Ep 33 – Sabrina Zielinski aka Mama Z – Essential Oils

Meet Mama Z and Dr. Z

ABOUT SABRINA

Sabrina Ann Zielinski is a home birth mom of four and a natural health guru. The mastermind behind the allergy-friendly food recipes & DIY remedies featured on their website, she’s known as “Mama Z” to many mamas who are looking for natural ways to take care of their families. As a certified group fitness instructor, health coach, and beauty pageant trainer, Sabrina’s vast background in natural living has helped her empower thousands of women to reach their true potential in Christ.

Show Notes:

Dr. Eric:

• We met in 2006
• We were both on our own spiritual and health journeys
• I was all about heath
• I was eating to live
• And Sabrina was about the culinary aspect
• She’s all about flavors
• So, it was really fun because I had a dramatic health and spiritual transformation, and food was a big part of it
• The last 15 years or so, we had just been on our own individual journey
• And now that we are married, for almost 13 years, it has been so fun
• We have been developing classes together and teaching people
• We have global health ministry that reaches more than 6 million people a year
• It is just an honor and privilege to share this message with people
  

Sabrina:

• We really felt our passion get ignited for health together as we aligned
• There is a huge difference between making great money and actually finding your passion and being able to fulfill it
• My gene pool tends to be on the heavier side
• We did not eat to live, we lived to it
• I actually developed food allergies and other things 
• I did not understand inflammatory foods until I met my husband
• But because my mom is a culinary expert, being able to take family recipes, change them to be anti-inflammatory, taste good and also good for your body is amazing
• What I was eating was not healthy
• I realized that even if I eat out somewhere, I would feel really bad
• I started to do some tests to my body, because once we can hear our body we start to pick up on things.I knew there was something better
• I had done a 10-day water fast and got off all of the prescription drugs that I was on
• Doing that 10-day water fast changed my life and I was much more open 
• I was on birth control, ADHD medicine, allergy medicine, another allergy medicine that did not fill in the gaps on that allergy med and another one, stomach medication and something that counteracted that
• Essential oils were so powerful
• I grew up in a home where my mom’s best friend was an OBGYN, and so she did a lot of holistic and medicinal medicine
• And so, we knew and used that kind of stuff, but not in the way that we do now
• I also had a spiritual transformation. Becoming a Christian was a huge part of that
• My pastor talked about the dynamics of fasting and all the promises that goes along with fasting
• I really did a spiritual fast – just really prayed and seeked God
• During that time my body was going through a detox process
• Eating out was not an option anymore because I knew I would get sick
• I prayed over my hands and asked God what I needed to do, because I was down to eating to 4 different kinds of food that does not make me sick
• So, when I met my husband, he was eating only green and brown foods
• I started eating salad, just getting back to the basics
• Once I was through the healing transformation, not just for my stomach, I also started doing colon therapy, and other holistic methods that helped me, I really started to look at our family recipes that were so popular and take out the inflammatory ingredients and then, put different ingredients in
• We drove 2 hours to go to the health food store once a month to get the food that we needed in order to live
• The pain of eating bad foods was not just worth it anymore
• This is about being healthy and living well, and I knew it’s attainable
• It ended up really being about the future
• Once you get beyond the struggles that you had, I really feel that you’ll be able to take a platform and help other people about the things that you have gone through after you have gone through
• I knew that God had something more for me in that way and I just did not know what it was, but knew I would find out
• The fast came first
• I did the fast in 2005, a year before I met Dr. Z
• One time when I was testing the sugar theory out, it looked like someone has punched me in the face
• I tried Splenda and it did not work for me
• When I met Eric, my pantry was literally transformed
• I started praying that God would bring my husband to the church
• And one day, I looked over and I was sitting with this older lady and asked her, “who is that guy”. And she told me that he’s with the youth group
• He looked a bit too old for the youth group; he looked like my age
• The next time I saw him, I introduced myself and it looks like God opened the door
• We hit it off from there, we got engaged a few months later, got married within 6 months of meeting each other and have been together since then
