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Aromatherapy to improve your health, with Tyler Aromatherapy
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Welcome to this episode of the Pressing Desires Podcast where we talk to Ellie, the founder of Tyler Aromatherapy.
We kick off the show with our Red light, Amber light, Green light game!
This week’s sexual act to consider is Sensual Bondage, so that’s using any type of restraint such as handcuffs, silk ties, ropes etc, to restrain hands and feet. A real way to heighten all your senses, enhance intimacy and feel completely vulnerable. What colour is it for you? Let me know!
Moving on to Tyler Aromatherapy, I have to say I am a real fan of Ellie’s products. I find them so helpful to reduce my stress levels and improve my health and wellbeing. I love the Rozy, Dozy and Cozy bath salts, the Stay Grounded and Women's balance candles and the Women's balance essential oil to add to my diffusers.
Ellie talks to us about what aromatherapy is and how it benefits our health. Ellie found her path to Tyler Aromatherapy after going through burnout from working as a midwife in the NHS - the very career that sent her on a training course about aromatherapy!
Follow her on Instagram @tyleraromatherapy
Check out her website : https://tyleraromatherapy.co.uk/
As always stay in touch with me via email info@pressing-desires.com or DM via the social media channels Instagram, Facebook or Threads @pressingdesires
You can see my website https://pressingdesires.mykajabi.com/ and sign up to my emails and get your free ebook there.
Let me know your thoughts on this show, I’m always keen to hear your views.
Love and light
Dr Liza
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Transcript
Introduction to Podcast Themes
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Welcome to Pressing Desires, the podcast exclusively for women wanting to improve their health by unlocking their mind, body, spirit and sexual wellness.
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Join us on this transformative journey as we explore topics that touch your soul, invigorate your body, and reignite your passions. From cultivating a resilient mindset, nourishing your physical health, awakening your spirit, and embracing your deepest desires, nothing is off limits.
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Pressing desires is your go-to resource, featuring expert interviews, inspiring stories of triumph, and practical tips to help you unlock your true potential. Subscribe now, and together, let's embrace our pressing desires and create a life that exceeds all expectations.
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Get ready to ignite your passions and live a life with more pleasure. Yes, please. This is Pressing Desires, the podcast that empowers women to improve their health and go on a journey towards mind, body, spirit and don't forget sexual wellness. Hmm, I'm really looking forward to that last bit.
Interview with Ellie on Aromatherapy
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Welcome to today's episode. Thank you for joining me. Today, we're going to be talking to Ellie, who is the founder of Tyler Aromatherapy. But before we get into that episode and talk to Ellie, let's do our red amber green light game, which we introduced in the last episode.
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And thank you so much for all your responses to how you feel about last week's sexual act. It was really amazing to see so many differing views and different colours coming through my direct messages.
Exploring Sensual Bondage
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So today's sexual act that we're going to think about is sensual bondage. So this involves using restraints such as handcuffs or silk ties or ropes or anything that you've got to restrain your hands or your partner's hands or feet during intimate moments.
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And using bondage like this is all about exploring the dynamics of power and surrender in a safe and, as always, consensual way. So, essential bondage can help you heighten your arousal by introducing that element of vulnerability and trust. It also makes you really aware of all of your senses because your brain becomes really acutely attuned to everything that's going on.
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And it allows both the partners or more if you've got more partners in your sexual dynamic to explore your desires more deeply. And of course, it's essential to establish clear communication and your boundaries beforehand so that you can have that safe play and really enjoy it and sink into the experience and make sure you've got safe words or
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you're aware of how to get out of whatever bondage you're using in case you change your mind at the time. So let me know if you are open to sensual bondage. Is it a green light for you? Are you using this all the time or regularly? Are you totally open to it? Let me know if it's an amber for you. So it's something that you're considering or you're considering certain elements of it.
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and you have quite strict boundaries or it's something that you want to learn more about, maybe you want to learn more about rope play and how to use rope play for example. Or let me know if it's a red, it's an absolute limit, hard limit for you that you would not be willing to explore for whatever reason or it's something that is a no for you at the minute.
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So as always, either email me or direct message me on the usual social media platforms if you want to let me know if it's a red, amber or green light. And of course, chat to your partner and have a little chat about this and see what they think. So yeah, let me know.
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Now then, let's move on to today's podcast and Ellie, who is the founder of Tyler Aromatherapy. Ellie is amazing. Her business is really, really flying at the minute and she absolutely deserves all the success because her products are amazing. So I really, really love her products. So Tyler Aromatherapy is where the magic happens through the power of essential oils.
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So Ellie is the founder and the heart and soul behind this well-being brand.
Ellie's Aromatherapy Journey
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She's the creator, she's the maker and she puts all her love and passion into every product and crafts them with the utmost care in the Wye Valley in Wales.
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So her journey actually began as a qualified midwife in the NHS, and that's where she witnessed firsthand the remarkable effects of aromatherapy. And she'll be talking a bit about her journey into this business in the first place. So do check her out on Instagram at tyleromatherapy and I'll share links to her social media and to her website and sign up to her emails as well.
