Welcome to Seoul sugar. I'm your host carry rad. You might know me from my videos on YouTube. I love to chat about all things self-care self-love living our very best lives and finding our inner magic Soul. Sugar is a community of blooming Soul Seekers like sugar for your soul. Hello everyone. Welcome back to another An all-new episode of Soul sugar podcast. I am so excited about today's guest. I'm so fascinated by this we have dr. Marisa here on the line. She is the author of The recently released book The Essential Oils hormone solution the field guide to women everywhere who are ready to achieve vitality and health with essential oils. She is regularly featured with top National media such as dr. Oz The Huffington Post and Mind Body green. We're her interviews and segments have helped Millions. She is also the host of essentially you podcast where she talks about all aspects of essential oils. I am so happy to have you here. Dr. Marisa. I am so grateful to be here. Thank you so much. I find it. So fascinating how essential oils can be used in so many different ways and I know I defuse essential oil in my home, but that is pretty much the extent of what I know and how How I use them and so I'm so excited to talk with you of and it just hear about all of the other ways. We could use essential oils like balancing out our hormones and so much more. Oh, I'm so excited to have that conversation. Yeah, we can talk about all the things related to oils and how they can serve. I mean if you've got questions girl, I've got answers. Yay. Okay. So first off, I want to know more about you and your journey. So tell me about your own journey and How you became? So passionate about essential oils. Absolutely. So my journey didn't start with oils my journey really started with hormones and it's kind of been my area of expertise for over a decade. I found that a lot of women including myself didn't really understand what was going on with our bodies didn't understand this the warning signs and the symptoms that we were dealing with were actually hormonal imbalances. And so when I was 30 years old, I was in practice seeing patients. I was so excited and I had I had Erased my way to get into practice, you know, I went from school to work to school to work. Like it was just it was crazy and I had this very much survival mentality and this people-pleasing mentality that really drove me into the ground. I was I was fueled by chronic stress and coffee and I don't think it was peanut M probably was kind bars back in the day like whatever little something something I could get through but his remember leveraging stress as my fuel and I thought to myself back then that I was managing it. I was rocking my stress levels. I was living this crazy crazy lie until and I remember saying to myself as long as I'm not crawling on the floor. I am killing it until I absolutely was I was crawling on the floor. I had the worst chronic fatigue that I hope I will never have again and I don't wish that kind of chronic fatigue on anybody and I remember when I was kind of went and like the Pinnacle of that moment when I woke up one of the days that after sleeping seven hours and it literally felt like this invisible hand was pressing me back into the bed. Like I remember thinking to myself. I don't know if I can get up. I don't know if I can take care of my patients. I don't know how I'm going to function today and it was such a kind of a lonely scary place and initially I went to blame and I remember thinking like I had done this to myself like this was all my fault and going I went to a doctor because I had a friend of mine who would Somebody because even as a practitioner, you should not probably self-diagnose. You should probably go and see somebody else have them run labs and have a very different and unbiased opinion and I remember going to the doctor's and that particular practitioner. Literally my labs basically said hormone hot mess. I'm pretty sure that's what they said on them. And I remember when she finally scripted me up to solve these problems mainly this chronic stress that I was dealing with of this chronic fatigue. She recommended birth control and Xanax. That was the recommend that was the script recommendation. And I remember feeling so not heard. I remember filling the very big disconnect and knowing that this wasn't what was going to be the case. So I devoted a lot of my studies a lot of my research to figure out how to get myself well and realizing that so many other women were dealing with the same thing. Probably the biggest lesson there was that I was not unique that they were millions of women dealing with the same thing that I was dealing with now over the course of a couple of years. I got a lot of things right I figured out a lot of things She was managing my stress better. I was taking care of my lifestyle of doing more self care, even though the time we weren't actually calling itself care just felt like habits, but one of the things that I wasn't able to kick was that I was chronically sick all the time and we know that the that are that are stress hormones are major immune system regulators. And when I threw off those stress hormones, one of the things that I just did not get back online was my immune system and it was it was still kind of crumbled to the ground. So I Getting sick with strep throat colds and flus pretty much consistently every month. If not every other month and I couldn't kick it no matter how many nasty herbs and tinctures and vitamin. I mean all the vitamins all the herbs all