• The first time he came to my parent’s house, he told me it looked like Willy Wonka’s
• The first time I made food for us, I noticed that he did not eat the dessert
• He did not eat the dessert because he did not know what was in it
• One of the first recipes that we made together was a healthy pancake and waffle recipe that’s made with all kind of nuts and seeds
• It is actually in our new cookbook, The Essential Oils Diet
• It’s a matter of finding different ingredients and being able to substitute those for the unhealthy ones
• Making it in a healthier way and trading out some of the things that aren’t healthy
• He loves cookies, but we do not have dessert very often
• We make a lot of fun salads
• We just take recipes that are maybe traditional and change then into something healthy
• One of the things that we found was that, using essential oils in your cooking is just like an herb
• Really utilizing some of the culinary aspects as well that are also really good detox for the body
• We have a lot of different combinations of bioactive compounds as well
• So, it’s a diet filled with the plant chemicals to boost your immune system and detox your body
• And we believe that if you are eating the proper foods and proper combination of foods, then you will get to your natural ideal body weight
• The essential oils lifestyle approach is for healthy living and you want to have a diet rich in those bioactive foods and essential oils is a part of that
• When it comes to water, we realize that we were working so hard to have clean water, but then did not realize what water we were putting on our plants outside
• And so, we ended up getting the whole house filtration system
• One of the things that’s in our book is an essential oil concentrate
• Utilizing essential oils is taking liquid stevia to emulsify the essential oils, or apple cider vinegar, but we have this recipe so you can use your water as a detox tool as well
• You take a 1 gallon of jug, put 10 drops of 2 different citrus essential oils or 5 drops of 4 different citrus essential oils, 1-2 droppers of full liquid stevia, a teaspoon to a tablespoon of Brag’s apple cider vinegar, a teaspoon of lemon or lime juice and fill the rest of the gallon all the way up
• We always try to give the options on our website which is naturallivingfamily.com
• We have a laundry soap that you can make at home, but when you do not have time to DIY, we try to also give people suggestions
• One of the companies that we use is MyGreenFills and there is a couple products that they have that are very natural
• There are 2 phases in our essential oils diet
• We have a fast track program
• For people that are looking for something different, give us 60 days and try this because this will really help
• It helps resets your metabolism, balance the hormones, retrain the taste buds and set new healthy habits
• Once you have those things addressed, then it starts getting into where you can utilize food as a tool instead of something that you have used as a crutch
• We found that a lot of people like to stay in the fast track, but since we believe that everybody has an ideal body weight, really the lifestyle phase is for maintaining, it’s how we live our life
• It is helping you to set-up for life long success
• We don’t do cheat days, we don’t believe in that
• Proper planning prevents poor performance
• For people who are really wanting to make a change, start with the low hanging fruit and work it up
• Anything that has a perfume is toxic and it affects so many things
• As you retrain your taste buds, you are also retraining your body and those things that have been desensitized become sensitive again and that is a good thing
• Once you have gone through a detox process and you add something back, your body will let you know if it is good for you or not
• We grow our own stevia
• So, in the summer when I make Dr. Z his iced tea, matcha green tea, I’ll cut 3 sprigs of the stevia and I’ll put a hibiscus flower and I let that marinate
• The cool thing about organic stevia is that it will come back every year
• When I do my infrared sauna, I would take that time and I would meditate and not thinking of anything
• We have to allow that time because if we are putting out for other people, we have to be able to fill ourselves up as well
• Prayers and meditation are a great way to do that
• Self-care is really one of the first things you have to do because if you do not take care of yourself, you won’t be able to take care of anybody else
• Working with your kids out gardening, in dirt or earthing and just being present in nature is very important as part of the detox process
• You need that connection with the Earth

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Website: naturallivingfamily.com
• Podcast: naturallivingfamilypodcast.com
• Books: You can buy where books are sold
• Healing Power of Essentail Oils book: healingpowerofessentialoils.com
• Essential oils diet (new book, coming May 7th): essentialoilsdiet.com 

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