Have you ever thought about the daily, sometimes insignificant choices that you make?  What do you do first thing in the morning?  Why?  Just because that's what you have always done and you really have never thought about doing it a different way? What if you were to think about the choices you make every day and actually CHOOSE to make sure that the small daily disciplines of life are actually benefiting you and not harming you.  For example, do you eat sweets every night while watching TV for a few hours?  Do you do this just because you always have?   What if you choose to change the process and eat some fruit while you read a book???  Small choices compound over time.  Think of the long term effects of the two choices above. The TV and sweets over five years will gain you some weight and probably very little to no knowledge.  The fruit and a book will gain loads of knowledge and better health! We make small choices every day t...

Many people ask me why or how I began my journey with Young Living.  It definately was not by accident.  God had a plan and a purpose.  My husband had chronic severe migraines.  Sometimes he would have as many as twenty six or more debilitating migraines a month.  This is unbearable for anyone but especially unbearable for a self employed man who lives in a 1000 square foot home with his wife and five children.  Life was exhausting and hard. We went to many doctors throughout NY, MS, VT and CA looking for answers.  We tried all the migraine medicines, accupuncture, accupressure, chiropractic, nutrition, botox, special glasses, you name it!  Nothing worked.  We were at our wits end and had a medicine cabinet so full of drugs that my husband seemed like a zombie. I was fed up.  I knew that there had to be a better way but wasn't sure what that was.  Regardless, I knew that taking as many drugs as he was, my husband's body no lo...

I hear so often "I can't get on the Essential Rewards program because all of Young Living's products are so expensive" or "Wow, you pay that much for shampoo?" Yup, I do!  BUT there are a few reasons WHY I pay that much for shampoo (and other products) First- I get my household products like shampoo, conditioner, laundry soap, body wash, face cleaners, etc from Young Living on the Essential Rewards program.  I am going to buy these products anyway and Walmart does not give me anything for buying this stuff.  Young Living gives me 20% back on all of my products!!!! Second- Because I do buy my products on Essential Rewards I get FREE products PLUS I know that these products are non toxic and work amazingly!  Buying "healthy, non toxic" products at Walmart is almost impossible! Third-  HACKS!!!!!!!!  Young Living products are so amazingly concentrated that I have learned many hacks to make them last WAY longer than most people know.  For inst...

We as mom's tend to be pretty thorough about keeping our homes clean.  It's the place our kids eat, play, sleep and live.  Most mom's I know try their hardest to keep a clean environment to ward off any unwanted side effects of a dirty environment!  I know that my floors are one of my greatest areas of issue.  Our high traffic kitchen area has linoleum flooring and the entry ways have hard wood.  This creates a lot of indoor/outddor foot traffic.  The dog also contributes to this traffic. My kids predominantly run around our home barefoot.  So I like to keep the floors as clean and "critter" free as possible.  I was astonished when I learned that my hard pressed desire to keep my kids healthy by mopping the floors constantly may have been doing more damage than good! The chemicals we use to clean our homes are predominantly doing more damage to our families than good!  I was shocked!  Watch the video below done by Dr. Jim Bob Hagge...

Have you heard the new craze about all of these "cleanses"?  So, is it worth looking into?  Or is this just a money making scheme? All of my life I have had digestive issues.  I had heard about cleansing but never really thought twice about it.  I probably didn't want to think twice about it because most of them required fasting and, well, I love food! But I made a committment this year to get healthy and WELL!  This means fixing the things I know are broken or not working optimally, even if I am not "sick".  I started looking into the impact of gut health on my overall wellness.  Let's just say that I was blown away.  I went through book after book and training after training and almost every issue people deal with led back to the gut!  Imagine that. Hormones issues, skin issues, attention issues, food sensitivity issues......ALL led back to gut health.    And poop!  I learned more about pooping and how it affects every ...

I have five kiddos ages four to fourteen.  Only one poor boy stuck in-between all of those girls.  One thing I quickly figured out through having children is that after kiddo #1, your hormones no longer know how they are supposed to act! This caused me A LOT of issues.  Issues with sleep, temperment, libido, mom brain, and what I overall just called Mom Crazy!  I never would have guessed in a million years that essential oils could be used to support hormones and all the crazy!  But they do!  Not only mom crazy, but teenage crazy too!!!  This stuff is like the Golden ticket!  Check out a class I tauught all about hormones and essential oils. Hormones and Essential Oils To get started on your own oily journey:  http://bit.ly/christayl

Essential Oils have changed my life! Everyone sleeps better, temperments are better, Momma Crazy is gone, hormones are under control and SO MANY other things.  I could go on and on about the awesomeness of these babies! But I will just leave you a video instead...it will save my fingers and your sanity ;) Listen to this video (it is not me) and then hit me up so we can chat!  Or, if you are SOLD, like I was then go get your kit!! http://bit.ly/christayl Essential Oils 101

I have this overwhelming issue with people who say that they are "healthy as a horse" while lighting up their tenth cigarette for the day.  My dad is one of these people.  I love him "to the moon and back", but it bothers me when he feels that he is so healthy even though he smokes a pack or more of cigarettes a day and has for over forty years! So, why is it that we feel that "health" is based upon whether or not we are sick at that moment?  My dad can go to a doctor for a physical and be told he is "healthy"- even though the doctor knows he smokes.  We can go to the grocery store and buy a box of cereal that has claims of nutrition, value, low sugar and "no high fructose corn syrup", yet you read the actual ingedient list and you see sugar as the second ingredient and corn syrup (apparently not the high fructose sort) on the same list. When did we become so dumb as a nation?  When did we learn to listen to everyone else to determi...