BACH CUSTOM REMEDIES
My journey with Bach Flower Remedy Therapy began after the loss of my daughter in 2011.
During that deeply difficult season of life, I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and found myself searching for healing beyond conventional approaches. I knew I wanted support for my emotional and nervous system healing, but I also wanted to avoid the potential dependency and side effects that can sometimes accompany prescription medications.
That search led me to the beautiful world of Bach Flower Remedies.
What began as a personal healing journey soon became a deep passion and area of study. In 2015, I made the decision to fully step into my power and formally study the Bach Remedies. Through years of dedicated learning, research, personal experience, and application, I developed a profound respect for the emotional, energetic, and nervous system support these remedies can offer.
Bach Flower Remedies are not about “fixing” people.
They are about awareness, emotional balance, nervous system support, and reconnecting with the deeper truth of who we are beneath fear, grief, overwhelm, trauma, exhaustion, and survival patterns.
Inside The Nancy Nance Method, these remedies are used as compassionate tools for self-awareness, reflection, emotional healing, and transformation.
Because healing begins the moment we stop judging ourselves…
and start understanding ourselves.
And from that awareness, we begin to choose joy again.
What are Bach Remedies?
Bach Flower Remedies are a gentle, natural system of emotional and energetic support developed in the 1930s by Dr. Edward Bach, a British physician and bacteriologist.
Dr. Bach believed that emotional well-being, nervous system balance, and inner harmony play a powerful role in our overall health and quality of life. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, he sought to understand the emotional states beneath human suffering — fear, grief, overwhelm, hopelessness, self-doubt, exhaustion, resentment, uncertainty, and emotional imbalance.
Each flower essence is associated with a particular emotional state or pattern.
For example:
* Aspen supports fears of the unknown
* Mimulus relates to fears of known situations
* Olive addresses exhaustion and depletion
* White Chestnut supports repetitive thoughts and mental overactivity
* Larch relates to confidence and self-belief
* Walnut supports transition, boundaries, and change
Within The Nancy Nance Method, Bach Flower Remedies are used as tools for:
* emotional awareness
* nervous system reflection
* identity exploration
* energetic balance
* self-compassion
* personal transformation
They are not intended to diagnose, treat, or replace medical care. Instead, they are supportive tools that may help individuals become more aware of emotional patterns, survival responses, and internal states that may be influencing their lives.
One of the most beautiful aspects of Bach Flower work is that it encourages us to ask deeper questions:
* What am I feeling?
* What emotional pattern am I living in?
* What survival response has become my identity?
* What does my nervous system need?
* What would healing and balance feel like for me?
Because awareness creates choice.
And from that awareness, transformation becomes possible.
The Bach Remedy System is both a complex and simple system of 38 remedies which balance emotions and treat negative mental states.
Each of these remedies helps you learn to take control of your own health.
Each remedy is aimed at a different state of mind or emotion.
They treat physical illnesses by restoring harmony to the mind and allow the body’s natural defences to work more easily.
Mental states have a direct and powerful effect on physical health.
Why do only some people that are exposed to the agents of disease fall ill? The natural state of the human body is to be well. Therefore, only if the defenses are weakened may the body be at dis-ease. Imbalances in the personality and emotions are the agents that we can the defenses. This is why imbalances are the true cause of dis-ease.
Life experiences, including illnesses, help us learn and grow. Part of that learning comes when we sit down – sometimes for the first time – about think about our emotions.
Attention is devoted to the individual and the emotional cause of the physical pain. Imbalances are the true cause of disease.
Disease is discord from a life in harmony.
To treat both the body and the person was to discover the source of their dis-ease. Our physical health depends upon our way of thinking, our feelings and emotions.
When we think negatively, unhappily or destructively are physical health is ill.
The body is a mirror reflecting the thoughts in the mind. The patient is the most important factor is his healing. Bach Flower Essences are prescribed to treat the person and personality: the layers of the character, the persona, the psyche, the nature of the soul’s reflection; as well as, the idiosyncrasies — behavior or way of thought particular to an individual.
Your problem may be that you say you can’t sleep, but how do you feel? When working with the Bach System of Healing we look past the traditional orthodox symptomatic approach to illness. Instead we investigate the emotional root of the problem.
Exciting and Magical
“The prevention and cure of disease can be found by discovering what is wrong within ourselves and eradicating this fault by the earnest development of the virtue which will destroy it; not by fighting the wrong, but by bringing in such a flood of the opposing virtue that it will be swept from our natures.” Heal Thyself, Dr. Edward Bach
We all Suffer and Struggle with the Same 7 Emotional Imbalances.
The 7 Core Emotional Imbalances
One of the most powerful realizations I discovered through studying Bach Flower Remedies is this:
No matter our background, story, trauma, career, relationship status, age, or life experience…
human beings tend to struggle within the same core emotional patterns.
We may express them differently.
We may hide them differently.
We may cope differently.
But underneath it all, we are often navigating the same emotional terrain.
Dr. Edward Bach organized the emotional states into seven core imbalance categories — patterns that continue to appear in people across every stage of life.
Within The Nancy Nance Method, these seven emotional imbalances are used as awareness tools to help individuals better understand their nervous systems, emotional responses, survival patterns, identity conditioning, and healing journey.
These seven emotional imbalance categories are:
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1. Fear
Fear of failure.
Fear of rejection.
Fear of loss.
Fear of uncertainty.
Fear for loved ones.
Fear of losing control.
Fear often lives deeply within the nervous system and can quietly shape identity, relationships, choices, and self-worth.
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2. Uncertainty
Second-guessing.
Indecision.
Lack of trust in oneself.
Feeling disconnected from purpose or direction.
Uncertainty can leave people stuck between who they were and who they are becoming.
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3. Lack of Interest in the Present
Emotional numbness.
Living in the past.
Disconnection.
Mental escapism.
Exhaustion.
Overthinking.
Sometimes people are not lazy or unmotivated.
Sometimes they are emotionally overwhelmed, depleted, or disconnected from themselves.
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4. Loneliness
Feeling unseen.
Feeling disconnected.
Feeling different.
Feeling emotionally isolated even in relationships.
Loneliness is not always about being physically alone.
Sometimes it is the experience of feeling emotionally misunderstood.
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5. Oversensitivity to Outside Influences & Opinions
People pleasing.
Difficulty with boundaries.
Absorbing others’ emotions.
Fear of conflict.
Hiding pain behind a smile.
Many highly sensitive individuals become disconnected from their own truth while trying to maintain peace for everyone else.
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6. Despondency & Despair
Guilt.
Shame.
Resentment.
Hopelessness.
Overwhelm.
Self-criticism.
Emotional heaviness.
These states often emerge after grief, trauma, burnout, loss, betrayal, or years of emotional suppression.
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7. Over-Concern for the Welfare of Others
Perfectionism.
Over-functioning.
Over-giving.
Control.
Hyper-responsibility.
Rigid expectations.
Many people become so focused on fixing, helping, protecting, or carrying others that they forget themselves entirely.
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The goal of this work is not to judge ourselves for these patterns.
The goal is awareness.
Because when we can identify the emotional state…
we begin creating space for healing, regulation, balance, compassion, and transformation.
Awareness creates choice.
And choice creates ripple effects.