My journey to Essential Oils & dõTERRA

There has definitely been a growing theme of ‘team work’ for me this year. After two years of solidly working alone I have been craving a little more sense of group purpose - the idea that alone I am strong, but together we can become a force for great change.

One of the over arching themes of the Aquarian Age (this age we are in right now) is ‘time’. This is the age of technology, where time knows less boundaries as we are no longer constricted by the time consuming search for information. It is now literally at our finger tips, day and night. But with this, I sense a feeling of ‘running out of time’ - for me this comes in the realms of running out of time to make a difference and help enough people, especially when I have my own family to care for first and foremost.

As many of you who follow me know, much of my energy is now going into my retreat centre as my passion lies in building a venue which can serve multitudes. But this is a longterm project and in the meantime I want to serve as many people as possible through my work in Ayurveda, Yoga, Reiki and Sound. I have written this month about my collaboration with three incredible women - as a four we are bringing together all strands of our work and creating a whole new way of living and breathing for women, as a team.

At a very base level, the other thing that became abundantly clear to me this year was that when I don’t work, I don’t earn. This isn’t the best formula for my own self care as it means I’m often serving others at my own detriment, but I don’t want to pass up on the work, especially when so much of my work is often the start of a healing journey with someone. But then something changed over the Summer - three months when I can’t work and earn because that is the time when I take care of my family and, quite honestly, I love and cherish this time and don’t want to change that. I feel so lucky that I can have this.

But the change was this - I watched a video. Yes, that simple! A video by a woman called Elena Brower. I’ll come back to the content of the video whilst I set the scene for watching it. For most of my life I have been surrounded by essential oils and healing hands. My mum, who is incredibly intuitive and spiritual, used to rub essential oils into my legs when I was growing or if I’d played a hockey match and there was always something yummy being diffused into the house. When I left for uni she gave me a diffuser and a little batch of blends so that I was armed with oils for coughs or sleeplessness. I can still remember there was one called ‘Thieves’ which was for stealing away all the bugs and air borne bacteria. I never really delved any deeper with the oils, but by this time they must have been well and truly engrained in my cells.

Fast forward 30 years and a gift of a bottle of Wild Orange from my dear friend Clare and something must have been re awakened. I had few oils in the house at that point, but mostly things for the boys. Tee tree for cuts, lavender for sleep and neem for headlice etc! So that bottle re started my journey with oils and, quite honestly, I couldn’t get enough of them. I introduced them into my yoga classes and everyone loved how much deeper their breath became as they inhaled into cupped hands a new scent each week. I spent a whole year making blends for different things and every New moon I’d choose a different oil to work with.

Before the summer I had chosen to work with Wild Orange again as it is energetically the Oil of Abundance and I was working energetically on more of this in my life - I am going to need it if I’m ever going to build this retreat centre! And wow did it work! I started getting job offers left, right and centre. One was particularly tempting financially, but just didn't feel like a good fit for where I’m going now, so reluctantly I turned it down. But that process made me realise, to be crude, that I wanted more money! Not for clothes and shoes but so that I could initiate change. But, I wanted to somehow generate a passive income that would allow me to earn when I’m physically not able to work and one which would ultimately afford me more time and freedom to serve my family and focus on my greater work of building a centre for health that so many people are going to benefit from. The trouble is I have so little time to do all of the above when I’m running classes and giving therapies, as much as I absolutely adore these things.

And then I had a conversation with a friend which went like this - “if you love the oils you are living with and using, why don’t you join the team of women I am building and start sharing the oils with others. We are in a team with the most incredible woman called Elena Brower”. And I said something like, “hmm, OK, I’ll think about it, thank you”, but my ego immediately kicked in and was sending me thoughts like “you are far too well qualified to sell oils Mai”, so I put it out of mind and carried on with our summer. And then I watched a video. And here’s the thing - Elena Brower is a highly successful teacher, author, speaker, mother and Double Diamond leader with doTERRA. She also hosts an incredible podcast, Practice You, where she talks with some truly incredible people. And in her video she talked about how her friend tried to get her to join doTERRA for 3 years and, even though she loved the oils with every cell of her being, she couldn’t wrap her mind around making that her business. Like me, she probably thought ‘what do I know about selling oils?’ - but here’s the thing that she and I have now discovered, you are not selling oils. You are, in fact, sharing the gift of Mother Nature’s most potent medicine. You are empowering others to harness that power in a safe way and apply it to their every day lives to improve their health and the health of those they care for.

And that sat really beautifully with me, why would it not? I already share herbs day in and day out, why not share their most ethereal component, their essential oil. So then I thought, ‘if I’m going to do this, I need to be sure, beyond sure, that these oils are safe and of the highest quality and that this company is honest and ethical’. And that marked the beginning of my research into their oils and harvesting practices and what they give back and, quite honestly, I was blown away. There was already no doubt in my mind that the oils were the best, you only have to smell their Frankincense to know how utterly pure it is and it suddenly made me question why so many other brands were so much cheaper - there really is no escaping the fact that you get what you pay for.

So here I am today, letting you know that I have aligned my business with doTERRA and I love it! Firstly, it is allowing me to share these oils and my time for free with lots of people, which feels so good as much of my other client work may feel cost prohibitive to some and I’ve always felt uneasy about the people I couldn’t reach or help because of money. Secondly, the oils are stunning and as soon as someone has a drop in their hands the oils do all the work anyway and the oil education from our team and doTERRA as a whole is in abundance so clients are always supported in their use. Thirdly, it has deepened my study as I am now learning about them more deeply so I can incorporate them into my therapeutic work and, fourth, I have become part of a team. A team of like-souled people who want to improve their own health and the health of those they care for in a way that is aligned with caring for this planet and all the abundance it has to offer. And lastly, I am building a new strand to my business which is allowing me more freedom and more time to be exactly where I need to be.

So I look forward to sharing these with you and helping you start your oil journey.