It took me fifteen years to discover acne’s dirty truth.
That’s a heck of a long time to suffer with something unnecessarily.
Seven different doctors, and years of seriously cystic and painful acne.
It wasn’t until I was 37 and on my seventh and last desperate option I finally learned the truth.
If I Hear It’s My Hormones One. More. Time.
Within seconds of dermatologists looking at my skin, they were writing on their prescription pad.
Hormones.
Because the dirty little truth is: that’s as deep as their guess gets.
Why?
Because they’ve figured out ways to manipulate our hormones to make acne go away.
Most of the time.
Until they met me.
Root Cause
It wasn’t until I started to detox my home that I realized I may have a root cause under my “hormonal acne” that docs refused to discuss with me.
When I’d say things like, “What about my acne’s root cause? What’s making my hormones act this way?” they’d either change the subject or just flat out tell me they had no clue.
When I’d suggest we dig in and try to figure it out together, they’d laugh.
Yes, laugh.
One even rolled his eyes.
Seventh Time’s a Charm
What did this seventh doctor do that no one else would do?
He looked at my entire body including emotions, brain function, and spinal alignment.
I’ll break this down more in later posts, but for now, I’ll share that muscle testing, emotional release, supplementation, and spinal adjustments were my path to leaving acne behind.
I’m seven months into my treatment after walking through 15 years of sickness, and I can’t believe how far I’ve come.
Now, I can use my toxin-free maximum strength acne treatment to knock out anything that creeps up before ovulation and my cycle.
I’ve never had my skin look this good.
It’s still not where we’re going to end up, but I cannot believe I’ve come so far!
How to Move Toward Cystic Acne Freedom
The biggest step I took toward health was going toxin free.
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!
