I don’t know about you, but if I’m stressed, my mind is racing.
That leads to my eyes wide open for hours.
So, I like to add oils to my Essential Rewards orders that can help with stress for many reasons, including sleep.
Some of my go-to essential oils for stress are Stress Away (Premium Kit), Tranquil, Release, and RutaVaLa.
Here’s a list of healthy ways to promote sleep through relieving stress:
For Children
Our kids have been so blessed with the best essential oils for sleep.
It’s become such a part of our routine, they know exactly where to grab what they need and how to apply it.
Here are some of our favorite sleep tips for children:
A toxin-free home, good nutrition, and a routine bedtime are all key to good sleep.
SleepyIze from the KidScents Line is great to do a light nighttime massage.
A couple drops of Peace & Calming on a favorite stuffed animal they snuggle with at night, so they can breathe in the goodness as they unwind during storytime.
A drop or two of Lavender and Stress Away in a warm bath before bed is a great way to start calming down before bedtime.
Massaging your oil of choice like Tranquil on the soles of their feet will help them fall asleep as well.
Dream Catcher Blend: Helps to open the mind, enhancing dreams. Helps children sleep more soundly.
How to Get This Goodness in Your Life!
To avoid the “Bandaid Effect” where we throw an oil on just to get us down one time, I highly suggest reading this.
When you’re ready to see your options, you can walk through everything, step-by-step here.
If you have any questions, I’d love to hear from you!
Email me at andrea@graceblossoms.com and we’ll connect.
I have such fun meeting you all and helping you through this new lifestyle!
If you have a wholesale account with Young Living, you automatically get a referral link.
The same way I can refer someone to my apartment building and get cash or a discount on next month’s rent, I can give my link to someone wanting this lifestyle.
The only break in the link between the apartment analogy and YL is that with Young Living, I then get a kickback every time that person orders whereas I only benefit once from my apartment referral.
We added up how much we spent the first year we only bought Young Living.
Then we added how much we spent the year before with doc co-pays, running to the pharmacy, over-the-counters, and buying everything else we get from YL at the store.
How much did we save?
Over TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.
It’s $2,000 less to live a life that won’t harm my organs, immune system, or hormones?
OKAY!
*I did not count in any of the money I made from sharing the referral link. Simply comparing orders from YL with life before it.*
The bandaid effect is the opposite of healthy living.
Your kid falls down, but there’s no scrape or bump or bruise in sight.
They insist they need a bandaid.
It’ll make them feel better. They just know it, Mama.
So you hand them their favorite character bandaid, kiss their boo boo, and magically they’re off running full speed.
We do this as adults, too.
Don’t believe me?
Take a look.
Everyday “Bandaids”
Ever find it frustrating that those cough drops and syrups don’t actually make your cough go away?
That your muscle cream doesn’t fix the strain?
When your sensitive toothpaste doesn’t stop the pain when you drink a cold glass of water?
That’s because the world around us is all marketing us toward the bandaid effect.
A fascade.
A temporary fix.
Root Causes
Raise your hand if you’ve asked a doctor what caused your illness just to hear they don’t know or there’s no known root cause.
We’ve been taught for generations to treat symptoms.
We now hold onto this idea to the point of not knowing what else to do.
Most every time someone reaches out to me about an essential oil, they’re really asking for the bandaid effect.
“Can you recommend an oil for sleep? For acne? For reflux?”
Why are you facing these issues?
Stress? Trauma? Gut issues?
I’m definitely not a doctor, so where do we go from there?
Responsible for Self
We’ve (unfairly) pushed the responsibility of our health onto our doctors then we’re frustrated when all they can give us are prescriptions for symptoms.
It’s time to step up our responsibility and do the hard work.
What does it take to advocate for your health?
You’ve got to get a few of your ducks in a row.
1. Your Lifestyle Products
You can read more about it here, but long story short, everything on the shelves made to look safe and healthy is greenwashed, which is a fancy word for a lie.
Hormonal, immune, organ, and overall body-destroying. The cleaners, washes, makeup, lotions–you name it– are all a marketing scheme.
They sell you a lotion with chemicals that dry your skin. Guess what you need more of?
And those chemicals? It’s perfectly legal even though they’re harmful to your body.
So, we switch to Young Living. Read here to find out why, after 9 months of research, that our family can only land on YL an no one else.
2. Your Food
Pesticides are a bigger problem than we realize.
They’re taking the nutrition right out of the food we need to survive.
I agree that organic (or even better biodynamic) foods are more expensive, and that can make things difficult.
Esepcially on a tight budget.
But here’s the great news.
Young Living as a lifestyle is about $2,000 less expensive per year than traditional in-store shopping (read all about that here).
Looks like your organics budget just blew wide open, friend.
3. Digging Up Roots
You know how your body feels.
And you know its history best.
If you can find a doctor who will dig in alongside you and supplement you instead of medicate you, you’ll be blown away by how much progress you’ll find.
It took far too long for me to find my doctor. Actually, my friend found him, and now I tell everyone about it!
