Our WHY for Essential Oils
- Michele
- Aug 25, 2015
- 2 min read
We all have different reasons why we get into certain things, do the things we do each day, and why we make the choices we make. For us the WHY for using essential oils is a long story. I will try to condense it. When the medical field found diagnosis after diagnosis for my poor health, and continuing downward spiral, each one came back with a "we are sorry, there's not much we can do for that."
I have 3 kids and a husband, a home, a life, a community I am part of. When my illnesses overtook my ability to take part in any of my daily responsibilities we knew something had to change.
Insert our new "granola" lifestyle. We learned that my body has no stress capacity. Now, to some people stress is easily relieved, "do yoga," "meditate," "take anti-anxiety pills." These were my options. Unfortunately the stress we are talking about is much more widespread. Chemicals in everyday things such as dish soap, perfumes, cleaners, laundry products, non-organic food, furniture, paint, flooring, mattresses, clothing, I mean the list could go on forever. We had to change from a very standard way of living to a drastically CLEAN way of living overnight.
The other thing that had to go were pain relivers, (tylenol, ibuprofen, alka seltzer) I could no longer use any of these products. I am so sensitive however, that I commonly found myself with headaches, my female cramps became debilitating and my sinus/ear congestion was extremely painful. I read "natural solutions" online all the time and found so much information regarding essential oil use for people like me.
Our first purchases were lavender, lemon and peppermint oils. I used lemon in my water to cleanse my overtoxic body, and used it in my laundry to help boost my *not so great* fragrance free laundry products. I used lavender almost every single day for things like scrapes, bruises, burns, to relax my nerves, sore neck muscles, and sore tummy. It became my 'windex' (my big fat greek wedding) haha. I also used peppermint everyday for my crazy bad headaches, body aches and sinus pressure. I finally started finding relief in this very natural way! What a miracle we found!
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