………..and just like that….. a New Year is here…. and I am looking forward to this one in so many ways. 2017 was a great year for me, got me out of my comfort zone and into doing lots of new stuff and redoing stuff I ‘used to do but gave up doing’ …. and a whole new wellness that has left me feeling mostly awesome.
To say that it was ALL GOOD would be telling a lie, I still had moments of anxiety, depression as a result of the anxiety, feelings of helplessness, exasperation and frustration because situations were out of my control….. just the usual things that LIFE throws at us to build our character all the time.
I ended 2016 with pain and discomfort, unable to spend more than a couple of hours on the torch or working with wire without having pain in my left arm or tension in my neck and shoulders…..
This last weekend as I was taking stock of 2017 and preparing myself for the entry into 2018…… it was with a lot of gratitude and happiness, acknowledgement of the huge changes in my life in such a very short time. I am so very happy that making that one small change in my life has made such a HUGE improvement in the quality of my health.
I am grateful for the good health which has blessed me in 2017 and continues to be my companion. I am grateful to have the tools now to not just help my family and but also to help others around me heal and feel better.
This weekend, I found time to bring out my pliers and silver wire and actually brought out some beads that have been sitting in my studio for a while. I was able to play with wire with ease. Soon I will be firing up the torch again to melt some glass. I am looking forward to a beautiful 2018 – a year to REGENERATE and create.
Looking forward to re connecting and reigniting… wishing you a fabulous year ahead.
If you would like to know more about how my health and wellness has improved so significantly and if you would like to know how to improve yours, send me an email or message me through my FB page.
2017 – it has been am AMAZING year for me personally on so many levels.
After being a recluse for so many years, and making excuses for not going out and meeting people, 2017 has been awesome for getting me out of my shell.
I have enjoyed being part of the Kingscote Farmers’ Market, sharing my love of doTERRA essential oils, meeting new people and helping folks from all walks of life with oily solutions. I have created a page on Facebook to share my oily knowledge and I also have a group where we share oily experiences.
I loved the buzz at my first doTERRA Convention at the Gold Coast in March this year, meeting up with like minded folks and learning lots – so much so that I have already registered for the Convention next year in Sydney – will you come with me?
It’s been an amazing year of good health and general well being without my history of hayfever, sinus attacks, sore neck and shoulders, stiff joints… it’s just been a pretty amazing year of good health for which I am very grateful. The only thing that has changed in my daily routine has been my use of pure therapeutic grade essential oils. If you would like to know more about these oils, check out my FB page or subscribe to my blog as I intend to share more of these experience in the coming months.
I have celebrated 20 years on Kangaroo Island, so many awesome experience in these years and treasured memories with lots of valuable lessons learnt along the way.
I have started doing the markets again and it has been a great venue to connect with folks who want to try out the oils, work out a solution for their personal issues and of course I offer free iTOVI health scans to those who want to have them.
I have had an awesome time meeting new suppliers at the Melbourne Trade Fair and have managed to develop and increase the retail revenue at work, it has been an extremely satisfying experience and a win/win situation for everyone.
Essentially (pun intended) it has been a year of positive change, awesome experiences, new friendships, growing relationships and ‘coming out’ of my shell in more ways than one.
I am looking forward to the fabulous adventures ahead in 2018!!!
Wishing you and your loved ones a year of fulfilled expectations and intentions!
Oh my! It’s already 1st December and it’s officially the first day of summer here in Australia….. so you would expect it to be sunny and warm…. but on Kangaroo Island, it’s quite a bit different – it’s been COLD!!!
We had an overcast and cold day, more like early winter or a wet spring day really. As I am writing this, I am wearing my winter coat and both the cats are on my lap ( I think that means they are feeling cold too).
It’s the last month in the year and looking back it has been a HUGE year for me in so many ways and it’s a milestone year as well as it will be my 20th year on Kangaroo Island in just a few days time.
I remember the huge move, from living in a big city with a big (and growing) population of several million, lots of traffic and buildings everywhere……. to an island with a population of 4000 with no traffic lights and no street lights outside of the town….. looking up into the sky and seeing the stars at night, not being able to fall asleep because it was so quiet without all the city noises.
The busy city lifestyle with lots of travel, working in a different city/country every few weeks, shopping centres, airports and hotels…. waking up in a different city in a hotel room ‘somewhere’…… making my way through heavy traffic to get from one place to another or checking in once again at the airport to get from once city/country to another…. THAT was my life 20 years ago.
Today…… I live on an island in South Australia (keep going south a couple of thousand kilometres and the next stop is the Antarctic) with no traffic lights or roundabouts, no street lights outside the 3 main towns, the sound of the wind in the trees or the koala grunting outside on a nearby gum tree, sheep on the driveway (sometimes a cow or more), the night sky lit up by stars when there are no clouds and we are so lucky to have such a pristine environment here that we use rainwater for all our drinking, cooking and washing instead of chlorinated and fluoridated town water.
I work at a natural wildlife marine sanctuary, we grow our own veggies and herbs as much as we can, I make my own skin and personal care products……. and I am getting back down to basics with our healthcare supported by a fabulous range of therapeutic grade essential oils.
This year has been a fantastic year for feeling good. I was starting to feel the aches and pains that come with a desk bound job with so many hours on a computer and of course turning 58 has a great deal to do with it for sure – normal wear and tear on the body is to be expected.
