Welcome to our Journal! Here you'll find snippets of flower essence wisdom, essence suggestions, what's going on energetically, practical tips, thoughts from nature, inspiring quotations and support for your emotional wellbeing, personal growth and spiritual journey. We hope that you enjoy exploring, and we'll be adding to this page regularly, so please do drop by! If you would like to explore our longer, more in-depth articles, you can find these on our Flower Essence Blog.
July 2026
Essence Insights
The Power of Flowers - Why Flowers are Used in Flower Essences?
Humanity has used plants medicinally for thousands of years, but flower essences are a little different to other natural remedies. Of all the parts of a plant, why are flowers used to make flower essences? Why not the leaves, roots or bark? What is it about a flower that makes it so special?
The answer lies in the remarkable properties that flowers have and in how a flower essence works. For Dr Edward Bach, flowers represented nature at its purest and most harmonious, making them the perfect tools for emotional and spiritual wellbeing. You can find out more here!
The ‘Just Joey’ Rose bush growing in our garden is absolutely resplendent with many beautiful blooms at the moment. It is alive with vibrant, uplifting, fun filled energies. As I was communicating with it this morning its message came through loud and clear. It said, remember that life’s challenges are always temporary and are best dealt with from the vibration and perspective of your heart.
As I was contemplating this simple wisdom it struck me again how important it is for us to recognise the choice that we have in each moment. We can either choose to put our attention on what we do want, or on what we don’t want. I always think of this as remembering to nurture the flowers of the heart rather than watering the weeds of the mind. The more joyful and uplifting heart energy you can connect with, the easier it will be for the creative solutions sitting right in front of you to become visible. The Just Joey essence is the one I turn to when I need a little assistance with watering the flowers of my heart to overcome a challenge that has presented itself for resolution. Its beautiful, uplifting, joyous frequencies help to move me right back into my heart where understanding, creativity and wisdom are easier to connect with.
With the UK and much of Europe experiencing a spell of intense early summer heat, we thought we'd share a few essence suggestions that we’re finding really helpful in navigating the hot weather, and staying grounded and balanced.
From the Bach Flower Remedies…
Olive helps when you feel that your energy levels are completely depleted and that they have nothing left to carry on with. When you feel too tired to do another thing, feel completely washed out, and exhausted in the heat, Olive is the essence to use.
Hornbeam helps when you feel mentally tired and drained, and like you lack the mental strength to do what you need to do. This can often lead to feelings of procrastination and mental weariness or staleness - often common feelings in extreme heat.
Clematis helps you to stay grounded, present and focused in the here and now. If the heat is making you feel ungrounded, unfocused, dreamy or disassociated, Clematis is a really useful essence.
Wild Rose is really helpful when the heat makes you feel listless, apathetic, unmotivated, resigned or bored. Wild Rose helps to bring back the enthusiasm to find joy in life whatever the circumstances.
If you find that the hot weather makes you feel impatient and irritable, then use some Impatiens, and if you find that it’s making you feel a bit intolerant or critical, then Beech is always useful.
Deeper Acting Essences
Earth Connection Spray helps you to stay grounded, present and connected with the Earth. It strengthens and stabilises your energetic foundations, and re-connects you with the ‘now’ moment.
Clarity & Perspective Spray helps when you feel mentally tired, confused, or in a bit of a muddle, all easy to feel when the weather is very hot. This spray helps to relax your mental body so that you can connect with yourself with greater clarity and perspective.
We hope you find these helpful!
Posted by: Sam Cremnitz | 22nd June 2026
What's Going on Energetically
Inner Change and the Summer Solstice
How did you experience the Solstice energies this weekend?
For us, they felt powerful, dynamic and full of possibility, bringing new ideas, perspectives and an invitation to embrace change.
The Summer Solstice is a special time in the yearly cycle, when Earth’s energy lines all come into harmonious alignment, and we receive a powerful inflow of positive uplifting frequencies, offering us the opportunity to come into greater alignment with ourselves and our deeper purpose.
