Writing an introduction to a book of beauty, history, and intention.

I am so honored to be a part the book Sybil of the Flora written by my friend, Felicia Howe, a woman who can reach through the ages and summon the power of healing with her words, heart, offerings, and aptitude with our sacred plants.

I am always learning from her, and I’m grateful to have tools like her new Sybil of the Flora deck box set and the book that focuses on anecdotes and stories in addition to the plants.

After meeting Felicia in 2020, her deep commitment to helping others and understanding of plant energies stood out to me as diverse, unique, and approachable. 🌿🌱

It’s true that I don’t always flow and sometimes it’s a struggle to feel I can embody the place of honor that came with writing the foreword. I appreciate the honesty of this self-perception, even deprication, with the acknowledgment that this feeling will fluctuate in my life time.

The affirmations along with each plant in her illustrations provide a place to meditate and heal. To focus and to understand. Our worth as women can feel achingly desperate sometimes. Sybil of the Flora offers continued lessons and opportunities to understand the dark and inky places, the times when we fight for our light—and also when we grasp the sight of the star.

Here’s to really powerful and honest tools, to the amazing plants that surround us, and above all, to the friends and healers that lift us up and honor us in all our stages of growth. I love your words and this whole book that demonstrates how we can deepen this connection to the plants by simply putting our hands in the soil—thank you, Felicia.

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“Each time I reconnect with the tools from her apothecary, the memory of how I can be with plants builds.”

—b elizabeth bell

Read more about our meeting and what makes Felicia Howe’s work so important to healing processes in her new book Sybil of the Flora!