Mother Anita’s^® Story                    

Mother Anita's products began in the dream world and in the work to reclaim my loss  of my mother. I began Hummingbird Therapeutics and production of Mother Anita’s Comfort Balm following a lifelong involvement with the ocean, plants and nature. What unfolded from this involvement and my work was beyond my dreams, but not beyond my mothers'. My mother died when I was six months of age.

 I heard throughout my childhood many stories of my Mother’s loving, caring and devoted nature to children, pets, and people. Mother Anita was devoted to joy, to playfulness, to life and living it. Forty years later her devotion to healing was shown to me and she assisted me in claiming joy, healing and playfulness through a new balm, made from aromatherapy ingredients, Comfort Balm.

The formula for the first balm came from research into the properties of different essential oils, understanding that no essential oil would provide healing properties unless it was a vintage, top quality oil, from ideas which came during times in which I received massages, and from my connecting with my mother. Unsure of what to call the product, I sought advice from others. I’m devoted to the earth and the restorative powers of the Mother Earth, a mother I had learned to trust and know well in my life. After turning the naming process over to others, I learned I was to call the product Mother Anita’s. Feeling too personal, I hesitated, yet trusted that if this was the name, I would be with it. To my surprise Mother Anita emerged time and again, as people asked “Who is Mother Anita?” In this way, her story and mine provided an opportunity for planting the seed of finding peace in loss.

Since the first naming of Mother Anita’s Comfort Balm, I’ve learned that this product emerged through Mother Anita to assist me in transitioning my sense of loss to the reality of a daily connection. Each day I work in Hummingbird Therapeutics, I work with my mother. She comes into my life often, as I recount with others the story which brought me to transform my deep sense of having lost her guidance in my life into rediscovering her guidance through the creation of the healing products I know make, and her sense of joy.

Mother Anita continues her caring and nurturing from afar, encouraging all who use my products to embrace the joyfulness; to play, and to find healing that Mother Earth and the plants so willingly offer to each of us.