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The Popularity of Coaching

Coaching has become quite popular recently. As of 2023, the coaching industry had an estimated market size of $5.34 billion and it is expected to reach $6.25 billion in 2024. This demonstrates how many people are seeking support to help them navigate through life transitions and to better achieve their goals.

In this episode of the Essential Oil Revolution, Melissa Holman, CLC, RA, CECP discuss more about coaching. She describes how transformational coaching offers a unique approach that differs from traditional health and life coaching. She also shares with us the power of blending essential oils with transformational coaching to create lasting change. It is a potent combination that allows one to unlock stuck emotions and release limiting beliefs that hold them back.

Melissa is an esteemed Registered Aromatherapist, Certified Holistic Life Coach and Master Transformational Coach, Energy Healer, Connector, Podcaster, International Speaker, Educator, and Mind-Body practitioner. In 2022, Melissa was listed as one of the most influential aromatherapists in the world.

Melissa has her own podcast, Aromatic Chat, which I have been following since prior to hosting the Essential Oil Revolution. Her show’s mission is to connect the listener to incredible aromatherapists. She also advocates for the importance of clinical aromatherapy, aromatic history, the power of aromatic connection, and sustainability.

Melissa combines her extensive knowledge, personal experience, and wisdom gleaned from her own healing journey with her education and expertise in coaching, energetic healing, aromatherapy, and holistic medicine to fulfill her passion of going deep with others and helping them succeed. She specializes in working with the broken, exhausted, hopeless, and overwhelmed and helps them to Reframe, Restore, and Refresh their Well-being.

If you are interested in going deeper and getting to the root of many physical and emotional issues by correcting beliefs, not just changing habits, this is the show for you!

Here’s Some of What You’ll Learn in the Episode:

• How Melissa’s own podcast influenced my views on aromatherapy (0 min)
• Melissa’s bio (1 min)
• Melissa’s journey into aromatherapy (3.30 min)
  • Melissa was in her “mom bubble” at the time she was introduced to essential oils in the ‘90s.
  • Melissa’s mom was going to school to be an aromatherapist, and like myself, she initially dismissed essential oils.
  • Menopause led to severe anxiety for Melissa. This interfered with her work and life, so she sought relief.
  • As a chiropractic assistant, Melissa was offered essential oils as a natural solution for her mood. She became curious on how they work.
  • This led to her studying aromatherapy as a profession.
• How aromatherapy led Melissa into coaching (10.30 min)
  • Melissa’s mindset to do everything 100% was not sustainable. In time, her body began to shut down.
  • Melissa’s husband’s job brought her to Guam. There, she was forced to slow down.
  • As a result, she pursued her other passion: to help others succeed via coaching.
• The difference between health, life, transformational, and master coaching (14 min)
  • Life coaching is about changing habits and taking the action steps to achieve what one wants out of life.
  • Transformational coaching includes all of the aspects of life coaching but goes deeper than habit shifts. It helps one get to the root cause of unnourishing behavior.
  • Through uncovering and addressing limiting old beliefs, transformational coaching can produce lasting change.
• How essential oils support and excel the shifts in transformational coaching (16 min)
  • Melissa creates personalized inhalation blends that work on the limbic system, or emotional/instinctual brain.
• The role of implicit memories on behaviors and habits (17 min)
  • Implicit memories are unconscious, acquired thoughts and behaviors.
  • Essential oils can help to unroot these harmful thought patterns and habits and form new neural connections via neuroplasticity. They offer a “fast track” to transformational coaching results.
• The powerful link between scents and emotions (21 min)
• How Melissa chooses what essential oils to put in her personalized blends for her clients (21.30 min)
  • Melissa uses her coaching intake to determine what state her clients are in and what their goals are. From there, she can pick the best essential oils to suit them.
• Why Melissa uses essential oil blends vs. single oils for coaching (23.30 min)
  • Single oils can create a scent imprint hooked to a previous emotion, which may interfere with results.
  • Blends do not have such distinctive connections to emotional associations.
• Why would someone want to see a coach? (26 min)
  • A coach doesn’t tell you what to do, rather he/she draws out what you desire and helps you get it.
  • A coach can guide you on your journey because they have been there before you.
  • You can achieve your goals faster with a coach.
• The transformational blend Melissa created for herself when moving to Guam and why rose oil was so instrumental in the formulation (29.45 min)
  • Melissa created a blend of juniper berry, rose, and red mandarin essential oils for herself to help evoke self-love, nurturing, and to heal old emotional wounds.
• Why we need to stop “shoulding” on ourselves (33.30 min)
  • When we are flooding ourselves with our negative words, we are fighting ourselves.
• Why we should be kind to our inner child and why it’s not “woo-woo” (36.30 min)
  • Biochemically, if we are reacting from a young child’s instinctual mind, we shift our physiology and nervous system to survival.
  • This engrains fight-flee-freeze responses in our brain vs. thriving behaviors and patterns.
• The impact of our society’s compassion deficit (38.45 min)
  • Using compassion can draw out the reason why one is doing something and get to the root of harmful habitual responses.
• What is emotional numbness, its symptoms, and how this creates “unemotional wrecks” (39.45 min)
  • People who appear angry may really be “closed down” out of survival.
  • Suppressing emotions can create physical and emotional symptoms.
  • Some symptoms of emotional numbness include not feeling pain, experiencing symptoms but not having an identifiable diagnosis, and suffering from chronic diseases.
• Why relieving stress is the most important thing that we can do for our health and how this relates to reconnecting to emotional intelligence (42 min)
  • Stress is the cause or contributor to all diseases and symptoms.
  • If we don’t connect to our emotions, they can cause havoc on our physiology from the stress of holding them in.
• Why some people may not want to feel (49 min)
  • This may be a survival instinct.
• How Melissa makes people feel safe about addressing emotional healing (50 min)
  • Melissa holds a nurturing space that is confidential and accepting of her clients.
  • The essential oil blends she uses create a scent association that makes one feel safe to release harmful patterns.
• An example of how transformational coaching changed the life of one of Melissa’s clients (52 min)
• The difference between addressing brain pathways and using a pill (54 min)
  • One creates lasting change and behavioral shifts.
  • The other just shifts biochemistry, a downstream effect.
• The mission of Melissa’s podcast and how this benefits the listeners (55 min)
• The education and benefits of consulting with a clinical aromatherapist (56 min)
• Why so many people are burnout (59 min)
  • Many people dismiss their own needs throughout the day, by the end of it, they have nothing left to give.
  • We need to honor our own boundaries. This requires emotional intelligence, which many haven’t been taught.
• Why a discovery call with a coach or practitioner is so important (1 hour 3 min)
• About Dolly Parton (1 hour 5 min)
• Closing questions (1 hour 7 min)