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I'm a huge fan of her bath salts so the cosy dozy and rosy bath salts they are not only beautiful to look at in their pots but they are so amazing in the bath. I'm literally obsessed with them and her candles are amazing the stay grounded one
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is a firm favorite of mine as well as the women's balance one that I've also got. So yeah, it's well worth browsing through her shop because there's so many things that you will want, trust me. And they smell amazing for ages as well, not like the candles that just wear off instantly. But anyway, let's dive in. Enough of me talking about
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Ellie and her amazing skills. Let's dive into today's episode and of course let me know what you think. Okay, hello Ellie, how are you this afternoon? Hello, I'm great thanks, how are you?
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Yeah, well, thank you. I'm so excited to talk to you today all about aromatherapy. You know, I implement quite a bit of that around my house and would love to implement more of it. You know, one of my favorite things about going to a spa is the scent that hits me straight away. I just find it instantly relaxes me.
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And I always think I need my house as soon as I come in through the door to feel like a spa. Maybe the kids would kind of ruin that vibe straight away. But I feel like if I had more sense that that would definitely get me in the right calming vibe as soon as I'm home. So I'm definitely interested in what you've got to say today and learn more about it and get better at it. But why don't you start
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first by introducing who you are and how you got into aromatherapy. So tell us your story first.
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Yeah, sure. So I'm Ellie and my background is in the NHS. I'm a qualified midwife and I worked in the NHS for nearly two years. It was around the whole, I qualified basically just before COVID hit. And so there was a lot of changes in the NHS service with regards to there was a big baby boom. There was a lot more women coming through the doors. There was a lot less staff due to sickness and all these different things combined.
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kind of made me feel very stressed and I got burnt out quite suddenly really I think I masked my own stress for a while and just plodded along and just assumed everything was fine and then I actually started having some physical symptoms so I actually started vomiting and I thought there was something really wrong with me so I went to the GP and they did bloods and they just sort of started talking to me and chatting and
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they asked me about my job and then I basically just burst into tears and everything just sort of came out suddenly. And it was honestly a really kind of sudden thing that happened where I just thought, wow, I'm obviously very stressed and I just didn't even realise it. And so I'd actually not long before this happened did an aromatherapy course as part of my midriffy role where it was all about
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holistic approach to labour care, you know, helping women to relax, using clary sage to help their labour progress a bit more naturally and all these different sorts of things. So
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I'd only recently just been introduced to essential oils and the power that they have and when I was hit with this huge stress and burnout I had to leave for a little bit just to give myself a break and I started using essential oils to help me get back to my best self and help me feel calmer and relaxed and balanced and it honestly inspired me so much that I
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went ahead and started my own aromatherapy business, so it's called Tylote Aromatherapy and we make, well, I say we, it's just me still at the moment, one woman's show, but we basically make pure essential oil candles with therapeutic blends to boost your well-being and just bring some balance back into our lives because
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life can be very stressful. We don't have enough time for ourselves. We don't have enough time for self-care. And it's an easy way to implement that into our lives again and make us feel good. And now we're at the point where my business is going really well. I don't have any plans to go back to the NHS if I'm honest, because I just feel like my path in life has taken me down this route with my business.
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And I just want to keep educating and just keep making things for people to make them feel their best selves, really. Yeah, I think if you find a new route to help people, then you sort of think, well, this is actually doing what I'm meant to do all along. Yeah. Yeah. And interestingly enough, I actually feel like I help people more now. I know that sounds kind of
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bit extreme considering I literally did deliver babies but because of just the way that you don't have enough time to give to people within the NHS always because it is just so fast paced, it's so hectic and I actually feel like now I can give people a lot more and it's actually given me a sense of purpose back which I think I'd lost during my time in the NHS and so yeah it's I'm really enjoying it, really enjoying it
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That's so good. Yeah, I totally recognise that feeling of feeling like you're helping people more outside of the NHS, because you can feel so torn when you know that there's more that can be done, but you're limited by time and protocols and set way of doing things. And it can really leave you feeling misaligned, can't it? And just add so much more personal stress. I think lots of NHS staff will recognise that.
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But it's so interesting that in midwifery and in the NHS you were sent on a course about aromatherapy. I think some people might be really surprised to hear that that is a
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a part of training and that it's not just looked at as something that's completely alternative or complementary medicine, that actually it's got a valued place in a woman's care, in labor and the midwifery pathway.
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So you mentioned that you got really stressed and that you were starting to have physical symptoms and then you did this course as part of your training. How long did you find until you started using the essential oils and using aromatherapy on yourself? How long did you find until you started feeling more like yourself again?
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To be honest, I think with aromatherapy, there's kind of three terms that it can be separated into if you like. So you've got like the sense of smell, which is almost instant. You know, like when you walk through the door and somebody's like cooking your favorite meal and you smell it and you instantly feel like happy and it brings those lovely feel good hormones and makes you feel joy.
