Mama’s our hearts are being pulled in so many different directions right now. I remind myself to FEEL what I am feeling, not just move through it, possibly ignoring.
I came home after work, got my work out done and then remembered dinner… right that evening meal to plan each day 😂.
Today felt awesome and skewed all at the same time. Officially both kids are back “in school”… online. Honestly, as we discussed as a family we will make the best of this and make it work. But the mom guilt is real. What helped is Monday night I sat down at bedtime and wrote out what IS within my control, my “ideal day” for the weekday and weekend. The importance of staying connected with the kids, but also allowing everyone their space. Cause lets face it, we do all need some space, time. To honor a better evening and morning routine. I know, I know this is not that sharing this video after 10pm 😖!
I pulled out the “big guns” for all of us tonight. I started the diffusers after my work out to provide a beautifully relaxing space for all of us!
Tonight’s blend intuitively selected and amazing for rest, relaxation and a beautiful night sleep! Roman Chamomile – Spiritual Purpose Frankincense – Truth Vetiver – Centering and Descent Cedarwood – Community Citrus Bloom – New Beginnings
Speaking from experience, sleep is so important to be able to properly function during the day and ensure our health is top notch!
Vetiver is one I pull out when I know I need to slip into a deep sleep it’s so deeply relaxing and calming.
I’ve been reminding myself, what is within MY control…
MY HEALTH 🙌 What I put on and in my body, movement, water, downtime to relax the mind. Being comfortable within our surroundings.
Friends, endocrine disruptors are very real and honestly key to ditching to help you health transform. For yourself, your spouse and children – no matter of they are male or female!
Supporting with oils and energy. Honoring my soul🙏
6 weeks of consistent daily movement with the exception of 2 days where I doubled up!
Measurements taken from Chest, Arms, Waist, Hips, Thighs. 21 Day Fix – 5.5″ loss MBF – 5.6875″ loss Total Loss – 11.1875″
Note my bra is the tightest it can go now!
Weight slightly down from when I began but has hovered at this weight I’ve been at since late 2019!!! That’s a WIN for me as I’ve lost inches and am gaining muscle and strength!!! As of today I am “technically” down 4lbs. However I know weight can flux and that’s not my focus.
My focus is HOW I FEEL! In all aspects of that. How do I feel in my clothing, how do I feel out of my clothing, my strength, how do I feel in our bedroom, how do I feel in the rest of our home.
We completed our closet renovations last weekend. I simply love it. Still have the floor and trim to do but our clothes are all organized and we each have incredible space. The purpose behind our addition renovations, not to have more space for “stuff” no, to have a more open and airy space to be awesomely organized! Once our dressing room and ensuite is complete I will probably share some of the designs and our reasons behind them. Feng shui was one of our design factors ✌
On this soulful Sunday 🥰💫🙏 What can you do today… To be more comfortable in you? To be more comfortable in your living space? To be more comfortable in your bedroom?
If you are unsure, allow yourself 5-10 min alone in quite. Ask yourself these questions and see what comes to you.
It could be as simple as, make your bed, pick up dirty clothes, do laundry, put laundry away, wash the cat litter box (I did that this morning!), planning a nice Sunday meal, getting outside for a walk, meditating for 10 min, journal, cranking the music and dancing! ♥️
The card I pulled this morning, from The Starseed Oracle deck.
Oil blend in the diffuser today is Island Mint.
This is an oil I haven’t used in a while. Island Mint is the oil of Respite!
When you can see that you have shifted, it feels empowering. I really and truly didn’t want to work out after work. I honestly didn’t want to do anything. I have a lot of mixed feelings for the province that I live in.
I pushed through. I stayed committed to my daily movement. I stayed true to me. This next level me.
The next level me who is prioritizing my health. Who understands that it was by making these life shifts, I am living a healthier and thus happier life.
