You may be aware that I've been working with and studying essential oils and their chemistry for nearly 40 years. I've also personally experienced a few setbacks with my health that moved me to focus on genomics. However, it's impossible to isolate the genetics of nature, given that the DNA throughout nature is made up of the same 4 peptides, with varying placements. Hence, a wide range of organisms and species What has this got to do with essential oils? Plenty! They are produced by the plant genome in response to stressors. In turn, when selected with attention to the individual, they support the body's natural ability to detox. And in a world with nearly 80,000 manmade chemicals potentially acting as stressors, it's fair to say, our systems could use a bit more support. However, the essential oil industry is growing, which means there is a good chance of unethical 'cost-cutting' practices. This matters to me for more reasons than just my health. As our environmental concerns grow, so do our mental, emotional, and physical health issues. This is where I come in with my newest endeavor... As an independent essential oil supplier (not MLM) ... because the chemistry of an oil means everything to the person buying it, whether they know it or not ... the latter being the biggest concern To give you an idea, I'm including a list of oils to demonstrate a few with more than one variety, even though they are frequently marketed and recognized as 'the' oil i.e. Rosemary, Eucalyptus, Frankincense, etc I'm consistently asking people which oil they're using. The answer is frequently a pause followed by 'there's more than one?' Mind you, there's nothing wrong with this ... it simply shows us where there's a gap in the field. One I'm ready to bridge ... That said, contact me directly with questions, and if you'd like to order oils!

A 90-second daily practice: This is our foundational practice. Don't let the simplicity fool you — it does real work in the nervous system. - When: Any threshold in your day. Waking. Walking into your kitchen. Sitting at your desk. Pulling into the driveway after work. Before bed. You don't need to do it at all of them — pick one. - What you need: Frankincense or Cardamom essential oil (one drop on the palms, or an inhaler). Nothing else. How: 1. Pause at the threshold. Literally — at the doorway, the chair, the moment. Don't move through it yet. 2. One slow breath in through the nose, with the aromatic close. Long exhale through slightly parted lips. 3. Ask one question, silently: What am I carrying into this next moment that isn't mine or necessary? 4. Don't look for an answer. Just notice what comes up. Let the answer arrive in your body rather than your mind. 5. One more breath. Then move through. That's the whole practice. Ninety seconds. Why it works: You're doing three things at once — interrupting the 'appetitive' momentum, pairing an aromatic anchor with a nervous system state (this is classical conditioning, in the most useful sense), and asking your body to sense rather than think. After three weeks of daily practice, the aroma alone will begin to elicit the sensing state, regardless. Essentially, the scent you consistently choose brings you back to being ... a place of ease A note: some days the question will land hard. Some days nothing will come. Both are correct.

Hello, and welcome. Before anything else: you don't have to be ready. You don't have to be in the right headspace, the right mood, or the right phase of your transition. You just have to be here. This month is called Threshold, and it's the doorway into everything else we'll do together. Most of us arrive at any new space — a community, a retreat, a therapist's office, a yoga class — already performing. Already over-explaining ourselves. Already braced for the next round of self-improvement. This month is permission to put all of that down before we even begin. Here's what we're working with: There's a distinction at the heart of my work between two states your nervous system can be in. The first is appetitive — the chasing, doing, achieving, reaching, optimizing state. It's the state most women in transition have been living in for decades. The second is sensing — the receiving, noticing, being-with state. The state where transformation actually happens. This month, we're not trying to fix anything. We're learning what it feels like to arrive. What's happening this month: - Sanctuary Circle — our live monthly gathering. Date and time marked in the calendar. - Practice Lab — a shorter, guided session where we'll work with the aromatics and the threshold practice together. - The Threshold Ritual — a 90-second daily practice (details below). - Weekly prompts — short reflections to anchor the work. - Aromatic protocol — Frankincense and Cardamom this month. The why is below. What to do first: 1. Introduce yourself in the Arrivals thread. One sentence is enough. No bio required. 2. Read the Threshold Ritual post and try it once today. 3. Mark the Sanctuary Circle date in your calendar. That's it. We're not adding to your to-do list — we're subtracting from it. The sanctuary you're looking for has been inside you all along. This month, we just practice walking through the door. I'm so glad you're here. — Tammy

I have used essential oils for nearly forty years. Some of those years I was looking for relief — for myself, for clients, for whatever symptom was loudest at the time. Some of the oils worked the way I hoped. Some didn't. And yet I never put them down. On yesterday's live call I named, finally, what I think I was actually doing: not chasing relief but rebuilding a particular kind of interior space. The space between stimulus and response. The space between you and them. The space between who you are and what you are about to do. That space is what neuroaromatherapy restores — and what it has been restoring in me, quietly, for more years than I can count. And, as I noted towards the end of the call, my head (a dangerous neighborhood) and body (the victim) went from feeling as if they were betraying my life, to becoming a united sanctuary. The handout attached is a companion to our call. Five oils, one pregnancy-safe substitute, the constituents that matter, and a simple daily rhythm that won't ask too much of you. I've been deliberate about origin and chemotype — Helichrysum from Bosnia rather than Corsica, Roman chamomile rather than German — because in this work those distinctions are not marketing details. They are nature's wisdom. Use them daily, not heroically, and notice what changes in the gap between something happening and you reacting to it. That gap is the whole thing.

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