299: Helping Refugees and Foster Kids Heal From Trauma w/ Mamie Amin
Hi! I’m Sarah!
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When talking about essential oil we often focus on the value they can bring to our own self-car, but what about their power to help others? The first thing you may think of when you hear the words “refugee” and “foster kid” may not be essential oils, but stop and think about it for a moment; so many of these children are forced from their homes because of war, or threat of death, causing tremendous trauma. Don’t we use our oils to deal with our own trauma all the time? Maybe it’s time to pay it forward. Our guest Mamie Amin works closely with both refugee and foster child systems and shares first hand how she uses oils to give back.
After resettling refugees for years, Mamie moved with the love of her life- a refugee from Iraq- to the mountains of North Carolina to work in foster care and adopt a teenage boy. In her work at a foster care agency Mamie took a class called “Essential Oils and Trauma” that focuses on helping kids in the foster care system use essential oils to relieve stress and anxiety.
You’ll learn:
What’s going on in the Foster Care system
How many refugees are actually in the U.S.
Thinking about oils outside of yourself
How to work with your local Foster Care agency
Vaporizer or Diffuser?
If you hate an oil do you need it?
All about Trauma Life Essential Oil
What you can do to help these communities
Refugee and Foster Kid reactions ot EOs
Debunking some myths about being a foster parent
How to do Reflexology on yourself
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Mamie’s advice for how to support refugees:
Step 1: Watch some movies about refugees
Step 2: Find your local refugee resettlement office (a simple google search will do the trick!)
Step 3: Call and find out what donations they need and what volunteer opportunities they have
Step 4: Be a mentor to a refugee family through that agency! Take them out and show them around your town.
Step 5: Make welcome bags for refugees in your area that include toiletries and your favorite essential oils and diffusers.
Step 6: Donate regularly to Girl Forward
How to support foster families and foster kids:
Step 1: Watch the movies Instant Family and The Great Gilly Hopkins
Step 2: Find your local foster care agency (there will be many near you, I promise!)
Step 2: Go meet the staff at the agency and offer to provide essential oil training to foster parents
Step 3: Offer to make essential oil rollers for foster kids that will help comfort them in such a scary time
Step 4: Donate regularly to Comfort Cases
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Recipes mentioned in this episode:
Thyroid support roller
From: Lindsay Tersmette from Rochester, NY
Ingredients:
In a roller-ball combine 10 drops each of:
Lemongrass
Peppermint
Myrtle
Directions: Fill with carrier oil of choice. Roll over your throat and vita flex points daily to support a healthy thyroid.
Sam’s Fav Oil of the Week: Blue Christmas
5 drops Christmas Spirit
4 drops Valor
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