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there's, there's that kind of instant impact to aromatherapy. So sometimes, you know, it's just a case of lighting a really lovely candle or using an essential oil blend in a diffuser and just instantly smelling it. And you can feel it better straight away. And then you've got like the inhalation side of it, which is a little bit more kind of sciency, but it's, it's basically how essential oils work and how they are so beneficial. So
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When you inhale the scent molecules, they travel up to the emotional brain and trigger different hormonal responses to make you feel a certain way. And so there's that side of it as well. So it kind of can work instantly. And I did find for myself that it was very helpful because I did also have in the vomiting, I did also have some sort of anxiety attack that would come on quite suddenly. My chest would go very tight.
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And I would just add a few drops of lavender and peppermint into like a cup of boiling water and basically just put my head over it and just take some deep breaths. And I find that that instantly worked to reduce that tight chested feeling and that panicked feeling that we sometimes get when you have an anxiety attack. So I would say if you start implementing it into your life, you will notice immediate effects.
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Yeah, it's certainly something that I recommend to patients who come to me with panic attacks or anxiety attacks. I do this exercise with them where I try and get them to collect things, five things that will stimulate the five senses. So obviously one of them is sent because I find that helps bring the kind of mind-body connection and back into the present moment as opposed to
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just in your kind of fear center of your brain. So yeah, I just find it such a simple way of actually implementing or helping to calm that anxiety attack that anyone can do. So tell us a bit more about what aromatherapy actually means for someone who's never heard the term before.
Understanding Aromatherapy Benefits
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Yeah, so what I was just sort of saying back then about the three different parts of it. So essentially, it is made up of sense of smell, inhalation and absorption. So it's using essential oils which are made from plants. So they're usually extracted from
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stalks of plants, the bark from trees, the citrus peels, oranges, things like that. They're all completely natural. They're all plant-based. They don't have anything synthetic or toxic within them. They have so many benefits to them. There's a whole range of benefits. You're going from
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you know, making you feel really energized and awake all the way down to helping you to sleep and relax. And it's kind of everything in between hormone balance. And there's lots that goes into it. And so talking about the second part, which is the inhalation is basically that whole science where I said about when you inhale the scent molecules, there's certain compounds within essential oils that will then travel up to the limbic system, your emotional brain.
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and trigger different responses within the body that can make you feel a certain way. And then you've also got then the absorption, sort of phasoroma therapy, which is where you may use a natural massage oil with essential oils in, and you can massage it into like an air muscle that's a bit achy and it will have that sort of easing of muscle pain. There's lots of skin products around that have got essential oils in, which, you know, for example, we've got frankincense and rose, which are both really good for reducing inflammation, really good for
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acne prone skin, aging skin. So it really is an umbrella term. And it's got lots and lots of benefits.
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Yeah, yeah. And there's quite a lot of studies actually now looking at aromatherapy and its benefits and the various ways that it can make a difference to people's physical health and mental health, you know, not just like feel good vibes and not just to like smell nice or feel good, but you know, actually improve people's health and improve people's experience of getting better and recovering from illness. So
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what in your experience what kind of things can it can it help with? Have you noticed anyone getting really big transformations in their health or their wellness? What kind of things have you noticed? So the big one I think is sleep, improving sleep. I actually looked at a study
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only last week called Need for Sleep which was looking at sleep quality for people within the UK and it was basically saying that 7.5 million people in the UK have less than five hours sleep a night and don't have good quality sleep and you know people the common themes were people struggling to fiddly get to sleep waking up frequently in the night
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and just not getting enough sleep in general. And I started to look at the different essential oils that are always known for their relaxing like sleep benefits. So we're talking about like lavender, ylang ylang, basil, you know, these sort of essential oils.
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they all have one thing in common which is they have linole in and I was having a little Google about linole and so many studies came up it's actually the world's oldest sleep aid and it has sedative effects so it basically when you inhale it sort of triggers your parasympathetic nervous system to come into play which is
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really important for when you're trying to get to sleep because obviously it's the thing that lowers your heart rate and shuts your brain off and helps you to relax. And obviously there's lots of things that would stop that from happening for somebody who was just trying to fall asleep. So even just life habits, scrolling on your phone, like I'm terrible, scrolling on TikTok late at night,
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And then I just, I turn it off and then I lie down and I expect myself to go to sleep. And I'm like on high alert mode and it takes me so long to switch off. And that's when like using essential oils can really help with that. So, you know, using lavender, add in a few drops on your pillow, because that's got those little, that little little compound in which is the, the compound that has got mild sedative effects. And that's actually been proven. So many studies have been
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talking about that and I've actually had a customer who sent me, she did post a review on the website but she actually personally messaged me as well. She's basically been suffering from nightmares for years and years and they've been keeping her up at night and she's been really struggling with her sleep.
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And I have an essential oil blend called the Yin Blend, which is designed for calm and relax. It's got lavender, it's got ylang ylang, it's got sandalwood, jasmine, and cypress essential oils in. So it's a really lovely blend. And she started using it for a week and she was really surprised. She wasn't really expecting it to work, I think, because there is still this whole, oh, you know, that smells nice, is that really going to do anything sort of? People can have that view on essential oils.
