RMS Podcast Episode 1-35 Finding Purpose in Holistic Health

In this episode, my special guest, Andrea Bailey-Tweed, shares her story of how holistic wellness helped her to find purpose after an unbearable health challenge.

Andrea spent decades of her life in radio and television broadcasting, along with her top-level work as a communications professional within the United States Government before suffering a health crisis,  which led to Today, she is a certified clinical and registered aromatherapist and founder and CEO of Earth's Own Essentials LLC. Her goal is to empower people to be proactive in their health care.   Andrea has a lifelong love for alternative/holistic healthcare that began all the way back from her grandmother’s teachings as a child. She has a local presence and online distribution service and provides personalized consultations. She supplies hundreds of varieties of 100% Pure, therapeutic-quality essential oils and therapeutic blends for health and well-being and is an advocate in the community regarding holistic health.

Connect with Andrea Bailey-Tweed at www.earthsownessentials.com and by Email at [e-mail]

Episode Transcript

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Hello and welcome to all beautiful soulsout there. You're listening to the Restore
My Soul Podcast with Princess Millon's,your favorite grief coach and emotional wellness specialist.
In this space, we will helpthose who struggle with grief and loss
and have real conversations about how toovercome it in every area of life through

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our personal stories, practical information,and wisdom from Princess and her special guests.
We are here to educate, inspire, and empower you with the strategies
you need in your emotional healing journey. We do not offer medical advice,
but we believe that we can alllearn to heal by creating a mindset to
grow, pass our pain and pushtoward our purpose. Our goal is to

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remind you that grief is a journeyand you do not have to walk it
alone. No matter what the painor loss is, you can be restored
and live fully in your purpose.But let's push through the pain together as
we share our stories of resilience inone episode at a time. Well,
welcome in everybody, so again foranother episode of Restore My Soul Podcast.

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Thank you so much for being hereand joining this week. I'm so excited
about this episode because this been atopic that has been near and dear to
my heart for several years now.But before that, you know, I'm
your host, I'm Princess Millan's yourfavorite grief and emotional wellness specialists, and

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you know what we do here.We are here to educate and encourage and
empower you in your own emotional wellnessjourney so that you can walk in your
God given purpose. We are hereevery week, and I hope that you
continue to invite in other people tojoin in the conversation. So I don't

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want to prolong the time, rightI want to get right into this conversation
that I'm going to have today.I am so excited about my special guest
today. Andrea Bailey Tweet is withus today and I'm so excited to have
her on the show today. Shehas spent decades of her life in radio

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and television broadcasting, along with othertop level work as a communications professional within
the USA government. Before she discoveredand she suffered a health crisis that she's
going to talk about later on inthe broadcast We shu led to today and
she is a certified clinical registered aromatherapistand the founder and CEO of Earth Owns

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Essential LLC. And her goal isto empower all of us, all of
us to be proactive in our healthcare. And y'all know it's so important today.
And she has a lifelong love andI know that firsthand to alter alternative
and holistic healthcare right that began allthe way back from the teaching of her

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grandmother's right. So she has alocal presence, She has an online distribution
of services that she provides personalized consultationsto those who want the supplies of the
varieties of the pure therapeutic quality.Essential alls right. And so I appreciate

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her for being such an advocate inthe community regarding holistic health. And I
just want to welcome to the podcastAndrea Bailly tweet. Thank you so much
for being here today. Thank you, princess. I'm telling you with an
insu like that I'm very important.Thank you. Listen you and what you

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do is so so so needed inthis community. And I know that the
listeners out there are the ones whowill join in in this conversation. They
will have an I opened once thisconversation is over and to be continued,
hopefully in their own lives, AndI know today that you're going to share

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your story about the value of thecases of emotional stress, the grief,
mental and emotional turmoil that you haveseen in your practice, and how what
you do has helped so many hundredsand thousands of people all over the world.
Right, And so I want tojust kind of start off by shares

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with the audience a little bit aboutyou and some things maybe that you had
to overcome to even think about beingaroma therapist. How did you How did
that all come about? Believe itor not, it was so far off
the back of my list that Iwould have never ever told anyone that this

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was what I wanted to do.I had hopes and dreams of becoming an
entrepreneur, but as you said,my career began in radio and television and
communications, and I absolutely loved whatI did. The higher I went,
the more I worked with the government, it becomes a part of your head,

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you know, your ego, yourlifestyle and everything else. And I
was sorry. One day I gotup, I went into work. We
were in a courthouse. I wasgoing down the steps. I had been
having back pain and leg pain alittle bit like you know, almost if