Our mission is to restore optimum function to the body in order to help our patients experience life to its fullest. By removing stressors to the nervous system through chiropractic adjustments, nutrition supplementation, and neurofeedback, we aim to release the innate ability of the body to self-heal and thrive.
To put this into perspective, I fought cystic acne with meds and then finally with my own natural route (applying oils topically) for 17 years in total.
After changing up the type of doctor I saw, I’m almost completely clear-skinned only 8 months later.
And we did it all with zero meds.
You Can Do This!
After hearing a woman in one of my oil classes say she’d have to ask her doctor if she could look into possible root problems, I knew I’d need to write this.
This is your body.
No one else’s.
You can live well because your body was fearfully and wonderfully made to be healthy!
Get Started with this New Healthy Lifestyle!
Your next step toward escaping the bandaid effect is right here.
It’ll walk you through each step and show you all of your options.
However, if you’re in need of some one-on-one conversation to help you through or to get some questions answered, email me any time!
andrea@graceblossoms.com.
I love to hear from my readers. to help your families live and feel like we do is a blessing.
How I wish I’d been taught to be an oily family when I was making my home from the start!
I’d love to have you come on in! Welcome to our home!
Here’s what it’s like to live this oily life.
Wake Up!
Good morning!
We love how the vitamin D tastes! It just melts on our tongues. Yum!
I don’t know about you, but we just don’t drink enough water if we aren’t super intentional about it.
So, we fill up our water bottles first thing (we’ve been loving these bottles!) and put a drop or two of Lemon oil in there to help boost our immune system and help us drink more water.
In the Kitchen
We start our morning in the kitchen cleaning up after breakfast.
What I love about Thieves Dish Soap is how concentrated it is. We get lots of bottles from one!
It also knocks out grease like an old pro.
With two boys and a dog, killing germs and cleaning dirty hands is important.
Being able to split this one soap into four is even better.
I just grabbed these foaming hand soap bottles from Amazon, poured a fourth of the concentrate in, and filled the rest with water.
Want to guess how many cleaners we had in our house before Young Living?
After clearing out the old and replacing the new I later found 14 bottles in the basement, so…
No telling what we were doing with all those cleaners!
We need the house to smell nice, these homeschooled little nuggets need to focus, and mama needs some chill.
So, we diffuse…all day long!
We had lots to choose from, but Desert Mist is my fave because it’ll diffuse 12 hours.
I’ll put Purification blend in the boys rooms because boys stink and Purification fixes that.
I’ll add something cozy in my room like Orange and Idaho Grand Fir to boost immunity and purify the air, and then some GeneYus from the KidScents line in the homeschool room for the boys.
It’s crazy how our air quality changed when we got rid of old detergents and softeners!
Heading Out with the Family
I’ll pack Young Living Einkhorn granola, water bottles, Young Living sunscreen, Young Living bug spray, and Young Living after sun to make sure we’re ready to go.
Of course we’ve always got those must-haves with kids, like this first aid spray, Owie blend, and lots of bandaids because…kids.
This is just a small sampling of the over-the-counters Young Living provides to make our life easier.
We’ve got our lineup of Vitality oils (those we can ingest) for cooking.
To unwind, the boys’ rooms will get their diffusers refilled with their nighttime oils.
What’s really cool is that since their rooms were diffusing immune boosting and air purifying oils all day, they’re settling down into a an amazing space for optimal sleep.
Of course I keep my standbys in the hall for anything night time can bring:
PanAway for when we’ve got growing pains (in the Premium Starter Kit)
SleepyIze when it’s tough to fall asleep
Seedlings Linen Spray to prep pillows for easy rest
Thieves Chest Rub in case I hear the start of a cough in the night
Peace & Calming for night time wind down in their diffusers and backs of their necks. (in the Premium Starter Kit)
Easy as Pie
Remember getting your first place?
Running out to grab all of your basics?
This time you get to do it right and save tons of money in the process.
We took advantage of the Essential Rewards program to save a ton and budget best, and boy does it work! You can read all about it here.
If you’re ready to get rolling and can see this lifestyle fitting right into your very own, this is your next step!
If you need a one-on-one conversation, I’d absolutely love to hear from you! Let’s connect by emailing me at andrea@graceblossoms.com.
Maybe you could picture yourself making the switch to this new lifestyle after following our family through a day in our oily life.
However you landed here, know you’re in the right place for a healthy change and to save tons of money compared to your old, toxic lifestyle.
First Decision: Wholesale or Retail
We were so sick of putting bandaids on everything and were ready for a real change.
Because we didn’t want to be roped into anything where we were forced to sell or spend any certain amount, we made Young Living fit our lifestyle.
Retail means to buy at full price.
Wholesale gives you discounts and the ability to choose the monthly program to budget (which you can read about here).
Becoming a Wholesale Member
Wholesale makes the most sense if you’re looking for more than just an oil or a bottle of Thieves Household Cleaner.
You’ve got a few different kit options here:
Diffuser Choice with Kit
If you choose the oils kit, you can pick a diffuser.
