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New Day New Product Source

May 7, 2011 By Cheryl Leave a Comment

My website, created by Dawn McAuley, continues to evolve as I do!  The products have been removed, as the current  business focus  is education.  If you want to reorder  products,  please email me with the exact name of your blend or essential oil product and I will find an excellent aromatherapists to make it for you.  That would be of course, one of my excellent program graduates!  This may also  be a good time to try something new.

My feature blend for the summer was “Heart Chakra”, a divine, uplifting essential oil blend that tugs at your heart strings and pulls them toward heaven where you are renewed and refreshed. It was designed for those who have lost someone or something, including a piece of themselves and yearn to recover the wholeness, holiness, joyousness and delight they once knew.

Loss can strip us of our joy, confidence, enthusiasm, creativity and what I like to refer to as ‘mojo’—the Austin Powers word—for the juice that keeps us vital and truly alive.  Heart Chakra blend along with prayer and meditation can assist in the rejuvenation of spirit and thus, life.

Heart Chakra includes rose, spikenard and other  healing essential oils for balance, joy, love of self and others and decreases fear and negativity.

Renew, refresh, rejoice!

Blessings,

Cheryl

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Where is C-alternatives Aromatherapy?

May 7, 2011 By Cheryl Leave a Comment

What happened to C-alternatives Aromatherapy? This has been  a frequent question from clients these past  months and especially at the Asheville Festival and I must admit, it took me by surprise! Some of my clients and customers found me by chance and others I fear are still looking! The name of my company was expanded several years ago and the logo revised.   Of course, it is all the more confusing since my last name changed as well around the same time.

Just a reminder that C-alternatives Aromatherapy LLC and Primal Hints Aromatherapy are one in the same!   The current name of the company is C-alternatives Aromatherapy LLC dba Primal Hints.  The dba stands for ‘doing business as’. In addition, Cheryl Endlish was once Cheryl Laudenbacher and although I hesitate to say I am still the same person (truly, I am not) I am the person who was once called Cheryl Laudenbacher  now with my maiden name of Endlish!  I am still located in ‘the same place’ in Greensboro, NC.

So, hopefully you are reassured that I am not an imposter although not the same, I would like to think improved!!

If still confused, remember you can call  me anything you like, but as they say in my family, please don’t call me late for dinner!

Blessings,

Cheryl Ann Endlish (Once Upon a Time Cheryl Ann Laudenbacher)

C-alternatives Aromatherapy LLC dba Primal Hints

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The Teachers Joy

May 7, 2011 By Cheryl Leave a Comment

One of the greatest joys of a teacher is to behold the time when the student surpasses the teacher in creativity, initiative and abilities.  Thus, one of my greatest joys  at the Asheville Herb Festival was to watch Tifani and Karin as they bloomed fully in knowledge, ingenuity and enthusiasm!  It is true they are very bright, energetic woman but it takes more than that to engage others in your ideas and notions.  I also felt as I watched them ‘in action’ that I was the fortunate one to have had them with me for thirteen months and wondered, who really learned the most, me or they? At the risk of having to refund their tuition, I must say I have learned so much from them and the value of team work, idea sharing and collegial support.

Thank you Karin and Tifani, you were a joy and an inspiration to behold!

Blessings,

Cheryl

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Heart Attack, Stroke or Too Much of a Good Thing?

May 7, 2011 By Cheryl 2 Comments

‘I think I may be having a reaction—I am having a hard time breathing–I have been using Lemongrass  on my solar plexus—please call me!”  When I heard this message it was evening and I called my client immediately  only to learn that she was  in the emergency room of a local hospital and had been there for the entire day!

“They tested me for everything-heart attack, stroke-I had tests all day and they couldn’t find anything! I think it must have been the essential oil”, she said and indeed it was the essential oil!

She proceeded to tell me  while on her way home that she had a pimple on her solar plexus and began  treating  it  three days ago with a drop of undiluted cymbopogon citrates-lemongrass-directly on the pimple three times a day.   After applying the undiluted essential oil on the morning of third day she was stricken with breathlessness and overall feelings of severe illness. When I did not return her call that morning, she headed for the emergency room.

When I asked her why she applied the essential oil undiluted,  she replied, “I thought you could apply it undiluted or was that lavender?  “Lavender” I said “and only in an emergency such as a burn.”   Thank goodness she was much better the next day and recovered without any residual symptoms but the incident caused  excessive  stress on her body, mind and spirit.  In addition, she lost time at work and  I did have the courage to ask what the Emergency Room charge was!

At this writing she is fine but I remain quite concerned.  It seems to me that one of the first concepts I teach is ‘do not apply essential oils undiluted to the skin, except lavender angustifolia and ONLY  in an emergency such as a burn or  bite’ but worry that I have not made the danger perfectly clear .  So let me make it very clear now—DO NOT USE ANY ESSENTIAL OIL UNDILUTED ON YOUR SKIN!

In the past month I spoke with one of my graduates, a nurse who uses lavender angustifolia almost on a daily basis with her patients and has for the past three to four years. She places one drop of undiluted lavender on a cotton ball for diffusion or mixes it in oil for body rubs.  She has developed a sensitivity to lavender and I suspect it is because the undiluted oils touch her finger tips daily. ( It is best to wear gloves when working with essential oils and please, dilute all of your essential oils in a carrier and  use only diluted oils.)    Currently she is mixing lavender with  other essential oils which helps with the sensitivity.

Both of these incidents have left me feeling greatly concerned for those who use essential oils and have challenged me to heighten reinforcement of  diluting all essential oils before use.

This past weekend I have heard repeatedly of people putting undiluted essential oils on their cats for ticks.  Let me say this—DO NOT APPLY ANY ESSENTIAL OILS ON CATS! And DO NOT APPLY UNDILUTED ESSENTIAL OILS ON DOGS. FYI-Cats are not small dogs and cannot be treated as such and dogs and not small humans and need essential oils diluted before application.

Having said that, let me say this—CHILDREN ARE NOT SMALL ADULTS AND REQUIRE DIFFERENT DOSING–You cannot give your child the same dose you give yourself!

Essential oils are incredible healing gifts from our aromatic plants but they are chemicals and cannot be used  without directions and caution.

So please, dilute your essential oils and ask questions before you use them if you are unsure.  You can call me or email to ask questions, no matter where you’ve purchased your essential oils.

If you have never taken an aromatherapy class, you may want to think about that. Please see class offerings and call me to schedule a time that suits you, your friends or family.

Be safe, be happy, be wise.

Blessings,

Cheryl

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