Getting a jab does not “make you healthy”. Life choices do. Yes sometimes there is unfortunate losses. I have lost many loved ones to horrible diseases that have felt so incredibly unfair. For the Gov’t to imply we cannot get back to ‘normalcy’ until a certain percentage have had the jab?! Still nothing said about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle which does strengthen your immune system, when you are healthier you can better heal when needed. Healthier lifestyles will reduce the load on the medical system in our country. From my own experience I have seen this with my health!
I chose to take control of my health, own it, be empowered to create the life I want to live.
Which does not include being told what is and isn’t essential in my life.
If I listened to what modern medicine was telling me my “only options” were to feel better… I would not be where I am today.
And quite honestly, thank god I am where I am at today, the me many years ago was very weak mentally and physically. When you don’t feel good, it’s too easy to sink, feel down and get sick.
We are in a mental health crisis and children are a major target. Parents are drained, mentally. Kids now “technically” confined to the property we live on. Feeling truly grateful we live in a rural area. Feeling for those who do not and the Gov’t has closed parks.
Pulled a card tonight, feels aligned. Let yourself be seen.
Popcorn in bed, home made french onion dip with the yummy tropical oil blend and a movie.
Feeling much more balanced today. Energy balance and grounding can have such a profound effect! 💫
This was the card I pulled after my workout… Wait.
Interesting perspective. Trust 🙏 Patience The unknown. Which can feel challenging. I am grateful for the reminder. Embracing the ‘opportunity’ of all our free time at home 🥰
Oils for my Workout – Anchor and Align Oils for Bedtime – Cedarwood, Petitgrain and Tangerine
Week 3 Day 3 DONE!!! I LOVE working with weights haha waaaay more than cardio 😂
Mid day I was feeling off, energy felt off, woke up way too early today and didn’t get back to sleep. My top strength is Futuristic… sometimes this can work against me thinking too much into the future… especially as a mama! The mom guilt I was feeling, was very real.
So I pulled these beauties out and truth be told, I have never looked up some of their emotional uses for these oils. I applied the oils and then looked them up and was delighted to read their meanings!
Amavi – Balanced Masculine Energy In Tune – Presence Neroli – Shared Purpose & Partnership Jasmine – Sexual Purity & Balance Magnolia – Compassion Rose – Divine Love
Amavi on my spine and back of my neck. In tune down the back of my neck. This blend is awesome for helping focus the mind to stay in the right lane. Neroli I love on my wrists, chest and sides of my neck. Jasmine down the jaw line. Magnolia I also love all over my arms and Rose, beloved, over my heart ♥️
Going to do some chakra work tonight as well to bring those into balance and then give my husband and kids a treatment in the next few days!
Its truly incredible, well I think so, how I can apply these oils and not even think about it, and things begin to come back into alignment as they need to be. Reminding myself to focus on what’s within my control and release what is not. As much as it makes me really mad how the government is literally using our children as pawns in a wicked game, I am so grateful to live where we do. To have space for each of us to be as individual’s and together as a family. To foster their growth beyond what the “curriculum” says they need to learn and incorporate a lot more life learning! Beyond a screen.
Taking a deeeeep breath that all is well and will be well.
Someone once told me many years ago, during a very challenging time in my life, sometimes when it feels like everything is falling apart and it feels like the end… it may actually be the beginning of something truly incredible 🙏🥰✌
Another heavy day for parents and children in Ontario. Whatever your situation is, I send you love.♥️
It’s time for a healthy re-build after over 6 months of whatever that “school year” could be called. Gratitude for teachers who truly care, this was NOT easy for anyone regardless if you are a student, stay at home parent, work outside of the home parent. This is completely beyond the “norm”…
Then it hit me, maybe we NEED to explore outside of the “norm”… afterall, that’s how I ended up completely shifting my own life. Especially, my health 🙌.
It’s not going to be easy. Rest, allow yourself patience, space, time. This past 1+ year has been everything from one extreme to the next in some way. As all of our lives have been affected.
Tonight I choose to be cautiously optimistic about this opportunity, Life Learning! Our way, what comes natural, hands on, logical, questioning, space within nature.