the nasty drinks. I was drinking it. I was doing all of it and yet I was still getting sick all the time. So I good friend of mine had an immune system blend and she had been using oils on her family for quite some time. Probably about a year and you know, it's one of my dearest friends and she was just like I am so sick and Tired of hearing your always sick, like you're always sick all the time. She's like, I think I have a oil blend and essential oil blend that can help you. You know, I want you to start using it. So she mailed it to me and I did because at this point I was so desperate to not miss work. I was so desperate to feel better. I would have done anything. I would have drank more nasty yucky stuff. And so I started using this blend and let me tell you I honestly had no idea what I was doing. I was just I was slathering it all over myself. I was diffused. Using it. I was playing it and T. I was putting on the bottom my feet. I mean I was bathing in it literally in Epsom salt baths and lo and behold I did not get sick that entire winter for that three months would normally I would get sick at least three to four times and not only that three months but fast forward three and a half years later. I had not gotten sick in three and a half years. So that was the beginning of my Essential Oil Journey all kind of wrapped up in you know, what had happened to me about two years prior. Wow, that is so cool. And I can totally relate to that feeling of almost just pushing yourself so far and feeling like okay. Well as long as I'm pushing myself and you know, I'm working hard and I'm passionate about what I'm doing and you know, I have all these things to do you feel like okay. I'm I'm doing something right right. I'm I'm going for my goals. I'm working hard, but I feel like so many people can relate to the fact of like you just push. Yourself to the point where you're just like I cannot get out of bed. And I love the fact that you just kind of implemented that journey and that experience that you were having into your practice and into what you do and you've created this awesome platformer where you're sharing, you know, more holistic and natural ways to go through this and the fact that you know, the first thing that was recommended to you was birth control and Xanax. That's that's crazy to me, but it is true and it's very it's so common. It is so common. You know, we see here's the thing and I can get into it's a whole different so box and we're not going to have time for that today, you know, so often it's been thought in all the the hundreds of years that we've been we've had modern medicine. We are quick to write off women's symptoms as being somatic as being it's all in their head and that's what it felt like to me that day that she ignored the burnout or not even that she ignored it that she didn't have the skills. Maybe that's just not the skill. That she had clearly I had severe burn out. I had mitochondrial dysfunction. There were probably some other things going on and let me tell you the solution was not an anti-anxiety medication or birth control my menstrual cycle. Although my PMS was not not I was not having a good time with that because it was having an impact because stress has a major impact on our menstrual cycle mainly because of the pregnant alone steel which literally steals progesterone and makes PMS significantly worse. And I didn't know that at the time because even myself I hadn't had a a ton, you know a breadth of the physiological hormone information. And so I was so grateful that this happened to me in a way because I gotta dig dig into the Nitty Gritty but let me tell you birth control doesn't manage any of that doesn't manage menstrual cycles doesn't manage acne. It doesn't only thing that birth control is good for is ensuring that you don't get pregnant and there are a lot of other ways to ensure that you don't get it. Pregnant outside of hormonal birth control, so I'm not a big fan of birth control. I'm so grateful that we have it but the side effects and the implications for something like a synthetic drug like that is just it's just it can be so great for so many people. I just interviewed a woman yesterday on my podcast. Dr. Sara Hill and her book. She has a new book coming out called basically what the pill does to our brain and it was frightening. It was a frightening interview. And so Fact that this woman is giving me these two medications she ate, I just felt so brushed off. I felt I felt ignored I felt brushed off and I felt like so many other millions of women who've walked out of a doctor's office except that at least I felt like I knew enough that it was not the right move. Whereas so many women don't and that is why it's been my my mission my crusade whatever you want to call it to put the information out there so that we can make educated decisions about our health and wellness. This one of the reasons why I love essential oils is that so much of our healing can really happen at home. It's lifestyle and leveraging Powerful plant based medicine to me is such a beautiful way to truly heal the body and you know, we were just in Europe five five weeks ago back in the month of May and June and we had our 20-plus oils on us and let me tell you everything came up from headaches to Kink next to to grouchy moments to bug bites to sunburn. I mean all of it, right and we not one time did we go to a pharmacy not one time that that was that necessary we had oils for all of those those emergencies they'll and they're not big emergencies are little things