You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan is joined by his longtime friend, Jeanette White, program director at the

Allender Center, to talk about the surprising and profound ways that essential oils can help

in our journeys of healing and recovery.

Jeanette shares about her own history of discovering essential oils and about the ways

they have helped her during a year marked by deep grief.

Well, I have the privilege of being with a colleague and dear, dear friend, Jeanette White,

and what we're going to talk about is the issue of trauma, the issue of how often,

even with a highly narrative story orientation, we have to engage our body in the process.

And what I wanted to do is to talk with her about an area she would not say of expertise, but

from my standpoint, amazing expertise, and that is on essential oils.

And Jeanette, let's just say it very clearly, you are my dealer.

Though Becky and I have been using essential oils for, I would say, almost two decades.

Becky began that long ago, and I just thought it was ridiculous.

I thought it was a form of perfume.

Like, I don't wear a perfume.

I don't wear cologne.

Why am I going to do essential oils?

But over years, there was a deep convincing that

there is a profound effect for goods. What I love for you to do is just literally talk for 20

minutes, but I'm going to interrupt occasionally. But why do you think I am and many others

are drawn to essential oils. Yeah.

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