How exciting!

The "Green Tea with Marilee Podcast Show" is launching during National Nurses Week!

Since I've been a Holistic Nurse for most of my nursing career I can't think of anyone better to join me in this launch other than Barbara Dossey PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN.

Barbie and Marilee at a American Holistic Nurses Conference

Barbie has had such a huge impact on nursing - reminding us all of
Florence Nightingale's work in her latest book:
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer

Barbie's earlier books include:

--Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice
--AHNA Standards of Holistic Nursing
--AHNA Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing (editor);
--AACN Handbook of Critical Care Nursing
--Rituals of Healing
--Profiles of Nurse Healers

Join us during the live interview!!!

Click here for details and to sign up

Next week we celebrate National Nurses Week and what a great time to launch the Green Tea with Marilee Natural Health Show.

I've got lots of great things in store for you this month of May. . .

along with the interview with Barbie Dossey
who will help launch the show,
I'm bringing you:

--Great Tips on Self-Care and give you some insight on how nurses care for themselves
--Interviews with:
----Lucia Thornton - President of the American Holistic Nurses Association
----Pat Bemis - President of the National Nurses in Business Assocation

So stay tuned and make sure you send me your questions!

Barbara Dossey PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, an icon in nursing and holistic nursing, has tea with Marilee in this interview and shares her love for holistic nursing and her pride in being instrumental in having the ANA (American Nurses Association) recognize Holistic Nursing as a specialty of nursing.

Barbie also reveals tender moments of her life when her parents transitioned and her interest in End of Life Care.

Even if you are not a nurse you will enjoy this show.

I'm proud to have Barbie Dossey on to launch "Green Tea with Marilee"!

Nurses need more care than most people because they often put others needs before their own.

Self care is very important to nurses, and many nurses need to be coached on self care - or at least given an opportunity for it.

Join me on Monday night, May 12th, as I have tea with one of my holistic nursing colleagues and a good girlfriend, Chris Jackson, PhD, RN. Chris teaches nursing and holistic nursing at Eastern College in Philadelphia.

We will discuss Self Care, give some tips, and maybe even get a little personal on how we, as Holistic Nurses, take care of ourselves.

Here is the link to join for free and listen to our Tea Talk on Self Care:
http://snipurl.com/sign_up_4_selfcare

Grab some green tea and sit with us and listen to our conversational tips on Self Care.

On this show myself and Christine Jackson PhD, RN shared tips in a "Tea Talk" about self care for nurses and other caregivers.

It can be a daily struggle to give ourselves good care - but listen in to some tips and techniques (like getting in a good healthy breakfast in a hurry) on this show!

"Green Tea with Marilee" is for anyone interested in natural health and healing, so why am I writing about nurses so much?

Let me explain. . . in bullets ~

--The month of May started with National Nurses Week and many of my readers are nurses

--Barbie Dossey (holistic nurse) who kicked off this show and her husband Larry Dossey are leaders in the field of holistic health and alternative medicine and are known throughout the country - Holistically oriented health care professionals CAN influence and help direct people interested in natural healing

--We all need self care - but caregivers like nurses, healers, and others in service - usually need it more than anyone! Last weeks theme on Self Care (Tea Talk with Chris Jackson) was imperative for all of us!

--Forthcoming shows will give nurses and others a great insight into the evolving world of natural health. Many nurses are leaning towa rd holistic healing (interview with Lucia Thornton President of the American Holistic Nurses Association) and what we see as nurses going into business for themselves (interview with Pat Bemis, President of the National Nurses in Business Association)is having and will be having a great impact on the emerging health care model for all of us - nurses and health care consumers alike!

Next month we move to a different focus - using therapeutic grade essential oils for health and life!

Hang around long enough here with me at "Green Tea with Marilee" and you will see it will all blend together!

This is a great show where I interviewed Lucia Thorton, President of The American Holistic Nurses Association!

I am so glad you stopped by this site- make sure you place your question in the question box so I can be sure to answer it in my upcoming shows!

Meet Pat Bemis and learn about the National Nurses in Business Association!

I loved doing this interview because I am passionate about this topic!

Listen in and learn about this organization and what it can do for you.

Do you want to write a book? start a practice? go into business for yourself?
You MUST listen to this show!

Marilee teaching how to use essential oils for natural health in New York City at the Laura Norman School of Reflexology.

From Marilee "I am passionate about using these "gifts from nature" to help our health and well-being!"

