Change a moment to change today to change your life.
The 12 Days of Holiday Calm advent calendar is a collection of natural, effective, and divinely fragrant tools for creating moments of calm within you, giving you the space to change the course of your day one moment at a time.
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Tips for using the advent calendar
Start your 12 Days of Holiday Calm whenever you’d like. Sooner may be better than later, so you can have more time before the craziness of the holidays to make the tools part of your routine.
Create a ritual in your day around opening that day’s bag. Some suggestions: open the bag at a time when your day is usually peaceful so you can spend a few minutes learning about it and savoring the experience. Or use this as the excuse you need to take a few moments to yourself each morning. Give yourself permission to hold off the stresses of the day while you reconnect into what’s important to you.
Invite your family and friends into the experience. Share a pot of tea, offer a luxurious inhale of the anointing blends to others, display the cards where colleagues and family can see them… spread the love and be part of making someone’s day a little better.
Feel the love in the advent calendar
Love packaged into every Advent Calendar
My deepest desire is to bring heaven to earth however I can. My work as an aromatherapist revolves around this, and the advent calendar is a manifestation of it. Most of the 12 gifts in this calendar are handmade with great love by me, using the finest ingredients.
Each bag was stamped by hand, each bottle hand labelled, and each label designed by me with care and love.
Thanks to a few wonderful friends who helped with stamping, labeling, and packaging, the advent calendars are ready to ship! Send them as gifts now so that your loved ones (and you - treat yourself!) have help finding calm and being present in joy as the holidays approach.
What's in the advent calendar |
What's in the advent calendar |
Unboxing time!
Unboxing the 12 Days of Holiday Calm advent calendar!
Aromatherapy Oils
Recap the blends tightly between uses to save product and messes.
A little background on the 3 aromatherapy blends.
How to use the aromatherapy blends.
Anointing Oil
Immerse yourself in divine love with this exquisite collection of precious essential oils, absolutes, and flower essences. Use Anointing when you seek a love-centered calm and an uplifted spirit. These oils work together to calm, ground, and uplift. Anoint yourself as an emissary of God’s love in the world. Clematis flower essences help ground you into the present moment. Jojoba oil calms inflammation and helps repair the skin.
Ingredients: Elettaria cardamomum (Cardamom), Boswellia carteri* (Frankincense), Lavandula angustifolia* (Lavender), Citrus aurantium* (Neroli), Rosa damascena* (Rose), Santalum spicatum (Sandalwood) essential oils, Jasminum grandiflorum (Jasmine absolute), clematis flower essence, jojoba oil*.
Sacred Receiving Oil
When you are open to receiving, you are in the flow of divine love. Sacred Receiving reminds us that a heart open to receiving is one that gives without over-giving and loves abundantly. Use Sacred Receiving to support inner resilience and restore balance. The essential oils work together to promote a calm nervous system, open heart, and peaceful spirit. Impatiens flower essences calm the spirit and promote mindfulness. Jojoba oil calms inflammation and helps repair the skin. Rice bran oil smooths, soothes, and nourishes the skin.
Ingredients: Ocimum basilicum ct Linalool* (Basil), Boswellia carteri* (Frankincense), Origanum marjorana* (Marjoram), Myroxylon balsamum (Balsam of Peru), Citrus aurantium var. Amara (Petitgrain), Cananga odorata* (Ylang Ylang Extra) essential oils, impatiens flower essence, jojoba and rice bran oils.
Safely Held Oil
This Spirit-inspired aromatherapy supports feelings of safety and comfort. Relax into this deeply and divinely feminine blend, trusting that all is well. Mimulus flower essences help calm anxieties and alleviate fears, helping you tap into your courage and strength. Jojoba oil calms inflammation and helps repair the skin. Baobab oil is rich in antioxidants and omega fatty acids.
This Spirit-inspired aromatherapy supports feelings of safety and comfort. Use Safely Held to bring calm confidence when anxieties and worries are heavy on your heart.
Ingredients: Boswellia carteri* (Frankincense), Lavandula angustifolia* (Lavender), Anthemis nobilis* (Roman Chamomile), Santalum spicatum (Sandalwood) essential oils, mimulus flower essence, baobab and jojoba oils.
Use suggestions for aromatherapy oils:
Uncap and invert the bottle, then apply a few drops of the aromatherapy oil onto your palm by tapping your index finger on the bottom of the bottle.
Rub hands together, cup them under your nose, and take a gentle deep inhalation, luxuriating in the beautiful scent.
Lift the corners of your mouth and exhale worries and anxieties. Focus all your attention on the pleasure of the scent.
