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Welcome to Field & Flowers. Est 2026. Here you will find my writing on identity, healing, and becoming with the support of plant wisdom. Informed by lived experience, being a flower oracle, breaking the cycle, chronic illness, long-term sobriety, heartbreak after 40, and spiritual practice.



What to Remember When You Doubt You'll Ever Find Someone pt. 1
(1) Remember your time alone right now is a time for you to meet yourself EXAMPLE: Starting at a young age I always had a crush, someone...

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Dec 24, 2020


When Your Relationship Takes a Hit
Recently my partner told me something that took me out of control. He told me he didn't feel comfortable traveling with me to visit...

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Dec 16, 2020


How to Heal In Partnership pt. 5
(5) Having compassion for yourself and your partner where you’d blame and disconnect in the past EXAMPLE: My partner and I have struggled...

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Dec 14, 2020


How to Heal In Partnership pt. 4
(4) Responding instead of reacting when things get tense or when you’re triggered EXAMPLE: My partner and I have a relationship boundary...

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Dec 13, 2020


How to Heal In Partnership pt. 3
(3) Knowing, setting and holding healthy boundaries where you didn’t before EXAMPLE: When I was in my mid 20s I was dating someone I...

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Dec 12, 2020


How to Heal While In Partnership pt. 1
Some weeks ago I posted an in-depth series on the 5 ways I think you can heal while dating. I’m turning my focus to “How to Heal In...

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Dec 9, 2020


How to Heal While Dating pt. 5
It’s been so wonderful to go in depth on each of the 5 ways I think we heal while dating/looking for longterm committed relationships....

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Nov 16, 2020


How to Heal While Dating pt. 4
The next way we can heal while we’re dating and seeking committed relationship is all about boundaries. (4) Empowering yourself by...

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Nov 15, 2020


How to Heal While Dating pt. 3
I want to continue this conversation about the ways we can heal while we're in the process of seeking committed relationships. (3)...

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Nov 14, 2020


How to Heal While Dating pt. 2
Today let's talk about the next way I think you can heal while you are dating and seeking committed relationship. (2) Defining and...

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Nov 11, 2020


How to Heal While Dating pt.1
Last week I posted “How to Heal While Dating” and shared 5 ways we can keep healing ourselves while we are dating and seeing committed...

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Nov 10, 2020


Your Love Identity Explained
Your identity is who you are, the way you think about yourself, the way you are viewed by the world and the characteristics that define...

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Nov 2, 2020


Every woman who heals herself helps heal all the women before...
One of the ways we can bring more of ourselves to the world, ie to our jobs, to our purpose, to our friendships, families and romantic...

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Nov 1, 2020


Forgive Yourself
For how you felt when they didn’t stay over. For what you thought when they told you they met someone else. For silencing yourself and...

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Oct 31, 2020


How I Date by Design pt.2
Yesterday I shared about asking for the things I wanted in my relationship and how I designed a work-related separation that felt...

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Oct 23, 2020


How I Date by Design pt.1
About a year ago my partner and I did a photoshoot at a nearby lookout in our neighborhood and last night we went for an evening walk and...

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Oct 22, 2020


How to Use Relationship Routines
A morning routine or morning ritual is series of actions you take each morning. . A solo routine allows you to spend time connecting with...

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Oct 21, 2020


Why Self-Responsibility Is So Healing
I have empathy for the frustration we feel when we want something we don’t have yet. I was out there dating for a LONG time. Meeting lots...

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Oct 17, 2020


Why Desire Is a Force Strong Enough to Transform Anything
I had an online journal in my 20s and early 30s. I made an entry on September 8, 2012. I was 30 years old. I did a visioning exercise for...

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Oct 15, 2020


The Healing Process Explained
Some of us touch wounds and pick scabs on our bodies. Some of us go back to emotionally harmful relationships. Some of us stay in jobs we...

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Oct 7, 2020
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