Do you ever find yourself feeling exhausted, guilty, or extremely anxious about your family or professional life? Do you find it difficult to say “no”? There are several natural and effective remedies to help take care of yourself in harmony with your personality, state, and emotions. Dr. Bach’s personalized approach helps balance mind and emotion, helping the body build its own natural defences. While Bach flowers can be used by all, I’ve included a few situations below where they could be beneficial, especially when the toll of taking care of everyone around you leaves you little time to take care of yourself — that’s you, super moms and super women!
Saying “no”
When you’re very much in demand, you may have a hard time saying “no” when someone asks for something. Overtaxing your strength can lead to exhaustion. The Back Flower Centaury helps you first see to your well-being by respecting the balance between what you can offer versus what is asked of you.
Guilt
Whether you blame yourself for a given situation or guilt is a feeling you experience often, Pine is there to help you eliminate blame, self-criticism, and the feeling of not being or not doing enough (perfectionism). By rebalancing emotions, this Bach flower helps build more confidence in our own value.
Body image
When you don’t like what the mirror reflects back at you; when all you see are your imperfections (pimples, extra curves, white hair), Crab Apple helps you accept yourself. This remedy also helps reduce obsession with order and details, allowing us to enjoy the present moment, even if there are toys lying around the house, or a load of unfolded laundry.
Anxiety about loved ones
If you always think the worst when a loved one is late (accident) or sick, Red Chestnut helps you find peace of mind by worrying less and remaining calm.
Decision-making
When you hesitate between two choices and go back and forth from one to the other, Scleranthus supports decisiveness and self-confidence. When you constantly seek advice from others to make a decision, Cerato can help you rely on your intuition to choose what is best for you.
Fatigue
When you feel weary just thinking about all the things you have to do or the week ahead of you, Hornbeam helps breathe motivation and creativity into your routine. After taking care of a baby or a sick child, or working on a demanding project and finding yourself simply worn out, Olive helps you recover your strength. If you’re a mom who feels overwhelmed and can’t manage to care for the household as usual, Elm encourages you to delegate and become more serene with regards to your responsibilities.
Fatigue and personalities
Since Bach Flowers treat the individual and not the symptoms, there may be different remedies suggested according to each personality. If you treat exhaustion with Olive, it’s also important to ask yourself why and discover which aspect of your personality is out of balance to avoid excess and getting exhausted once more. An idealist who uses up a lot of energy trying to convince others and finds it difficult to fall asleep because they’re overexcited about a project could take Vervain in a personalized bottle for a few weeks. There are 12 basic remedies and we each have one that corresponds to our personality.
Audrey Sckoropad