but those little things happen every single day and if we could use a natural option for those types of little things then I think that we are one step closer to really just being more mindful about using a natural approach to heal our body. Absolutely. Can you share with me some of your favorite essential oil recipes and also with that I'm like dying to know because this is this is probably my biggest question surrounding what you do and I'm I'm curious about how exactly do you recommend people use these oils. Are you talking about defusing them? Are you using them as a topical treatment or are you consuming them or is it all three? It is all three depending on the situation. The great thing about it is for all the hundreds of oils that are out there because there's probably about Hundred essential oils out there. If not more the great thing about it is there only is three ways to use them. Now one thing that's super important to note that no matter which way you use them whether it's topical it's inhalation through aromatic or it's even internal and we'll talk about the caution around internal and just a moment. But each way of each of those ways is systemic every single way you use those oils. They are systemic. So if you're using them aromatically they are in the bloodstream in 60 ends upon breathing them in like that's how fast and we're talking about millions of molecules. Right? So if someone doesn't feel comfortable using them topical or internal best believe you are going to get some serious benefit by just simply breathing them in and so it just really depends so when I think about breathing oils and let's just take the easiest way to use an oil it's literally uncapping it and holding it to your nose and breathing it in that's called direct inhalation and you can have an indirect inhalation is through a diffuser and there's a couple of Four ways that you can wear diffuser jewelry. You can wear it on your scarf you can you know, there's a lot of different ways to have indirect inhalation at the end of the day. It's also going into the brain. It's also going to the lungs it's going into the bloodstream, but the reasons why I recommend aromatic usage one it's easy, but to most of the time at least the people that I'm working with are dealing with emotional upheaval they're dealing with cognitive concerns like brain fog. They're dealing with stress. They're dealing With Cravings, you know, I work with women they are dealing with a lack of energy. They're feeling fatigued and they're dealing with an inability to go to sleep at night and by breathing oils in it's got to be, you know, a specific combination and the Beautiful Thing, is it boils or adaptive? So a lot of the oils do very similar things like, you know, if you want to use lavender, it's going to calm you down. It's great for stress. It's great for sleep. But also with Clary Sage is the same has very similar chemical constituents to Lavender. And so, you know, you don't have to have The exact recipe you can kind of play with it and figure it out and that's what my book The Essential Oils hormone solution does is it gives you the reason why I have so many recipes in there. I really wanted to demonstrate to people the here's 15 different sleep Blends. You don't have to have the exact sleep recipe right? So that's why I love aromatic for me my emotional well-being my emotional status how I'm feeling every day how I want to feel I think that with essential oils you can literally Choose your mood you want to feel this kind of way? Here's this oil. You want to feel you want to feel happy citruses? And mince you want to feel you want to calm things down and feel more ease and Grace a Jasmine lavender Clary Sage, right? You want to feel more grounded sound of wood Cedar Wood, you know, you can figure out and kind of choose how you want to feel so then there's that's aromatic that scintillation but topical, you know, as a practitioner that was the first way that I recommended oils because I was treating conditions Well putting oils on the body. It's literally treating the area of concern. You've got a stomachache put them on your tummy. You got you got asthma or you've got respiratory issues put them on your lungs. You've got a headache put them on put them on the area where your headache is a tension headache on the temples. Maybe it's a serviço genic headache or a Met migraine headache. It's going to be on the back of the neck, right? So it's really being specific but I don't want people to do is if they've got a tummy ache to put the oils on their Shin, you know, because it's not going to get to the area of concern. And very fast it they'll probably get there at some point. But if you want to treat a tummy ache or you want to treat like let's say you're working on acid reflux. You want to put oils on the in kind of that upper area near the rib cage because that's where the esophageal area is. So that makes sense. Yes, and it's so fascinating. I know I said that at the beginning but I just find it so cool because I love essential oils and I use them. I just diffused a lemongrass last night because lemongrass makes me feel kind of Zen doubt but also energized at the same time and it's emotionally released oil. It's great for emotional release its but it's very Zen. I love it. Yeah. I love I love I love lemon grass with lavender and I love it with Bergamo. I like to mix laughing or lemongrass in with some other oils. Yeah. I bet it would be lovely with lavender. I like lavender to in the bedroom when I'm getting ready to go to