Working with Flower Essences
What is a Flower Essence?
Flower Essences are gentle, energetic remedies designed to support emotional growth and healing. They are made by using the sun to capture or imprint the energetic vibration of flowers in water.
I began making essences in 2020 while isolating in the Catskill Mountains. In the stillness surrounding my creek-side cabin, I started to sit with and get to know the energies of the flowers that were growing all around me. Over the last five years, I have created 33 essences.
All Bright Ground essences are made from filtered spring water and preserved with a minimal amount of brandy.
How to Use your Essence?
Flower Essences can be used in many ways. A typical dosage is a few drops under the tongue a few times a day. Or you can add a few drops to your water bottle and sip throughout the day.
You may also use your essence externally, adding a few drops to a room spray or a bath. Try keeping your essence on your altar or carrying it in your pocket for a physical reminder of its energetic properties.
I urge everyone to tap into and trust their own intuition when deciding when and how to use these essences.
Three Ways to Order an Essence
Custom Flower Essences / $75
Book a 30-min call with me to share what you’re looking for support with. Using your guidance and my pedulim as a divination tool, I’ll create a custom flower essence blend for you to work with.
Self-Selected Essence Blends / $35
You can order your own blend - just choose from the list below. I find choosing three is typically the ideal balance, but I encourage you to use your intuition.
Individual Essences / $15
Select individual essences to experiment more deeply with each plant and play with making your own blends.
Flower Essence Library
Anemone (Summer Breeze)
Also known as Windflower, the Anemone helps us see the benefit of going with the flow. It remains buoyant and undeterred in turbulent winds. This essence can welcome a lighthearted spirit and a sense of humor when confronting challenging situations.
Releases: Rigidity and attachment.
Aster (Spirit Check)
Aster creates equilibrium between earthly and spiritual pursuits. This essence helps us remain grounded while opening ourselves up to things we may not fully understand. It may also be supportive to anyone preparing for death.
Releases: Spiritual uncertainty.
Barberry (Truth Serum)
Barberry allows us to be honest with ourselves and can bring awareness of being part of something greater than oneself. This essence can direct us to our inner truth and allow for more clarity about and trust in our abilities.
Releases: The illusion of individuality. Resistance to bitter truths.
Bloodroot (You Are Worthy)
Bloodroot is for those who exclude themselves or feel ostracized from a group or community, usually because of deep feelings of unworthiness.
Releases: Wounds of rejection.
Calendula (Codependent No More)
Calendula can help individuals cultivate receptivity in intimate romantic and family relationships. This essence is for anyone who has fear and anxiety around intimacy and has a pattern of defining themselves by a relationship or losing themselves in another person’s needs.
Releases: Emotional stickiness and/or permeability around love and sex.
Cherry Blossom (Cheerful Messenger)
Cherry Blossom encourages a sense of wonder, faith, enthusiasm, and trust. This essence can offer a fresh perspective and welcomes new possibilities.
Releases: Old judgments, hardships, and hardening.
Columbine (Shooting Star)
Columbine fosters a radiant expression of one’s unique creativity and inspiration. This essence helps re-invent and re-consider one’s life and destiny. It is typically used when we need to move into a new chapter of our life biography but we feel weighed down by the inertia of a past identity.
Releases: Hesitation to express one’s creativity and individuality or inability to take social or creative risks.
Crab Apple (Fixation Cleanser)
Crab Apple is for anyone who feels as if they have something not quite clean about themselves. This essence helps those who fixate on some (even minor) aspect of their appearance or personality that they find unclean or poisonous in some way.
Releases: Obsessive, repetitive thoughts and behavior such as hand washing or checking that appliances are off.
Crocus (Unabashed Optimism)
Crocus helps us dissolve rigidity in order to make way for new beginnings. This essence encourages us to feel comfortable with the vulnerability of optimism. It helps us move away from the judgements of our rational mind and embrace our intuition instead.
Releases: Apathy and hopelessness.
Daisy (Mandala of the Soul)
Daisy helps us stay grounded and centered in times of uncertainty. This essence promotes composure, calm, and focus. It is especially useful to creatives, writers, students, and visionaries.
Releases: Lack of follow-through and inability to manifest.
Deptford Pink (You Matter)
Depfort Pink reminds us that it is not size or showiness that counts, but the understanding that you make a difference by even the smallest action, attention to detail matters, and no effort is wasted if done with intention.
Releases: Feelings of insignificance.
Elderflower (Joyful Beacon)
Elderflower supports recovery and renewal and stimulates energy, vigor, resilience, and joy. This essence helps us appreciate the light of the stars and the moon during dark times.
Releases: Decent into sadness, manic behavior, and physical injury.
Forget-Me-Not (Clear Mind)
Forget-Me-Not stimulates the recall and retention of information. This essence helps us respond quickly both mentally and physically. It can be used in any situation where you need to ‘think on your feet’ including in an emergency. This essance is useful if you are prone to negative thoughts, worry, and emotional tension. It can also be very supportive for easing nightmares and soothing disturbed sleep patterns.
Releases: Confusion and forgetfulness.
Goldenrod (Pleasant Perseverance)
Goldenrod supports a strong work ethic and a positive attitude toward work when we have made up our minds to take on a challenge. This essence helps us to remember our resources, focus, and persevere through the duration.
Releases: Feelings of discouragement and overwhelm.
Gray Poppy (Safe Harbor)
Gray Poppy helps us maintain balance during rapid phases of evolution and transformation. Supports deep integration and rest while allowing transformation to continue.
Releases: Disorientation and fatigue from too much going on.
Ground Ivy (Clear Path)
Ground Ivy essence can clarify or bring awareness to behavior patterns that are difficult to see and inspires trust in one’s self and in others.
