It is safe to be authentic and vulnerable when you no longer need to live for other's approval. Work and rest are balanced while striving and comparison can cease. This essence affirms that you are enough, you have enough and you can finally accept and be yourself. The gold is in you.
Buttercup helps you realize and celebrate your worth based off of who you are, unattached to outer recognition and conventional standards. It allows you to burn brightly, even if you take the path less travelled. Comparison and self-depreciation fade away as you become more self-assured in your unique calling.
Boxwood helps you come out from under the expectations of others and allows you to think for yourself. Conditioning and strict expectations that you had to act or perform in a certain way can create guilt cycles when you entertain the possibility of a different way. Boxwood lets you get out of the box that others put you in.
Aurinia is a deep assurance that you have everything that you need and that you will always be provided for. It affirms your position inside the protection and affection of God, and deals with fear that holds back from pursuing the things you are either called to or desire. It lends itself to a confident, balanced way of working.
Goldenrod helps you stand tall in your individual identity and conviction. It "gives you a backbone" and releases you from peer pressure that can weigh down. Be released from needing the approval of others to affirm worth.
Echinacea is for those who feel shattered. Childhood wounds can cause us to compartmentalize and adapt coping mechanisms and personas to survive. These serve us for a time, but we aren't meant to stay there. Echinacea helps bind up the broken hearted and reintroduces you to your core personality. Disassociating and not feeling fully present are good indicators for needing Echinacea.
Blue Vervain is a must have for the workaholic and those who stress from needing to intently focus or study. It helps you work in a more balanced way. It consequently releases upper body and neck tension.
Sunflower addresses father wounds and deals with issues surrounding authority. When there is a lack of relationship with our father, it can create insecurity and self-esteem issues, where there is a need to convince others of our value. It balances the tendency to operate behind insecurity and pride. Just as sunflower deals with our perception of our earthly father, it also deals with projections we put on God, and our abillity to receive from him.