After being eccletic for many a year, I have finally decided to specialize in becoming a light/healer witch. I worked in the medical field for many a year. My spine has two injuries from picking up people, and moving them around. I have to take opiates and a muscle relaxer to manage the amount of pain I am in. I hate taking the opiates, its not the type of person I am, I hate drugs! So, I have decided to look for another, more natural way to manage my pain and muscle spasms. The apothecary lessons is what finally clinched the deal on specializing. At this time I have cleared the Green Witch as well as the apothecary. Where and what other lessons should I be doing?
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What a great area to focus your studies and talents in - congrats, @LittleBanshee! 
And a double congrats on finishing the courses - good for you! 
If I can offer a recommendation, I’d look back through the courses/any notes and look for certain areas that called out to you. Did you like studying herbs? Are you called to do healing spells? Maybe crafting tea blends or healing potions resonates with you.
Whatever areas were most interesting, I’d dig in deeper there. Feel free to ask here in the forum for specific resources! There are a good amount of green witches and lightworkers around, so I’m sure folks will have additional recommendations depending on your current focus 
Cheering for you and wishing you all the best with your studies - blessed be!
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Congratulations on finishing the courses! 
I’m going to second what Bry said. I’d also add an extra step – rather than focusing on a wide range of ingredients, start by looking at your local plants to create an apothecary. There’s likely a lot you have available to you that you don’t realize simply because the knowledge of local flora and fauna has been lost to many people.
It might also help to study and practice energy work. There’s a spell I did many years ago that I still use as the foundation for any of my healing work. I won’t recount the entire thing here (you can read it here), but the knowledge of human anatomy and physiology you likely have can be an immense help in healing work, both for yourself and others.
How exciting that you’ve found the path you want to take! 
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witch. I worked in the medical field for many a year. My spine has two injuries from picking up people, and moving them around. I have to take opiates and a muscle relaxer to manage the amount of pain I am in.
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I’m in the exact same spot as you. I’m looking for a different job. In the mean time I’ve dived into the greener side to help. I still struggle with meditation. What helped me is listening to SOLFEGIO FREQUENCIES.
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I have a hard time with meditation due to the spasms, its a pain in the rears, literally, lol!! Don’t you just love sciatica? But I am tired of putting chemicals in my body that only help a little bit. I am going yo look for something to handle the pain and spasms!
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I live in Oregon in the mountains, I need to research what is available around me, plus I’m not opposed to going for a drive and looking around. I also have an herb garden on my back porch. I can always add to it. I work a lot with crystals, aligning the chakras and cleansing already, I have a lot under my belt. This was another reason I chose light\healer work. There is a lot of studying ahead of me though.
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I may just look into it all for right now until something grabs me. What I find curious is my mother used to make this salve for our boo boo’s when we where little and a homemade tea blend for an upset stomach. I wish my mother where here, I’d ask her if she were a witch. As I have mentioned, I come from a line of pagans from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Apothecary really has my interest peaked.
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Hi @LittleBanshee, and congrats finding your path!
As someone on here once said to me, you may want to do some research into healing, such as Reiki, Theta or EFT tapping; not everything is for everyone, but one of them might be what you’re looking for. Good luck, and do let us know how you get on!
x Blessed Be x
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Sounds like a plan! When a topic or theme grabs you, grab it right back and jump in 
Do you think you might remember the scent of the balm and/or the taste of the tea? There are a lot of blends out there for those intentions, so if you wanted, you could experiment with recipes to try to find/recreate your mother’s blends.
Here are a few that could help you get started on the quest:
HEALING SALVES:
TEA FOR UPSET STOMACH:
- Teas for digestion
- Cold & flu tea
- Honey Ginger Meditation: Healing Potion – Spells8
- Chamomile Tea Meditation: Cleanse & Purify – Spells8
Good luck and blessed be!
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Thank you so much!!
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Thank you! I do Chakra healing, I have a potion for each Chakra that I put a dab on the person, then place the stone\crystal. This is if it is just one
chakra to concentrate on. Its also a good aroma therapy. To do all at once would be a sensory overload! to many different smells. This also seems to help the medittion. You can email me if you would like the oil blends I used for this.
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I totally agree, and I use oils for chakras too! I’m obsessed with Dragon’s Fire at the moment, really mystical and ethereal, and yet somehow reminds me of really sweet mandarins! Picture from Google:
x Blessed Be x
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I would go with what interests me and if it was Apothecary then I would jump in! Congrats on finding an area that intrigues you.
I had sciatica and was told it was going to be life-long. They gave me the opiates (hate them) and other drugs/muscle relaxers that weren’t worth squat.. I’m big into meditation and that really helped. Since sciatica is nerve pinching caused by muscle contractions/spasms if you can meditate and relax, it might help. I’ve stopped having them since I went into meditation big time (hope I don’t jinx myself with that).
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A miracle occurred a few weeks ago, I fell twice on my tushy, now the sciatica is gone!! Dont know why or what happened, neither do the drs. But I am glad its gone! Don’t do that on purpose, we don’t know what I did. I landed hard when I fell, I laid there and cried for about a half hour, it hurt so bad! I will try what you said, the spasms still get me.
Blessed Be
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Congratulations! You unpinched your own nerve! How rare and wonderful!
PT is still a good idea to ensure strengthening in the proper muscles to make sure it is gone for good. I only have to do mine a couple of months per year, when my muscles get stiff; but I’m glad I know what to do to help myself.
When mine first happened, I was on the floor in pain for 6 weeks! A pillow I used between my knees was too big, causing my sciatica. Now that it’s done, I can put the bottoms of my feet together in a stretch I couldn’t do before.
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The body is miraculous what it does to heal itself!
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