Cell Care Academy: Your Default to Yes

Cell Care—It’s a Matter of Chemistry

Essential oils are chemical messengers—tiny aromatic molecules that signal your brain and body. Paired with VMG foundations (Vitamins, Minerals, Greens) and 10-minute micro-habits, they become practical power tools for better sleep, metabolic health, pain, stress, and digestion. We cover quality (CPTG-style standards), Co-Impact Sourcing®, and a simple 3-step plan to start tonight.

What you’ll learn

• Why essential oils work: olfactory → limbic system → autonomic tone (it’s chemistry).
• How VMG nourishes enzymes, receptors, and recovery so signals “land.”
• The Five Quick Starts (one action each) for Sleep, Metabolic, Pain, Stress, Digestive health.
• What “quality” means (testing, native sourcing, traceability) and why sourcing with impact matters.
• A 20-second regulate-on-demand practice you can use anywhere.

Five Quick Starts (cheat sheet)

• Sleep: 10-min wind-down—dim lights, cool room, 4-7-8 breathing, same calming aroma nightly.
• Metabolic: Metabolic Morning—water, simple protein target, 2-min movement snack, bright “keep-promises” aroma.
• Pain: 5-min Downshift—longer exhale, gentle ROM, properly diluted soothing topical aroma.
• Stress: 3-min regulate-on-demand—longer exhale + calm/focus aroma; add micro transition rituals.
• Digestive: Mindful Meal—3 breaths, slower chew, pre-meal “rest-and-digest” aroma; steady meal rhythm, gentle fiber ramp.

Quality & Impact

• Purity • Potency • Proof: third-party GC/MS, native-environment sourcing, CPTG-style traceability.
• Co-Impact Sourcing®: long-term grower partnerships, fair pay, sustainable harvests, community projects (water, schools, clinics).

Resources & links

• Start here (Opt-In Hub): Choose your guide—Sleep, Metabolic, Pain, Stress, Digestive—or take the 90-second quiz.
  👉 Insert your link: Cell Care Academy Opt-In Hub
  
  

Try it now (20 seconds)

Inhale gently… pause… exhale longer than you inhaled. Repeat. Breathe your calming aroma and say, “This is what calm feels like.” You’re training a reliable path home—one breath, one molecule, one message.

Disclaimer

Educational content only. Not medical advice. Dilute topicals; avoid eyes/inner ears; store out of reach of children. Consult your clin

