Have a Healthy Summer

  For those of you that don’t know, I live in Ketchikan, Alaska, which is on a little island in Southeast Alaska, about an hour and forty-five minutes from Seattle (by jet). We have several claims to fame, but the two most people know is rain… 13 plus feet (yes we measure it in feet) a…

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How Essential Oils can be a real estate agent’s secret success weapon.

How Essential Oils can be a real estate agent’s secret success weapon! I’ll bet most of you didn’t know that at one time I was a real estate agent. Yep that is – right me. It sounded like a perfect fit… choose your own hours so you can be home with the kids, show sparkling…

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How Much Should I Dilute My Essential Oils?

How Much Should I Dilute My Essential Oils? Like many others, I have some pretty strong feelings about how doTERRA essential oils should be used. To help I’ve included the safety chart below.  First, I think it is really important to point out that this chart is really for adults and one drop of oil.…

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How to Capture the Essence of Summer

After several cloudy, rainy days, I thought summer was over and was settling in for our rainy season followed by our snowy season, but today I woke up to a gorgeous sunny warm day. The kind of day that makes my want to indulge in one of my guilty pleasures, laying in a sunbeam and…

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How to End the Dreaded Bedtime Battles

What is it about bedtime that makes me cringe? Sleep? No – not my bedtime… theirs. It seems 5 minutes before bedtime they are so hyper they are climbing the walls or the whining and crying starts. You’d think we are trying to kill them, not do what is natural and sleep and recharge our…

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Internalizing

Do you internalize things? Have inner chatter going on in the back of your mind about something that is bothering you? I know I do. I’m an innate problem solver. The belief that every problem can be solved with a reasonable solution is something that is hard-wired in me. When there is a problem I…

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Is it Okay to Mix Blends with Blends?

One of the incredibly cool things about playing with essential oils is you can go on Google or Pinterest and find a recipe to blend for just about anything! It is also one of the most frustrating things about essential oils. Where do you begin? Which do you pick? How do you know they know…

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Is it safe to use essential oils internally?

Is it safe to use essential oils internally? The answer is simply – yes and no. In a nutshell: YES: -If the product label says it is safe for internal use. -Only in the amount and method indicated by the directions. NO: -If the product label says do not use for internal use. I know…

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It’s All About Long Hair

People comment on how long my hair is all the time. They’ll often say things like ‘You must have great hair genetics in your family’ or that I’m lucky or ask how I did it. It happens often enough that I thought I’d share my dirty little secret, because it is not genetics and it…

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