Essential Oils for Adrenal Support: Restoring Energy and Resilience
Your adrenal glands are small but mighty, working tirelessly to help you respond to stress and keep your energy steady throughout the day. But in our fast-paced world, these little glands can easily become overworked, leaving you feeling drained, foggy, and unable to bounce back like you used to.
Essential oils can be a gentle yet powerful way to support your adrenals. With their calming, grounding, and restorative properties, certain oils help soothe the nervous system, reduce stress, and encourage deep replenishment—giving your body the chance to reset and restore balance.
In this post, we’ll explore the best essential oils for adrenal support and share simple, nourishing ways to weave them into your daily self-care rituals.
Unrelenting stress. Trouble sleeping. Exhaustion. Low libido. Brain fog. Stubborn weight gain. Anxiety or depression… Do these sound familiar?
These don’t have to be your secret struggle anymore ?. You are not alone.
These are all symptoms of hormone imbalance that I hear women describe every single day.
The root cause of many hormone problems is stress and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis deregulation.
Chronic stress created by modern life not only activates the HPA axis (hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis) and turns on our survival system, but brings about the possibility of a vicious cycle of feedback from stress and its damaging effects.
How do we combat this vicious cycle into sympathetic dominance
Fortunately, in nature’s infinite wisdom, there are a number of essential oils that can help you adapt to stress with more grace and ease.
Essential oils stress are powerful response interrupters. Simply breathing in a calming essential oil will actually downregulate the stress response and instantly reduce overwhelm.
Below is my Adrenal Love blend that works effectively at reducing stress in a matter of seconds.
Adrenal Love Rollerblend
- 8 drops Geranium
- 5 drops Rosemary
- 5 drops Clove
- 3 drops Peppermint
Directions:
Add essential oils to a10ml rollerball. Top off with Fractionated Coconut Oil.
Roll the blend over your pulse points, palms, adrenals and back of neck.
To experience instant relief from stress, roll the blend over your palm and take 3-5 deep breathes so that the aroma goes straight to the limbic brain and calms down the amygdala.
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