Sanity Savers for Parents

By Patty Shaw

There are quite a few tricks available that will ensure mommy (and daddy)  time is held sacred by the family, that are quite good for the family and you won’t feel guilty about doing them.

We’ll talk about using my three favorites, Bach Flower Remedies in spray bottles, creating a Sacred Space at home and Homeopathy in your first aid kit.

Bach Flower essences are fantastic ways to support behavior shifts in your children that are noninvasive, loving and nonjudgmental.  Make up a spray bottle for each of the remedies your family seems to need and keep them handy.  Place 5 drops of Bach flower essence into a spray bottle of distilled water and spray the room liberally when needed.

Chicory is for children who are bickering or fighting over toys or for your little one who is constantly demanding attention and clingy.

Spray a little Hornbeam around for the child who can’t seem to get motivated in the morning because the idea of going to school just exhausts them.

Holly is for sibling rivalry and jealousy.

Impatiens is for your overactive child who can’t seem to sit still. This remedy will help to slow junior down and get into bed and fall asleep.  I also use reiki to ground and calm children to get them to fall asleep.

Children who are bossy or a bully will chill and be more respectful and less harsh of others with a few drops of Vine Remedy in their juice box.

Elm is for mom.  A few drops of elm in you water will help you come back down to earth when the responsibility of being a working mom overwhelms you.  You can get back into the day to day and let go of the focusing on the big picture to much.

Wild Oat is for your teenager who is picking a direction in life and can’t seem to decide or is at a cross road.  Give wild oat to your teenager when the prospect of making a life choice is to daunting.

Separation anxiety? Aspen (the quaking tree) helps your child settle down after a bad dream, and creates inner peace, security and fearlessness.  Aspen helps them access their own courage and confidence.

Setting up sacred spaces at home promotes a scream free zone and uninterrupted mommy or daddy time.  We all need peace and quiet, but when the kids or partners are feeling that loss because you need some time to yourself, this daily practice will really help every member of the family feel love and supported while you are not available.

The cone of divine silence:  In the morning before the day starts, visualize your home in a beam of light shining down on your home from above and up from below.  Invite the guardian angel of each member of the family to ground and center each of their people and walk with them.  Invite Archangel Michael to protect the home and every member of the family from negative energy and release all attachments on you and your children that have accumulated throughout the day as you all walk through the door at the end of your day.  Ask the angels help your sacred space become a sanctuary for your family by clearing your home of any residual unhappy feelings left over from previous days and filling it with unconditional love.  Renew this sacred space every morning before you get out of bed. You can support this loving energy by placing rose quarts around your home.

A list of Must have Homeopathic remedies for your first aid kit. Homeopathy is very easy to administer to your children because it has a gentle almost sweet taste.  No screwed up faces and fighting this remedy.  Remember to keep this and all medicine out of the reach of children.  You can find homeopathic remedies at the health food store.  You can get yourself a book or follow the suggestions on the label.  Boiron is a popular brand and has made putting homeopathy in your first aid kit extremely easy.  Here is a short list of what I keep available at my home.

Arnica Montana for bruises and goose eggs from a bad bump

Podophyllum 30 c for diarrhea or Veratrum Album

Ruta Gaviolis is for a pulled tendons, twisted ankles - sport injuries It’s a soft tissue remedy

Chamomile for the ear ache that keeps the baby up all night when one cheek is hot and the other cold

Belladonna 30c for the ear aches with fever and a screaming baby

Aconite is for anxiety induced asthma

PMS? – Nat Mur 30 c calms sugar and salt cravings and irritability

Sepia for depression from overwork, most moms’ need sepia by the way.

Ipecac 30c for vomiting that won’t stop – dry heaves

There is a lot more information in my book, the Healers Almanac, Journey into Health with Wisdom from the 21st Century Goddesses that will help you create and maintain a happy and balanced home life.  I invite you to check it out and purchase one for your home library. Available through www.coventrycreations.com and www.amazon.com.

It was my pleasure to share my experiences as a mom with Deb Hanneman on her show Zen Mommies.  Please check out the interview at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/zen-mommies/2012/01/23/a-new-age-mommy-is-a-happy-mommy.

We have been talking about ways to expel negative energies from your house with Jacki Smith and Patty Shaw, Owners of Coventry Creations. In the last blog post, we talked about some causes of negative energy build up in your household.  In this blog post, they discuss what are some simple ways to clear it all away. These are simple and easy ways to cleanse different types of energy from your home.  Some you many know about or have even forgotten about but it’s great to have a nice refresher!

