Treating PTSD with Bach Flower Remedies

Diana Pink is a Holistic Health Mentor, offering ways to detox and balance your life to restore vitality and health.

Irecently had the pleasure of attending a Zoom meeting with fellow Bach students, hosted by our Bach teacher with guest Helen Hess, who is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner and psychologist with many years of training and experience. Helen delighted us with her stories using the Bach Flower remedies with different mental health clients, especially folks with PTSD and OCD. She has successfully used Bach Flower remedies in her daily practice for decades, and shared many reflections and healing stories with us.

The featured topic was PTSD, something most of us have I think, or know someone who has experienced it, and is also a huge under-recognized and under-remedied issue in society. From my personal experience and years of in depth research about amazing healers like Dr. Bach, I have come to really know that he is correct in saying it is a disconnection from our higher and true self that causes disease, being out of balance and ’sick’. It shows up in a myriad of ways, and the physical pain it can cause can be unbearable at times — not to mention the mental, spiritual and emotional pain this disconnect causes.

Bach Flower remedies come to your rescue — they flood your energy body with positive vibrations and feel good energies, working their gentle magic to smooth edges and reconnect you-to-you naturally in a safe, non toxic and natural way. Using the flower essences can also have a ‘peeling of the onion’ effect, and assist you in working through emotional layers for deep healing smoothing the edges. Helen has just released a book called “Bach Flower Remedies and PTSD”, citing many case studies from her work with patients, some of which she shared on the call. She highlighted a few remedies that are her ‘go to’ remedies for PTSD. For example, a person reliving the past and having flashbacks calls for the remedy Honeysuckle. Holly can be used for not trusting what is outside of yourself, hyper-vigilance, and survivor guilt. If there are feelings of shame or self blame, Pine is the remedy. The remedy Mimulus is for known fears, and White Chestnut helps to keep those unwanted thoughts at bay. I also learned she sometimes gives her clients one remedy for a month or so to calm and balance their nervous system. Her example was Star of Bethlehem which is for distress following shock and trauma. This is an excellent remedy that helps to restore the body’s self-healing mechanisms. And, the Bach five flower combination called “Rescue Remedy” is an indispensable tool for everyone, especially in this crazy world, a go-toright-away remedy in times of acute stress, anxiety and emergency. There is Rescue Remedy for children and pets made with glycerine that I have witnessed work wonders immediately in all kinds of situations. www.rescueremedy.com

I am very inspired and passionate about sharing the profound effects Bach Flower remedies can have. If you are interested in more info., and a personal remedy mix, please be in touch via email at afreshstart@shaw.ca or 250 597-2102. May we all be well and enjoy the opportunity to live our true selves in freedom and health.