Young Living Is Changing My Life
First of all, let me tell you about Young Living (YL) as a company and what we sell. It’s an essential oils multilevel marketing company (MLM) who also have cleaning products, oral care, personal care, make up, and even things for use on kids, babies, and pets! As distributors we can do classes and share oils and have our friends and family sign up with us and that allows individuals to rank up and earn more money. So if you want to rank up and make Young Living a career you put on classes and work on relationships and introduce people to oils and what they can do (or any of the other YL products).
I first heard of oils when I was working as a CNA in 2015, one of my coworker’s moms had a kit and my coworker was doing some one on one educating with one of the charge nurses on my unit. I kinda listened but I don’t remember which company she was with. Fast forward to November 2018 one of my nieghbors from my home town invited me to one of her classes. At that class I learned more about oils than I had heard previously and I realized it could help me with a lot of the issues I was having at the time. I think what clicked for me the most at this class was how there are oils to help with reproductive issues and that struck me because I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and that causes infertility due to the lack of a full cycle. PCOS affects each woman and the length of their cycles and ovulation differently. More on that at a later point in time though.
So, knowing I have PCOS combined with the high probablity that I would have infertility issues, I wanted to get my hands on these oils. I wanted to invest the money in a kit right away but I couldn’t afford it at the time so I waited. I was finally able to sign up in October 2019 and have been doing my best to use oils consistently since then. There are so many products that are helpful to this.
The more I’ve dove into Young Living and switching out store bought products for YL’s clean and natural products, the more I’ve learned about just how harmful chemicals and processed foods are. These products you buy on the shelves of Walmart, Target, Walgreens, small town grocery stores, and other places like that aren’t the best quality. PErsonal care products carried by Johnson and Johnson, Bath and Body Works, Old Spice, Dove, Babyganics, Suave, Aveeno, Colgate, and so many more are full of chemicals causing damage to our endocrine system, reproductive organs, digestive system, even doing things like drying out our skin. Even the all natural products out there need to have their ingredients list looked at because the more product is has in there the more likely it has chemical consituents in it that cause disruptions. I fully believe the use of these products in my life over the years have contributed to some of the issues I have today. I’ve stopped trusting all these companies and have switched to Young Living products as much as I can because YL products are truly plant based and contain pure essential oils that are going to help keep homeostasis in my body and hopefully some day get my PCOS back under control so I don’t have an infertility struggle.
Learning about all of that has been eye-opening and alarming. No one is going to protect me but me myself. We have to look out for ourselves, look up ingredients in things, even the greenwashed companies! It blows my mind.
So back to happy stuff, right?! In the kit I purchased there were 12 oils, a hand purifier, Thieves spray, and two Ningxia packets. Some of the oils were from the vitality line, which just means you can ingest them and they are white labeled to be clear that they are safe to ingest. The color-labeled ones are for topical use or diffusing only. Oh! And the kit also came with my choice of diffuser! Anyway, in the following paragraphs I’m gonna share how I’ve used these oils and what they have done for me.
Citrus Fresh Vitality has added even more freshness to my smoothies and I’ve used it for odor-eating in my trash can and in cleaning products. I’ve diffused it with other oils as well. It has fresh in the name and it really is just an uplifting oil!
DiGize Vitality is a digestive help! Oh my goodness has it been a life saver when I’ve been ill and my stomach has felt wonky or I’ve needed some indigestion relief. I put 10 drops of DiGize and 10 drops of Peppermint in a roller bottle and added fractionated coconut oil and then rolled it around my belly button to calm my stomach or rolled it up my chest and onto my neck for indigestion DiGize doesn’t have a great smell to it, it’s almost like black licorice so adding the Peppermint not only helps sooth but it also makes it smell better and makes it more tolerable to use.
Peppermint Vitality has been awesome to sniff in the morning when I need an extra wake up boost or in the afternoon slumps when I need to be more alert. Pairing it with other oils like the way I did with DiGize I mentioned above or you can add it to a roller with Lemon Vitality and Thieves to roll on when your allergies are acting up.
Lemon Vitality is a great way to add some flavor to your water. I haven’t used it in my water a whole lot because it is kinda bitter since the oil comes from the rind but I’m gonna try it again soon in hopes I warm up to it even more. Lemon vitality can be used a lot like Citrus Fresh since it is part of the citrus family. I will add that it works better as a natural ‘goo gone’ than the Citrus Fresh does. And you can add it to the peppermint for a wake up blend or combine it for that allergy roller I mentioned in the last paragraph.
Now, this one here is one of my ultimate favorites because of how it has helped even out my skin tone and the grounding effects it brings on when I use it. It’s Frankincense! I cannot get enough of Frankincense. It’s almost peppery smelling but also earthy and it is just amazing for your skin and mental health too!