Clearing Away Anger:

Walk through the house with buckets of cool, clear and clean water (all three, very important). It picks up a lot of emotions.  Then dump the buckets of water off your property. Afterward, light s peaceful, tranquil candle. “With ever you clear, you have to refill”

Clear Away Tiredness:

Open a window and make sure to sweep the old energy out of the window with a feather duster or baking pan, then wash the pan. Afterward, light an uncrossing candle with a fire(energy candle)

Clear Away Depression: Light a grief candle then a happiness candles.  Afterward, drum on something make it a happy beat.  This will fill your home with happiness and pleasure.

Clear Away Confusion: Use a pair of scissors and make a clipping motion in the air around you to cut the attachments of energy that are pulling you in too many different directions.

Clear Away Ghosts: Burn a sage candle to raise the vibration and tell them you leave your house now. Visualize a beam of white light filling your house and property. Ask Archangel Michael to help these lost souls find a way to the other side.

Too Much Electricity: Place smokey quartz or obsidian around your house and around your computer, TV and the clock radio near your bed. Burn a stability candle to ground extra energy in your aura into the earth.  

Brighten up your summer displays with the Summer Set from Coventry Wholesale.

The Set includes 3 each of the following candles:

Happiness Blessed Herbal Pillar

Happy Home Blessed Herbal Pillar

Soulmate Affirmation

Love Affirmation

Sacred White Sage Pillar

Sweetgrass Container

Road Opener Hoodoo  

Van Van Hoodoo

I sat down with Patty Shaw and Jacki Smith, owners of Coventry Creations and talked about cleansing up negative energies for the summer. We talked about what are some typical causes of stress in the home and how to tell when it is affecting people's lives, energies and relationships.

Q: What energetically are frequent causes for a stressful home.

Jacki: A big cause is simply bringing energy home with you.  You are at work or school and someone’s else’s bad day seeps into your aura.  Our you could have had a rough day and you unconsciously start to “share the pain”  with your house on everybody living in it.

Patty:  There are also ghosts, power lines that are nearby, too much electricity running through your house.  You have got to unplug sometimes.

Jacki: There are al to of unspoken emotions, and OVER abundance of emotions.

Patty: Grudges too.  You know that energy of people you are going to have a fight...it just hasn’t happened yet or a lot of unspoken bad feelings. It could even be an unclean house or a giant to do list.

Q: Is is difficult for people to pick up that there is this heavy energy in the house?

Patty: Yes! Many times you feel irritated but can’t put your finger on it.

Jacki: I think it is a blind spot, we become so used to it. It’s like the smell of the cat’s litter box,, the scent is there, but you no longer notice it.

Patty: It also makes you sleepy or wanna tune out.  Just sit around and watch TV.

Q: What are the warning signs?

Patty: You avoid going home

Jacki: You want to just mindlessly sleep

Patty: Or you can’t sleep at all.

Jacki: ...well you want to sleep instantly but you just can’t

Patty: You may pick fights or even drink more than usual.

Jacki: Any sort of of escapism

Patty: Your kids also act up, everyone’s on edge.

How do you start to fix this?

Jacki:  Try to break down what you are feeling inside the house?  Is it anxiety? Is it anger? Are your depressed or is there is something extra that is polluting your space.

Patty.  I think start with clearing away the negative energy from electronics.  We have surrounded ourselves with all kinds of electronics that are wonderful in many ways, but they can clog you all up.

Jacki: You know what is overwhelming you really.  Always feeling angry or wasting the day away on the couch.  You know what it is that you want to change.  So take on that problem.

Next week we will talk about some simple and easy ways to cleanse different types of energy from your home. Some you many know about or have even forgotten about but it’s great to have a nice refresher!

Brighten up your summer displays with the Summer Set from Coventry Wholesale.

The Set includes 3 each of the following candles:

Happiness Blessed Herbal Pillar

Happy Home Blessed Herbal Pillar

Soulmate Affirmation

Love Affirmation

Sacred White Sage Pillar

Sweetgrass Container

Road Opener Hoodoo

Van Van Hoodoo

Beautiful Summer days full of possibilities and adventures can be great for your personal life but in your business life can be a different story. Unless you are in a summer tourist town; moving candles can be a little more of a challenge in the summer.  With temperatures on the rise, candles do not seem at first to be the most obvious choice for summer purchases.  We have thought about this going into June and we have highlighted all the many ways to use candles in the summer month.  We have created a special Summer Set which will feature our best selling “summer time” candles. It will also include signage that will highlight different ways to use our candles on the summer.

The Set includes 3 each of the follwing candles:

Happiness Blessed Herbal Pillar

Happy Home Blessed Herbal Pillar

Soulmate Affirmation

Love Affirmation

Sacred White Sage Pillar

Sweetgrass Container

Road Opener Hoodoo

Van Van Hoodoo