About Botanical Activations
Meet Jess
Plant intuitive, medicine maker
Hi, I'm Jess.
I make flower essences, tinctures, aura mists, and anointing oils by hand in small batches, from plants I've grown myself or gathered in the wild in the places I've lived and traveled.
I came to this work because I needed it myself.
In 2017, I needed my own healing badly. Something inside me had shut down, and the answers I'd been reaching for weren't reaching back. So I went towards the earth, and found the plants.
I immersed myself in studying plant and earth energetics from an Indigenous perspective. I learned the language of plants, how to connect with Mother Earth, and how to open to the world of energetics. I started connecting with each plant I grew or harvested, asking how it wanted to help and receiving its messages.
Flower essences changed everything for me. They brought me out of that shutdown and back into my life. I felt connected to my heart again. I could trust my intuition again. I had a sense of purpose again.
That experience became a heartfelt prayer: that this medicine could help other people access their authentic selves, release what no longer serves them, and rediscover the joy and magic of being alive.
Botanical Activations is the apothecary that grew out of that prayer.
— Jess
What are flower essences actually?
Flower essences are still emerging — often misunderstood, sometimes confused with tinctures, essential oils, or perfumes. They're none of those things.
A flower essence is the energetic imprint of a plant's frequency held in water. Not the taste. Not the scent. Not any physical part of the plant at all. Just the vibration — the plant's signature — preserved.
Here's why that matters: our bodies are mostly water. And water holds and transmits energetic information — it's active and responsive, not just a passive carrier. When you take a flower essence, the water in your body receives the plant's frequency, and things begins to shift.
We live surrounded by lower frequencies all day — stress, technology, the weight of old patterns and inherited wounds. Flower essences offer something different: the frequency of the natural world. Higher. Gentler. More coherent. And closer to who we actually are — because we come from that frequency too.
That contrast is what does the work. It loosens what's stuck, clears what isn't yours, and reminds the body what it feels like to be its own self again. Flower essences don't add anything to you. They help you come back to you.
In my elixirs, essences are preserved in brandy and raw honey. In my mists and oils, they're paired with organic essential oils. The essence itself, along with it's specific healing intention, is always the foundation.
Because flower essences are purely vibrational, they're non-invasive and have no contraindications with medications, herbs, or other remedies. They work with what you're already doing, never against it.
That's what the medicine is. What it does is bring you back — to the more authentic, more connected version of yourself that was there all along.
How I create them
Every essence in the apothecary is made by hand, in small batches, from flowers I grow or wildcraft myself. I connect with each plant before harvesting — asking permission, receiving messages about how the plant wants to work with us, what it's offering in this season.
Some essences come from my garden. Others come from pilgrimage — like the Ancient Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains of the Eastern Sierra, some of the oldest living beings on earth. Most of them reach nearly 5,000 years old (long found to be much older) not in spite of their harsh environment but because of it. That resilience is what the Break the Cycle line carries. (The full story of that trip lives on those product pages.)
I create each blend around a collective healing theme, something many of us are moving through. I use only pure, high-quality ingredients, and every batch is made with prayer and intention. Each bottle holds the frequency of the plants and my prayers.
Made to meet you
In real life
These aren't precious objects meant to sit on a shelf. They're for the car, the diaper bag, the bathroom counter — for the moment you need them. Reach for them as often as you want.
In what's calling now
Every blend starts with what I see moving through the collective: the overwhelm, the patterns, the openings of this season. I sit with the plants, ask which ones want to help, and channel what each essence is meant to address. Nothing here is made just to fill a shelf. Every blend exists because something was calling for it.
In the work underneath
Flower essences work on the patterns underneath what you can see: the loops, the reactivity, the places you've been stuck. Sometimes the shift is fast. A heart cracks open, an old pattern breaks. Sometimes it's quieter, and one day you notice you handled something differently than you used to.
If any of this is calling you,
you're in the right place
You don't have to understand all of this to benefit from it. The plants do most of the work
— your job is just to let them in.
If you're new here, the shop is always open, and each essence has a story that will tell you whether it's the one for you. If you want to hear from me in a slower, more personal way — seasonal letters about the medicine, the plants, and what's coming next — the email list is where that lives.
Either way, thank you for being here.
With love,
Jess 🌹