
My people, my family living the best healthy life style
Why I chose health and a chemical free lifestyle for me and my family…
- I don’t want to get sick. Who does? I want to be a healthy, active grandma. I’ll do whatever I can to minimize my risk of getting cancer, having a stroke or heart attack, or suffering an autoimmune disease.
- I want to have enough energy to do what I need to do each day.
Everything I do takes energy from cooking healthy meals, to being a wife and mom, to getting outside and playing with my grandkids. The diet and lifestyle choices I make...directly affect my energy. - I want to feel good. When I feel good I’m a better mom, a better wife, and a happier person. I want my body to be strong, able, and fit.
I started this new life style in 2014.
Why all of a sudden was this important to me?
It’s because ... ONE DAY A LIGHT BULB CAME ON!
I finally started to connect the dots.
After my Mom passed away due to Breast Cancer and... 6 years later my dad passed away due to bladder cancer... It got me thinking.
It got me thinking how my immune system may have been compromised while pregnant with our 2nd child who was born with a birth defect. Really? Could there really be something to that?
And then I ask myself...What caused my husband at the age of 61 to have a heart attack?
These are all questions I think about and I wonder if there were toxic chemicals that could have been avoided or... the hundreds of chemicals I was exposed to and put on my body each day or ... could it have been the many toxic cleaning products I used and most times had to covered my face with a towel so as not to breath in the chemical smell that literally made me feel like I was passing out.
Looking back now I shudder to think how I was so naive and unaware of what I was really doing to not just me, but also compromising my families health.
So the day that light Bulb came on was the best day ever! That is the day, with my husbands encouragement, I took a few wash baskets full of toxic products that were literally in every room in our home and I chucked them!!! I did!! I threw away hundreds of dollars worth of products and ... I made that first step to living a toxic free lifestyle, the best that I know how.
That included checking labels on all the stuff I put in my grocery cart. Talk about time consuming ! Yes! but ... so worth it!
After doing a ton of research I decided to start my new life style journey with "Young Living"
So why Young Living you might ask?
I had heard that Essential Oils had many health properties and I thought I would try them.
With so many essential oil companies to choose from, which essential oil company is the best? After doing research I chose Young Living as my essential oil company for my family’s health. And here is why…
My sister and I at the Young Living farm in Utah
Who is Young Living?
As the world leader in essential oils, we believe that everyone deserves a life full of abundance and wellness. Our vision is to bring the life-changing benefits of essential oils to every home, family, and lifestyle.
Not all oils are created equal. In fact, most of the oils on the market are synthetic, especially if they’re cheap. I know first hand that many oil companies try to stretch their oils and use fillers to do just that. Yucky fillers! Please beware. You get what you pay for.
Young Living oils are so pure, they’ve even developed their own purity standard called the Young Living therapeutic-grade standard. They’re marketed as the purest oils on the market, never synthetic or diluted, 100% “Seed To Seal.” check it out here.
The YL story started more than 20 years ago with a simple, home-built essential oil distillery. Today, our farms and community span the globe. Because of our proven commitment to provide nature’s best, millions trust us to deliver superior essential oils.
Young Living is a high quality company that consistently exceeds all of my expectations. I never worry about if they are pure or not. I went to the farm in Utah and when you see how they "plant the seeds to when you put that drop of oil on your skin" it is simply amazing!
Another reason I choose Young Living is because of the Young Living foundation they are passionate about and ... to know I have a part in this makes my heart glad! Such a good cause!
Check it out here, ]https://www.youngliving.com/en_US/company/media/partnerships/young-living-foundation
As I share my story with people I meet, it has led to a growing community of friends and has given me the opportunity of an unexpected successful business venture. I love to help people and there is nothing more fulfilling then that. I love what I do!
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Fear is nothing more then a state of mind...
I’m not getting back on the tube! It was WAY too scary ....
Going down rapids in an inner tube looked like fun and filled with adventure on a hot 95 degree day. Even though I'm not crazy about water, I decided to join in with the rest of the family and have a blast.
All was going well Until… I went over that very last rapid! Before I knew it I was thrown off my tube and I felt myself being pulled down by the current while wildly trashing around under water like a crazy women!
My tube floated with the current and I was left to defend for myself.
I decided right there and then… that’s it! I’m done! No more tubing for me!
In the mean time My 9 year old Grandson was dealing with his own stuff. He also got knocked off his tube and was left stranded and scared! I could see him but I was not able to help him, only reinforcing in my mind that this was it!
We both agreed that this tubing thing was way too dangerous and we had enough. It was too scary!
We were at a pivotal moment. We could call it quits, give into our fears and feel lousy about our day and ourselves or…. we could be brave and face our fears head on. We took one look at each other and together we made the decision to move forward, face our fears and grow from the bad experience we just had.
“Action Cures Fear... inaction creates terror” - Douglas Horton
Well then… if fears are nothing more then a state of mind, and if action cures fears, we simply needed to “Flip The Switch” We did that by moving our thoughts from negative to positive.
We thought of all the fun we would miss, in fact, who wants to sit on the sidelines and watch the rest of the family have fun while we were sitting in the hot 95 degree weather?
Besides, was it really that bad getting thrown off the tube and going under water? I wasn’t t even close to drowning! So … what’s the big deal? Perhaps it wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be.
I helped my grandson realize that being stranded for a period of time really wasn’t that bad, in fact the life guard was soon there to rescue him and he was perfectly fine in the long run.
Studies show that humans repeated exposure to the event(s) that created the trauma can help the anxiety subside.
Together we made a decision face our fears. Together we reached for another tube, I put on my big girl pants and together we attempted another ride down the rapids, this time with lots of laughs and giggles.
At the end of the day, my grandson said…. This was the best day ever! At the end of the week when asked, what was your favorite thing you did on vacation? Guess what his answer was? You guessed it! With a wide smile and excitement in his voice he said, the tubes!!!
What if …. what if we had given in to our fears and created less than a desirable day? But ... because we decided to keep going, we gained not only strength, but courage, and... confidence in ourselves.
When you let your thoughts, feelings and decisions be driven by fear, you are reduced to a slave of fear and as long as we’re reacting to fear, we can’t be reaching our fullest potential. When fear gets the best of you, use it as fuel to drive you.
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