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'Creature Comforters' and 'Sun Essences for Animals'
'Creature Comforters' was formerly called 'Sun Essences for Animals' (a company that was aligned to the English Flower Essence company Sun Essences).
Sun Essences and Sun Essences for Animals was founded by two like-minded women; Jane Stevenson and Vivien Williamson who laid the initial foundations for the company over 25 years ago. They brought to the partnership their individual skills and experience...
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Vivien (manager of Sun Essences) has many years experience as a flower essence producer. She is a respected authority on Dr Bach (the man who discovered the flower remedies), and is a flower essence tutor and an author of several 'flower essence related' publications including the well received and popular hard-back: 'Bach Remedies and other Flower Essences' (see left).
Jane (manager of Creature Comforters UK) has over 25 years experience as a Flower Essence Practitioner and an extensive knowledge of complementary therapies. She studied Zoology at college and thus has a wealth of experience in using Flower Essences to address negative behaviour traits and challenging emotional problems in animals. Jane is also a qualified Reiki healer and Counselor and has provided hundreds of individual Flower Essence Consultations for people and their pets (on a daily basis) for the past 30 years.
...and both Vivien and Jane posses an intuitive affinity with Flower Essences and nature.
With a keen interest in animal behaviour and many years experience as Flower Essence Practitioner, Jane formed the company *'Creature Comforters UK' which is dedicated to providing advice, support, information and natural products to help address the emotional and behavioural problems experienced by animals and their owners.
*The company 'Creature Comforters UK' was initially called: 'Sun Essences for Animals' (our old logo is shown on left).
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Profile of Jane Stevenson
founding manager of 'Creature Comforters UK'
(formerly: 'Sun Essences for Animals')
Jane Stevenson has over 25 years experience as a flower essence practitioner. She is qualified in Zoology, BFVEA accredited and a member of BAFEP.
Jane grew up in idyllic Cornwall, England (in the 1950's) where she would take her collie dog for invigorating walks along the rugged coast, surrounded by the untamed sea and wild weather ~ Mother Nature in all her powerful magnificence.
Jane's mother was a district nurse and midwife with sole responsibility for Cornish residents within a 20 mile radius of her cottage. She also had a keen interest in herbal remedies and alternative medicine which fired Jane's passion for natural remedies and caring for others from an early age.
Jane's family (the Slades') provided the inspiration for acclaimed author Daphne Du Maurier's first novel 'The Loving Spirit'. This novel was inspired by Jane's great grandfather and his local ship building company in Polruan opposite Fowey harbor (pronounced Foy). And Jane was named after her great grandfather's ship that is the star of Du Maurier's book - The Jane Slade (re-named the 'Janet Coombes' in Du Maurier's novel).
While studying Zoology (as a teenager), Jane gained an insight into animal behaviour and physiology. This, combined with her childhood of observing her mother as a nurse and using natural remedies, was the ideal foundation for a lifetimes work using alternative therapies to help animals and their owners.
In the mid 70's, after studying in London, Jane moved to Norfolk, England to start a family. This is where she began using the Bach Flower Remedies to help friends, family and locals. And Jane was renowned for providing a shoulder to cry on, a cup of tea and some soothing words for anyone who was in need. Her kitchen was always bustling with friends, neighbours and everyone's children - the door was always open and she was christened 'Aunty Jane' to everyone who knew her!
Making her own flower essences was a natural progression and so in the early 1980’s, (after meeting Vivien Williamson who was also knowledgeable on Dr Bach and his remedies), she decided to make her own collection with the help of Vivien. After thoroughly researching Bach's traditional methods and his original locations and plant species, she and Vivien spent several years making The Complete Set of Bach Flower Remedies in the fields and meadows of Britain and, for Bach's 'Olive' and 'Vine' Remedies, they traveled to Crete and Spain. During this time they also discovered several new flower essences, many of which have proven to be particularly suited to addressing emotional problems in animals, such as 'Bluebell'. Together they built the English flower essence companies Sun Essences and Sun Essences for Animals. They also created a separate complete set of Bach Remedy 'Mothers' using the Kosher method. This range provided the Jewish market in the USA with authentic, Kosher, Bach Flower Remedies. Their company Sun Essences was also one of the first (if not the first) to produce and manufacture 'flower essence combinations', i.e. a number of essences blended together to make a composite bottle of essences especially formulated to address specific emotional conditions (e.g. for confidence, for sleep, for clarity etc). These were called 'Solar Blends'.
In the mid 1980's Jane arranged a meeting 'Archie' who was an old friend of Dr Bach's (1886-1936). Archie happened to live in the village next to Jane's. He was an elderly Norfolk man who was, by then, in his 80's, but Jane found the meeting a fascinating experience. Being able to talk with someone who actually knew Dr Bach was, she said, very enlightening and almost magical!
By now Jane had become a highly respected flower essence Practitioner and dowser, regularly supplying clients from all over the world with remedies to help with transient emotional problems. However, she soon realised that there were just as many animals who needed help, as there were people. Her love of flowers, affinity with animals, Zoology qualification and extensive knowledge of complementary therapies provided a solid foundation for the formation of the company 'Sun Essences for Animals'. She latterly expanded the company to also provide her Bach Flower Remedies and essence blends for people (as well as animals). Therefore, in 2007 Jane changed her company name from 'Sun Essences for Animals' to Creature Comforters UK.
