Self-Care

A Personal Manifesto

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A personal manifesto is a declaration of your core beliefs, values, and guiding principles. It’s like a roadmap for how you want to live your life, make decisions, and show up in the world. It can be a written statement that reflects your purpose, priorities, and the kind of impact you want to have.

Some elements of a personal manifesto might include:

  • Core values (e.g., kindness, authenticity, growth)
  • Life philosophy (e.g., “I believe in showing up fully present each day.”)
  • Guiding principles (e.g., “I will choose love over fear.”)
  • Aspirations and goals (e.g., “I commit to lifelong learning and self-care.”)

It can be as short as a few sentences or a longer, more detailed document. The beauty of a personal manifesto is that it’s deeply personal—it reflects you. It can also evolve over time as you grow.

Writing a Personal Manifesto

Several years ago I took a course with Brenè Brown that rocked my world. Doing so invited me to be think more about how I show up in my life and to create a manifesto. I was also reminded that being vulnerable and courageous, and sometimes face down in the arena’s of life, can be the most powerful moments a person can experience.

My Personal Manifesto:

In creating a life of happiness and peace in all facets of my life, I will cultivate habits of practicing self love. Included in my self love practices will be engaging in daily activities calmly and mindfully, resting my body, eating clean, meditating, being in nature, taking time to be alone, and nourishing myself with friendships and interactions that support me. I will love myself by consistently and gratefully engaging in these practices. Doing this requires me to set boundaries with myself and others and ask for what I need. I will communicate honestly and authentically. I will hold myself and others accountable for engaging in interactions and experiences that are respectful, peaceful and without shame and blame, especially when I feel pressure or high demands. Practicing self love and cultivating a life of calm and peaceful interactions will create a life that is centered, joyful and wholehearted and one that allows me the space to continue making a difference for those in my personal life and in my work.

Boom. Do you have a personal manifesto?

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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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Understanding the Language of Your Brain: Anxiety, Stress, and Neurons

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Understanding the Language of Your Brain: Anxiety, Stress, and Neurons

Have you ever felt caught in a cycle of worry or overwhelm and wondered what’s really happening inside your brain? To better understand anxiety and stress, it helps to learn the basic language your brain and body use to communicate. Words like neurotransmitters, neurons, and synapses might sound complex at first, but they hold the key to understanding why we feel what we feel—and how we can begin to find calm again.

In this post, we’ll break down the essential vocabulary around anxiety and stress in simple, clear terms. From the way neurons fire messages to how stress hormones influence our mood, you’ll gain insight into the inner workings of your nervous system. Knowledge is power—and learning about your brain can be the first step in soothing it.Tired of worrying and having anxiety run your life?

By the way, our life expectancy is down again for the THIRD year in a row. The last time this happened was 1915-1918, during World War One. We are killing our selves with our stressful lives.

The limbic system is the emotional control center of the brain. It processes your sense of smell and deals with three key functions, emotions, memories and arousal (stimulation).

Here is a quick vocab lesson:

Neuron: (also called neurone or nerve cell) is a cell that carries electrical impulses. Neurons are the basic units of the nervous system. There are up to 100 billion in the brain and they can send information from the brain to the rest of the body.

Neuropeptides: small protein like molecules used by neurons to communicate with each other.

Neuropeptides stimulate hundreds of activities in the body including food intake, learning taste smell and memory.

Receptor: a cell usually a neuron which receives stimuli from neuropeptides.

Neurotransmitter: sends information between neurons, via a neuropeptide by crossing synapse. They are chemical messengers.

Now this is what happens in the brain.

There is an outside stimulus of some sort (I call them circumstances) and the brain has a chain reaction that is set off quicker then we can realize- you have a thought, and that thought is actually converted into a neuropeptide that is sent to the cells in the body, literally changing the chemistry of every cell in you body and causing a physiological response based on the neuropeptides released. So in a very real way, your thinking becomes part of you on a cellular level. The different neuropeptides that are sent are what we feel as emotion in the body and the physiological response.

