Healing with Flower Essences - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/2/23

a long first name as well. You are. It started off in economics. You have a PhD in economics. How did you get involved in transformational work. Well, it wasn't It wasn't a linear path, and I think at some level it was meant to happen, because when it did, it happened in a very very traumatic way. I had a health problem and I had to go in to the ear, and you know, I came out thinking this

is it. Get back to my life as usual. But then one night out of nowhere, I had to go back into the ear and I remember feeling really scared at that time. Did you think you know, I thought, I don't know what's happening, but I didn't have this feeling like that feeling of despair. But when I had to go in the third time, that's when I started to feel like the sense of despair sweeping over me. You know, Am I gonna get come out? Am I

gonna be okay? And I could tell from the doctors around me that they didn't really know what was going on. But I had a very dear friend and she was into alternative methods of healing, and she came to see me in the hospital and she held my hand and she looked at me and she said, how many times are you going to go through this? What is it going to take you to change? And her words still ring in my ears today, And I literally wheeled myself out of the hospital. And that's when I started to

explore alternative methods of healing. Well, she convinced you were doing this to yourself. She she had this amazing Chinese medicine doctor that she knew and she had been talking about him for a long time. And when I started to get sick when I went into the ear the first time, when I went in a second time, she was like, you need to go see him, and I was like, no, no, no, I'm going to see the doctors, like I know what's going on, and you know this is just too far out. But of course you know,

things make you change. You get hit on the head and you're like, what do I need to do differently? And so I found this amazing Chinese medicine doctor and I also discovered flower essences and those two things together change the trajectory of my life. And I think more important than that George, that whole incident when I look back, it showed me how important hope is in our lives. And that's what led me to do the work I do today, because I really want people to recognize that,

no matter what's going on, they are never powerless. Now, the subtitle of your book on who is Release the family Patterns that hold you Back? What does that mean? It's the idea that you know how you might really sometimes want something in your life, like a relationship or personal success, professional success, a career goal, and you feel like you're doing your best, you're working your hardest at it,

but something just feels stuck. It's as if what you want feels elusive despite your best efforts, and so what I want to share with people is that what you're feeling the problem you're dealing with may not have originated with you. And these are the ancestral energies that are making their presence felt, and they show up in these patterns of feeling stuck in certain areas of your life. And that's why I wrote the book, because I wanted people to have this roadmap or guide in how they

could identify and release these patterns. Was it an easy transition for you want to to go from economics to where we are today? I think there's two parts to it. The first part was being an economist, you're trained to look at a problem, you're trained to search for a solution. You're looking at patterns. And so when I was starting to listen to clients and I was listening to them listening, you know, in between the lines for what they're feeling,

where are these patterns showing up? What are the emotional patterns? Where have these patterns existed before? You know? Being an economist sort of laid the groundwork. It perhaps laid the seeds of what I was going to do later because I started to look for getting to the roots of the problem that people were facing. But the other challenge was the work I was doing was so far out, So for a long time, I just hit it from people. I hit it the academic world, my academic colleagues, people

who knew me. I was like, I don't want anyone to find me and know what I'm doing. So it took a long time to integrate these different parts of my life. Do you think they would have freaked out if they knew what you were up to? Yes, for sure. And as the book comes out, there are people who are really getting to see what I've been doing these years who didn't know. We'll explain exactly what is an

energy practitioner and transformational coach. So as an as the kind of energy practice that I do, it's you know, at some level, everything is energy, which is essentially a kind of frequency. And in the work I'm doing, I'm looking at emotions as an energetic frequency. And in terms

of family, we see family as an energy field. And what is it an energy off It is the energy of unresolved emotions, things that are unresolved, and yet at the same time it is a field of ancestors, not just your parents, grandparents, but In many traditions, it's considered that this energy field goes back up to seven generations

before you, and this affects you. So that's the kind of energy we're talking about, the energy of emotions, the energy of unresolved feelings, of unresolved wanting to make amends for might from what might have happened. How do you tap into this to help heal people? So, you know, the longest healing journey, George, is really from the head

to the heart. Because at the intellectual level, you know, you can understand a lot of things, and you can recognize maybe you know it's say, for instance, you get angry fast, or you tend to you know, have some other issues. But then to go intellectually to shifting the emotions that are caused think that behavior or causing that response pattern, you know, whether it's stress, eating, whatever it could be. That is a really long journey, and we

often don't have the tools for it. I mean, there's a lot of emphasis on meditation, mindfulness, but even then, what can we do that really supports us? And that's where I feel like I use flower essences as a heating modality, and I find those really allow for change to happen in a very gentle, gradual way, but they actually create change. Are you at liberty a new to tell us what was wrong with you? When you went

in the hospital three times? Well, I had had a miscarriage, and when I had to go in a second time, the my gynecologist said, you know, something had been left inside, But in twenty five years of practicing, she had said, it had never happened before. And when I went in the third time, they really didn't know why I was in there. They couldn't tell me what was wrong because I just I was bleeding heavily, but they didn't know what was wrong. Now, with this transformational ability, how did

you stop all that? Well, at that time I went to the Chinese medicine doctor and he's the one who you know, assured me that I was going to get okay. And he started me on an herbal regiment and that's when I started to heal because I was in a very fragile place, you know, from grief, from loss, from fear, for there was a lot of emotion. Was it the herbs that healed you or was it your mental ability that healed you? It started with the herbs and I

started to get better. And there was also a little store. I used to drive past it on the way to and from work. And I had moved from Washington, d C. To Chicago to be with my husband to follow his career. So I had given up my own job. I had given up work that I really loved doing, so I'd lost my support network, my friends, and I'd moved and I was scaring all of these feelings of resentment, of bitterness.

