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In this episode, Nikki interviews Sharon Falsetto Chapman about the similarities and differences between herbalism and aromatherapy.

Sharon Falsetto Chapman, is a UK-certified aromatherapist, an experienced garden herbalist (and an associate member of the American Herbalists Guild), and an artisan botanical perfumer. Sharon has worked within the healthcare industry since the 1990’s, and within aromatics for nearly two decades. She founded Sedona Aromatics: The Garden School Online(TM) in 2006. Today, Sharon works from her garden studio in Sedona, Arizona, surrounded by her one-acre homestead and aromatic gardens, which she cultivated from scratch. She is the published author of Authentic Aromatherapy, chief editor and designer of the NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, and serves on the NAHA Executive Board. She also recently launched the podcast Aroma Paths.

Nikki and Sharon

• Her favourite oil - Geranium - and why she loves it
• What is herbalism
• How herbs differ from aromatherapy
• Therapeutic benefit differences
• Different safety consideration
• Quality of herbs
• How to use herbs
  • Infusions
  • Vinegar infusions
  • Poltices
  • Alcohol infusions for perfumes
  • Teas
  • Tinctures, how to make them
  • Perfumery

Connect with Sharon

Website: https://sedonaaromatics.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sedonaaromatics/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/sedonaaroma

Instagram: https://sedonaaromatics.com/

Stories of Scent: https://sedonaaromaticsscenthouse.substack.com/

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This podcast is for information purposes only. We are certified clinical aromatherapists and holistic health professionals. If you have a medication concern, please refer to your health team. Everyone’s health is unique to themselves, so the topics and suggestions stated may or may not apply directly to you. Please reach out to an aromatherapist to work with or consider training to become one yourself!

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In this episode, Nikki interviews Marilu Wren about the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping. How it can help with chronic pains, stress, anxiety, and even limiting beliefs and money blocks.

Marilu Wren, a Mum of four from the south of England, is an Advanced EFT Practitioner and Kinesiologist, alongside her passion for Energy Medicine she refers to herself as an Energy Coach. Using her training, skillset and lived experience of the last two difficult decades, she has a passion for helping her clients & their loved ones to overcome adversity & challenging circumstances. To help them release shock & trauma from their body and restore emotional balance through her energy coaching, whilst also resourcing them for resilience moving forward. She finds EFT Tapping a powerful asset in her work, this evidence-based therapy helps to calm the Amygdala, reset the nervous systems and hardwire the brain to deal better with adversity whilst her beloved meditation has been shown to improve the emotional resilience of the brain.

Nikki and Marilu discuss

• What Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping is
• The tapping location, at the ends of certain meridian lines
• Using EFT to help with chronic conditions such as pain, cancer, MS, along with mental health such as stress, anxiety, and depression, along with fears, PTSD and more.
• It can also help with entrepreneurs with mindset, money, limiting beliefs, procrastination, and overwhelm as a few examples.
• Stress, and how it impacts many parts of your life
• How to talk through the subject while tapping
  • First round is the negative thoughts
  • Second round - tease out the possibility of what could happen
  • Third round - positive, confident, and safe wording
• Marilu goes through a couple of rounds as an example that you can do with us
• The different points
  • Side of the hand under the small finger
  • Top of the head
  • Occipital bone middle of the eyebrows
  • Beside the eye
  • Under the eye
  • Under the nose
  • Chin
  • Under the clavicle
  • Under the arm where the bra strap is
  • Inner wrist
  • Each of the nail beds
• Some studies regarding EFT
• Using it with children
• The importance of grounding

Some studies that Marilu mentioned in the webinar:

Research study in EFT for general anxiety disorder:
https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-2892-0

Study comparing EFT vs CBT and how many sessions are required:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4898279/#:~:text=The%20results%20indicated%20that%20the,sessions%20for%20the%20CBT%20program.

Research study for EFT vs Psychotherapy

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This podcast is for information purposes only. We are certified clinical aromatherapists and holistic health professionals. If you have a medication concern, please refer to your health team. Everyone’s health is unique to themselves, so the topics and suggestions stated may or may not apply directly to you. Please reach out to an aromatherapist to work with or consider training to become one yourself!

Show music: Happy Dreams - By David Fesliyan

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In this episode, Nikki interviews Dr. Elizabeth Guthrie about trauma and how aromatherapy can help.

Elizabeth Guthrie is a clinical herbalist, certified aromatherapist, and yoga teacher with a PhD in Natural Medicine with a specialization in Naturopathic Psychology and a Master’s of Public Health in Functional Nutrition. They are also the best-selling author of The Trauma Informed Herbalist, and Essential Oils for Trauma. She also holds multiple other certifications from conventional and traditional schools.

Nikki and Elizabeth discuss

• What her favourite essential oils are - Bergamot and spearmint
• What is trauma
  • A lack of compassionate witness - Dr. Peter Levine
  • Acute trauma, and Chronic trauma
  • Different ways people can experience trauma
  • Generational trauma, systemic trauma,
• The body’s reaction to an event that is perceived as overwhelming
  • It is nobody’s fault
• Finding the balance between being knowledgeable and informed of what is going on in the world, but not bombarding yourself with negative stories constantly.
• We can rewrite and retrain our nervous system to reverse it as well
• How the body reacts in a stressful situation
  • Sympathetic response
  • Dorsal vagal state
• You can start to learn how to catch yourself and learn the early signs to intervene before getting into a nervous system reaction
• Fireworks analogy
• Polyvagal theory
• The importance of community, and connecting with each other again.

Aromatherapy support

• What people like will be most important.
• What the person wants right now in this moment.
• In fight/flight - try to unwind and come down, with soothing and relaxing oils - florals such as lavender, palmarosa, and bergamot as well.
• In dorsal vagal collapse/shut down - supportive and energizing oils - citrus such as sweet orange, mandarine, bergamot, also woodsy oils as supportive oils.
• Scent memory is important. If a scent is associated with a negative memory, pick something different.
• Aromatic use by personal inhalers is the preferred way to use the essential oils as you connect with the scent memory as well
• Topical application when used - use at a 0.5% to 1% dilution
• Diffusing safety

Connect with Elizabeth

Website: www.traumainformedherbalist.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traumainformedherbalist/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TraumaInformedHerbalist

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@traumainformedherbal

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This podcast is for information purposes only. We are certified clinical aromatherapists and holistic health professionals. If you have a medication concern, please refer to your health team. Everyone’s health is unique to themselves, so the topics and suggestions stated may or may not apply directly to you. Please reach out to an aromatherapist to work with or consider training to become one yourself!

Show music: Happy Dreams - By David Fesliyan