And oils… all the friggin oils. They seriously support in times like this, more than anything did previously. As my eyes are beginning to get sleepy, I know I’ve selected the perfect blend to drift off to!
Peppermint is also a natural health product and is amazing for colds, coughs, digestive discomfort, muscle aches and pains, nausea and vomiting and its even calming! 😴💙
Peace within me first and then my home. It gets worse before it gets better, right. A lot of the time yup.
Think about where you started in your journey, chances are you were “worse” then, than you are now, if you have stayed the course.
A weekend reno project for our closets!!! SO darn excited and literally breathing through the chaos that has happened in our room, dressing room and my office/sanctuary [in progress]! Even with clothes literally all over this room, I still made sure I had my floor space to finish Week 2 of #MBF!!!
As we begin to pull things back together I am elated at seeing the vision come to life. I am grateful for patience to literally live in the space to figure out the next step. What works best for us and not just for “design”. Our home is very traditional, however also with our modern touches that make it us. Then last weekend, the patience hit a wall and it was time to prepare to do the work, this weekend!
It’s not even done, and yet feels so good! We have spent a lot of time, energy and money making our house our home and it’s been worth every bit of the journey! Especially as we inch even closer to the finish line!
I know one thing, if I hadn’t shifted my health 7 years ago, we wouldn’t be where we are today because I simply couldn’t do it. Physically or emotionally. I had the visions for the house, that began coming to me in 2014, same year I made the choice to get healthy. Things began to align.
Began pushing the excuses to the side… I’m too tired, I’m in pain, I don’t have time, I don’t have money, I don’t want to change, I can’t do it, what will _____ think of me…
Shift that shit! Yes always make time to rest, make time for quiet, honor yourself first. Because we all have time. Can move pain free. Have money for things we feel are a priority. My opinion and how I feel matters first. I am worth it!
For me, getting healthy, to me at first meant “spending more money” that then stressed me like crazy because we had two young kids in school and daycare, plus sports and we both worked, and and and. Spending money on healthier foods, healthier cleaning and bathing products, clothes… then I realized things are REALLY upside down here. The things that are NOT helping my health, are super cheap and the things that DO help my health are more “expensive” but what it really comes down to is what is MY health worth?! Is it worth shifting our monthly budget so that I am not stressing about purchasing things that will support our health vs hurt our health. Then honestly in reality, HOW are these products allowed to be sold when they have documented health issues?! The world has needed a massive shift and I truly pray, this is the shift that is currently unfolding. Its beyond time for a change!
Many years ago I would hear about using your intuition or following your heart. I would always question that, simply because I was hurt so many times. How could I trust my heart, when it was broken repeatedly and felt led astray.
I then began learning the importance of getting quiet and going within. Something I stumbled upon after high school. When I truly began to step into a higher part of me.
It’s also the time that I reached out and found counselling. Without a soul knowing. Even my husband, who was my boyfriend at the time. I strategically planned my appointments, found a therapist that ironically was very close to where he lived. I was ashamed to admit I had “allowed” myself to be abused for so many years and was hurting. We were having so much fun together, he knew about some of my past hurts and “baggage”, but I certainly didn’t want him to think I was “crazy”.
It’s sad that that was my fear… because when I finally did open up and told him about my appointments he was very supportive and understanding, but most of all loved me. All of me!
Mental health is a key aspect of our life. It’s one that truly does help us feel calm, grounded, content and at peace vs feeling like in fear, scared, controlled, verbally and emotionally abused.
Yesterday was heavy feeling for me. So I allowed myself to FEEL it. I allowed myself patience, grace and ease. I’ve done a lot of personal growth both emotionally and physically. There is something about being told “you have to stay home except for essential reasons such as…”.
