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Essential Oils for Abandonment Wounds
As I shared last week, your core wounds can lie at the root of emotional over-reactions. When a core wounds from childhood have been triggered, it can compromise your ability to regulate your emotions....
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Essential Oils to Support Self Empathy
The voice in my head is not very kind. My mother was always quick to criticize and find fault. I only recently realized that it is her voice I often hear in my head. Telling me that I’m not enough....
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Boundaries and Peer Pressure
How do you compromise your values or desires to make other people happy? When I was in second grade we were assigned to make flowers out of colored construction paper, so I took great care to make a...
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Releasing Expectations and Judgment
I was recently challenged to reassess and release some of my long-standing judgements about myself, the world and others, in a way that has drastically improved my mental health. A relatively small...
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Essential Oils for Disappointment
Today would have been my 20-year wedding anniversary. That is, if we had stayed married. I never intended to get divorced. Or to lose a child. Or outlive some of my closest friends. Life has definitely...
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Essential Oils for Grief
There are days when my heart hurts so much, I struggle to even take a breath. The intense pain of grief always hits me in the lungs – right on the chest – sometimes it literally feels like a Mac truck...
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Essential Oils to Support Receiving Praise
I never really learned to take a compliment. In fact, it makes me super uncomfortable. And I have become the queen of deflection – often downplaying or diminishing my positive qualities and...
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Creating Space to Heal
“Space the final frontier” was the opening theme to the popular 1970s show Star Trek. We used to watch that show every Saturday night with my mom growing up. At the time, I used to think of space as...
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Spleen Support for Transformation
It feels like so many of us are in the midst of personal transformations at this moment – be it a personal transformation involving a change in how we invest our time and energy or a health...
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Supporting Personal Boundaries with Essential Oils
I just spent the weekend visiting my teenage daughter at college. She is really thriving with one small exception. As a pleaser and a “good girl”, she is struggling to set boundaries with some of...
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