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Essential Oils for Grief
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Your Solar Plexus: The Key to Calming Your Nervous System Naturally
Understanding the Solar Plexus: Why Essential Oils and the Solar Plexus Go Hand in Hand If you've explored French aromatherapy practices, you've likely noticed how frequently essential oils are recommended for solar plexus application. This isn't coincidence—it's...
Heat Waves and Mental Health
When the Heat Gets to Your Head: How Rising Temperatures Are Messing with Our Minds Summer's blazing heat doesn't just make us sweat—it's also messing with our minds in ways we're only beginning to understand. As global temperatures continue to rise and heatwaves...
7 Types of Rest for Mental Health
In our relentless modern world, the concept of rest has been drastically oversimplified. We often equate rest with sleep, failing to recognize that true restoration encompasses much more. As someone who recently returned from a profound period of anapauo in Hawaii –...
Essential Oils for Stress Relief
Stress, Mental Health, and How Essential Oils Can Help We all experience stress as part of daily life. But when stressful events or situations go on for too long, it can seriously impact our mental health. Understanding how essential oils may help regulate the bodys...
The Food-Mood Connection
The Food-Mood Connection: How Diet Impacts Depression and Anxiety Depression and anxiety are increasingly common mental health issues, with around 1 in 4 people experiencing them at some point in their lives. While various forms of talk therapy and medication, be it...
Emotional Well-being & the Scent of Soil
The Soothing Scent of Soil: How the Earthy Aroma of Soil Can Reduce Stress It’s gardening season here in North Carolina, and I have become keenly aware of the impact this has on my emotional well-being. This impact is due primarily to the aromas emitted from the soil...
The Power of Scent: How Garden Aromas Can Enhance Well-being
The Garden SmellscapeOur sense of smell has an undeniable power to affect our moods and mental states. Inhaling the fragile aroma of a flower or aromatic plant can lift our spirits and calm anxieties. Catching the earthy scent of soil on a spring day can conjure up...
5 Tips for Using Essential Oils for Stress Relief
Scent is POWERFUL!Smell is the most underutilized sense we have yet one of the most powerful. It is our most primal sense. It stops us from drinking sour milk, alerts us to natural gas, and can even detect a fire 30 miles away. While other mammals, such as dogs and...
Essential Oils and Mental Health
The Power of Aroma: How Essential Oils and Our Sense of Smell Can Support Mental HealthOur sense of smell is deeply connected to our emotions, memories, and overall mental health. When we inhale an aroma, scent molecules travel through the nose and stimulate the...
Forest Bathing and Essential Oils
Forest bathing, also known as Shinrin-Yoku, is a practice that involves immersing oneself in nature to improve physical and mental health. The term “forest bathing” was first coined in Japan in the 1980s and has since gained...
Aromatherapy and Grieving
Grief Especially dedicated to close friends who lost someone dear throughout the past year and to my Daddy, Anthony Balzan, who still lives in me and my children. Grief, a single word: A short word to describe an abyss of emotions. A deep excruciating pain, deep in...