Weekly Drops of Wisdom — doTerra Peppermint Essential Oils

Do you have times when staying alert is difficult? Try Peppermint oil! If you or someone you know has trouble staying awake during the day and would like a natural method to feel alert, Peppermint oil used topically or aromatically can help. Because of the invigorating and cooling effects that pure Peppermint oil produces when […]

Brain Fog – What’s a Person to Do?

Today, I want to focus on Essential Oils and how they can help with “brain fog.”  You know that feeling where you’re not thinking clearly, you’re tired, distracted, have trouble focusing and you basically just feel “off? I know those times that I don’t necessarily have the best nights sleep and I wake up feeling […]

Weekly Drops of Wisdom – Lemongrass

Today I want to spotlight dōTERRA Lemongrass. Known for its use in many Asian cuisines, this citrus, smoky essential oil offers many additional benefits that extend beyond your favorite Asian meal. Add Lemongrass essential oil to your collection and you will experience healthy digestion, purifying benefits, and heightened awareness. Originating from Southern India, Lemongrass essential […]

Helpful Tips For Taking Care of Your Skin

Do you know what the largest organ of your body is?  Well if you said your skin, you would be correct. Internally, your largest organ is your liver.  But on your overall body, your skin is the largest organ.  How you take care of it is critical to its overall health as well as your […]

Essential Oils and Our Nervous System

Our nervous system can seem complex to understand let alone understand how to live a balanced life.  Because of all the traumas in my life … from adolescence to adulthood, I have lived in my sympathetic nervous system.  That fight or flight mode.  Living in the sympathetic system is great when you need it.  But […]

We All Need to Apply Self-Care!

When I work with clients, I highly recommend that they take time for “self-care.”  I may meet with a client who said they didn’t do any of my homework and actually the day they thought they would do it, they rested instead.  There is this sense of guilt in admitting it to me.  My response […]

Hidden Chemicals in Your Food

Sometimes something that is bad has a purpose of showing you something good.  Let me explain. About 23 years ago my now 24-year-old son, Joseph, was 18 months old.  He developed night terrors.  I thought perhaps he had an ear infection and that is why he would wake up screaming after being asleep for a […]

Safe and Natural Home Cleaners!

Last month I did a Blog Post about using Air Fresheners, I thought I’d follow up with that Blog Post by having the next Health topic be about the cleaning products we use in our home. Many, if not most, household cleaners contain toxic chemicals.  These chemicals can cause major and even minor health concerns.  […]

Do You Use Glad Plug-Ins or a Febreze Air Fresheners?

So many people love to smell a fragrance in their home.  There is nothing like the smell of cloves, ginger and cinnamon in the fall; or the smell of pine in the winter.  Even the fragrance of fresh lemon or wild orange in the summer can be lovely.  We love to have those fragrances fill […]