Managing the psychological effects of the pandemic with Dr. Eric Zielinski

Eric Zielinski, DC is the author of the bestselling book, The Healing Power of Essential Oils, and has pioneered natural living and health education since 2003. Trained as an aromatherapist, health researcher, and chiropractor, Dr. Z and his wife started NaturalLivingFamily.com in 2014 to help people learn how to safely and effectively use natural remedies such as essential oils. The site has rapidly become the #1 online source for biblical health and non-branded essential oils education, with more than four million natural health seekers every year.

Eric, along with Wendy Myers, created the Coronavirus Support Series to provide expert advice and information about the sudden lifestyle shifts that must occur in our daily practices, routines, and habits while dealing with this new, extended (and potentially recurring) threat to normalcy posed by COVID-19. The series is a collaboration among professionals across all disciplines who will be interviewing experts in health, business, wellness, finance, parenting, home-schooling, psychology and many other important facets of life, to help adapt home life into the multi-functional safe haven it must now become - teaching and translating routines into sustainable, intentional, patient, respectful, at-home practices and protocols for families worldwide - to help minimize the social, psychological and health-damaging effects of COVID-19.

In this episode, Eric and I explore the Coronavirus Support Series, how it can help you in whatever circumstance you find yourself, and how possibly this time could be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Episode Highlights

1:10 - Eric's background and expertise with essential oils

4:55 - Take the COVID Challenge

9:50 - Why it's essential for us to fill a niche

13:40 - Where do you start?

16:23 - Digging into the Coronavirus Support Series

20:08 - How to get started with the Series

24:20 - Acting as a first responder

27:56 - Did you know you can make your own toilet paper?

33:35 - Is this the opportunity of a lifetime?

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel and Dr. Eric Zielinski (00:02.274)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast brought to you by AmpCoil. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on this show, we discuss the common threads survivors share after walking through the fire, the practitioners making a difference, and the treatment modalities that deliver healing back into the hands of the people who need it most. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel and Dr. Eric Zielinski (00:35.969)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the beautifully broken podcast. here with a very special guest. have Dr. Eric Zolinski, who is someone that's creating a new platform to receive the world where we're at right now in this COVID-19 situation. Eric, welcome to the podcast. Well, thank you for having me. It's an honor and a privilege and I look forward to being able to share some

Hopefully little practical tips for people to get through this situation in a much better situation than maybe they're in right now. I think that can't be understated, especially where the rubber meets the road takeaways is what people are really needing right now. I see if I scroll through my social media feed, what I'm filled with is a little fear and anxiety on how many different opinions there are.

And it seems like everybody is screaming from their soapbox the right way to move forward right now. And as a doctor, you know, as someone who has, we could, just would love to also just, can we go into a little bit about your background? know, you have an incredible background in the world of essential oils and aromatherapy as a practitioner. Could you just give us a little bit of your background in that, in that field? Yeah, I, I'm a natural health educator.

My wife and I focus on biblical health. And so we come from a Christian lens and a faith-based background that where we were really shocked. And I was really shocked when I became a Christian to see, quite frankly, how unhealthy Christians are. I mean, statistically speaking, some of the most unhealthiest people on the planet. When you look at Southern Baptists and other denominations. so, you know, I was very unwell. And when I had my epiphany coming to Christ moment,

I battled with narcotic addiction, substance abuse, alcoholism, smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, depressed, suicide ideation. Like I was a wreck, chronic pain in my body, skin issues, gut issues. I, yeah, I will never forget when a neurosurgeon took an MRI on my spine because I had this chronic debilitating condition. He goes, what did you do at 21, 22 years old? You have a spine of a 50 year old. And so, you know, we can kind of go back a little bit, but the,

Freddie Kimmel and Dr. Eric Zielinski (02:56.29)
The long and the short of it is I just lived a normal American lifestyle and you add some social phobias and some mental health issues to that and I was a perfect storm to being an emotional, mental, spiritual wreck. And so when I had my spiritual epiphany, I realized, you know, my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. I gotta take care of it. So I started devoting my life to learning about natural solutions without side effects, looking at how to fix myself. And at the same time though,

people around me, friends and family, coworkers started to see my transformation and they started to say, what are you doing? Can you help me? And I started helping people like for free. It was just my thing. I loved it. It was a passion. And so that catapulted me into a career. And out of all the different disciplines, I really aligned myself with chiropractic because some chiropractors really helped me get out of chronic pain and got me back to running and playing sports again. Cause I really, couldn't play athletic.