sleep. I love Lemon Grass like in the living room when I'm like wine. Being down reading a book and I just diffused lemongrass last night when my fiance and I were reading and we both felt we were like this feels like a spa. It smells like a spa. It was really nice. So just hearing about, you know, being able to implement that in so many different ways and really thinking about you know, I always think about essential oils in a way where I'm like, I really like this scent and I think that that's a really nice way to look at it, but it's also so cool that each and every cent can You something specific to your mood and your energy and just like some emotional release like you said with lemongrass. I find that it makes a lot of sense though, too. Because lemongrass does make me feel that way. I have another question for you and it is how do women know if their bodies are out of balance. Are there signs do we only know if we go to the doctor? Is there something that you can kind of pinpoint to know, you know? Oh, okay. I'm out of balance here. I need to get this inch absolutely. Well, I think it's important to just kind of give a little bit of a kind of context or background and explain a little bit about what hormones are. I don't think we realize how important they play a role in the body hormones really dictate so much in the body. They're inextricably connected to our neurotransmitters. Some of them are both right both neurotransmitter and hormones and they're inextricably connected to emotional ligands because emotions are molecules. I'd so crazy. I think about that but girl that's the way it is inside of the body. Right? And so they're all interconnected and mind you hormones are helping you think about what hormones do they're regulating the immune system the regulating the metabolism the regulating your body temperature the regulating cognitive function emotional well-being. They're regulating growth reproduction digestion. I mean insulin regulation all of these things are so so critical so critical blood pressure. You're right and these are some of these things are vital. Signs or some of these things are absolutely necessary for us to function every single day every single second of the day. And so what I've what we've learned kind of simplify it when when whatever and whatever type of stressors coming in right? There's some major root causes that create dysfunction inside of the body root causes like kidding infections root cause is like environmental toxins root causes like trauma and chronic stress perceived chronic stress, right you running around like a chicken with your head cut off everywhere from one thing to the next color. In women syndrome, right you the rushing people syndrome, but let's be honest women. We are handling a lot of tasks think of us having like a thousand arms at once and just dipping into all the things right and that that creates stress on the system and then the you know, and then we've been there's the last big root cause is nutrient deficiencies do to maybe gut issues either a leaky gut or gut dysbiosis depending and here's the deal is your hormones are trying to mitigate all of this as all of these things are coming in and they are the first ones to throw up the white flag. They're the ones are like hello. Something isn't right here. We got a problem. And so how that looks some of the major concerns that we see are these icy and definitely have experienced myself brain fog fatigue, especially fatigue in the morning or fatigue in the afternoon filling wired and tired at night having mental chatter before going to bed PMS serious PMS, we've normalized PMS premenstrual cycle, but you know what PMS is not All it isn't we're not supposed to be in that much pain. We're not supposed to be having you know that much upheaval as we're heading into our menstrual cycle. So if PMS symptoms are pretty crazy weight resistance is a big one too. All of a sudden for no reason you just holding on to wait and you can't let it go no matter how many spin classes you go to and how many celery juice has you drink. It's just nothing's budging right? Those are big ones low libido skin issues hair loss or brittle, you know, Bree. All skin maybe it's temperature deregulation. Like you're just running cold. Maybe it's a sluggish digestive system chronic constipation. All of these things are a signal that your hormones are off. I'm just like yes, that might be me that may be because I think that it's like it's good to focus on these things and recognize when there is an issue. I notice on your Instagram that you talked a lot about thyroid imbalance and adrenal fatigue and first off. Can you break this down for us? Like what is a thyroid and what our adrenal glands and also the second part of my question is how does someone know if their thyroid specifically is out of balance or if they're if they're adrenal is fatigued absolutely such a great question. So those two endocrine glands because their glands kind of so adrenal gland the thyroid gland the parathyroid gland even the pancreas is lots of different. I mean at the pink race is not an endocrine gland but Testes and ovaries are it or glands as well? So here's how it works your body. Your brain is receiving messages. It's inside the limbic system and this limbic system is housing the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland now the hypothalamus is like Houston for NASA. It's receiving signals. It's sending signals and it's sending signals to the pituitary gland. Now the pituitary gland is what we call the the