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Are Essential Oils Safe for Babies, Infants, and Children?

Parents often wonder whether essential oils are safe for babies, infants, and children. This evidence-based guide explains age-based guidance, dilution limits, diffusion safety, and expert recommendations.

Essential Oil Safety: How to Reduce Risk of Secondary Exposure

Essential oils can affect not only the person using them, but also children, pets, and others in the household through secondary exposure. This practical safety guide explains what secondary exposure is, how it happens, and simple steps you can take to reduce unintended risk while enjoying aromatherapy.

Are Essential Oils Safe During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding?

Essential oils can offer benefits during pregnancy and breastfeeding, but safety matters. This evidence-based guide explains dilution limits, oils to avoid, and expert advice to help reduce risk while supporting wellbeing.

Silver Lining Series of Workbooks, Journals, and Planners

Through my work as a counselor, I’ve seen firsthand what helps people build resilience, improve relationships, and create positive change in their lives. I bring that experience into my writing, creating resources that are both self-help (for individuals) and helper-help (for professionals like therapists, teachers, and group leaders).

Whether you're working through anxiety, exploring emotional intelligence, or simply looking for a better way to track your to-dos, these workbooks, journals, and planner provide structured support for real-life challenges.

Aromatherapy Essential Oil Safety Tips: What You Need to Know

Essential oil aromatherapy can support relaxation, wellness, and self-care, but these concentrated oils require thoughtful use. This essential oil safety guide covers core principles — including dilution, diffusion, sun sensitivity, and medication interactions — and links to more detailed guidance for children, pets, and pregnancy-related considerations.

12 Best Foods to Reduce Anxiety and Stress Naturally

Anxiety and stress are common issues that many people face on a daily basis. 

The good news is that diet changes can positively impact your mental well-being. Whether you are dealing with an anxiety disorder, PTSD, panic, or general anxious feelings, incorporating specific foods into your diet can have a profound impact on reducing anxiety and stress naturally. 

In this article, I'll give you the top 12 research-based foods for anxiety relief I discovered while writing my book Feed Your Calm: Anti-Anxiety Anti-Stress Diet and Supplement Tips for Stress Resilience.