Feeling Safe

June 15, 2020June 20, 2020drfaithndPlant Essences

It can feel hard to feel safe with all that is going on in the world. Feeling unsafe can stress your nervous system out causing digestive issues (gas, bloating, constipation/diarrhea), heartburn, high blood pressure, anxiety, headaches, muscle or joint pain, lack of motivation, or hyperactivity.

If you feel like your life is being threatened, please seek help. For domestic abuse call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1−800−799−7233. For immediate support, call 911.

Steps to Feeling Safe:

Recognize that safety does exist and that you deserve it.
Remember times when you have felt safe and joyful. When you are feeling stressed or unsafe, turn to your journal or fond memory and focus on it. For example, if you remember feeling relaxed and warm laying on the beach, bring up a memory of that, and allow it to flow into your fears. Find your safe place by listening to my Safe Place Guided Meditation.
Create a gratitude journal. It is a great way to focus on all that is going right in your life.
Support your physical body: Get enough sleep, eat well, exercise regularly, limit alcohol. Click here for more self care options.
Connect with people who have your best interest at heart and help you feel safe.
Limit or end unhealthy relationships with people who make you feel unsafe and are not trustworthy.
Discover what unconditional love really means and apply it to yourself-accepting that you are not perfect and that is OK. Read more about feeling loved and plant essences to help you feel loved.
Seek out psychotherapy or counseling to work through and heal from not feeling safe. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is one modality that can help you learn to feel safe.
Taking plant essences focusing on feeling safe can help tremendously. Each essence focuses on a specific thought or emotional pattern blocking you from feeling safe. If you are having a hard time right now, I encourage you to ask the plants for help. Plant essences help settle you into a new way of being, connected to yourself, nature, and your community.

If you are unsure about what plant essence to use, schedule a phone or video appointment with me to identify plant essences specific for your current situation. You can also purchase my Oracle deck and intuitively pick plant essence cards. You can also look at the plant essence images online to identify the plant essence that gets your attention. If you can’t decide on one plant essence, purchase Feeling Safe Plant Essence Blend a combination of all the plants listed below.

Take a moment to tune in to how you are feeling about being safe. What thoughts are you hearing most often? What emotions are you feeling? If you have trouble connecting to your thoughts and feelings, take 20 min to journal about whatever comes to mind. Set a timer and sit with a paper and pen. Whatever you write down helps you connect to what you are thinking and feeling.

Magnolia: Magnolia helps in each step of your journey. It walks the path of life with you providing shelter, warmth, and buffering you from the outside world. It helps you slow down and teaches the art of caring for and nurturing yourself. Feel the power of softness. Find companionship, love, and nurturing. Feel the soft cocoon to retreat, rest, and be restored. Feel connected to your inner knowing to understand what balance looks like for you. See the strength of an open heart. The beauty, healing, and strength in receiving love. I will help you feel loved, safe, and enfolded in a soft blanket of warmth. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Prickly Pear Cactus: Prickly Pear Cactus asks us to listen quietly. It softly and slowly helps you feel better about yourself. Quietly inviting you inside your center to feel what is right in your life: abundance and gratitude templates for feeling all the love and support you have in your life. Prickly Pear Cactus help you meditate by holding in you in a space to slowly center. It helps you open your heart making heart knowledge more important than head knowledge. See your surroundings. Be free and present in the experience to see that most thoughts are not necessary. See how you view stress and change how you interact with yourself, quieting the mind slowly and gently opening your heart. Reconnect with who you are and live from your center. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Golden dyssodia: Feel the spirit of companionship. Golden dyssodia helps to bring the soul into the body “mattering” and that it is safe and your birthright to do so. As you become embodied, feel the strength that arises from the balance between body and mind. Releases chronic stress in the body related to guarding and posturing from unconscious triggers. Gently bring these forward to heal and release at the right time. Understand the cycle of healing: remembering, honoring the experience, self-forgiveness, and letting go. All a repeating cycle. Also helpful if you are empathic and take on the emotions of other people, your community, or the world. Golden dyssodia helps you separate your emotions from emotions you are picking up. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Sweet Leaf: Be at peace with the world and forget about saving everyone. Let the world take care of itself. Know your place, deep within, that grounds and connects you to the earth. Savor the sweetness and feel the support of the earth. Know that you are one with the earth. This connection is available to everyone at all times. Sink into the bliss of being yourself, protecting this space with strong boundaries. Allow others to feel exactly what they are feeling without changing it or running to fix it. Everyone has tools, support, and resources. Keep your tools, support, and resources for yourself. There is enough to go around. Feel safe when strengthening your boundaries, having limits, and saying no when needed. Your beingness is for you to enjoy. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Snapdragon: Allow your mind to think outside the box. Free your mind from fears of repeating the past. Be courageous in living life knowing that it is full of possibility. The mind when focused on fear and worry, is the only thing limiting the future. Put the past to sleep. Let it slumber and fade into a dream you cannot fully remember. Heal from all that has happened by honoring your willingness and courage to live. Handle all outcomes with the same strength and honor of listening to yourself. Your heart’s desire, your head’s concerns, and your mental thoroughness. Connect to your soul and listen to the song it is singing. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus: Strawberry Hedgehog invites you to live from your heart. Feel safe and make your heart a place you want to live from. Experience lightheartedness and laugh. See the the depth and lightness at the same time. The depth of feeling in a moment. Open your heart and feel how it is protected even when open. Balances the heart by providing protection. Allow space for the heart to open and unfold without guarding. What you do with an open heart is up to you. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Yucca: Yucca helps you feel peaceful, protected, and rooted in your environment. Go with the flow and feel the power of creativity moving through your body. Feel deeply ground by sitting with Yucca. Breathe and feel your energy drop into your feet and enter the ground. Yucca helps sort out what still serves you from what no longer serves from the past experiences held in the body. Everything is okay. The mind can process the past and file it away removing the emotional charge it once had. The mind can now have space to be more creative and live in the present moment. Yucca promotes deep sleep, decreasing anxiety, and overthinking. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Mullein: Mullein helps you feel included and part of something larger. It gently brings awareness, warmth, balance, and energy to the body. By doing so, it makes the body a safe place. You begin to see what you are carrying, the ease and importance in healing, and releasing tension and trauma. It buffers the intensity of emotions to be able to see the truth of the pattern and what to do to release it. It speaks about the futility of self-inflicted pain and suffering held in the body causing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dysfunction. Read more (Excerpt from Honoring the Wisdom In nature: messages from the plant kingdom)