Transcript

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I wanna welcome you to a little different episode of the Default to Yes podcast. Let's call this the Cell Care Academy Introduction. My name is Julie Reynolds. I'm a nurse and I'm a board certified nurse coach, and a certified aromatherapist. I'm also a breath coach. I don't talk a whole lot about those things on the podcast. I'm usually pretty focused on the topic, so I wanna introduce to you. Today some tools, so this is gonna be a little bit a different episode. Hang in there with me because yes, there are gonna be some purchasable products shared here in essential oils and some supplements that I use and that I trust that I just feel compelled to share with you. I want you to understand. Some of the foundational tools that I use that maybe you could also incorporate for balancing out your life, for creating those simple, sustainable strategies so that you can. Truly default to yes, your extraordinary self on a daily basis and fill in some of those gaps. Now, I bring this up because some of my clients are piecing this together and I walk with them step by step through this, and I just wanted to offer that to you as well, because I just feel compelled to, it's if you, if you have something this good, you naturally wanna share it. it's my birthday month and I wanna close this out by offering you the very special gifts that I have been given as I've tried some things and invested in my own health. Welcome to the Selfcare Academy. Introduction when you join, yes, society right now, you get Selfcare Academy. As it's being developed and you get it for free, you also get to contribute some of your input and your stories to it. So it's kind of a special time for Selfcare Academy and you're learning about it first. So. Again, we're gonna take a simple path to better sleep, steadier energy, less pain, calmer environment, and decreasing stress, We're gonna use tiny habits like foundations called BMG vitamins, minerals and greens, and essential oils as daily power tools. Now, again, this is educational only. This is not for treating or diagnosing, just sharing some of the tools that I use. I also want to offer you. An opportunity to schedule a free consult with me. in that consult, I can help you de design some personalized, customized, simple, sustainable strategies, but I can also help you navigate and how you're going to communicate that with your provider. Some of you are taking medications already or you're already in a relationship with that. plan to, for your health and to be able to incorporate something new, it's important that you share it with your provider. And I'll help you with that. I'll help you identify some of the common questions that they will have and how you can answer and address and give them the information that they need so that they can make those informed decisions with you. Now, here's the big idea, okay? Essential oils, they're concentrated aromatic plant molecules, terpenes, phenols, esters. You don't have to remember that, but they act like chemical messengers for your cells. When you inhale, they signal receptors in your limbic system. So you wanna think emotion and memory and sympathetic tone. Properly diluted on the skin. They interact locally with tissues and sensory nerves, and you can also pair 1 cent or one aroma with a behavior, and your brain learns it fast because it's all a matter of chemistry, and you can really anchor that now. I have a daily reminder on my phone that says, fuel yourselves. Focus your mind and anchor your habits. You wanna think of building the soil. So VMG vitamins, minerals, and greens support enzymes and receptors, they allow us, for recovery and balance at omega threes and probiotics, if they're, that's appropriate. And when your foundation is nourished, those aromatic messages land cleanly. Now quality matters, and this is a big one because not all essential oils are created equal. So think purity, and potency and proof. Now, the source I trust is going to provide at least GCMS data. Telling me the chemistry profile of the components. I wanna know ingredients of my supplements, I wanna know the chemistry profile of my oils, and I wanna make sure that The company has ruled out any adulterants. I'll be quite honest with you, since becoming a certified aromatherapist, I learned how to vet companies and I have. Purchased oils from different companies. They always come back to doTERRA oils because they make the science super simple. I can reach out to the company and ask them, and I'll get an answer from one of the scientists about the chemistry or about some of the cautions. World class science and data and the studies that they are doing are something that most companies can't do because they just don't have the resources. So this is why I just always come back to doTERRA The other thing that's important is that we have plants that are sourced in their native environments. That's for consistent, therapeutically relevant constituents. We want traceable batch tested CPTG style standards so that your bottle performs the same month after. So you have that consistency and what you expect will be what you get. It also matters as far as sustainability. doTERRA has a co impact sourcing. and that means long-term grower partnerships with fair and on-time pay, sustainable harvesting and community projects They provide fresh water in schools and clinics to the communities in which these growers live. And so every time I purchase a bottle of oil. I know that I'm contributing to the global economy. I know that I am helping a community across the world just live their best lives and default to their extraordinary selves. your daily self-care can strengthen families and local economies around the world. That only increases the value of every single bottle of oil that I order. Now let's get you moving with five quick starts. If you're wired and tired at night and foggy in the morning, you wanna think timing and tone, Sleep improves when circadian cues line up. That means less late night cooler room and your nervous system downshifts. This is so valuable and I would recommend also a nighttime routine, 3, 2, 1 is my nighttime routine. I learned this from my coach and I've been implementing it, working on it, getting better at it. I'm not perfect