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Links to Connect with Melissa Holman, CLC, RA, CECP:

• Website: @LemonBalmCoaching
• Podcast: Aromatic Chat
• IG @lemonbalmcoaching
• Facebook @lemonbalmcoaching
• Linkedin @melissa-holman
• YouTube @LemonBalmCoaching

Resources from the Show:

• Words Have Power: Blend for Emotional Wounds by Melissa (JennScents Aromatherapy)

Previous Podcast Mentioned on the Show

• Ep. 380: The Aroma Freedom Revolution – How to Use the Power of Scent to Rewire your Brain and Live the Life of Your Dreams with Dr. Ben Perkus, PhD (Detailed Show Notes)
• Ep. 408: 5 Important Things to Know About Essential Oils: Lessons Learned from Top Experts in Aromatherapy and Integrative Medicine

Links to Learn More About My Offerings and Education on Essential Oils:

• My Essential Oils Community Membership
• My Resource Page
• My CEU Course for Practitioners on the Clinical Use of Essential Oils

Bio of Melissa Holman, CLC, RA, CECP

Melissa Holman is an esteemed Registered Aromatherapist, Certified Holistic Life Coach and Master Transformational Coach, Energy Healer, Connector, Podcaster, International Speaker, Educator, and Mind-Body practitioner. She earned her Aromatherapy Certificate in 2018 from the American College of Healthcare Science and became a Master Transformational Coach from the Health Coach Institute in 2021. She is also a certified Emotion Code Practitioner. Melissa is a member of the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA) and their current mentor for Regional Representatives. She also writes articles for the journal of AIA and is secretary of the Aromatherapy Registration Council. In 2022, Melissa was listed as one of the most influential aromatherapists world-wide.

Melissa has a diverse background and training that allows her to connect with a variety of clients and essential oil enthusiasts. Besides being a world-renowned and respected aromatherapist, she is a USAF Security Forces Veteran, Boy Scout Leader veteran, former bass drummer in Silver Thistle Pipes and Drums, and previous Chiropractic Assistant.

Melissa shares her advanced knowledge of essential oils through her lecturing for prestigious organizations and has been featured on various media outlets. These include podcasts, blogs, the Aroma Trust Summit, and others. She is also the producer and host of the popular aromatherapy podcast, Aromatic Chat. Her podcast introduces its listeners to Registered, Clinical, and Certified Aromatherapists from around the globe. The mission of Melissa’s podcast is to help its listeners find the Aromatherapist that meets their needs and to inspire and encourage them on their own personal wellness journey.

Melissa blends her extensive knowledge, personal experience, and the wisdom gleaned from her own healing journey with her education and expertise in coaching, energetic healing, aromatherapy, and holistic medicine to fulfill her passion of going deep with others and helping them succeed.  When she’s not busy being a mom to four grown children, wife, grandmother, and fulfilling her other roles, Melissa works one-on-one with clients in an intimate coaching setting and offers personalized support. She specializes in working with the broken, exhausted, hopeless, and overwhelmed and helps them to Reframe, Restore, and Refresh their Well-being.

Melissa believes there are no one-size-fits-all solutions to life and wellness. Rather, she assists others to find their purpose, reconnect to their true nature, and live their best life. Her passion, drive, and knowledge are sensational and motivating to those she teaches and her clients. You can find her @ https://lemonbalmcoaching.com/.