Well+Being Holistic Mental Health
Emotional Health & Wellness Tips From The Therapy Couch And Other Places
Rosemary Essential Oil: Your New Ally for ADHD, Anxiety, Mood & Everyday Wellness
Essential oils offer a natural, holistic approach to supporting mental health, providing calming and grounding benefits that can help individuals with ADHD manage focus, stress, and emotional balance in their daily lives. As a psychotherapist and consultant from New York City, I integrate essential oils into my therapy practice, particularly when working with clients undergoing EMDR and trauma resolution. Personally, I rely on essential oils in my own work, especially when I’m operating on less sleep or need a boost of focus and relaxation. These oils not only help me maintain clarity but also promote grounding and emotional stabilization, which is crucial when navigating complex emotional work. When it comes to holistic self-care, nature offers some of the most powerful tools, and rosemary essential oil is one such gift. Known for its versatile and therapeutic properties, rosemary oil has been used for centuries to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being. If you’re beginning a new chapter in your mental health journey—whether through psychotherapy, trauma healing, or personal growth—integrating rosemary essential oil into your routine can help regulate your nervous system and provide a holistic layer of support. From calming the mind and enhancing focus to soothing the body and uplifting the spirit, rosemary oil is an invaluable tool for managing ADHD, depression, mood concerns, and emotional regulation. It can help stabilize your energy, promote emotional balance, and guide you toward lasting wellness.
Essential Oil Therapy As Medicine
Essential oil therapy can be used for a range of physical and emotional wellness applications, either single oils or complex blends all have an impact at the cellular level. Many integrative therapists, EMDR therapists, somatic psychotherapists and wellness practitioners artfully add essential oil therapy to enhance their trauma release sessions, yoga therapy and Reiki practices.
Essential oils are usually administered by one of three methods: diffused aromatically, applied topically, or taken internally as dietary supplements. I love these oils and use them daily in my life and to enhance my personal yoga practice. When choosing oils, it’s important to work with a company that offers pure therapeutic grade and optimally-sourced Oils.
How do we get oils quickly into the system? Through the olfactory nerve, to the pineal, pituitary, amygdala. When you breathe an oil into the system, and through the nasal cavity, it is first picked up by the neurons in the olfactory system, between the eyes at the top of the sinus cavity. Those oil molecules are carried within milliseconds into the center of the brain. Research has shown that the inhalation of Essential Oils into the mid-brain system will cause a secretion of antibodies, as well as endorphins and neurotransmitters. This process directly impacts the immune system in positive ways.
Nurse, Heal Thyself
(by Kim Seelbrede, originally posted on urbanzen.org)
As snowflakes shimmered against the backdrop of the mountains, student nurses from around the country gathered to participate in the 59th annual National Student Nurses Association (NSNA) convention held in Salt Lake City. Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) sessions were offered to the student nurses in The Sanctuary, which was generously provided by Johnson & Johnson. This sublime healing space allowed many nurses to experience, for the first time, the exquisite healing modalities offered by the Urban Zen Integrative Therapists. Introducing nurses to the concept of self-care was our mission; powerful, moving and comforting were but a few of the words participants used to describe their restorative sessions.
Maintaining calm in the chaos was no easy feat as hundreds of nurses waited patiently for their sessions. Once inside the soothing environment, students were given permission to “let go and receive” the self-care techniques