Grounding Essential Oil Blend

Grounding essential oil blend is an excellent aroma when working with people who are hurting emotionally, including yourself. This essential oil blend causes a sense of confidence to cope with reality in a better way.  I used it myself in grad school, when I knew there would be emotionally intense topics such as domestic violence and child abuse. The Grounding blend helped me stay in touch with myself, balanced and centered, even though I was…

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Slique Tea for a Sleek Me

New Kit For Weight Management: The Slique Kit was created to support normal, healthy weight management* this year! Gary Young put together several Young Living products that offer a powerful, natural approach to weight management when used along with exercise and a sensible diet. Don’t expect to eat twinkies all day and get skinny, that’s an oxymoron. Instead, ramp up your plans for healthy living and nutrition to make the sleek physique that you seek….

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Melrose Essential Oil Blend

Melrose essential oil blend

Melrose essential oil blend is my go-to solution for maintaining a wellness lifestyle. This blend contains four essential oils with some heavy duty properties that support normal, healthy body functioning. Melrose is my knee-jerk answer when it comes to mastering a wellness lifestyle. If the potential for grossness is there, you know what I mean, kid stepped in what after falling down? Just because it “looks” clean, doesn’t mean it is, as ninja moms know…

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Forgiveness Blend

forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of those oil blends that I would dump all over everyone I could, much as I feel the need to dump Common Sense blend on every passing teenager. As I get older, I’ve become more aware of all the “garbage” of hurt feelings, misunderstandings and offenses rolling around in my emotional baggage. I don’t care what airline you fly on, this kind of baggage costs too much for what its worth.

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Trauma Life Blend

I carry Trauma Life Blend around in my purse every day. No, I’m not a hysterical person, and I don’t live in a war zone or in eminent danger of any particular kind. Be careful how you respond to the word “trauma“.  The word originally implied “unpleasant experience which causes stress.” (dictionary.com)  Having teenagers constitutes trauma.  My kids will certainly tell you that an upcoming oral report or exam constitutes trauma.  When my kids go…

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Clarity Essential Oil Blend

Clarity 3321 bottle

Be Alert. The world needs more Lerts. The world definitely needs more alert moms, and alert teenagers would be a huge blessing to society at large. Clarity Essential Oil Blend may cause a sense of mental alertness and clearness of mind. Our family likes to travel overnight to take advantage of the open roads free of traffic jams. As beautiful as this is, it is also crucial that all drivers are alert and awake at…

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Oils I Used Today

using oils

Peppermint and cedarwood– bar soap — the minty smell helps me wake up in the morning ART Day Activator (frankincense, sandalwood & other stuff) — gives me the appearance of soft, smooth skin Ningxia Red — secret ninja mom powers Omega Blue — wellness lifestyle Thieves – household cleaner, cuz it looked like someone turned on the blender full of tomato sauce without a lid in the kitchen. Not that anyone would actually do anything…

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Frankincense Essential Oil

frankincense display

For spiritual awareness, prayer, and meditation, Frankincense essential oil stands alone in its power. This makes sense to me, as people from different religions have highly valued and respected it for thousands of years. Not only is it amazing in spiritual uplifting and strengthening, it’s also used by quite a few ninja moms for the appearance of incredibly soft, smooth, skin. Frankincense essential oil is my go-to oil that I use as a layer along…

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Joy Essential Oil Blend

Joy essential oil blend was created to bring back memories of being loved, being held, sharing loving times, feeling & opening those blocks in our lives where maybe we are shutdown to love or receiving love. Joy boosts self-esteem and provides a magnetic energy which brings joy to your heart. Banish feelings of depression, grief & loss, sadness, and the “blahs” from your environment.  Breathe in Joy and wrap yourself in it like a comforting…

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Teenager Attitudes Reversed!

Yup, you saw that right…attitudes reversed, mom of teenagers experiences relief…. film at 11:00 pm.  A Young Living Distributor with 3 teenage boys, all with special challenges, Sylvia was wayyyy past due for some respite from her daily circus of teenage attitude along with the other all-too-familiar traits of Planet Teenage Boy (PTB) citizens. The air was tense, the parents were tense, the teenagers were busy eye-rolling, nit picking at each other, not listening (“Huh?!”),…

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Valor Essential Oil Blend

I noticed another Young Living enthusiast/ninja like myself gushing that they wanted to “smear Valor all over myself.” This is not particular to Valor Blend at all, I find that often the concept of smearing [insert YL oil here] comes bursting out of someone who has experienced the amazing-ness of these oils. It is our deep desire for more of that which is good, excellent, exquisite and extraordinary. I could write books on the technical…

