December 2017 Newsletter

Our December newsletter is about giving healing gifts for recovering and moving forward from a horrific year!

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Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

All newsletter subscribers get a 10% discount in my Etsy shop at checkout. Sign up at the top right.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaLoveOrganics

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

My schedule is changing constantly but Paul’s is the same. You can work with me or with us both most evenings. You can work with Paul alone afternoons and evenings most days, including weekends. Making appointments at least 48 hours in advance is HIGHLY recommended! 

http://healingcommunication.com/How_to_Make_an_Appointment_with_Spiritual_Counselors_and_Healers_Sheryl_Karas_and_Paul_Hood.html

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Where to Find Our Artwork

Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/
Art Prints on canvas, etc. by Sheryl Karas… https://www.etsy.com/shop/SherylKarasArt

Art notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images... http://www.zazzle.com/paulnsheryl*

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Where to Find Our Videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/healerteam

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Join Mama Love on Facebook or Twitter

I’m posting links to articles about flower essences, herbs and aromatherapy pretty regularly now.

Mama Love on Facebook: Be sure to sign up for notifications so you actually see the posts!  http://www.facebook.com/MamaLoveProducts. 

Mama Love on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MamaLoveOrganic

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Thanks for all your referrals!

Simplest way to tell people about us? Forward this newsletter and include a note saying you like us. It's easy! 

November Mama Love and Healing Communication News

Hello Everyone,

A short newsletter this month. I just want to share a story about how I used flower essences very quickly and with great effect in my own life recently. I was working with Wild Oat flower essence, the essence for people seeking clarity when there are multiple life choices that all beckon in different directions. I wrote a blog post about it so I’ll link to that here:

https://healingcommunication.blogspot.com/2017/10/using-wild-oat-flower-essence-when-you.html

Astrologically, this month is supposed to be a time of great inner and/or outer transformation—hidden things coming to light, confrontation with those revelations, the need to consider one’s path very carefully, the potential for ruin and regeneration on the personal as well as national or global level. We’re in the midst of that already—it started around Halloween. Wild Oat can be very useful in the midst of that as it can help in calming fear, seeing things clearly, grappling with the truth, and choosing a better path. 

Better things can emerge when the truth comes to light. All the truths, even the ones you don’t expect or wish to come to light. Use intention to allow transformation in the best way for all concerned.

Sheryl

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If you read the article linked above, you’ll learn more, partially, about my art. You can check some of that out here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SherylKarasArt

If you want to visually follow my artist journey, follow my brand new Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/sherylkaras/

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Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

All newsletter subscribers get a 10% discount in my Etsy shop at checkout. Sign up at the top right.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaLoveOrganics

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

My schedule is changing constantly but Paul’s is the same. You can work with me or with us both most evenings. You can work with Paul alone afternoons and evenings most days, including weekends. Making appointments at least 48 hours in advance is HIGHLY recommended! 

http://healingcommunication.com/How_to_Make_an_Appointment_with_Spiritual_Counselors_and_Healers_Sheryl_Karas_and_Paul_Hood.html

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Where to Find Our Artwork

Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/
Art Prints on canvas, etc. by Sheryl Karas… https://www.etsy.com/shop/SherylKarasArt

Art notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images... http://www.zazzle.com/paulnsheryl*

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Where to Find Our Videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/healerteam

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Join Mama Love on Facebook or Twitter

I’m posting links to articles about flower essences, herbs and aromatherapy pretty regularly now.

Mama Love on Facebook: Be sure to sign up for notifications so you actually see the posts!  http://www.facebook.com/MamaLoveProducts. 

Mama Love on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MamaLoveOrganic

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Thanks for all your referrals!

Simplest way to tell people about us? Forward this newsletter and include a note saying you like us. It's easy! 

Dealing with the Constant Barrage of Bad News -- October Newsletter 2017

Hello Everyone,

The news. The news on everyone’s mind. Every day a new crisis. Every day a new horror story.

So if it’s getting you down, if you can’t sleep at night, if you’re almost insane with stress and grief and horror, you’re not alone. You’re in the majority. And we need to come together.

How?

My guidance says:

“Take it one step at a time. First step: how do you FEEL? Cry! Rant and rave if you have to but reach for what’s driving your rage: fear.