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But, yeah, she literally said that they've taken away her nightmares and she just sleeps through the night and she's honestly amazed. And I've posted about that everywhere because I feel like that's such an amazing review and like, you know, that's had a massive impact on her life because sleep is so important to women's health. Yeah, absolutely. It's so important for our mood, you know, and we're all guilty of getting a bit grumpy and a bit moody in the afternoon when we get that sort of tired lull and
00:20:54
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You know, we need, we do need better sleep overall. We all need better sleep. Absolutely.
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Yeah, well, sleep is, you know, what we're designed to do in order to heal, isn't it? Like that is our regeneration mode and our healing mode. And if you're not getting good quality sleep and not enough of it, then, you know, it's risking the immune system over and over again. And it's just keeping you in that stress state. And the difficulty is it's very hard to break that cycle. So, you know, the brain just gets trained into having a really poor sleep pattern.
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And then that can make it worse then because you're really apprehensive and worried that you're not going to have good sleep. And then of course your brain thinks, I'm not going to get good sleep, so I'm going to stay awake. And like obviously as a GP, I get that request.
00:21:40
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really, really, really commonly for sleeping tablets or a quick fix to help with sleep. And the difficulty of sleeping tablets just don't work. They don't work that well. I really don't like prescribing them because they don't actually give you the good quality sleep that you need. It's different sleep you have on sleeping tablets. So if we can use something different to help induce natural sleep, then that's always going to be better. Certainly like that's where I've used
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essential oils most commonly is to help with sleep. Like I find that like the woody scents are good for me when it comes to relaxing, but probably because like anytime I go into the woods, I feel better. So anything that is like, like speedo and stuff like that, I really, I really like. Yeah, because it's sort of reminding you of happy places. Yeah.
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other side to aromatherapy is it's the triggering of the memories and you know you might remember that your mum always used to cook you something as a kid I don't know apple pie or something and then you smell that smell again and
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it kind of brings back those memories and so you know similar to what you're just saying about the woody sense making you feel comforted because you like being in the woods yeah just familiar you know familiar scenes isn't it but um like lavender is another thing that i like i like putting lavender on my pillows etc but not everyone likes lavender so
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It's good to hear that it's not just lavender that will help with sleep. So I know a few patients before when I've mentioned, oh, lavender's actually got quite good studies to show that it helps with sleep. They'll go, I hate the smell of lavender. It reminds me of something terrible. And they think, well, that's not going to help then. So you've listed a few other things, alternatives. So as long as they've got that linolol in it, I guess, then that can help with relaxation and sleep.
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when you use them do you always put them into like a candle or like how do you how do you use essential oils because obviously they come in a liquid essential oil is a liquid isn't it so how do you transform it from that liquid from a plant to something that people can actually use yeah so I make essential oil blends as well and and you can either buy an actual
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little essential oil blend bottle, which you can add to, you get the electric diffusers and the oil burners. And, you know, like similarly to what I was saying about when I was having anxiety attacks, and I would put
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two drops of essential oils into just a cup of water, just inhale the steam that was coming from it. There's that, there's adding it to a pillow, there's adding it to a massage oil, that's like almond oil or coconut oil or something and making your own massage oil, your own moisturizer. There's obviously using natural essential oil candles, because candles have that lovely ambience as well with like the flame, which adds to creating a nice mood.
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reed diffusers, you can use it for cleaning, you know you can add some white vinegar and distilled water and add some citrusy essential oils like lemon, tea tree and that's got really great anti-grease properties so it makes a fantastic cleaner for your hair you know to clean your surfaces and everything. Add it to the bath a few drops is
00:25:04
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there's so many ways that you can incorporate essential oils into your everyday life. And once you start really looking at it, you realize that there's there's plenty of opportunity, you know, even down to as I was saying with the cleaning, and and
00:25:18
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you know while you're cleaning you're going to have that lovely aroma of the lemon which has got that lovely uplifting quality and that low boosting quality and so yeah. So it'll feel happy when you're doing your cleaning. So while we're cleaning down our surfaces we can feel really uplifted and good about it. You might even feel encouraged to clean because you think oh I like the smell that's where I'm actually going to start doing everything.
00:25:41
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Because that's definitely the area that I'm interested in adding more of it into my life is the cleaning products because it's, you know, on when I practice everything to do with wellness, obviously, one of the elements of wellness is the environment that you live in. So creating that environment that is more supportive towards health and healing.
00:26:04
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and less about last chemicals that we don't really know much about or you never know really the long-term effects of them. So certainly looking at more natural ways of still getting the clean that you want, but none of the harmful properties. And it's definitely something that I'll be interested in learning more about is creating my own kitchen spray, for example.
00:26:29
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as long as it works. Like that's the thing is, you know, when you go to the supermarket, it's so easy just to buy something that is in horrible plastic. You don't really know what the chemicals are on the back, but there's a lot of them. I feel like if you don't understand that much of what you're reading, it's a big red flag to say, I'm not going to spray that all around my house.
00:26:51
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Yeah, I think there's definitely we've just got so used to, you know, bleach and flash surface spray and all these things. And even like those wipes is those antibacterial wipes that, you know, they are just full of chemicals and it's such an easy swap. And you won't notice any difference in like the level of cleanliness, you know, it cleans just the same.
