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The Healing Guide to Flower Essences: How to Use Gaia's Magick and Medicine for Wellness, Transformation and Emotional Balance
The Healing Guide to Flower Essences shows you how to connect with the magic and frequency of 100 flower essences.
The power of Nature to heal has been accepted for many millennia. Flowers inspire us with their beauty, beguile us with their fragrance, and can have medicinal properties in their oils and plant matter. However, the healing properties of flowers go even deeper. Each flower holds a unique energetic fingerprint or essence that can be used for healing, wellness, and self-discovery.
Organized by categories such as transformation, inspiration, boundaries, and self-esteem, you will be able to easily find the right remedy for your wellness and self-discovery. For example, you can use Larch for overcoming doubt and insecurity, Gentian for perseverance and optimism after a setback or Cherry Plum for surrender and trust in one's soul path.You'll also learn about the history of flower essences and the original 38 Bach flower remedies. Learn how to connect more deeply with the properties and messages of the flowers by making your own flower essence remedies. Written by noted artist, Alena Hennessy, The Healing Guide to Flower Essences is also lovingly illustrated with original botanical art and illustration.
The power of Nature to heal has been accepted for many millennia. Flowers inspire us with their beauty, beguile us with their fragrance, and can have medicinal properties in their oils and plant matter. However, the healing properties of flowers go even deeper. Each flower holds a unique energetic fingerprint or essence that can be used for healing, wellness, and self-discovery.
Organized by categories such as transformation, inspiration, boundaries, and self-esteem, you will be able to easily find the right remedy for your wellness and self-discovery. For example, you can use Larch for overcoming doubt and insecurity, Gentian for perseverance and optimism after a setback or Cherry Plum for surrender and trust in one's soul path.You'll also learn about the history of flower essences and the original 38 Bach flower remedies. Learn how to connect more deeply with the properties and messages of the flowers by making your own flower essence remedies. Written by noted artist, Alena Hennessy, The Healing Guide to Flower Essences is also lovingly illustrated with original botanical art and illustration.
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208 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2020
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May 5, 2020
A fascinating and informative book, full of interesting ideas and hints.
I liked the style of writing and how the book is organised.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
I liked the style of writing and how the book is organised.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
September 14, 2020
This book contains profiles of different flower essences and information about how to make your own flower essences. I had been hoping for some information about how they worked, but the subtitle of "Gaia's Magick" should've clued me in that this was not a science-orientated book. The profiles were separated into sections: flower essences for anxiety, the blues, boundaries, broken heart, clairvoyance, courage, frustration, grounding, healing, inspiration, self-esteem, and transformation. Each profile gave a quick summary of what the flower essence will assist you with, an invocation (what to do while taking the essence), and some history and further information about the use of that flower essence.
I currently use essential oils. I found no information in this book to explain why I would use a flower essence instead, so I wasn't very convinced to try them out. This book might be more for people who have already tried flower essences and want to learn about more of them.
I received a review copy of this book from the publisher through Amazon Vine
I currently use essential oils. I found no information in this book to explain why I would use a flower essence instead, so I wasn't very convinced to try them out. This book might be more for people who have already tried flower essences and want to learn about more of them.
I received a review copy of this book from the publisher through Amazon Vine
May 31, 2020
Recommended for anyone who loves flowers, gardening or working with herbs! During quarantine, one of the only things I did to stay fit aside from Yoga, is walk. We have walked a lot so far, keeping close to house. You can imagine the sites get pretty boring when you’ve seen the same thing over and over again. One thing that kept them interesting was checking out the wildlife.
It’s Spring and everything is in bloom! Knowing the little I did about flowers before reading the book, I knew that Honeysuckle smells intoxicating and is good for many things and can be eaten. We all know the benefits of Lavender which is everywhere! When I found this one on Netgalley, I knew I wanted to read it.
Having tons of information on remedies and the history of flowers, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised in your new found-knowledge of everything that blooms!
Thank you to Netgalley, Alena Hennessy, and Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds for the ARC.
It’s Spring and everything is in bloom! Knowing the little I did about flowers before reading the book, I knew that Honeysuckle smells intoxicating and is good for many things and can be eaten. We all know the benefits of Lavender which is everywhere! When I found this one on Netgalley, I knew I wanted to read it.
Having tons of information on remedies and the history of flowers, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised in your new found-knowledge of everything that blooms!
Thank you to Netgalley, Alena Hennessy, and Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds for the ARC.
December 6, 2025
Alena has such a gift for translating the wisdom of nature into something we can truly feel and use in everyday life.
This guide to flower essences is beautiful, grounding, and incredibly practical — it helped me understand not just what each essence supports, but how to actually work with them for emotional balance and gentle transformation. The art and rituals make it feel like a little sanctuary in book form. I’d recommend it to anyone who loves flowers, beauty, and art!
This guide to flower essences is beautiful, grounding, and incredibly practical — it helped me understand not just what each essence supports, but how to actually work with them for emotional balance and gentle transformation. The art and rituals make it feel like a little sanctuary in book form. I’d recommend it to anyone who loves flowers, beauty, and art!
July 26, 2020
Really fascinating book that is well written and organized. I also loved the interviews of flower essence practitioners the insight into what they do was very educational for me.
I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.
I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.
August 7, 2021
Provides decent information and recipes to follow/ make.
August 2, 2024
A solid beginner's guide.
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