master hormone Master gland. So we've got Houston control and then we've got the master gland it sends. Signals it sense. It actually sends its own hormones out and it's and it sends basically hormones that tell the thyroid so that one would be thyroid stimulating hormone or for the adrenals. It's going to be it's going to be in a basically a hormone that's telling your adrenals to release epinephrine norepinephrine or cortisol. Now epinephrine and norepinephrine are let's say you just got into a car accident. That's adrenaline those those two in cortisol is more for prolonged. Dress so it kicks in maybe 10 minutes or 20 minutes later and it can stay around for even longer to help regulate insulin regulate metabolism regulate the thyroid and regulate the immune system to paint on was so cortisol has some major jobs. It's got to do it's not a bad hormone, but it can absolutely be overused not specifically because the adrenals are doing anything it's because you're sending messages or your body sending messages to the hypothalamus and the limbic system and it's all what we call a negative feedback loop. Loop so there's you know a hypothalamus pituitary adrenal. It's adrenal feedback loop and then there's a hypothalamus pituitary thyroid feedback loop and the cool thing about it is that they're all interconnected as well because if indeed your body is sending you a signal or your adrenals a signal and then your adrenals release cortisol to get your entire body ready for fight or flight. Let's say there's a tiger behind you or a scary stranger behind you. You're going to need a Leverage. Your metabolism to either fight or run. And so your thyroid kicks back into that. So often times when we see that women are or people in general are dealing with a thyroid issue 75% of people who are dealing with a thyroid issue are women. We are we know that most likely the adrenals are involved and it's not so much the adrenals because they're just they're just the messenger. They're not necessarily the cause. It's really the chronic stress. That's the cause. It's just that your adrenals are involved in that process. SS what I always tell people is if you've got a thyroid issue you most likely have a chronic stress issue as well call it an adrenal issue. It's technically not the adrenals the adrenals again are just the middleman. But if so that's oftentimes the case because cortisol and your thyroid hormones T4 and T3 are extremely integrated together. So just note that that cortisol is important for the conversion of T4 to T3. So T 4 is a thyroid hormone. That's It's mostly converted in the liver and then to your active T3, which is your thyroid hormone, which has a receptor sites on every single cell in the body. And that's why the thyroid is so important. It's literally it's literally your metabolism. It's the gas pedal so it controls metabolism. It controls body temperature. It controls digestive function, you know, and so when you're if your thyroid isn't working for whatever reason and there's a couple different root causes that could be that just note that if we're not also addressing these chronic stress concern then we're not actually addressing the whole kit and caboodle. That's just understanding the relationship. How do we know that the thyroid isn't functioning? Well, it's super important to know that it usually takes four to seven years on average for a woman to actually get an official thyroid diagnosis, which is heartbreaking and it's because we have normalized so many of these symptoms but keep clear symptoms of thyroid dysfunction. Particularly hypothyroid and I can talk about hyperthyroid as well. But hypothyroid is a you've got chronic constipation, right? Because your digestive system has slowed down so much that peristalsis is slow down you are cold. So if you find yourself wearing socks to bed every night or you are always have a jacket no matter where you go something to look into hair is brittle or it's falling out low. Libido feeling fatigued feeling stressed weight resistance. So for some reason you Can't lose weight to save your life for some reason and then dry skin and cracked heels and lastly brain fog brain fog is a big indicator for low. Thyroid function high. Thyroid function is the antithesis. It's closer. Like potentially Graves disease where you are losing weight rapidly, you're very very anxious and you're sweating all the time and your skin. It's kind of it's always sweaty. It's always kind of greasy sweaty. So that would be that would be the opposite of hypothyroid. Hyperthyroidism as typical most of the time with women we see hypothyroid. Let's take a quick break from this conversation to hear a word from our sponsor simple habit. I've been doing a ton of travel lately. 