20 Essential Oils for Grief and Loss
If you have experience using essential oils to help get yourself through grief and loss, you know how well they work. Essential oils help many people recall blocked memories, break through situations where they feel stuck, overcome irrational fears, and deal with debilitating despair. I started using them a year after my mother died to help me, and I’ve never looked back. When I started using essential oils, I knew they would help my emotional health, but I never knew why. However, I wasn’t convinced they could help my physical health until I experienced the effects myself. How did they do this? I wanted to know, so I began investigating…
Scent Anchoring and Essential Oils
What is scent anchoring? Scent anchoring is when we store what we smell in our olfactory memory. Some we attach to pleasurable experiences, others with uncomfortable or even traumatic events. When we reencounter the same smells within a few days, months, or years, we may find that they trigger positive or negative reactions to things we associated them with in the past. We can attach any scent to any event, and essential oils can smell like those same aromas anchored in our olfactory memory and trigger the same responses. As with the stored scents, essential oils may cause people distress, and others may help people break through their trauma or…
5 Ways to Achieve Wellness
To achieve wellness, we all can benefit from these five things: healthy diet, structured exercise, mind/body/spirit connection, dietary supplements, and essential oils. Each plays a role in supporting the other, but all things start with diet, and the others support what we eat to help us be as healthy as we can be. Wellness is called a journey because to achieve it requires an individualized plan that may take time to figure out. While there is merit in one-size-fits-all options, most times you will have to adapt them to fit your needs, your current health situation, and your ability to maintain your efforts. However, nutrition is nutrition … you absolutely…
Back-to-School Wellness: Week 10 – Thieves
Thieves … no blog about essential oil wellness would be complete without it, especially since I’m talking about Young Living products. I’ve covered many ways to support your kids both emotionally and physically this school year, but I have one more parent tip that is going to be a GAME CHANGER in your house. Normal cleaners are FILLED with harmful chemicals that negatively affect your immune system, neurological system, and overall development, and can even cause cancer. When you and your kids are exposed to these harmful chemicals over and over again through your laundry detergent, dishwasher soap, cleaners, hand soap, and air fresheners, this taxes the body as it…
The Modern Day EO Trio: Boost Your Immunity All Season Long
All Young Living essential oils – literally all of them – help to boost your immunity. They all act as antioxidants in your body and as preventatives to protect you from getting sick. The key is to learn how they work and which ones work best for what. This immunity trio is a great bundle to start with to protect your body. The Big Three Essential Oils to Boost Your Immunity At a minimum, everyone should have Lemon, Geranium, and Lauris Nobilis in their apothecary collection. Each has it’s own set of supportive properties, but together they offer antiviral, antibacterial, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory support. Other essential oils for year-round support.…