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Snap Out Of It Recipe

swirly color

You may have noticed my Oil A Week isn’t quite posted this week.  Bummer week, still wishing I could put Abundance Blend on my fig tree out back and create a money tree, cuz we got a dead car, fried electrical wiring in the kitchen, and RIP to my digital camera as well.  So I’ve been strictly following this Snap Out Of It protocol which I invented: 1.  Smear Clarity oil all over my face…

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Peace & Calming

I’m willing to take a stand when it comes to the notion of Peace & Calming® as a major part of my ninja mom arsenal to create an environment of harmony, agreement, calm, serenity, composure, cessation, order, pacification, reconciliation, truce, unity, congeniality, contentment, hush, lull, quiet, relaxation, repose, rest, stillness, and tranquility (I do so love thesaurus.com.) Is there anyone out there who would be opposed to these qualities in their life? Kids, teenagers, dogs,…

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Yummy snack on the go

“I discovered a delicious lunch or snack: I add one scoop of Balance Complete™ to ½ cup Greek-style yogurt, a teaspoon of agave, and a sliced banana. This fills me up and keeps me going for quite a few hours. It is a great way to keep hunger at bay and get some calcium and fiber in my diet. The taste is yummy, too.” Luana Navarro

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PanAway Essential Oil Blend

Moms with teenagers are surely aware of the extreme need to make the overabundance of pans go away. Some might say that Young Living came through once again for desperate housewives suffering from too much cookware, but they would be wrong. Apparently, anything that supports our bodies in response to the word “ouch” is considered medicinal and regulated by the FDA. I must be under that jurisdiction, as when any “body” in my family cries…

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Lemon Essential Oil

Lemon Vitality* is one of those can’t go wrong essential oils, put a drop in a pitcher of water and drink it right up. It supports normal, healthy memory, if I could only remember that part. The fragrance of lemon essential oil promotes clarity of thought & purpose, as well as being invigorating and enhancing to my mood, and that’s a good thing.  Make lemonade with it using Blue Agave (Item No. 3221) natural sweetener….

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Dessert Recipe!!!

I LOVE desserts! What could possibly be more fun and yummy than a dessert using Young Living Peppermint Vitality essential oil? Nah, I couldn’t think of anything either. So whip up some of this Key Lime Mousse with Raspberry Mint Compote and enjoy….. yummmmm Key Lime Mousse 1.      2 Tablespoons lime zest 2.      3/4 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice 3.      3/4 cup creamy, raw honey 4.      5 ripe avocados 5.      Pinch Himalayan salt Blend zest, juice,…

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Helichrysum Essential Oil

Even when other oils are indicated topically, I make sure I have at least one layer of helichrysum on it. Some European scientist guys studied it for supporting normal circulation and skin. I love it on my skin.  Helichrysum supports normal healthy liver function, which makes sense as it is a detoxifier. The liver does a lot of important stuff, so a happy healthy liver makes a happy healthy me. By supporting my liver and…

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Purification Essential Oil Blend

This is my favorite oil to carry with me when going to any hotel, along with an empty small spray bottle. I put water in the spray bottle, put in about 10 drops of Purification, shake it up, and spray away that eau de hotel. I’ve watched enough news programs to know that I don’t want to risk what may be lurking on the bedspread, walls, closet, etc. around my family. I spray them with…

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5 Eucalyptuses (Eucalypti?)

 EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS has a fresh, penetrating scent. It contains a high percentage of the constituent eucalyptol, a key ingredient in many mouth rinses. Applied topically, it is often used to support the respiratory system and to soothe muscles after exercise. How to use: Diffuse, apply topically. Possible skin sensitivity. If pregnant or under a doctor’s care, consult your physician. Do not use near fire, flame, heat or sparks. Dilution recommended for topical uses. Dilute before…

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Lemon Cookies

I promise, these will be gobbled up by just about anybody in no time! Lemon cookies made with….. wait for it….. REAL LEMON VITALITY ESSENTIAL OIL! So refreshing to make something that you know is the real deal. Yummy Lemon Cookies 3/4 cup butter 1/2 cup Blue Agave 1 egg 13 drops Lemon Vitality Essential Oil 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder In a medium bowl, cream butter and…

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Mold Relief

cleaning with essential oils

It’s bad enough we have to deal with dirty stinky socks, moms draw the line at the nasty intruder– mold.  You keep rubbing it out, scrubbing it out, and it still manages to creep back like some ugly black death plague invading your home.  The really twisted thing about it is they say mold doesn’t hurt anyone until it’s disturbed.  As in, removing the nasty stuff! I’m so thankful for Thieves, it’s my right-hand man…

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