my life is changing for the better (and my new job)

I have always been very interested in healthy living (including diet and exercise), and have been very fortunate to have people in my life to help teach me about these things. I have learned a lot in the past five or six months about many aspects of health, including holistic health and medicine (whole health).

Chad's family has always been a major source for this type of learning in my life (mostly what we put into our bodies and the direct effect it has on our whole being) and lately I have had the opportunity to work more closely with these amazing people. One of these lovely ladies is Chad's Aunt Natalie, who helped me get my essential oil kit from Do Terra. And because she helped me get it, I have been given the job to filter through very interesting information regarding our health (that she has forwarded me from various sources) and post the relevant info on her website. I cannot believe what an amazing learning opportunity this has been, and will be, for me and I am so happy to be able to so this.

Tonight I made my first post entitled: Essentail Oils as antibiotics and antivirals, based on two very interesting articles (that I have linked on the post). I will posting on here for a while, so come back and check often!

a little bit about what have I been learning lately:

long story short ([er]--but still read it pretty please), a few months back I was so sick of consuming what I knew to be too much sugar, it made me feel unhealthy and look unhealthy.
I also knew that I shouldn't HAVE to run to stay thin (if that was the case I was not eating the way my body was meant to be fed). So I pondered and prayed on the topic. Immediately after doing so I went directly to my pile of papers that I had been meaning to file or toss (with the intent to clean it up) and came across a booklet about the exact topic I was pondering. The booklet is entitled Daniel's Challenge (a six week challenge that will change your life) and is based on the book Original Fastfoods by James and Colleen Simmons.

I read the booklet and immediately knew that this was going to change me forever. I'm not sure why I felt like this, but a part of it was because it was so different than anything I had ever read and it is based on Daniel 1 in the old testament of the bible (read it, it's short). The main part of their diet was a pulse (a mix of sprouted nuts and grains etc), which is a lot of what Daniel's challenge is based on, and fresh fruit and veggies in their proper season.

I started the diet in the booklet, read a few more books and studied the word of wisdom in D&C. My conviction to do it and stick with it was strong, and honestly I believe it was because it's called a challenge and I am a very competitive person. So I did it, and I felt amazingly fresh and healthy. The cloud that I didn't even know existed, was lifted from my mind, and I was able to learn and comprehend things I couldn't before. This is a blessing promised in D&C 89:19: "And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures..."
I can tell you this is true cause I have experienced it myself.

I learned quite a bit during that short period of time and have since completely changed the way I eat. But I am not perfect, I am constantly learning and growing and I feel like I am just starting on a path I was meant to be on.

This leads me to where I am now. After I learned about what eating the right food can do for us, I was led to essential oils. Recently I have learned about the power in a drop of an essential oil.

Take for instance peppermint tea, it is said to ease such problems as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches baby colic (breastfeeding mothers are sometimes recommended to drink the tea so that its benefits will be passed on to the baby in the breast milk). It is also said to control mild asthma, manage stress and ward off the common cold. All these things are benefits of drinking peppermint tea. But did you know that there is he equivalent of 28 cups of peppermint tea in ONE drop of peppermint essential oil... ONE drop of peppermint essential oil has the benefits of 28 cups of tea! essential oils are a concentrated form of all those amazing benefits. Read more here.

I am learning about essential oils now and I'm astonished by all the things that they can do for our bodies and minds. It's amazing! I am grateful for this period of learning and I love that most of what our bodies need to thrive and be healthy are given to us on the earth already. I feel this is the way it was meant to be for optimal health and performance for our bodies,brains and entire self.

Thanks for reading! :)