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without the toxins and that's just better for your house. Yeah, well that's definitely like next on my like transform the home plan if that makes sense. So we talked a bit about sleep and how it can help with sleep.
Aromatherapy for Hormone Balance
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So I presume like when you're using it for sleep you're thinking like the diffuser, the candle,
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or creating like a massage oil or drops on your on the pillow etc so there's quite a variety ways of kind of implementing it into your sleep routine but what about other than sleep what about other ways that aromatherapy can help women specifically with their with their on their like wellness journey can if well we know it can affect hormones because
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obviously anything that changes from your parasympathetic nervous system into your parasympathetic nervous system will have an effect on what hormones are created and whether or not you're developing more of your stress hormones. Have you read about aromatherapy actually helping with women's hormone health? Yes, yeah and obviously that's where my background is useful you know because being a midwife I know a lot about reproductive health and
00:28:31
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things like that and it's um clary sage was a big essential oil that we spoke about um on the course because of its eutrotonic properties which basically means that it stimulates the uterus and causes little movements in the uterus which why we've given it to women in labor because we're hoping that it's going to have that sort of
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release of oxytocin, the love hormone that will then help to cause more contractions and the woman will progress in labor naturally. But you can also take that completely out of the, you know, the labor part of life. And just think about women in general and, you know, going down the route of perimenopause or menopausal, which is a huge topic that women
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just don't know enough about themselves during that period. And there's so many different factors that come into play that we can use aromatherapy to help bring a bit of balance back to ourselves. So, Clarice Age. So, like I was saying about the utatonic properties,
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it's gonna have the same impact whether you're pregnant or you're not pregnant. It's gonna have that little cause, the little movements in the uterus. It's gonna help balance out your reproductive hormones, which obviously play a huge part in our symptoms for women that are suffering from perimenopause and menopause. And then you've got the sort of side effects that women tend to get with that, which the big one is tiredness. I know we're talking about getting better quality sleep,
00:29:59
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but there's also actually just helping reduce fatigue in general. And that's where citrus essential oils are so good. They really lift the mood, they reduce fatigue. And so there is that side of it as well, where we can be balancing our reproductive hormones, reducing fatigue and getting better sleep from just using different essential oil blends. And also just
00:30:27
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making yourself feel a bit better, you know, we get low moods. And we, you know, as well as being tired, we do get low, low moods, low confidence. And, you know, creating a really nice atmosphere in your home, you know, in the evening, or it doesn't have to be the evening, that's another thing with candles and things people tend to focus that more on, oh, that's for the evening, but actually, you can light
00:30:51
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a citrusy essential oil candle in the morning to help you feel refreshed and awake and ready for the day. I like candles all day every day pretty much. So I've forgotten what I was saying now. But yeah, I think not just focusing on the evening, isn't it? That's the main thing is people think, oh, well, I'll do these relaxing things just in the evening to wind down as opposed to, hang on, what about trying to keep you in the relaxed state?
00:31:20
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for most of your awake states, rather than just thinking like, this is going to be my wind down. Well, actually, it'd be more beneficial if we try and try and keep you active and energized, but not into your stress state. So we need you to be good energy, not fatigued, still getting out and about, but actually in a calm, relaxed, you know, joyful manner, isn't it? So you're actually enjoying your busy day as opposed to just getting through it so that you can wind down later.
00:31:51
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Yeah, that's obviously so true. Well, I remember what I was going to say now about improving your mood and in the evening time when you're wanting to maybe
00:32:02
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feel a little bit more special and you know set the tone and set the mood you know you can use essential oils in that way and jasmine and rose in particular come to mind they're really great for they've got like aphrodisiac sort of properties so they can really boost your mood they can set the ambience make you feel really relaxed and boost that oxytocin level that hormone like you know that love hormone and and make you just
00:32:26
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But he says, feel good hormones. OK, so Jasmine, what was the other one you said? Jasmine and Rose. So that's your kind of like libido boosters, is it? Yes. Yeah. OK, good. Yeah, that is good to know. You'll need to create your cell of a blend called libido booster. I think that will be really popular. I don't actually do that yet, but I really should. I do a women's balance blend, which has got the Carrie Sage and Rose Geranium in. Yeah. But I should definitely do a libido booster, essentially.
00:32:55
Speaker
Yeah because you know I get that question regularly in practice is you know have they invented the women's Viagra yet and you know where is it and why can't they create it and so I'm constantly trying to say well actually like the big pharmaceutical can't do it like trust me they're trying because that would be a big money maker for them so it's not for a lack of trying.
00:33:17
Speaker
It's just that it was just very complex and you just can't create a pill to look at all of that. So I think and I guess that's where aromatherapy can have that wins because you can use different ones at different times for different things. Yeah. And then it all kind of works together, isn't it? Harmonises together. That's it. Definitely. I mean, if you can if you can get better sleep, improve your energy levels through the day,
00:33:46
Speaker
and you know, boost your mood, those unbalance your hormones, you know, those four things combined are obviously going to have a much greater effect that goes beyond just those four things, you know, because you can then go ahead and be more productive and more motivated and more happy and more likely to want to be intimate. And there's all these different things that can come from just, you know, improving a few things in your life that you can easily do with essential oils.