“Then take it one step further. Don’t write your congresspeople yet. Write to yourself: ‘I love you. I am not alone. We are not alone. We are not crying in the wilderness alone!' 

“Take each other by the hand. Take each other out for coffee, a cup of tea. Go for a walk in the park. Sit by the ocean or on a gentle hill and look out, see the vastness of the world around instead of just the suffering that appears to be right in your face (perhaps on “Face”-book) or the evening news.

“Breathe out pain and misery. Take in the view, the vastness of time and space. Sincerely believe that this sitting is necessary. And breathe in light and refreshment, love from all around, and breathe it back out extending to all humanity. 

This is NOT just an exercise. It’s an intention. Buddhists often take it a step further and call it a Lovingkindness Meditation: 

May I be filled with lovingkindness.
May I be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May I be well in body and mind.
May I be at ease and happy.
May I be at peace.

“And then extending to others you love, are thinking about, those who are suffering:

May you be filled with lovingkindness.
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May you be well in body and mind.
May you be at ease and happy.
May you be at peace.

“Finally, imagine those you don’t agree with, especially those actively horrifying or infuriating you, and do the same for them! I know that feels hard but, after some sitting on a rock extending the intention of healing to yourself and others, it comes naturally.

May you be filled with lovingkindness.
May you be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May you be well in body and mind.
May you be at ease and happy.

May you be at peace.

“Want to do more than simply pray?!!

“So be it. 

Amen. 

“May your actions be guided by compassion.”

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

My schedule is changing constantly but Paul’s is the same. You can work with me or with us both most evenings. You can work with Paul alone afternoons and evenings most days, including weekends. Making appointments at least 48 hours in advance is HIGHLY recommended! 

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Want Some Mama Love?
The best place with the widest selection to find Mama Love Flower Essence & Aromatherapy products is in Sheryl's Etsy shop. All newsletter subscribers are eligible for a 10% discount. Use the coupon code you will find in the email version of this newsletter. Sign up for that newsletter at the top right.
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Where to Find Our Artwork

Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/
Beautiful Photographic Prints and Artwork by Sheryl Karas… On Fine Art America  http://sheryl-karas.pixels.com/ or on Society 6 https://society6.com/skaras

Art notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images... http://www.zazzle.com/paulnsheryl*

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Where to Find Our Videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/healerteam

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Join Mama Love on Facebook or Twitter

I’m posting links to articles about flower essences, herbs and aromatherapy pretty regularly now.

Mama Love on Facebook: Be sure to sign up for notifications so you actually see the posts!  http://www.facebook.com/MamaLoveProducts. 

Mama Love on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MamaLoveOrganic

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Thanks for all your referrals!

Simplest way to tell people about us? Forward this newsletter and include a note saying you like us. It's easy! 

September 2017 Newsletter

Fantasy Queen Proteas and Orange Roses, © 2017 Sheryl Karas

Hello Everyone!

Hot enough for ya? Cold and wet enough for ya? The weather is all I’m reading about in my Facebook feed. And for very good reason this week. Lots of horrific news coming out of Houston and Bangladesh and other parts of southeast Asia. Sad sad stories but also ones of hope and inspiration with neighbors helping neighbors and people of all races and religions reaching across perceived boundaries to lend a helping hand. It’s what we do in a natural disaster. It’s what we could be doing for each other a lot of the time.

It got me thinking about the Loma Prieta earthquake that changed my life forever when I lived in Santa Cruz — both the good and bad! You’ll find a blog post I wrote about that here: https://healingcommunication.blogspot.com/2017/08/some-personal-sharing-about-earthquakes.html

I’m keeping the newsletter short this month but I wanted to let you all know that I’ve been reorganizing my Etsy shop. Reiki- infused dosage bottles and sprays are now available in the same listing instead of two different sections of my shop. You'll find all my flower essence combination blends here.

