I had spent several years dealing with headaches, sinus issues and debilitating back pain/spasms. I was in and out of doctors offices and sought chiropractic care. I remember my family physician told me regarding my back pain that it was just something I was going to have to live with and handed me prescriptions for muscle relaxers (flexeril) and pain killers (vicodin) not having any consideration for the long line of addiction in my family or that I was a young mom with 3 kids to take care of. I knew it was not a path I could risk going down so I was back to square one. Luckily I eventually found an amazing chiropractor who taught me so much about my body and how to control it but I still suffered setbacks on occasion and dealt with the pain. I knew there were answers, I just had not found all of them yet. During the time I lived in London, I went to the Chemist for a suggestion for my sinus pain and was given a small bottle of liquid with the instructions to put a few drops on my shirt or pillow case and just inhale out of the bottle when needed. My family referred to it as the smelly stuff for the 10 years the bottle lasted us. It wasn’t until I was running out, trying to figure out how to replace it that I realized I was using essential oils so my interest was now piqued. This happened to be right about the time Pinterest was gaining traction so the research frenzy on essential oils was in full force for me. I was amazed at what I was reading and wanted to try all of them. I remember going on a girls weekend with women I didn’t know and rubbing oils on the bottoms of their feet even though I am disgusted by feet in general but I was so curious about their effects. At this time I was buying them from where ever I saw them until I was soon introduced to the company doTERRA and while listening to my, now friend, Eleni share her experiences I was told by another girlfriend, “You should do what she’s doing because you are obsessed with essential oils”. I couldn’t place my starter kit order fast enough and as I took the caps off my first doTERRA oils, the passion I had been searching for for years was born. They smelled and worked differently than most oils I had been using and I could not have been more thrilled with the results. Stay tuned for future posts where I will share my experiences and testimonies I have had over the past few years.
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