00:34:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So the way you use essential oils is to inhale them or put them on the skin. Those are the two, two kind of ways, yeah. Yeah, but you can't say because essential oils are very potent. They're not toxic, as I was saying, they're made from plants, but they are quite potent. And obviously, your skin is quite sensitive. So you can't put pure essential oils on the skin.
00:34:38
Speaker
But that's when using massage oils that have got essential oils in and a lot of skin care, facial serums and oils that have essential oils in.
00:34:47
Speaker
you can use it while it's diluted with a carrier oil, we call it, and a carrier oil can be anything from any oil you can think of, olive oil, almond oil, coconut oil, any type of oil, anything at all, you can... I guess anything other than water is next, it can't, it'll just separate from water as opposed to mixing together, won't it? Yeah, exactly. And yeah, so just be careful if you
00:35:11
Speaker
if you're wanting to try it at home just make sure that you dilute it before you put it on the skin. Yeah yeah yeah because that's the thing isn't it even though it's natural and comes from plants it doesn't mean that it can't cause harm like this is where you still have to be careful with the right amount isn't it and the right amount for you individually because what someone else might be able to tolerate is different to what
00:35:36
Speaker
you might be able to tolerate when it comes to like putting stuff on your on your skin isn't it so it is worth kind of following advice rather than just yeah creating your own potions. I mean I go up such a tolerance now I could probably just pour essential oils all over me and I wouldn't have any trouble at all but obviously if you're just trying it out um yeah just make sure that you're getting like a really really um high quality blend um
00:36:05
Speaker
and you'll know that because it will save pure essential oils so you don't really want anything that's watered down or diluted when you're buying it in a bottle but then obviously then you can add it to a carrier oil of your choice.
00:36:17
Speaker
Yeah. But how can people be sure that they are buying stuff that isn't diluted down or fake? Should people buy their essential oils from a specific place? Or is there anywhere that you'd recommend? Or with Tyler aromatherapy, do you sell individual essential oils or the blends that you'd recommend for specific things?
00:36:43
Speaker
Yeah, so I sell blends, I don't sell individual essential oils because I
00:36:50
Speaker
I guess I'm trying to create blends that have that will solve problems. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So like the Yin Blend is that like really calming and we've got on the opposite end of that, we've got a Yang Blend, which is all about bringing energy and motivation. And then we've also got Women's Balance Blend, which is going back to that whole hormone balance, helping women, you know, get ease from their menopausal symptoms naturally. And so they're the three blends that I do. But I would say,
00:37:18
Speaker
probably to check on the website of the brand that you want to buy from that they have there.
00:37:24
Speaker
safety data sheets, because if they have those, then you can kind of, you know that they are trustworthy. So you know your hormonal balance, you've mentioned for perimenopause and the menopause, and certainly from professional experience, aromatherapy is widely used in perimenopause and the menopause with or without hormonal therapy on top, so you can combine it obviously.
00:37:54
Speaker
What about for women who aren't perimenopausal or menopausal but have quite bad PMS symptoms or PMDD? Do you find that that same hormonal balance will help with that as well?
00:38:10
Speaker
Yes, yeah definitely and even down to when you have sort of severe bloating and cramps, adding a couple of drops of it onto like a warm flannel and just putting that over your tummy area will provide obviously you've got the warmth which provides some relief but also then you've got that third thing we were talking about with the absorption so actually it being absorbed into the skin
00:38:35
Speaker
and relieving those cramps and that bloating and discomfort. But at any time that you need some hormonal balance, it's going to be beneficial to you, whether you are 18 and you've got really bad PMS symptoms or you're 55 and you're going through menopause, it's going to be helpful for a wide range of women.
00:38:58
Speaker
Yeah, so you don't have to wait until like, things are really bad. And then you're just kind of really suffering. It's worth kind of implementing it early on. That's what I find is the biggest shame about women's health and hormonal health in general is usually you find that people only women start learning about it only at the disaster point where they feel awful, as opposed to actually like, maybe we need to change our whole perspective about it. And
00:39:24
Speaker
As soon as we start educating girls about periods coming, then you go right, okay, well, this is something you're going to have for a long time. You need to learn about it early on and how to work with it and take advantage of when you're going to be best be able to perform around your cycle and how we can limit any side effects and encourage good hormones to come out.
00:39:52
Speaker
We're a long way off that, unfortunately, at the minute, but hopefully, as more people are interested in wellness in general, that it kind of seeps down to younger girls, isn't it? I was going to ask then about
00:40:07
Speaker
Oh, I was going to say peppermint. So you mentioned about like bloating and cramps and things.
Integrating Aromatherapy in Skincare
00:40:12
Speaker
Well, it's actually really common for us in general practice to talk to people about peppermint oil when it comes to IBS symptoms. Yeah, that's... People might not know that it's like...
00:40:27
Speaker
we used to prescribe that quite regularly to people with IBS and still now if I don't find that things work I'll say well we could try this instead. So I think it's like more common and more in Western medicine than people might realise. Yeah I know many a time I gave post-natal women peppermint capsules on the post-natal women they were suffering with constipation and you know bloating and all these things
00:40:53
Speaker
Yeah, I actually forgot about that until you mentioned it. Yeah, it was very common.
