Bandage Boost

My children are obsessed with character bandages from the health and beauty section of the store, are yours? Maybe because we rarely shop for anything else in that section. (Thanks to Loyalty Rewards) 

It's not uncommon for me to find my three-year-old applying bandages to herself just for fun--Boo boos or not. The other day she was digging in the bathroom drawer and asked, "Mommy, where's the stuff that goes on before this?" I went in to find her holding a bandage and hunting for the Correct X! 

When your children are busy, taking care of their skin in distressed moments can be difficult. Apply doTERRA Correct-X to soothe and purify skin during the healing process to keep summer playtime going. The blend of Frankincense, Melaleuca, Helichrysum, Lavender, Jojoba, and Cedarwood essential oils combine to protect and promote healthy-looking skin. These key ingredients are versatile and help soothe and improve the texture of skin.

Elevation, Joyful Blend

Need a little pick-me-up after a busy day? ’dōTERRA's Elevation Joyful Blend is great for elevating your mood, promoting feelings of confidence, and increasing your energy. When you start to feel negative emotions arise, use Elevation topically or aromatically. This blend will help elevate mood and increase vitality. Elevation is great for rubbing over your wrists or putting a few drops into a bath for relaxation. It is especially perfect for diffusing in the mornings before your kids wake up to help them have a more positive and energized mood.

With the kids out of school for summer, try making this fun DIY Aromatherapy jewelry with doTERRA Elevation.

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/diy-aromatherapy-jewelry

"your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy." Psalm 45:7

Rootbeer Float Diffuser Blend

My grandma always loved to make root beer floats, and I love thinking of her. However, I haven't indulged in a root beer float for years! Just a few drops of each of these oils take me back to those happy childhood memories. 

Citrus Bliss is like sunshine in a bottle, sweet and fresh. 
Wintergreen is stimulating and soothing. A tiny drop packs a potent aroma! 

Fruit Loops Diffuser Blend

Did you eat Fruit Loops as a kid? While I've given up sugary cereals, I still get a good dose of nostalgia from time to time. This diffuser blend smells just like the cereal! 

Unlike the cereal, however, the oils will be beneficial for your health and mood! 

Lemon is cleansing, uplifting, and purifying. 

Ylang ylang is calming and relieves tension. 

What other aromas would you like to recreate with an essential oil combination? 

Yoga Diffuser Blend

I love this diffuser blend for supporting healthy airways and clearing my mind. 

Spearmint is a fresh, mild mint with uplifting properties. 
Lime purifying and cleansing. 

The combination is perfect for any occasion when you need a boost of energy and focus. 

Life with Passion

As the season heats up, welcome in a summer of vivaciousness with dōTERRA Passion Inspiring Blend. Enriched with a combination of spice and herb essential oils, doTERRA Passion will help inspire creativity and ignite a joy for life. This blend is great to use during those ‘dog days’ when your energy is sapped and your inspiration is on hold. Use a few drops or try the dōTERRA’s Touch Blend to renew feelings of joy and wonder and bring delight to your summer.

For more benefits and uses of dōTERRA’s Passion, blend check out the product spotlight here: https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/spotlight-doterra-passion-inspiring-blend

Which Lip Balm is Your Favorite?

If you want soft, hydrated, healthy lips, the doTERRA SPA Lip Balm will give you the benefits you desire—all while providing a lovely aromatic essential oil experience. doTERRA has created three lip balms each containing a select blend of essential oils. Along with their Original blend of Wild Orange and Peppermint, experience the scents of paradise with Ylang Ylang, Clementine, and Lime essential oils found in their Tropical Lip Balm, or invigorate your senses with their Herbal Lip Balm containing Lemon Verbena, Marjoram, and Spearmint essential oils. doTERRA’s extra-moisturizing lip balms contain coconut, moringa seed, and avocado oils along with beeswax to glide across your lips, leaving behind deep hydration that lasts throughout the day.

Which is your favorite? If you can't decide, shop for all three! 

To make your lips look even more fabulous, check out this DIY Natural Lip Stain.

