BoomerGirl Diary

I am delighted to be able to share with the readers of Boomer Girl a new column on aromatherapy and plant spirit medicine. Working with the plants has been a passion of mine for over 25 years, and now having an opportunity to write about these amazing gifts of nature and sharing this knowledge with a new audience of women of like mind and heart is a true blessing.

My sincere desire continues to be: to become a humble spokesperson for the plants. They have so many things to offer us on a daily basis. To be able to share some of my work, experiences, wisdom, stories, and personal insights that I have had with the plants will be a great joy.

The plants are as individual as we are and each of them have something special to offer, as we do. Like us, they are multi-dimensional but each with a special gift and quality of their own. They have the ability to provide us with not only relief from physical aches and pains and seasonal illnesses but they can also uplift our spirits, calm our emotions and provide us with clarity and insight as to what may be going on with us or within us on a deeper level.

Since this is going to be a regular column for Boomer Girl I believe we start from the beginning and take it a step at a time. What is aromatherapy and plant spirit medicine? How can we use it in the 2lst century to assist our body, mind and spirit? These are the first questions to consider; and then we begin working with the individual plants and how we can begin to incorporate them into our lives so we can begin living an aromatic lifestyle.

My personal specialty in working with the plants is what has been coined “subtle aromatherapy.” There are many different specialties in the field of plant spirit alchemy, but my heart has been drawn to the more energetic and spiritual aspect of what the plants come to offer us for a deeper inner connection with ourselves and the world in which we live. So, I will not only share with you the traditional and medicinal ways of using the plants but also the energetic and spiritual uses and ways they have been used and can be used in your own lives.

I invite you to think of nature as not only your physical apothecary but your spiritual one too. The gifts of earth not only care and nurture your body, but your spirit as well; and that is what I am excited to share with you in our journey together. I hope you will join me.

Until next time: What is aromatherapy? It is the skilled use of working with essential oils. Did I say skilled use? Remember that for our next aromatic discussion.