Essential Oils for Resilience

001: Tara Hunkin
This is My Child Will Thrive and I'm your host, Tara Hunkin, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Certified GAPS Practitioner, Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and mother. I'm thrilled to share with you the latest information, tips, resources, and tools to help you on the path to recovery for your child. With ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, or Learning Disabilities.

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2:09 Tara Hunkin:
I want to welcome you to the My Child Will Thrive podcast. Today I'm really excited to have with me a guest of, well, actually she's a repeat guest to the My Child Will Thrive community, but first timer on the podcast itself, it's Jodi Cohen. Jodi is a best-selling author, an award-winning journalist, a Functional Practitioner and Founder of Vibrant Blue Oils, my favorite oils that are out there. She's combined her training in Nutritional Therapy and Aromatherapy to create a unique proprietary blend of organic and wild crafted essential oils. She's helped over 50,000 clients heal from brain-related challenges, including anxiety, insomnia, and auto-immunity. For the past 10 years, she's lectured at wellness centers, conferences and corporations on brain health, essential oils, stress and detoxification. She's been seen in the New York Times, Wellness Mama, Elephant Journal and numerous publications and her website vibrantblueoils.com is visited by over 300,000 natural health seekers every year. And she's rapidly become a top resource for essential oils education on the internet today.

And today actually we are celebrating the launch of her new book. So Jodi, welcome, and I want to start off, we're going to talk about a whole bunch of things essential oils, but tell us obviously, first the name of your book, why you wrote your book and, we'll start right off for anybody that wants to find it. Where are they going to be able to find it today because it, it actually goes your book baby goes out into the world today. So we're here to sell it Today.

4:03 Jodi Cohen:
It's "Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body." The easiest way to get it and actually grab a gift while you're at it is to go to boostthebrainbook.com/gift and just enter your email address. We'll give you a really detailed download with some of the things we're going to talk about today, and then it will direct you to easy book links.

4:27 Tara Hunkin:
Yes, that's great. I wanted to get that out of the way, right from the beginning, because I didn't want anybody that didn't have a chance to listen to the entire episode, not hear about the fact that you have a book. And one of the reasons why I wanted you to have, have you on is one because you are my go-to resource itself for essential oils. We, my whole family has their little blue bottles all around the house. We use them all the time because they are my favorite and so many different ways for so many reasons. But also I am a huge book lover as I was just talking to you before we started to record today.

And I really think there's nothing better than a book as a resource to have when you want to learn about a particular topic. I mean, obviously I have a website, I host summits, but I absolutely love books. So I couldn't be more thrilled that you've taken all this knowledge and distilled it into a resource for the parents and practitioners that are listening today.

5:26 Jodi Cohen:
Yeah. Thank you. No, I do, too. I like to earmark books. I highlight and I really tried to organize it in a way, I have found from working with oils for like almost two decades, that there are really five things that are kind of challenging with most people, anyone who has health issues, anyone whose kids have health issues.

It's usually there are five underlying factors that seem to be out of balance with most of us and oils happen to be really well-suited to return those factors to balance. And that's what I really wanted to share and make sure people, if one of them like stress, or sleep kind of hits home, you can go to that section, focus there.

6:09 Tara Hunkin:
Yeah, it's great. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy through digitally. So I have had a chance to, and you have broken it down to a really easy step-by-step sort of breakdown of how you can go about supporting yourself. But we want to talk today about essential oils for resilience, which I think is an incredibly good topic right now. As parents, and especially parents of kids that might be struggling, resilience is something that we have to muster, our kids have to muster on a daily basis. And obviously in the times that we're living in right now, it couldn't be more needed. Resilience is something that we all are having to stretch ourselves to be resilient on a day in day out basis. So let's start by talking about what you mean. So, when we talk about essential oils for resilience, what, what does that mean to you?

6:09 Jodi Cohen:
Yeah, basically I went through, well, I'll just shar