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you had a real bad workout,nothing major, chronic. And going down
the steps, I bounced all theway down. I went to plant my
foot, I could not feel itwhen I landed my foot, and I
just fell all the way down thesteps. I was young enough and healthy
enough that I would have thought thatin a few minutes. You know,

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you get up because first off,you're embarrassed more than anything else. You
know, you know about that.You just want to get up right,
like, oh God, in myembarrass So but it went on for several
weeks, and I went back tothe doctor. They sent me to orthopedic
specialists who told me that I hada major muscular skeletal condition. When you

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begin to start suffering, you listento those that you believe have the skills
and the abilities to make you better. Okay, so I did, and
I ended up over a series ofyears going through multiple multiple surgeries on my

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spine from my neck to my tailbone, my hips, my back, and
I kept getting worse. The medicationsthat I would take, and everything is
so standard, patent, you know, there's no you treat this person one
way and you treat the other.It was just the standard operating procedures,

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and my body did not like themedication. It was refuting it in all
levels. And after a long time, I mean I couldn't walk. I
was bound to a wheelchair for awhile. I was in so much pain
that I did not want to beon earth anymore. It was very difficult

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to look at my husband and mysons because they knew the active, energetic,
high speed person I was, andwe all have the same fears that
I wasn't going to make it throughit. You know. I had a
very great friend who was a massagetherapist who would come and try just to

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keep my muscles working and working withme. And after a while he suggested
a condition that I might have thatbefore this next century I might want them
to test me for. And ofcourse they doctors, three very prominent physical

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orthopedic specialists. Decided that I couldn'tpossibly know what I was talking about,
and who was that I could domy self diagnosis or whatever, And I
said, is it going to hurtto test? Fast forward? We did
the test. What my friends suggestedwas correct. The performists had wrapped around

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my psiatic and they did not fromtheir want to do anything to me or
for me and told me that Ishould go into long care term care.
Taking me home literally, my husbandand I cried all the way down the
highway and prayed very hard because Iwas at the end. I just I

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couldn't stand anymore. I couldn't standto look at it people. I had
no more uplifting thoughts. I justwas really at my end and being a
child very very hard. And thatnight I had a vision of my grandmother,

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who was a Cherokee Indian, comingto visit me, and I could
not walk. I was unable todo in reality anything that she said,
get up and walk to the kitchen. But we did, and we blended
essential oils and blends all night long, and when I was done in the

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morning came I knew what I wassupposed to do and looked at me and
told me, he said, youjust look different. What is it?
And I explained to him what happened, and he said, well, what
do we do need to do?And I said, well, you know,
for me to get all the thingsthat I need, I mean it's
like going to cost thousands and thousandsof dollars, you know, and I

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need books and I need to learnhow to do this, and you know
you just we have within us becauseof who we are, that need that.
We can't just be good, wehave to be excellent. Absolutely.
So, while I was blending thisfor myself and we did it, which
was nowhere near the cost of whatmedical treatments are I ordered, I researched,

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and without knowing that I was followingthe protocol of a school, I
was looking what was happening with me, the whole of the person, my
mental state, my ability to toleratemedications, how my stomach had gone to
pot because of everything that it wastaking, my irritability, my inability to

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sleep, my depression, all thosethings come into the home of the person.
You can't just support one side andleave the other out of whack.
So my first creation was a blendthat I just threw everything into the kitchen
sink and probably had nothing to dowith right measures of what other other than

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the way that God instructed me todo it. However, the first time
I tried it, I went forseveral hours and realized, Wow, I'm
not in pain, and it wassuch a shock that I didn't believe it.
So I had to wait for mypain to come back and try it

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again to make sure that I hadactually done what I thought it did,
and a leap for joy, allelujah, praise. Oh my God really doesn't
even begin to get there, Princess, it really doesn't. I still marvel,

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Okay, I still marvel. Andso as I talked to I had
a great friend who was a coverpractor and the massage therapist used to do
the US Olympic teams, so hewas great. And he had a practice
called Twyna, which meant hurt thepain, and he did and he did

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this. But I can't believe I'mpaying you to do this to me.
But within months I was able tostand on my own, and a few
months after that, I was ableto move with a walker, you know,
and slowly but surely in spite ofyeah, I can run now.
I can do most things that mostpeople do, and I don't have any

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side effects. My body is inharmony with itself. I feel great.
I'm inspired. I love what Ido. I love reaching out to people
and saying I'm not uncle doctor,but I have some answers that I believe
most people, if you gave ita shot, would find some relief.