I also offer single flower essences in both dosage bottle and spray form in a separate section. Also Reiki-infused! This section grows each week as I add flower essences one by one (it’s a lot of work). If you want a single flower in dosage bottle strength (ready to use without diluting) and it’s not in my shop yet, just ask! I have all the original Bach Flower Remedies and most of the North American ones made by FES on my shelf and I’ll make a bottle for you and infuse it with Reiki on demand. Use this link to order one: https://www.etsy.com/mamaloveorganics/listing/511170648/custom-flower-essence-formula-organic

Custom flower essence consultation is also available. I can make a combination formula using a mix of conventional information sharing via email (tell me what you’re hoping to achieve and why, I’ll ask questions to find out more, etc.) and internal guidance (dowsing). The link for that is here: https://www.etsy.com/mamaloveorganics/listing/486034335/custom-flower-essence-formula-organic

That’s all for now. Have a great Labor Day!

Sheryl

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

My schedule is changing constantly but Paul’s is the same. You can work with me or with us both most evenings. You can work with Paul alone afternoons and evenings most days, including weekends. Making appointments at least 48 hours in advance is HIGHLY recommended! http://healingcommunication.com/How_to_Make_an_Appointment_with_Spiritual_Counselors_and_Healers_Sheryl_Karas_and_Paul_Hood.html

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Where to Find Our Artwork

Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/Beautiful Photographic Prints and Artwork by Sheryl Karas… On Fine Art America  http://sheryl-karas.pixels.com/ or on Society 6 https://society6.com/skarasArt notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images... http://www.zazzle.com/paulnsheryl*

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Where to Find Our Videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/healerteam

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Join Mama Love on Facebook or Twitter

I’m posting links to articles about flower essences, herbs and aromatherapy pretty regularly now.Mama Love on Facebook: Be sure to sign up for notifications so you actually see the posts!  http://www.facebook.com/MamaLoveProducts. Mama Love on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MamaLoveOrganic

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Thanks for all your referrals!Simplest way to tell people about us? Forward this newsletter and include a note saying you like us. It's easy! 

August 2017 Newsletter - Putting Your Needs First

Hello Everyone, 

Hope you’re having a good summer and that the news isn’t keeping you up at night. I’ve recently seen an interest in some formulas I created as experiments awhile back. They’re not part of my normal list — I just hand-write the names on the labels—but I’m thinking it might be good to highlight a few. The one I plan to focus on this newsletter has a name that doesn’t seem appropriate for helping people find it online. If you have any ideas about it, help me out! Thanks,

Sheryl

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What Do You Think I Should Name This Formula?

I had a special request for a flower essence aromatherapy oil formula I decided to call “Putting Your Needs First” from someone who was struggling with making time and choosing to follow through on things like going to the gym or yoga class, eating a healthy breakfast, tidying her house, looking for a better job. I asked for guidance on it and received such an unusual response that I figured it was just specific for her situation. But then at least one other person wanted it, too, and I got curious one day and tried it for myself. It’s still not a standard item in my shop — I don’t think it is general enough —but I decided to make it available, made on demand, with a handwritten label. I don’t think that the name is quite right for what it really seems to be for (or, perhaps, who it is for). If you have any ideas on this, feel free to help me out!

So let me tell you about this formula.

First of all, it smells absolutely wonderful with Jasmine, Orange, Ylang Ylang and Vanilla. Those oils also tend to be great for countering depression and lifting the spirits. 

I also use the following flower essences and that’s where this gets really interesting:

ALPINE LILY: for honoring yourself as a woman, especially helpful for having a healthier relationship with your body.

LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING: for acceptance and letting go of the pain lodged in physical world experience. This is most commonly used for grief and for being able to accept and move beyond a feeling of suffering. Given what it is usually used for, it seems like overkill for the purpose of getting the housework done. But, of course, cleaning the house doesn’t have to be suffering! So think of this essence as a mindset cleanser and for shifting from “woe is me” to “let’s get stuff done!”

DOGWOOD: also for ease in living in a body, and letting go of traumas related to physical existence. I always think of this as being for someone with physical distress (physical pain, disability) but it is also useful for anyone resisting tasks of everyday living for a variety of reasons—for example, worry about more “important” things. Dogwood allows you to have more enthusiasm for the practical side of life in a balanced way, being gentle with yourself (you don’t have to be a slave to your “to-do” list) and yet focused.

BABY BLUE EYES: for feeling at ease with yourself, knowing you are worthy of support and self-love, worth taking time for, especially if you’ve had the experience of abuse or abandonment in your life.

Generally speaking, this formula is for people who see the basic tasks of everyday living as a burden. It could be because of past abuse, excessive isolation, or due to the stress of living an over-worked, over-scheduled, overstimulating or overly worried and distracted kind of life.

