Ep. 396: Using Essential Oils for Nervous System Balance, Brain and Mood Support, Detoxification and Lymphatic Flow, and to Enhance all the Five Foundations of Health
Jodi Cohen earned her MBA from Columbia University and is an award-winning investigational journalist. She has worked as a marketing executive at Microsoft, Time Inc., and US News & World Report, and as a legislative aide to Senator Ted Kennedy. Due to her personal health issues of anxiety, insomnia, and autoimmunity, her career shifted into wellness. As a result, she holds certifications in nutritional therapy, functional neurology, herbalism, and aromatherapy. She also has extensive educational training in plant medicine, brain health, Chinese medicine, and integrative medicine.
Today, Jodi is a well-known, internationally renowned, sought-after essential oils expert and masterful formulator of essential oil blends. Jodi has taught more than 65,000 practitioners, individuals, and families across the nation on using essential oils to balance the body and the brain. She has lectured at prestigious wellness centers, conferences, and corporations and has been featured in The New York Times, Wellness Mama, Elephant Journal, and numerous publications.
Driven by own passion to find what works clinically, her brilliant, investigative, and inquisitive mind, and the compilation of all her education and training, Jodi revolutionized a method to combine essential oils that is truly unique and incredibly effective. This led her to create her own company in 2012, Vibrant Blue Oils. Vibrant Blue Oils are organic, wild-crafted essential oils that are of exceptional quality, offer transparent analysis of compounds, and are sustainably sourced. The company also provides the clinician and consumer a user-friendly and systematic approach to essential oils. Specifically, Jodi has crafted synergistic blends of essential oils which support weakened organ systems as they rebalance the nervous system and enhance overall resiliency.
Still, Jodi’s passion to spread the message of how essential oils can optimize our health doesn’t stop with the work she does with her company. She has curated and compiled her learnings into blogs, books, and classes. Her website is an invaluable resource for online essential oils information and welcomes 300,000 visitors every year. Furthermore, Jodi is the bestselling author of Healing with Essential Oils and her recent book Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body. When you meet Jodi, you will be amazed by her authentic, compassionate, and fierce drive to spread her knowledge to the world that essential oils are a true ally to anyone who hopes to enhance their wellness. Her passion is driven by the success stories she hears daily. Knowing that she is making a difference serves to fuel her desire to continue to discover and dig deeper into perfecting the merger of the science and art of essential oils. Through her work, she empowers others with the understanding and application of how essential oils can unlock one’s own innate, infinite healing power. You can find out more about Jodi and Vibrant Blue Oils at https://vibrantblueoils.com/.
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What You Will Learn:
The many benefits of aromas and how essential oils constituents support our mind and body in various ways.
How Jodi got started with natural health.
How Jodi revolutionized blending essential oils.
How Jodi’s success in her own practice led to the creation of her formulations and of her company, Vibrant Blue Oils.
The different types of applications of essential oils and which Jodi prefers and why.
The impact of stress on digestion and how essential oils can support better assimilation.
How the survival instinct and stress (external or perceived) suppress our ability to heal and restore.
Which combination of essential oils can alleviate sympathetic overdrive and turn on our “reset button”, the vagus nerve, and where we can apply them.
The theory of toxicity in the brain related to autism and how essential oils and stimulating the vagus nerve may help symptoms.
How the vagus nerve is important for self-regulation.
The vagus nerve infection hypothesis and how it relates to brain health.
Why you need to stimulate the lymphatic system with certain essential oils to help with detoxification and drainage by using the “Big Six Lymph Reset” by Dr. Perry Nickelston.
How to calm anxiety in an instant by inhaling an essential oil through a specific nostril.
Some stimulating oils that can help with brain fog, stress, absorption, and circulatory issues.
The five steps to help rebalance the body based on Jodi’s book, Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body.
How essential oils can optimize the brain by crossing the blood brain barrier.
The importance of combining essential oils in blends.
How essential oils can calm the overwhelm that prevents one from moving forward and making healthier choices.
Which essential oil decreases histamine, supports emotional health, and may help with mast cell activation syndrome.
The closing questions (1) What Jodi does daily for self-care, (2) What she thinks we can ditch and replace with for better overall health and resiliency.
Learn more about Jodi and Vibrant Blue Oils here: https://vibrantblueoils.com/
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Links to learn more about Jodi Cohen, Vibrant Blue Oils, and Her Work:
Website: @ Vibrant Blue Oils (Affiliation Link)
Facebook: @vibrantblueoils
IG: @vibrantblueoils
Linkedin: @vibrantblueoils
Podcast: Essential Alchemy Podcast
Resources for Vibrant Essential Oils:
Vibrant Blue Oils Blog
Free Gift! The Parasympathetic Toolkit
Classes (Parasympathetic Activation, Boost the Brain and Heal the Body, Healing Stress with Essential Oils, Reboot the Brain, and Gut Repair)
Books by Jodi Cohen:
Previous Episodes with Jodi Cohen, MBA, Founder of Vibrant Blue Oils:
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