July Newsletter for Mama Love and Healing Communication News

Hello Everybody,

Hope your summer is going well. But maybe it’s been challenging, especially if you live in the United States. 

Recent events have been keeping Paul and I awake at night and compulsively glued to Facebook or the news and trying to find ways to speak out. About a year ago I had created a formula for people struggling with political angst that had a neutral-sounding name. The two of us started using it again a week or two ago and it has remarkable effect. After regular use, we feel cleansed of politically-induced stress, much more hopeful and positively focussed. We have to keep it up since the news adds more pain for many of us everyday but it IS working! So I changed the name to (forgive me) “Trump Be Gone”! It’s not a magic potion for getting rid of him in any way but in your psyche, but if that’s something you need, you might want to give it a try.

I’ve been adding three items to my Etsy shop and writing about them every week for a few months. For obvious reasons, in the last few weeks I’ve added three Reiki infused, dosage-strength, flower essence dropper bottles and sprays for childhood trauma related to mothering: Mariposa Lily, Splendid Mariposa Lily, and Evening Primrose. All of these are for people who had their early relationship with their closest caregiver (usually their mother) disrupted in some traumatic way. Perhaps they were abandoned or neglected, abused, rejected or given away. Perhaps they had trouble bonding with their mom or mom had trouble bonding with them (because of post-partum depression, for example). Maybe they were torn away from their parent’s arms through no fault of their own and . . . sorry, I’ll stop there. You know why I wanted to add these to my shop! There are a lot of children who could use these (along with others for dealing with trauma, horror, terror and grief). And there are a lot more adults getting their own early childhood traumas kicked up just knowing about it. I’ll provide links to the blog posts I’ve written about them below along with one other. The blog posts will have links to the products themselves.

Bye for now, 

Sheryl (and Paul)

Blog Posts:

Mariposa Lily Flower Essence for Healing the Pain of Disrupted or Abusive Mothering.

Splendid Mariposa Lily Flower Essence for Addressing the Pain of Feeling Abandoned by the World.

Evening Primrose Flower Essence for Healing Profound Feelings of Rejection By Your Mother.

Scotch Broom Flower Essence for World Service in the Face of Pessimism and Despair.

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

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Where to Find Our Artwork

Beautiful Photographic Prints by Paul Hood.
Art Prints on canvas, etc. by Sheryl Karas.

Art notecards, T-shirts, mugs and other gifts featuring our images.

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Where to Find Our Videos

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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.

Mama Love and Healing Communication Newsletter - February 2017

The Pendulum Swung Clear Off the Clock. . .
and For a Period of Time Nothing Else Seemed to Matter
© 2017 Sheryl Karas

Hello Everybody!

Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Fire Rooster — let’s make it something to crow about!

I have been hard at work coming up with new formulas in order to respond to the great display of emotional intensity I’ve been seeing on social media lately. In fact, I did a poll earlier this week about what people need in this phase of the post-U.S. election era. And I got what I consider to be an outpouring of response. Below I share what the most asked for requests were with links to product pages on Etsy. I do not have several of these in my regular Mama Love shop because they are brand new and I don’t even have labels made yet! I will be making the new ones on demand and putting the labels I use for my custom requests on them for now. They are only available in 1 oz bottles so far — conventional flower essence dropper bottles, unscented flower essence only sprays, scented flower essence aromatherapy sprays, and scented flower essence aromatherapy oils. Reiki-infused, of course!

If one of my wholesale accounts is interested in any of these, be sure to let me know! I can make sprays and 1 oz oils available right away (well, allow a week for me to print official labels, etc.). Dram bottles attached to little cards, though, will take 2-3 weeks as I have the cards made by an outside print shop.

#1 Request: Help for shock, trauma, extreme stress and grief. I already had one for this on my list:

Support for Troubled Times

     •  Flower Essence Dropper Bottle: 

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/470308092/support-for-troubled-times-flower

     • Unscented Spray:

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/160356844/support-for-troubled-times-stress-grief

     • Scented flower essence aromatherapy spray: 

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/114762998/support-for-troubled-times-stress-grief

     • Scented flower essence aromatherapy oil (dram size is available):

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/76226087/support-for-troubled-times-grief-loss

#2 Request: Help for extreme worry, anxiety and fear. I already have one for that, too:

Releasing Worry and Fear

      •  Flower Essence Dropper Bottle: 

       https://www.etsy.com/listing/483344393/releasing-worry-and-fear-flower-essence 

     • Unscented Spray:

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/160369273/releasing-worry-and-fear-stress-and 

     • Scented flower essence aromatherapy spray: 

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/114755887/releasing-worry-and-fear-stress-anxiety

     • Scented flower essence aromatherapy oil (dram size is available):

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/55309902/releasing-worry-and-fear-anxiety-organic

#3 Request: Help for being able to calm down enough to focus. One of the newest formulas already on my list is actually very good for that. 

Calm Focus 

      •  Flower Essence Dropper Bottle: 

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/480727095/calm-focus-attention-flower-essence

     • Unscented Spray:

         https://www.etsy.com/listing/463180425/calm-focus-attention-flower-essence-aura

     • Scented flower essence aromatherapy spray: 

         https://www.etsy.com/listing/463083427/calm-focus-attention-organic-reiki

     • Scented flower essence aromatherapy oil (dram size is available):

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/467961185/calm-focus-attention-grounding

#4 Request: Help for Emotional Resilience. The news and social media reaction has gotten so intense that people feel like their defenses get worn down almost on a daily basis. Others recognize that we’re going to be dealing with this for quite some time and wanted something to help shield them from overwhelming distress. This and the next ones are new:

Emotional Resilience: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/507809111/emotional-resilience-inner-strength

#5 Request: Many people are getting involved in activism and wanted help with strength and determination. I feel like this particular request had several variants and several of the new formulas that follow are for the variants.

Resolve & Determination: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/494613952/resolve-and-determination-flower-essence

#6 Request: For more energy and enthusiasm to face the job at hand.

Energy & Enthusiasm

https://www.etsy.com/listing/494136340/increased-energy-and-enthusiasm-flower

#7 Request: Some people are already exhausted or getting burned out:

Recovery for Burn-out & Exhaustion:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/507868969/recovery-from-burnout-and-exhaustion

#8 Request: A desire for more clarity in terms of direction for their activity.

Clarity & Inspiration

https://www.etsy.com/listing/508085537/clarity-and-inspiration-clear-thinking

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If you want three or more similar type products (3 sprays, 3 oils, etc), you’ll find additional bulk discounts in the discount section of my shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaLoveOrganics?ref=l2-shopheader-name&section_id=6106420

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

Afternoons and Evenings (Pacific Standard Time), weekdays and 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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