Emotional Coaching
Not everyone has the same needs. In fact, it’s hard to find two people who benefit from the exact same approach to health!
Within a session I would look at Bach flower remedies to help support your emotional journey.
What are back Flower remedy?
Dr Edward Bach, medical doctor and homeopath, created the Bach flowers in the 1900's.m
Bach believed that healing negative emotions helps the body heal itself. There are 38 remedies that each deal with a specific negative emotion.
The emotions are grouped into 7 helpers:
- Fear
- Uncertainty
- Lack of interest in present circumstances
- Loneliness
- Oversensitivity
- Sadness or despair
- Cares for others at the expense of self
Fear remedies
- Rock Rose: Helps when you experience fears, such as terror or fright that make you feel frozen and unable to move or think clearly.
- Mimulus: Helps when you feel fear, the type of fear that you can put a name on such as fear of dogs, spiders, being alone, losing a job, illness, etc. Also, fear of speaking freely of it to others or shyness.
- Cherry Plum: For those who fear losing control of their thoughts and actions and doing things they know are bad for them or which they consider wrong. Teaches trust in one’s spontaneous wisdom and the courage to follow one’s path.
- Aspen: Helps when you feel fearful without knowing why. The fear is vague and unexplainable and may haunt you day or night.
- Red Chestnut: Helps when you find it difficult not to be anxious for other people, you are afraid that some unfortunate things may happen to your loved ones.
Uncertainty
- Cerato: Helps trust your own judgment in decision-making.
- Scleranthus: Helps when you have a hard time choosing between two things, such as Mexican or Chinese food, you simply cannot decide which restaurant to go to.
- Gentian: Helps when you get discouraged and depressed when things go wrong or when you are faced with even small delays or difficulties.
- Gorse: Helps when you feel great hopelessness and have given up belief that more can be done.
- Hornbeam: Helps when you feel that you do not have a sufficient amount of strength mentally or physically to carry the burden that life has placed on you.
- Wild Oat: Helps when you are at a crossroad in life and are uncertain as to which direction to choose.
Lack of interest in present circumstances
- Clematis: For those who find their lives unhappy and withdraw into fantasy worlds. They are ungrounded and indifferent to the details of everyday life. Teaches one to establish a bridge between the physical world and the world of ideas and may foster great creativity. Is also used to bring clarity and alertness to the present moment.
- Honeysuckle: Helps you to let go of past experiences or events. Your thoughts are in the past rather than in the present.
- Wild Rose: Helps you to take responsibility for your own life and take a lively interest in life, work, and the world in general.
- Olive: Helps you regain energy, vitality, and interest in life.
- White Chestnut: Helps when your mind is cluttered with thoughts usually arguments, ideas, thoughts that you do not wish to have in your mind.
- Mustard: Helps when you feel suddenly depressed without any reason. It feels like a cold dark cloud that destroys normal happiness and cheerfulness.
- Chestnut Bud: Helps when you from making the same mistake over and over again. You do not take full advantage of observation and experiences and therefore it takes longer for you to learn a lesson.
Loneliness
- Water Violet: Helps you get a warmer relationship with other people. You love being alone but often find yourself lonely.
- Impatiens: For those who act and think quickly and have no patience for what they see as the slowness of others. They often prefer to work alone. Teaches empathy and understanding of and patience with others. It is found to be fast-acting in alleviating an impatient attitude and lowering stress.
- Heather: Helps when you are unhappy being alone for any length of time, you are always seeking companionship and find it necessary to discuss your affairs with others, no matter who it may be.
Oversensitivity
- Agrimony: Helps you to communicate your real feelings and worries. You are the cheerful, humorous type that gets distressed by arguments or quarrels. You often hide your feelings behind humour and you use alcohol or drugs in excess to stimulate yourself.
- Centaury: Helps when you find it hard to say no, and therefore easily get imposed on. You often find yourself serving others, neglecting your own particulate mission in life.
- Walnut: Helps you break free from old ties and at times of major life changes. It helps you move forward and make necessary changes in order to be happy. Walnut gives consistency and protection from outside influences.
- Holly: Helps when you suffer from angry thoughts such as jealousy, envy, revenge, and/or suspicion.
Sadness and despair
- Larch: Helps you to regain self-esteem and confidence in yourself.
- Pine: Helps when you feel guilt and self-reproach, often for other people’s mistakes or just anything that goes wrong. You are never content with your effort and results.
- Elm: Helps when your responsibilities overwhelm you. You feel depressed and exhausted and may lose self-esteem.
- Sweet Chestnut: Helps you at moments when the anguish is too great and seems to be unbearable. Your mind or body feels as if it has tolerated the uttermost limit of its endurance. It feels as there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.
- Star of Bethlehem: Helps when you experience trauma, serious news, loss of someone dear, the fright following an accident, etc. The distress and unhappiness feel unbearable.
- Willow: Helps when you have suffered adversity or misfortune and find it difficult to accept. You feel sorry for yourself and are grumble and sulky.
- Oak: Helps when your inner strength wanes, usually because you are an over-achiever and will overwork and ignore your tiredness.
- Crab Apple: Helps when you feel that there is something not quite clean about yourself. You may need to wash your hands often, find things dirty without any reason, you may find yourself ugly although others find you very attractive. This is the cleansing Essence.
Cares for others at the expense of oneself
- Chicory: Helps you to be less critical, opinionated, and argumentative. You always find something about others that you believe should be put right.
- Vervain: For strong-willed people who hold strong views. They put unnecessary effort into everything they undertake, your mind races ahead of events, you may suffer from lack of sleep due to an overactive mind.
- Vine: Helps you respect other people’s views and ideas, you tend to try to persuade other people to do things your way.
- Beech: Helps you be less critical toward other people and accept them as they are. Rock Water: Helps when you expect too much of yourself.
12 Healers
Agrimony - Worry hidden by a carefree mask
Centaury - For those who are kind, anxious to serve
Cerato - For distrust of self and intuition, easily led and misguided
Chicory - For self-pity, self-love, possessive, demanding, hurt and tearful
Clematis - For dreamers, those who are absent minded
Gentian - For discouragement and despondency
Impatiens - For those who are irritated by constraints, quick, tense, impatient
Mimulus - For those who are shy, nervous, fearful
Rock Rose - For those feeling alarmed, intensely scared, horror, dread
Scleranthus - For indecision