February 2020 News from Mama Love

Happy February This weekend was Groundhog Day, also known as Imbolc or Candlemas. It's the time halfway between winter solstice and the spring equinox that in old times was thought to herald in Spring. Almond trees in Chico and other places in the world actually start to bloom at this time. But I think of it as the time when the seeds underground start to germinate. That's also a metaphor for germinating the seeds of your soul or of your heart that you want to see bloom later in the year. Other people talk of going within to look at and gestate what you wish to give birth to, and that's interesting to me because I've been experimenting with flower essences, Fig and Apple Blossom, that are definitely related to that! They're new to my shop this month and I wrote blog posts about my experiences with both.

New Products and Blog Posts

Going on a Spiritual Journey with Fig Flower Essence Sometimes working with flower essences is not a nice neat process of choosing one based on symptoms you want to overcome, taking it a few weeks and you're cured! "Cured" isn't even the right word but if you wanted the symptoms gone and that's what happens, well, that's how it feels. But, really, I think that in most cases a more profound set of transformations transpires. You shift a way of thinking, gain a new perspective, feel inspired to do something different, or simply let go of how you've been handling your feelings. And sometimes . . . Read more

Apple Blossom Flower Essence for Optimism, Hope, New Beginnings I've been doing a lot of flower essence experimentation lately. My experience with Apple Blossom has been so positive I couldn't wait to share it! Learn more . . .

June 2019 Newsletter

Hello Everybody!

So much news -- let's jump in.

What to Do When Spiritual Emergence Feels Like a Crisis

Because a potential client is going through a spiritual emergence process bordering on spiritual emergency, I discovered that the articles Paul and I wrote on the topic were no longer online! Perhaps some of you are interested in unexpected spiritual awakening experiences, difficulties with Kundalini, or how to access your own guidance in a healthy grounded way? I added our old articles on these topics to my blog:

Spontaneous Kundalini

Uncontrolled Psychic Openings and Other Spiritual Emergencies

Accessing Your Own Spiritual Guidance

Learn more about our practice here.

If you're thinking about having a session be sure to read about how we work. If the note above was of particular interest, please know that as much as we deeply care about this issue and often do work with people on their spiritual development, we are not qualified to assist in a full-blown spiritual emergency. We want you to get the right kind of assistance—so please understand if we insist. Thanks!

New In My Shop

Tall Mountain Larkspur Flower Essence for Spiritually Aligned Development & Leadership

Green Rose Flower Essence for Embracing Life When You Feel Disconnected

Globe Thistle Flower Essence for Insight and Strength to Change Unhealthy Patterns

May Newsletter from Mama Love and Healing Communication

Happy Spring!

So much news . . . let's jump right in!

Using Flower Essences for Physical Illnesses

Did you know that flower essences can be used for physical problems? It's not like pharmaceuticals where a specific medication can be used by anybody who isn't allergic to it for a specific illness or condition. You have to be willing to dive deeper into the mind-body "connection." But if you're willing, it can be incredibly effective. Read more . . . 

Paul and I Have a New Website!

I think I mentioned that Paul and I decided to re-open our spiritual counseling practice. The first step was creating a new website. (You wouldn't believe how much of my life is spent working on websites!) Learn more about our practice here. If you're thinking about having a session be sure to read about how we work.

New in My Shop

Yarrow Environmental Solution for Multiple Sensitivities and Environmental Stress

California Valerian for Peace, Calm, Less Worry About the Future

Rue for the Insight and Will to Protect Yourself from Negative Influences

April 2019 Newsletter from Mama Love and Paul and Sheryl

Happy Spring! Here's what's new from Paul and Sheryl (yes) and Mama Love!

So, just when we thought we were done with spiritual counseling work... the universe said "Not so fast!" Right after we took our website down, we received a request and did a session for a favorite client, loved it (of course), and have been rethinking the whole thing.