What would you call a formula like that?

Here’s a link if it seems interesting to you: 

https://www.etsy.com/mamaloveorganics/listing/509429803/worthy-of-self-care-flower-essence

Right now the best place to find the largest selection of Mama Love products is Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaLoveOrganics

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

My schedule is changing but Paul’s is the same. You can work with me or with us both most evenings. You can work with Paul alone afternoons and evenings most days, including weekends. Making appointments at least 48 hours in advance is HIGHLY recommended! 

http://healingcommunication.com/How_to_Make_an_Appointment_with_Spiritual_Counselors_and_Healers_Sheryl_Karas_and_Paul_Hood.html

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Where to Find Our Artwork

Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/
Beautiful Photographic Prints and Artwork by Sheryl Karas… On Fine Art America  http://sheryl-karas.pixels.com/ or on Society 6 https://society6.com/skaras

Art notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images... http://www.zazzle.com/paulnsheryl*

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Where to Find Our Videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/healerteam

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Join Mama Love on Facebook or Twitter

I’m posting links to articles about flower essences, herbs and aromatherapy pretty regularly now.

Mama Love on Facebook: Be sure to sign up for notifications so you actually see the posts!  http://www.facebook.com/MamaLoveProducts. 

Mama Love on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MamaLoveOrganic

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Thanks for all your referrals!

Simplest way to tell people about us? Forward this newsletter and include a note saying you like us. It's easy! 

Dandelion Flower Essence: Healing for the United States

I asked myself this morning if there was a flower essence that in some ways might exemplify the healing our nation needs right now. I live in the United States in the era of Donald Trump and, besides that particular concern, the biggest issue I see being played out on the political stage is the extreme polarity between the right and left. It often feels like this polarity might be too difficult to bridge, that we're doomed to wage war with each other until this union is ripped to shreds. But on a good day, I don’t believe it. Both sides hold keys to what makes this nation "great" but only if we take time to recognize it and work with it as we used to do together.

I lived in a mostly conservative right-wing community for a period of time. It was challenging for a progressive liberal like me, but there were several things I admired: the values of honoring your roots and making your way through your own efforts whenever possible. Of course, that particular Mormon-based community had its own system of church-tithed social service safety net—something many decried having to pay taxes for on a national level—but that's why there, theoretically, is room in my imagination for a basis of understanding. Because the left values a safety net. They also value compassionate ways to make it more possible for people to rise up from poverty and stand on their own feet again. 

Independence and interdependence, self-sufficiency and access to a helping hand. Why do we need both? Because we don’t thrive when we give up on ourselves and become dependent on others excessively. And yet we all deserve to feel like someone will catch us if we fall. 

It is part of the U.S. narrative that it is possible to rise above your circumstances through hard work and ingenuity alone. And yet while there certainly are people who have made it on their own, the average wealthy person takes for granted how extensively they can depend on being caught if they fall and the positive effect that has on their psyche. Examples: personal assets separate from the money used to invest in various undertakings (limited liability corporation status, investment groups, stockholders, etc.) that allows them to take risks without hurting their personal bottom line; wealthy and successful family and collegial connections to share knowhow and opportunity; and family or personal resources that would keep them from abject poverty should their projects fail. They have a BIG safety net and that gives them a huge leg up. 

When you have no such safety net, even the smallest risks and smallest-seeming mistakes can lead to the most horrific consequences—even homelessness and starvation. If you have no family or investor money, you’re always taking any risks you take with your own resources. You risk everything if you fail and, often, you’re actively discouraged from trying new (therefore risky) things by other not wealthy people frightened about having to support you if you fall. Contrast that with the wealthy who can fail multiple times, have multiple bankruptcies, be wholly unqualified, and still become president of the United States. 

From a political standpoint, this is the ultimate opportunity for social control. You can take advantage of the terror people feel when you make it horrifically expensive to fail. Rising out of difficult circumstances almost always requires trying something new and being able and willing to risk again. Yes, risk! Learning to walk involves risk. Failing—falling— is how we learn to self-correct and keep from doing it again. If we punished our children as mercilessly as we punish our underemployed and unemployed adults for falling into that state, sometimes due to circumstances far beyond their control, they might never take the risk of getting on their feet at all. Of course, most people DO get back on their feet again after great loss. . . but it sure helps if they have some sort of safety net and hand out of their situation.