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And the wonderful part about me andwhy I do it through my business up
Promiscott once he got me up thatI would help anybody that I could help
who really wanted to do it.And so in my consultations when people come
to me and they're talking to meabout what they're going through, again,
we have to have that honesty.I need to know what medications you're own

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so that we're not doing contraindicatory practices. I can't give someone an essential oil
that would surface as a blood thinnerif you're taking blood thinners. So exactly
it has to be twofold that you'retelling me exactly what you know and what
we can do to work together.Because there are hundreds of oils, there

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are hundreds of opportunities to help people. And when you and I talk,
I know that there's always going tobe some tweaking. So you can start
with me. I make the firstblend, and it's a test what in
this blend worked for you, whatdid not work for you. You're sleeping

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better, but your stomach you're stillhaving problems with your digestion. So once
we spend time on the first blend, say several weeks, we have a
follow up and you tell me howyou're doing, what's improved, what hasn't
improved, and then we'll tweak itand the next model is on me.
Yeah. So that's how I sayhow serious. I'm not here just I'm

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going to make money, trust Godfor that. But I also believe that
what I'm selling is so much morevaluable because, particularly us, we need
to learn how to look after ourselves. Yes, we do are very necessary.
I'm not a medical doctor. Iam not authorized to figure out what's

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grumbled. Once we know and oncewe talk, then there are natural products
that grow in the ground, thatcome out the trees, the roots of
the plants that will sustain you inyour health care journey. Yeah, and
that is so great. That it'sso great, and you look absolutely amazing

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after that testimony. You know,some of us and some people probably that
maybe listening or know some other peoplehave struggled or suffered some of the same
things may not look so way.But you look you look great. You
say you feel great, and youtalked about some of the things that you
are able to do. And itcan be depressing, right for us to

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go to medical professionals and they don'tbelieve us, and they they sometimes come
across as if we're thinking that weknow more than them, But we know
our bodies and we have to listento that, right, and so we
we I think we all have aplace in this world to do, even

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doctors and nurses and whatever our specialtyis. But we have the power to
listen to our bodies. God hasgiven us that great ability to listen to
Him and to listen to our bodies. And we have to listen to the
whole, the wholeness of everything.And that's exactly what you did. And

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so with we go through all ofthis. This is what I thought about
when you share your test. Dowe go through all of this right for
our own purpose? So I lookat you, know, all the things
that you had to overcome, allthe pain, all the struggle, all
of the therapy, the massage,therapy, the chiropractice, the doctors,

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all of that. We go throughall of it for a purpose. And
so I'm just kind of thanking Godright now that he brought that skill set
and he brought that desire out ofyou even through that pain. So can
you talk to us a little bitabout how did it feel for you?

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How did it feel for you?What was it like knowing that you had
to reach this, this place thatyou are right now and abandon the years
of broadcasting, the years of beingin the public eye, you know,

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that transition life, because that's that'stotally two different things. I was in
the bed and I got a certifiedletter that if I wanted to move to
Washington, d C. And obtaina desk job, that I could do
that. I live in Ohio,my children were in school, my husband

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works here, and Deak's job wasnot me Okay, there was no part
of me that could accept that Iwas going to be handicapped for life.
I couldn't. I would. I'mtrying real hard not to say I'd rather
leave here, okay, But Ihave had a career that reached out to

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people, that engaged people, encounteredpeople my entire life, and I was
very I was stopped in my tracks. You know. It was like one
day I was fine and the nextday I wasn't. And after that,
instead of getting better, I gotworse and worse. And I didn't think

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there was anything else. I hadno clue. And I think that was
the scariest part. What do Ido after I've had this exciting life after
I've done so many things, afterI've met so many people, and now
I can't do anything. I can'teven help people, which was actually the
greatest career part of the career thatI had, the many many people that

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like you, I can't restore mysoul. I ran places, you know,
where people did not want to be. You know. I was there
for people in Katrina. I haveseen the damaged and devastation of New York.
I've been to California wildfires, Okay, yeah, loss and tragedy.

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People can understand. I don't carehow empathic you are, all right,
but to be able to experience andrise above what you're going through and put
that person ahead of yourself as somethingthat's absolutely all the things that are written

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about in the Bible. And Ijust knew. I actually challenge God that
if this is all that's left,I don't want it. I knew you
let me do so I can domore for more people. I had no
idea that the things that I wasusing for myself I would turn around and

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try to make into a business orhow can I reach out now? But
in the years since, I haveover one thousand hours of essential oil studies
I am not registered a roman therapist, but I soon will be, and
at that less than three hundred inthe world. So just learning how to