Here’s a quick break down of each, so you know which you’d like to choose. You get the diffuser FREE in the Premium Starter Kit!
Key Words You Need to Know
When learning how to get Young Living oils, there are a few words to know.
Wholesale: Save 24 – 44% off retail pricing on Young Living products.
You can save even more with exclusive specials every month.
There are no monthly minimum purchases with the wholesale discount, and you never have to sell anything to anyone.
Essential Rewards: If you choose wholesale, you’re eligible to enroll in the Essential Rewards program and earn as much as 25 percent back from each order in the form of points.
These points can be used like cash to get free products!
Farm Visits: No other oil company gives you the opportunity to experience our Seed to Seal process with a visit to their farms like Young Living does.
You’re welcome to show up at any Young Living farm anywhere in the world, anytime! I love being on a YL farm. It’s an amazing experience I highly recommend!
StrongCommunity: At Young Living, you’ll have a close-knit community of support.
In addition to me, our Young Living family is ready to hear your questions.
When you use this link to get started, you’ll get a welcome text and an invite to join our private, members only groups on Facebook.
It’s a great way to learn at your own pace alongside likeminded people.
You can ask questions, get recipes and tips, and snag exclusive education found nowhere else!
Education: Young Living provides ongoing educational opportunities through events, newsletters online, and in person to keep you informed and assist you in your wellness progress.
I also provide private classes.
Ask me how you can attend anywhere in the world, for absolutely free!
2. Make sure “Wholesale Member” is checked so you don’t end up paying retail prices.
3. Be sure the “sponsor ID” and “enroller id”say 3929342 so we can stay connected, and I can get you hooked up with all the freebies! You’ll see my name, Andrea Dawn Marshall there, too.
4. Select which starter kit you want to get. My recommendation would be the Premium Starter Kit. I use these oils routinely!
5. Go through the checkout process.
BONUS Step 6 (COMPLETELY OPTIONAL!)
Start getting YL freebies now!
Here’s an example of what our monthly freebies look like, but the point amounts are always the same for being eligible for the free products each month:
Frequently Asked Questions
DOES SIGNING UP MAKE ME A “DISTRIBUTOR”?
Nope! You aren’t ever required to sell.
When you become a wholesale member, you get a special link you can share with friends and get credit from their purchases, but there are no minimum sales amounts if you choose to use it.
In fact, 90% of the wholesale members in Young Living don’t do the business side at all. They’re buying from Young Living because of the quality.
WHAT ABOUT MINIMUM PURCHASES?
There are NO minimum monthly purchase requirements.
To remain a wholesale member, you have to make $50 worth of purchases per year to keep your membership.
But if there’s a year that you don’t make a $50 purchase, you can reinstate your wholesale membership discount by just placing a $50 order.
If you do find yourself making regular purchases each month, then Young Living has a rewards program (called Essential Rewards) where you can make a nice percentage back in product credit each month on all of your purchases.
So that’s a great program to join if you find that you *want* to purchase regularly (but it’s not a requirement for being a wholesale member).
WHY SHOULD I BUY FROM YOUNG LIVING INSTEAD OF OTHER ESSENTIAL OILS COMPANIES?
It does seem like a new essential oils company pops up every day, doesn’t it?
I can’t speak to the quality of other companies, but I can say that Young Living was the only company in my research of essential oil companies that could answer all of my questions about purity in a way that was satisfactory to me.
Young Living was the only company that:
Has their own farms (in the regions where the plants should be grown)
Could guarantee that no pesticides or herbicides were used in the growing of any of their oils (they use essential oils for pest control and they do all of the weeding by hand). Organic is not pesticide or herbicide free. It’s a step down.
Has their own testing equipment (they do both in-house and 3rd party testing, and use many different testing methods not just GC/MS which only tests for certain chemicals, not whether those chemicals are synthetic or not)
Only uses the first distillation of oils instead of adding chemicals to get more out of the plant.
Young Living also was the only company that was directly in charge of essential oil farming operations.
Every other company I researched goes through some kind of an “oil broker” to buy their oils. Even if they’re “sustainably sourced,” that’s not something you want.
They have to trust that the oil broker is telling the truth, who has to trust that the essential oil distilleries are telling the truth, who have to trust that the farmers are telling the truth about what they say they are doing.
With Young Living, you just have to trust one company instead of several.
I felt the most comfortable trusting Young Living since they’re a full-disclosure company.
ANYONE can visit the farms, participate in the harvesting and distillation, view the Young Living labs, and see the entire process. That’s not an option with any other company!
HOW WILL I KNOW WHICH OILS TO USE FOR WHAT?
One of the benefits of getting a starter kit is that you also get to join our private Facebook group that’s specifically for questions about essential oils!
My weekly usage tips and recipes will text straight to you making life even simpler!
DOES YOUNG LIVING ONLY SELL ESSENTIAL OILS?
The answer to this one was surprising to me when I first got my starter kit!
Young Living uses their pesticide-free, synthetic-free, fragrance free, people over profit model to create over 600 lifestyle products.
