Welcome back! We're wrapping up the crystal essences series with Total Love and Warrior, plus I'll cover the practical details on how to use these essences and tell you about the Choose Your Own Crystal system launching in 2026.
Total Love
Right, next one—Total Love. Oh, this is a fun one! Total Love is about being able to recognize the love around you. It also helps you be very clear about what you want in terms of how love shows up in your life. I feel like as kids who grew up with Hallmark movies and just culture around us in general, we're very much trained to think that romantic love is the ultimate love—like we can't do anything without it. And then after that comes child-parent love if that's what you want, but we'll speak to that in a second.
Total Love is about reframing all of that. It's where you get to be very much present and happy and content with the love that you already have in your life—being able to recognize what's already there. And that can be your self-love. For some people, what they really need to work on is self-love. For other people, it's about their friendships, their relationships with their community, their pets. It's about just even the sun shining on you and feeling like you're being kissed by the universe. There's that piece to it.
Then there's also the piece where if you are seeking romantic love or you're trying to improve the romantic love you already have, it can be about shedding our expectations around what that love should look like. I mentioned the Hallmark movies we all grew up with—oh, we should have tall, dark and handsome, or what's the newest one? Like 6-foot finance bro and rich or something like that. That was floating around maybe 12 months ago. So anyway, if you have this checkbox of love, then it's very restricted and you might actually be missing out on the kind of love and the kind of partner or person around you that is going to give you what you need as a soul.
So, it's all about re-examining that. What you might want instead of tall, dark, and handsome is someone that actually makes you feel safe, or someone who is a real partner in your corner, or someone who makes you feel listened to. There's an emotional connection, a soul connection. There's chemistry there, but it's not necessarily what we think of as chemistry—it's like that companionship chemistry. That's how I frame Total Love—it frees you from these expectations of what romantic love might need to look like. And you know, it can also help you let go of the concept that you even need it. A lot of us don't.
I am married and I quite like my husband. He's a lovely guy. But you know, it's about being at peace where your idea of love, the love that you have in your day-to-day, might not look like what we've been trained has to look like in society.
And the final piece about Total Love, and this is a new discovery for me—I actually started using it like this a few months ago. I realized in my world I was doing, doing, doing and I was pushing ahead—I'll try this and I'll try that and blah blah blah. I hadn't stopped to ask myself and check in with my heart chakra about what it was that I really needed to do. What was going to make me feel alive? What was going to light my fire and keep me in line with my goals, my desires? I hadn't stopped and had that discussion. I just kept doing, doing, being, being, whatever.
So, I started taking Total Love and then was doing some self-reflection exercises where I would sink down into my heart chakra area and just have a little bit of a "hey, how you going?" Because I'd been ignoring that part of me. I was using Total Love to really get in touch with my heart, my spirit, and what do I want and what should I do to move forward that's going to keep me happy. That was an interesting discovery. I love these essences—there's always new layers coming out. I've had a lot of these blends around for some of them seven years or longer, and yeah, I keep discovering new things about them.
Warrior
All right. The next one after Total Love is Warrior. Now I have to be careful of my accent here—warrior, not worrying! When I lived in Canada, there were a few things I would say that people didn't understand when the vowels would come out. So this is not about worrying. This is about being a warrior. You are a strong person.
But really, if you're looking for a word to sum up Warrior, it is about hope. This is not the classic Disney warrior that's out there fighting battles and winning the damsel and all that sort of stuff. This one is about pushing forward when it's hard. It's about maintaining that hope. It's about keeping the faith. You've got things to deal with, you need a bit of power behind it. It can also be for those that are like the reluctant leader—you've been put in a position where you've got to keep moving, but it's feeling a little bit hopeless and we just want to reinvigorate you, keep you going, and really get you in touch with that sense of being hopeful.
And I know right now there's a lot going on in the world. I'm recording this in December 2025. It's tumultuous. People are feeling jaded and just overwrought. They've been overspent and thrown around and I'm noticing people are just resigned and feeling hopeless. So Warrior is really about reinvigorating that faith. Just keep the faith. Things are working out. Things are working in the background. It has flavors to some of the other essences like Gratitude, Abundance, Holding Space. But this one, yeah, we want to sum it up—it's about hope. And it's a nice one, too. It's not about pushing and being hard. It's just about keeping that faith.
And listen, if you need more descriptions, please go to the website.