What flower essence would I choose symbolically for this polarity in the United States? Dandelion, the flower essence for people who strive too hard and need to have the ability to relax and use their great strength and energy in a balanced manner. 

Poor and barely middle class people are stressed to just survive. It creates great tension, a belief that you have to work HARD for anything that comes to you, and an easily manipulated resentment of poorer people who appear to have everything handed to them (Social Security benefits, affordable housing, Medicaid, etc. that they really could use but aren’t quite poor enough to qualify for themselves). And yet there is little understanding of how little blessing there is in being poor and dependent on social services if you don’t have affordable enough housing or friends or relatives willing to take you in. (The difference between rural and city life could not be more dramatic when it comes to this—try finding a cheap trailer park with space in a big city like New York or Los Angeles. You are going to be homeless even if you have a job if it is minimum wage and you have nowhere else to stay.) 

Dandelions have the tenacity and strength (dent de lion, tooth of the lion) to take root wherever they are planted. That’s the right-wing work ethic right there! But even dandelions can be eradicated if you take pains to dig out all their roots. A dandelion out of balance in this respect is a dead dandelion. But give them a home—leave their roots alone—and they develop into puff balls that relax and blow away on the breeze to reestablish themselves wherever they need to go. Like a wealthy person’s kid with a trust fund or a large corporation with investment capitol, they can take risks and use their energy in a dynamic yet relaxed fashion knowing someone else’s or their own protected assets will be there to catch them if they fall. Dandelions thus allowed to mature represent this healed polarity: the ability to be strong and the ability to let go and fly to new heights—as long as they have the safety net of roots, soil, enough sunshine and water.

Give people that kind of safety net AND the assistance (opportunity, training, retraining, access to small business investment funding) to get back on their own feet when they’ve been uprooted and just imagine what they could create! And you have the integration of values of the right (the importance of roots and standing on your own two feet) and the values of the left (an adequate safety net and opportunity for all even if you’ve been uprooted). A healthy Dandelion represents both sides of the polarity: inner strength and will to survive combined with the ability to relax, let go of control, fly to someplace new, and trust that you’ll be okay. That's what Dandelion flower essence is all about.

July 2017 Healing Communication / Mama Love News

Hello Everyone!

Hope you’re enjoying a healthy and positive Independence Day weekend! I had a life-changing set of experiences this last month that started with gaining independence from a limited mindset so I thought I’d share that story with you! Hope it helps you take heart with whatever you might be wanting to create for yourself.
Sheryl (and Paul)

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USING MANIFESTATION TOOLS WHEN YOU'VE BECOME DISCOURAGED

Author Marc Allen is on my Facebook friends list. You may or may not know his name but you certainly know his work. He and his good friend Shakti Gawain started the New World Library book publishing company and have written many many books on spirituality, manifestation and creative visualization. What he shares on Facebook is pretty much the same and, honestly, I had not been paying much attention to it —my attention online is typically obsessed with politics and attempting to distract myself from it. But a few weeks ago something he shared caught my attention and hit me hard!

He said that when you do affirmations — (which I had stopped doing) — to try adding the phrase “in a relaxed and easy fashion” to contradict any conscious or unconscious belief that what you want to have happen will be difficult. He said this was ESPECIALLY important when 1) society wants you to believe it is difficult (my examples: making a living as an artist, affordable healthcare for all) or 2) when your own life experience (losses, defeats) has reinforced your less than positive beliefs or changed your beliefs for the worse over time.

At that point I had been looking for day job work with great frustration for quite a while (we don’t make ALL our income from spiritual counseling and flower essence aromatherapy). My biggest requirement originally was that it be work I would love. That used to mean “in the arts.” And I actually DID make my living as an artist at one time. I had a dream job working as a book designer at a book publishing company called Crossing Press, where I got paid to do art for book covers and interior illustrations among other things. But the book publishing industry changed, the world changed, and perhaps too quickly I started to believe that making my living in this fashion would be stressful and hard. I had many other interests—spirituality, counseling, alternative healing—and made the deliberate (and wonderful) choice to focus on those interests instead. 