Most all of these are concentrated, so it’s like buying bulk in small bottles saving you lots in the process.
Thanks so much for reading and please email me at andrea@graceblossoms.com for any other questions!
I’ll never forget calling my mom back in college freaking out because my microwave had just died.
“How will I make popcorn now, Mom?”
Oh, she had a good laugh about that one, friends. She still reminds me of it to this day (17 years later) it tickled her so much.
Why do we think we can’t live without this thing?
Thankfully, I kicked mine to the curb, and I’ve never looked back.
Here’s how.
The Science
According to Life Science, ” In a study conducted by Dr. Radwan Farag, dean of Biochemistry Department at Cairo University, he discovered that just two seconds of microwave energy destroys all the enzymes in food, thus increasing our enzyme deficiency and altering the frequency of the food. It appears that heating food containing proteins in the microwave for ten minutes changes the molecular structure of the food, creating a new, harmful type of protein.”
How did we end up using something originally used in WWII for radar projects to cook our food?
“In the mid-1940s, Dr. Percy Spencer of Raytheon Corporation noticed the candy bar in his pocket had melted after testing a vacum. This piqued his curiosity, which gave him the idea to put popcorn kernels near the tube. The popcorn popped all over the office, which brought about the invention of the microwave oven, (Life Science). “
So what about my college self and her need for popcorn?
My health has been thanking me for years since ditching the microwave popcorn.
Do you know what’s in that stuff?
I just grab some regular old organic kernels like these, two tablespoons of coconut oil, and toss them into a stainless pot on the stove with some Himalayan sea salt. I
n just a few minutes I not only have popcorn, but this kind tastes way better than the faux microwaved junk ever did!
While I love my Thieves Household Cleanerand Thieves Spray for pre-made, easy deodorizing spray, this one is a way to stretch your oils and put them to good use!
Where Can You Use It?
The kitchen and bathroom are often sources of odors and bacteria, but you can also use this to freshen up linens, closets, drawers, shoes, pet crates, and storage bins!
The toaster oven (like this one) takes a bit longer, but seems like it’s done in no time once it’s a part of your routine.
Who wants to destroy all the good nutrients in your food and harm your body with extra radiation when you could have leftovers that taste just like dinner last night?
Toaster oven bonus?
Cook, warm, toast…all in one!
4. Outlet Timer for WiFi Router
Adults and children alike are overexposed to radiation from phones, tablets, computers, and WiFi.
This simple timer will allow your family to have the WiFi shut off at a certain time before bed and will turn back on when you need it in the morning or afternoon.
We noticed a huge difference in how the entire family slept without WiFi on all night.
Home all day?
You can still turn it off and on as needed!
5. Blue Light Blockers
With all the time we spend looking at blue light, research is finding our eyes are deteriorating faster than any other generation before us.
Every hour a candle burned = one cigarette smoked to your lungs
Essential oils are only required to have 5% oil in the bottle
Young Living is the ONLY company not spraying their plants with pesticides (think Round-Up in your veins within 26 seconds of touching your skin)
If you choose this to make your house smell like home, you’re not only ditching seriously harmful fragrances.
With Young Living in your diffuser of choice, you’re also building your immune system, supporting your mood, memory, bones, cardiovascular health, and more!
Final Thoughts
A safe lifestyle takes a little time to step into, but it’s the best thing you can do for both you and for four generations beyond your own.
You have to protect your family, and thanks to this list, you’ve got a great start.
I love how empowering this app is for all new oilers!
Just Use Them!
Put them on.
You won’t do it wrong.
I promise.
Diffuse them.
Use three or four drops in the diffuser.
Use them, and then use them some more.
Consistency creates a new habit and a healthy home in this case!
Plan Ahead
Essential Rewards is basically the best things since sliced bread, y’all.
Our family saves SO much more with the Young Living lifestyle compared to shopping in store, it’s unreal.
So, use posts like this, your reference guide, or an iTovi scanner (learn more about them here) to create a list of needs in your home.
Ditch-n-Switch
If you signed up for Young Living because you thought a few natural remedies here and there would be great, guess again!
You get SO MUCH MORE than that!
We ditch the bandaid mentality and switch to a wellness and proactive way of thinking!
Let me just save you lots of time here.
Everything in your house that isn’t Young Living isn’t safe at its core.
How do I know?
Because everyone but Young Living puts one or both of the following in their products: pesticides (they spray their plant material) or synthetics (your body is real and doesn’t handle these well).
Go around the house and create a list of all the products in your home and seek out the Young Living product that will let you get rid of it for good.
This lifestyle should be simpler and lessexpensive.
If you aren’t finding this to be true, talk to your upline about diluting (our products are highly concentrated and like buying in bulk), Essential Rewards, and even a DIY here and there.
This is a hugely rewarding lifestyle that comes with a little learning curve, but one that is simple to navigate if you’ve got a great group to learn alongside!
With essential oil companies popping up all over the place, there are a few things you should know first.
1. The 26 Second Rule
Anything on your skin is in your bloodstream within 26 seconds.
