Category Archives: Young Living

The S*** Between You and It

Posted by Dec 11, 2016 Burnout, Coaching, Committment, Desire Map, Divine, Essential Oils, personal power, Relationships, Self-Care, Young Living , , , , , , , , ,
The S*** Between You and It

You practice mindfulness, begin to meditate then your world explodes. You don’t understand why doing something supposedly good for you feels like shit and assume those peaceful looking people are actually on prescription drugs. Xanax anyone? You start yoga only the teacher can’t explain why you’re on the mat crying or raging because he went […]

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The Alchemy of Sorrow

Posted by Nov 19, 2016 Advocacy, Desire Map, Divine, Essential Oils, Relationships, Self-Care, Young Living , , , ,

I think it is safe to say that I have never experienced any kind of real grief, rage or sorrow over anything political. Until now. Much has been written by those more adept than I about the cultural and personal impact of realizing that our country willingly chose to elect a madman whose parallels to […]

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In Defense of Ego and Energy

Posted by Aug 19, 2016 Advocacy, Coaching, Desire Map, Essential Oils, Reiki, Relationships, Self-Care, Young Living , , , , , , , , , ,

Similar to our physical body’s immune system we have one for our emotions and energy fields. All kinds of specialized systems and cells rush to the sites of injury to protect, isolate the danger, sometimes encapsulate and to heal. T-Cells, B-Cells, antibodies, phagocytes, plasma cells, neutrophils, inflammation responses, etc. Our bodies are a miracle of […]

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If You Can Train a Dog or Cat, You Can Train Yourself!

Posted by Jul 15, 2015 Advocacy, Burnout, Cats, Coaching, Committment, Desire Map, Essential Oils, Self-Care, Young Living , , , , , , , , ,

If you can train a dog you can train yourself. If you can train a cat you are even better equipped to train yourself into making and keeping commitments to self-care because really? Training a cat? Yeah it can be done but just like training yourself it takes commitment and consistency to get cumulative results. […]

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A Final Plea to Prevent Burnout:Self-care for Advocates Series End

Posted by Jun 5, 2015 Advocacy, Burnout, Committment, Essential Oils, Exercise, Reiki, Self-Care, Young Living , , , , , , ,

Recently a woman I know and have gotten a cat from (Ginger Rose who is currently living with my mom in Colorado) is closing her doors to her phenomenal cat rescue and TNR (trap-neuter-return) services because why? She’s burned the eff out. Her heart has in her own words “hardened”, she has no more tears […]

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YL Essential Oils: Self Care for Advocates Series 3

Posted by Mar 27, 2015 Catification, Essential Oils, Reiki, Self-Care, Young Living , , ,

Compassion fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Trauma, Burnout has been the subject for the last few weeks and I’m happy to see it being covered on more blogs also. It’s hard to stop for self-care when you’re thought pattern is “just one more”. I can do just one more cat, dog, child I can! Only you […]

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