This uplift in energy is all about change, and can often come with a nudge for us to look at what and where we need to consciously make change in our lives:
What is ready to change?
What old thoughts, feelings or beliefs are you still carrying that no longer serve you?
What would help you move more fully towards what you feel in your heart that you want to create in our life?
The Solstice is a powerful time of change and change is a natural part of life. When we stay open to its flow, it can carry us in wonderful and unexpected directions.
We hope you enjoyed the Solstice energies. Did you notice any insights, shifts, inspirations or challenges arising?
Posted by: Sam Cremnitz | 21st June 2026
Dr. Edward Bach Wisdom
Mimulus, Lettuce & Dr. Edward Bach
The Wisdom of Dr Edward Bach - “I am hungry, I will go and pull a lettuce from the garden for my tea; I am frightened and ill, I will take a dose of Mimulus.” When Dr Edward Bach created his flower remedies in the 1930s, he wanted them to be simple enough for anyone to use. He believed that understanding our emotions should be as natural as recognising when we’re hungry, thirsty or tired. This was at the heart of his philosophy about how we help people at all levels - mind, body & spirit - how to take responsibility for their our health and wellbeing and how to best use the remedies that he created.
Sphere is an essence that I often find myself drawn to use, particularly in the spray form. I turn to it when I am feeling a bit disconnected from myself, stuck in my mind and out of my feminine creative flow. This is a state that can sometimes creep up on me when things get busy and I forget to breath and stay in my centre.
Spraying Sphere Essence into my auric field is like having a cool shower on a hot day. It very quickly moves me back into my heart and inner centre and envelops me in a beautiful bubble of feminine energy that reopens my creative flow so that I feel back to my true self again.
I also love using this essence just before I sit down to meditate or do something creative. I find it provides a very expansive energy that is deeply nurturing and powerfully connective. Catherine
Towards the end of his life, Dr Bach was exploring the link between the first 12 Bach Flower Remedies he discovered (The Twelve Healers) and the 12 astrological signs.
Clematis Flower Remedy for Cancerians
We are in Cancer season, the astrological sign that Dr Bach felt would most benefit from Clematis Flower Remedy.
Nurturing, sensitive and intuitive, Cancerians are highly attuned to the emotional realm and feel everything very deeply. Creative dreamers with vivid imaginations, it’s all too easy for them to drift off into daydreams or fantasies about the future as a way of avoiding the realities of life. If your astrological sun or moon sign are in Cancer, Clematis will be a great choice to ground your energy so that you can feel more part of the world.
Transform your dreams into reality
Do you get ‘ungrounded’, think about the future a lot, or have your head in the clouds? Is it difficult for you to focus and concentrate because you drift off in your imagination? Do you tend to leave your body and escape into a fantasy world when you find it hard to cope with reality?
The soul journey for Cancer is to become fully present in the moment so that you can bring your spiritual gifts from the intuitive, imaginal realm into manifestation in the here and now.
It’s easy to get a little ungrounded as we navigate all of the difficulties in our lives. Being ungrounded can feel like you’re detached, disconnected from your body or surroundings, emotionally disengaged, restless and unable to settle, or unable to focus on what you’re meant to be doing. These are often ways of being that we have learnt in order to cope with life, to deal with how we’re feeling, or how to handle the situations we find ourselves in in life.
They’re often not comfortable though, as it means that emotionally, and sometimes physically, we’re not present and fully in our bodies. Being grounded is really important for our emotional and physical wellbeing. And, although it doesn’t always feel easy, staying grounded and connected is an essential part of aligning with yourself and your intentions.
When you're grounded in your body it focuses your awareness, energy, thoughts and feelings in the present moment. When we’re fully grounded we feel more like we’re in the driving seat of our life, and good grounding is a powerful way to support your emotional and physical wellbeing.
If you need some flower essences to help you with your grounding, here are the ones that we most often recommend:
In this month’s E-Light we look at how we can best navigate the highly focussed, intense energies of April and explore the important karmic choice point that is clearly being offered to us in the unprecedented cosmic line up that we have in Aries this month.
