My participation in the 26 in 52 challenge has been around the theme of an in-depth exploration of the grief process and the use of essential oils to clear the non-coherent patterns that arise in the course of these repatternings. In her intro to the Negative Thoughts repatterning Chloe Wordsworth identifies eight categories of what she calls destructive mental activities. Typically we work on one of these at a time, and the one that came up for me to address was Worry.

I don’t usually think of myself as a worrier, and so this was a revelation, that I’ve had worrying going on in the background just below the level of my conscious awareness. After my husband passed away, my financial situation became somewhat less predictable than it had been, and I found myself having to deal with deferred expenses, particularly in relation to necessary home repairs and maintenance. I’m…