The Season of sickness
I want to say I am a mom who has done everything with ease.
My kids stay healthy all the time, whole foods + good choices come easy to me, and I have never had doubt on how to perfectly care for my kids.
I’d love to say that that is me… but it’s not.
I am the mother who spent the first and a half of her first born’s life ping ponging between antibiotics, meds, snotty noses, outrageous temps, etc.
I was so swamped by the lack of knowledge that i just took the waves as they crashed instead of building protection before it tried to crash again.
My daughter would get sick, I would get sick, she would get sick, i would get sick.
It was a cycle in our house. One that I was never prepared to fight. One that I felt defeated by.
I realize that a LOT of people want life to be instagram fast, but unfortunately, our world doesn’t actually work that way.
It has been a journey to say the least and I am here to share the steps we took as a family to proactively fight for our health. It was slow + steady to win the race.
It was NOT “use this oil and you’ll never be sick again”. It was a slow process of elimination and a slow process of adding in that really gave us exactly what we needed to extend the time between sickness in our house. I can say we are looking at maybe 2x a year actually dealing with sickness these days. I am hopeful we can start going further between, but for now, I am grateful for the slowing down of sickness.
I am going to share my steps below in hopes to encourage you as you eliminate bad and add in the good.
I grabbed a starter kit with young living in the summer of 2020.
The starter kit provided an elimination + an adding in in the snap of my fingers.
I tossed ALLLLL my candles and replaced with a diffuser. This alone took down my husbands allergy attacks + my daughter’s respiratory issues.
I then was given 12 oils… 5 of which were for immune SUPPORT.
3 oils were for sleep support (which your body NEEDS to detox daily and recover). Lavender, Stress Away, and Peace + Calming. It was like the miracle oils for our whole family to REST.
I made a roller bottle with Lemon, Lavender, Frankincense, Raven + thieves. 10 drops of each oil, diluted with fractioned oil. I started rubbing on my daughters feet + spine night and day and the sickness slowly started dwindling a bit more.
I hopped on something called Loyalty Rewards to I could slowly order monthly for us to switch out an item per month. We don’t have Celine Dion’s bank account and so it was slow and steady to win this.
One thing I decided had to be KEY in this whole process was consistency. If i wasn’t consistent I wouldn’t be able to see if this really worked.
The following month I ordered Thieves Household Concentrate + Thieves Laundry Detergent. I realized that every surface needed to be clean but not at the expense of our immune systems. I wanted our laundry cleaned but not at the expense of our skin absorbing toxins through our detergent. This trade out was when I really started to see a shift. My daughter was more energetic. Her breathing was clearer. Her skin had bumps that were disappearing… it felt like magic.
The month after making that switch I bought a bottle of Ningxia Red. An antioxidant drink that is known for its benefits for the whole body, immune support, hormones, heart health, metabolism. You name it, it HELPS. We started giving our daughter 2 oz a day, continuously used immune support oils, sleep oils, cleaned with thieves concentrate and laundry soap… and that was the full turn around. This was when i started seeing the transformation not only in our daughter but in myself and in my husband.
When she reached aged 2 i grabbed Kids MightyVites by young living. I cut the dose in half for our daughter to start taking. At this point, I can gladly say that we have not experienced sickness with her since November 2020. It has been almost an entire YEAR and the sickness has stayed at bay.
When we start noticing congestion, cough, minor fevers… we pack in extra dose of Ningxia, oils, and vitamins and it clears up. It has been the most rewarding turn around. I cannot make this stuff up when I say it truly has been the greatest gift to our family to live PROACTIVELY about our health and wellness. Our lives revolved around reacting to sickness before we took charge and changed a few things.
This isn’t over night… it is small , steady steps towards the wellness you deserve. If I can do it, You can do it!
Here are links to the products mentioned within this blog. Please know this blog is not meant to diagnose or cure, but to encourage a lifestyle that lowers the toxic load and experience LIFE the way God intended it.
If you want to know more, I am here to answer any and all questions you may have! Drop your comments in the comment section or send me an email at Laurabellwrites@gmail.com