Hello and welcome to another episode of the Perception Podcast with me your host Caroline Partridge. In this episode, I’m joined by the incredible Catherine Keattch. Catherine is a creator of vibrational essences, an essence practitioner, energy healer, spiritual explorer and co-director at Crystal Herbs Ltd. After giving up a career as a professional musician and teacher she began her own spiritual journey of discovery and has been working with flower and gem essences for over 30 years. Catherine explains how the powerfully transformational nature of the essences work by dissolving filters that hold people’s unconscious patterns of behaviour in place; we discuss how stepping into responsibility is stepping into personal power and how our expanding collective consciousness can bring us closer to a 5th-dimensional reality. So please join me as we look at life through a different lens.    KEY TAKEAWAYS It was after being dismissed by her GP that Catherine started to look into alternative ways of healing. Catherine tried a variety of methods in her journey from massage to homeopathy but once she discovered flower and gem essences she realised this was what was going to work for her. After training, Catherine decided to take a risk and put all of her working capacity into vibrational essences, this was in the mid-90s and it has been one of the best decisions she ever made. Essences transform our ways of thinking and our patterns, allowing us to truly heal and recognise what is the root cause of our suffering, such as fear of abandonment or not feeling good enough. You can only bring a certain amount of yourself into our current reality, we are shaped by society to fit in with the people and lives around us. People often look outside of themselves for healing but if we take responsibility for ourselves and do the internal work required then we can change our lives. Those who are not connected to themselves can easily be ruled by fear which means they are easy to control. We are all beings capable of creating and 'uncreating'. Once we start to create a life that works for us then we will begin to heal. BEST MOMENTS “I came across flower and gem essences and thought right, this is the thing for me” “I was faced with this really difficult choice as a single parent to two children, to give up my music and move into doing vibrational essences” “They are really powerful and it can’t be underestimated” “Essences help to shift what’s holding a story in place” “In society, we keep our true selves hidden” “When we take responsibility for our lives, we can change our lives” “I’m a being of light and I know I am connect to the power of creation” ABOUT THE GUEST Catherine Keattch is a creator of vibrational essences, an essence practitioner, energy healer, teacher, spiritual explorer, and workshop leader. She is co-director at Crystal Herbs Ltd which produces a very wide range of vibrational essences ranging from Bach Flower Remedies to very deep acting combinations of flower & crystal/gem essences designed to help us negotiate the current times of transformation with greater ease and understanding. Essences have been a part of her life for the last thirty years and have also underpinned her own spiritual journey of self-discovery.  Catherine is currently focused on providing resources that will support people to successfully negotiate the current times of transformation as we transition from a third dimensional reality into a fifth dimensional one. As we have all discovered, this involves a substantial leap in consciousness, a good deal of clearing, and an uplift in vibrational frequencies all things that vibrational essences are excellent at providing support with.     Socials & Contact https://www.crystalherbs.com/ Catherine Keattch | Crystal Herbs Flower Essences E-Light Newsletter Archive | Crystal Herbs https://www.facebook.com/CrystalHerbs/ https://www.instagram.com/c