Welcome to Essential Oil Solutions with Dotaura, the podcast where you'll hear experts share insights,

tips, and tricks on using essential oils in your life.

Today's episode features Angela Via, talking about weight management and the role our emotions play

in our weight.

Hi, everyone. My name is Angela Via and I am, well I'm a blue diamond with

Dotaura and I've been in the world of oils for the last eight years. Now I only share that

I'm a blue diamond because I want people to know that I have just had a lot of conversations

with people about essential oils.

That's really all it means.

And I'm excited today to have a conversation with all of you about something that's very,

very near and dear to my heart.

And I'm going to say it's about weight management, and you're going to go, I don't understand.

Weight management, how is that near and dear to your heart well I have spent the last several years looking at an understanding why weight management is an important thing and how our emotions are tied to it. Let me tell you a little bit about me first

and maybe that will help you. So my entire life, I have been overweight. In junior high, I was

probably about 200 pounds and at the most as an adult,45 so I know a lot about living in a body that didn't feel

right and I talk a lot about feel right and and and more emotional things because we have to

we have to respect honor and love our bodies no matter what. And I'm

going to go into that more. But I spent the majority of my life as an overweight individual or,

you know, and I was one who was on every diet, every diet you can imagine. And I now call dieting extreme because it really is. We go to

extreme places in our head when we just think of the word diet. And all diet really means is

the food that you eat in a day, nothing more than that. But we take it to a level of negativity.

So I have been pretty much, I could write front and back on lined piece

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