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You may have something smoldering what's called with call that the inflammation fire, but you want to know what the gasoline is. It stress stress is the gasoline and so you it I may not be that now could stress alone cause your thyroid to create dysfunction. Yes. Absolutely. It's not always the case though. Usually it's a it's a trifecta or it's multiple things. Usually it's a combination and you have to think about all of these root causes as stressors in their own right? Your thyroid is such so delicate and it is such it's kind of like a it's a receptor for toxic load basically, so if you got toxins in the body best believe Thyroid is going to take a hit from that so it could be a stressor of toxicity. It could be a lack of nutrients. Maybe you don't have the right nutrients to fuel your thyroid. It could be a sluggish liver. It could be gut dysbiosis. And then also it could be an auto immunity which all those root causes that I just mentioned could also trigger an auto immunity as well. So but then you've got the stress piece to which is also a major route cause maybe there's lingering unresolved. And Trauma that could lead to it as well. And this is what's so heartbreaking about about training the thyroid or about treating hormones, you know hormone hormone therapy thyroid therapy. It's all a big business. Let's just call it what it is. And what what what ends up happening is you finally you yell at your doctors and not be shot at your doctor's enough you Advocate refer yourself enough. Something isn't right. Something isn't right and finally a doctor finally say, okay. Well, let's look and hopefully they run the right labs and hopefully there. Their room this is all the things that go wrong in the process. Hopefully the because oftentimes doctors are just looking at the thyroid stimulating hormone. And the thing about the thyroid stimulating hormone is it's not a thyroid hormone. It is a pituitary hormone designed to stimulate the thyroid. It's a terrible indicator fourth dysfunctions. Only only time that the tea that your thyroid stimulating hormone is going to really start to whack out is way down line like you've had hypothyroid. For seven years, then you're to your thyroid stimulating hormone is going to start to show up in a bad space. But also our normal values for where the thyroid stimulating hormone land is too large. It needs to be far more narrow. So you may have hypothyroid, but in terms of your conventional doctor, they're like, oh you're a normal range. You're totally fine and yet your hair is falling out and you can't go to the bathroom and you're putting on weight and you know, something isn't right, but they're just like yeah, but your labs are fine. You look great. Eight go home and maybe take some Xanax. Just shame how much you have to fight you or you being an advocate advocate for yourself and for your own health. I know for me when I went in recently to do a pap smear. She did a breast exam as well. And there was a lump that has been a concern of mine for a long time. It's been checked before but I wanted to get it checked again and to get a referral to go to see somebody who would give me a ultrasound or mammogram was just so difficult. I am Had to beg her to get me to go and then when I went in they wanted to do a mammogram and they wanted to do an ultrasound but it was so difficult to just get her to to refer me or to look into it further or and it and this is a conversation I had with somebody on a podcast prior Meghan tonjes. It's just like why do we have to fight for it? It doesn't make any sense to me. It's just so confusing to that you have to you know, really like it there in and kind of like just beg them to look further and I'm sure this is not like the norm and the grand scheme of things. I mean, I'm not saying that every single doctor is this way, but it is very reoccurring when visiting doctors between me and and just people that I talk to absolutely absolutely, you know, there's a book that I that I love that really kind of goes into the nuts and bolts of this and it's really alarming, you know, we just haven't focused a lot on women's health and Roll, it's kind of been this thing where we just keep putting it to the Wayside. I'm like you realize it's half the population like maybe we should focus on women. I had email I had interviewed a woman. She her name's Maya dunes and Barry and she had written a book and it's a book that I absolutely love and it was called the truth about how bad medicine leave women dismissed misdiagnosed and sick and this has been going on for centuries, you know, and and it's only only it was only in the nineteen like night. 1894 the Congress mandated that we had to study women's bodies for medical diagnostic research treatment research and Drug research until the night till 1994. It wasn't even mandated and so it wasn't done that is nice and then in the last 20 years or so, even though now it's mandated nothing's really changed that much you would think it would be such a primary focus, you know women reproduce, you know. Like it's just women are the reason why or who knows? Yeah, and it's just so bizarre to me that it's not a focus but on another note speaking of women and how important it is to focus on their health and understand it. What am I questions for you was do essential oil recipes work the same for men as they do for women, or do you do recommend different recipes when you when you deal with men and essential will they abso my husband? And lots of other husbands and and not the guys don't use oils on their own. I'm sure that they do I just think of, you know, all the all the ladies that I've supported their husbands use so many oils laps you my husband's got his own. My husband has his own piles, you know, he is a favorite stuff but the same oils we use for sleep for energy for mental focus for for concentration for Bruno overcoming brain fog for Cravings. I mean a lot of the same recipes for sane people, you know, men like for instance one of the things that When guys have a lot more of than girls do was like ingrown hairs and just stuff that comes up on there's like I just have stuff, you know and their skin and their toes so like the It fixes both women and men but like my husband uses a lot more tea tree oil than I do right a lot more oregano