Yes, this means it alters your DNA.
2. The 5% Law
One more thing before we get into the nitty gritty here.
The law only requires FIVE PERCENT of what is in an essential oils bottle to be actual oil from the plant.
This five percent bottle can be called “pure” and “therapeutic.”
Keep reading to find out what the other 95% is.
3. Organic Confusion
As consumers we generally see organic as safest, but that is hardly the case when it comes to essential oils.
The 5% law means that the “organic” oils you see on the shelf are packed full of synthetics and fragrance for highest profit.
Your body, very real and non-synthetic cannot handle fragrance or fake stuff, so every little cell in your body freaks out. Not good.
4. Pesticides Matter
Both inorganic and organic pesticides are still just that: pesticide.
And you do NOT want pesticides in your bloodstream.
There is only one company who never sprays their plants, and that’s Young Living.
Want proof?
You’re welcome on any farm, anywhere in the world, any day of the week.
5. Other Factors
I could go on forever about how Young Living is the only first distillation, zero pesticide, zero synthetics, and zero fragrance company and why all that matters.
However, it really comes down to pesticides.
They’re a big factor when it comes to the crazy-huge rise in disease, and it has to be stopped.
Zero junk. 100% oil in every single bottle–whether that’s chapstick, body wash, deodorant, CBD or anything in-between.
7. Your Vote Matters
When you buy from Young Living only for every cleaning, personal care, and supplement need, you’re saying to the rest of the world, “This is our demand. Real, body-helping products. Or you don’t see a dime.”
8. Less Expensive than In-Store
Young Living is less expensive despite the sticker shock much like when you’re at Costco or Sams for the first time seeing how much bulk costs.
Young Living is simply buying in bulk.
Because of this, I can get 29 household cleaners for $22.
300 times I’ve rid of fever for $21.
Not too shabby considering the store comes nowhere near these prices.
9. Start Today
The way Young Living works is simple:
Choose your wholesale kit (priced $35 and up–click HERE)
Choose Essential Rewards for max benefit (read more about it here)
Click “accept” when I add you to our education group and become a part of our tribe. We learn together–you’re never alone. It’s amazing!
Accept the free reference guide app I send to you, so you know what to use when making the start of this journey SO EASY!
10. Questions?
Email me anytime at andrea@graceblossoms.com.
I would so love to chat oils and healthy living with you.
Our family has been toxin-free for three-and-a-half years as I write this in February of 2020.
All in an effort to stop disease in its tracks, feel better, and keep our six-year-old from relapsing (childhood cancer).
I teach Young Living because I have researched like crazy and cannot find anything else that matches Young Living’s purity, cost, and efficacy.
I look forward to meeting you and learning more about your needs!
Click HERE for a simple walk through on how to buy the safest essential oils and start a toxin-free lifestyle with Young Living.
Why Young Living Only?
Zero pesticides
Single distillation
Soil hasn’t been touched by pesticides in 50+ years
You can go to any farm in the world to see for yourself
Zero synthetics
Zero fragrance
ONLY essential oil
BECAUSE YOU ARE READY TO TAKE BACK YOUR HEALTH!
5% Rule
There’s a rule that says companies only have to make sure 5% of the oil in their bottles is actual essential oil to be considered “pure and therapeutic.”
Organic oils can even have synthetics and fragrance added to them under this rule, and do.
Young Living oils are the ONLY oils who never adulterate* their oils and have 100% never changed essential oil.
*I consider spraying plants with any pesticide as adulterating the oil.
Why Care About Pesticides?
Anything you put on your skin is in your bloodstream in 26 seconds.
Choosing an essential oil company outside of Young Living ensures you’ll have those pesticides coursing through your veins as well.
Why spend your money on a temporary fix that makes a long-term problem?
What About Organic Pesticides?
When I say ZERO pesticides, I mean ZERO.
Not even organic pesticides.
Young Living is hand-weeded (or sheep-weeded in some cases like the France Lavender farm!) and this is their above-and-beyond calling they call Seed-to-Seal.
Are They Expensive?
The amazing part about Young Living is the concentration of the oils and over 600+ lifestyle products.
For example, the household cleaner makes 29 spray bottles.
One 15mL bottle of oil has around 300 drops in it.
Most people start with the Premium Starter Kit. It comes with 12 oils, a diffuser, and some samples of other lifestyle products at around half the cost as a bundle/kit.
These 12 oils are called our “Everyday Oils,” and the kit itself comes with a 24% discount on all products for life.
From there, the iTovi scanner {click HERE} and Essential Oils Reference Guide {click HERE) are two must-haves for taking on your new life of proactive living.
How Often Do I Have to Order?
That’s up to you.
Our family can’t possibly pass up the thousands of dollars we save every year with the loyalty program called Essential Rewards (read about it HERE).
You can order once in your whole life and never again, you can order with Essential Rewards, or anywhere in-between.
Do I Have to Sell this Stuff?
Nope.