We also look at how important it is for us to stay as grounded and focussed as we can in this energy flow so that we can make conscious choices from the heart. We also highlight the need for us to be willing to own both our light and shadow aspects and to choose to step firmly out of any vestiges of victim consciousness that we might still have within us.
As always, we highlight some flower, gem & crystal essences that might be particularly useful to help us move through the month in harmony & balance, along with our latest special offers.
April’s Karmic Choice Point
Make your choices wisely
April promises to be a big month energetically. The cosmic alignments and the energetic flow for April are unique, unprecedented, hugely focussed and unequivocally intense. Yes, even more intense than the energies of March! If you think of March as having been a practice run in intensity to warm us up for April, you will not be far off. Intense energetics like this can be challenging and might initially give us a bit of a bumpy ride as we negotiate them, but they are also exciting and chock full of opportunity if we remember to use them to their full advantage. Just do your best to stay grounded, connected to yourself and follow the flow of your heart.
The energetics this month are signalling to us that as a collective, we are at a major Karmic Choice Point. How do we want to go forward? Are we ready and willing to make new choices, to step out of the old boxes, restrictions and belief systems and to step into our power and light? If so, the doorway is wide open for us to create something new.....
Our E-Light Newsletter: each month we explore the month's energetic themes from a spiritual and astrological perspective and recommend some Essences to help you surf the cosmic waves! Receive spiritual guidance, wisdom and clarity, learn more about our collective expansion of consciousness, and make the most of opportunities for personal inspiration, healing and transformation.
The BFVEA Gathering 2026 – Friends, Flower Essences & More
It was such a pleasure to be at this year’s British Flower & Vibrational Essence Association (BFVEA) Gathering. This year saw us back again at the Ammerdown centre in Somerset – a lovely venue set in its own beautiful grounds – and with a really interesting programme of speakers and events themed around Consciousness and Dr. Bach. This year carries a particular significance as 2026 marks 90 years since Edward Bach’s passing, and so the Gathering was both a celebration of his legacy and an invitation to listen to come together as practitioners, colleagues and friends and to learn and to grow together.
Making an Aspen Bach Flower Remedy Mother Tincture
One of the joys of working with the Bach Flower Remedies is spending time in nature preparing the mother tinctures. With spring in the air, we spent last Thursday morning making an Aspen mother tincture. The Aspen trees were in full bloom, and being in their presence was a really special experience. Aspen is a boiling method remedy and was first made by Edward Bach in the countryside around his home in Sotwell in 1935.
After Dr Bach discovered the last of his Bach Flower Remedies - his final remedy being Sweet Chestnut in 1935 - he divided the 38 remedies into seven personality groups.
These seven Bach groups offer a helpful framework for understanding which Bach Remedies would be most helpful for particular emotional challenges and personality patterns.
One of these groups Dr Bach called the Fear Group. Fear is perhaps the most common human emotion; it affects all of us in one way or another and at various points in our lives.
The five Bach Remedies within this group reflect the different ways fear can influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.
Mimulus is for known fears, nervousness and everyday worries & concerns.
Aspen is for vague unknown fears, apprehension and fear of the unknown.
Rock Rose is for strong terror fears, panic or extreme fear.
Red Chestnut is for fear for the safety and wellbeing of others
Cherry Plum is for powerful, irrational fears, and the fear of losing control of your mind.
Which of the Fear Group Bach Remedies have you found most helpful, and what have your experiences been when using them?
Posted by: Sam Cremnitz | 23rd January 2026
Flower Essences to Help
The Importance of Good Grounding & Flower Essences to Help
Staying grounded and connected helps you to be fully present, bringing all parts of yourself into the now. It helps you to be in the driving seat of your life, and it’s a powerful way to support your emotional and physical wellbeing. Here, we’ll explore what grounding means, why it can sometimes feel challenging, and how flower essences can help bring you back into balance.
Behind the Scenes: Catherine's E-Light Zoom Gathering
While Catherine was preparing for her E-Light Zoom gathering, “Making Space for the New You – How to Align With Your True Self,” we popped in to snap a few quick photos.