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/diy-natural-lip-stain

Spearmint Essential Oil

Do you love summer, but hate the heat that comes with it? Cool off with doTERRA Spearmint! Its sweet, refreshing aroma is cleansing and uplifting, making it ideal to evoke a sense of focus and positive mood. Spearmint is very different from Peppermint, and is a milder option to use on children and persons with sensitive skin. I especially love the combination of Spearmint plus Ginger in Fractionated Coconut Oil for soothing issues associated with air travel and motion. 

Spearmint can also be great for use in the kitchen. Try it in a salad as part of a homemade dressing, a spearmint julep, or any of your favorite desserts. Spearmint also makes for a great addition to any meat marinade recipe.

For your next backyard barbeque, try these delicious spearmint chocolate chip cookies. https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/recipe-spearmint-chocolate-chip-cookies

Shop for Spearmint. 

Natural Insect Repellent

Whether you’re a hiker, biker, camper, or outdoor enthusiast of any kind, you will love the convenience and protection that the newly formulated doTERRA TerraShield Spray provides. You can keep it in backpacks, purses, and vehicles to ensure bug bite prevention on the go. It is easy enough for the whole family to apply and is safe on your little ones! Help your kids take advantage of their summer outdoor activities by keeping them protected from insects.

Read our Product Spotlight for doTERRA TerraShield here:

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/spotlight-terrashield-outdoor-blend

Ready for Anything with Summer Essentials

I love feeling prepared for anything that may come our way on our summer adventures. I hope you'll enjoy this free training on how you can feel this way too! 

How to Customize Your Ideal Wellness Subscription Box

If you're wondering what your priorities are, just look at your pocketbook and your calendar. Those things tell us the truth about what we really value. To get out of a reactionary survival mode, we need to plan ahead. By planning ahead, we can shift our priorities into our reality to live the life we REALLY want. This is one of the reasons why I use doTERRA's subscription box option called the Loyalty Rewards Program. 

Loyalty Rewards is a monthly subscription box that is COMPLETELY customizable. You get to edit the products you receive, on which date, your preferred method of payment, preferred type of shipping, and shipping address. 

These items are available at 25% below retail, with shipping reimbursed in product points, and you earn up to 30% back in product points! 

It really is the wise way to get the highest quality oils and wellness products. 

STEP 1: Make a list of your top health goals and priorities. 

Take some time to think about yourself and the members of your household. What would you like to feel less? What would you like to feel more? 

STEP 2: Schedule a wellness consultation with your wellness advocate.

Educate yourself on the doTERRA products that may support the goals you listed. If you're not sure where to begin, chat with a wellness advocate who will point you to the right resources, and find the products that support your goals.

For example, if you said, "I would like to feel more energy." your wellness advocate can dig into the specific products that can boost energy. From there, you can make a list of the things you would like to try first. 

If you said, "I would like to reduce toxicity around my home." your wellness advocate can guide you on a journey of making over your home and personal care routines to live a green lifestyle. You can make a list and prioritize which of those areas you'd like to tackle first. 

If you don't already have a wellness advocate, the Essential Oils Daily Team would love to help you! Fill out the contact form attached, and we will be in touch. 

STEP 3: Decide your budget.

doTERRA uses a point system for products to track rewards. When purchasing oils at wholesale one point or PV is equal to one dollar. Other products have a PV that is slightly lower than the dollar amount. For example, the Lifelong Vitality Pack of supplements would be $106.00 at retail cost, is $79.50 at wholesale cost, and is 60PV. Always look at the PV category and dollar amount when managing your order to see if it's meeting your criteria and goals. 

If you spend between 1-50PV you maintain your current rewards percentage back.
If you spend 50PV or more, you are on track to increase percentages. (see link) 
If you spend 100PV or more as a wellness advocate, you are eligible to receive commissions.     If you spend 125PV by the 15th of the month, you receive the FREE Product of the Month. 

Based on the priorities you sorted out with your wellness advocate, and your budget, select your first month's order completely customized to your needs. Keep a working list of your goals, and you'll always know what to place on your order the following month! 

Spread Cheer

dōTERRA Cheer Uplifting Blend is an amazing combination of citrus and spice oils that will brighten anyone’s mood. This uplifting oil can be applied to the skin to counteract negative emotions and provide a boost of happiness and positivity when feeling down. dōTERRA Cheer Uplifting Blend is also great for on the go. Apply to your wrist and neck while running errands or diffuse at work to help brighten any moment of your day.