Heart Opening

When I take Dotted Blazing Star, I am supported and feel a space opening up in my heart for myself. I feel like I am able to shoot up through the middle of every thing holding me back.

O.C. Monroe, UT

Takes Away Fear

Whenever I meet up with Western Spiderwort essence, I feel like I have met up with an old friend, who just holds me and takes away fear.

O.C. Monroe, UT

Safe and Free

Every time I experience Mullein essence, I feel a soft warmth spreading throughout my whole heart chakra. I feel safer yet freer and even feel as if I can breath deeper.

O.C. Monroe, UT

Freedom from Trauma

Apple Blossom always helps me feel a freedom from traumatizing past experiences or negative choices. It is a great flower essence helping you believe you have second chances.

O.C. Monroe, UT

Feel Love

Whenever I give up on myself, Garden Harebell gives the support I need to believe in myself, feel enough love not to give up.

O.C. Monroe, UT

Heal Deeply

Yarrow essence is the best to help me work through and heal the deep traumatic wounds of my life and see events more clearly and without blame. Not only the wounds of this life but past lives too. I feel a lot of gratitude for yarrow.

O.C. Monroe, UT

Appreciation

Thank you so much for give me some Craniosacral lessons. There are no words for how much I appreciate it.

K.K Salida, CO

Forever Grateful

Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do for our family. We are forever grateful. A large topic of conversation for our family is how blessed we are to have you in our lives. Thank you for everything!

K.K Salida, CO

Amazing Teaching and Guide

I had the privilege of taking a class on flower essences given by Dr. Faith Christensen. I was unfamiliar with flower essences at the time, but was intrigued by the interface between the natural world of flowers and their energy, and my ability to connect with that. Dr. Christensen was an excellent teacher. I was able to begin to understand each of the essences we studied and to learn how to sit with them and avail myself of their wisdom and healing properties. And beyond the class, I was able to begin to understand the intricate and symbiotic relationship we all have as created beings in this world. I would highly recommend this class. Dr. Christensen is an amazing teacher and guide.

C. S. Monument, CO

Experienced Teacher

Faith is an experienced teacher of Plant Essences. It was so informative and extremely interesting. As we shared our thoughts of sitting with the different essences I was surprised how similar our experiences were. Definitely worth taking as part of ones inner journey!

N.M. Colorado Springs, CO

Focused Assessment

I really appreciated the focus on assessment in the Tensegrity Workshop and the work in groups. It was very helpful and the perfect way to integrate the detailed information.

D.A. Leavenworth, WA

One of the most helpful teachers in the CST Field

Dr Christensen is one of the most helpful teachers in the CST field. I come away from each class with so much useful information and improved results with patients.

M.B. University Place, WA

Clear Shift

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D.A. Leavenworth, WA

Grounded Way of Presenting

I found the demos really helpful. Great teaching staff. Incredibly grounded way of presenting very esoteric concepts and grounding them in science.

C.A. New Castle, NH

Clear and Concise Teaching

I appreciated the clear and concise way the material was presented. Lots of information and well organized and understandable. I signed up and am very glad I did. I also feel like this work has already been helpful for my own healing.

