This week one of the emails we received was from the mother of a large family of small children. Her plate was filled with taking care of these little people. In many ways she felt maxed out. And no wonder! The physical demands of giving birth combined with the many years of intensive child care that follow for mothers is an astounding output of energy. Mothers have my total respect and appreciation. 

And while our culture in general gives mothers only lip service, it was heartening to hear from a young friend at Harvard Business School who went to a talk by Reese Witherspoon. Reese told the business school students to hire mothers, saying no one is more organized, more hard working or more responsible than mothers.

The mother that emailed us was in the trenches receiving few accolades. It was our great joy as an office of women and an office of mothers of many ages to assemble a custom mix for this mother and send our love along to her with the mix. As I said to this mother, “If you felt a wave of love coming from us this morning you were not imagining it.”

Here are the Flower Essences I suggested for her  custom mix:
Recovery Vitality. Dombeya Wallichii Motherwort Restore Divine Order Ethereal Fluidium Super Glue Maple Vitex The Sacred Feminine Sanctuary Phoenix Rising Golden Armor Sarah Van Fleet Rose

My choices are meant to support her physical repair and recovery from the overwhelming exhaustion of years of night and day physical work. Recovery, Vitality, Restore Divine Order, Ethereal Fluidium Super Glue, Maple and Vitex are there to support her in this big task.

I also wanted her to receive support from some Flowers that offer sheltering love and see her role in the world as vital. Dombeya Wallichii, Motherwort and the Sacred Feminine speak to this.

The mothers in the office said their focus for her was sanctuary and supporting her to find respite from her life as a mother. Sanctuary and Golden Armor were there for this.

The young mothers in the office also said that it had helped them to use the Flower Essences as part of a moment in each day in which they got a time out and had a quiet moment in a space separate from their kids, a moment away from the noise and chaos and endless demands of their lives as mothers to take care of just themselves. 

One of the office mothers noted that the physical process of using the Essences has helped her make an actual physical moment in her day when she gets to take care of only herself. 

In addition to the mix, I suggested an Essence like Emergency Care might also be good to have for moments of understandable overwhelm. It is such a complex time on earth, and this mom (all moms) have a very complex life. Having Emergency Care to use, even just keep in your purse or pocket, can be helpful.

I suggested she make dosage bottles from her custom mix– i.e. put a couple dropperful of the custom mix in an empty 2 oz spritzer bottle then filling with water. This would mean she could make many dosage bottles from the custom mix and use it as frequently as she wanted. 

I am all for this because giving Flower Essences to everyone in a household is an excellent way to take care of the mother. As her kids’ electrical systems simmer down because of the gifts of the Flower Essences, so too do the demands on the mother.

So I suggested this mom spritz the mix over your kids too. Children love Flower Essences and have a natural intuitive sense of how helpful they are . More importantly children let the Essences work incredibly well because they don’t have adult skepticism running interference.

Countless children have walked into our shipping room and gone directly to the Essences right for their situations. Our office has over 400 Flower Essences on our shelves!

Recently a six year old walked in and picked the perfect pair of Essences to help her with her parent’s recent separation. The accuracy of children in picking just the right Essences to comfort and heal themselves never ceases to astound me. 

In any case, I feel strongly that if her children’s electrical systems were calmed by Essences, that  would positively impacts her.. I suggested that if she wanted to get a different Flower Essence for her children she might think about an Essence like Arbor Garden or Anxiety and use this in a spritzer bottle to spritz everyone in the household. When my grandchildren come here, right off the bat they want me to spritz them with Flower Essences and they always want to take a couple home when they go! I love this!.

I also suggested that this mother check out the Rose Flower Essences in the Rose Garden Collection. Roses love to support women and they love to support weary mothers.  The new Lady Rose trio asked me to mention the trio in particular to her, but there are many comforting and restorative Roses for us beleaguered women. We have heard wild and wonderful healing stories about this Rose trio as it travels out to you all.

Sending much love to all women, precious life giving and supporting mothers and their children and all who cherish and take care of the women in their midst.