Jane is now dedicated to helping animals: working closely with vets, trainers, animal sanctuaries and the RSPCA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). She also provides consultations, remedies, blends and complementary therapy advice for people (and animal owners!). She began working with the Bach Flower Remedies over 30 years ago, and has found using this pure and natural remedial method to be extremely effective and rewarding.
Creature Comforters UK is based in the English seaside town of Cromer, Norfolk, where Dr Bach (the man who discovered Flower Remedies in the 1930's) lived and worked, and Jane feels privileged to continue this important work so close to its original roots.
Dr Bach felt that every household would benefit from his remedies, and Jane’s wish is that all animals also have the opportunity to benefit from flower essence therapy.
She says: "It never ceases to amaze me how these delicate little flowers have the power to stimulate our inbuilt healing mechanisms. I feel enormously privileged to have helped so many people and animals using this gentle, yet powerful tool."
Jane has 2 daughters, 6 grandchildren and (currently) 1 dog!
Written by A. Digby
A brief history of
Creature Comforters UK
Creature Comforters
offer a range of products and services for people and animals:
1. Flower Essence Blends for Animals
2. Flower Essence Blends for People
3. Bach Flower Remedies
4. Creature Comforters' Flower Essences
5. Flower Essence Consultations for Animals
6. Flower Essence Consultations for People
7. External Sprays (for People)
8. Gift Bags
We ensure that all our products are of the
highest quality
We passionately believe that flower essences should be made in the traditional way. Therefore, during the entire manufacturing process (flower collection, 'infusion' and bottling) all our products hand-prepared with care, attention and sensitivity. We are also distinct in that we blend all our essences to a traditional dilution, direct from the 'Mother' tincture: as stipulated by Dr Bach in the 1930's. This method is reported to give each remedy an extra potency. We remain resolutely faithful to Dr Bach's original instructions - using the natural, time-honoured and preferable 'Solar' method of infusion...
Our remedies are made the way Dr Bach intended.
We are proud to be the first company to develop, produce and manufacture Flower Essence Blends for Animals. With over 25 years experience (as flower essence; producers, tutors, authors and practitioners) and using expert and extensive analysis of hundreds of case studies, we have carefully formulated the optimum combination of ingredients for our exclusive range of Creature Comforters Flower Essence Blends® (which are made using a combination of our genuine Bach Remedies and our original Living flower essences).
The remedy making process
- Firstly, through meticulous searching throughout the British countryside (and further afield), we choose the most natural, organic and unspoilt location for making each remedy.
Identifying plant species.
- Early in the morning, on a beautifully clear, sunny day, the flowers are carefully selected for their quality, vigour and splendour and are then infused in spring water.
- During the next few hours the elements of nature combine to release the flowers' unique, positive energy.
- Once the water is fully charged it is preserved using a quality brandy. This pure, invigorated and potent flower remedy is now ready for bottling.
Preparing for 'infusion' of flowers using the Solar method and the finished product when bottled.
- At 'Creature Comforters UK' we maintain very high standards and adhere resolutely to Dr Bach's specific instructions when making and bottling our remedies and essences.
- We are one of the few remaining flower essence companies who still use this traditional, natural and (in our opinion) superior method of manufacture.
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Creature Comforters' Bach Flower Remedies
Water Memory ~ how we capture the Energy Signature of the Flowers
Although Homeopathic Medicine is different to Flower Essence Therapy, there are similarities in the methods in which the ‘energy signature’ of the source material is stored. This is by means of a phenomenon called: ‘Water Memory’. The rationale for proponents of this phenomenon is that water is capable of retaining a memory of particles that have either been dissolved into it (in the case of traditional Homoeopathy) or of flowers that have been submerged into it (in the case of Flower Essences).
Therefore the ‘source material’ could be a Popula tremula flower, for instance, that is submerged into fresh spring water. Once left in the sunlight for a few hours to ‘infuse’, or in other words; for the water to collect the memory of the plant; the unique ‘energy signature’ (the molecular composition) of Popula tremula will be stored forever within that spring water. The next step is for the infused spring water to be preserved (usually using brandy) and then it becomes a Flower Remedy that is used for the unique emotional problem that Popula tremula is understood to address; in this case – fear.
The notion of water having the capacity to obtain a ‘memory’ has proven to be a controversial one amongst many members of the scientific community. However, recent studies by some eminent scientists have shown that, although still not fully understood, there is some validity to this ‘concept’. Each flower (for instance) has a unique ‘molecular fingerprint’ that can be observed through a powerful microscope when studying the water that it has been submerged into. And Microscopic photographs have also shown that the molecular structure of water does change when infused with particular particles, this is after the water has been diluted so extensively (by thousands of percent of the original concentration) that logic and science would predict that there would be no trace whatsoever of the added particle. In such studies the water behaves in a way that is not fully understood by scientists and is apparently in contradiction to the laws of known science. To learn more about this subject and to read the arguments for and against please click here (and scroll down to the WATER MEMORY articles).
Bioforce
Creature Comforters UK (and Sun Essences) exclusively supply the leading natural health company Bioforce UK with our 'Mother' Flower Essences. These are used to make their entire range of Flower Essence Blends.
Creature Comforters and Sun Essences for Animals is a member of BAFEP (The British Association of Flower Essence Producers). The association maintains standards in production, labeling and advertising. (www.bafep.com)
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