How to Use the Essences
So, that's all of them! If you have any questions, please email me, let me know. And the way that you take them—I've discussed this in a previous episode, but just to sum it up: the drops you take in your water. You can shake about eight drops into your water bottle and sip on that throughout the day. Every time you have a sip, that's considered a dose. This is what happens in vibrational medicine—the more doses, the more sips or contact you have with it, the faster it's going to work.
If you don't like that format, or if you don't carry around a water bottle or you're going to forget it, you can do four drops in the morning—shake them into a little bit of water—and four drops in the evening. Get them in like that in a more intentional medicinal way. You're still going to get the effects.
And the nice thing about these pre-made blends is that you only take one at a time, but you can switch them up every 24 hours if you like. Sometimes, like when I was working with Total Love and opening my heart chakra, I was on that for a couple of weeks because I knew there was some deep work to do. But sometimes if I've got to go to a meeting and I'm not feeling super confident or not sort of sure of my words during that day, I'll take Speak Your Truth or Sassy Pants and I'll just take that in preparation.
I mean, today I'm on Holding Space and I'm spraying the spray. Now, that is the only one that you can use with other remedies—you can use the spray and one of the drop essences at the same time because the spray works a bit differently. But yeah, like today I'm on Holding Space and let's see how the day unfolds. I might not need it tomorrow because I've dealt with my issue and then I can choose another one.
Where to Purchase
If you would like to purchase any of these, you can go to the website vintagehealth.com.au. Go to the shop if you're interested in reading more about them. There's a snapshot page which lines them all up on the same page so you can go back and forth and compare. But if you're wanting a deep dive into each of the essences, you go into the shop to the place where you would purchase one and then you can read a lot more about how these are constructed, the kind of issues that you might be using them for, and go from there.
Choose Your Own Crystals (CYOC) System
Now the other piece about these—I'll just mention it. This entire system came out of another system or service I offer which is called Choose Your Own Crystals. So CYOC—it's where you are intuitively choosing what you need. The original system I offer with my clients in person and you can do this in a session with me online. And I am in 2026 launching an automated system where you and I don't need to deal with each other, but I get your personalized blend and I will post it out to you.
So, it's all about using your intuition to choose what you need. And it's not about being cerebral, knowing what the essence—what like, you know, say amethyst means or lapis lazuli means—and then choosing from there and making up a remedy that's pertinent to whatever issue you're trying to deal with. This one is about we let the crystals jump out and you choose them based on your intuition.
The personalised crystal essence is where this all came from. And then the reason the global essences, these pre-made blends came about was I was noticing that my clients doing the Choose Your Own system were coming up against these same concepts. So these have been intuited by me for those particular issues that clients have been dealing with. Then I put it out there and created a system where I was a surrogate for tapping into that global energy. I got in touch with the signature of what my clients were dealing with over a number of them and then came up with these blends.
So yeah, it's a beautiful system and I'm looking forward to speaking to you more about the CYO system in the new year. But for now, if you want to buy these, you can find them through the website like I said. And I encourage you to grab a few because there'll be certain issues that you might butt up against where you go, "Oh yeah, I'm always dealing with boundaries and then I can't speak out about what I need and then do you know what? I actually don't think I've gotten in touch with my heart chakra for a very long time." So, I'll go with Appropriate Boundaries, Speak Your Truth, and Total Love.
Using Intuition to Choose
One more thing about the pre-made blends: when you go to the website and go to the shop, you'll notice that there's a picture—let's say of Total Love. You go to Total Love, there's a picture of the bottle, and there's also a picture of a bunch of crystals. Those are the crystals that are in Total Love.
So, you can use your intuition if you're not sure which one to choose of the pre-made blends. You can go through and check the images of the crystals. You don't need to know the crystals, but you need to just observe how you feel looking at those. And this is what I'm actually experimenting with on TikTok and Instagram where I'm putting just the pictures of each blend—no names, no nothing—and just going, "All right, 1, 2, 3, which one calls to you?" And then I'll explain to you which one you've chosen and then that might make sense.
So, it's a pretty nice system. It also takes the guesswork out. It takes out anything about me trying to choose it for you because I know the essences or the crystals, or you being too cerebral. It's all about what your body is asking for because the signature of the crystal is jumping out at you.
So yeah, find me on my socials. Reach out to me, email, website. And I hope you're having a great day. Thanks so much for being here. I know this was a long one. All right, take care. Bye.