If you are ready to bring some good cheer to the world around you, I leave you with a challenge. Spread a little cheer by complimenting someone today or helping someone in need. If you would like to know more about this wonderful oil, check out the spotlight on doterra.com:

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/spotlight-doterra-cheer-uplifting-blend

Custom Fragrance with Therapeutic Benefit

Have you tried the Whisper Blend for Women yet? It blends uniquely with each person's chemistry to create an individual fragrance. 

Whisper contains some of the leading floral fragrances used in perfume and aromatherapy industries. When these fragrances are combined together in doTERRA Whisper Blend for Women, it gives off a musky, spicy, and sweet aroma that is soft and warm. This blend is great for everyday occasions and also makes the perfect fragrance for a special night out. Dispense one to two drops in the palm of the hand and rub on clothing, scarves, and coats to experience calming emotions throughout the day.

Enjoy a beautiful DIY floral perfume spray that could be worn every day!

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/diy-floral-perfume-spray

A Key to Self Care

Some days we just need to relax. dōTERRA Petitgrain essential oil helps promote feelings of relaxation and is helpful in creating a calm, relaxed environment. Two ways to use this oil is diffusing it with Lavender and Bergamont before going to bed or combining a few drops with dōTERRA Fractionated Coconut Oil for a relaxing foot massage. It even helps promote healthy skin! Add a few drops to Fractionated Coconut Oil and apply to help reduce the appearance of skin imperfections.

Enjoy a fun spa night using dōTERRA Petitgrain essential oil!

DIY Wood Polish from the Tree of Life

Do you love the great outdoors, but dislike being pestered by bugs? You’re not alone. Bugs can turn an outdoor adventure into an uncomfortable situation. Make sure to avoid any discomfort bugs may bring and pack Arborvitae essential oil for your next outing. Arborvitae oil is great for hiking and camping due to its chemical components—tropolones. Tropolones have chemical properties that act as a natural insect repellant. For an enjoyable hiking or outdoor experience, apply Arborvitae essential oil to your wrists and ankles. Another way to repel unwanted creepy crawlies is by placing a few drops of Arborvitae essential oil into a diffuser and letting the warm aroma fill your home. Now sit back and relax, knowing that the little critters are doing their best to leave your house in peace.

Bring back the shine to your favorite tables, countertops, floors, and more with this simple recipe for homemade wood polish with doTERRA essential oils.

https://www.doterra.com/US/en/blog/diy-furniture-polish

Reduce Toxic Load

I grew up in a product-junkie household. It seemed my mom, a cosmetologist, had every professional salon product available at the time. My friends loved looking in our cupboards and testing different things on their hair and skin. 

Like many American households, we also had numerous cleaning products, candles, and air fresheners, tons of lawn chemicals in the garage, and gave no consideration to other sources of toxicity. 

It wasn't until I was in my late twenties that I began considering reducing my exposure to toxicity. An author and radio host I listened to went through a horrific ordeal with toxic mold in his family's home. Once they were on the road to recovery, he and his wife began to use his show once a week to educate listeners on the steps they were taking to detox and live better. 

At the time, their advice looked like deprivation to me. No candles? No great smelling lotion? No fabric softener? How sad. 

It wasn't long after that I was introduced to essential oils. I quickly learned to employ these beautiful tools to transform our household cleaning and my beauty routine without any feeling of deprivation. We used them for everything from pest control to pesto. Not only were they safer, at a few pennies per drop, they were also less expensive and more effective! 

Our body is beautifully designed to eliminate toxicity, but unfortunately, our modern lifestyles provide a greater toxic load then they can handle. Have you transitioned your household yet? What are some areas in which you still use toxic chemicals? 

Rest and Manage Stress

Everyone has stress, no matter what you do or who you know. The way you manage that stress will determine a great deal of the course of your life. Here are some quick tips to better manage stress and create more time for rest. 

Be proactive about your schedule and write rest time in ink. We all have the same number of hours in a day, and of course there are seasons when we work harder than others, but we have to build sustainability into our schedule. Ask yourself, "If I continue at my current pace, how quickly will I burn out?"

When you sit down to manage your calendar, apply InTune to the reflex point on your big toe. This will help you to focus and make lists for the week. Keep the big-picture of your life in focus.

