Protecting Yourself This Holiday Season
The holidays can feel threatening in many ways.
You may feel the desire to put on a coat of armor and build a wall around your loved ones.
Maybe your in-laws will be extra critical at family gatherings. Maybe your sister will make comments about the way you look. Or your Aunt Lolly will making cutting remarks about your parenting skills.
When people are together, hurt is possible and even probable.
I have run into the most rude people on the internet and out in public lately. Everyone seems to be losing it a little!
We also have the extra precautions this year with COVID19.
Will our family gatherings spread the virus? Are we putting our kids or our elderly family at risk? You might just want to put armor on all and build a wall around your house and stay home.
I don’t think that staying away from all people is the answer.
In fact, I think that there are going to be long term effects of all of the isolation we have already experienced in 2020.
I do think that it is smart to arm yourself with 4 things, though.
Positivity!
When you put GOOD in, it pushes the BAD out! Listen to a great podcast, read a devotional or listen to a sermon, make a list of all that you are grateful for, listen to music that connects you to God or a fun memory! Call a friend that makes you laugh and get a pep talk from someone who lifts you up!
Affirmations.
Talk to yourself! Acknowledge the lies that others make you think about yourself. Make a list of the things in your head that you are good at. Make a list of truths that YOU KNOW ARE TRUE.
You love your family.
You are a good mom.
You will seek kindness and love above all else.
Get the picture?
(You may even want to write these down and read them daily!)
Use Immune Boosting natural wellness products
We don’t have to go unarmed. We have immune boosting plants that work wonders in our body. Make a hand sanitizer with doTERRA Onguard and use often. Take an OnGuard + softgel for systemic immune boosting properties and then inhale Onguard oil and pop OnGuard beadles throughout the day to keep those healthy molecules on your throat and sinuses. OnGuard is know as the protective blend. It will protect you and those molecules can also help you feel emotionally protected!
MAKE THIS ROLLER BLEND!! Rub it on your feet and spine and do the same for everyone in the house DAILY!
4 . Pick a cute outfit.
It sounds silly, but whenever you feel good about yourself, you respond better. You let the little comments roll off. You hold you head a little highter. Take a hot shower, use your frankincense on your skin, do your makeup and get dressed up. When you are armed with your cute outfit, positive thoughts, the truth that you spoke to yourself and immune boosting essential oils in, on and around you, no one or nothing can “touch” you!
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Kari Turner Davis is a Holistic Life Coach and dōTERRA Essential Oils Educator. A dōTERRA Diamond leader, Kari is passionate about empowering women with the tools they need to reach financial freedom while educating moms to embrace the idea of a natural and non-toxic lifestyle. Kari and her husband, Bobby, live in Naples, Florida with their combined five children. They enjoy boating, spending time together as a family and creating an enjoyable lifestyle that revolves around filling up your tank to serve others in a higher capacity.