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We will learn: How essential oils can help with everything from minor ailments to chronic disease What to look for in essential oils and which labels are marketing scams How to get started with your own home apothecary It seems like the use for essential oils is never-ending, which can make a lot of people skeptical. But if you think about it, nature was our original pharmacy. Food is medicine. Plants are medicine. Even fresh air is medicine. Many people don’t realize that natural medicine is core to pharmacy.  Of all the botanical extracts, essential oils are the most concentrated and potent. Because of the extraction process, essential oils can be 70 to 100 times stronger than the actual plant. And there are thousands of types of oils and combinations for different ailments or needs, everything from headaches to alzheiumers… from concentration to keeping bugs away. So how do we choose safe and effective essential oils? How do we use them properly? Why are some so much more expensive than others?  That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest today is Dr. Eric Zielinski, best-selling author, aromatherapist, public health researcher, and chiropractor, and founder of NaturalLivingFamily.com.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/199 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: Common conditions caused by excess adrenaline.  Why creative people are most affected.  How to regain hormonal balance.  Adrenaline is a powerful hormone.  It’s a big part of the body’s fight or flight response… you know the primal brain that kicks in when we have strong emotions like fear or anger. But for a lot of people, this physiological reaction is overactive in response to modern-day stressors.  This can lead to excess adrenaline, otherwise known as adrenaline dominance, which may be a major underlying cause of a lot of conditions that are currently considered incurable. What if the stress of our daily lives, or even just a genetic inheritance keeps our body in an ongoing state of fight or flight, even when we’re not aware of it? We know that stress is one of the biggest contributors to chronic disease. So what’s at stake? And how do we get our bodies and minds back in balance? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Dr. Michael Platt, specialist in natural hormone replacement, international speaker, and author.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x54 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How to become more self aware of the past trauma or pain that is influencing your present How to identify the lies we tell ourselves so we can heal How to move through and release big emotions Have you ever found yourself asking, “Why did this happen to me?”When we listen to guests of this show, authors of bestselling books, or public speakers, one thing is clear: they have figured out that “why”.It seems so clear when they tell their stories. They usually seem to come full circle with the purpose or moral wrapped in a bow ready to be gifted to the world.Here’s what I’ve learned though: it’s very rare to find the meaning behind your own experiences if you don’t actively look for it.You have to do the work. So how do we navigate the emotions that we have over everything that’s happened to us, to find real meaning? How do we begin to release our pain to build strength?That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guests today are Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel. Dr. Dan is a professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School and founder of The Allender Center. Cathy Loerzel, MA, is a speaker, instructor, as well as cofounder and executive vice president of The Allender Center.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/198 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: The taboo postpartum truths.  How to cope when you’re grieving your old life.  How to enjoy being a mom your way.  Deciding to have a baby is more than just deciding to bring a child into this world… it’s also about fundamentally changing your role in this lifetime.   Is it so crazy to think that some people may not like losing all their independence, waking up multiple times per night, having a tiny human basically attached to you most of your waking hours, or making sounds so loud you can’t hear yourself think during the rest of those hours?   Maybe for some of us, but for others, motherhood just isn’t what they expected it to be.   The bond, the bliss, the feeling that their life is complete… just isn’t there.   They love their child but they just don’t love momming, every minute of every day. They miss who they were before the baby (which… lets be real, kinda happens to every mom a little right?).    So how do you cope if being a parent just isn’t what you thought it would be?   Well that’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Marissa Zwetow, licensed therapist who specializes in prenatal and postpartum counseling.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x53 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn:  The real dangers of alcohol, even when consuming moderately.  How to conquer FOMA - the fear of missing alcohol.  Actionable steps for setting a plan for your sober curious journey.   Have you ever asked yourself, would life be better without alcohol? Alcohol is one of those things… somehow we idealize it, like it’s the gateway to fun, but most often, especially as we age, it’s just the gateway to our own self-loathing. Many of us have a complicated relationship with alcohol.  I know for me, even when I’m moderating, I feel like alcohol takes up too much of my brain space. “Should I have a drink this weekend? If so, which night? Maybe I’ll have another glass. Eh I don’t need it. It’s been long enough, I’ll just have one more.” It’s just too much. Why is it that even when I’m not drinking much, it still takes that much energy from me? Just in thought alone? Well that’s what we’re diving into today. Our guest is Ruby Warrington, creator of the term “Sober Curious” and author of the 2018 book of the same title. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/197 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How our dreams guide us.  