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Hormone Tracking and Balancing Free Printable

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Women have been sold a life that only works outside the female cycle.

We’ve bought product after miserable, hormone-crushing product to deal with it, too.

I’m guessing that, if you’re here, you’re so over it.

Guess what?

Today you can choose to quit feeling like a dumpster fire every single month. 

Normal or Common?

What I’m suggesting to you today is big.

You’ll be giving up some things we all hate. For some reason we’ve believed they’re just a part of being a woman.

What will following this plan allow you to say goodbye to?

  • No more PMS…because that’s not normal. Common? Okay. Normal? Nope.
  • Goodbye, cramping…because that’s not normal.
  • Lock up mood swings…they’re not normal.
  • Huge blood clots have got to go…because that’s so not normal.
  • Long periods….because lengthy, drawn-out cycles are not normal.

Our bodies have been crying out, begging for help for years. It’s about time we listened.

You may scrunch up your nose at the following suggestions, and that’s okay.

Now, it is a package deal, but it can be done easily.

I’ve been free for six wonderful years, and you can be, too!

1. Say Goodbye to Synthetic Fragrance

Greenwashing

First, you’ve got to know about Greenwashing. It’ll save you so much time and money.

Long story super short, just about every “green” or “natural” product out there is a farce.

How can you know for sure?

Is something created for our health full of synthetics? Pesticide-sprayed plants? Fragrance?

Just because the bottle says “free of,” doesn’t give it the right to trick you into buying their lie.

How to Start Fresh

This is how I was able to let go of all the synthetic fragrance in our home.

At first glance I thought it would cost more. In reality, it’s saves us thousands every year.

It’s an absolute shame that marketing starts with our pre-teen girls (and boys!) and works their way up the age ladder with this harmful version of “normal” living.

If I had one bottle of  “Country Apple” lotion or “Cucumber Melon” body wash when I was a girl, I had them all. They became the standard teenage girl gift.

Add in all the candles I burned.

Now, mix in all of my household cleaners.

Add a dash of perfume, makeup, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, and feminine products.

Top it all off with laundry detergent and fabric softener, and you’ve got a recipe for adrenal fatigue and hormone failure.

You can follow a plan like this to slowly ditch and switch your products if it feels overwhelming to start.

2. Peace-Out, Pesticides

There were two main ways I got rid of pesticides. First, I had to fully understand why I needed to get rid of pesticides.

Thankfully, the first way I let go of them (here) allowed the budget to burst wide open for the second way.

The second way was buying only organic (or better yet, chemical-free) foods.

Be careful with your organic produce, though.

I use this to wash off the carcinogenic gasses sprayed to help make the long trek from farm to table in our country.

*Note: Highly concentrated products stretch to last! This is part of what saves us so much financially!

 

3. Healthy Water

Test it for yourself, but I think we all know the tap is not for drinking.

The water jug filter I thought was so great was almost as bad as the tap, unfortunately.

Not to mention how bad bottled water is…don’t even get me started on how many petrochemicals we drink from those things…yuck!

Healthy water, I hate to say it, is an investment.

It’s something we should all have free access to, but sadly it isn’t just yet.

I’ve settled on this second best option and was gifted this first rate option.

4. Balance Hormones

The lack of education we receive on hormone health or even how to mange our cycle is unfortunate.

Thankfully I was blessed with this new lifestyle.

Here’s how I balanced my hormones (in addition to what I mentioned above): free hormone balancing printable!

If I were you, I’d either laminate or slip it into one of those old school paper covers like this.

I keep mine in the bathroom where my hormone balancers are stored.

If you don’t already have an app that tracks your cycle, I like the free version of Flo, but I’m sure there are a ton out there.

Also, if you’ve opted for synthetic birth control, let this be your sign to throw it in the trash or have it removed ASAP. Those things have damaged enough women’s bodies (including long-term on my own). Don’t be another statistic!

5. Encouraging Note to You!

Take it from someone who’s been right where you are now– you can do this!

It does take time.

Like…sometimes a lot of time, if you’re like me undoing 15+ years damage.

With the help of functional medicine, I’ve made huge strides over the last two years in addition to these at-home remedies.

Every product I use in the air I breathe, clothes I wear, or place on my skin matters.

Each piece of food I eat changes things.

Is everything I eat organic? Nope. Had food from a restaurant last night.