00:40:58
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's just so routine, isn't it? You don't realise that, well, actually, this is like using essential oils in a different way and using like plant medicine, I suppose. It is, it's the absorption, isn't it? Yeah. And what about skin? So do you use face? I mean, do you use essential oils for skin and trying to prevent like aging skin? I know, like, that's certainly like something that I'm always really interested in.
00:41:25
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. There's a few things that are really great. I mean, lavender used to be used to treat burns and, you know, sensitive skin, acne, eczema, all these different things. And so if you combine
00:41:42
Speaker
you know lavender with some really lovely facial oil and a lot of brands nowadays that are aimed at more natural and using oil based will generally have essential oils in. I would always make sure that when you look at the ingredients on you know the facial oil that it doesn't have added perfume and so it will usually say naturally occurring in essential oils at the bottom and then you know that
00:42:09
Speaker
the sense that they're referring to are naturally occurring. So they're not. And if you don't really want to add anything onto your skin that can just irritate it more. So
00:42:19
Speaker
Yeah, so lavender is really great, but also frankincense and rose are really great for aging skin and evening out the complexion. And then you've got like citrus oils, which are really great for brightening and reducing dullness. So there's lots, there's lots of different options for essential oils and their benefits for skin. And it's actually really lovely that there's so many natural skincare brands now that are using essential oils and natural butters and oils to create
00:42:47
Speaker
lovely skincare products that are natural, so they're not going to, you know, irritate the skin, and they're going to have so many benefits to them. I mean, I love to oil cleanse. And so I take my makeup off with it with like, it's your home and grape seed, I make my own because I just love making everything myself. But I actually take my makeup off with that because I find it makes a really great cleanser and removes your makeup way better than anything
00:43:14
Speaker
that I can ever buy from the shop. Oh, do you sell that as a cleanser then? No. You should. I would totally buy that. No, I know. Well, when you delve into skin products, you've got to go down a whole route of testing and labs and paying and lots of money. So I kind of want to focus it more on the well-mused stuff. Yeah, because I can only use oil-based cleansers. So yeah, I need to look into that then and learn how to make it.
00:43:44
Speaker
Yeah, I was just gonna say like loads of like the more expensive facial creams now are having essential oils in them. Like I've noticed that it's just becoming more and more mainstream and more and more expensive. Like my sister's been using frankincense on her skin for years and it's always been really, really expensive. But like I'm always like, oh, that must be good. Rose frankincense, that must be good. I'll get that.
00:44:11
Speaker
Yeah summer essential oils are really expensive and it's just the way that they're extracted and the plant that it comes from. Rose is absolutely extortionate so if you do get some rose essential oil feel very lucky because it's a very luxurious feeling when it's so expensive. I guess you need so much of them don't you? You need so many so many roses in order to extract it.
00:44:38
Speaker
Like, yeah, so that's my understanding of the more expensive, obviously, if you need more of the plant to get to extract the oil, then it's obviously going to be more expensive because of the quantity needed, isn't it? So what about so since you've implemented essential oils into your life, and I'm sure it's like, from morning to night that you've got some kind of essential oil in your in your life. What do you what's been if I could say, right, you can't have, I'll give you one essential oil and you can't have any of the others.
00:45:08
Speaker
Oh, that was horrible. What would be your right? I'll I'll I'll just have this. Oh, it would, to be honest, it would actually be lavender because I don't think I could live without putting that on my pillow because I have I find it really difficult to switch off like having your own business as well. I'm sure you know, it's just your brains going 100 miles an hour all the time.
00:45:36
Speaker
And so late at night, it's really difficult for me to switch off. And I've implemented lots of different things to help with that. Like I try not to go on my phone. I read for a little bit. I don't have like a cup of tea or something should be read before I go to bed. You know, I don't want to wake myself up even more. But I do really swear by the oil on my pillow. So I just don't think I could let that go.
00:46:00
Speaker
If I was going back to laying there for hours, tossing and turning, it just has such an impact on the next day then when you've had a bad night's sleep. So yeah, I think it would actually, it would be that. I think it'd be really interesting to ask people what's the, what would be their one essential oil. I think when people do use a lot of them in their, in their routine, I bet it's really individualized where they go, right, no, this, this is the one bit, like same with anything in wellness, isn't it? Like most people like one thing.
00:46:30
Speaker
So when it comes to your wellness routine, obviously you've been through burnout and you've had to take action to address that.
Aromatherapy for Burnout and Stress
00:46:40
Speaker
If you had a friend who came to you and said that she was really burnt out, what would be the one tip, one wellness tip that you would give her to kind of change her trajectory and get on the healing journey for burnout? Would it be aromatherapy or would you tell her to start somewhere else? I'm really interested to know what your tip is.
