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Welcome to my BLOG...an inside view into the endless potential for improving wellness on all levels with the essential oils lifestyle! Each month I share here my favourite uses of the most life-changing doTERRA oils I have found and simply would now not ever be without! I have learnt so much from trial and error usage, great books and team support. My blog is based purely on my own personal experience and is intended to hopefully inspire and support, however if you are concerned about any health condition, ALWAYS consult with your doctor, and before beginning any new healthcare regimes to ensure they are suitable for you individually as we are all so unique in our healthcare needs. 

                                                                                                                                                                                               Enjoy! Stella Grace x

April 2021

'Clary Sage - Taking the Horror Out of Hormones'.

It might sound like there is a pun intended in the
title, and yes, in some way it is a play on words. However, whilst I always
try and keep a sense of uplift and the lighter side of life at play, there is
no joke about how debilitating and horrendous hormonal issues can be! Both for
those living with them and for their loved ones. It is not something to be
taken lightly as those of you who resonate will understand and not always an
easy issue to try and tackle. Thankfully though, there is good news and support
that I can vouch for experientially and will explain later below.

Hormones can affect us all so differently and the
list of associated difficulties is vast and varied. Issues range in the level
of impact upon daily life and change across age ranges, and even from month to
month for some of us. On this non-comprehensive list some common factors we can
often start to associate with hormone changes and/or imbalances are; headaches,
migraines, breakouts, boob and nipple soreness, that yucky and embarrassing bit
at the end of a period that nobody wants to talk about, and possibly worst of
all can be the negative mental and emotional health aspects. From moodiness and
tears to absolute rage which can affect relationships with your loved ones. Not
to mention the gut-wrenching subsequential guilt and shame from over-reacting
or taking it out on them. Any anxious feelings can be heightened or initiated,
and every negative comment ever received in your life seems to appear from
nowhere and be actualised in front of your very eyes as you look and feel like
some kind of monster (of course you don't really but that's how it feels). There
can be such a low sense of self and feelings that leave you not recognising
yourself.

The good news is that there are powerful natural
solutions, such as Clary Sage that doesn’t involve anything synthetic and can
be ingested, due to the Certified Pure Tested Grade of doTERRA. I have found it
so empowering to make this great healthcare choice for my hormonal health
knowing that it can be for as long- or short-term as I wish, meaning I feel as
in charge of it as I can be and can stop or increase/decrease the ratio at any
time I wish. Listening to my body’s ‘indicators’ each month for a few cycles
helped me to confirm the right ratio of oil for me (which was of course within
the stated maximum daily amount for ingestion, please contact me if you require
any information on how to use the oils safely).

My journey with hormonal changes has been vastly
improved by the daily use of clary sage in this way, to a level of around 90%
better than it was before. This can change slightly from month to month depending
on the other external factors going on in life at the time but with such a huge
and beneficial difference seen and felt in the 10 months that I have now been
taking it for has so far cemented it as one of my top 5 daily priority healthcare
choices (see next month’s blog to hear more on this!) This is also yet another
example of the many reasons why I describe these oils as life-changing!

The beautiful thing about how the oils work is that
there is no suppression or unnatural cessation of anything the body is needing
to release, yet the intensity of the difficulties felt are often brought into
balance and drastically reduced, as in my case using Clary. We, in the West,
are heavily conditioned to seek medications that will suppress, block or numb
anything uncomfortable as the most ideal outcome and in my view, is too often
associated with the pharmaceutical industry. I am certainly not of a mindset
that is anti-pharmaceuticals when they are necessary for health but I feel
passionately that there is a great deal of unnecessary pharmaceutical use and
misuse. As we increasingly understand, suppressing and
blocking symptoms can over time cause inflammation, disease and further associated
long-term physical and emotional difficulties in the body. That's even before
we have considered the side-effects of synthetic medications.

That said, we don't of course want to be
unnecessarily suffering with debilitating symptoms or difficult to manage
emotions, or for anyone else to be so although we can understand that our
body's are innately intelligent at healing themselves, we also know when we
need some extra support. This is particularly true in our current environments
that can be stressful with more external pressures than are healthy for us. Our
body's are intuitive and responsive at knowing what we need when we take a
little time to listen and they will usually respond quickly in 'resetting' and
benefitting immensely from simple and natural interventions, such as powerful
essential oils when of the highest grade in quality, such as doTERRA. The oils
work cleverly to bring the body's own natural healing systems into balance, and
within these little bottles of nature, lie the various chemical compounds that
work synergistically with our own natural chemistry in the body. This is why
purity is so very important as it really does mean power. Power to really be
effective in actually making change to our level of wellbeing due to the
scientific make-up of each given oil, and without polluting our system with any
of the shocking impurities found within the other 95% of essential oils on the
market.

Finally, I’d like to celebrate the allowing of vulnerability and the
beauty of healthy release of symptoms and emotions from the body, like the
occasional damn good cry for example.  Imperative for functional processing on
all levels and effective long-term healing. This is also why I understand I
have 90% improvement in hormonal factors - if it were 100% then I would surely be
suppressing, blocking or numbing some release. I wouldn't be human, and I
wouldn't be a woman. The beautiful thing about being a woman is we are innately
designed to be more emotional, intuitive, even a little chaotic at times, as we
are changeable like the moon and the tide....thankfully though there is support
for improving the intensity of how hormonal factors impact on this release, for
which I am grateful.

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