Smell is so powerful because the olfactory bulb gives smells a direct passage into the limbic system, where they imprint with emotional responses we have to that outside stimuli.

They become part of the memory of the thought/emotional response to a circumstance. The more we think a thought and have an emotional response, the more the memory, or neuropathway is strengthened in our brain.

That is why emotions can trigger such strong responses in us. Essential Oils, in my research, work different ways in the body and brain to effect emotions. First, they can interact with the limbic system and the amygdala, which plays a major role in storing and releasing emotional trauma. When you smell an oil, it can clear receptors in the cells, detoxing emotion. Citrus oils are great at clearing receptors in the cells, which means they can help with emotional detox on a cellular level. Oils can also help to disrupt thought patterns and help establish new ones (new neuropathways).

Personal example, when my thoughts would start spiraling and I’d start having anxious feelings, I would stop, smell serenity and repeat thoughts that my brain could believe (this is really important) that helped me change the response in my body. Ex. “I am in my home, I am safe.” My brain starts to recognize the pattern of smelling an oil and having a positive thought pattern and “chemical response” in my body.

Our bodies are synergistic.

Emotions happen on a cellular level, just as physical health is on a cellular level. When we use an oil, we will have a physical and an emotional component because they are inseperable in the body. Oils that cause emotional responses are having specific effects either in the limbic system or in the cells of the body.

Learn more about the basics of essential oils here.

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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.

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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.

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Essential Oils and Yoga

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Do you know essential oils can enhance a yoga practice?

1. Helps Stimulate The Brain:

Meditation is a big part of the practice. Oils, such as peppermint or eucalyptus can help with blood circulation to the brain, bringing your thinking to a highly productive and increased level of awareness.

2. Reduces Stress and Anxiety:

It is believed that when you use essential oils during your yoga practice regularly, it can curb your stress and anxiety level efficiently and effectively. It also enables you to deal with the stress that you face in your day to day life thus making your mood light and happy. The unique compound available in essential oil can help you fight with your day to day tensions. The best oils for reducing stress and anxiety are lavender and frankincense.

3. Antibacterial Properties

Did you know several essential oils such as lemon, lemongrass, grapefruit, lavender, tea tree and frankincense possess anti-bacterial and antimicrobial qualities? If you add some drops of essential oil in your diffuser, it can purify the environment and help you get ready for your yoga practice. Several oils can also effectively cleanse the environment from harmful bacteria and purify the air. You can also use essential oils to create DIY housecleaners and yoga mat cleaners.

4. It Boosts Your Pranayama:

Pranayama is the practice of breath applied to yoga. Since essential oils possess plenty of aroma therapeutic advantages, they can significantly boost your deep breathing sessions. The better deep breathing you have, the greater results and healthier body you will get. You may use certain essential oils to boost your deep breathing which may include eucalyptus and peppermint or even a blend specifically intended for breathing.

5. Increases Flow Of Energy in Your Body:

Prana means life force; the aromatherapy qualities of essential oils can help stimulate this spiritual energy. The oils that are widely used to enhance the energy flow includes sweet basil, and frankincense.

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Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

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Known for providing antioxidant support, Ylang Ylang can be a great add to a refreshing drink or smoothie. For a quick pick-me-up apply a few drops of Ylang Ylang to the back of your neck. When applied topically, this essential oil is great for uplifting your mood or for an elevating boost.

But seriously one of my favorite ways to use this oil is in my DIY hair perfume. You can prevent the harmful sun rays from damaging your hair with doTERRA Ylang Ylang. Due to the organic components it contains, Ylang Ylang provides protection from the summer heat while increasing the appearance of healthy, shiny hair.

Hair perfume is a great way to leave those you pass by with the sweet and enticing aroma of essential oils. Lightly spray it on your hair to keep it smelling sweet and fresh. Feel free to switch up the essential oils used in this recipe to create your perfect aroma.

 
Ingredients
1 cup rose water
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
4 drops Rosemary oil
3 drops Lavender oil
4 drops Grapefruit oil*
Note: You can purchase rose water at most health food stores in the soap and hygiene aisle.
Instructions
  1. In fine-mist glass spray bottle, add rose water, vanilla extract, and essential oils. Add more or less essential oils depending on your preference.
  2. Shake and spray on hair as desired.

*Please note that citrus essential oils are photosensitive and can lighten your hair if exposed to UV rays.

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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.

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Lavender Essential Oil

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It almost feels silly to write a post about Lavender. It is usually the ONE oil that most of us know inside and out and use the most often in our oil experience.

But today, I hope to share a few things about Lavender that might be review for some of you, and brand new information for others!

Lavender is lovingly referred to as the “Swiss Army Knife” of Essential Oils, simply because it has so many uses and is so versatile in ALL the body systems and functions that it’s known for.

This gorgeous oil is sweet, floral and slightly herbaceous in it’s fragrance. It also has some woody undertones that keep it from being overly sweet to the senses.

Children and adults gravitate toward this oil and because of its gentle but powerful nature and because it can be used NEAT (undiluted), it makes it a soothing oil for both the body and the emotions.

This oils is steam distilled from the lovely purple flowering tops of the lavender plant, and has been used for thousands years for its medicinal properties.

The list of individual health issues it addresses is FAR too long to list here, but includes everything from Seasonal Threats (aka allergies), anxious feelings, bug bites, bee stings, anything to do with the skin, highly energetic kids, stress, sleep issues, burns of any kind, all sorts of wounds…and very single thing in between.

The body systems it is especially adept at addressing are the Nervous System, the Cardiovascular System, the Skin or Integumentary System and everything to do with the Emotional Balance in the body, mind and spirit.

And it’s properties don’t stop there!

It is a chief enemy of bacteria, viruses, fungus, inflammation, toxicity, and all things mutagenic in the body, and works tirelessly against these and many more invaders of the body that can’t legally be mentioned here. 🙂

It can be used Topically, Aromatically AND Internally.

My very favorite way to use lavender is a drop in my hand, imagining the power packed goodness in just that one single drop. I’ll then rub my hands together and cup them over my nose and mouth, taking 5-6 BIG, Deep, Life changing inhales. This allows about 1 minute for the sensors in my nose to carry the chemical messages from the olfactory system, directly to my limbic brain where all of my emotions, stress, memories, and hormones originate.

In doing this, I can feel a tangible and immediate release of all stress, anxiousness and tension that I often carry in my body….and in it’s place, a calming. relaxing, and tranquil energy. Who can’t use more of that?!

I then, take my hands and rub over my forehead, my heart space and back of my neck as that is generally where I carry the weight of the world.

EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF LAVENDER

I touched on some emotional benefits of Lavender above, but there’s so much more to the Emotional benefits, that it warrants having it’s own section!

Lavender is called the Oil of Communication and Calm.

That’s because often our minds are overactive and struggle to find an outlet of verbal expression. In fact, even those who talk a mile a minute often do so because their minds are going far far quicker than their voice can keep up with.

Whenever there is insecurity or apprehension about speaking our truth or even articulating in our own minds what that truth is… Lavender steps in and calms those insecurities and allows for us to have the courage to risk being seen and heard .

Oftentimes, we have been shut down, shushed, and told we are too much or our ideas and thoughts are too much or not enough, so we tend to shut down our expression of those thoughts and ideas. We tend to just go through the motions, making small talk along the way, but deep inside, we know we are holding back our truest expression of our innermost thoughts. This holding back creates a disconnect in our soul and eventually, we tend to lose ourselves and our authenticity of expression altogether.

Lavender encourages Emotional Honesty and doesn’t rest until it’s helped us to speak our innermost thoughts and desires. This expression brings freedom and liberation and it’s through this that we begin to fully experience what we need in this life through love, acceptance and peace.

So if your mind is constantly racing, or you feel fear around expressing your truest self, or even feel like maybe you are unseen, unheard, unloved in any way….Lavender will gently remind you that it’s safe to calmly breathe, express what you need, and embrace the feeling of being seen and loved just as you are.

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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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