waking the senses: lemon balm

[an herb for the moment]

you know how the world wakes up when you drop in?

the way your softening allows for clearer edges. maybe not the visual kind, but there are other senses too. the way our heart feels another person’s smile. the comfort of bare feet against the earth. the courage that wells as your voice speaks truth.

the connection, these senses, wake up in us what we have, who we are.

to tend to the now

and there’s much to be tending to now. 

as much as this work is about the world around us, it must also about ourselves. tending to ourselves, so we can be with — really with — each other. with all of our strength and grace and hope. with all that is awake in us.

and so, lemon balm. most days celebrated for sweet flavor and favorability, Melissa is here now to be a connector to the deeper things in you and me. to soften harsh edges so we can remember the breadth of our sensing and come to this day with fullness.

find a friend

with lemon balm in their yard. find an herb gardener who’s got more than they can work with. this medicine is nearly always abundant beyond our capacity, overflowing pots and garden corners to take over. so now we can listen, gather up the eager nourishment of lemon balm and be a bit more of grace and hope and strength for ourselves. 

notice

where you soften. maybe tension in your shoulders, the crowding in your mind. and where you wake up. with compassion and connection, with curiosity, with energy for what’s real. with breath.

work with lemon balm

as tea. as summer treat. as aromatic bouquet of plant medicine bliss. dropping in in imagination, in dreams. wherever you find your medicine.