I personally tell everyone I know (including you!) because it feels like a deep down serious moral obligation to let people know there’s a safe way to live with all the disease in this world. You can be a part of one of the greatest changes in someone’s life, and that’s big.
You decide how and when you share, AND if you do, Young Living will send you a thank you check. No strings. No immediate business you’re roped into. Simply a, “Hey, you helped save a family. Thanks!” bonus check!
You can learn how to utilize the Young Living referral program HERE.
What if I Need to Talk This Out?
Email me at andrea@graceblossoms.com, and I’ll answer any questions you have.
This is about YOU.
It’s your decision. Your lifestyle change.
We will go at YOUR pace, within YOUR budget, and with ZERO weird pressure.
I’m Totally Ready. What’s the BEST Way to Start with Young Living?
Premium Starter Kit and Essential Rewards. (Get started HERE).
I will get an email confirming you’ve gotten started.
You’ll have immediate access to our education group online. This is our tribe. We lift each other up. Learn together. Ask questions. And most importantly have FUN!
I’ve tried getting cheap diffusers off Amazon, and they eventually fail me every time.
Now, I just save my money and get the real deal through YL to avoid having to constantly replace the others.
2.Atomizing
This is for the AromaLux and any other diffuser with an atomizer.
An atomizer gives you the scent for your home that we have come to love, but it also has therapeutic and healing capabilities.
It breaks down the oil put into it and puts out small particles that are easier for your lungs and body to absorb.
Which Kind of Water?
The instructions always suggest distilled, but what if you’re a diffusing queen like yours truly and don’t want to lug huge distilled water jugs home from the store each week?
Our family chose another route that affects the quality of our water both in our diffuser and that we drink each day: reverse osmosis.
Once you’ve followed the instructions here, I’ll send you your very own Essential Oils Reference Guide to make life as a new oiler simple.
You’ll also be added to our exclusive community called Life+Oils where you get private coaching, online teaching, and support from like-minded people with lots of testimonials to pull from every day!
Choosing the right person to walk you through this is important to your success. I’d love to be that for you!
Always feel free to write to me at andrea@graceblossoms.com.
Also on the guessing board was that I must just be “prone” to things like acne, yeast infections, rashes, and dry, itchy skin.
I was also told I had oily skin and an oily scalp.
You can see where I’d be a little confused.
The Push
The more I pressed with the question, “...but why?” I only found hard pushback.
Then, at the start of my oily journey, I’d ask if my docs thought I might find some relief looking for the root problem.
“No, there’s no way to tell. Until we can learn more about ___(enter issue here)___, here’s a script for ___(insert medicine, antibiotic, cream, etc)___here.”
However, no matter how many of those prescriptions I filled over the next two decades, I’d never even get close to getting better.
In fact, I was getting worse each year.
Empowered
As I steeped myself further into the Young Living community, I read more and more testimonials about people overcoming their sensitive skin when ditching all their products and switching to Young Living’s toxin-free options.
This interested me for a few reasons:
1.) I’d already ditched all dyes, fragrances, and went organic but still had major issues.
The decision was made to ditch all of my products by taking advantage of the Essential Rewards program.
So, I made a list of what all I needed.
I actually had the entire house plus husband and kid products on this list, but for the sake of the topic of sensitive skin, that part looked a little something like this:
Shampoo
Conditioner
Face Wash
Facial scrub
Toothpaste/Mouthwash/Floss
Moisturizer
Toner
Makeup (this one particularly freaked me out)
Body Wash
Shaving lotion/foam
Deodorant (also scary to switch)
Heat protectant for my 3,000 pounds of hair
Lotion (I prefer body cream)
Laundry Detergent (assuming since all my clothes are touching my skin, this made sense to me)
Blessing in Young Living
I knew Young Living was supposed to be safe, but I looked up the ingredients anyway.
I couldn’t find anything that would harm me.
In fact, they were the only company I could find who didn’t spray their plants, hand-weeded, and didn’t add anything synthetic to their products, so all systems were a go for Essential Rewards!
Steve (the hubby) and I decided on our budget, figured out which of the products we could stretch (mostly all, as they’re super concentrated), and started in on building a new home like we’d done years ago, but this time we’d do it right.
Results
When you don’t have the budget to buy every single thing in one fell swoop, your rise to normal is a slow progression.
Because of that, I just got used to feeling better without any of my prior symptoms returning.
It didn’t seem like anything miraculous when you’re not exactly in a stage of life where you can focus on yourself, either. Two little boys, a full-time job, friends, family…you get it.
Until one day, years later, I realized just how much better we had become.
Air BNB
Last year, for our ten year wedding anniversary, we took a trip to Boston and stayed at Cape Cod.
We had the cutest little beach house, and it was perfect, except for one thing: the second we walked in the house, we threw the windows open, put all their products under the sink, and after knocking down the intense fake fragrance smell, ran the diffuser like crazy.
We used the towels provided in our Air BNB, and I immediately smelled toxic laundry detergent/fabric softener.
I was nervous, but without any other option, I did what I had to do.