00:47:00
Speaker
Well that's quite a difficult question because I feel like there's often a combination of things that will have you know that will cause that have the biggest impact. Obviously I would give her some of my products to you know and tell her how to incorporate aromatherapy into her life but I mean I also personally had some Reiki healing
00:47:27
Speaker
So I think it's really difficult actually, that is actually really difficult to just say one thing, but aromatherapy would be included 100% and then
00:47:40
Speaker
I feel like when I had Reiki, what happened is that the path was made clear for me because I was so jumbled. And I think often when people are burnt out and stressed, it's because they don't know where to go next and where to turn next. And sometimes even if they have an alternative, like, well, I know I really want to do that. There's just so much worry that overtakes actually doing it because you think, well, what if I don't make enough money? What if I'm more, you know, what if the grass isn't any greener? I'm actually more unhappy or
00:48:10
Speaker
know, what if it's really stressful. And so our thoughts sort of overtake us, choosing a different path. But we can't ignore the feelings that we're getting. I feel like if you get those feelings of burnout and, and it goes on for a prolonged period of time, you have to kind of ask yourself, right, this isn't gonna go away unless I physically do something on it and do something about it. So for me, when I had reiki healing, it was almost like
00:48:36
Speaker
the path was like going this way that way that and I just didn't know where I was going. And then I came out of there and it was kind of like the path was just in front of me. Yeah. And I just sort of knew I thought to myself, that's it. I'm gonna take my business. I'm gonna just do it. I'm gonna have my business and work for myself. And I can honestly say that I'm so much happier. So yeah, I think we do get in our own head far too much and get in our own way.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah I think that's the thing is anything that gets you out of your head and more connected to you know your true emotions and your and just your soul really that's where you'll get that that clarity but when you're really stressed or burnt out
00:49:18
Speaker
doing that is very difficult. And I think when your health is challenged, it can feel so overwhelming when you think, right, I've got to do so much, I've got to sleep really well, I've got to eat the right things, I've got to exercise, I've got to reduce my anxiety and my stress. I've got to make sure I'm not under around too many toxins. It can feel really hard, you know, when you're already busy and you think, how am I going to fit in all of that?
00:49:41
Speaker
before sleep time. So sometimes just having one step at a time. And that's where aromatherapy can really help because you can go, right, just focus on this and see how it makes you feel and let's keep you in that present moment. And that's where I find that just using scent can be really useful for bringing people out of their brain into their body and into that present moment. You can make such a difference, can't you?
00:50:08
Speaker
Definitely. Especially if it sort of becomes a routine, you know, because you were talking about the whole, when you can't go to sleep and then your brain's like, you know, gets into that, that pattern then where you just don't sleep. It's a little bit like if you lie awake a lot at night in bed, they say to get out of bed and go somewhere else because your brain will start to associate your bed with being awake. Yeah. And so if you can start implementing aromatherapy into everyday life at certain times and it becomes a routine,
00:50:38
Speaker
Yeah, and you feel calm and like your brain will then start associate. Oh, well, when when I put lavender on the pillar, that makes me feel calmer. And then it kind of just need that start getting those wellness routines and those little self care rituals, they don't have to be extravagant. Like you have an hour long bath and you do this routine that routine and that because we don't all really have time for that. If you can just have like five minutes,
00:51:00
Speaker
a few times throughout the day where you incorporate aromatherapy, it will start to have a massive impact on your well-being. Yeah, if it just blends into the background as opposed to something that is really time consuming, isn't it? Yeah. So where can people find you and Tyler aromatherapy?
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
00:51:19
Speaker
I think everyone's going to be looking for that blend. So all your blends. I need your sleep blend, I need your hormone balance blend. Yeah.
00:51:27
Speaker
need it all. So you can shop on my website tyleromatherapy.co.uk and I'm also on Instagram at tyleromatherapy, TikTok at tyleromatherapy, Facebook, it's all you know I'm pretty much everywhere on social media so hopefully if you want
00:51:44
Speaker
all on all the socials well I'll obviously add in that in the in the show notes as well so that people can find you and and hopefully you'll do some workshops and then you can teach us all about it like that's what I would love. I should do that I think that is the next step it's just finding the time because they do take up so much time and at the moment I'm still at that point where it's just me but it is growing
00:52:08
Speaker
it is going fairly rapidly at the moment. I'm hoping that by next year, I'm going to be employing some staff and then I'll have some more free time to be able to do things like like workshops and so yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, I'm sure you've got like so many ideas because there's so many ways that it can help people, isn't it? So I'm sure like, that's why you're using so much lavender at night to try and make sure you switch off from all the good ideas. Well, it's been so, so good to talk to you. You know, I'm so interested in this field and
00:52:39
Speaker
really want to delve more into it. So it would be great to do another episode where we can talk more about this because obviously we've just kind of given an overview today and I'm sure you can talk more about it. Yeah, yeah, I can talk lots about it probably a bit too much at times, but I've really, really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for having me on. It's my first podcast and I've really enjoyed it. It's just felt like a lovely chat and yeah, and I hope that, you know, people listening can start, you know,
00:53:09
Speaker
dabbling in aromatherapy and hopefully it brings some happiness and balance and better sleep and all those good things to their lives. Yeah that's it so many benefits so like why not give it a go isn't it? But yeah thank you so much Ellie that is brilliant and we will definitely talk to you again soon. Yeah for sure take care. Bye.