If you're looking for a book for yourself or someone else who is interested in the Bach Flower Remedies, have you read "Bach Flower Therapy - the Complete Approach" by Mechthild Schaeffer?
The widespread collective belief that there is “not enough” lies at the root of many of the problems in our world today. The mindset of scarcity shapes our thoughts, influences our choices, and often leads to a us not feeling able to trust our own inherent abundance and divine flow. While undoing these old belief patterns can often feel challenging, stepping back into our abundance is really just stepping back into who we naturally are. Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences are very good at helping you to uncover and release any unconscious blocks that restrict the flow of abundance in your life.
Mustard is a valuable remedy at any time of year, but it can be especially helpful now as the nights draw in and the days grow darker. Mustard is one of the Bach Flower Remedies and supports you during those times when a sudden “black cloud” of gloom descends for no clear or obvious reason. In the Mustard state, you may feel a sense of despair that you can’t hide or shake off, often leading you to withdraw and feel isolated from the world around you. Mustard helps to disperse that darkness, gently restoring light, clarity, and a renewed sense of joy.
Dr. Bach's description of Mustard was: "Those who are liable to times of gloom, or even despair, as though a cold dark cloud overshadowed them and hid the light and the joy of life. It may not be possible to give any reason or explanation for such attacks. Under these conditions it is almost impossible to appear happy or cheerful". From the Twelve Healers & Other Remedies - By Dr Edward Bach ( 1936 edition )
In the positive Mustard state we feel much happier and lighter, with a more positive outlook whatever the weather. It's easier to feel more clear headed and light hearted and we're more able to accept the ebb and flow of life’s rhythms and are comfortable with feelings of both sorrow and joy.
Have you noticed an increase in emotional issues relating to the heart coming into focus recently? If so you are in good company! It seems to be something that is affecting so many people including ourselves at the moment. As we cycle deeper into the energies of transformation our hearts are being impulsed to open more fully so that we can remember who we are and reconnect consciously with the love and light of Source. In our latest blog post we have a look at the Fuchsia flower essence, which is a really good essence for releasing old patterns around your heart and opening more fully to the love within.
"We each have a Divine mission in this world, and our souls use our minds and bodies as instruments to do this work, so that when all three are working in unison the result is perfect health and perfect happiness.” Edward Bach - Free Thyself
This is a lovely quote from Dr Edward Bach, from 'Free Thyself', a pamphlet that he wrote in the spring of 1932, mainly in Regents Park, a place away from the hustle and bustle of his temporary London life. It gives a fascinating insight in Dr. Bach's philosophical outlook and his understandings about the importance of being in harmony with our souls. You can find the full text of 'Free Thyself' in the book the Collected Writings of Edward Bach.
Posted by: Sam Cremnitz
The Bach Flower Remedies
Sweet Chestnut from the Bach Flower Remedies
The beautiful flowers of the Sweet Chestnut tree were used by Edward Bach to make a remedy for “those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable”.
The Sweet Chestnut state is not an easy one to go through. It’s often called the dark night of the soul, when you feel like you’ve reached the limits of your endurance and are at the end of the road. In this extreme state you might feel an absolute and utter despair or hopelessness – a state of desolation in which you feel isolated from the rest of mankind. Sweet Chestnut’s gift is its ability to restore your connection to your Soul’s light and love and bring back the light and joy to life, dissolving the darkness. So it’s a very supportive flower essence to use to help you to rise from the ashes after dark times and to feel connected to love and your own inner light again.
The Life of Nora Weeks - the story of the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies
Over on our dedicated Bach Flower Remedy website you can find the story of the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies....
....This is a story about Nora Weeks, the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies. Her story is integral to the story of Dr Edward Bach and the Bach Remedies, and it is a story of quiet tenacity and dedication. Without Nora Weeks’ determination to preserve her friend and colleague’s work, it is doubtful that the Bach Flower Remedies and the understandings of Edward Bach would have flourished in the way that they have. Discover more about Nora and how she took Bach’s legacy out into the world.
