Mullein in flower
Have you ever told “a little white lie,” out of fear you’d be rejected if you spoke your truth?
Mullein flower essence provides a sense of protection and teaches us how to love and support ourselves during times when outer support isn’t available.
As an herbal ally, mullein leaves made into tea helps keep our lungs healthy. Breathing is life. We closely watch for a newborn baby’s first breath. And for a loved one’s dying, last breath.
I drink mullein tea often, to clear my lungs and strengthen them. Very helpful, since I live in a city with sub-par air quality. I had respiratory issues for years. Mullein has been key to maintaining health. It’s a nutritive herb, so it can be drunk like a beverage.
The medicine of mullein flower helps you attune to your inner voice. Mullein flower essence helps you listen to and follow your inner guidance and trust it to carry you through challenging situations that arise in your life. It’s not always easy to tell the truth. Sometimes, when we don’t, we feel later that we missed an opportunity to treat our own selves with respect, and to be heard, even if the person we’re talking with disagrees, or doesn’t believe us, or is disappointed that we don’t agree with them.
I experienced this while taking the mullein flower essence. I met up with a body-worker who, like me, has been active in the local community of healers for decades. We reminisced about the outstanding healers and teachers of the late ‘70’s and 80’s, who were doing groundbreaking work. We both rode that wave, learning and practicing new forms of healing that somatic and energetic. They weren’t understood and weren’t considered valid by many people, especially in the scientific and medical communities. We were at the leading edge of new healing technologies. We couldn’t do double blind studies because the techniques we used were uniquely adjusted to the individual client. They couldn’t be standardized and tested. Materialists and rationalists were stumped.
Even though some people made fun of or belittled the alternative health movement, I was on a mission to learn non-toxic ways to heal myself and help others. And so was my colleague.
He mentioned a Chi Gong teacher that he’d admired. I’d studied with the same teacher in the early ‘80’s, a time when chi gong and tai chi were rare in Houston. I also knew that his integrity was not up to current community standards. I knew that this teacher had molested several women students. I felt tension in my body from my gut to my throat. I checked in with myself, asking, “do I say anything?”
A panicky part of me wanted to stay silent. I’d spoken up about experiences of inappropriate touch at a young age and been dismissed. No one believed me, or if they did, they said that’s just what boys/men do. There was nothing anyone could do about it.
Another part of me said, “No more silence. Speak UP! This is the place and the time to speak your truth.”
I leaned into the encouraging voice of mullein, which said, “Yes. Here is your voice. It’s time.”
Even though I felt uncomfortable, I spoke up. I told my colleague that this teacher had molested several students, 3 that I know of, including me.
He said he was shocked, that he’d had no idea. Then he said, “I’m so sorry that happened to you. That should never have happened.” And he went on to talk of other teachers and leaders who’d molested students and children under their care.
Wow! I did it! I protected, reassured AND LOVED MYSELF. Though speaking up in this situation wasn’t easy in the moment, I did it anyway. And I took care of myself afterward, reassuring the fearful place in me that the adult me would take care of any repercussions, and reminding myself that I have so much support now that I didn’t have in childhood.
Deep gratitude to mullein flower essence for helping me know in my being that I had the support I needed from the inside, to speak an inconvenient truth.
Mullein helps me support myself as I change an Ancestral Pattern of staying silent in the face of abuse, addiction and trauma—my time to Stand UP and Speak UP.
Imagine what flower essences can do for you.
Read more about Mullein Flower Essence here.
