Making An Essential Oil Toolbox: Companion Episode
Courtney was my guest on the Abundant Parent membership. Catch her full workshop here: https://theabundantparent.com/making-an-essential-oil-toolbox/ Something I love doing is introducing parents to non-traditional tools to show them how they can support their family in addition to other measures they may be using or in some cases, prescribed. Traditional and nontraditional tools can work beautifully together. Essential oils are no different, and with as popular as they have become, I knew it was time to cut through the oily residue of essential oil controversy and show how these pleasant and easy to use tools could bring extra body and mind support to parents. Catch the Companion Podcast Here: Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Podcast: Play in new window Time and time again I find the greatest gifts and direct paths to my purpose reveal themselves through my struggles and being well… inconvenienced. Exposure from a young age to the body’s ability to defend itself from disease, and learning to manage my own auto-immune disorder to conceive and continued opportunities to learn through resistance…. all laid out the welcome mat to become a full fledged crunchy earth momma. Auto-Immune Necessity What started as a journey to reduce sugar and carbs to unravel my PCOS turned into a change with my relationship with my own consumerism. Shifting my perspective of food to satisfy specific cravings and taste and instead purchasing foods that supported my body health not only eliminated cravings but healed my relationship with food. And the same with non-edible purchases. Understanding that purchasing things that were familiar and convenient didn’t always end up being what was best for me. This all meant I was choosing honey and maple syrup instead of refined sugar, and choosing unsalted products and ingredients and adding my own sea and Himalayan salt in small quantity. This also meant I was ditching the laundry detergent that smelled like my childhood and loving the simplicity of life with simpler ingredients. Then I Became a Mom. When I became a mom, I wanted to give my kids the best most pure start possible. Essential oils became a bigger part of that than I had originally anticipated. I was using camomile and lavender to calm them in their baths, clove oil to soothe their broken and teething gums, eucalyptus oil for my own toxic free Vicks. As my kids grew their needs and interests changed and soon they wanted to help me craft holiday gifts with lotion bars, gourmet salts and home made perfume. But, the essential oils that become the smell my kids would begin to recognize as home were lemon and thyme.