The symbolic language of dreams.  Manifesting your waking life with the power of lucid dreams. We spend a lot of time sleeping. A third of our lives in fact.  Our dreams can be otherworldly, we can have superpowers like flying, sometimes they make zero sense, sometimes we replay pivotal moments and sometimes they are our worst fears realized. So what does it all mean? Or does it mean anything at all? There are a lot of theories about dreaming. One theory says that dreams don’t mean anything at all, they’re just electrical impulses and then we construct them together when we wake up. Sigmund Freud believed that dreams revealed repressed desires or conflicts from childhood. And others, like our guest today, believe that dreams are our innate inner guidance. So today we’re going to find the meaning in our dreams. Our guest is Athena Laz, depth psychologist, dream teacher, author, and 4th generation intuitive. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x52 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: The problem with our current mindset of 50/50 fairness in marriage.  The three mindset shifts necessary to reshape your marriage or partnership.  How to make radical generosity a habit.  Nothing in life is fair. Including marriage. Not only that, but if you expect it to be, or try to enforce fairness, you may be killing your marriage, one negotiation at a time. The thing about fairness in general is that it’s nearly impossible. No two people, situations, or things in general are exactly alike, so it’s extremely difficult to make sure that each person or thing is treated entirely equally. But then how are we supposed to have an equal marriage if there’s no way to make it fair? Is there a better way to do a partnership than keeping score? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guests are Nate and Kaley Kemp, husband and wife co-authors of The 80/80 Marriage. Nate is also a founding partner at Mindful, one of the world's largest mindfulness media and training companies. And Kaley is also one of the nation's leading experts on small-group dynamics and leadership development, a TEDx speaker and author of 3 other books.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/196 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: The dangers of burying our pain How to get clear on the stories that unconsciously drive our lives, and how psychedelics may help How to first align yourself so you can get to the root of your healing “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”I used to think this phrase meant, “No matter what life throws at me, I need to spin it to a positive.”But this approach caused me to bury my pain way back in my mind, which didn’t make it go away. It was still there. Festering. Growing. Attracting things that would feed off of it.When life gives you lemons, you don’t put them all in the back of the pantry so you don’t have to see the lemons… those lemons will make themselves known. They’ll rot, start to mold, and attract creatures that feed off the bacteria.Just like using the lemons to make lemonade, we can work with our pain instead of burying or hiding it. We can find balance by asking ourselves what we need in this moment, to make our lived experience have a deeper meaning.And there’s not just one way to transform the pain, or to explore it. Just like there’s a thousand lemon recipes, there are so many ways to move with our own pain, to help transform it into something better than we started with.That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Doug Cartwright, speaker, author, and the CEO and Founder of The Daily Shifts. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/195 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn:  How to use your intuition for aligned business decisions How goal setting differs in a spiritual business The root of procrastination and how to move through it Have you ever felt guilt over charging for a service you provide?   It tends to be a common theme in the realm of spiritual workers, that it’s difficult to earn enough money. This can be for a lot of reasons, but the biggest tends to be guilt around charging for their services.    It takes a lot of confidence to be a spiritual entrepreneur. But thankfully that confidence is something that spirituality itself can help with.   Even if your business or side hustle doesn’t have a spiritual focus, you can always infuse spirituality into it.   Getting connected with your intuition can help you make better business decisions. Finding alignment can lead you to the right clients, or lead them to you. Your spiritual practice can help make your business sustainable by making sure you don’t get burnt out.   So today we’re talking about spiritual entrepreneurship and building a spiritual business.    Our guest is Colby Rebel. She runs a spiritual gathering place called the Colby Rebel Spiritual Center, and is also a powerful psychic.   Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x51 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How knowing your baby’s birth chart can help you become a more confident parent.  What happens if you and your baby’s charts are incompatible.  Why now is an amazing time to bring children into the world.  Have you ever thought about having a birth chart reading? A birth chart explains where the planets were in the sky at the date and time of a birth. It’s like a snapshot or map of the position of the planets or the stars at the time of birth. Each planet has a different effect on an aspect of life. The alignments of the planets have a powerful effect on the tides of the oceans and we are mostly water, so why wouldn’t it affect us too? This episode is really eye-opening whether your baby is grown or whether you don’t have children at all because it gives a lot of insight into any relationship, including the relationship with yourself. Our guest is Susie Cox, professional astrologer since 1971, during which time she has interpreted over 50,000 individual charts. She was appointed Master Astrologer in 2006, and her clients include A-List celebrities, business leaders, Royalty and politicians from around the world.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/194 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices