Three years is a long time, right? Or is it? Three years ago I got my first taste into the essential oil world. I thought it was hokie, kind of extreme hippie...but I was desperate. Desperate for ways to help my kids feel better, stay healthy and recover more quickly. I was desperate too, although I didn't know it yet, for something to lessen the pain my husband was feeling and to stabilize my mood I couldn't quite get ahold of.
But let's jump back to the first oil class I ever attended. My beautiful friend (and hippie) was on the very beginning of her adventure of sharing doTERRA as a business. Of course I wanted to support her so myself and a friend co-hosted a class. And the masses came! She passed around oils for all sorts of things, I smelled them, loved them, and quickly passed them on because I had already forgotten that I needed any help! "We're pretty healthy," I mused, "We don't have these big issues like everyone else." But in the end I did like the smell and I was extremely frugal and I saw that a diffuser and some oils was way cheaper than buying a new candle each time and the combo's with oils and smells was endless.
At the end of the class my friend gave me a bottle of Balance and Serenity in a cute roller bottle to use as perfume, to use whenever I felt hurried/anxious/scattered/ready to melt down, and I could use it on my kids too! She knew I was getting ready to travel 15+ hours to my good friend's in NM and I would NEED these oils, in fact I'm pretty sure she knew that I would fall in LOVE.
So, I took them on my road trip and we rolled that little bottle on at pit stops, on the long stretches, as we stopped for yet another potty break, and so forth. We rolled it on when the kids were going crazy at bed time, when my daughter wouldn't actually fall asleep, and when I was going a little stir crazy with so many kids around. Want to know what happened? How I felt? We had an amazing adventurous trip! We had so few meltdowns I don't even remember them. I felt good, really good, like calm and steady.
For the next 6 months or so this little bottle became my best friend. I rolled it on often throughout the day when I was feeling a little overwhelmed. I don't think I told you that I had a 6 year old, a 3 year old and a 2 year old and I was watching another 2 year old 2-3 days a week as a stay at home mom. So, needless to say, I had a lot on my plate! I've always loved being home with my kids and what I wouldn't admit, or maybe didn't even fully know at the time, was that my moods were unstable, my insides were churning and what I thought was normal emotions was actually not.
There is so much more that I could tell you...like how the supplements gave me more energy, need for less caffeine, increased metabolism, less food cravings, more hormone support and then my husband started taking them and became a whole new man able to hold our sweet, tiny little two year old without shooting pain, able to throw the ball around too, and so much more.
So here's the deal...what you're living with may not be normal...most likely it's not. You don't have to feel lousy after each meal, you don't have to have your hormones and emotions feel like a roller coaster, you don't have to go to the extremes if the schools tell you your child can't focus, or you can't help yourself and your cravings take over...there is HOPE! There is something so natural and normal that it is quickly becoming wide stream, research is being done left and right about it, and companies all over are trying to imitate (without success) what has been being done with doTERRA for 9 years now.
There is HOPE in these beautiful bottles. There is something that can support your insides while lessening the symptoms that show up on the outside. You don't have to just survive.
Are you ready to chat, ready to make a change (no matter how small), ready to start living?! Contact me for a free wellness consult and I'll help you decide what would be BEST for YOU.
Kristin