oil than I do, you know if he's got like or if he got a cut from shaving, you know, lavender and Melaleuca or lavender and frankincense. So there's oils that probably my husband uses more of than I do just because he's a guy, you know uses guys stuff and that's probably why he's so into it because he has you like leading him through the process. I know my fiance like now love skincare and also really likes when we defuse essential oils and he liked perks up his interest because he's like, okay. Well, this is cool. There's like this whole world of like relaxation and taking care of ourselves that they like. He never really thought about until we got together. So I'm sure your husband's like I've got the queen of essential oils. What's so funny? My husband's mom was this energy healer and she was using oils on Him, I didn't even know about essential oils. He grew up with them mind you when he was in college and after college, he wasn't using them but he did have a couple when I met him and so yeah, he grew up with them. Whereas II grew up on nasty. You know, you remember that. I don't know if you remember the Tylenol like the orange Tylenol syrup. I remembered like that was my thing. So we're Alex was growing up on eucalyptus and and and clove oil and oregano oil and tea tree oil. I was growing up on that that orange syrup. So Okay. Yeah, so he's got the inside scoop of it all that's cool. I love that. So I have two more questions for you that I'm dying to know first off energy for me recently has been my biggest it's you know, I've definitely learned to relax. I know how to relax. I'm not a ball of stress anymore. And I think that that's why I do what I do these days is that's why I love focusing on self-care and ways to unwind and ways to connect with nature and ways to just release the stress. Just possible because I did get to that same point as you where I was just like I can't be this dressed anymore. It's not good for my health. And I hate it for me. The hardest thing lately has been dealing with energy. I have been so much more tired than usual. I know that I have a lot of travel plans coming up. There's a lot of deadlines and I can just feel the stress kind of creeping up that primarily just like pinpoints on My energy to where I am kind of like getting up out of bed thinking about okay. I have so much on my plate. Like what would you what would you recommend for an energy? Because yeah when I get stressed about all the things I need to do it directly focuses and affects my energy. Absolutely. Oh my gosh. So the ultimate instant energy blend the I have used on probably a million women with great success is just two essential oils. And I usually do I have it in a roller. I usually do 10 drops of each in a 10 mil roller top it off with jojoba oil or grapeseed oil or fraction of coconut oil, whatever wherever you love and if you really need to up the dose on that to get to 15 each. You can absolutely do that. You just got to play with what feels good to you and it's just wild orange or Tangerine or grapefruit. Personally. I love wild orange. I like a sweet orange because it's it's so energy. It's literally like a liquid energy bunny. It's literally wild oranges to me and then peppermint because Perma not only oxygenates the lungs but it brings oxygen to the brain which helps to boost mitochondrial function. And what's so great about citruses is they are powerful happy neurotransmitter boosters. They're just not only great energy boosters, but also happiness boosters and I just take a roller of that. It's like I call it my instant energy blend. I rolled over my Palms rub my Palms together because might as well get a little on my wrist and everything and then just take five deep conscious belly breaths and let those oils go in and let Tell you you will go from zombie to superstar in like five seconds and it's so easy. It's just to oil. Yeah, you know and I do normally recommend I Lucien, you know, that's the it's that way it's already ready and it's in a roller and it's super easy and you just take it with you on the go but I use I mean, that's the blend that I used to wake up in the morning. I it's literally by my bedside. It's it goes to me the to the gym we did today is gym workout was triceps chest and abs and I was just not in the mood. I didn't want to go and you know because we had to go at seven in the morning and you know, that little blend is just right there on the kitchen counter every day. We have several of them. We each of us have our own, you know, because they're so inexpensive probably cost us like three dollars to make one, you know, so we have multiples around the house that way, you know, it's never out of sight and it's never out of mind. I'm totally going to use that and I'm sure my listeners. I mean, I feel like energy is such a common thing that we all deal with just because you know, we're all just so busy going going going. In this day and age and in this Society, so I think it's so cool to know just how to get like a little perk up in the morning. That is not just always depending on coffee like an essential oil to just breathe in feel that energy. I'm excited to try that out. So thank you for that and your experience. This is my last question for you. What do you think? The biggest block around self-care is for women? Like what do you think holds back women? Because I know a lot of people this day and age are becoming so much more curious about Self-care, which is so awesome. And so many people are practicing self-care, but I know that there is like a group