You will be getting snippets of good educational info all month long here at Green Tea with Marilee on the therapeutic use of essential oils.

Although I have been teaching this subject for umpteen years - you know me - I love bringing in the experts! So I am interviewing a wonderful guest expert at the end of the month on this show who you will learn much from - AND you will be able to join me live on this interview! Stay tuned for that info.

Meanwhile, listen here to my very quick "4 minute show" to learn what an essential oil really is and where they come from. . .

A great natural health tip for nail fungus is to use therapeutic organic essential oils (not the aromatherapy version of perfume grade oils).

Watch this 41 second video on what to use and how.

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We can use essential oils for just about anything.

Plants are here to help us deal with the environment, and essential oils (I like to think of them as the 'liquid intelligence of nature') can help us cool down when we are hot!

An excellent oil for cooling is peppermint.

Just diffusing peppermint in the summertime can uplift and cool the environment.

Another great way to use peppermint is to put a drop of a therapeutic grade peppermint oil in your glass of water.

The discovery of "Aromatherapy" came through a chemist who burned his arm in his laboratory and then mistakenly put his burned arm in a vat of lavender, thinking it was water. His healing was phenomenal and got his attention. As a result Gattefoose discovered the healing powers of aromatherapy.

Aloe is known to heal burns as well. The combination of aloe and lavender is a powerful healing remedy.

This is a great remedy for sunburn.

Watch this video of how to spray this combination on your body!

Click here to sign up for a free mini e-course on how to use essential oils

Man's first medicine was essential oils.

People often think of essential oils to create an aroma in the environment that may relax them.

Using essential oils is so much more than that.

We can use essential oils for every day common ailments like headaches, belly aches, sinus problems, and much more.

We can also use essential oils for healing on a deeper level. Just look at some of the studies on lavender for wound healing for example.

Get your free course on How To Use Essential Oils

Learn where to order the highest quality essential oils for healing.

It is healthy for our blood to be in a slightly "alkaline" state.

This has much to do with what we put in our body.

Much of the standard american diet creates a more "acidic" state (coffee, meat, sugar, white flour).

When we are "acidic", especially for a prolonged time period, we may be setting ourselves up for a decline in our health.

Here is a very simple and powerful tip on how to help keep the body "alkaline"!

I happen to have my own testimony of using essential oils for shingles.

When my mother was undergoing surgery I was so stressed out. I didn't know how stressed out I was - my body had to tell me.

I thought at first my problem was a spider bite but then I found out it was shinges.

I had nerve discomfort and all the things that go with shingles.

The first thing I did was consult the texts The Essential Desk Reference and The Alternative Medicine book - both mentioned a few oils to use but the ravensara got my attention and vote. I started taking it internally in a capsule ( 7 drops in one capsule and I took one capsule in the morning and one at night).

Within 24 hours my pain and discomfort went away.

I followed this regime for 21 days.

I'll fill you in more later on this amazing natural remedy that I used.

Meanwhile, here are some topical application ideas for shingles. . . .

Blend together:
--10 drops sandalwood--5 drops blue cypress--4 drops peppermint--2 drops ravensara

Dilute 50:50 with massage oil and apply 6 - 10 drops on the
affected area, back of neck, and down the spine 1 - 3 times
daily. (from Essential Desk Reference)
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Aromatherapy expert, and author of "Medical Aromatherapy" Dr.
Kurt Schnaubelt, says "Our greatest success in the treatment of
shingles is by applying a blend of 50% ravensara and 50%
calophyllum inophyllum (like St. John's Wort
http://snipurl.com/tamanu_oil ).

Drastic improvements and complete remissions occur within seven
days".
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A case study was done of six hospice patients with shingles.
It was found that three essential oils combined together and
placed in distilled water and used as a spritz improved the
symptoms of the shingles.

The three oils used were:
--ravensara--bergamot--niaouli

This study was run by aromatherapist Noel Gilligan. Mr Gilligan
reported that after 48 hours:
--there was a significant reduction in the pain from the shingles--scabbing and healing of the pustules took place and in one
instance there was a disappearance of the pustules

Learn more about this study: http://snipurl.com/shingles

Thank you Catherine for your question about how essential oils compare with 'Pen-Lac' for nail fungus. Listen to this 5 minute answer to your question!

My favorite oils for nail fungus are Oregano, Purification, Melaleuca!

You can get these oils here. . . .