This time last year we had come back from our annual vacation and I was still in pain in my left arm (which had been so bad in October I had to stop lamp work demonstrations) and my neck, back and shoulders were just achy from being tense from concentration at work. It’s no fun having Tennis Elbow or a frozen shoulder!! It was common for me to bring my wheat bag to work to give me some relief from that tension. It was also a common sight for me to have a day of endless sneezing, coughing, teary eyes and some days it was so bad my ribs and stomach would be aching from the severe hay fever attacks that I was so prone to at this time of the year.
Today…… I can walk into a field of grass or flowering canola, or just be out and about amongst flowering plants and be just fine. I have not had a hay fever attack at all this season!!! I no longer have to use the wheat bags for relief on my neck, back and shoulders.
I was introduced to doTERRA essential oils by Leonie Dawson. She posted on her Instagram that she had started using essential oils and was loving it. We were (I thought) running out of soap and I needed to make some more, I wanted some fresh essential oils (no – I have never used synthetic fragrances in my products) and there were two brands that kept popping up in conversations and in my online feeds. With one of them, lots of friends in Malaysia were using the brand…. but when I tried to obtain information on their oils it was so hard I gave up and decided to get the basic starter kit from doTERRA because it was such good value and I wanted the diffuser…..
Well…… let me tell you….. THAT CHANGED MY LIFE!!!
I was able to find relief from the pain that was in my elbow and neck, the aches in my neck, back and shoulders within just hours of using the oils and over the next few months when I started using the oils and taking the supplements…. I have not looked back. In the last few years, I have had to travel with my pillow – honestly, it is not fun having a stiff neck or shoulder from using a pillow that doesn’t support your neck/shoulder but now I don’t have any issues and am quite okay with just making do with the pillows provided. THAT is another huge thing for me. In June, I noticed that the ganglian that has been growing quite a bit on my left foot didn’t seem as big as it was last summer, not sure why but…… that was another change I have noticed.
In late September I noticed that my eyes were not tearing up nor getting itchy as I drove in and out of Kingscote past those flowering fields of Canola… that used to set me off almost every time in the past. I made my partner take me to a canola field, I got out and WALKED IN amongst the flowers…. did a bit of a ‘Sound of Music twirl’ and waved my arms around to stir up the flowers (if anybody had been watching they would have thought I was crazy!!) and breathed in huge lungfuls….. and…… NO SNEEZING….. NO ITCHY EYES…. NO COUGHING !!!!
All I have changed in my regime has been my use of essential oils since late January 2017 and taking the supplements since April 1st this year. NOTHING ELSE but MY LIFE HAS CHANGED so much for the better that I have been sharing my love of the oils I can’t stop talking about them, sharing them with people around me and just generally feeling awesome and happy with these changes in my health.
Yes…. my enthusiasm must have been scary because some people actually started to avoid me when I tried to tell them that the oils could help them…. but it has been a good turnaround now… I am almost into my 11th month with the oils and I am feeling really good with my health and in myself. They have helped in my physical health and they have also helped support me in my emotional needs as well. When I am feeling down (not so often these days) or unmotivated, using the oils aromatically help to centre me once again and give me a boost to get up and keep going.
So…. I ramble… and I will probably ramble a bit more but it’s been an awesome 11 months of sharing these oils and seeing the difference it has made in so many people, it makes my heart sing. I have always been told I am a ‘Mother Hen’, ‘Nurturer’ and sometimes my kin have teased me about being ‘Dr. Quack’ as I pull out some oil, potion or balm for an ailment….. so nothing has changed really…. except that I now have an arsenal of beautiful oils that have been researched and tested to be of therapeutic grade and they are produced ethically and thoughtfully from plants that have been grown and harvested in communities that are supported by the use of these oils.
So as I muse on the last month of this year and the start of a new adventure of healing and caring…. as I am about to celebrate 20 years of living simply on an island I call Paradise…. I feel happy, content and most importantly I feel well.
If you would like to follow me on this journey….. feel free to subscribe to my blog. I know it’s been a bit neglected over the last few years but I am once again finding purpose in my wellness.
Yes, it is 2017 and it’s already been busy, fun filled, full of new and exciting happenings all around me.
So…..late last year, I decided that I would invest in myself and make it an even better year going forward. I signed up for a course about setting goals and keeping an abundant and positive mindset. I am more mindful of my innerspeak, my perspective on life and getting up earlier to have some me time to gather my thoughts and set the tone for my day.
It’s been awesome, I still have ‘sleep ins’ occasionally until the alarm goes off but I do enjoy those mornings when I sneak out of bed and have an hour or more to myself and enjoy that silence of the morning, sometimes with one (or both) of the cats trying to snuggle up on my lap.
Part of that journey of investing in myself led me to look for a good supplier of essential oils that I can use around me all day. Our stash of soap is running low which means I will need to make some more soon and I only use essential oils in my soaps and balms, so that got me going.
That led me to doTERRA as I had good reviews on their products from people in my business mastermind who absolutely love them and have formed a great support group for promoting the product range.
Then of course, as I LOVE having my oils around me ALL DAY, it’s not easy plugging in a diffuser and walking around with it, so I started making more AromaVessels to use and that got me back into the studio again which has been awesome. I had neck and shoulder issues last October during the KI ArtFeast demos and had to give up as it was just too painful to be on the torch.
So now I am all set to promote my love for essential oils and the range which I love which is doTERRA and for anyone who signs up through me before the end of February 2017, I will be gifting them an AromaVessel made by me.
I will have a stall at the Kingscote Farmers Market over the next few months, so keep a look out on my page as I will post to advise when I am there. Come and have a look at the creations I will bring with me and have a chat about doTERRA essential oils if you are keen.
More information on how to buy the doTERRA oils HERE.
2017 – a wonderful year ahead!!!