Its everyone’s right to get what they need. Reiki, Reflexology, Manicures, Pedicures, a Hair Cut! Ontario is in a 3rd “Lockdown”, that in itself is slightly triggering for me, however I will save that for another day. What I am thankful for is allowing myself patience, which also included going within yesterday and today, energetically. Giving myself permission to just BE, whatever that may look like <3
As an empath, I have learned that I am sensitive to energy. Which this morning felt so very heavy.
Even before getting ready this morning, I pulled out my travel oil collection and began applying Adaptiv, Beautiful, Past Tense and Tea Tree. Aroma’s are something that I have aligned with, I can smell something and it can instantly bring back memories, calm, uplift, ground… plus the benefits of the oils themselves also way beyond the scent! So I leaned in. I had full intentions of getting up and working out this morning, honestly it probably would have helped me. But I just couldn’t do it.
The announcement yesterday, that we knew was coming… hit me today. Does it directly affect me, with my job no not technically. As we are considered “essential”. Some of my fav stores are now shut down and that is upsetting. Sure I can buy online, but sometimes that’s not the point, sometimes there are things that I walk in and see and want to try or forgot I needed… all of which are personal care items. I am planning to do painting this weekend, yes I should have went sooner to the hardware store to get what I needed and will now have to call it in. I guess its one way to not spend money… but Im just feeling done with all of this. The biggest factor is my kids. One is already home, switched to remote for 3 days of school. Who knows what the public health official will pull days before spring break is over. So much uncertainty and very little respect honestly.
I saw this post yesterday and it completely summed it up…
This morning I was feeling very frustrated, funny my sweater I was wearing got caught twice on my door knob as I walked by. The 2nd time it happened, I literally laughed and said ok, I know I need to ground my brain. Which has helped. When I stopped myself and literally said WHY… Why does my energy feel so heavy, why does this make me feel so frustrated, slightly angry…
Seven years ago I leaned into a gentle pull, I had looked at Oregano Oil at the Pharmacy before (please do not buy it there – as much as I am a HUGE supporter of shopping local – the essential oil industry is not regulated, please do your research before purchasing. This is why I choose doTERRA Oils with very rigorous and respected testing and quality) and took a leap to attend a natural health and wellness class. That night forever changed my life and health. Every single person has the right to choose what is right for their health and their body. However that is the complete opposite of what is being marketed to us… yes marketed. The government of Canada has spent over $240 BILLION dollars in 8 months (Dec 7/20 Source).
I know my frustration I am feeling is related to the fact that I know first hand how shifting your lifestyle CAN have a dramatic effect on your physical and emotional health. Yet, all the government is pushing in their ads is to stay away from anyone you do not live with, cover your face with a mask and use hand sanitizer. Out of that $240 Billion dollars I have yet to see one ad about shifting your health to choose healthier products, to ditch the fast food, junk food and really understand the ingredients in the products that you buy.
Honestly Im pissed off. Does this affect my day to day in a big way. No, thankfully. Does it affect my kids, yes in a big way. There is so much uncertainty. Do I need to better plan ahead, yes. Will I shift out of what I am currently doing and the products I am currently using to simply buy them at the grocery store or pharmacy NOPE.
I truly pray that these next 4 weeks people will really lean in, take a deep dive into themselves, and then go deeper. How can you shift your life and your health. What little step could you take today, maybe reading the ingredients on your dishwasher detergent and dish soap. Or your shampoo and conditioner. Any product that goes IN and ON your body, check out the ingredients. We have already seen recall notices through the government for hand sanitizers… I recently heard about blue masks as well being recalled that potentially could cause early lung toxicity, as it did in animals.
Why is this upsetting? Well honestly, everyone should be pissed. The government mandates that masks must be worn… personally, its should be your personal choice. If you feel a mask protects you, great. It should not be forced on anyone, especially now a year later of covid-19 these warnings come out… Is the government really to be trusted? I know my answer to that!
