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Month: July 2015

Essential Oils for the Wedding Day

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We have some friends getting married, and I’m so excited to send them their gift.

I put together a little sampling of wedding day oils, inspired by Daniel Macdonald’s book Emotional Healing with Essential Oils.

Here are the oils and blends that I included in their gift, both for the properties and physical benefits, and as a blessing for the couple:

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Grounding Blend: This is a blend of tree oils. Think big oak tree with deep roots. Put it on the back of the neck to help with nerves, or put 1-2 drops in the palm of your hands and cup over your nose to inhale. Balance is the grounding blend made of tree oils, providing inner strength and fortitude.

Digestive Blend: To help calm any tummy troubles. Apply to the bottoms of feet or in a carrier oil on the abdomen. This blend increases an individual’s ability to receive new information, new relationships, and new experiences and be open to new possibilities.

Soothing Blend: Rub on your temples and neck to help relieve any tension. Helps the couple stay “cool and collected.” It’s also great for an “active” honeymoon to soothe sore muscles from hiking, swimming, and sight-seeing. 😉

Lemon: Add to your water as a pick-me-up. It’s great for clarity and inspires a natural playfulness and buoyancy in the heart and presence in the moment with energy, confidence, and alertness.

Orange: Rub on the bottom of your feet for an energy boost. Orange is the “Oil of Abundance” and fosters creativity, supports a positive mood, restores physical energy, and aids in transitions. It inspires limitless solutions for problems and issues.

Ylang Ylang: For the honeymoon. Ylang ylang encourages play and restores a childlike nature and innocence. It assists in accessing intuition or “heart knowing” and reminds the couple that joy can be felt and experienced more fully by allowing the heart its full range of emotions. Pairs well with Wild Orange.

Coconut oil: as a carrier oil to dilute the essential oils and “carry” them to the body, over a larger surface area.

Congratulations, friends! May your marriage be richly blessed!

Contact me to purchase your own 100% pure essential oils to create gifts for your newlywed friends.

 

 

What Do You Do When It Gets Intense? Celebrate!

Another midwife and I were at a prenatal home visit the other day. We were talking through all of the prep, expectations, signs of labor, etc.
I’ve heard it all a million times so I kind of checked out for part of it. Then she said something unexpected and really great, my ears perked up and it really stuck with me.

Photo Credit: Betsy King

Photo Credit: Betsy King

She said:
“Whenever you reach a new level of intensity and you want to say ‘Whoah!'” (I thought she was going to say, you should call me). But what she said was: “You should CELEBRATE. Because that new level of intensity, that really big feeling that may even include doubt, means that YOU are making PROGRESS.
So, celebrate it!”
So, in these times when you are pushing yourself, and it’s new and scary and you want to yell “Whoah!” — CELEBRATE! You’re making progress!

See more pics and read this Mama’s awesome birth story.

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