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In this episode, Nikki interviews Alexis Sams about food allergies. 

Dr. Alexis Sams, is a functional medicine specialist, holistic healthcare practitioner and the founder of Renatrition Health & Wellness located in Phoenix, Arizona.

With a focus on enhancing the well-being of those dealing with chronic pain and symptoms, her signature FoodClues™ unique treatment approach to uncover often overlooked factors in traditional medical practices. She draws on her extensive training in physical therapy, functional medicine, mindset coaching, herbalism and essential oils to help countless individuals worldwide who couldn't find relief through conventional methods like exercises, medications, injections, or surgery. 

 

Dr. Alexis is a self-proclaimed foodie and the author of Food Clues: Decoding the Hidden Messages Behind Your Food Likes and Dislikes.

In this episode, Nikki and Alexis go over

• How Alexis discovered her support of clients helped decrease their food allergy reactions
• Difference between allergies and sensitivities
• What the Food Clues fundamentals are
• Foundations for health to help bring the body back into balance and out of dysfunction
• The root causes of dysfunctions causing allergies
• Why some people’s allergies come and go, they can eat one thing one day and not another
• How it isn’t about the food
• Food Clues book

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Acid levels in the body video: www.myfoodclues.com/acids

Amazon US - https://www.amazon.com/Food-Clues-Decoding-Messages-Dislikes/dp/B0CWY928XC

Amazon Canada: https://tinyurl.com/34r6pr4e

Connect with Alexis

Website: https://renatrition.com

Email: [email protected]

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

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

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

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In this episode, Nikki interviews Elizabeth about the benefits of Forest Bathing, also known as Shinrin Yoku. 

Elizabeth Mintun is a psychotherapist and mindful life coach. Elizabeth has a psychotherapy private practice in Columbus, Ohio and an online mindfulness-based life coaching practice. She also facilitates an online self-care membership called The Calming Ground, which supports and guides women to move from feeling depleted, overwhelmed, and exhausted to feeling energized, confident, and inspired. Elizabeth is the creator and host of The Calming Ground Podcast and she is a certified Qigong teacher and Forest Therapy Guide. 

In this episode, Nikki and Elizabeth go over

• What is forest bathing, and the history of it
• The sequence used, including a tea ceremony ritual 
• The relationship between the earth, plants, rocks etc between us and the land
• Aroma connection during the practice
• Being able to do this practice without access to forests
• How often someone can practice forest bathing
• The benefits of forest bathing include; immune health, blood pressure, cognition, focus, memory, emotional, and spirit connection and more
• Allow yourself to notice your surroundings

Connect with Elizabeth

Website: https://www.thecalmingground.com

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

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

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

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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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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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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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In this episode, Nikki chats with Rhonda about the importance of safety when it comes to phototoxic essential oils. 

In this episode, Rhonda goes over

• What is phototoxicity
• What is photosensitization
• What is a photoallergy
• How these can present on the body, photo contact dermatitis
• The chemical compounds that should be used with caution
• Rhonda shares a personal family story about the unsafe use of cinnamon essential oil and how that still has an effect years later
• What you should keep in mind with phototoxic essential oils
• Following safety guidelines such as max dermal application to avoid phototoxicity
• What furanocoumarins and how it plays a role in photosensitizing oils
• Diffusing and photosensitizing

Remember, these reactions can happen year-round.

Many people associate photosensitizing oils with summer months, however, it is important to note that these reactions can occur in the winter months also! 

Check out the safety labels that were mentioned here

https://www.schoolofessentria.com/safety-labels

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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 Emily Carpenter about the 3rd annual The Aroma Summit by Aroma Trust. An event coming up from June 7 - 9th that you won’t want to miss! 

Emily Carpenter is a Certified Aromatherapist, homeopath, herbalist, and Reiki master.

You may remember Emily from her blogging days at Marvy Moms where she interviewed essential oil companies, and aromatherapists, and had over 500 participants in the Essential Oil Safety Quiz.

Over seven years ago, Emily created an Essential Oil Dilution Calculator on her Marvy Moms blog. The EO Dilution Calculator is now an app by AromaTrust that can be downloaded for free to any device, including phones, tablets and computers.

Emily’s latest project is AromaTrust, the future home for all things AROMATHERAPY. She created The Aroma Summit by AromaTrust to unite a community of all people who love using essential oils for optimal mind, body, and spirit.