Trish wrote in with a question about a suicide that took place in her family.

Her cousin left behind children who are not only grieving but feel very guilty and depressed because they "never tried to help their father".

So the question was - "are there any essential oils to help with this?"

I am aware of a collection of essential oils that are supportive of balancing emotions. This collection is called

"The Feelings Kit" from Young Living.

Here are the oil blends that it contains:

Valor®
Harmony
Forgiveness
Release
Inner Child
Present Time

These are all complementary essential oil blends formulated and selected for this kit by D. Gary Young to support emotional well-being.

Learn more about this kit and how to use them.

If it were me, I would use all of these oils on a daily basis.

This is how:

-Valor on my feet
-Harmony on my stomach
-Forgiveness on my heart
-Inner Child on my wrist
-Present Time on the back of my neck

Purchase this kit here.

Marilee and Linda Smith

Listen in on this amazing interview! I interviewed Linda Smith who is founder of the Institute of Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy, a program that offers many classes on spritual hands-on healing and a certification program in Aromatherapy.

Linda is an amazing woman who has so much talent. She is one of the best teachers in spritual healing that I have come across. I have known Linda for many years and it has been a pleasure being her good friend. We've taken many journeys together and I think we'll be taking many more.

I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed giving it !

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There are many natural therapies to help support healing. . .these can often be in conjunction with conventional treatment. One way to support the healing of prostate cancer is with the use of therapeutic grade essential oils.

Listen to this short audio on an essential oil protocol for prostate cancer.

Maureen Drummond is a mom of two vaccine-injured children.

She has spent more than 17 years, over 9000 hours, in journal article, books, reference materials, attending conferences, hearings, and zillions of phone calls.

This woman is an expert, and a glowing example of someone who took the ball in her hands - to heal her children from vaccine injury, and helping to prevent it in others.

Here is what we talked about. . .

--How to feel empowered questioning the dangers of vaccines

--How to learn to get the facts of what is being injected into the body with vaccines

--Why you should get the information up front and not wait until your children are vaccine injured

--How you shouldn't take at face value what doctors tell you about vaccines and how to get the real facts and decide for yourself

--Natural approaches to support of immune systems for children who have been affected by vaccines

--The potential connection between the skyrocketing autism rates (especially in New Jersey)

--Why certain populations of people (ie - Amish) are not vaccinated, and have no autism

and

And her forthcoming book
"Vaccine Free Me"

Interestingly, Karilee (who's name I love because its like mine
but with a K!) and I are very good friends and go back about
15 years. We are "Holistic Nursing" sisters.

This interview is with Karilee Shames, PhD, RN - who co-authored
this book "Thyroid Power" with her husband Richard ( a medical doctor).

The hour spent in listening to this show is well worth your time.

What I love about what I do is that I see holistically oriented
health care professionals who know sooooo much in the medical
model, through their own trials and tribulations
with a personal health challenge. . .find a way to approach the
problem naturally. They work very hard to heal themselves and
then they turn around and offer that information to the world.

In this interview, Holistic Nurse (with a doctorate) Karilee Shames,
talks candidly about her own challenges with a thyroid issue, and how
she, and her physician husband Richard, have researched this
topic and found very little information. . ..let alone natural approaches.

I think you will enjoy this show, even if you are not challenged with
a thyroid problem. . .you may know someone who is. Or, possibly,
you are a health care professional who oversees the care of
people challenged with this issue.

Karilee ties in the association of the thyroid with the functioning
of our other glands. . .including hormones.

If you have questions about your hormonal functioning you may
want to listen to this as well. You will get lots of resources and ideas!

T

WEIGHT LOSS is NO FUN!
Especially when we are doing all the right things and nothing budges.

Well, how do you know you are doing all the right things? You might think you are but you are missing a few important items.

Here in today's show I answer Bert's question. . . .

"I am 53 y.o. and post menapausal x 2 yrs. I have gained about 10lb. I am 5'2' and 120lbs. I am not saying I am 'fat' but I cannot stand my belly fat. I have tried nutrisystem and other diet pills claiming to lose belly fat. What is your suggestion. I also go to Curves 3x ?eek. I eat fairly well - vegetarian, no fried, little fat, skim milk or soy milk and 3 meals with 2 snacks daily. I drink socially 1x wk. HELP!"

Listen to my suggestions. . . .

And one more thing . . .I recommended "Endoflex" essential oil blend. . .click here to get it