March 2017 - Page 6 of 9 - Suzanne Bovenizer

Detoxing After the Holidays

Feeling bloated, tired, snuffly, depressed and generally out of sorts? You could be experiencing the post-holiday blues. Over-eating, drinking too much, late nights and over stimulation can deplete the body and send the immune system into a downward spiral of toxic lethargy. When we over-do life for any length of time, our major organs become…

New Year’s New Beginnings with Aromatherapy

We all vow to start afresh every New Year, pledging to stay on a diet or to quit smoking or to stop spending so much money. All these are worthy resolutions, but we can go a lot further with beginning anew by choosing to freshen things up around us energetically. Essential oils, because of their…

Oils for the December Holiday Season

Thanks to our limbic system in the brain, we can spontaneously associate various events or emotions with different scents. Inevitably, during the holiday season, the limbic system is stimulated by aromatic delights and all those wonderful childhood memories are stirred up within us. One of my favorite limbic memories at Christmas is associated with fresh cut…

Peppermint and the Holiday Season

Peppermint needs very little introduction since it is one of the most popular essences that we use in daily life. From the moment we awake and brush our teeth, mint is a part of our routines – we use it in mouthwashes, shampoos, soaps, lotions, in our teas, in cooking and in our health care.…

Recuperating After the Holidays

The festive holiday season is over and many of us are breathing a big sigh of relief. Memories of over-shopping, over-eating, late nights, too much partying and over-taxation of inner resources have hopefully been put away with the Christmas ornaments. January is a time when we feel a deep need to settle into our proverbial…

Seasonal Addictions

The season from Halloween through New Year’s Eve seems to be an addictive time of year. We first start with a sugar high from nibbling the left over Halloween candy, which when it’s gone usually leaves us in a sugar slump and depression, making us want more candy for that high again. Fall football games…

Surviving the Flu with Aromatherapy

Every time the TV is switched on, there is some sensationalized news article filling us full of fear about the N1H1 flu. If we are to believe the hype, this is going to be the most virulent strain that will effect mass populations across America. But, if you read many of the “alternative” views of…

The Limbic System

We have all had the experience where a particular smell has brought us back to a time and place of memory. It could be a freshly baked apple pie transporting you back to childhood and the first time you smelled apple pie baking. Or maybe a cologne wafts by and wham, you’re thinking back to…

The Pumpkin Pie Effect

November begins the autumnal celebrations. The harvest has come in and the fruits of the summer’s labors are still bountiful. The many family get-togethers are being planned and food preparations are under consideration (and maybe debate). Knowing what we do about the limbic system, we can begin to understand how the various aromas associated with…

The Winter Solstice and Aromatherapy

The Winter Solstice begins December 21st, which is when the sun will be the furthest south in the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun will travel on its lowest arc in the sky, making it the shortest day of the year, (in that the length of time before sunrise and sunset is at a minimum for…