Quick Tips for Making All Natural Bug Spray

How 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.

Essential Oils, Parenting + Kids, WellnessKari DavisJune 11, 2024THE WELL TEAMwhole body wellnessComment

Nutrition Tips for the Brain!

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 Spruce Up

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.

Better (for you!)Than Botox - Masterclass

Wellness, Essential OilsKari DavisMay 22, 2024THE WELL TEAMwhole body wellness, self care, aging, skin careComment

Top 10 Essential Oils

Here 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

Wellness, Essential OilsKari DavisMay 22, 2024THE WELL TEAMessential oils, top 10 oils, doterraComment

Is There Balance in Health & Wellness?

We’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?!

Wellness, Essential OilsKari DavisMay 21, 2024THE WELL TEAMwhole body wellnessComment

Do Your Time & Money Have Jobs?

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.

Wellness, Essential OilsKari DavisJanuary 31, 2024THE WELL TEAMnon toxic lifestyle, whole body wellnessComment

Hormone Health 101

Wellness, Essential OilsKari DavisJanuary 31, 2024THE WELL TEAMnon toxic lifestyle, whole body wellness, hormone health, hormones, women's health, natural remedies, hormone healing, food as medicineComment

Proactive vs Reactive

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.

Get Well Soon

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.

Everyone Seems to be Getting Sick

Does 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:

Parenting + Kids, Essential OilsKari DavisSeptember 6, 2023THE WELL TEAMsick season, illness, immune support, onguard, essential oilsComment

Top 10 Essential Oils

We 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!

Travel Tips

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.

Essential OilsKari DavisJuly 11, 2023THE WELL TEAMsummer travel, traveling, digestive support, travel tipsComment

Simple Summer Detox

Do 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?

Essential OilsKari DavisMay 12, 2023THE WELL TEAMComment

Quick Tips for Digestive Health

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!

7 Simple Swaps with Essential oils

The 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!

Top 5 Tips to Incorporate Essential Oils

When you get started using essential oils, KEEP it SIMPLE!! These quick 5 tips will help you!

Why were frankincense and myrrh brought to the Baby Jesus?!? Oils of the Bible

I 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.