What Do You Have to Lose?

We celebrate Independence Day today, and our guest blogger, Andrea Grice, wants to share her independence from traditional lifestyle solutions to oil-based lifestyle solutions with you. Enjoy the Holiday, make good memories with family and friends, and remember to honor the reason why we celebrate. Come meet Andrea-she's a talented Young Living Team Leader and has a great story to share with us.

Just a bit about me: I am a wife and stay-at-home mother of three (most of the time) lovely children; Owen 16, Lexi 13, and Lindsey 10. My awesome, supportive husband and I have been married for 20 years this January. Before I chose to stay home with my kids, I was a medical assistant for an ObGyn & Pediatric office, and I also spent a couple of years as an EEG technician.

It wasn’t until I was in my mid 30s that I started exploring alternative methods of support and healing for various ailments, only because one of my children had a severe long-term adverse reaction to a prescription drug. Prior to that I was all about medicating anything that came our way; that was all I knew. It was a couple years later that I was introduced to Young Living Essential Oils. I asked myself , WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE? Now almost four years later, I see how important that decision was.

I can’t imagine life without Young Living oils! Not only has it empowered us to have a full arsenal in our back pocket to support our health on our own, but the friendships and financial opportunities it provides are endless. Not a day goes by that we don’t utilize these treasures!

A day in the life of this oil user...

• Wake Up & Shower with DIY Lavender, Tea Tree & Geranium Body Wash

• Shave legs with DIY Moisturizing Foaming Shaving Lotion

• After Shower apply ART Facial Skincare line

• Apply DIY Body Butter made with shea butter, Frankincense, Manuka, Lavender

• Soon (on order) I will be using YLing new chemical free makeup line! Savvy Minerals! I am so excited!

• DIY Perfume made of Joy, Stress Away & Valor

• Go down stairs and turn on Kitchen Diffuser. Depending on our mood we usually use, Stress Away (if it is going to be one of those days), Joy if it is cloudy outside or Citrus Fresh & Bergamot for a clean uplifting scent and to put some pep in my step

• Do dishes with Thieves dish soap (chemical free)

• Clean House - granite, wood floors, windows, bathrooms, sinks, showers and stainless steel with Thieves Household Cleaner also chemical free! ($22.00 wholesale for 14.4 oz of concentrate!!! Than means you can clean your entire house with 1 cleaner for $22.00 for 3 - 6 months, depending on how much you clean. That seriously excites me!)

• Throw in a load of wash using Thieves Laundry Soap (again chemical free)

• Cook dinner using Young Living Vitality line of oils that are made for consumption. Just to name a few... Lemon, Lime, Black pepper, Basil, Taste of Italy or Thyme. There are about 27 vitality oils so far.

• Homework: Diffuse a focus blend to help support concentration, usually Vetiver or a blend called Brain Power

• Bedtime : My kids all have their own favorite diffuser blends-usually lavender or lavender & Cedarwood.

And that is only one day! Use the comments section if you're interested in the DIY recipes. There are so many more ways we use our oils including sprays, mixtures, bath soaks, body balms, roller bottles. When you put a mixture of oils in a 5 or 10 ml roller bottle mix it with a carrier oil (usually olive oil or coconut oil is what we use). Mixtures include: Seasonal Support, Tension Tamer, Tummy Trouble, Sleepy Time, Calm, After Bite, immune support, room spray, carpet sprinkles, calming bath soak, muscle soother soak, outdoor spray, relief cream, bath bomb, congestion clearer, soothing lip balm, sunburn soother, after sun relief, hair defender, stain remover...I could go on forever.

So as you can see all of the Young Living products have been LIFE CHANGING for us. Little by little we are eliminating chemicals from our life. Don’t get me wrong, we still have a ways to go and we are not perfect by any means, but I like to think every little bit helps our health in the long run.

I purchased my Premium Starter Kit in July 2014. I immediately started telling everyone I knew how well these oils worked. I was truly amazed! If someone said, “I have a headache” I would say “try these 3 oils”, if they said “I have a tummy ache” I would suggest trying this oil. Soon I had people asking me “how do I get these oils?” I asked the person who introduced me to the oils and she told me “I can sell it to them or you can if you want and it will pay for your kit and then some”. Never, never in my mind was selling anything in my future. I was so blessed to be a stay-at-home mom and loved every minute of it. But at the same time it was intriguing to get my oils payed for, which was slowly becoming a tiny obsession.

Forward 3 1/2 years and the best part remains that I don’t sell anything! What I do is educate people on something amazing that I found and I love! So here I am years later. I am still a home with my children, but I also “work/share” on my own schedule so I don’t have to miss any family time. I get my oils paid for and then some. It really is the best of both worlds for me and our family!

In the Young Living world there are nine levels of achievement. As of right now I am an Executive which is level 4. This level allows me to pay for our oils and other chemical free products and help support my family. College is coming fast! I am quickly closing in on Silver which is the next level and that will allow our family to take more vacations and create memories together.

I truly believe this is my purpose in life (besides being the best wife and mother I can be). I am able to help people with their health and wellness. I knew at a young age I wanted to help people, which is why I originally went into the healthcare field. Now I am able to achieve the same end result using a different avenue that I believe will benefit people in the long run.

So what do YOU have to lose?

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