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Gratitude Practice

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The simple act of writing a gratitude list each day helps people to feel more positive, improves mindset and wellbeing, and brings more joy to life. Positive psychology research from Harvard demonstrated that “gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness”.

Taking time each day to stop, observe, and write out 3 things that you’re grateful for will help your mind to focus on feelings of joy, peace, compassion, love, and forgiveness. When you write a gratitude list every day, you invite more of what you’re grateful for into your life, and you become more aware of the good and the beautiful around you.

Where do you begin?

  • Some people choose to start their day with their list, while others end their day with it. Experiment with both, and see which feels more beneficial for you.
  • Get a special journal that you keep just for your gratitude list. Handwriting your list, rather than typing it on a computer, tells your brain to pay attention.
  • It takes a minimum of 21 days to create a habit, and over two months for that habit to become automatic. In other words, get started, and keep going!

The thoughts in your head are often on repeat from your subconscious mind. Keeping your focus on gratitude will help you to maximize the good in your life and invite more in!

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Top Ten Essential Oils

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Your Essential Oil Starter Kit: The Top 10 doTERRA Oils and How to Use Them

Starting your journey with essential oils can feel exciting—and maybe a little overwhelming at first. That’s why the doTERRA Enrollment Kit is such a wonderful place to begin. With ten of the most versatile and powerful oils, this kit gives you everything you need to support your health, home, and emotions naturally.

From soothing lavender to energizing peppermint and immune-boosting blends, these oils are the foundation for countless everyday uses. Whether you’re diffusing for a peaceful mood, creating DIY wellness blends, or supporting your family through seasonal changes, this kit truly has you covered.

In this post, we’ll explore each of the top 10 essential oils in the doTERRA kit, share their benefits, and give you simple, practical ways to use them every day.

I’ve been using essential oils for about 17 years, but doTERRA for the last five. The quality and purity is above all others. (Even hospitals and clinics across the country only use doTERRA).

When I got started, I chose the top ten oils in the family kit. The versatility of these helped my family swap out toxins, address mood and sleep, immune boosting, belly aches, tension and pain, and so much more.

It’s so easy and when you get started, I will hook you up into my VIP tribe, support you as you learn how to use them and give you an awesome resource book.

Check out this free guide and how to order!

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Healthy Hair Growth Spray: Locks Like a Mermaid

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There’s something magical about hair that flows freely, strong and radiant—like a mermaid gliding through sunlit waters. But stress, seasons, and daily life can leave our strands feeling tired and our scalp craving nourishment.

This natural, DIY hair growth spray is designed to awaken your roots, strengthen your tresses, and bring back that soft, flowing shine. With the power of essential oils and gentle botanicals, it helps stimulate the scalp, encourage growth, and leave your hair smelling as fresh as an ocean breeze. A perfect addition to your self-care ritual when you’re ready to nurture your crown and let your inner mermaid shine.

A couple weeks ago, I was at girls night and we were all obsessed with our friend’s hair! She looked amazing! She shared with us what her secret was…Mermaid Hair Spray!

So guess what I just made! ? I’ll be spraying it in my hair twice a day.

MERMAID HAIR

10 drops Cedarwood

10 drops Clary Sage

10 drops Peppermint

10 drops Geranium

10 drops Rosemary

1oz Witch Hazel

Add to a 4oz Spray bottle and fill to the top with distilled water.

The oils in this blend help with hair growth, healthy scalp, and shine.

Who else wants Mermaid Hair?

Read through this guide to essential oils and you can find my link to order your own essential oils!

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Grounded and Secure: Supporting the Root Chakra

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Grounded and Secure: Supporting the Root Chakra

The Root Chakra, or Muladhara, is the foundation of our energy system. Located at the base of the spine, it governs our sense of safety, stability, and connection to the earth. When this chakra is balanced, we feel grounded, secure, and at home in our bodies and in the world around us.

