Judy Howard - Bach Flower Remedies For Women

In writing this book I hope to give to women the opportunity to find a way through their own personal milestones of female development by coping with, and acting positively upon, the emotional aspects of their troubles with the gentle healing benefits of the Bach Flower Remedies.

These Remedies are intended to restore our balance and equilibrium by guiding us through the negative feelings we experience and showing us the light again, so often at the end of a long dark tunnel. The Bach Remedies are safe and are helpful to everyone adults, children, even animals and plants selected always for the person as an individual rather than for any particular physical complaint. Dr. Bach, the Harley Street physician who discovered the Remedies during the 1930's, believed and proved to himself through extensive medical and personal research, that our emotional outlook and personality was ultimately responsible for our overall mental and physical well-being. His system of healing, therefore, is intended to treat the person rather than the disease, and therefore the cause rather than the effect.

The Bach Flower Remedies are for everyone, but can be of particular help to women because from puberty onwards, throughout a woman's reproductive life, and indeed beyond, her life is so often at the mercy of her hormones, and all the associated emotional changes that she has to cope with. Rather like a roller-coaster, we step on at puberty and then finally get off when we reach the menopause, but its effects can go on long after the ride has finished.

This book is designed to consider each stage of a woman's cycle of life, and how the Bach Remedies can help ease the emotional traumas that can make those stages so trying.

About the author...

Judy Howard trained as a general nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk. After qualifying in 1980 she took a Staff Nurse post in the operating theatre and then gained further experience as an agency nurse in Bristol and London. In 1982 she qualified as a Midwife at the Whittington Hospital in North London and then took up a position as a secretarial and nursing assistant to a Harley Street gynaecologist obstetrician and fertility specialist of very high regard. During that time she undertook successfully a course in Family Planning and then in 1983 moved to Nottingham where she qualified as a Health Visitor and worked in the mining town of Ollerton until 1985 when she was asked if she might like to join the team at the Bach Centre. Her father, John Ramsell, had been working with Nora Weeks and Victor Bullen at Mount Vernon since 1971, and so it was a natural progression that she should join her father, and felt deeply privileged to have been offered such an opportunity.

Her role at the Bach Centre is, along with the other members of the team, to educate and offer advice about the work of Dr. Bach, and to run the teaching and training programme of the Dr. Edward Bach Foundation, the educational wing of the Bach Centre. During the summer months, she and her colleagues are busy preparing the Mother Tinctures the Life Force and essence of the Bach Flower. Remedies.

She says: "It is a great honour to be so closely involved with the work of a wonderful, yet immensely humble man; to be at Mount Vernon, his home and work-place; to sit and wander in the peaceful garden bursting with life; and to have by my side, not only my dear parents, but my husband Keith and my friend Chris whom I have known since 1977 when we met as two young and hopeful student nurses embarking on a future career together. Each day as I walk up the steps to the front door of the cottage, I most certainly count my blessings."