BUT

I’ve learned that I feel and look much better when I’m 95% clean and enjoy desserts and a night out a little in between.

It just became increasingly clear that either I paid intentionally with wisdom now, or I pay much more later.

Physically, mentally, emotionally, and out of my pocket.

Illness or health is generational.

We can choose to turn it around today.

And when we choose for us (and four generations beyond us), we have the amazing benefit of never looking back.

To your health,

Andrea

 

 

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Easy Home Detox

This easy home detox will rock your socks, friend!

Having a toxin-free home is so much easier and less expensive than I expected.

I can’t wait to teach you how to do it!

Detox Your Air

A typical home is 3-5 times more polluted than the most industrialized and populated cities.

Here’s why:

  • Air fresheners/candles/wax melts/plug ins/room sprays
  • Laundry detergent/softeners
  • Household Cleaners/disinfectants
  • Greenwashed products

We only use Young Living products for this reason, so I’ll be sharing ditch-n-switches with them throughout this post.

It’s Easy

The switches are simple!

The best thing about these products is that they’re concentrated.

300 drops of oil in a 15mL bottle. 16 bottles of laundry detergent in one. 29 cleaners in one!

You’ll save money and make your body stronger right away.

Every bottle you ditch for Young Living is a trade from harm to health.

What candle, detergent, or cleaner makes your lungs and immune system stronger?!

Clean Your Kitchen

The plates your food touches.

The counters and sinks and hands that need cleaned.

The oven and stove that need scrubbed.

Everything you’ve got now, even if it’s got an “eco friendly” label, is dangerous for your health.

Like your air clean up, your kitchen products dilute, too saving you lots!

Boldly Change Your Over-the-Counters

“An infectious disease specialist…Dr. Louis B. Rice, warned, ‘There are strains out there (bacteria), and they’re becoming more and more common, that are resistant to virtually every antibiotic we have.’ Antibiotics may crumble before these ‘germs on steroids,’ but essential oils do not. The multitude of chemical constituents that make up essential oils present bacteria with a puzzle that cannot be solved. The mosaic of hundreds of chemical constituents simply do not allow for bacterial resistance,” (LifeScience).

Ever wonder why that petroleum-based chest rub doesn’t actually fix your cough?

Or why your synthetic muscle rub doesn’t actually make your pain go away long-term?

I could go on forever, but the answer is: they’re not real.

They’re a fake.

A bandaid.

Young Living’s over-the-counters and natural remedies with their pesticide-free oils has created a home for us over the last 4 years that will never be the same.

Straighten Out Your Hormones

Ladies, hear this: common doesn’t always mean normal.

PMS is not normal.

Men, hear this: your hormones matter.

What are the most damaging items in your home?

Personal care products, makeup, cleaners, and fragrances.

We slather on over 300 chemicals when we’re getting ready for the day let alone all we use the rest of the day.

Here’s How to Make the Swap

Go here to make the switch.

It’s simple, you’ll have tons of support, and you will love how great you feel!

This super easy home detox will rock your socks, friend! We'll dig into each space in your home to rebuild a safe place for your family.
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A New Generation: Rising Up to Be Well

Each generation tries to gift their kids a better life. Our generation may be the first to get it all wrong.

From birth, our parents made trade school, college, or some form of secondary education was our top priority .

We’ve handled with those gifts in our own ways.

We reaped those rewards (or paid heavily for them).

But to gift our kids the same, is putting them so far out in left field, they may never get a chance to play ball.

However, it may not be for the reason you’re imagining.

Why We’re So Off Base

For decades upon decades, we’ve been told schooling is the only way to get ahead.

However, at closer inspection, take a look at what this generation has that their dial-up parents didn’t.

They’re dripping with information. Lousy with it.

They carry it in their pockets for crying out loud.

Yet we still harp at them that this is it. The one thing that will make or break them.

We have to sound absolutely crazy. They get that education is important. It’s common knowledge to this generation. Common. Knowledge. Nothing to pass along, friend.

They get it.

Meanwhile, cancer rates are soaring, diseases are running rampant, and obesity is a sickness a huge amount of Americans have denied is even a problem.

How in this world do we expect our children to become adults that can use their education if they’re too sick to show up to a job?

What Needs Fixing

The main issues are hard to see. Like…really hard to see.

Why?

Every other commercial on the television is pushing the problems and treating them like gifts.

