The Power of Dietra: Healing with Marshmallow

I have been going through some healing changes of my own recently, with the help of a very dear healer.

I’ve spent two months working specifically on a block within myself using meditation, Reiki, Tai Chi, and the amazing plant Marshmallow (tincture available at www.baldwins.co.uk).

I started a course two months ago with the purpose of using Marshmallow as a dietra (communing with the plant extract). Marshmallow is known for its support in softening emotions, giving us the ability to go deeper, connect further, understand, and release—or take ownership of—our feelings.

As a healer, I work on myself all the time. I meditate, I read, I am very dedicated to my spiritual practices. Yet nothing prepared me for the effect of communing with Marshmallow.

I was tired of carrying a hole inside me. I work with clients all the time, supporting them in releasing themselves, sharing honesty, and using my intuitive abilities. Yet I could not shift my own emptiness. Fortunately, through my experience as a healer, and as someone who has spent a long time investigating, studying, and reading about the energy world and various forms of occult knowledge, I knew the problem lay within me. No one outside of me could ever resolve it. Many have tried.

Almost from the first day I could feel the effect. In such a gentle way, the extract went to work. It was as if someone was softly cleaning the windows of my soul. Not in a forced or heavy way, but with a subtle softening of the wall I had carried within me for as long as I can remember. A wall that once protected me but had become my jailer. People can stand outside and call in. They can offer guidance and support. But ultimately, it is down to us when we decide to make the changes.

I also had a reading with my dear healer, which was broken down into three sections—each representing a different time, different people, and the effects of grief and loss. I loathe indulging too much in the past, yet it had been hanging around me like a noose. For a long time, I believed I was moving on, but really, I was just skirting around the edges—or perhaps it was simply too big for me to face alone. Thankfully, our beautiful natural world exists to nurture and guide us.

I knew I held everything I needed within me. The Marshmallow simply softened my walls so that memories, feelings, and emotions could filter through. Each layer and level began falling into its rightful place, instead of being a vortex of experiences all mushed together.

Over the course of the two months, I began allowing myself to share more of who I am, to ask for help in areas of my business or life that I am not strong in. I also began to truly believe I could release myself from the emptiness within me.

I slowly relaxed into the release that I would usually feel an hour or two after consuming the tincture. I would meditate on visualising the plant until I felt it infuse into my heart. It was as if a tiny energy seed from the extract flowed within, settled, and then slowly began to open my heart—and as it did, I merged with it, like tea leaves steeping in a pot.

Through this, I started to realise what forgiveness truly meant—both for myself and others. I found that when I approached my usual spiritual practices, I could be calm, concise, and measured in my behaviour. I can feel the support of spirit around me, and life has brought some strong people to me—mirrors and guides to help me move through the various stages of coming into peace with my own heart.

Even though there are still insecurities to flow through and understand, the hole within my heart has gone—or rather, it has healed itself. Sewn together with intention, love, and nature. Once this process was complete, all the years of my work—on acceptance, on trusting in a higher love, on my devotion to spirit, and on my true feelings and intuition—finally began to fall into place.

I took a step back this past week, as the experience required me to pause and focus on my own self-care. Now, slowly, I am beginning to work again, and I am learning my healing abilities all over again. I am so looking forward to this flower opening, and to what I can bring into my life and share with others.

“The sands shift and turn at the mercy of the waves pounding the shoreline. Transfixed, we know instinctively the ocean can take us at any time it wishes. Letting go of control and allowing the waves to wash through and over us, sinking to the bottom of the sea, we can blend with all our emotions, bringing forth the inner awakening of our heart and soul.”

Thank you for reading.

Love & light,

Angela