After two days, my skin was itchy, I felt all the symptoms of a yeast infection coming on, and my nose was stuffy.
I was using all of our own non-toxic products.
The only difference was the fragrance in the air and synthetic junk in our towels and sheets.
I had the hardest time sleeping on those sheets and woke well before sunrise just to get out of the bed and away from that intense headache-making smell.
Grateful for Fake Sensitivity
I realized how good I had it with Young Living’s toxin-free lifestyle that weekend.
I can’t believe what a huge shift it was in just a day or two.
Weirdly, I’m glad I had to go back to my old life for just a couple of days.
It hit home even more why my purpose for writing, teaching, and sharing the Young Living lifestyle matters so much.
It further lit my fire to bring this to you every day.
Fight for Your Family
When you’re ready to fight for your family, too, click here.
The Desert Mist runs up to 10 hours, the Premium Starter Kit will let you ditch all your synthetic fragrances, and Essential Rewards will ensure you get $10 back for this great decision and money back each month as well.
With your kit, I’ll send you an Essential Oils Reference Guide , and with your permission I’ll add you to our online community of learners where you’ll have access to tons of free resources, education, and like-minded friends learning just like you!
Like always, please email me at andrea@graceblossoms.com for help!
Young Living is a 25 year company, who has over 600 toxin-free and pesticide-free products.
These products will change your life in ten major ways, leaving you feeling like you’ve just met your new best friend.
1. Stress
Stress comes in many shapes and sizes.
It can easily ruin a day, week, month, or year.
But it doesn’t have to.
Pop a roller fitment on top of your Stress Away bottle from the Premium Starter Kit, and you’ll find yourself melting into a calmer version of yourself.
Why?
It’s science, of course!
Simply put, smell goes to the spot where emotions are handled in your brain.
Certain smells (like the Lime, Vanilla, and Lavender in Stress Away), tell your brain, “chill out, friend…you got this.”
2. Cleaning
Okay…no one likes to clean, so why make it complicated with a bunch of cleaners all over your house that don’t even disinfect?
Hard pass!
Grab your ONE bottle that does it ALL: Thieves Household Cleaner!
You’ve just had lunch with some friends and your stomach isn’t happy with your choices.
Or…
The meeting you’re in ran much later than you thought and your stomach is trying to attack you for ignoring it for so long…and getting louder by the minute!
Or…
“Mama, Daddy! My tummy hurts!”
Such an easy solution: DiGize from the Premium Starter Kit or the KidScents version, TummyGize.
To knock down the DiGize-y smell, carry a rollerbottle with 10 drops DiGize, 5 drops Peppermint (also in the starter kit), and fill the rest with carrier oil.
Make life much simpler when you pop a roller fitment on top of the TummyGize and keep it in the kids’ bathroom!
Your tummy will soothe faster than you’ve ever experienced, and you’ll feel much better!
4. Immunity
Our old life before Young Living was just a crapshoot.
My goodness. We just sat around waiting for when we might get sick again.
Such a silly way to live!
Now, we have preventative and active measures to get us through whatever illness might come along.
We have been successful in using oils like Thieves from the Premium Starter Kit, ImmuPower, and Inner Defense to kick the sick without gut-harming, liver-harming, brain-harming over-the-counters and prescriptions!
In fact, our family hasn’t had one of those in the house for years!
Even better: our over-the-counter medicine cabinet expired!
5. Energy
No, not the fake, from a can or pouch, synthetic, on-the-run type energy.
We’re talking real, from the inside, “I feel better because I am better” energy.
Adopting the Young Living lifestyle means you’re kicking out the fake fragrances and synthetic dyes and ingredients that bog you down.
Add in our NingXia Red antioxidant drink with a drop of brain, focus, and energy-boosting Peppermint (all in the Premium Starter Kit), and you’re on your way!
I’m a girl in love with her coffee (especially with a drop of immune-boosting Cinnamon Bark oil in it!), but we know coffee is only a temporary fix.
What we really need is ongoing energy, so we can snuggle up around that cup of joe but not become dependent upon him. That’s just not a healthy relationship, Joe. No offense. 🙂
6. Skin
Toxins, especially those floating around in every other product other than Young Living, are a huge reason for premature aging!
Drink water (especially with a drop of Lemon from the Premium Starter Kit!) to boost your skin’s cell turnover, and fill your Essential Rewards order with the ART line of premier skin care or the beloved Orange Blossom line that’s sure to be amazing for even the most sensitive skin.
And speaking of sensitive skin…I was told I had it.
Nope.
My body was simply rejecting the synthetics in all the products I was using before Young Living.
Post Young Living: not an irritation in sight.
One of the best things about sharing Young Living are the skin testimonials.
Especially my friends who have such powerful stories of ridding their kids’ eczema and other rashes and skin conditions. WOO!
7. Sleep
Guess what interrupts sleep?
You guessed it: toxins.
Synthetic fragrance (AKA fake hormones) mess with your body’s ability to regulate so many of the factors it takes to not only fall asleep and stay asleep but also to have good, quality rest!
