The Meaning Behind Lilac & Fig
Names carry stories.
When I chose the name Lilac & Fig, I wanted something that reflected the kind of space I hoped to create—a place for healing, transformation, resilience, transition, and becoming.
The lilac and the strangler fig are very different plants, yet together they represent something I have come to understand deeply:
We can be both tender and strong. We can honor what has been while still becoming something new.
The Lilac — Renewal, Memory & New Beginnings
Lilacs are among the first flowers to bloom as the world begins waking after winter.
Their blossoms arrive after a season of dormancy—a beautiful reminder that periods of stillness, loss, and change do not mean that nothing is happening beneath the surface.
For me, the lilac represents renewal, remembrance, intuition, and new beginnings.
Its fragrance can also have an almost immediate connection to memory. A familiar scent can transport us to another place and time, reminding us of people we have loved, homes we once knew, and versions of ourselves we may have thought we had forgotten.
There is something beautifully fitting about that for the work I do.
Healing does not always mean leaving the past behind.
Sometimes it means remembering.
Sometimes it means grieving.
Sometimes it means carrying something forward differently.
And sometimes, after a long internal winter, it means allowing ourselves to bloom again.
The Strangler Fig — Transformation, Resilience & Becoming
The fig in Lilac & Fig isn't just any fig.
It is the strangler fig.
Its story begins in an unlikely place.
A seed takes root high within another tree rather than beginning its life in the soil below. From there, it sends roots downward toward the earth while continuing to reach toward the light.
Over time, those roots grow stronger, intertwining and creating an extraordinary structure capable of supporting the tree as it continues to grow and transform.
The strangler fig survives by adapting.
It finds another way.
For me, it has become a symbol of resilience, transformation, strength, and becoming.
Life rarely unfolds exactly as we imagine it will.
Sometimes the ground beneath us changes.
Sometimes something ends before we are ready.
Sometimes the life, identity, relationship, belief, or path we once depended upon can no longer hold us.
And sometimes we find ourselves beginning again from a place we never expected.
The strangler fig reminds me that we do not need perfect conditions in order to grow.
We can send down new roots.
We can reach toward something different.
We can become stronger without becoming harder.
Lilac & Fig
Together, these two plants tell a story that feels deeply connected to this work.
Lilac reminds us to remember.
Fig reminds us we can transform.
One speaks to tenderness, memory, renewal, and the cycles of life.
The other speaks to resilience, adaptation, transformation, and finding a way forward when the path looks nothing like we expected.
And somewhere between the two is where so much of life happens.
We grieve and we grow.
We remember and we release.
We lose things we thought would always be with us.
We discover parts of ourselves we didn't know were there.
We put down new roots.
We begin again.
A Space for Life's Thresholds
Lilac & Fig was created as a space for those moments.
The thresholds.
The endings and beginnings.
The seasons when you know something is changing but don't yet know what comes next.
Whether you find your way here through Reiki and energy healing, spiritual exploration, grief, end-of-life care, or simply because something within you is asking for attention, you don't need to arrive already knowing where the path leads.
Sometimes we bloom.
Sometimes we root.
Sometimes we simply rest in the space between what was and what will be.