sports, couldn't do things. I was an athlete. I couldn't even compete at a level that I was able to because of the pain. And so here we are because next thing you know, I had a revelation that, you know, I'm not going to be able to fulfill my purpose in life at my JLB. And thankfully I had a wife who very much supported the journey. And so we quit my JLB in Michigan, moved on to Atlanta, chased after a dream of opening up a health center. And a few years later,

launched into this online world and haven't looked back since. A couple of bestselling books, blog that serves 5 million plus people a year. And we're very honored and privileged to be some of the most foremost essential oil gurus on the planet. And wonderfully honored to be able to get people and curate this list of what we call virtual first responders to launch this initiative, this coronavirus support series.

And that's really why we're here today. That's incredible, Eric. What was, can I ask you just candidly, what were some of the things that you initially changed in your, in your paradigm that you really felt in the body that you had this physical proof that there was something there and got you excited about moving from that life of addiction into one of this new state of vibration? You know, it was purpose and I just got done.

Freddie Kimmel and Dr. Eric Zielinski (05:20.096)
interviewing Dr. Fabrizio Mancini. People might know him as Dr. I mean, a regular guest on Dr. Phil and other Dr. Oz's. And Fab talks about the Fab life. And number one is purpose. You have to live a life of purpose if you want a fabulous life. And I had no purpose. I really didn't. And that was one of the aching things that ate at my soul and was, my opinion, one of the reasons why it led me to clinical depression. It was because I had no reason to live. Outside of myself, and it was very

very empty, no drug, no sex, no nothing could fill up that void. And I think that's what the sex, drugs and rock and roll celebrity culture that paints this picture that, know, through media that you can't have it all, but it's a lie. It really is. It's a lie from the pit of hell. So it wasn't until I had a purpose and the purpose that I had was, you know, I got well, I'm gonna help others. I mean, and that's really been my life's mission now for 17, almost 17 and a half, 18 years is to help people.

And I'm telling you something, when it comes to it, there's never a doubt of what I do. There's never a moment when I'm bored. And it's kind of funny, not funny, but sad, breaks my heart at the same time. You mentioned Facebook. How many people are just posting, I'm bored. Like, I don't even know what boredom is.

Like there is not enough time in the day for me to do the things that I need and want to do. Like when you are burdened with glorious purpose, you know, I think about the Avengers movie and Loki, I'm burdened with glorious purpose, right? When you're burdened with glorious purpose of outside yourself to help humanity, if you feel like you're like, you know, the blues brothers, we're on a mission from God, right? If you look at all these fun movies, but they poke fun at this, but if you don't have that.

What's your purpose of living? What's your drive when, when it's just you and the piece of chocolate cake and, and, you know, the bottle of wine at midnight. When you know, you shouldn't be indulging. What's going to help you say no. When you know you should be saying yes. mean, it comes to those tough moments, you know, when you're on a business trip and you have an attractive man or woman approach you and you have your spouse at home, what's going to help you say no. And to me it's accountability. So.

Freddie Kimmel and Dr. Eric Zielinski (07:29.838)
When it comes to it, the purpose drove me to live a life where I'm accountable to the world. Because the more I'm open to the things that I do and the life that I live, you know, all eyes are looking at me. And a fun story is, you know, I'll never forget teaching a Sunday school class for a Sunday school teacher who was out and on a trip. And I was talking about health and they asked me, can you, can you guess teach us about the week's lesson?

And they knew me, they knew what I was about, knew I incorporated health and wellness into it. Well, it got around, around the church and hey, here's this health guy. Well, who do you think I saw at McDonald's when I was in line, literally getting the dollar toy because I brought my kids to play at McDonald's and they looked at me and said, what are doing here? Like you hypocrite, you're telling us to eat healthy, but you're at McDonald's. I'll never forget that moment because there was judgment, there's criticism. And I said, and I was like, you know what, I actually...

I'm going to McDonald's now because people are gonna look at me like this. But I literally haven't eaten McDonald's in almost 20 years and I'm not lying to you. So anyway, with that said, we can go on so many different angles there, but if it's not for purpose, that's one thing I hope for people. And this is my Corona challenge. I call it my COVID challenge such a wonderful wake up call for people. And I hope that people come out of this much more purpose driven than ever before. do too. You know, I think about.