It was one email. Just one email that changed my life a year and a half ago.
A lady named Dayna emailed me about “the most amazing essential oil deal.” To be honest, I was a long time stalker…I mean follower of her blog Lemon Lime Adventures. I must’ve read her email ten times wavering over the decision to buy the premium starter kit. Two hours, a chat with my husband, and three cups of black coffee later, I took a leap of faith and decided to try a Young Living Premium Starter Kit.
I was sweating bullets the entire ordering and check out process. I get light-headed and extremely anxious when making large purchases. Yes, $160 is a lot of money to me! And truthfully, it wasn’t about the money. We had the money. I was most anxious that the oils would be a lot of woo-woo hogwash and then my hard-earned $160 would be a waste.
A few weeks later 11 essential oils, a diffuser, and some additional samples arrived at my P.O. Box. I wasn’t exactly sure where to begin, but I looked at the oils and had a feeling they were going to serve as powerful tools for our family.
A year and a half later, I can say it was one of the best decisions of my life. Whole-heartedly. Without a doubt. Essential oils are amazing. I don’t say that lightly. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a tell-it-like-it-is person.
We’ve come so far in the past year and a half, I have to share all the positive ways essential oils impacted our family. Here are just a few examples of ways essential oils impacted our family and the lives around us…
Supporting healthy sleep habits
Maybe you have a child who likes to wake up and say “hello” during the night. Maybe you are a mom who can’t shut her mind off at the end of the day because you have one million thoughts in your brain. Maybe you have a spouse who sleeps less than he should. Let’s all have a moment of honesty and admit that we moms are getting far less sleep than we should!!!
Essential oils for sleep can help support your family’s best rest. Frankincense and lavender in the diffuser are my go-to sleep support oils.
Supporting emotional well-being
When I gave birth to my second child (a daughter) I knew I wanted to support my emotional balance for the benefit of myself and my family. My emotional state after my first (a son) was tenuous. My second postpartum experience using essential oils was dramatically different. And my husband thanks me every day…and agrees that oils are amazing!
Now months later, I still use essential oils to support my emotional well-being. Parenting is hard and stressful. Essential oils can help you stay balanced and focused on what is truly important. Stress away, frankincense, lemon, and peppermint are my go-to emotional balance and uplifting oils.
Related: Calming Essential Oils That Will Bring Peace and Contentment
Supporting healthy weight management
We all want to keep our weight healthy, and it’s not as easy as it used to be. This is especially true for moms when time is of the essence. Essential oils can help you keep a healthy weight! Because of essential oils, I am back still wearing the same size I wore in my early twenties. Peppermint vitality and lemon vitality are excellent oils that come in the kit for healthy weight management. Grapefruit vitality is another one I would add.
Support a healthy immune system.
During the fall and winter months, essential oils can help your family stay healthy. They can support your respiratory system and immune system in amazing ways. Breathe easy using a natural product! Thieves vitality and peppermint vitality are my go-to oils during the fall and winter months. My favorite part is I never need to run to the store. I have everything at my fingertips.
Supporting a chemical-free home
Before essential oils came into my life, I was ignorant about the dangerous chemicals commonplace in our home. I never thought about my children’s tiny bare feet walking across my floor cleaned with chemicals. I never thought about my children’s lungs breathing in toxic air fresheners. I never thought about my own health as I used these chemicals on my hands and breathed them in while I cleaned for 3 hours every Saturday morning.
Day-to-day you probably don’t notice a difference using a chemical cleaner, but over time this takes a toll on our health. All of us. Kids and adults included. Essential oils empowered us to use natural cleaners and allowed our family to clean together. Everyone pitches in now. Even our toddler has his own Thieves spray bottle. We also made all our own linen sprays, air fresheners and laundry scents using essential oils. The cost is comparable or less than we were paying before.
There’s more.
These are just five ways essential oils impacted our life. There are literally thousands of uses for the oils in the Young Living Premium Starter Kit alone. Thousands. I’ve witnessed changes in family after family using essential oils, in addition to changes in our own family.
I cannot imagine our home without essential oils ever again. If you are skeptical or on the fence or the idea of making a $160 purchase gives you anxious feelings, don’t worry there is an oil to help you with that! I would know.
The cost of the Premium Starter Kit is a wash in the bucket compared to some of the ridiculous things our family used to spend money on. Like McDonalds. Like chemical cleaners and air fresheners. Like chemical skin care items. Like the latest juice craze.
Essential oils have been around since biblical times. They aren’t a fad or a craze. They are here to stay. So whether you are in now or later, I guarantee at some point, you are going to take the leap!
Don’t wait. Just do it. I know too many success stories to know that essential oils can impact your family in amazing ways. Every mom needs them in their home. Essential oils are an amazing resource toolkit to solve everyday life problems. Who wouldn’t want that at their fingertips?
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