Along with the toxin-free lifestyle and oils like Lavender, Cedarwood, and supplements like SleepEssence, Young Living also offers you the safest CBD isolate on the planet. No chemicals. No pesticides. Lots of good, quality, sleep!
Before Young Living I didn’t even realize how foggy my brain was!
Adding brain-health support like MindWise, NingXia Red, and ridding our family of the bioaccumulation from fluoride that harmed our brains with our Thieves oral care, I now feel more clear-minded that I ever have before!
Click here to learn how the Thieves Oral Care line saved my mouth!
9. Mental Health
We shout it from the rooftops to normalize mental health in mainstream media, but what no one seems to realize is that this is only half the problem.
We need real tools to save our mental and emotional health, and we need it now!
The toxin-free lifestyle is the biggest relief you can offer anyone with anxiety, depression, or any other mental and emotional health issues.
From there, you can tap back into that science I was talking about before and do things like the Memory Release technique (click here to read about it) and just simply breathing in certain oils that reroute your brain to literally think and feel better.
This is what we strive for in prescriptions, but our perfect, pesticide-free oils have zero side effects.
It’s been amazing to hear the testimonials of people who have used oil blends like Release, and our CBD oils to regain control of their mental and emotional health.
10. Whole Family Love
Last but certainly not least, Young Living’s 25 years of experience has something for every single person in your family.
From everything I mentioned above to our Seedlings line for babies, KidScents line for littles, AnimalScents for our fur babies, and even serious nutritional support for every age, Young Living offers you a lifestyle like no one else.
The best part is that with the Essential Rewards program, we find we’ve saved thousands every year we’ve taken advantage of this new lifestyle.
We are forever grateful to Young Living for Gary’s vision of Purpose over Profit.
Once you’ve followed the instructions here, I’ll send you your very own Essential Oils Reference Guide to make life as a new oiler simple.
You’ll also be added to our exclusive community called Life+Oils where you get private coaching, online teaching, and support from like-minded people with lots of testimonials to pull from every day!
Choosing the right person to walk you through this is important to your success. I’d love to be that for you!
These are both concentrated, which means you are buying in bulk but in a small bottle.
They work great and are absolutely safe for your family!
The best part: Young Living never sprays the plants that go into your bottles of oils or oil-infused products.
That makes Young Living’s products one of a kind!
Surfaces
Sink, counters, cabinets, faucets, windows, stove, oven, and floor.
It’s no longer necessary to have 8 cleaners just for the kitchen.
Friend, you only need ONE!!
ANSWER: Thieves Household Cleaner!
29 servings in one bottle makes this cleaner super cost-friendly and again, buying in bulk with only a small bottle.
This cleaner has been proven to kill 99.96% of germs all while boosting your immune and respiratory systems.
There’s no other option for cleaning that does this for you.
Love this cleaner!
Read here for 50 ways to use Thieves Household Cleaner.
Fruit & Veggie Wash
I used to believe it wasn’t necessary to wash my organic produce.
A little dirt never hurt, right?
Then I learned about pesticides and gassing on our organic produce, and it no longer made any sense to give my kids fruits and veggies with only a rinse.
ANSWER: Thieves Fruit & Veggie Wash!
One capful is all it takes.
That means this little bottle will last you a good while!
Cozy Heart of the Home
The kitchen is the heart of your home, and because that’s where people tend to gather, we want it to smell great.
However, we refuse to use synthetic smells or dangerous wax melts, candles, or plug-ins to do it!
Getting a diffuser and filling it with something like Lemon, Lavender, or Citrus Fresh are great in the kitchen.
Or if you’re going for more cozy fall smells, you can diffuser Thieves, Cinnamon Bark, or Orange.
One of my current favorites is Sacred Frankincense and Pine!
Thieves Oil Blend
Finally, keeping Thieves Oil Blend in the kitchen is essential!
One drop in honey, Elderberry Syrup, or NingXia will serve as both a preventative that builds your body to be stronger and healthier as well as a great defense against illness.
Our family has used Thieves to knock out strep, ear infections, pink eye, sore throat, cough, colds, and viruses.
This blend is so amazing that we never go without it and make sure it’s on every single Essential Rewards order, so we always have what we need!
You can even add a little T-Away in there from our AnimalScents line if you’d like.
This blend will help calm your pup, which is great for dogs like ours, who tend to get stressed during a bath.
Our Husky, Hattie (and I) loved this easy DIY because it was thick enough to lather up in her thick fur, yet there was enough of it to wash her really well twice!
Hattie is a big dog.
She also likes to play in the dirt and mud with our boys and prefers to live outside in most weather, so she was extra filthy.
If you have a smaller dog, mainly inside you could get four or five washes out of this. Maybe more!
Best Part
The best part is knowing there weren’t any synthetic fragrances in either of our dog shampoos that could really harm our sweet pup.
The oils are only from Young Living, so we know they’re 100% safe for her.
Why buy oils anywhere else when Young Living is the only one that meets all of the following criteria: never sprays their plants, never adds synthetic fragrance, only 100% oils.
