Hi there! I’m so glad you’re here! If you’ve landed on this page it is my belief that God led you here for a purpose. My heart is FOR YOU and I am cheering you on! Believe me when I say, if I can completely change my lifestyle, anyone can! And I mean that from way deep down in my soul to my very core!
First, let me go back to the year 2006ish. I was a desperate mama with 3 babies that God had blessed us with in 3 years time. I wasn’t sure what was wrong with me and just assumed that this was what motherhood was like!
Eventually, we realized something wasn’t right and that began a loooong journey of doctors, counselors, psychiatrists and approximately 8 years on various anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.
In the following years, I would do more than gain 50+ pounds and continue down this unhealthy path, I also lost myself. The very things that were supposed to be helping me really just brought all new baggage into my life. I like to say that the meds stole my personality. {While there were so many things going wrong during this season, God did birth in me a love for praying His Word out of desperation to feel close to Jesus. I’m so grateful. Praying in this way has transformed my prayer life. You can read more about Praying the Scriptures here.}
**Now, before we go any further, I am not a medical doctor and I am not giving you medical advice. Please always consult you doctor before making any medication changes!
Then, just a few short years ago I decided I had had enough. I was ready for change. I was missing out on my life. In so many ways.
You can read about my journey off of anti-depressants here.
Fast forward to November of 2015. My friend Kelly had been trying unsuccessfully to get me to try oils for awhile. Ahem. Eventually she gave me a sample for an issue we were having and low and behold it seemed to help! So, I very skeptically bought a starter kit of oils (the best way to get started with Young Living) and the rest, as you might say, is history.
However, what began happening next is nothing less than a miracle in my own mind. You see, these little bottles of goodness — distilled from the very plants God Himself made — have had a HUGE impact on my own wellness!
It’s kind of crazy the science of how God made our bodies to work. But, our sense of SMELL is the ONLY sense that goes straight to that part of your brain where your emotions and memories are held. (Have a memory tied to a smell? Yep.) THAT is why oils work so well for things like our emotions: stress, nervousness, focus, sadness, racing thoughts and more.
Once God began healing my emotions, I knew the rest of my body needed to get on the right track too.
And guess what God used in my life to get me on this journey?! My essential oil TEAM and LEADER. ha! I laugh just even typing this. WHO IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD HAVE THOUGHT!?!? God really does work in mysterious ways. Our oil team is led by a medical doctor (and my friend, Edie of Lifeingrace) who challenged us in January 2017 to do the Whole 30 and listen to the book It Starts with Food.
60 pounds later I am feeling so good. Better than all those years on meds. I have energy again. I have changed how I eat. I exercise. I am motivated. I sleep well and was with energy. I am a different person. And it MAKES ME CRY to type those words. I don’t say them lightly.
You can read all about my weight loss journey and the things I did here.
After I realized the oils were HELPING me feel better, I knew I had to SHARE. Thus began my adventure of doing this oil thing “as a business.”
But “work” is actually far too stern a word for this. Grin. I have become SO PASSIONATE about this work because I see women’s lives being CHANGED. I see weight loss journeys, people feeling good again, people finding natural options for things, women supporting their families with “extra” income, women with toolboxes full of HEALTHY tools to serve their families with. To God be the glory!
As of January 2024, I have the privilege of leading a team of over 1,700 families and could NOT be MORE blessed to do so!! What a GIFT my team is to me!! These oils and this business are changing my life. God is so good.
My friend, Mary Beth and I have a VIP group on Facebook and we have named our oily family Fiddle & Frank (we love our frank and we love our plants!) and we have hundreds of families in our group offering support, encouragement and education for this wellness journey! This group is a perk for those of you who use one of our links to make your first purchase. You become family.
If you want to read MORE about essential oils and my wellness journey, see ALL my BLOG POSTS on these topics below!
If you’re ready to ORDER THE OILS, join my team, sit under the teaching of Dr. Edie and join our amazing and supportive groups, click here to shop Young Living with my referral link or click here to read more about the ordering process. Once you click to read more you can see what getting started really looks like! I would love to help you on your journey!
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