at it, but I'm doing some kinda modification of this, the idea is staying in a routine and being intentional. So that's three hours before bed. You wanna stop eating two hours before bed. You wanna stop working and one hour before you go to bed, screens off. So No work, no food, no screens. Alright, so try that. get as close as you can to that or modify that so that you can work towards that. You also might wanna try a 10 minute wind down in which you dim the lights, cool the room, set up your diffuser, practice some 4, 7, 8, breathing, and Use some calming aroma. That means lavender cedarwood, Roman chamomile. Vever is great. There are some blends that bring those things together. That consistent aroma becomes that sleep cue that your brain recognizes. Not only is it chemical, those chemical messengers go to work in reducing cortisol and calming and soothing your cells. Now, if energy crashes and cravings run your day, support your glucose control and mitochondrial efficiency is what you need to do. A metabolic morning drink water. Hit a simple protein target and do a two minute movement to nudge that insulin sensitivity, anchor it with bright, uplifting aroma that says I keep my promises to myself. Those small inputs repeated daily will stabilize energy and focus and it will last throughout the day. So you wanna think mince or citrus oils are great for this. I love frankincense for this as well. Some of the tree oils are just grounding, so there's a lot of options, and those would be based on your preferences, which is really the beauty of this. Now, if pain has you guarding and second guessing movement, calm that alarm and reintroduce motion gently. So do a five minute downshift drill. That's slow long. Longer exhales an easy range of motion. Maybe you wanna try some yoga or just some stretching. Now, in this case, a properly diluted, soothing topical aroma is best to reduce that guarding so that you can move a little more today than you did yesterday. This might also be a way to recover so that you can keep consistently moving. always dilute your oils, it'll help maximize the opportunity that you have for, for those chemical messengers. Now if stress is what is getting you and swings you from overdrive to shut down, You wanna train some automatic flexibility. So for this, you can Use a three minute regulate on demand sequence. That means inhale gently, exhale longer than you exhale. And pair a calm or focus aroma as your on switch for that state that you want. add those tiny transition rituals before a meeting, after work as you pull into the garage before you go in the house to join your family. and there are triggers that you can use. Maybe you wanna do this every time you pass through a doorway or you enter into a workspace or a social space, and that means just taking a deep breath in to count to four, hold it for seven, and exhale to the count of eight. That's the way you create those clear physiological bookmarks through the day. And keep your system regulated and moving, avoiding brain fog, increasing your energy. It also makes you really mindful on what your body is doing and how it's responding. it bloating and irregularity are bothering you. It's time to pay attention and prime that gut brain access. That means before you eat, take three grounding breaths. Chew slower and use a premium aroma that cues rest and digest. So that might be peppermint or ginger. That would be a really great one too. I, again, I like frankincense, but keep that steady meal rhythm, ramp that fiber up gradually and hydrate and swap some of the hydrate and swap'cause some common triggers thoughtfully. This mindful meal practice improves motility and it comfort and confidence, one comb bite at a time. I love mindful eating because I've really, through mindful eating, I've learned how to really listen to my body and. Sometimes when there's things that I'm tempted to eat, maybe on the fly or quickly, I can listen to my, I can just look at the food and I know my, I listen to my body and I know that this isn't going to be a good choice. Alright, now with all of this means investing in your health a little bit, right? Is it worth it? well, we go to the salon to get our hair done and. Our nails, and that's fun, but it's short lived, right? We usually don't have a big problem investing in what is external and what we can see. Now a pure starter set of versatile oils plus BMG often costs less than a couple salon visits, maybe even one, depending on what you have done at the salon, and it pays you back in. Every day and steadier energy, calm moods, better sleep, fewer crashes, And that is durable value. So here's your next move. I want you to visit the Cell Care Academy Opt-in Hub, and that link is in the show notes. Choose your focus, sleep, metabolic pain, stress, digestive, maybe you want just foundational wellness. and then I invite you to download your free guide. Now if you're unsure, take the 92nd quiz and I'll point you to the best fit or just schedule an appointment with me and we'll talk about it there. set up a 10 minute routine and using some of the tips that I shared with you, whether you have oils or not. Maybe you have your own, maybe you're gonna be waiting to get yours, but pair it with that consistent aroma. Then get quality oils and A VMG foundation into your home. There are curated options on the page. Okay? so now I want, I'm to invite you to do this with me. Now I want inhale gently through your nose, pause. And exhale. Now, if you have an aroma, use that, but so now you would imagine breathing that calming aroma and saying, this is what calm feels like. So I might put an oil in my hand and breathe in. This is what calm feels like. You're teaching your nervous system a reliable path home, one breath, one molecule, and one message. and if you need to hear this, you are not broken. You're adaptable. and it might be time to build a foundation, use verified oils, keep it simple, those guides that have been created just for you, just for this purpose. I hope you'll enjoy those. Let me know what you think. Let me know what you need to hear more about and share this with your friends. Let's go on the journey. Let's create a great big community of high achievers just like you, who are ready to get up every day and default to yes, your extraordinary self.