In this episode, Nikki and Emily go over

• Angelica Root essential oil
• How The Aroma Summit by Aroma Trust became a passion of hers
• The importance of supporting the aromatherapy community
• Making connections with other professionals
• This year’s theme: Connection Through Scent 
• Rachael Dean as a guest speaker for this year’s summit speaking on business
• 24 speakers for the summit this year
• Some topics include: Research update, Aroma Walking, Distillation, Business, and more!
• Date of the event: June 7th through June 9th
• More chances to interact with each other, breakout sessions
• Free registration where you have 24 hours access to the video session
• Upgraded VIP access to have lifelong access and VIP bonuses. Last year’s VIP was approximately $1800 in value, at the time of this recording, not aware of the full value for this year
• VIP access - can search topics to find information throughout the summit
• Come out and connect with other aromatherapists! 

You can join The Aroma Summit by AromaTrust is FREE! All videos are free for 24 hours after the videos go live, or you can join the VIP pass where you get lifelong access to the videos with searchable options!

To get your own pass and watch The Aroma Summit by AromaTrust you can register here:
https://essentriaseo--aromatrust.thrivecart.com/vip-2024/

Emily developed an online and app dilution calculator. You can download the online essential oil dilution calculator for free. Never wonder if you’re using the right amount of drops again.  https://eodilutioncalculator.com

Connect with Emily

Website: https://aromatrust.com

     https://thearomasummit.com

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

Instagram:

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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 Natalie Clark about the impact of the human electromagnetic field on human health and vitality and what raises the electromagnetic field to allow for healing, growth, and transformation.

Natalie Clark is a renowned speaker, energy practitioner and quantum facilitator who has a gift for catalyzing soul-led, high-achieving women to crack open their untapped potential. With her 6-step signature method, Ignite Your Brilliance, using quantum principles for the quantum age, her clients slash through eons of deep-rooted blocks and raise their electromagnetic field to create infinite possibilities.

Nikki and Natalie discuss

• What her favourite essential oils are - Peppermint and Vetiver
• What is meant when we say quantum
• What frequencies, and electro-magnetic fields are
• The mind-body-soul connection 
• How we create your own reality, not everything around us, but within us
• The power of a pause, and being out in nature
• Essential oils have their own frequencies and using them to elevate your own frequency
• How to win your day - start with one area such as your morning, and win your mornings
• How to select essential oils that go with what you need at that moment, depending on your current energy and where you want to go energetically
• A 2-3 minute body movement practice to help cleanse the aura/energy field around you

Connect with Natalie

Website: www.natalie-clark.com

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindfreelifecoaching

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ascendwithnatalie/

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

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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 Danae Robinett about the benefits of yoga and aromatherapy.

Danae Robinett is a yoga teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She’s been teaching for 19 years and a retreat leader for 12. A nurturer by nature, she's highly skilled at providing adaptations where all abilities are honoured and challenged. And she is also her father’s primary caregiver as he faces cancer the 3rd time.

In this episode, Nikki and Danae go over

• How she started her journey into yoga
• The importance of being mindful and respectful of your limitations in yoga
• How she started to use essential oils for herself and in her practice
• The importance of selecting the right oils
• Diffusing in large common spaces
• Selecting essential oils that pair with the energy you want in the session
  • Morning yoga - more uplifting oils
  • Evening yoga - more relaxing and grounding oils
  • If you need grounding - selecting wood/tree, root essential oils
  • If you feel anxious - selecting tree and rool oils
  • If you feel high energy - bergamot
• Not overwhelming the body with too many oils during a session
• Benefits of yoga during pregnancy
• Ways to use essential oils during a session
  • If using one oil - diffusing
  • If using multiple oils - apply diluted to the inner upper arm, and on top of the feet. This allows you to inhale the aromas during different yoga poses. 
  • Adding a drop to cotton pads and storing them in glass jars. Inhaling at the start, before savasana, or specific poses. 
• Breathwork during a session and when not doing yoga

You can download Danae’s 29 minutes audio recording of yoga Nidra aka yogic sleeping here: https://gentle-wildflower-733.myflodesk.com/yoga-nidra 

You can join her guide to 11 Days of Savasna, 11 audio recordings to build your capacity to rest longer + relax better. https://gentle-wildflower-733.myflodesk.com/savasana

Danae is hosting a retreat - Harmony in Nature Galápagos Yoga Adventure from October 18-25, 2025. You can learn more about it here: https://www.danaerobinett.com/galapagos 

Connect with Danae

Website: https://www.danaerobinett.com/

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

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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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