Releases: Confusing emotions.
Hellebore (High Priestess)
Hellebore offers strength and protection during challenging times. The essence helps us ground and connect to earth's energy. Invites in our intuition, courage, and leadership qualities and reminds us that beauty can emerge from difficult situations.
Releases: Karmic and ancestral trauma; attachment to old patterns that no longer serve us.
Herb Robert (Gentle Diplomat)
Herb Robert is good for situations when sensitivity is required. This essence reminds us to be soft and gentle with ourselves and others and helps with diplomatic exchanges.
Releases: Harsh judgment and inflexibility.
Lemon Blossom (Winter’s End)
Lemon Blossom helps us integrate and comfortably hold conflicting energies. This essence is supportive in seasonal changes, times of life transition, or periods of chronic indecision. As we anticipate the end of winter, we may still feel sluggish, introverted, and heavy-hearted. This essence can help initiate our embodiment of the impending energies of spring and summer.
Releases: Inertia and resistance to change.
Lobelia (Healthy Intimacy)
Lobelia helps us clarify and establish healthy boundaries with relationship partners as well as with ourselves. This essence is supportive for anyone who shuts down around intimacy and also for individuals with an overactive immune response.
Releases: Fear of being swayed by the energy field of a loved one, or overtaken by our own immune system.
Orange Hawkweed (Creative Balance)
Orange Hawkweed helps us to manage the flow of our creative energy in constructive ways. This essence can support us to use any rush of creative energy in orderly, yet satisfying creative directions. It helps harness any potentially disruptive or aimless energies so they add to our creative efforts.
Releases: An imbalanced ego. For those lacking in confidence or in need of humility.
Peony (Elegant Magnatism)
Peony flower essence can help us believe in ease and abundance. It encourages us to nurture ourselves and our ideas without trying too hard. It reminds us that we can attract the support we need while remaining down to earth - simply by presenting our unabashed true self.
Releases: Scarcity, grasping, and overworking.
Periwinkle (You are Loved)
Periwinkle supports us in feeling loved for exactly who we are and helps us share ourselves with others. This essence supports the understanding that we do not need to hide or trade pieces of ourselves in exchange for love and accolades from others.
Releases: Pressure to conform to the expectations of others.
Purple Flowered Raspberry (Mysterious Ways)
Purple Folered Rasberry calls in a deeper relationship with and comfort in the unknown. This essence cultivates a celebration of both mystery and our inner-knowing. It reminds us that real and unalloyed solace is within us.
Releases: An aversion to uncertainty.
Sweet William (Inner Compass)
Sweet William helps us surrender any personal agenda and find the momentum as well as inner clarity to be our best selves in action. This essence helps us move forward in alignment with divinity. It works with us to expand and level up by connecting to divine truths.
Releases: Lack of direction, lack of interest in life, and repressed fears.
Tulsi (Awakened Heart)
Tulsi enhances the flow of energy to the heart center. This essence supports operating from a heart-centered place and an elevated state of focused awareness. It can bring clarity around your true nature and dharma.
Releases: The inability to feel present with one’s emotions.
Trout Lily (Quiet Power)
Trout Lily allows us to embrace vulnerability and humility. This essence reminds us that we do not always need to be loud and forceful to claim our personal power. This essence serves when it would be more supportive to stand gently, softly, yet assuredly in our sovereignty.
Releases: Internal conflict and need for external affirmation.
Violet (Sweet Reflection)
Violet opens a space of deep self-acceptance, contentment, and individual well-being. This essence can be helpful for those who tend towards shyness and introversion. It helps foster good connections that come from balanced and healthy self-confidence. It is particularly helpful during breakups, major heart transitions, or times of self-exploration.
Releases: Negative attachments and patterns of relating, especially to oneself.
Viper’s Bugloss (Sacred Discourse)
Viper’s Bugloss helps align our words with our highest intentions. This essence fosters care and creativity in our language and teaches us our own sacred discourse. It makes us aware of the true weight of our words and their potential for healing or harm.
Releases: The inclination to criticize, judge, and blame others or ourselves.
Wild Rose (Lust for Life)
Wild Rose can bring enthusiasm back to a person and reignite a passion for life. This essence helps find enthusiasm for the world, work, and those you care about. Fosters a sense of purpose that will invite increased happiness and enjoyment. Supports taking initiative and making positive changes.
Releases: Apathy, inertia, and lack of purpose.
Wild Strawberry (Inner Child)
Wild Strawberry encourages ease and acceptance in the face of challenging life situations.This essence offers us the outlook of our inner child - abundant, optimistic, and heartfelt.
Releases: Limiting beliefs from childhood.
Woodland Orchid (Trust Fall)
Woodland Orchid helps tap into inner strength and see vulnerabilities and sensitivity as gifts. This essence encourages one to feel grounded in purpose and passion for life. It supports pushing forward with conviction, as well as overcoming fears and vulnerabilities in intimate relationships and in the world in general.
Releases: The inability to trust easily; feelings of vulnerability; fear of being unworthy of love and sensuality.
Yarrow (Force Field)
Yarrow protects sensitive individuals from absorbing the energies of others or of our environment. This essence supports a strong and luminous auric field and promotes a refined and flexible psychic force. It helps us maintain energetic integrity.
Releases: Vulnerability and depletion from taking on the energy of others.
Yellow Hawkweed (Universal Library)
Yellow Hawkweed helps us access higher thinking and creative problem-solving. This essence allows vital info to come through in an organized, sequential format. It keeps us grounded while accessing the universal library.
Releases: Confusion and doubt around accessing our intuition.