But the world has changed even more since I went in that direction. Agencies I used to work for had their funding cut by 80%, a year after Paul and I teamed up was the Great Recession crash, we moved multiple times, and finally wound up in Chico, CA because his father needed caregiving assistance after a medical emergency and we were there. While we still are devoted to spirituality, counseling, alternative health, and the arts, we went through some pretty hard times and the idea of making our livings 100% through this work came crashing down. 

And then I found out what getting a day job would be like in Chico. My “requirement” eventually shifted from “work I’d love” to “work I’d like” to “work I wouldn’t mind doing as long as my boss and co-workers are great to work with.” I also sort of hoped that the environment would be uplifting and beautiful but I was even starting to despair of finding that. After a lifetime of never having much trouble finding work I loved, I was thinking that finding work I could feel ok about ever again, at least in Chico, was hard.

So I took Marc Allen’s advice to heart. I wrote out my ideal scenario for my life within 5 years, started doing affirmations again and added the phrase “in a relaxed and easy fashion.” I reminded myself that I have manifested pretty much exactly what I’ve wanted in the past and it came easily — sometimes without ANY effort—many times. And finally I sent Reiki to my healing in this area. 

Within 24 hours everything changed! After a year of very few interviews and no job offers I had one. And two weeks later I was offered another. Two weeks after that I had two more interviews and another job offer, and this coming week I start my third new job in a month (each one better than the last), and this opportunity is IN THE ARTS! I’ll be working in the most successful art gallery in town, with people I have a pretty great impression of and beautiful work all around. And I’ve already felt inspired to draw and paint more pieces of my own.

Art as a day job. (Or perhaps a career?) Again. What I actually really wanted. Who’d a thunk it?

(If you’re curious about the art I do, I started a portfolio blog at 
https://sherylkaras.blogspot.com/ )

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HOW MAMA LOVE CAN HELP YOU MANIFEST WHAT YOU WANT


This could be a whole article in itself! But because I’ve already written enough, I’ll point you in the direction of two products I created specifically for that purpose and two for helping you with the feelings that might try to trip you up when you act on creating what you want.

• Abundant Prosperity oil  or spray 
• Manifesting Life Purpose oil or spray 
• Renewed Faith And Optimism oil or spray 
• Doing New Things With Confidence oil or spray 

Right now the best place to find the largest selection of Mama Love products is Etsy. Come check it out, if you haven’t already. Newsletter subscribers receive a coupon code for a 10% discount off anything in my shop (including specials and already discounted items). (Find the newsletter subscribe link at the right near the top of this blog.)

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions
My schedule is changing but Paul’s is the same. You can work with me or with us both most evenings. You can work with Paul alone afternoons and evenings most days, including weekends. Making appointments at least 48 hours in advance is HIGHLY recommended! http://healingcommunication.com/How_to_Make_an_Appointment_with_Spiritual_Counselors_and_Healers_Sheryl_Karas_and_Paul_Hood.html

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Where to Find Our ArtworkBeautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood... http://PaulHood.imagekind.com/Beautiful Photographic Prints and Artwork by Sheryl Karas… On Fine Art America  http://sheryl-karas.pixels.com/ or on Society 6 https://society6.com/skarasArt notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images... http://www.zazzle.com/paulnsheryl*

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Where to Find Our Videoshttp://www.youtube.com/user/healerteam

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Join Mama Love on Facebook or TwitterI’m posting links to articles about flower essences, herbs and aromatherapy pretty regularly now.
Mama Love on Facebook: Be sure to sign up for notifications so you actually see the posts!  http://www.facebook.com/MamaLoveProducts. Mama Love on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MamaLoveOrganic

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Thanks for all your referrals!Simplest way to tell people about us? Forward this newsletter and include a note saying you like us. It's easy! 

June 2017 Healing Communication and Mama Love News

Hello Everyone!

Hope you’re enjoying a healthy and positive Memorial Day weekend! 

We have a new next door neighbor who has a cat named Jack who wants to be our new best friend (he invades our apartment as often as possible). We miss having a cat and he must know that! So this month’s newsletter is devoted to pets.

