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

This week, Dan continues his conversation about essential oils with his longtime friend,

Jeanette White, program director at the Allender Center.

Jeanette and Dan reflect on how the body responds to stress

and trauma, and they share how essential oils can be a powerful tool both for the discrete,

daily stresses and for deep persistent patterns that are rooted in our memories of trauma.

Well, I have the privilege again to be with my dear friend Jeanette.

And as I called her last time, my dealer, the one who may not have introduced me because that really is Becky,

but the one who has taken the whole realm of essential oils and brought that into our community and brought it into my life. And I have

found it to be really, really important as a means of restoration, of reclamation, of opening my heart,

really to the goodness of God. And just as creation is meant, like a sunset,

is meant to capture us and to create a sense of goodness.

Why would we not think that plant-based gifts,

you know, again, flowers move us,

but on the other hand, there are some flowers you can eat.

And in this sense, essence of oils really have a significant impact on our hearts and lives.

So, Jenna, if you just take us back again into why do oils seem to have such an effect for good on our emotions, on our health, on our life?

Yeah, great.

Well, it's great to be back.

So fun to continue this conversation.

And, you know, I think a really nice, simple way to look at it is that when you inhale

particular essential oils, they can promote the release of the fill-good chemicals in your

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