27: Getting to the Root, Living a Good Life & Essential Oils with Monique Wheeler

Join me with Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, Monique Wheeler in our conversations around finding the root causes of dis-ease through human complexity, using muscle testing, intuition, and essential oils to treat the body, trauma and traditional Chinese Medicine. She shares about chronic Lyme disease and the tenacity it takes to do her own work, getting rid of emotional gunk and living a good life.Monique’s practice is Meridian 87: Chicago Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Inc., located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. In June of 2018 she celebrated her 10 year practice anniversary!Monique loves being an acupuncturist and working with patients to achieve their health goals - whatever they are. She trained at the Chicago campus of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, receiving a Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2008.Since graduating Monique has studied women's health and fertility, orthopedic acupuncture, and using essential oils with acupuncture treatment. She has a passion for working with patients who struggle with respiratory issues, chronic diseases, fertility and women's health, as well as pain and orthopedic conditions. She doesn't limit her practice to these issues, though, and is always learning more with and through her patients. Monique loves her job and finds the human body, and condition, fascinating. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode📝 https://candicewu.com/moniquePodcast Homepage🎧 https://candicewu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community💌 https://candicewu.com/embody-communityPatreon – Your Support Means So Much!💝 https://candicewu.com/patreonCandice Wu Page on Facebook👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsorship MessageThis episode is brought to you by the Soul Body Women’s Retreat that will adventure in October 2018.The Soul Body Women’s Retreat is a spiritual and healing retreat inspired to support connecting Soul and Body, the elements of Earth and Sky within, Feminine and Masculine, and all of the opposing energies within. It is a sacred intensive of meditations, yoga, family constellations, somatic healing, and soul work to deeply heal stuckness, beliefs, or ancestral bonds and embody freedom and specific personal intentions.For this and future retreats, you can find out more information at https://candicewu.com/retreats. Your support in sharing or joining a retreat helps me make more healing albums, content, and create more podcast episodes. I am grateful for your support!For This and Future Retreats, Visit CandiceWu.com/retreats Show Notes & Timestamps  00:00 Intro00:53 Sponsored by The Soul Body Women's Retreat01:43 Introducing Monique02:40 Welcoming Monique03:00 Monique’s 10 Year Practice Anniversary03:14 How Monique’s practice has changed over time05:06 Integrating Essential Oils & Supplements05:53 Shelby Baylor06:06 Michelle Merrimore06:32 Chinese Medicine and the Channels06:44 Muscle Testing the Body for Essential Oils08:18 What is Muscle Testing?09:14 Using Essential Oils09:21 Young Living Company (Essential Oils Production Company)10:22 What goes on in your mind to got to the root of the situation?12:11 Treating one thing, magically other things heal13:20 Healing as a side effect14:51 Sometimes we don't even know that something is different15:16 Common Themes in TCM & Trauma?17:35 Working with EMDR18:27 Michael Smith (EMDR Protocol)19:48 Trauma is Stored in You & the Lineage21:06 Family Constellations for Countries, Society, and the World23:37 Intuition in Monique’s work24:29 Stephanie Mage25:43 Getting rid of Emotional Gunk & Living a Good Life26:12 Being a Seeker, Doing the Work27:10 Family Constellations: a piece at a time27:37 Facing the Future, leaving the past.28:35 How do you experience yourself? Challenges for Monique right now29:20 Chronic Lyme Disease33:43 Magic Antidote to Mold34:30 Being tenacious35:10 Lightning Round!35:24 If you were an organ channel, which one would you be?35:55 If you did not have to sleep, what would you do with your extra time?36:46 What has required the most courage in your life so far?37:17 What was your first Job ever?38:36 What is the strangest dream you ever had?39:22 Throw back question 🙈.41:01 Closing and Gratitude41:54 Outro Intro Music by Nick Werber (instagram.com/nwerber)