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Hi we're Cathy Skipper & Florian Birkmayer MD

We are teachers & coaches of soul growth. We are AromaGnosis.

We combine a deep perspective, incorporating ancestral healing, psychedelic therapy, aromas and a hands-on roadmap of the psyche for transformational healing and growth by getting your ego and shadow to collaborate instead of undermining each other. Remove long-standing blockages and live your best life.

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Reclaim Your Lost Sense and Reconnect

Dear Reader, Aromas, which I call the Molecules of Connectedness, have brought us together. For example, you've found out about our work and signed up for our newsletter. You appreciate that aromas bypass the intellect, and open doors to your individual unconscious and the collective unconscious. In our work and in us connecting, we're being guided by aromas, even if our egos think we're in charge. Nevertheless, we hear from a lot of people who tell us "When I smell an aroma, I just don't...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Dear Reader, The subject of older women has gone from being a no-go topic, hidden away in the privacy of ageing women’s psyches, to being a hot-off-the-press conversation. I’ve been working with women going through menopause since 2017 and listening carefully to the conversations being had in the media, on podcasts, in books, etc. And I’m worried. I’m worried, because I believe the journey to elder-hood is at the risk of being ‘cashed in on.’ By this, I mean that it's not taken to the depths...

about 2 months ago • 3 min read

Dear Reader, We're all familiar with the idiomatic expression "Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees," which to me means we're too close to, or immersed in a subject to see the bigger picture, to get an outside view. In my lateral thinking, the next thing that pops up is the opening of Dante's "Divine Comedy", (written over 800 years ago, and yet still so relevant to our modern experience): "In the middle of the journey of life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader, There has been a virtual explosion of interest in psychedelic therapies, from both health practitioners and people in general. For health practitioners, in particular those who focus on 'mental' or 'behavioral' health, there is enthusiasm because of the promise of a new treatment, which is, on a mostly unconscious level, a reaction to the fact that most of the previously existing treatments, including medications and therapies, don't work for that many people. On the one hand,...

2 months ago • 4 min read

Dear Reader, Well, what do you know? Today is National Leadership Day here in the United States. Considering the presumptive candidates for the upcoming presidential election are both old white men, even senile and narcissistic, this "leadership day" certainly gives us something to think about. What do we really need to make sure that there is still a planet left for the next generation, let alone the next seven? How do we share the country’s wealth in a way that everyone has an equal part of...

2 months ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader, How is 2024 going for you so far? At the end of 2023, did you decide that things were going to change for you in 2024? Did you make a list of dreams, intentions, and goals you’re hoping to achieve this year? Maybe you’ve decided to up your professional life, finally breaking free from negative beliefs about self-worth and abundance. Or is it more on an emotional level that you want to see things evolve--new and healthier relationships, freedom from enmeshment, better boundaries?...

2 months ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader, The universe catapulted me to New Mexico nearly nine years ago, I have a lot to thank it for. Not least of all the magnificence of the High Desert. I couldn’t have imagined such an enchanting place if I’d tried. I couldn’t have made up the stories of magic and synchronicity that happen to me regularly here. It’s like living in between the realms. The ancestors of these lands arrived here over three thousand years ago and if you are quiet and respectful, you can hear them...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Dear Reader, This is Cathy. It feels like it’s been a while since I got down to sharing with you. So here goes. A lot has changed here at AromaGnosis in a very short space of time. For a start, my oldest son Jah has joined the team. He’s brilliant and forcing us to look clearly at how precise our message is. How good our content is. Are we serving our clients in the best way possible? I won’t lie. It’s hard at times. Change is hard. Looking at ourselves honestly is hard. Getting older and...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it directs your life, and you will call it destiny." - Carl Jung. It is becoming more and more obvious to us that the unconscious is our partner in healing. It is by “making the unconscious conscious” that we can change old, stuck patterns of behaviors, emotions and attitudes and move towards healing. Over the years, we have seen time and time again that, given the right conditions, the unconscious will always give us exactly what we...

6 months ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader, As we are approaching the time of the year when the veil is at its thinnest, we thought we would share with you six ways in which ancestral work helps us heal effectively. 1) We did not arrive from outer space. It is egotistical to think of ourselves as individuals completely separated from those whose shoulders we are standing on. We are part of an ancestral tree that is a living system. In the same way that we inherited out physical bodies from our ancestors, we inherited the...

6 months ago • 2 min read
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