Senses
LAVENDER FIELDS.
My Nani Mummy (what I called my maternal grandmother) would stash away jars of Yardley’s English lavender body cream and talcum powder and use it sparingly in the summer. After she died, many of her sari’s still had a hint of lavender embedded in them - every time I felt sad, angry, lost - I’d curl up and sniff her saris and remember how she always told me about the healing powder of these blossoms of mid-summer.
If nostalgia had a scent it would be lavender.
one breath, and i was taken back 30 years.
Lavender is more than just a seasonal flower, its a whole feeling and memory. For years I had wanted to walk through fields of it to honour my grandmother’s love for their scent - being in the lavender fields in Scotland last summer felt like I’d done her memory and love for these flowers justice. As a child she would tell me how these beautiful flowers were more than just there for sensory pleasure - they were there to remind you that envy, anger and bitterness takes away our power from us and that one can use the power within the calming, soothing scent and colour of lavender to ground us back to who we are.
This month I have shared with you a way to bottle up the seasons lavender blossoms (if you have some growing in your garden or fields, or buy them fresh from a florist) and preserve the season in this soothing balm, use when you feel fluttered by fits of fear.
hear MY PRIVATE PODCAST
Some thoughts on how to tame fear and envy and why it’s something we should let go of
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LAVENDER BALM
Download the recipe for this lavender balm.