For those of you who don't know, Paul and I have offered a unique hybrid spiritual counseling practice where we both work together as a team, combining our skills as intuitive consultants/healers with more conventional counseling tools, one-on-one teaching, and grounded good old common sense. It's an unusual combination for one person to have, even more so for two. We love it because 1) it's frequently wonderful (and still amazing even after so many years) to receive spiritual guidance on another person's behalf, 2) it's fun and insightful to have two people filtering the same information via both a male and female lens, and 3) we're often touched by what comes through, especially when it's clearly helpful to the people we work with. We're crappy at marketing this, however, because we have never been willing to accept the "psychic" or "fortune-telling" label! (And people looking for this might be very upset when they ask what the future holds in store and we ask, "What do you intend?" and "What can we help you with in relation to that?" The future isn't in cement. It's more of a dance between what you are willing to do, what your belief systems and prejudices are and how they may hold you back, and a wide variety of other factors. So don't expect a "reading"—sessions with us are more of a mutual collaboration. We don't have a new website up yet. For now, just contact us via Facebook. We'll work out session times in advance and then send you a link so you can pay via Paypal (you don't have to have a Paypal account). We'll keep you posted on future developments.

What's New with Sheryl and Mama Love? I've been experimenting with Coffee Flower Essence and it has been VERY interesting! I've been curious about what that flower essence would do for a long time! I finally tried it and share my initial experiences with it here.

ALSO NEW IN MY ETSY SHOP: Dosage Strength, Reiki Infused

Blazing Star Flower Essence for a Strong Will Deeply Supported by Inner Vitality and Nurturance

Mountain Forget-Me-Not Flower Essence for Connecting with Your Spirit Guides or Spiritual Teachers

Pussy Paws Flower Essence for Addressing a Fear of Being Touched, Emotional Hardening Related to Sexual Abuse or Violence

October Healing Communication and Mama Love News

Photograph by Paul Hood

Hello Everybody,

What a week! I have no idea what I want to say specifically for the newsletter this month but I did do quite a bit of writing this weekend on my blog in response to the drama we all witnessed in Washington: my thoughts and feelings about it, insights I gained from the healing work I did, and what that helped me understand and share about a couple of flower essences, too. 

Sheryl Karas

Blog Posts:

For Women Upset by the News These Days, Support for Challenging Times

https://healingcommunication.blogspot.com/2018/09/for-women-upset-by-news-these-days.html

Saguaro Flower Essence for Helping to Heal Issues with Abusive Authority

https://healingcommunication.blogspot.com/2018/09/saguaro-flower-essence-for-healing.html

Poison Oak Flower Essence for Easing Hostility and Angry Self-Protection

http://healingcommunication.blogspot.com/2018/09/poison-oak-flower-essence-for-easing.html

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Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

All newsletter subscribers get a 10% discount in my Etsy shop if you use the code I'll send you when you sign up at the upper right side of this page.

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

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

In-person or video (Skype) sessions are available Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and evenings most days of the week. Appointments must be confirmed at least 48 hours ahead.

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

Sept 2018 Mama Love and Healing Communication News

© Copyright 2018 Sheryl Karas

Hello Everybody,

How did August treat you? Lots of people, I think, found it to be somewhat challenging. I’m not an astrologer, just an occasional dabbler, but with SIX planets in retrograde last month a bit of frustration might have built up! Even if you don’t relate to astrology, the news cycle has been ramping up and up with new revelations every day but so far no solid actions or end in sight. And it’s been a HOT summer! If you live on the west coast of the United States or anyplace affected by the rampant fires happening across the globe, the oppressive or frightening impact of fire and smokey air and concern about what’s going to happen next and where could have had a significant impact on your psyche. 

For me, true to a retrograde period of reviewing old material, I wrote a number of blog posts about flower essences related to an old topic for me—spiritual emergence and emergency—and put those essences in my Etsy shop. Paul and I, oddly, started our spiritual counseling and healing practice many years ago with a number of clients who wanted help with that issue even though we never actually intended to do that kind of work at all. We learned a lot about it though through that process so I wrote a general blog post on the subject with the flower essences I recommend. 

You’ll also find a number of blog posts and Etsy listings for flower essences related to reviewing and healing past history and feeling tired . . . all topics that might have been stirred up in this strange retrograde influenced August. You’ll find those all here.

Things ought to be feeling better soon! But I expect we’re still going to be going through things proceeding one step at a time instead of in gigantic leaps. Stay hopeful!

Thanks for reading!

Sheryl Karas

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Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

All newsletter subscribers get a coupon for a 10% discount in my Etsy shop. Sign up at the link in the upper right corner of this blog. 

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

In-person or video (Skype) sessions are available Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and evenings most days of the week. Appointments must be confirmed at least 48 hours ahead.

