TOP wellness hacks for 2025… acupressure mat benefits, protein intake for wellness, walk with weighted vest benefits, supplements for energy and vitality, and creatine for women, Use collagen with NMN as a search-friendly term for anti-aging and skin health benefits, castor oil packs and Balance essential oils to lower your cortisol!
Read MoreHow to make natural bug spray - a topic of interest every summer!
How do you pick a plant for a bug spray when it varies depending on where you live and what bugs you’re dealing with? You will want to have a general idea of what bugs are in your area because different bugs are repelled by different plants.
Most bugs hate the smell of peppermint, which is an easy recommendation. It’s great too because it’s a versatile oil that you can use for so many other purposes as well to get more bang for your buck.
Karin, a former lawyer turned functional medicine nutritionist. She has been in the wellness space for the past 20 years. She’s the daughter of a doctor who found herself grappling with two autoimmune disorders, but found limited success from the conventional route of medicine.
Now she’s a culinary nutritionist who specializes in using food as an approach for wellness, in a family-friendly and accessible way.
In her clinic, she was seeing alarming statistics on the rise. She saw an increase in cognitive issues for children. In the US, 1 in 5 has mental health issues with a 43% increase in ADHD since COVID.
Spring has sprung - let’s spruce up some self care as we run head on into spring!
Spring is special this year because it dawned early with Easter taking place the last week of March instead of mid-April. The hope of this blog is to spruce up some spring feelings because we all need a change of seasons. Every season has its purpose and is beautiful in its own way. Coming out of winter, with Easter you may be reminded of the newness of life and the renewal that is available to us through a relationship with Jesus. In a less significant way, spring is also a time to enter a renewal for mind, body, and home.
Read MoreHere are the TOP 10 essential oils for every home:
BUT FIRST YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW YOUR OILS ARE SOURCED.
Disclaimer: I am only talking about doTERRA essential oils where I know the strain of the plant, the sourcing, testing and purity. DO NOT use my tips with other essential oil brands!
And the top 10 are:
Lemon, Lavender, Peppermint, Oregano, OnGuard, Frankincense, Digestzen, Tea Tree, Breathe, and Deep Blue
Read MoreWe’re all striving for balance (it’s actually one of my favorite essential oils) but.... is it possible?!!!!?????
Balance between natural solutions and modern medicine?
Balance between using an oil for everything and never using natural solutions?
Balance between living naturally and being over the top about everything being 'bad'!?
Balance in eating healthy and indulging?
Balance in working out and rest days?
Balance in living 'healthy' and YOLO?!
Every day is a new day.
This episode is to challenge you to think about your time and your money in a different way.
This episode is about setting your intentions for the year that you weren’t expecting but might have major impact on how your year goes.
If you don’t give your time and money a job, they will be wasted.
On episode 184 of The Well Podcast, Kari sits down to chat with mom, pastor’s wife, and mental health therapist, Gianna Reese. Gianna specializes in work with teenagers and adults but provides services across the lifespan. Here is a teaser of the conversation.
Our world today is not without life’s stressors. While we may not be foraging to find our food or worried about a bear attack out in the wilderness, we still have scenarios that put us into fight, flight, or flee responses. Many people assume we are born with the skills needed to deal with life’s stressors, but we are not born with healthy emotional expression, boundary setting, or emotional intelligence tools.
Read MoreOn episode 184 of The Well Podcast, Kari sits down to chat with mom, pastor’s wife, and mental health therapist, Gianna Reese. Gianna specializes in work with teenagers and adults but provides services across the lifespan. Here is a teaser of the conversation.
Our world today is not without life’s stressors. While we may not be foraging to find our food or worried about a bear attack out in the wilderness, we still have scenarios that put us into fight, flight, or flee responses. Many people assume we are born with the skills needed to deal with life’s stressors, but we are not born with healthy emotional expression, boundary setting, or emotional intelligence tools.
Read MoreDoes it seem like everyone around you is getting sick as we head into fall?
Here are some empowering tips to avoid feeling like a sitting duck this fall as we enter “sick season”. You can be proactive with you and your family’s health with a few quick tips:
Read MoreWe get asked often, what are your top 10 essential oils you reach for most often? While some people have their favorites that switch up the list, the following are deemed doTERRA’s Top 10 Essential Oils. Below we will explain why!
Quick tips for having essential oils while traveling!
Travel doesn't need to be toxic. You can use natural based products with essential oils to stay well and comfortable while you're away. Episode 160 shares quick helpful tips for traveling with oils in your toolbox so you can make sure you have the best trip you’ve been envisioning.
Read MoreDo you need a cleanse?
Summertime is a fun season and we want to have energy and feel great!
But.... do you have
Cravings?
Have you been overindulging?
Feel heavy, bloated, sluggish?
Not going to the bathroom regularly?
Have skin breakouts?
Getting sick a lot?
Exhausted?
We all have tummy troubles from time to time! I know that after I eat out, when I’m traveling, when I’ve overindulged with fried food, I can just be miserable! Since teaching about essential oils, I have talked more about poop than I ever dreamed I would in a lifetime! If your digestive system is upset, everything is upset!
Read MoreThe best part of bringing doTERRA essential oils into your home is the
EMPOWERMENT
it brings! You get to ditch the toxins and know that all of your products are now effective, but also safe! Try these!!
When you start swapping out your conventional products with essential oil infused NATURAL products you won’t believe the BENEFITS!
Read MoreWhen you get started using essential oils, KEEP it SIMPLE!! These quick 5 tips will help you!
Read MoreI had grown up listening in Sunday school class that frankincense and myrrh were brought to baby Jesus in the Christmas nativity story. It wasn’t until I started using essential oils in 2013, though, that I began to understand why! I fell in love with aromatic compounds (that’s what essential oils are) and all the different plants that have essential oils.
Read MoreDo you turn the calendar to October and get immediate anxiety, panick and dread?!?
As a mom, wife, business owner, lover of the Fall and holidays and pumpkins and coffee, I don’t want it to be this way!!!
But nonetheless, if this is you, you are not alone.
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