The main issues we need to resolve for our kids are:

1. Food

You’ve heard the old adage: food is medicine.

That’s no joke.

Prepackaged “healthy” foods are immediately unhealthy.

Pesticide-sprayed fruits and vegetables are flat out proven to have less nutrition than organic and chemical free produce.

Our children drink more sugar in one beverage than they should consume in an entire day.

Yet we’re surprised when we see the charts shouting at us that we’re sicker than ever…

The only way around this is to find chemical-free and organic farms that we can buy from to bring costs down. To budget in organics just like we do a cell phone bill.

If you’re reading this in the Dayton, Ohio area or you’d just like to see some great examples, visit Three Trees Farm or Eat Food For Life. Read their websites and about their practices.

This education is priceless.

2. Lifestyle Products

We were shocked at how many “safe” products were full of synthetics, fragrances, and pesticides.

How can companies get away with this?

We keep buying it!

We’ve got to look into what we put on our body and in our air, friends!

This is dire. And I do mean DIRE. 

The average American home is up to five TIMES more toxic than the most populated and industrialized cities!

It’s no wonder the cause of 95% of cancers is toxins.

Every single hour of burning a candle in your home is the same, toxicologists say, as smoking a cigarette.

Imagine putting a cigarette in your baby’s mouth.

What do we expect when detergents and soaps marked cancerous and hormone disrupting are marketed to children?

Dependency on Medicine

I could talk about this and the lifestyle products for hours, but I’ll be brief.

Somehow we’ve forgotten that medicine is a LAST RESORT.

Somewhere in the last twenty years we decided that popping a pill or dropping acetaminophen in our kids’ mouths every time their temperature goes above 99 degrees is fixing the problem.

Please. We have to stop. Now.

Don’t you see?

If you fix the food and lifestyle products issue and you use Young Living to work home remedies then you WON’T NEED THE MEDICINE!

But instead, we toss aside those little square side effects pamphlets assuming that our docs wouldn’t prescribe them to us if those effects weren’t like…the freak accidents, right?

But what you’re not reading (and what your doctor isn’t telling you) is all the little things that are happening to your body every time you take something you could fix naturally.

All those things you did to your body and passed on to your child that they’ll genetically pass on to theirs.

Remember who makes a LOT of money from every prescription or synthetic medicine labeled “natural” the next time you head into your local drug store.

You have a decision to make. A gift to give.

And I get it.

I was afraid to throw the aspirin and acetaminophen away until Young Living proved itself for a year.

But I do urge you to make the decision sooner than later, friends.

Where to Start

I’d love to tell you to go out and buy all the white labeled stuff at the store and make yourself a new clean home with a Target cart full of new bottles, but I can’t.

I know because I tried it myself, and it didn’t work. Here’s why.

Step one is to go here .

Get started with making the changes bit by bit.

Need ideas for what to get first?

What to Get

  1. CLEAN YOUR AIR: get a diffuser (I suggest the Desert Mist)
  2. CLEAN YOUR LAUNDRY: grab the Thieves Laundry Detergent. It dilutes out to 16 bottles and you’ll get the recipe when I add you to our Facebook community.
  3. CLEAN YOUR EVERYTHING ELSE: Thieves Household Cleaner is 29 bottles in one. You can get rid of EVERY. SINGLE. CLEANER. IN. YOUR. HOME. No, this isn’t a joke. Yes, it kills the germs. We’ve done it for 4 years. I’d not beat my head against a wall for four years if it didn’t work like a charm…hello!
  4. SET UP A LOYALTY BOX: this will give you a % back on each monthly box you get. You’ll choose what goes in (think oils for remedies and prevention, personal care/toiletries, makeup, supplements, CBD, etc) and remember, most all dilute out to save you tons. What you can’t dilute, you can use your % back to get for free!

YOU CAN DO THIS!

Set small goals for yourself each month.

  1. What can you swap out at the store for a Young Living product?
  2. What can you buy organic this week instead of conventional?

Living on a budget?

You’ll be shocked by how much money is left over for organics when you take out pop/soda, cookies, chips, and prepackaged snacks and stop running to the pharmacy and turn to oils instead.

This will be the most rewarding gift you’ve ever given your family.

When your children are reaping the rewards as adults and teaching their children, your grandbabies, how to create a home the right way, you’ll be so very glad you read this, took action, and never looked back.

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