Sacred Healing Chalice Well Organics
A Natural Oasis for Your Body & Soul
Sacred Healing Chalice Well Organics
Life is a fickle thing. Just when you think you have a good grasp on things, something happens to send you into the unknown. Life this past 35 months has been nothing less than challenging for me. Being an empath with feelings as large as Mother Earth herself makes it even more challenging. Depression and anxiety are as much a part of me as the colour of my eyes. The recent events and the fallout from those events have placed so much pressure, confusion, instability and big challenges forcing me to stop and take a look at what no longer serves me, and re-evaluate the way I am living. In the past 35 months, I think, we all, in some way, stopped putting emphases on our mental and emotional health and began to think that as long as the physical body is still moving we are taking care of ourselves. That is the furthest thing from the truth. I have felt like I was a flag blowing in a gale force wind with too much time allowing my mind to go to crazy unhealthy places. I had a large need to immerse myself into a “side gig” or “hobby” to keep me present and moving forward. I knew whatever that was going to be would incorporate the needs of others to immerse in their own journey to self -healing.
I was waiting for opportunity to knock and we all know if you don’t set that intention it will never knock.
I have had the pleasure of spending time at the Scandinave Spa in Whistler BC. I am not one that frequents spas so this was such an amazing treat to soak up. The backdrop is the beautiful mountains, which speak to my soul in every way, setting the tone for entering the “Haven of Silence”. Here you find the hydrotherapy pools, the quiet rooms, the cabana seats made for two, the eucalyptus steam rooms, and saunas. While enjoying this experience I started to fill my mind with thoughts of how important first of all friendship is to our emotional, mental and physical health. They are our community, our sounding board, our joy, our motivation, our accountability, our greatest treasure. Add to that peace and tranquility, aroma therapy, solitude and silence and unplugging from our electronic devises. I wondered, as I lazed with my eyes closed in one of the heated quiet rooms, how many never take time to be silent or sit in solitude, or even connect with friends that are so much more than friends, the ones that are more family then our own family. I wondered how many think that enjoying a day at a spa is the only way to connect with ourselves and offer healing. Do they know that they can create their own “Haven of Silence” in their personal world on a daily basis? The “window of opportunity” started to open. With lots of scattered thoughts coming and going it would be from these trips that something fun would birth itself.
My hand curated organic body products are created from chemical free, pesticide free, and are minimally processed to retain their natural properties. By creating these by hand one product at a time gives me the opportunity to thoughtfully create and craft each product with thoughtful and care attention to each eliminating the mass produced by machines. They are considered a healthier and more sustainable option for people with sensitivities and an intolerance to perfume scents, as well as those concerned about their health and the environment.
Every year I make my rounds to the Christmas Markets wrapping up with Saskatoon Farms. I found myself drawn to the vendors with soaps, oils, salts, bath bombs etc. What I noticed and questioned was the packaging. I started doing my research. I was shocked to find out the cost of packaging. Each vendor I stopped at had beautiful and what seemed to me “perfect” packaging. I am a hippie at heart and this didn’t make sense to me. Were people drawn to the perfection of esthetics or the products themselves. Armed with some knowledge I had only one question left “how to take something so many were already doing and make it my own.
Recycling turns things into other things which is Magick
Creativity is making Marvelous out of the Discrded
In a dream I saw my concept come to life. I knew it had to have an eclectic flare and an added touch of hippie soul. I believe in reducing waste and upcycling and reusing what we already have around us. For example using amazon packaging, cereal boxes, used baskets or brown paper bags you get when you order skip the dishes as the base to fill with products. I travel around hitting the thrift stores for containers when I do not have what I need, keeping the concept of recycling in the forefront, as that is so important to me. Thrifting is one of my favourite pass times. Being kind and honouring Mother Earth is so very important these days and I feel my concept aids in her sustainability when so many are missing the destruction going on around us. Although, I feel my packages and packaging is still pleasing and eye catching, they are truly eclectic. No two bags will ever be the same as far as esthetics. The products are created with so much enthusiasm, care and loving intention.
A few surprising things I have learned with this adventure so far: 1 – the learning curve is huge with a lot of mistakes turned into victories , 2 -should have paid way more attention to Mr. Snook in Chem 30 class all those years ago, 3 – how quickly my hubby got on board with it and willingly became my supply runner! 4 how utterly therapeutic this has been for me. I am obsessed with how much fun this process has been and continues to be.
The only part left, as I perfect my side gig, is to sell them out of a caravan feeding my hippie soul….one never knows where this might go one day!
