CACAO FLOWER ESSENCE
Avoid depletion, exhaustion & self-sacrifice. Fulfill your needs & nourish yourself to wholeness.
Cacao helps us realize what we require in order to feel deeply nourished, supported & abundant, so we can feel replete and whole. When our needs -- even seemingly simple needs like eating, drinking, sleeping, resting, taking breaks, and getting fresh air -- are consistently met, instead of sacrificed, we can truly flourish and be prolific.
FEATURED IN: DIVINE WITHIN COLLECTION
Surrender into the wisdom & love within your own heart with Divine Within. Infused with 9 flower remedies for self-fulfillment, gentleness & nourishment, it helps you soften to life's challenges with compassion, acceptance & devotion. It dissolves barriers to nourishment and awakens your ability to love yourself.
Have you recently felt any of the following:
- Deficit, depletion, low vitality, weak or hard to get up & go
- Lacking in minerals, omega-3’s or vitamins
- Feeling like you’re constantly hungry, but not sure for what
- Unable to think bigger about your life, because you feel distracted by daily routine
- Self-sacrifice or preventing yourself from basic simple needs
- Not enough: sleep, water, food, fresh air, nature
- You get the urge to use the bathroom, but then you put it off until ‘later’
- Your creativity stores have runneth dry
- You’re not sure what to wear - sweatpants for days
- You feel sleepy/fatigued; you need more naps but don’t allow that for yourself
- You feel uninspired because you’re just so tired -- you need a week of doing nothing
- You’re worried about scarcity … of time, money, resources, something!
- You don’t feel like you can truly be yourself 100% of the time.
- You wonder if you're selfish if you do what's good for you.
WHAT IT REVEALS
If you’re attracted to Cacao flower (Theobroma Cacao), you may be burning the candle at both ends or depriving yourself in some way. You may be under-nourished and in a constant state of depletion or operating at half capacity. You may feel fatigued, yet not allow yourself to get enough sleep or take a nap. You might be hungry, but instead of eating proper meals with protein and a variety of vegetables, you might find yourself eating some weird snacks or just getting by on something that’s easy.
However, we cannot thrive when we’re constantly seeking balance. A physical body that is deficient in minerals and vitamins is continually in a state of seeking what it’s missing. It searches for the right foods, has cravings, and is in a perpetual state of lack.
Alternatively, you may not know what you want -- or be subconsciously avoidant of really going after what you want. You may put everyone else's needs as priority over your own needs or desires. You may worry about being 'selfish' if you do what's best for you, or follow your heart with conviction.
WHAT IT CATALYZES
Activate: Nourishment
Message: Alchemy requires nourishment.
Cacao flower elixir helps us make our basic needs a priority so that we can explore what it feels like to thrive and expand to the next level. Once we’re nourished, we have unlimited stores of creativity. Our cup is full and we’re able to give, create and thrive effortlessly.
When our bodies operate replete with minerals and vitamins -- we feel whole, complete and able take bigger risks and undergo greater strides of responsibility and action, because it is operating out of abundance and holistic balance. We’re able to allow nourishment, support and abundance. When we allow ourselves to meet our needs -- we feel overflowing, abundant, beautiful, exotic.
We also have a greater capacity to honor what our greatest flourishing might look like. We recognize that we have direct access to support, stability, strength, and a network. We have the capacity to make things happen in a way that feels magical, because we feel so supported.
We can allow ourselves to meet our needs consistently, like eating, drinking, sleeping, resting, taking breaks, getting fresh air - in a consistent way that fits with the rhythms and cycles of our bodies in a way that allows us to be super prolific and insightful. We may surprise ourselves with what comes out of our mouths or what we’re able to create when we’re consistently nourished and supported.
Among our needs for survival, we also have desires and convictions around what we want to accomplish or create. Rather then repress or avoid them because they rock our internal boat, we can finally turn toward them, recognizing, again, that we are our top priority. Our wishes and desires are important, valuable and worthy -- they are a selfless act of offering a beautiful expression of ourselves to the world.
When we feel taken care of, looked after and secure, we can let loose and be ourselves. Cacao elixir is like a fertilizer that helps us deepen into greater authenticity. We become more willing to be exposed to what’s on the inside; we can dive into our own sense of curiosity, wonder and action. Feeling at ease facilitates transformation, and Cacao inspires spontaneous self-discovery of our truest selves.
FLOWER OF OUR FAVORITE FRUIT
Many people know about the incredible health benefits of cacao and dark chocolate. I recorded an entire podcast with the founder of our sister company, Lisa Reinhardt, of Wei of Chocolate, and she talked about myriad benefits for: heart, circulation, pregnancy, skin, cholesterol, mood and more. If you need any more excuses to eat dark chocolate (she explains the difference between dark & milk), listen here.
Throughout my travels through Costa Rica, I saw many cacao trees along the way. Taylor and I toured a small, family-run cacao farm in northern Costa Rica and learned about the entire process of growing, harvesting, fermenting cacao.
Read the full story about this day here.
Aside from cacao being one of my favorite fruits, the flower is one of the most exotic I’ve seen! Its shape is on the level of a passionflower, yet it literally grows right out from the trunk of the cacao tree -- I’ve never seen any flower do that before in quite the same fashion. When you look at a blooming cacao tree, you see hundreds of little white flowers popping right out of the trunk and big branches -- it’s wild!
The flowers, of course, later transform into the fruit: cacao pods, which are collected and broken open, so the beans can be dried, fermented, ground and later used to make chocolate! An otherworldly fruit that comes from an otherworldly flower! For this elixir, I collected the Cacao flower in southeast Asia, in Singapore.
In Essence
MAGNIFIES: sense of being nourished and/or knowing what it requires to feel nourished, supported and abundant; feeling replete, whole, that your every need is met, overflowing, abundant, beautiful, exotic; sense of ease and direct access to support, stability, strength, network; flourishing facility to make things happen with so much support; capacity to meet your needs consistently, such as eating, drinking, sleeping, resting, taking breaks, getting fresh air - in a way that fits with the rhythms and cycles of your body, allowing you to be prolific and insightful.
DISSOLVES: Feeling in a constant state of deficit, hunger, weakness, low vitality, depletion, distraction. Fatigue or feeling distracted by meeting daily needs and so not able to think bigger about your life. Simple nutritional needs not met, self-sacrificing or preventing yourself from meeting your most basic simple needs like sleep, eating, hydrating, bathroom, fresh air, nature, movement, etc.
SINGLE ELIXIR
Along with being one of the flowers featured in the Divine Within Collection, Cacao is also available as a single elixir.
Because each flower has its own unique specialty, single flower elixirs can target very specific patterns. The effects of single flower elixirs are often more subtle, yet they go deeper, hitting the bullseye. While it may take longer to discern the shifts taking place, the effects can be profound.
Love + flower petals,
Katie
