Here are a few quick and easy HOME MADE Mothers Day gifts.

Just treat Mom with a few of these and she will feel so pampered and loved.

You'll need about 8 minutes to watch this.

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!

A nurse or a caregiver can not give from an empty vessel!

It is our duty to take care of ourselves - first for ourselves, and then for others.

A great analogy is the oxygen masks on an airplane. We've got to put on ours first before we can help others!

"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!

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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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.

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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"!

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.

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The air system in our cars can build up mold
and yucky stuff that when we turn it on
(particularly for the first time of the season,
whether air conditioning in the warm weather or
heat in the cold weather) we can get a blast of
that stuff blowing in our face and directly into
our respiratory tract.

Using essential oils (not the perfume-y stuff!
but the good therapeutic kind) can kill the mold
and overgrowth of any harmful organisms that
we don't feel like breathing.

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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!

I love this hand scrub!

And, as you can see, it is easy to do.

The summer is a great time of year for our skin to shine. . .even our hands.
Try this for yourself!

My favorite oil to use for this is St. Marie's Lavender

love this hand scrub!

And, as you can see, it is easy to do.

The summer is a great time of year for our skin to shine. . .even our hands.
Try this for yourself!

My favorite oil to use for this is St. Marie's Lavender

Click here to get some and try it for yourself.

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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

Healthy greens (preferably organic) contain folate, calcium, and other nutrients that support bone health and help prevent age-related eye problems.

Diets high in cruciferous veggies, such as broccoli and cabbage, help reduce memory loss and cancer!

I confess to not taking calcium supplements! but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't have a HUGE portion of dark leafy greens or cruciferous veggies!

Besides just feelin' plain good when you are at the beach,
you don't have to be there for this simple technique to
deal with overwhelm:

This is a very cool visualization process. . . .

. . . and summer is a good time to do this, because your imagery
is the beach.

Write your issues on paper that are taking up alot of
"real estate in your mind". .. then close your eyes,
write the same thing in the sand, and watch the wave
come up and take it away!