But when the Root Chakra is out of balance, it can manifest as fear, anxiety, or a sense of disconnection. By nurturing this energy center, we can restore a deep sense of calm and create a solid foundation for growth in all areas of life.

In this post, we’ll explore simple ways to support and balance the Root Chakra—including mindful practices, grounding rituals, and a soothing essential oil blend to help you reconnect with your inner strength.

After today, I decided to go back to what I know and know really well and that is my energy centers. I did some self inquiry and discovered that maybe my root chakra is feeling a bit unbalanced. I pulled out my root chakra oil blend and my hematite and found some common ground.

Inside my root chakra blend is black tourmaline chips,cypress, sandalwood, balance, vetiver and cedarwood. I apply this to my legs and feet while bringing in the affirmation—AM.

Tomorrow is a new day. A new chance to be. I know that the tools I have can bring me back to my center and I can regain clarity and a sense of self. If you haven’t checked out my chakra series free ebook, it’s in my link or you can message me.

No matter what is going on, it’s temporary. It always is. And I’m the meantime I have my oils and my crystals and my faith to keep me sane.

If you want to learn more about chakras and crystals, click here.

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If you would love to be part of my essential oil community and are ready to start using pure essential oils, shop here or email me for a free 1:1 consultation.

Aches and Pains Blend

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Over the last six years I have had just as many orthopedic surgeries, plus living with a diagnosis of a connective tissue disease that causes joint pain and swelling.

Despite all that, I average 15,000 steps each and everyday and work six days a week teaching yoga and pilates. Basically I am one busy and active girl.

What keeps me going?

  • Serious self care
  • Early to bed every night
  • Healthy foods
  • A consistent Gratitude practice
  • Essential oils regimen

This is my favorite pain reliving blend. I apply this to the sore spots and along my spine daily. It is effective, affordable and has no side effects other than relief.

If you’re struggling with aches and discomfort and want to invest in a collection of the highest quality essential oils, click here to get these soothing ones.

Or, if you’d like to cover more than just pain, but also stress, immunity, cleaning, belly aches and so much more this is my favorite. You can also check out more choices found in this handy usage guide.

When you get started I make sure you have plenty of tools and support to feel successful plus access to my amazing tribe of people who are in this together to bring health and wellness to your home.

If you love my content and want more tools for mindfulness & movement, check out my digital products on Buy Me a Coffee! Your support helps me continue creating. 

Looking for the tools and products I swear by? Visit my Amazon storefront for a handpicked collection of my favorite finds—from kitchen gadgets to wellness essentials. Click here to explore and shop my must-haves.

If you would love to be part of my essential oil community and are ready to start using pure essential oils, shop here or email me for a free 1:1 consultation.

DIY Face Toner

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A few of my favorite things: DIY face toner, lotus & shanti tattoo and a couple mantra bands. I love using essential oils to take care of my skin. Since using natural ingredients and no more harsh chemicals I have seen a huge difference in the health of my skin. I have less breakouts and my skin appearance feels and looks smoother.

Here is what is in my face toner: (5 drops each)

melaleuca (to clean)

lavender (to calm)

geranium (to reduce inflammation)

frankincense (to rejuvenate)

top off with a splash of witch hazel and water. Spray on face or apply with cotton ball.

To grab the oils for this recipe in a bundle with seven more of the most common household essential oils at wholesale pricing click here. You’ll be set for covering so many everyday needs–cleaning, skin, mood, sleep, pain, anxious feelings, belly aches, breathing support and so much more. Also, grab this free guide for the basics of essential oil use.

Jasmine Essential Oil

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Believe it or not, Jasmine is actually from the Olive family and it’s fragrance is POWERFUL! This is no weak scented flower or gentle aroma…it stands up and lets you know it’s in the room! it is sweet, tenacious and floral but with fruity and herbaceous undertones. It’s intense…and LOVELY!

In fact, it’s so powerful that historically it’s been known as “Queen of the Night” and “moonlight of the grove”. Women across the centuries have used and treasured this flower for it’s beautiful and aphrodisiac-like fragrance. And it has always symbolized hope, happiness and love!