I was really busy because you know, as a mother, as a spouses, volunteering in the school, I was doing all of those things. But I was at some levels just really angry and unhappy. And when I walked into the store, they have these little bottles at the back of the wall, and I remember asking the woman who worked there, you know, what are these? And she asked me how I was feeling. And it was a really long time since someone had asked me or really wanted

to know anything about how I was feeling. And she explained what these essences were, and when I started to take them, I started to feel this shift. I started to feel those feelings of anger of resentment, you know, start to shift. My spirits lifted. I could feel like I could engage now with my life and that what really got me hoped onto flower essences because I discovered how powerful they were. How many people do you think are walking around out there right now with a chip

on their shoulder and they just they're not happy. I think a lot of us are not happy. In fact, actually there were you know research is at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and they said there are four primary emotions fear, anger, sadness, and joy. And I think a lot of times we want joy, but we're really circling in the first three by not having joy? Can you get sick? I think? So this is what I believe.

And it's not just joy, it's having peace, contentment, acceptance, harmony, forgiveness, gratitude. It's a whole range of emotions. It's expanding our emotional spectrum from you know, a very narrow range to much bigger range. Do negative people bother you? I don't like to be around them, you know. I couldn't be around negative people before. It really bothered at me, but not now because I see their negativity coming out of something something that needs to be seen, needs to be expressed,

so it doesn't bother me anymore. But I bet you would rather not pure around them than be. Yes, I would rather not be around them. But when I earlier, where my energy used to drop, Now I can maintain and protect my energy, and I think that's been a big shift. Give us an example of how you've been able to help people heal. And heal is not just physical,

it's also mental, is it? In? In fact? Actually, because I trained in the US with Flower Essences, we don't actually say that they work at a physical level, but we can say that they work at an emotional level. And to explain actually how this works in conjunction with ancestral healing, maybe I can just share a story about a client. Sure, no name is necessary, No, and we

want to know who it was. Yeah. So I had this woman, this really lovely woman, and she called me from Canada because she'd heard about my work and what I was doing. And she called me because her son had called her and said that he was going to quit his job. And she was really upset because she's

she recognized that this was an ancestral pattern. She was the primary breadwinner in her family, Her two daughters were the primary breadwinners in their family, and as we talked, she realizes this pattern extended back to her mother and her grandmother, maternal grandmother. Now there's nothing wrong with a woman being a primary breadwinner, but it was that the men were not really carrying their weight in the relationship

that was the issue. And as we talked, she discovered she was carrying these feelings towards you know, her father, her grandfather, her son in law, like this anger, this resentment, and also feeling of shame. So what we started to do is to shift those emotions, work with releasing them and also working with her ancestral energy field by honoring her ancestors and also stopping trying to fix her son,

trying to let it go. And as she started doing the practice, as she started taking the essences, she started to shift. And as she started to do this, she became much more peaceful. And then one day her son called her and he said, Mom, I just want to let you know I'd gone back to work, and I don't know what I was thinking. I never want to do this again. Now she was thrilled, and don't get me wrong, I was thrilled, But when I heard the words, I don't know what came over me. I never want

to do this again. That to me was a sign that the family energy had shifted, the pattern had shifted. And that's how powerful I feel this work can be, that people can heal their family patterns what's been going on for decades, generations. When it shifts, doesn't shift in a big way. So in the case of this young man, it shifted. He didn't he went back to work. But you know, at some level, all these shifts, they don't make a big sound. You have to notice them. It's

very quiet, gradual. Sometimes it takes time to shift, depending on the extent to which you know, we underestimate the power we have. She didn't do anything, she didn't ask anyone else to change. She changed, and then the world around her changed. Fascinating How many people are practicing this? What do you mean by how many people are practicing in terms of percents? Are there many doctors like yourself

or professionals like yourself? Oh gosh, I don't know. I think a long time ago, when I've got certified, I was told that they were about four hundred in the world. But I think since then it's much more. It must be much much more now. And what do you mean by discovering transgenerational patterns that might get in our way.

What are they? I think when you start to notice what is sort of stuck in your life, and you look and see whether this is a pattern in your life, and then start to explore, like, who did this happen to you before me? Listen to more Coast to Coast AM every weeknight at one am Eastern and go to Coast to Coast am dot com for more