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Today my guest is Heidi Smith. Heidi is a psychosomatic therapist, flower essence

practitioner, and registered herbalist. With sounds true, Heidi has written a beautiful new book called The Bloom Book,

a Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Palance. The Bloom Book offers a comprehensive guide for working with flower

essences in order to bring about healing, transformation, and even to help us in the process of awakening,

both at a personal level and a collective level.

In this conversation with Heidi Smith, I felt surprised as I did when I

read the Bloom Book about how flowers can make themselves known to us if we're open to it.

So I suggest with a lot of openness,

listen to Heidi Smith talk about flower essences and her new book, The Bloom Book.

Heidi you write in The Bloom Book that you were given an assignment by the universe to bring people to the flowers.

That's a big assignment, interesting assignment. I think with the Bloom Book you're doing it. How did you receive that assignment? What happened?

Yeah, so I'm more of a wait for the invitation kind of person and this opportunity kind of came out of the blue to write a book about flower essences and it's not something that I had ever considered at that

well maybe I had considered it but I definitely hadn't started the process.

So after that initial invitation, I sat down and I said,

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