My journey with Young Living Essential Oils began during my recovery from my hysterectomy beginning in mid 2013....
Making the decision to have a hysterectomy at the age of 33 was not a light one. This was going to be the key to my feeling better after years of discomfort! Since I was still young we decided to keep my ovaries to avoid menopause. I realized that this was a major surgery and that it
would take a while to feel like myself again....or so I hoped...
Months after the surgery, I was still experiencing extreme fatigue. Now, I am a very busy stay at home Mom who rarely sits down....I had always enjoyed being physically active with running, boxing, hiking and yoga....not to mention the busyness that comes with running a household of five with all kids in competitive sports...there were times when I literally had to force myself to get in the shower. After a family vacation to Disneyland in August 2013 filled with blinding headaches and extreme bouts of nausea that would come out of the blue...I decided that enough was enough!! My health was affecting my family! I started doing research on my symptoms. Everything was pointing to a hormone imbalance...well isn't that just great? I called my OBGYN and left a message with her assistant and made an appointment (which was four weeks out). She sent me orders for blood work with the words,"menopausal disorder," all over them...YIKES!! Four weeks was too long to wait to take action...
I have been pretty health conscious for a while now....but I was prepared to go to the extremes to feel like myself again. I had already cut out most processed foods. I had invested in a Vita Mix (which I HIGHLY recommend). I decided to ax my last foodie vice....my sugar free hazelnut coffee creamer...sigh...can you tell how DESPERATE I was?? As I was sitting there on my computer one morning, without my coffee, feeling sorry for myself...I came across one of the many postings a friend of mine on Facebook put up talking about how great Young Living Essential Oils were. Hmmmm....I was desperate....why not!!?? If I am giving up my coffee in the name of balancing hormones....I am definitely not going to pollute my body with who knows what thats made in a lab who knows where... Didn't I hear that synthetic hormones are made out of animal urine?? GROSS!! No way!! I sent the wonderful Andrea Lahman aka The Oily Mama a message asking if these essential oils could help me out with my hormones....YES she says!!! All right then...I am in!! During my wonderful journey into learning/using and sharing these wonderful gifts from God...not only did they restore balance to my body...they have literally changed my life!! My introduction to oils began the second week of school (the year my youngest child started first grade). The amazing timing about this is that I had been praying, worrying, anxiously awaiting, wondering what I could do with myself once all of the kids were in school....I never knew what that was going to be...just that I was so tired of the monotonous schedules that stay at home moms have....don't get me wrong...I am beyond grateful that I am able to stay home. Some days though...I feel that if I have to make the same bed, fold the same shirt, mop the same floor, walk to same grocery aisle, drive to the same soccer field day after day after day...I'm going to loose it!! And here is my distraction....a wonderful gift from God in the form of Young Living Essential Oils that have fixed my body and spirit....I had HOPE!! Not only was I feeling so much better....my family was enjoying having me back as well. We all have been using the oils for LOTS of different things with much success...such as: headaches, nausea, sore throats and coughs, skin irritants, burns, dandruff, contagion molluscum, sore gums, stress anxiety, bed bugs, stinky smells, sore muscles, ear aches, toothaches, moodiness....seriously the list does not end!! Moral of this story....TRY YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS!!! They are the BEST!! You have a choice. You can give your family safe, effective, pure alternatives...contact me and I would be honored with getting you started on your own journey....
In case you're interested...my bloodwork results (that I had done BEFORE starting with the oils) at my Dr appointment showed that my ovaries were not producing estrogen and that she was prescribing hormone replacement therapy....no thanks doc...I got this :))
