How Essential Oils Support Mental Health with Jade Shutes (Ep. 405)

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Therapeutic, quality essential oils are most well known for their ability to promote relaxation, but they are also powerful tools that enhance our psychology and balance our physiology. In fact, the aromatic and physical properties of essential oils have been clinically proven to effect emotions and cognition.

In this episode of the Essential Oil Revolution, we review how essential oils can support mental health. Not only am I grateful to bring more attention to this important topic, but I am also honored to be joined by one of the foremost and respected authorities in aromatherapy, Jade Shutes, to discuss it.

Jade is a world-renowned aromatherapy practitioner, researcher, and an international educator. She has been in the aromatherapy field for three decades and she is passionate about aromatics. Jade believes the sense of smell is one of the most powerful senses for healing the mind/body/psyche in this era of upheaval and change. She is best known for her balanced, progressive, holistic, and inspiring approach and teaching style.

During the show, Jade dives deep into how essential oils and aromatherapy can be used as an ally to benefit our mood, emotional balance, and brain health. They can be used to fill in the gaps to achieve a more holistic approach to our current mental health care treatment.

Below is a summary of the key points we discussed during our interview.

What You’ll Learn:

1. An introduction on how essentials oils influence mental health (0 min)
2. Jade’s background and bio (2 min)
   1. Jade has been a key influencer in aromatherapy for three decades.
   2. Jade was recently highlighted on the Aromatic Hologram as a featured pioneer in aromatherapy. (6 min)
3. How Jade got interested in aromatherapy for mental health (8 min)
4. How essential oils can help one during times of trials by bringing us into the moment (13.50 min)
5. Why we should customize interventions and not just treat a diagnosis (15.30 min)
6. The multiple and holistic ways essential oils can benefit mental health: This is through the hedonic effect, psychological expectancy, memory-based association, and pharmacological mechanisms. (17.50 min)
7. The importance of using integrative support along with clinical aromatherapy (25 min)
8. The mental health conditions that have the most research with aromatherapy and what Jade has experienced with using various essential oils for them including: (28.30 min)
   1. Specific oils Jade currently is incorporating to help her family cope with grief.
   2. An oil that was featured in Jade’s articles on essential oils for mental health and panic attacks that took me by surprise.
   3. Essential oils that can support mood and their mechanisms. (35 min)
9. Jade’s guidelines for diffusing essential oils for emotional support (38 min)
10. The mood benefits received from topical applications of essential oils (48 min)
11. Essential oils impact on the vagus nerve and how they can be used to change neural connections based on this (52 min)
12. The many different integrative techniques to help with mental health: Essential oils can be incorporated into each one but are not the sole treatment. (55 min)
13. Jade’s insights on essential oils for trauma and how trauma changes the brain (1 hour)
14. How essential oils can impact social connection and how being around others ignites all our senses (1 hour 8 min)
15. How food, the earth, and smell enhance our health: Socioeconomics can impact this. (1 hour 11 min)
16. Using essential oils to support the mental health of youth: Teens are especially suffering from mental health issues.
17.  Closing questions to get to know Jade more and her recipe for aromatic baths

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