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reach out and hope that people sayfirst, you know, we look at
first off in the society we're inright now, Medicine costs a lot.
Medical surgeries and procedures cost and thereare so many that are unnecessary, at
least at maybe the early point.I'm not again discrediting medicine, but yeah,

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Studies in menopause, for instance,are now revealing that a lot of
people, particularly people like myself who'vehad hip replacements, are found that a
vascular necrosis was menopause. Know,so maybe if we start early enough,
we can treat those symptoms of menopauseso that the bone doesn't have to go
to the point we replaced those moments. Okay. Grief, Yeah, grief

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is like depression and pain. Itcan take you out of here. Nothing
worse in the world than to lovesomeone and to lose them, and American
society has never celebrated that loss.We teach each other to mourn and we
hold on because we're just into thephysical absence. We don't understand that the

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person has created a spot in ushas created a spot in other people,
and that just our mere actions andthoughts of them keep them alive. Absolutely.
But in that interim, in thatmoment between you finding your strength and
your peace to go on to restoreyour soul, there comes a lot of

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years. There comes a lot oflonely nights, It comes a lot of
pain, There comes a lot ofstress because not everybody is financial set for
that. Yeah, So rather thanhaving to spend four hundred dollars on in
adepressants and all those things that youbuy be cause your stomach now to start

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bothering you and you're still sleeping lessor as they say, with antidepressants and
can cause suicidal thoughts, why nottry an oil that God made and let
someone who is skilled at blending.Anybody can blend, not knocking MLMs.
Anybody can learn how to put dropsinto a carrier oil. But that's really

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not all it is. Okay,there are things again, I would need
to know your health conditions. Areyou taking any medications that might be countra
indicatory. I could give you lavender. Everybody loves lavender, but if you
have flower allergies, that, yeah, makes you so sick. So as

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aromatherapist, we're trying to look intoasking to do those same kind of things
that would be appropriate in a medicalfacility. Yeah, but then we take
the oils and we make them somethingspecial that works for you, okay,
and it doesn't have side effects,and it doesn't you know, we can

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change it. If it doesn't workand you need a different version or you
need to alter it a little bit, it can be done. And it
can be done, you know anywherefrom really twenty five is too high.
Let it's a average for a bottlethat's going to last and bring you those
side effects. Yes, And I'ma witness to that. And I you

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know when you were talking about theblending and and uh you've seen and we
see different people doing different things withit. But I believe the missing ingredients
sometimes can be just good old fashionedlove. You gotta love to do it.
You gotta be caring enough to makesure that you have the right ingredients

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blended together for the benefit. AndI think it's all individualized, right,
it's all it's no one thing thatit's gonna help everybody. Everybody is tailor
made. And then that means thatall of our blends have to be tailor
made as well. And I lovewhat you said about just rising above what

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we're going through in order to reallyget to that God given purpose that He
has given us to do. Youknow, yeah, yes, yeah,
Sometimes it's very difficult to do that, sometimes to step outside of yourself.
But when you do and you realizethat there are so many people who are
benefiting by what you're doing, youbenefit too. You know that that love

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and that healing that you put outto other people comes right back on you,
really it does. Well. Ithas been such a great UH episode
and such a pleasure to talk toyou today. Andrea, thank you so
much for joining today. And alsobefore we get off here, I want

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to make sure that everybody understands andknows how to follow you, how to
connect with you, even beyond thisthis this podcast. Okay. I can
be contacted through my website www dotEarthsonessentials dot com. I can be reached

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on Instagram, earth on Essential Oils. I have a phone number six one
four six seven zero two one zeroeight. If you can't reach me,
you can leave me a message andtell me what whether you have conditions,
you're just interested about that. Iwant some more information about some products on
my website whatever, and I willcontact you directly. That's the one of

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the wonderful things I like. Ibelieve in keeping that open communication. And
you let me see. I giveyou a website and the and the phone
six one four six seven zero twoone zero eight. Are you on social
media at all? Yes, Iam on Facebook at Earth's on essentials and

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Instagram, Earth's on essential oils.All right, and all of that information
will be in the description of thisepisode. Everybody. Thank you so much
Andrea for sharing with us today andand look, and I'll continue to contact
you and let you know how myblend is going as well. Wonderful,

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please do. Thank you all right, absolutely, it's all right, y'all.
This is the end of this episode. Thank you so much for being
here. Y'all heard Andrea say thatwe have to rise above what we're going

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through. It's time to step outsideof ourselves to make sure that no matter
what you're going through, no matterwhat you have been through, no matter
what is to come, that you'reable to keep up and follow along to
your God given purpose. Y'all,make sure that you continue to follow me
on all social media at Princess Millon'sand my website at Princessmilons dot com.

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