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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

Healing Services by 

Sheryl Karas & Paul Hood

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Spiritual Counseling & Guidance 

Holistic Health Consultation 

Life Path & Spiritual Business Consulting

Master Level Reiki & Transformational Healing

Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

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http://www.healingcommunication.com

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

August 2018 Newsletter for Mama Love and Healing Communication

James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause"

Hello Everybody,

Lots of new products in my Etsy shop and lots of new articles on my blog! (I’ve been busy!)

The article I spent the most time on was about the spiritual archetype of the Rebel. Our Inner Rebels might be getting fairly stirred up lately. They’re the ones that want to shake things up, change the world, oppose the status quo. On the other hand, an out of control Rebel can be a nightmare as they are the outlaws, the chaos-makers, and the people who rip things up just for the fun of it without caring about how it affects anyone else! So, yes, issues about Rebels are definitely in the air.

And we all have one! Mine sometimes takes the form of getting sick and tired of having to be the oh-so-spiritual Healer all the time. That’s when I name a product something controversial instead of something sweet enough to be loved by everybody (like last month). That product’s name has been changed back to its original neutral form. But my Inner Rebel was mad at me for it. So I wrote about the archetype in general and how flower essences can be used to support and/or calm the Inner Rebel down.

I also wrote a long article on over-perfectionism — the opposite, in some ways, of the Rebel pattern! (In fact, the Rebel might come out to try to counter an overly-perfectionistic point of view.) I wrote about that pattern in general and flower essences to work with that one, too.

Thanks for reading!

Sheryl Karas (and Paul Hood)

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Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

All newsletter subscribers get a 10% discount in my Etsy shop. Sign up at the link on the upper right.

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

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions

In-person or video (Skype) sessions are available Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and evenings most days of the week. Appointments must be confirmed at least 48 hours ahead.

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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

Healing Services by 

Sheryl Karas & Paul Hood

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Spiritual Counseling & Guidance 

Holistic Health Consultation 

Life Path & Spiritual Business Consulting

Master Level Reiki & Transformational Healing

Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy

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http://www.healingcommunication.com

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

June Newsletter for Mama Love and Healing Communication News

© Copyright 2018 by Sheryl Karas

Happy Father’s Day Everybody,

I just realized that I forgot to send a newsletter out at the beginning of the month. Paul and I have been SO busy—we’re caregiving for BOTH his parents now. I used to work for the Alzheimer’s Association and for a Family Caregiver Resource Center so I know a lot about caregiving issues from the perspective of a professional. But taking it on yourself — for two people living in separate houses — required a pretty steep learning curve nonetheless! (And we’re just getting started!)

Of course, that made me think a bit about whether flower essences could be of help. Not for Paul and me (we already KNOW they help there) but for people with early stage memory loss and confusion. I need to be clear that I’m not talking about a cure from a medical standpoint (and perhaps not a “cure” at all). Flower essences address emotional and mental patterns. But there are such SIGNIFICANT correlations of emotional distress to the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease—loneliness, grief and depression stemming from BEFORE symptoms start to appear—that it’s practically criminal that more scientific research hasn’t been going to that issue. On the other hand, there’s no harm in people working on addressing those factors on our own, and flower essences are a tool I have found quite effective. You’ll find an article about what essences I might recommend below.

I’ve also been living more of an artist’s life recently. I had a piece accepted into a juried show in a MUSEUM!!!! Yes, I am excited! It’s a show called “Persistence” and it features all women artists from Northern California. It’s at MONCA (the Museum of Northern California Art) in Chico, CA and runs through mid-July. It’s a wonderful show — be sure to see it if you happen to be in the area! And that made me think about flower essences for the artist path. So I wrote about that on my blog (see below) as well.

Flower Essences for Memory Loss and Confusion
Addressing the emotional concerns that are often a factor in the development of these symptoms, especially late in life.

Flower Essences for the Artist Path
Addressing emotional concerns that affect artists, writers, performers, etc. in particular.

Bye for now,
Sheryl (and Paul)

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Mama Love Flower Essence Aromatherapy
All newsletter subscribers get a 10% discount in my Etsy shop -- sign up at the upper right.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MamaLoveOrganics

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Spiritual Counseling and Healing Sessions
In-person or video (Skype) sessions are available Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and evenings most days of the week. Appointments must be confirmed at least 48 hours ahead.
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