So I will continue leaning in. I will slow down. Focus more on me, my kids and my husband and our home. I have some projects planned this weekend that I know will instantly give me a boost. The sun is out and shining and the weather warming up. Plus I have full faith in my holistic health options that we have been using the past almost 7 years. Yup same lifestyle that helped me get off all pharmaceutical medications AND loose 60lbs naturally between 2017-2019 and early April 2021, I am stoked to say my health as I approach 40 is only getting better!!!
Before I do anything, I naturally research. Exactly what I did June 2014 after the wellness class I attended. The information was fantastic, opened my eyes wide, but I am the type who needs to see it to believe it. So I came home and researched. Much like I have been doing this past year.
I know what works for MY health… I know what keeps me healthy – ME! I know my responsibility to live a healthy lifestyle is up to ME and no one else. I am so grateful I jumped into the holistic health world and have never looked back, haha even at times people literally made fun of me and my “voodoo”…
There is no holding back now! No shying away or worrying what someone might think. Life is too short for that. I live my best life when I lean into ME and honor ME!
This evening, we all leaned in a little more. I did a Symphony of the Cells Essential Oil Treatment on my husband and kids and my husband applied the oils on me. With this months longer meditation playing in the background for all of us. The theme for March and April has been Manifestation. Which can apply to all areas of our life. Many people, and I was one, think of “manifestation” as money or financial gains. In these past 5 years, the more Ive leaned in, with personal coaching, the doTERRA Team Elite Retreat, EFT, Journaling, Reading again, Listening to podcasts, Energy work with Reiki – I am certified in Reiki 1 and 2! The power of the mind is astounding. Honestly if you are needing a meditation please reach out, I would be happy to connect you with my meditation coach, she is offering a trial period for the meditations! If you choose to reach out to her, please let her know Pam sent you!
For my holistic oily friends, the treatment we did is the Solar Protocol with these oils. If you are interested in learning more, check out their free online training! To purchase any oils, check that out here or reach out to me so we can figure out the best options for you!
Frankincense – Oil of Truth
Rosemary – Oil of Knowledge and Transition
Basil – Oil of Renewal
Myrrh – Oil of Mother Earth
Grapefruit – Oil of Honoring the Body
Cinnamon – Oil of Sexual Harmony
Ginger – Oil of Empowerment
Geranium – Oil of Love and Trust
Siberian Fir – Oil of Aging and Perspective
I pulled another card at lunch… after shuffling and then doing a spread on my lunch this is the card I picked…
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This may look familiar if you have been around the past couple weeks on my blog or on my Instagram Profile! Ive pulled it quite a few times… I think the universe is not being so subtle ;)
Lean in to what you know and if what you know, does not feel familiar or comfortable anymore, lean in to the whispers of your soul for new direction <3
I am sending love to all. ♥️ Regardless of your stance on what our current state of the world is, it truly saddens me to know the division that is being created. Today, the energy felt heavy. More unknowns, uncertainty, unfairness. Amazing people forced to close their business, their source of income.
As someone who stood up and took control for MY health, this fires me up SO much, being threatened in any way with my health. How do I feel threatened? By a government entity making up rules and telling me I must follow them, for my protection.
I’m not going to rehash my story, what I will say is I am SO grateful to have realized the importance of holistic health and wellness 7 years ago.
This evening, I allowed myself time. We needed some things at the grocery store, so I grabbed those after work. I refuse to shop in fear anymore. Not only did we spend way too much money, food was wasted because we “stocked up”. Got my workout in, which felt awesome!!! Then enjoyed a laid back evening and grilled burgers on the deck! I am thankful our beautiful spring weather is back!
Wherever you are, whatever you believe. I send you love ♥️ and strength to be you. Think of how much we could shift this world if everyone just was themselves and didn’t worry what anyone else was doing?! Just BE 🙏 With compassion, we may all be in the same “storm”, but everyone is in their own boat.
Tonight’s diffuser blend 2 drops each
Easy Air (Breathe) – The Oil of Breath Eucalyptus – The Oil of Wellness Petitgrain – The Oil of Ancestry Tangerine – The Oil of Spontaneity
