Family Wellness

Empowered

As a mum it is great to feel empowered to know what to reach for when your kids get sick, so that you can soothe their discomfort and suffering IMMEDIATELY and naturally and feel CONFIDENT that you are making the right choices.
 

As a mum the oils I keep handy in my Natural Toolbox are:

doTERRA’s Lavender, Lemon, Peppermint, Melaleuca, Oregano, Frankincense, Deep Blue®, Breathe, DigestZen®, and On Guard™.

Alongside these I keep Vitamin C, Fermented Apple Cider Vinegar, Colloidal silver and a range of homeopathy too, like Arnica, Chamomilla and Pulsatilla.

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The oils I find I reach for most are Melaleuca, Lavender and On Guard™.  

If you have to start with any 3 oils I recommend these, or even just the Melaleuca and Lavender!  They are so helpful in cases of stings, burns, cuts, scrapes, chickenpox, measles and Hand Foot and Mouth.  Please enquire about free workshops I run to teach you how to use them.

‘Prevention is better than a cure’

On Guard® is the handiest blend I have ever known!  Our littlies encounter germs every day, however hard we try to protect them from them. They bring these germs home on their shoes, hands, clothes! We can’t protect them all the while they are out, and encountering these germs and bacteria is necessary for building strong immune systems, but it is nice to think we can keep our homes relatively germ free without heavy chemicals. This is why I use doTERRA’s OnGuard® range around my home to kill germs and as an immunity booster.

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What we do at the first sign of illness

If it feels like we are coming down with something, or others around us are dropping like flies, we get straight onto appllying doTERRA’s On Guard to the soles of our feet 3 times a day.  1 drop goes onto everyone, but I would advise diluting for babies under 1.
 
You can read about the magic of On Guard and other essential oils in this blog, 10 Must Haves to Survive and Thrive this Winter.  I roll my ‘Keep Me Well’ Rollerball to my feet every day anyway, which contains many of the oils described in this blog (because mama doesn’t get the luxury of a sick day!), which gives my immune system a daily boost and colds are definitely less frequent than they used to be!
 
If illness does hit we go straight onto Sodium Ascorbate and Lypospheric Vitamin C.  We take small doses frequently to bowel tolerance.  The smaller the person, the smaller the dose and the more frequent it’s given. I give my one year old the tiniest tip of a teaspoon every half an hour with a lick of the lypo.
 

We are all refined sugar free in our house, but if you’re not it is a good thing to cut out while your body fights whatever infection or virus is bothering it!  That includes fructose sugar too!  Popular health site Mercola recommends adding in the following foods:

  • Raw, grass-fed organic milk, and/or high.-quality whey protein
  • Fermented foods such as raw kefir, kimchee, miso, pickles, sauerkraut
  • Raw, organic eggs from pastured chickens
  • Grass-fed beef
  • Coconuts and coconut oil
  • Organic vegetables and Garlic. Ideally consumed raw and crushed just before eating
  • Turmeric, oregano, cinnamon, cloves
  • Mushrooms, especially Reishi, Shiitake, and Maitake

We up the On Guard application to every couple of hours too and add zinc drops to our water.  If after a couple of days we are not getting better, or we are getting worse, on day 3 we hit the THE FLU BOMB and I make a soothing and decongesting chest rub from Frankincense and doTERRA’s blend, Breathe.  (I use lemon for babies).  

 

Another thing we go through with babies and young children often is ear aches and infections. You can use Melaleuca and Lavender in this instance too. Just dilute 1-2 drops of Melaleuca and/or Lavender and apply around the ear (NOT inside the ear) and along the back of the cheek bone down & around behind the ear. You can also add Basil to help with the pain. Did you know that about 70 percent of children get better on their own within two or three days of an ear infection, and about 80 percent are better within a week to 10 days, without antibiotics?

 

How to be a Non-Toxic Mama throughout your Home

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As a mum I avoid the use of chemicals wherever I can and I am confident that removing them has positively impacted many areas of our health, especially our immune systems!
 
doTERRA’s Starter Kits have everything you need to get started with your chemical free approach to your health and home!  Download my free ebook to get started with the Home Essentials Kit featured in the photo at the top of this page.  Or grab a free essential oils consult to discuss other kits that might work better for you!
 

“Choosing products that are completely safe for my baby is so confusing 😞 

I thought we were pretty good, but now I look deeper there are things I didn’t realise. Like we’ve been using ******** soap bar, which says ‘no harmful chemicals’, but today I looked up all the ingredients one-by-one and found a few of them were not very good. But it is better than a lot of other soaps. It’s such a shame how hard these things are to find out! There needs to be better labelling out there!  Its like you need to be a scientist to be able to keep your babies safe!” Holly, Whakatane

 

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