IMAGINE you’re happily giving yourself and your family Big Pharma drugs when you find out… hey… the body can heal itself?!! … and when it doesn’t, often the only thing necessary is plant medicine to help along. Did you know the best thing to help the body’s healing process and/or work to prevent health problems is plant medicine, also known as ‘alternative medicine’?

Did Big Pharma(aka The Pharmaceutical Industry’s massive pharmaceutical companies that make literally billions of dollars every year) start up about 200 years ago? Yep, it started with the bastardization of botanical and mineral compounds at least 200 years ago, around the 1800s, and hit the lab running into synthetics that have now invaded us physically to the point where we’re addicted. Most of us are not allowed to even get high on them anymore… we just take ‘em and take ’em. They keep Americans regularly supplied with a medicine cabinet’s worth of pills and all other manner of ‘legal drugs’ and medical devices.

At the ‘From Parenting Pain to Parenting Peace World Summit’

I just produced, I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Joy Bernstein and Bella Shing on the benefits of using essential oils (EO) to help calm yourself and your offspring. I’ve been particularly interested in natural remedies and health science since I was in my early 20s. Here’s a 3min. clip from our 45min interview.

It’s time we get back to our natural roots,

for the sake of our health, our family’s health and our pocket-books (does anyone say pocket-books in place of wallets anymore?) Natural herbs and their essences not only aid in the healing processes of our physical and emotional being but research shows that the essential oils of plants help the body to self-correct the root cause of problems! Can you see how this can save you money on health issues in the long (and short) run?

Herbal medicines are plant-based medicines made from differing combinations of plant parts e.g. leaves, flowers or roots. Each part can have different medicinal uses and the many types of chemical constituents require different extraction methods. Essential Oils are the highly concentrated naturally occurring, volatile aromatic compounds are found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants.

FACT: Essential Oils are 50 -70% more potent than herbs. For example, it takes three tons of plant material to produce one pound of oil! They have the potential to affect every cell of the body within 20 minutes and then be metabolized like other nutrients (Jager et al., 1992, 1996)

“For my family, once we started to incorporate the right oils we saw significant improvement in skin, respiratory function, digestive cleansing and focus just to name a few! It was significant in our recovery from autism in terms of supporting a strong immune system, brain health and deep sleep!”~ JM of SustainablyHealthy.net

Essential Oils (EO) help me get sound sleep when I have trouble sleeping, cleans my digestive system when it’s due for one and supplements made from them make sure I get the best nutrition I can. Our food suffers these days even if it’s organic. It doesn’t pack the nutritional punch it once did because our soils are depleted and overworked and, unfortunately, junk food still attacks me every now and then…

Recently, I helped a dear friend get rid of laryngitis and at another time, a festering pus sore using EO. The sore was the result of the doctor having to laser off a rather large skin cancer and the medicine she gave him wasn’t working to heal him 2 weeks later!

The site was getting redder and redderand the medicine on the sore was just sitting there getting yellower and yellower even though he showered and reapplied the medication daily as instructed. I washed the entire area gently with lavender water (that’s all I had on hand), put 1 drop of melaleuca and 1 drop of lavender on the wound with 1 drop of lavender on the surrounding redness. Covered it with a large gauze to cover the entire treatment area.

The doctor had given him large bandaidsthat just covered the wound. I think he may be allergic to the adhesive on the bandaids which I think created a lot of that redness in the surrounding area. There was significant improvement in healing of the entire area THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!

In addition to Big Pharma’s rogue activity, the billion dollar personal care industry has many products that contribute significantly to our health woes as well, without giving it a second thought! Shop wisely. One of my most favorite references, Dr. Axe, goes deep here on the detrimental effects of artificial fragrances and household chemicals… https://draxe.com/dangers-synthetic-scents/

Here’s the thing… I love us. I love you! Your family, we, deserve the best of everything. Continuing to ply ourselves consciously (or unconsciously) with whatever Big Pharma and the commercial industries-at-large bombard us with through doctors or continuous commercial activity has to be stopped by US.

Don’t get me wrong. I know that doctors and clinics and hospitals have their place and they serve a significant purpose when preventative measures and good diet have been ignored. Let’s just begin now to stop ignoring what is good for us, better for us.

In my 20s, I discovered the book “Back To Eden” by Dr. Jethro Kloss. He won me over with “God has provided a remedy for every disease that might afflict us. Satan cannot afflict anyone with any disease for which God has not provided a remedy. Our Creator foresaw the wretched condition of mankind in these days and made provision in Nature for all the ills of man.” This struck the ‘truth cord’ in me and I’ve been a health and wellness proponent ever since.

I supposed I got my deep interestin this subject from my Mother. She disclosed to me that she was once interested in nursing and had become an LVN (Licensed Practical Nurse). When I asked her why she had not continued she didn’t want to talk about it except to say that “you NEVER want to be on a position where you are helpless, need to be in a hospital and at the mercy of doctors having to cut into you.” ‘Nuff said. My journey into keeping myself out of the hospital began!

It was logical to me at the timethat I would need to do the best job I could of keeping myself healthy. (I’ve done this to a large degree though I had my son via C-section.) The natural extension of that for me was that I began to automatically want to ‘doctor’ on my friends! This enthusiasm has been met with varying degrees of welcome. When my offer of help is declined, I’m unfazed. That’s how I know I love it!

Do you have someone in your life who’s that way?… always offering unsolicited advice for healthcare, dietary care, etc? How annoying is that for you? We mean well.

There was a near disaster once though… this illustrates the need for using even natural medicine safely. A very dear friend of mine’s mother was stricken with severe constipation. She said, “My bowels just don’t move.”

She went on to say, “If they do move, very little happens and I’m extremely uncomfortable most of the time because it. The doctors give me stuff but nothing really works.” I came up with a remedy for her that involved psyllium husks, golden seal, drinking lots of water and massaging her abdomen with very strict instructions as to frequency and timing and went on my merry way (I live about 3 hours away from her). I checked back with her periodically to see that she was staying on schedule and she said that she was.

WELL!Her daughter happened to go up to visit her one weekend. She called and said she found her mother writhing in pain and took her to the toilet where her mom proceeded to take this “continuous and unending dump in the toilet”!!! She and her mother thought she was going to die!!! Afterward, she called AGAIN, gave me an earful in very strong language and told me she was just one inch from coming over to my place and whipping my ass!!! I promised to never ‘doctor’ on her mother again.

Years later when I saw her mother, she told me it was a bad episode but she has never been constipated since! There was no way to tell by that late date what in my instructions she got wrong but she was very grateful that I had helped her. I suspect she was not drinking enough water.

But I digress, today we’re talking about essential oils (EO). Know what else is great about them? You can cook with them as well! You, no doubt, cook with the herbs and spices. Look at them in a whole new way now. Appreciate what they REALLY bring to a dish other than the taste. TEACH THE CHILDREN and your offspring! It’s up to US to make these changes! Fun ones and optimally healthy ones, at that!

For more information on essential oils, go to my site:

https://www.mydoterra.com/SaveYourBreath. I’m very excited to incorporate this ‘essential’ part of myself into the services I provide for parents. Along with the mentoring, financial services and emotional regulation work, my deep interest in health would no longer be ignored!!!

Now that’s what I call offering a well-rounded opportunity for wellness!!!