Z.A. Ferndale, WA

Great Class

Dr Christensen is a great teacher. She is proficient and knowledgable, no undercurrents or pomp, just sharing her wealth of experience. I also appreciated the booklet to refer back to. The class had great pacing. Highly recommended!

M.M. San Diego, CA

Brain Balancing Class

I appreciated the course materials and the guided work. I really enjoyed the openness and inclusivity of the attendees of the class.

N.F. Fircrest, WA

Great Workshop

I appreciated Dr Christensen's knowledge, experience and presence. I also appreciated the slide set with illustrations, the patient cases from your practice.

A.L., Seattle, WA

Facilitating awareness and healing

Using the flower essence card deck helped me reach supportive plant essences I didn't realize I needed. Always relevant and sometimes humbling, I discovered areas I needed to evolve in. Facilitating awareness, compassion and support through flower essence to these areas has been invaluable in my healing.

S.W. Portland, OR

Healing trauma

In addition to working through complex trauma with a therapist, I have used wild rose flower essence to help me unlock the ability to honor and appreciate myself as I am. This healing tool has been effective in stabilizing a consistent sense of self esteem and self worth. Thanks!

S.W. Portland, OR

Life Changing Journey

In 2018 I began a life changing journey with Dr. Faith Christensen by understanding the power of plant messages through the use of her pocketbook edition; and by using the essences she has developed to daily connect to, and support my mind, body, and spirit!

C.W.K. Colorado Springs, CO

Bring Plant Essence Into Your Life

Thank you so much for bringing your flower essences to my world. I have been enjoying them since the summer and I absolutely love them!

J.D. New Hampshire

Profound and Empowering

My experience working with Dr. Christensen has been profound and empowering. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to connect with their own intuition and experience a great sense of healing.

C.B.A. Portsmouth, NH

Deeper Healing

In spite of years of interior work, counseling and education, I continued to experience blocks to freedom and wholeness, sometimes manifesting in physical symptoms and emotional distress. I have been going to see Dr Faith for about a year. I go once a month to receive Craniosacral Therapy. This therapy, particularly Dr. Faith's intuitive gifting with it, has allowed me to experience deeper healing and wholeness as my body experiences release of old patterns that create a freer life.

C.P.S. Monument, CO

True Caring

I feel blessed to have worked with Dr Christensen and see how you have helped my wife and I. Obviously I've been impressed with your professional expertise in healing and diagnosing. But more than that, I appreciate the way you truly care.

A.N Colorado Springs, CO

Body and Mind Balance

Ive only been in a few times and Dr Faith has been a great help! I came in with severe anxiety from trauma and back issues. Sessions with Dr Faith and the supplements she has provided helped my body and mind find balance, lessened anxiety and aided in resolving my physical pain. Very thankful for Dr Faith!

M.M. Colorado Springs, CO

Extraordinary Book

The first part of this extraordinary book, is simply beautiful - with over 50 luminous paintings of flowering plants that are combined with extensive descriptive passages. It is in these passages that Dr. Christensen offers a singularly different approach to the uses to which these plants might be put. Rather than the usual “apply this plant, in this manner, for this use,” she translates through her own intuition, what these plants offer to humanity. It is not humans deciding what to cut and paste from the natural world, but rather what these plants offer up to humanity from their own extraordinary generosity. It is a completely different approach than I have ever met, and it has changed my World View!

In the second half of the book, you can find the best and most concise explanations of numerous adjunct areas of the Energy Therapy field, i.e. chakra systems, meridians, acupressure, Archetypes, card readings, etc., and the best explanation of Human Energy Fields I’ve run into! Followed by a vast array of exercises to develop ones own intuition and to further explore and heal whatever difficulties one has run into using different modalities. She also includes a refined list of books for further reading.

This is more the beginning of the adventure rather than a definitive end, primarily because the emphasis is more about exploring your own world (and intuition) rather than taking on the ideas and views of others.

It is a brilliant book!

F.F. Colorado Springs, CO

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B.T. Tuscon, AZ

Transformational Healing

Im so grateful for Dr Christensen's continued help as I work through all the different health issues that come up. It really helps me to connect with her via phone appointments and am amazed by her knowledge and skills! I feel like this year has been a big one for continuing to transform and shift in positive ways! Im excited to see whats in store in the next year.

E.C. Asheville, NC

Grateful for Help

I am thankful for Dr Christensen's healing help. I know now that God has answered my prayers to take away the pain Ive been suffering from so long. Dr Faith is God's helper...an angel. She is blessed with love and kindness.

E.T. Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho

Healer of Mind, Body and Spirit

How can I ever thank Dr Christensen for all she has been and given to me. She is a healer of mind, body and spirit. Dr Christensen is gifted in "seeing" deep into one's heart to know where relief and healing are to flow. She has been witness to some pivotal, powerful spiritual revelations and caregiver to my deepest self. I am so grateful!

D.M. Colorado Springs, CO