It’s primary uses are for the Hormones and for Emotional Balance.

Hormonally, it supports the body where sexual health is concerned, as well as menstruation, pregnancy, labor and delivery. Hormone imbalance also can manifest in the body through the skin, by way of eczema caused by emotional imbalance, as well as dry, greasy, irritated and sensitive skin.

Emotionally it’s reaches deeply into the deepest layers of the soul and opens doors for our emotions to find expression.

Jasmine nurtures healthy sexuality and can ignite passions that have been dormant. Because it helps to foster healthy intimacy and trust, it can help create a positive sexual or intimate relationship where there might have been unhealthy intentions and motivations before. This oil encourages us to honor and respect ourselves and others.

If there is past sexual trauma, jasmine helps us to resolve that pain, and trauma and release it’s hold on our life and heart. It encourages safety within intimate relationships and invites only the truest and purest intentions to our sexual experience.

It Pairs beautifully with two other oils that are known for their powerful sexual properties…cinnamon and neroli.

Inhale this directly from the bottle, or apply to the pulse points in the body. Also can be applied topically over the sacral chakra (lower stomach, lower back and behind the ears.

If you’d like to learn more about the basics of essential oils, check out this free guide.

If you love my content and want more tools for mindfulness & movement, check out my digital products on Buy Me a Coffee! Your support helps me continue creating. 

Looking for the tools and products I swear by? Visit my Amazon storefront for a handpicked collection of my favorite finds—from kitchen gadgets to wellness essentials. Click here to explore and shop my must-haves.

If you would love to be part of my essential oil community and are ready to start using pure essential oils, shop here or email me for a free 1:1 consultation.

Santosha: The Path to Contentment

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Contentment is defined as a state of happiness and satisfaction.

Emotionally it is in the middle of the emotional scale and vibrates at a fairly neutral resonance. It is that space within us where all is okay. It is a feeling that offers neutrality and a sense of ease because there is not the push for more.

When I first began to understand what it meant to live yoga, I wondered if I could I ever really achieve contentment?  The Sanksrit word for contentment is santosha which means to cultivate a sense of being all right with who I am and what I have. And yet, we are humans who have been conditioned to constantly crave and strive for more. Yogi or not, I have dreams and goals so contentment, or santosha, often eludes me. Both on the mat and off the mat.

My work is to balance my dreams with the presence of knowing that all is okay.  I mean REALLY knowing that all is okay.  I can still have my dreams, but right now, in this breath, all is okay.

When we look at this on an emotional level, we see just underneath contentment on the emotional scale is complacency.  And just above it is hope.  So this middle ground of contentment could take you either way, depending on your awareness and your willingness to be, or not to be.

In my life, when faced with a challenge (on the mat or off),  I have three choices.

  1. Stay in contentment. I could recognize that my true self is pure and perfect. I can know that I am whole and good enough, right now.
  2. Slip into complacency. I could get lazy in my efforts and desires.  I could choose to weaken my desires and make excuses as to why it is not worth the effort due to my smugness and perhaps falsely known self-satisfaction.
  3. Rise into hope. I could take a breath and aim for a feeling of expectation and desire for goodness to happen.  I could take in the knowing that dreams and desires are right there waiting to arrive.

I  definitely do not spend much time in complacency. Although I am often vibrating higher in hope, optimism, positive expectation, enthusiasm, passion and ultimately deep appreciation, I am striving to also exist in the space of contentment.

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If you love my content and want more tools for mindfulness & movement, check out my digital products on Buy Me a Coffee! Your support helps me continue creating. 

Looking for the tools and products I swear by? Visit my Amazon storefront for a handpicked collection of my favorite finds—from kitchen gadgets to wellness essentials. Click here to explore and shop my must-haves.

If you would love to be part of my essential oil community and are ready to start using pure essential oils, shop here or email me for a free 1:1 consultation.