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Feeling overwhelm + on high rev?

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While it’s totally normal to feel a little nervous from time to time, (big change ahead, uncertainty, an event, new job, stepping out of your comfort zone, and so on…) when the occasional fear or worry turns into something you feel you cannot control, essential oils just may help to ease the tension + create a feeling of calm.

Perhaps one of the most well known essential oils benefits, is their ability to help with stress + anxious feelings. Some have sedative properties, inducing a calm, peaceful, relaxed + uplifted feeling.

The best essential oils for anxious feelings + stress include lavender, bergamot, frankincense, ylang ylang, vetiver, basil + wild orange.

Lavender

Considered the most common/popular essential oil, benefits include having a calming, relaxing effect. It’s considered a nervous system restorative, helping with inner peace, sleep, restlessness, irritability, panic + general nervous tension.

Bergamot

Has a cleansing effect on limiting belief systems, low self esteem, self judgement + self acceptance. Encouraging hope, optimism + confidence, relaxed + content feelings,

Frankincense 

Offers feelings of relaxation + assists with reducing stress + anxious feelings. Frankincense helps to let go of lower vibrations + negativity. A powerful cleanser of darkness. Helping to create new perspectives, based on light + truth.

Ylang Ylang

Ylang ylang can help with anxious feelings + low mood, due to it’s calming + uplifting effects. Ylang ylang helps with cheerfulness + playfulness, courage, optimism + soothes fearfulness. Reconnecting to the pure, simple ways of the heart. It may calm agitation + nervousness and can also help to support sleep.

Vetiver

Vetiver oil has a tranquil, grounding + reassuring energy. Life can scatter one’s energy + vetiver assists with a feeling of connection with the self. Centering + emotionally aware. A nervous system tonic, it can help decreases jitteriness + hypersensitivity.

Basil

Basil is the oil of renewal. Supporting those who are under a great deal of mental strain, are overwhelmed, or have low energy. Basil has a calming effect on the nervous system. It also acts as a natural stimulant, rejuvenating vital forces after exhaustion or burnout.

Wild orange

Wild orange addresses a variety of emotional issues including; inspiring a positive mood,  fostering joy, abundance, playfulness, spontaneity + creativity. Wild orange helps one to let go of fear, nervous tension + lack mentality.

How to use essential oils for stress + anxious feelings

If you are looking to use a mixture of these oils to help with stress and anxious feelings, there are a number of ways to benefit. 

  • Make a roller bottle blend with any of the oils mentioned above, top with fractionated coconut oil + apply as necessary to the back of the neck and wrists. (15 drops of essential oils will suffice).
  • Diffuse essential oils of your choice in a diffuser — 6-10 drops for a large room, 3-5 drops in a small room.
  • Apply 2-3 drops of vetiver, diluted in a carrier oil along the spine.
  • Add 2-3 drops of wild orange + basil to the palm of your hand with a carrier oil + then apply to the small of your back.
  • Directly inhale your oil of choice from the bottle.
  • Wear oils in diffuser jewellery.
  • Make my Wild orange + choc raw slice
  • Create a body moisturiser by mixing five to eight drops of your essential oil of choice to an unscented moisturiser or carrier oil, like fractionated coconut oil or sweet almond oil. Apply liberally to the skin.
  • Take a bath by adding 15 drops of lavender or lavender peace essential oil and 1 cup of Epsom salts to the bathtub.

 

PLANT ALCHEMY

Only use the highest quality + purest essential oils, that have been tested to verify purity + composition (with no synthetics or diluted in any way).

You can purchase essential oils here by clicking on “JOIN + SAVE” to benefit from wholesale prices (25% off retail) for a $35 membership fee (why wouldn’t you!) If you buy a kit, this fee is waived! A wholesale account includes my on-going support, a personal Wellness Consult, access to umpteen oily resources and to our oily community/private FB group.

If you are not tech savvy + would like my help, I can help set you up over the phone. It will only take 5 mins. You can book in here.

It is my purpose to serve.

Love Kristy x

 

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The author claims no responsibility or liability, for any loss or damage incurred by use of information provided by this site. 

Spinach risotto with roasted pumpkin + goats cheese

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This winter has had me craving risotto! And, I love the flavour combination + textures of the elements in this dish.

So nourishing for the soul.

This recipe serves 3. Of course, you can double for guests.
ingredients

15-20 cubes of peeled 1.5cm pieces of pumpkin
extra virgin olive oil
sea salt
organic butter
1/2 brown onion diced finely
2 garlic cloves diced finely
1 cup arborio rice
1 ltr organic vegetable stock
4-5 cubes frozen spinach
cracked black pepper
bunch of broccolini
handful of sage leaves
soft goat’s cheese or, creamy persian feta

grated parmesan

 

Preheat the oven to 180c.

Place the pumpkin cubes on a lined tray, drizzle with a little evoo, season with sea salt + roast until cooked. Set aside.

Bring the vegetable stock to a simmer in a pot.

Heat a large deep heavy based pan over a medium heat + add 1/2 tbsp of butter + a good drizzle of olive oil. Add the onion + garlic and cook for 5 minutes, or until softened.

Add the rice and stir to coat. Add the stock a ladle at a time (allowing it to absorb each ladle) + continue to stir until all the stock is in the pan.

Stir in the spinach (you don’t need to drain as the extra liquid is required), add a nob of butter and season. Continue to cook until the rice is tender with a little bite + oozy (al-dente).

Sauté the broccolini in a small frypan over a medium to high heat in a little evoo for 5 minutes (you want a nice, slightly crunch texture to it). Add the sage leaves in the last minute of cooking + fry until crispy.

Serve the risotto in bowls. Top with roasted pumpkin + broccolini. Add a generous dollop of goats cheese on top.

Scatter with sage leaves + grate parmesan all over.

 

I love all the feedback via messages/email when you cook my dishes! Interested to know what you think of this one?

You can also find more inspo/recipes on my insta page @naturalhealthconsciousliving or on FB – just search, Natural Health Conscious Living.

Happy day to you!

With love + in glorious health,

Kristy xx

French onion soup

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This could be quite possibly, one of the easiest soup’s you can make. Minimal ingredients, this soup cooks itself…

It can be quite time consuming though. Caramelising onions calls for patience. It will be so worth it, trust me. You will be rewarded with golden, sweet, juicy onions + a soup with a rich, intense flavour.

There will be tears. And, lots of them. You have 1kg of onions to slice. Food processor perhaps?

 

ingredients

50g organic butter
1 tbsp olive oil
6 brown onions thinly sliced
1 tsp sea salt
2 tbsp plain gluten free flour
1 litre organic vegetable stock
2 cups additional water
bay leaf
few thyme sprigs
fresh chopped parsley
sea salt
cracked pepper

to serve

cheese toast *I lightly toasted some gluten free bread. Rubbed a garlic clove all over, then melted cheese on top of the toast under the grill.

 

Gently heat the olive oil + butter in a heavy based dish. Add the onions + sea salt. Cook until the onions have become very soft + caramelised. This process took me a good hour.

Add the flour, stir through + cook off a little, then add the vegetable stock + additional water. Add the bay leaf + thyme sprigs.

Reduce the heat to a simmer + allow to cook for another 20-30 mins or so, for the flavour to develop.

Taste + season.

Serve with a slice of cheesy bread + scatter with a generous amount of fresh parsley.

 

You had me at cheese toast.

With love,

Kristy x