of women at because I hear from them all the time. I get them in the comments of my YouTube videos. I get them in the DM on my Instagram where they're just like I just don't know how to begin. I don't know some things like blocking me from diving into this and what do you think of wow absolutely know what that is what that is is worthiness. We don't think we deserve it. We hold a lot of Shame and A blame for why we are struggling and that's what Society is always told us and I think that first step I always tell people the first two steps to to Healing is one self-awareness, you know, kind of figuring out what's going on with your body because you could run on fumes forever and not even know it I live that world. And then that next one is is really just recognizing that you matter that you deserve to heal that you deserve to prioritize yourself. And that's all about worthiness. And I think that we have, you know, from whatever we grew up with. Whatever someone may have told us that that's the biggest struggle and once we can get to a place where we know that we deserve it. Then we make time for it. We honor it we cherish it. And that would be the biggest thing. I know for me that was it. You know, when I was in that first start of that healing Journey when I was dealing with my chronic fatigue, I kept I was I felt like I was doing a lot of the right things I was Following the protocols, you know and but I kept Landing myself right back where I started and that's because I wasn't honoring myself enough. I was still saying yes to things. I was still sign up for obligations. I was still you know, you know, I still had lots of toxic stuff going on in my world. And once I got really clear on I need to honor I need to honor my time. I need to honor what matters to me honor my body and that I deserve this it all. Shifted I love that you mentioned that and I think that that is such an excellent. Take away from this podcast episode is just thinking about ways to bring up your self love and to work on that and to just come to realization that we are all worth it. We are all deserving of feeling good and I think that that is such an excellent point and it just makes so much sense because when we don't feel like we deserve it because some people have this mentality where they think Is you know is this self care and this self love taking time for ourselves is this selfish I have so much to do a lot of my listeners have kids and they have families in there. Just like I just don't have time to take care of me, but there's always time to devote to yourself and it will help you give back to other people so much easier and so much more abundant. So I absolutely love that. You said that because it is seriously the truth it is the bottom line of why someone would be b or feel blocked from being able to take care of them. It's a disempowering beliefs Block. It's a limiting belief block its but it's a block that assume that we've been taught to have and it's uncovering that block that's going to be the big win. You know, it's really about you know, you know writing down that I'm I'm deserving. I'm I deserve love I deserve healing I deserve, you know, I deserve to prioritize myself, you know, so often women are like absolutely not like I need to take care of everyone else first. I'm on the back burner and recognizing that in order for us to really show up big in the world. We've got to take time for ourselves, you know, and that's the big piece and one of my favorite quotes by Maya Angelou is if I don't take if I don't if I'm not good to myself. How is anyone else going to be good to me? And that's really what it is is you got to love yourself for all that love to come into the world come into your into your world into your sphere. I love that and believe it wholeheartedly. Alright now it is time for our soul sugar. Moment. I'm going to have dr. Maurice of Schneider lead us through it. So you take it away. I just wanted to share in our sin the soul sugar moment that if you haven't learned self-care is not selfish. It is not Self Indulgence, but rather care, I think that we should all consider self-care as a non-negotiable. And that first step is just asking yourself every single day. What can I do to fuel my own happiness? Thank you so much. And I love that question. Thank you for being here today and just spilling all of your knowledge. I learned so much today. And if you could please let my listeners know where they can find you. Okay? I we all right. Now you guys can find me on my podcast. It's called the essentially you podcast and it's dedicated to women's hormone Health with all the the biggest experts out there. We cover topics from PCOS Indonesia. This isn't everything in between you can find the book The Essential Oils hormone Solution on Amazon. And any where books are sold and then my website is dr. Maurice a.com. Awesome. Thank you so much. Dr. Teresa, and I am definitely going to make that energy essential oil Contraption and utilize that in my life. So thank you for that Insight so much. Thank you all so much for tuning in to today's episode. I hope that you enjoyed it while you're waiting for our next episode come chat with us over on the Instagram. It's at Soul sugar. Cocoa. That's at SSO you LSU GA R. Co we give you a daily dose of inspiration over there? Also, it is the best place for us to communicate together and I love hearing feedback and advice from you guys over there as well. So definitely come on over and let's be friends there.
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