Making Connections, Sharing Daily Life, and Loving Everyone along the Way

Hello Folks!
As I sit here at my desk typing, it's been a busy day.  Couple that with my golden retrievers coming up to my bed throughout the night, and snuggling me so good last night that my neck is kinked.  Whew!  I need a wonderfully luxurious bath soak!  

I know many of you feel the same way.  There are so many wonderful combinations of bath soaks, but what this particular recipe does is it helps your muscles relax and helps you to calm your body.  Simply breathe deeply all the wonderful relaxing scents and enjoy!  There is also a special ingredient that you add to the tub that helps to sooth and soften your skin!  You'll be shocked to know how easy it is to make this bath soak!  

(Click here to view the video on youtube)

Make sure you write those ingredients down so you can get them on your next Essential Rewards order and save some money! It's a fantastic way to save points toward gifts for Christmas too!

Have an amazing day!

God Bless,

Regina Graham [And her silly hubby Craig]

So you're trying to begin thinking about this non-toxic lifestyle thing.  You just cannot get your head wrapped around the virtual "germ war-fare" that needs to take place in the two most used places in the house! 

For much of the time we've had Sully, he's been anxious.  He was frightened to go outside our front door, but going out the back door where there was a fence and he knew well was just fine.

Whenever the heater comes on, the leaves fall from the trees, the fireplace roars, the hot tea or cocoa is poured, and the fuzzy blanket covers us during those chilly nights, it's time to think of our breathing too.

When the heater comes on, it dries the air, which in turn dries our sinuses. This makes way for all kinds of icky germs to attach to our dried sinus cavities and grow, blossoming in to an infection before we know it.

I have made it a routine for myself that once the air changes, I get my Neil Med nasal rinse out and do that once a day with purified water. There are little packets that come with it when you buy it or you can find these XLear packets to be helpful in keeping your sinuses clean. The great thing about them is they can be used twice a day. After I had sinus surgery in 2007, I used a saline type version of these and my Dr had me rinsing 3x/day. As usual, consult your physician before using.

Additionally, the diffusers not only come out, but get a good cleaning with alcohol on a paper towel, alcohol pads, and/or qtips to get in all those cracks and crevices to be sure it's clean. I have a diffuser for almost every room in my home. When the change of seasons occurs, I usually add Thieves Essential Oil Blend and a Citrus oil like Orange, Lemon, or Grapefruit. I set the diffusers in most used areas and beside my bed. That way we can get the most of the wonderful cleansing, healing properties of these wonderful God made essential oils!

I'd like to encourage you to look up the benefits of the oils that I mention in a google search, for example, "What are the benefits of Lemon Essential Oil?", "What are terpenes and what do they do?" Keep searching and if you have any questions, I'm always available!

I have a wonderful education group that I'd be happy to add you to so you can learn at your own pace, no pressure to buy anything, ever, I promise! Just come learn and gain an understanding about how all these products work and how to use them! We've shared some pretty neat hacks too! Who wouldn't want to learn more about using Thieves Hand Sanitizer in place of toxin filled mousse or hairspray?! :D

Have a wonderfully fantastic day!

God Bless,

Regina Graham 

These two Golden Retrievers are answers to my selfish, frivolous prayers.  I had prayed for Ginger, even had her name picked out, for 15 years!  I absolutely feel so very blessed by these guys, and so unworthy of such a beautiful gift by God.  Yes, we've had children and I felt even more blessed, but our children are adults now and on their way in each of their own life pursuits, so now is the time the Lord decided to bless us with these two goofballs.

We have 5 furry family members--Pickles the cat is 16, Biscuit is 13, Gus is 6, Ginger is 4, and Sully is 3.  It makes for a very comical, sometimes loud, but very snuggly day--every day. :)

When I knew we would be getting Ginger in 2016, I started researching even more about the breed, care, and training.  Now, we've had dogs all of our lives, so we knew how to train them, but Golden Retrievers are different.  They're super smart, extremely loyal, and hate to be left alone by their humans.  They also, as a breed, have a very high rate of getting cancer at a young age.  

This scared me to the point where I knew I needed to do something about it, but I didn't know the answer at the time.  

Fast Forward 2 months and I started with my first round of bronchial pneumonia due to sitting and recovering from surgery, not moving, not doing a lot, but just what was necessary while my sweet Ginger snuggled me at every moment, even at 8-10 weeks.  

After recovering from that bout of bronchial pneumonia, a few months later, I came down with it again, then a few months later, again.

NOT FUN! 

So we started looking at our environment, cleaned all our duct work, continued using diffusers and the best oils on the planet, but...

What about our cleaners?  

As time went on, I started prayerfully considering the cleaning supplies in our house.  A dear friend of mine suggested looking up every ingredient and googling, "Dangers of __ingredient name__" and boy was THAT eye-opening!  

I started remembering about the cancer risks for my dogs at that point and thought, "If I switch to this cleaner, then the toxic ingredients in those other cleaners will not affect them adversely since they're not walking around on that yuck!" 

Win-Win!!!

So, since that time, I've been changing out their shampoo, the cleaners in our home, their treats, and just being ultra vigilant about what we feed them.  

The shampoo that I use, I can buy one bottle and split it in to 3 bottles, then dilute with water, making it last 3x longer.  It smells fantastic, makes their coat super soft, and there has not been any skin issues using it with any of my dogs.  It contains the following essential oils:

*Lavandin

*Lemon

*Geranium

*Citronella

*Northern Lights Black Spruce

*Vetiver

The cleaner that I use, I've switched completely over to it--replacing my window cleaner, multipurpose cleaner, toilet cleaner, bath-tub cleaner, sink cleaner, counter, degreaser, vehicle, floors, carpeting, upholstery, as well as cleaning their kennels and their bedding.  It's phenomenal!  It smells really good too--like Christmas in a bottle!  It contains the following essential oils:

*Clove

*Lemon

*Cinnamon

*Rosemary

*Eucalyptus Radiata

I am so very passionate about using these products, especially for our family as well as our pets because they are made from the BEST essential oils on the planet, they're hyper-organic (meaning they're farmed without chemicals for 50+ years), and they're made for a purpose--not a profit.  I love the Integrity of this company and I know you will too.

Want to learn more?  

You can join my education group on Facebook--no pressure, ever.  Just come and learn.  

God Bless,

Regina Graham