We should be proactive as we're committing to things. Saying "yes" and taking on more obligations than we can handle can lead to burn-out. While saying "no" can be uncomfortable in the short term, in the long term it creates more space for the activities that are building into our legacy. 

Here's an example: If one of your goals is financial freedom, you may need to cut back on volunteer activities and focus more of your working hours on income-producing activities. When you say you value one thing, and your calendar reflects something different, your priorities are out of alignment. 

Another way people misuse rest time is to simply check out by mindlessly scrolling their phone or binge-watching television. These activities may seem like rest for a short time, but they aren't really recharging our batteries. There is a big difference between checking out and fully resting. Rather than taking in more information from TV or social media, try meditating. Lie flat on your back and imagine the tension from your body sinking into the floor. Take several deep breaths. Release worries from the day that truly aren't yours to carry. Apply Peace Blend over your heart. 

Managing your time will be a key in managing stress and allowing time for rest. Try it this week and tell me what you think. What is one shift you can make to bring your schedule into alignment with your priorities? 

Move Your Body

No matter what kind of activity you like, it's important to find forms of exercise you love and stick with a routine that works for you. Essential oils and supplements can be an integral part of your routine, before, during, and after activity. 

Here are a just few product recommendations to empower your fitness routine:

Before exercise:

• Mito 2 Max to increase oxygen to the mitochondria and promote energy. 
• Balance to promote blood flow.
• Breathe to open airways.
• Anchor for grounding. 

During exercise:

• Diffuse uplifting oils like elevation and motivate.
• Sip water with Slim and Sassy blend for a boost of energy.
• Apply lemongrass (diluted) for deeper flexibility. 

After exercise:

• Apply deep blue rub to overworked muscles. 
• Soak in an epsom salt bath with marjoram and frankincense. 
• Take 2 polyphenol complex supplements to soothe joints. 

Not Your Grandmother's Nurtition

Eating right is the foundation for a wellness lifestyle. Unfortunately, the industrialization of our food supply has left nutrition lacking. Soil depletion, genetic modification, and pesticides have drastically changed in the last several decades. 

Aside from growing our own food, what can we do to maximize nutrition? 

Food enzymes can be beneficial for breaking down food and utilizing more of the available nutrition. When taken on an empty stomach, enzymes can also carry away stagnant waste in the digestive tract. People who have trouble digesting certain foods may be lacking an enzyme required for digestion. 

Even with a perfect diet, supplementation may still be necessary. In an ideal world, I would get all of my micronutrients, vitamins, minerals, omegas, and probiotics from whole foods. The inadequacies of our food supply, however, make it nearly impossible. I've noticed tremendous shifts in my overall health since adding supplements. These whole-food derived supplements fill in my nutritional gaps, and come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Might as well give them a whirl. 

Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/82/4/721/4607427

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-its-harder-to-eat-healthy-today-than-20-years-ago-2015-1

The Big Picture of Wellness

Often times when people are just getting started with essential oils, a shift in thinking is required. Once the shift in thinking happens, we can start to see shifts in health and wellness too. 

Wellness is a big-picture endeavor, and essential oils are a key tool to building it. Many people, however, wish to employ essential oils as a magic bullet for chronic health concerns, but that is an unrealistic expectation.  
 

For example, when I am teaching a class, a mother will ask how to help her child's irritated skin with essential oils. This is an unrealistic expectation because ongoing skin issues are typically a reflection of gut health. Gut health can be supported by a healthy diet (typically eliminating dairy, sugar, and gluten either temporarily or permanently depending on the individual), probiotics, and essential oils. Topical application of the oils sometimes provides temporary relief, but this is like putting masking tape over the "check engine" light on your car's dash board. Maybe you can't see the problem, but the cause is still present. 

To truly care for our health, we need to approach it as a big-picture endeavor where many factors make up the whole. These factors are universal, no matter your age, gender, race or ethnicity. 

Of course, this approach takes work, thought, and patience, which is why many people still fall into the pattern of getting a script for some "masking tape" from their doctor. 

If you are ready to shift your thinking and put positive habits into practice, here are some areas on which you will need to focus. 

• Eat Right
• Exercise
• Rest and Manage Stress
• Reduce Toxicity
• Informed Self Care
• Proactive Health Care

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.