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Aromatherapy

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  Aromatherapy can be used in various different ways, but it almost always involves essential oils. Essential oils are extracted from various plants and herbs, usually from the stem, and capture the essence of the plant: its smell and flavor. Essential oils are usually extracted through distillation with steam or water, or in a more modern way, through cold pressing. These oils have various different health benefits and have been used to cure illnesses for centuries. This leads us to aromatherapy. Aromatherapy can be done in various different ways, with the small whiff of the essential oils being the most important part. Whether you’re getting an aromatherapy massage or using an aromatherapy essential oil diffuser, as long as you can smell the essential oils, you can practice aromatherapy. This being said, there are countless benefits to aromatherapy. The most common reason aromatherapy is practiced these days is the relieve stress. With our busy lives, indulging in aromatherapy a...
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Jolly Good Oysters

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  This summer I got a job at a nice restaurant that serves mainly seafood. It's known for being a fish house restaurant. In this restaurant, there was a bar for drinks and a bar for oysters. I became fascinated with the oyster bar and how cool oysters were. Oysters are kinda funky looking and aren’t very appealing to everyone. I find them to be very mysterious and odd looking which made me want to know more about them. Luckily for me, I was kinda forced to learn about them because we were all getting quizzed on the menu.       Here is a little of what I learned. There are mainly five species of oysters harvested in the United States. Oysters are located in the East, West, and Gulf Coasts of the United States. Crassostrea virginica, is an Eastern oyster that can be found throughout Canada, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico. In the same location that they are at Harvard, you can also find Crassostrea Gigas. Other popular two oysters are the European Flat oysters (Os...
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It's Okay to Not Know

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     “Don’t worry, you’ll figure it out” This is a quote I hear from adults often. My major is Interdisciplinary Studies which consists of three minors. My three minors are Public Health, Psychology, and Biology. I recently switched majors from Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. I planned on taking the Speech Pathologist route. This is a job that is currently in high demand. I had to switch out of that major because academically I wasn’t doing well. This was sort of upsetting for me because I felt like I have failed myself for not taking school more seriously and not being able to keep up with the workload. This was also upsetting for my mom because she was rooting for me and for my career life. I then began to feel ready about the situation and realized I needed to figure out what career path I wanted to take.        Figuring out what I wanted for myself for the rest of my life made me very overwhelmed and confused about myself. The endless thoug...
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Self-Care isn't Selfish

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 Mental health includes emotional, physiological, and social well-being. It can affect how we act, think feel, how we react to certain things and how we relate to others.  Mental health is overall important for our health, well-being, and quality of life. Taking care of ourselves and our mind is an essential way of taking care of our mental health.  As our world continues to progress, it can seem that sometimes there is more good than bad. With so much going on in the world, it is hard not to focus on the bad. Aside from the world possibly seeming like a dark place, our personal lives can be rocky as well. We all go through things that can break us down, life can throw sudden curve balls at us when we least expect it. With so many daily problems we face, life can seem to be unbearable sometimes. Self-care is an important part of life that seems to be diminished by others or not taken as seriously as it should be.  Self-care means taking the time to do things that hel...
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