Lavender is one I have used in my diffuser at night time or when I’ve had a rough day at work (when I was working anyway). I have mixed it with some other oils that aren’t in the starter kit to make a glow serum that has really helped my skin stay soft and smooth. I’ve used it on burns I’ve gotten from cooking and I wished I had it when I sunburnt myself to a crisp because it REALLY would have helped then. Alas, I was out at the time. Unfortunate! Haha!
Okay, moving on we have PanAway, think PainAway, because that’s what we use it for, pain. You can use it on sprains or you can use it on sore muscles. It’s really fresh smelling, it has wintergreen and peppermint in it already, among some other oils. So this is one of the best blends to have on hand. When we moved I used it because of all the extra lifting I was doing was causing me to be sore. It’s great paired with some coconut oil and massaged on to sore spots.
Peace & Calming is one of my man’s favorites. We use it often for sleep. Or I pair it with Valor or Stress Away for an even better calming experience. It is an oil that has had to grow on me so I haven’t personally used it a lot outside of those two uses. You could mix it with bath salts and have a nice relaxing bath as well!
Raven, my goodness have I been enjoying this one when I work out. Raven is our respiratory helper! It acts like a natural vix rub so you can use it when you have a cold and congestion to open up your airways, just be careful because it is considered one of our “hot” oils, meaning it can cause sensitive skin to flare up. Diluting it by adding it to coconut oil is a good idea and it’s strong enough that I wouldn’t use it on kiddos.
MMMmmm... okay, Stress Away! Stress Away is the first oil I really connected with. A lot of YL members call it vacation in a bottle. It is so good! So, okay, it has vanilla in it, it’s a blend of oils, and vanilla is one of my all time favorite smells so I think that has a lot to do with it but I also think it has a lot to do with the fact that it reminded me of baking cookies with my grandma. So I use this one a lot. I diffuse it with other oils like lime (not in the starter kit) or peppermint. I’ve mixed it with epsom salt and baking soda for a detox bath that left me feeling so relaxed I dunno why I haven’t taken a bath with it recently! Totally should! I’ve put it in a roller with coconut oil and rolled it on my neck and wrists to use as a perfume and I’ve huffed it straight out of the bottle when I’ve needed moments of de-stressing. My go to oil, ya’ll!
Valor, oh valor, how you’ve grown on me. Right, so, at first I didn’t like Valor so I gave mine to one of my coworkers I was working with shortly after I purchased my kit. A few months went by and I kept finding diffuser blends that I wanted to try and a lot of them called for Valor. So I purchased another bottle and have since used it in different diffuser recipes. The first time I really noticed it help me the most was when we had a storm here a few weeks back and my anxiety was starting to rise and I had Rusty grab my Valor bottle and hand it to me. I took the lid off and just huffed it straight out of the bottle for several minutes. I was still on edge afterwards but my body wasn’t nearly as tense. It’s our brave oil, a lot of the people in the YL community use it before they go into meetings or interviews or before they teach a class. It has many uses too!
Now, I have saved this for last because it has a whole line of it’s own showcasing how cool Thieves is. Thieves is another oil blend. It contains Clove, Cinnamon Bark, Rosemary, Lemon, and Eucaluptus Radiata and it comes out of a story of these 15th Century thieves who made up a botanical blend during a plague and would go rob graves and dead people but never got sick themselve because of the blend they would use. How gross but cool is that? So Young Living replicated that and have put it in a whole line of cleaning products.
You get to sample two of the products with the kit purchase. There’s Thieves waterless hand purifier (so essentially it’s sanitizer) in a 1oz squeeze bottle. I kept mine in the car for the longest time and used it frequently until I lost the bottle at one point. There’s also a 1 ounce Thieves spray which you can use to spray down cart handles, door knobs, toilet seats (all of which are suggested uses by YL), I use mine in the car and just keep it in my purse for when I need to purify something I’m coming into contact with.
Outside of the kit purchase Young Living brought Rusty and I back together, I had the oils sent to the apartment we had shared which is where he was still living at the time and I opened my kit right there in the living with him and shared them with him and it basically led us to getting back into our relationship. It’s also brought me a whole community of people, mostly women so far, who support me and we support each other for healthier living and lifestyles. Since I started using these products and since I have been learning so much about the harmful side effects of other daily use products I have had a thirst for more clean living. It’s leading me to make better, healthier choices. I’ve started working out and I am working on a more clean eating grocery list. I want better because now I know better. It’s gearing me up to be able to eventually have kids and it’s already done so much in the way of helping my skin, my digestive issues, and even my emotional well-being has improved. My whole outlook on life has changed because of one person inviting me to her oils class. I was so skeptical in 2015 when I first heard about essential oils. I was skeptical even in 2018 when I went to that class, but I was also curious about what they could do for me.
They work, they work, they work! And they change lives, bring people together, and support a healthy lifestyle. It’s been an amazing journey so far and I can’t wait to see where else it takes me!
