Through these times, herbs can become our allies – specifically, flower essences – which help us to subtly shift our emotional and physical states. Flower essences are scentless and odorless (therefore distinct from essential oils) herbal formulas. Flower essences have an extremely high level of safety and can be used by people of all ages – rendering them one of the gentlest remedies for pregnant and postpartum women, as well as infants. Flower essences are meant to be taken internally, by mouth. For pregnancy, while nursing and in infants we recommend only th
