Essential Wellness Connections with Kim

12/01/2025

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11/19/2025

Changing up the oils that you are using in your diffuser can be beneficial!

🌿 Do Essential Oils Stop Working If You Use Them Too Much?
Let’s clear this up once and for all… 💛

If you’ve ever used the same essential oil every day and suddenly felt like it “does nothing” anymore — you’re not imagining it.
But the oil isn’t the problem… your brain is. 😉

Important: This applies to inhalation only — things like diffusing, breathing oils from your hands, inhaling from the bottle, pillow scents, room mists, aromatherapy jewelry, car diffusers, etc.

Topical and internal use work differently and are not affected by this adaptation.

🧠 1. Your nose gets used to the smell

This is olfactory fatigue — when your brain stops noticing a smell you’ve been exposed to for too long.

💛 2. Your emotional system adapts

Oils work through your limbic system (your emotional HQ).
Smell the same oil constantly and your nervous system becomes less responsive to that aroma.

🌬️ 3. Rotating oils keeps inhaled oils effective

Switching oils every few days keeps your emotional pathways engaged — just like changing up your workouts keeps your body responsive.

Try rotating by mood + purpose:

🌙 SLEEP

For calming the mind + dropping into deeper rest
• Lavender Peace
• Ylang Ylang
• Vetiver

🔥 MOTIVATION

For energy, focus + get-up-and-go
• Peppermint
• Wild Orange
• Motivate

💛 STRESS

For grounding, soothing overwhelm + emotional balance
• Frankincense
• Balance
• Bergamot

🌸 Bottom line

Your oils don’t lose power —
your brain just adapts to aromas when you breathe in the same scent too often.
Rotate your inhaled oils to keep the benefits strong.

(Topical and internal use are not affected.)

🧠 The Short + Fun Science Behind It

Here’s why rotating inhaled oils works:

1️⃣ Olfactory Fatigue: Your nose gets bored and stops paying attention.
2️⃣ Limbic Habituation: Your emotional brain reacts less to the same repeated smell.
3️⃣ Sensory Satiety: Your nervous system loves novelty — new scent = new spark.
4️⃣ Diffusion Science: Varied or intermittent aromas have stronger effects than constant sameness.

Rotate inhaled oils every 3–5 days, or whenever you notice the effect wearing off.
Topical + ingesting? Use as normal — no rotation needed. 🌿✨

11/16/2025

This the season! Tree Lighting event symbolizes the beginning of the holiday season. What are you hoping for this year?

11/09/2025

Looking for healthier options for dessert? This might be your new favorite

11/03/2025

🌲🎄🎅🧑‍🎄🤶🌲🎄Time to preview the Holiday Collection catalog. 🎁

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11/02/2025

Refined sugar… how to spot other words that describe the ingredients.

The next time you're out grocery shopping, you can try this exercise in real time. Take a moment to read the sugar content listed on the ingredient label. In many cases, you'll find the percentage of sugar directly printed on the packaging

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻🍂

10/28/2025