Holidays Archives - Suzanne Bovenizer

Aromatherapy for New Year’s Resolutions

We are at the start of a new year: a time of reflection and forward looking, a time of release and renewal. Each New Year’s eve we assess the past year’s positives and negatives and recommit to a new year’s set of resolutions. Often these are ones we have resolved to fulfill year after year…

Celebrating with the Holidays

The holidays are always a time for wonderful celebrations. And oh, are there parties!!! Office parties, open houses, family gatherings, Christmas parties – there always seems to be a reason to celebrate at this time of year. Yet parties can be a crap shoot; getting the guest list right, finding the most appetizing foods, sorting…

Cold Remedies with Essential Oils

When the cold and flu season is in full swing, here is a review some of the more important essential oils and how we can use them to combat those winter bugs! My first advice is to keep your environment clean and free of germs. This can be easily done by burning an essential oil…

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…