• Explains the synergistic process of communicating with a Plant and how the Plants help us overcome anxiety, grief, fears, and limiting beliefs and teach us to trust, forgive, and embrace self-love
• Shares teachings from a variety of Plants such as Yarrow, Mugwort, Maple, Dandelion, Poison Ivy, and Japanese Hops
• Presents step-by-step activities and practices that allow you to actualize each Plant's teaching in an immediate way
Everyone has the ability to consciously communicate with Plants. Jen Frey shows that if we are willing to listen, we can hear the Plants speak to our Hearts and teach us how to heal. With the support of our Plant allies, we can be our truest selves and remember our intrinsic wholeness.
In this step-by-step guide, Frey shows how to awaken your ability to directly receive the unique wisdom and healing gifts of Plants. She describes how communicating with Plants is more like a communion than an exchange of words. The primary language we share with Plants is through the Heart, and Plant communication brings an expansion of Heart intelligence and emotional growth. She explains how the Plants help us overcome anxiety, grief, fears, and limiting beliefs and teach us to trust, forgive, embrace self-Love, and enjoy the sweetness of life.
Sharing teachings she has received from a variety of Plants, such as Yarrow, Mugwort, Maple, Dandelion, Poison Ivy, and Japanese Hops, Frey follows each Plant ally's wisdom with a step-by-step activity or practice. She includes both native and invasive Plants because all Plant Spirits have valuable lessons to share. She concludes with Tulsi, showing how this Plant is essential to helping us recover our Sacred nature, especially in a time of great Earth changes.
With the wisdom of Plant Spirits, we can have support and guidance whenever we need it and live in co-creative partnership with Nature. Jen Frey is a healer and mentor with more than 20 years of experience with Plant Essences, energy work, and herbal practices. The founder of Brigid's Way and co-steward of Heart Springs Sanctuary, she has dedicated her life to the spiritual path of Plant work. She lives in Pennsylvania. Foreword: The Legacy of Plant Spirits
by Pam Montgomery
Introduction: An Invitation into the Plant World
A Note on Capitalization, Ki, and Gender
1 Plant Communication
Embracing Our Birthright A Communication-Communion-Common Union
All True Communication Begins in the Heart
Moving into Heart Coherence
Gratitude
Innocent Perception
Common Concerns
Exercise: Accessing Your Heart Space
2 Taste the Wild: Mulberry
Loving Nature
Multiple Perspectives
The Unique Gift of Trees
Exercise: The First Meeting
3 New Opportunity: Yarrow
Protection A Door Opener
Trust A Achilles' Heel
Healing the Wounds of Patriarchy
Exercise: The First Voice
4 Dare to Dream: Mugwort
Plant Spirits
Anxiety
Energy Hygiene
Remembering Our Wild Self
Dreaming
Imagination
Moving Toward Wholeness
Exercise: Dreaming with Your Plant Ally
5 Becoming the Auhority: Plantain
Introducing Children to Plants
Plants as Rebellion
Becoming the Author(ity) of Your Life
Transmuting the Trauma of Colonialism
Clearing Toxic Emotions
Grounding
A Note
Exercise: Grounding with Your Plant Ally
6 Resiliency: Dandelion
Tenacity and Resilience
Authentic Experience
The Sacred Role of Anger
External and Internal Control
Seven Directions
Setting Sacred Space
Wild Food
Exercise: Plant Dieting
7 Sweetness of Life: Maple
Generosity and Abundance
Ask For What You Want
Reciprocity
Sweetness of Life
Nourishing Ourselves Exercise: Engaging in Reciprocity with Your Plant Ally 8 From Foe to Friend: Poison Ivy Boundaries
Power of Saying No
Nature Reclamation
Start Small and Be Humble
From Foe to Friend
Exercise: Drawing Your Plant Ally
9 Taking Action: Japanese Hops
No Such Thing as In
