I'm so glad that you found this little corner of the internet. I am so excited to be launching this web page, and the corresponding Facebook pages and groups. Today I'm going to share about me, why I started with Oils, and how to get connected to the other groups.
So a little about me! I'm a mom, wife, Jesus loving, oil using, classroom teacher. My kiddos are teens now and my life is full of sports, carpool, giggles, attitude, and love. They are Anna Claire and Jackson. My husband and I started dating in college and were married not long after he finished school. He runs our family business and is great at it! And he helps me with my oil business. I have to pull from his business degree somehow ;) I have a masters in curriculum and instruction and teach Pre K at the local public school. It wasn't a far reach for me to start educating about the use of essential oils. Teaching is my passion. I love sharing information, and researching too! Yep, my family calls me a nerd and I am ok with it.
SO why oils? About 10 years ago now I had a health issue pop up that I just could not get relief from. My doctor is a self described hippy with an MD. (love him by the way!) And he suggested that I start looking to "alternative" medications because all he could give me would be counterproductive
to what I was dealing with. UGH... that sucked. I didn't feel well, I hurt most days, and I could feel my mood shifting to a negative place. Did oils help? Nope... they weren't even on the radar at that time. However, I did start seeing an acupuncturist. He started me on a path of researching herbs and what I will call Chinese medicinal herbs. He had studied for many years in China learning all he could, and I had that information to pull from. And it helped. The pain slowly reduced to a manageable level, with some side effects of things like heartburn. But there again, that was manageable compared to what I had been dealing with. This was my gateway. I had opened my mind to learn about non pharmaceuticals that I might be able to use.
My oil adventure started with peppermint oil that I could find locally, and cheaply too! Remember I was an oil baby and didn't know the rules. So I would get these HUGE jars of oil for dirt cheep but I couldn't get them to work like I was reading online. One day during a big researching phase a friend posted about an oil company that she was using, Young Living. Y'all I'm not kidding when I say I didn't get it. I didn't understand that not all oils were the same. I didn't get that what I was buying was basically junk... the floral water that is left over from distilling. (Insert shaking head and a HUGE desire to have that money back) As I am known to do I asked a BUNCH of questions and my friend answered them all, but best yet is she sent me to www.seedtoseal.com for my own research. Go ahead... pop over there. Look around and come back when you are done ;)
That day I got it. I got that not all oils are created the same and that the FDA doesn't have ANY labeling requirements for some thing to be labeled as pure essential oil. My friend sent me a sample of Young Livings Peppermint for me to compare to what I was getting locally. There was no comparison. Hands down the peppermint oil from Young Living did what I though, what I had read, oils would do. And I decided to become a member of Young Living and got the premium starter kit. But I didn't start teaching about oils then. That was the summer of 2014 and now, 4 years later, I am ready to share what I know with the world! Essential oils can be amazing but you have GOT to know what you are doing. You have GOT to know what your company is doing to get that amazing stuff into a bottle. Again not all oils are created equally and I do not support using oils that are not ordered from Young Living (because of that Seed to Seal promise).
I hope that you come back here often and find information that helps you understand and add essential oils into your life. Oh and when you are ready to get that kit and get started, I want to have you as part of my oil family. And to be part of that family you need to order from www.joinkarend.com.
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