But first, I’d like to announce that you can find Mama Love Products in two more retail locations starting this month:

• Herbie’s Natural Foods in Whittier, CA (14153 Whittier Ave.): I FINALLY got my products into southern California—I know several people on this list might be happy to hear that!  Herbie’s is a locally owned natural foods and supplements store with a Wellness Department stocked with all kinds of great choices. They are carrying a full selection of my most popular dram-sized flower essence aromatherapy oils. http://www.herbiesnaturalfoods.com/

• Open Doors Bookstore, Learning and Healing Center in Braintree, MA (395 Washington St.): Braintree is where I grew up! (I can’t begin to tell you how ironic that happens to be.) They are carrying a full selection of my flower essence sprays for pets. http://www.opendoors7.com/

Flower Essences and Your Pets

Did you know that the reason I went from a flower essence skeptic to a flower essence practitioner and product maker was after seeing the amazing transformation they initiated for my cat Chloe? It’s true! I wanted nothing to do with this modality—I thought it was weird beyond belief that a few drops of HIGHLY diluted flower tea preserved with brandy could do anything! But my roommate was gaga for them and when my vet recommended them for Chlo-Chlo Kitty I decided it was the perfect time to try an experiment. After all, my cat wouldn’t know what the flower essences were for so it was a great opportunity to rule out the idea of results being a placebo effect.

Chloe was a shelter kitty with lopsided markings on her face, who had greasy fur and suffered from a tendency to get sick easily. That’s her photo in the newsletter. She had lived in the shelter several months (somehow wasn’t euthanized) and watched her mom and all her litter-mates adopted before her. I was passing her by myself when she reached out a paw and patted me on the back. When I turned to look she rolled over on her back and reached both paws out and patted me again. I couldn’t help falling in love—no other cat at the shelter was acting like that. The staff was delighted! Chloe was a favorite of theirs because of her sweet and truly funny personality. But she was quite terrified to allow a new person into her heart. She would follow me around the house crying pitifully like she really wanted to be petted but then would yelp and run away whenever I would try to touch her. Nothing I did seemed to help.

So I used Mariposa Flower Essence with her, the flower essence for happier mother-child bonding, in conventional dropper bottle form. Chloe actually allowed me to give her the drops by mouth! (Don’t expect this with any other cat. Chloe loved water and in later years would even hop into the shower with me to play and get soaked in the bath.) Normally you would put the drops in their food or water or use my sprays lightly on their food or at a distance (if they don’t mind it) around their heads and bodies. But Chloe would literally open her mouth happily on her own as soon as she saw the dropper bottle to allow me to put the drops in her mouth!

The transformation was immediate and amazing! Within a few minutes of using this flower essence she let me pet her for the very first time, at least briefly, while she relaxed in the box she was using as a bed. Within a week she was voluntarily curling up with me in my bed and allowing me to pet her for long periods of time. And within a month her fur stopped being greasy, filled out and became fluffy and gorgeous!  She also remained a very healthy cat throughout most of her life.

When I decided to make a line of flower essence products for pets, in Chloe’s honor, I decided to focus on the issues most common with shelter pets. They’re all infused with Reiki and come in two sizes (1 oz and 2 oz):

• For Healthy Bonding: this uses Mariposa Lily as one of its main ingredients and is similar to what I used with Chloe. 

• For Happier Indoor Living: for helping a pet who used to be able to go outside and roam adapt to living inside in a much smaller territory.

• For Recovering from Grief and Loss: for pets who have not gotten over the death of a previous caregiver or abandonment.

• For Getting Along with Others: useful when introducing a new animal to a household with other pets

• For Healing Aggression: when a pet responds to an overstimulating or terrifying new environment by striking out in an overly self-protective way.

You can find both dropper bottles and sprays of these formulas in the “Pet Formula” section of my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaLoveOrganics?ref=l2-shopheader-name&section_id=5563947

My unscented flower essence products for humans can also be used with pets. (And vice versa—if one of my pet formulas seems appropriate for you!) Ones from my list to most consider:

• Doing New Things with Confidence: great for training issues! https://www.etsy.com/listing/482052655/confidence-flower-essence-formula-for

• Releasing Worry and Fear: for pets who suffer from excessive chronic fear. https://www.etsy.com/listing/483344393/flower-essence-for-anxiety-and-stress

I also can do a custom formula for your pets — or for you! https://www.etsy.com/listing/486034335/custom-flower-essence-formula-organic

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