Take another deep breath, exhaling any remaining tension. Press your palms into your neck, shoulders, and chest to perfume your body.
Pro tip: Keep the oils with your face products to make them a seamless part of your daily routine.
*Organic
Inspiration Cards
Suggestions for integrating the inspiration cards.
Read and take to heart these quotes of deep wisdom from Brené Brown, Anne Lamott, Julian of Norwich, and others. Tuck the inspirational cards into your handbag, tape them onto your bathroom mirror, leave them on a loved one’s (or your own) pillow for a special love note before sleep… the possibilities are endless.
These inspiration cards make a wonderful meditation and prayer tool. Read the quote and then add in breathing exercises, journaling, or other forms of meditative pause as you let the wisdom sink in.
Journaling prompt suggestion: How does this wisdom change how I view my day today?
Links to visualizations to support the integration of your insights: Facebook and Instagram.
Pro tip: Take a photo of the card and make it your phone’s wallpaper for the day for a steady reminder that you are held in God’s love.
Calming Herbal Tea Blend
Blending tea ingredients for the Advent Calendar
This collection of organic herbs and rose petals aids digestion, promotes stress relief and sleep, and calms the nervous system. Brew a cup to start, shift, and/or end your day in peace.
Add one teaspoon to the tea infuser, put it in your cup, and add boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes. Packet contains two tablespoons of tea mix, enough to brew about 6 cups of tea.
Passionflower calms the mind and soothes the spirit; promotes relaxation.
Lemon balm calms the heart and body; uplifts the spirit.
Spearmint aids digestion and abdominal pain; relieves headaches.
Ingredients: Passionflower*, lemon balm*, spearmint*, rose petals*.
Pro tip: Cover the cup with a saucer when you steep the tea to get more benefit out of the herbs.
*Organic
Aromatic Stove-Top Potpourri
Fill your home with the scent of comforting spices and uplifting citrus. Pour the contents of the entire envelope into a small pot filled with water and bring to a low simmer on the stove. Maintain the water level throughout the day for a full day of calming, delightful aromas.
Pro tip: Add the rinds or slices of citrus fruits like lemon and orange to the pot to heighten the citrus scent profile.
Ingredients: Star anise, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf, dried orange rind, cloves.
Calming Foot Soak
Fill a tub or basin with warm water until it’s deep enough to cover your feet. Pour the contents of the vial into the water and mix until dissolved. Put bare feet into the tub, sit back, and relax, breathing in the calming fragrance. The essential oils calm and uplift while epsom salts relieve aches and pains, decrease inflammation, and improve circulation. Apricot kernel oil moisturizes your skin.
Ingredients: Epsom salts, Lavandula angustifolia* (Lavender) and Citrus bergamia* (bergamot) essential oils, apricot kernel oil.
Pro tip: A plastic dish tub works great for foot baths.
*Organic
Lavender Sachet
Put this sweet farm-fresh lavender sachet in a drawer or near your pillow to envelope you in its calming scent. It keeps bugs away, too!
Ingredients: Dried lavender flowers.
Chocolate Treats
Give yourself over to the enjoyment of the chocolates: taste every bite, smell the cacao, feel the smooth texture of the chocolate and the rough salt or peppermint. Savor. This mindful and intentional appreciation of the chocolate can help calm your nervous system and bring a moment or more of joy into your day.
Made by artisanal chocolatier Raaka in Brooklyn, NY. These unroasted chocolates are made from scratch with single-origin, transparently traded cacao. Chocolates are soy free, gluten free, vegan, dairy free, and organic.
Ingredients: See packaging on each chocolate.
What to do with all these
muslin bags
We love repurposing here at the Blossom Bar and we bet you do, too. Here are a few suggestions on ways to use these handy drawstring bags.
Keep your aromatherapy blends in their bags to keep any oils off your other belongings. Pro tip: Recap the blends tightly between uses to save product and messes.
The tiny bags are perfect for storing rings and necklaces for travel.
Organize junk drawers, office supplies, and backpacks.
Keep hair ties, make up, and other sundries organized in your car or handbag.
Sort your charged batteries from the ones that need to go to recycling.
Keep chargers, cables, and cords organized.
Organize small toys, Legos, and crayons for travel or on-the-go screenless entertainment options for the kids.
The 12 Days of Holiday Calm advent calendar is a collection of aromatherapy and other tools to help you find micro-moments of calm and joy throughout your day. The tools are designed to help be present and experience a peaceful and fulfilling holiday season (and beyond!).