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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.

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A step-by-step guide to Plant communication.

Everyone has an innate ability to consciously communicate with Plants. As Jen Frey reveals in depth, if we are willing to listen, we can hear the Plants speaking to our Hearts and teaching us how to heal. With the support of our Plant allies, we can be our truest selves and remember our intrinsic wholeness.

Presenting a step-by-step guide, Frey shows how to awaken your ability to directly receive the unique wisdom and healing gifts that the Plants want to offer you. Exploring how communicating with Plants is more like a communion than an exchange of words, she describes how the primary language we share with Plants is through the Heart, and she shows how Plant communication brings an expansion of Heart intelligence and emotional growth. She explains the synergistic process of moving into intimacy with a Plant Spirit and shares 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 that allows you to actualize the teaching in an immediate way. She includes both native and invasive Plants because the concept of “invasive” is alien in the context of Plant Spirits and each of them has 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.

Through the skills taught in this guide, we each can connect our Hearts with the wisdom of Plant Spirits, have support and guidance whenever we need it, and learn new ways of living in a co-creative partnership with Nature.

Zusammenfassung
A step-by-step guide to Plant communication.

Inhalt

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 Invasive
Taking Action
Time
Importance of Play
Entering the Daydream of a Plant
Exercise: Daydreaming with Your Plant Ally

10 Changing Our Story: Black-Eyed Susan
It’s All About Perspective
Subconscious Patterns
Beliefs
Trauma
Changing Our Story
Embracing Perfectly Imperfect
Receiving the Gifts of Black-Eyed Susan
Judgment
Light
Color
Exercise: Engaging with Color with Your Plant Ally

11 Releasing Grief: Willow
Sacred Sex
Romancing the Plants
Grief
Depression
Exercise: Romancing Your Plant Ally

12 Power of Love: Rose
Embracing Grief A Power of Love A Love Defined A Choosing Love A Self-Love Exercise: Self-Love Ritual Slow Down, Come Closer A Healing with Love A Plant Limpias and Sacred Bathing Exercise: Sacred Bathing

13 Living to Die: Poison Hemlock
Overcoming Fear
Fear of Dying
Death as Failure
Fear of Aging
Buyer’s Remorse
Shamanic Journeying
Greenbreath Journey
Our Greatest Fear
Exercise: Shamanic Journeying with Your Plant Ally

14 Everything Changes: Eastern Hemlock
Quieting the Interference
Transformation of Death
Following Guidance
Change with Grace
Flower Essences
Exercise: Making an Essence with Your Plant Ally

15 The Great Mother: Corn
Co-evolution of People and Plants
Corn People
Prayer
Singing to Plants
Music of the Plants
Dancing with Plants
Making Apologies
Exercise: Engaging in Song and Dance with Your Plant Ally

16 Re-membering a New Way: Rosemary
*Power of Forgiveness
Balancing Intelligences
Karma
Ancestors
Re-membering Our Wholeness*
Exercise: Co-creating Your Plant Ally’s Story

17 Becoming Sacred Humans: Tulsi
Slower Than Slow
Soul Healing
Ceremony
Sacred Plant Initiations
Becoming Alchemists
Exercise: Having a Ceremony withYour Plant Ally

Conclusion: Creating a New Story

**Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index**