In 2006, I moved to London with my husband and nursing career and was set to take on the world! Soon after we concieved our beautiful boy who is now 10 and began the journey into parenthood and all that it entails. In 2010 we had our second boy and I noticed that despite thinking I was fairly healthy, we had a lot of sickness in our home. When our first boy was 3 and a half, we had an operation on his tonsils and adenoids which helped a lot with constant colds. In meantime our baby was always sick with allergies an ear infections. Having a medical understanding, I set to what was going wrong with my little babies.
We had never been sick as children, but my parents milked the cow every morning, collected fresh eggs from cage free birds and grew most of their own fruit, veges and herbs and made whole grain bread daily. If we were sick it was oils, herbs, cider vinegar and colloidal silver and kefir. This journey has taken me a long time and I was often overwhelmed by health - mental, emotional and physical. Now 10 years on I have tried a LOT of things. I have endured horrific health conditions including RSS or TSW which is a chronic auto immune skin condition and a withdrawal of the steroids used to suppress our God given immune system! I have had kidney stones, miscarriages, anxiety, Post natal depression, fatigue, adrenal fatigue and more. My children have had severe reactions to vaccines, and chronic asthma and gut issues (my boy from age 3-10 has had very very bad gut issues and pains and several invasive procedures)
As a busy mum I needed to find solutions and one thing that cropped up was chemicals and toxins in our home. Like I am talking freaky deaky, you wouldnt believe, the impact of silent potential killers in every modern home. I won’t geek out on you here, but there are lot, just have a quick research.
When I moved back, I started up with Nutrimetics again - it was a cute starter kit, nutritionally enriched beauty and skincare and I trusted the brand that my Nan had even used. Things like Apricot Kernel oil (the smell) and had been trusted for 50 years in Australia. I loved their cleaners.
But as time went on (another 5 years now) I got more and more into researching chemicals and wanted to pursue even more natural solutions. I have never had an issue with MLM - networking marketing companies. I am a big fan of them if done well. The key is learn the skills, put in effort and be part of a company that is ethical, growing and in an industry that is growing (ie consumer demand/want)
I got out of Nutrimetics after nearly 4 years as really unless I did party plans, I wasn’t making enough and I had a lot of stock I couldnt shift. A friend introduced me to Kyani - which is no stock, people order direct and its just 3 products so its pretty simple. A powerful antioxidant water soluble drink in the morning, omegas from fish oils in the evening and Nitro from organic Noni fruit in the evening. I credit this system a lot in my healing. I believe prayer, adding that to my diet, using oils for infections and Wheatgrass were instrumental aspects of my healing. So after nearly a year, and a lot of research and mainly because I trusted my friend who was a nutritionist and studying Natropathy, I joined them.
I have no issue with Kyani, I LOVE the taste and effect of the product but the business model wasn’t fantastic and neither was the upline support and if you don’t have that in these business’, you will struggle to succeed. Don’t get me wrong here either. I made WONDERFUL friends in that company, many weren’t in my direct upline or were cross line (ie not my team and dont benefit fro me succeeding) who were so helpful but on the whole i was disenchanted with how that turned out. It was also expensive and people find it hard to justify that cost.
I have always enjoyed skincare, makeup and playing around with DIY things. Its something I have done on and off for over 20 years and so it was natural that I would continue to love a job that allowed me to pamper, to nurture, and continue down a very wholesome path. A few friends introduced me to oils over the last decade. I had had blends made up by Aromatherapists over the years and used oils in cleaning and so on but I had been hesitant to join one of the oil companies as I had seen rankled members diss other companies, or diss leadership, I had heard rumours and I also thought, how can I, unqualified, share about oils. I have always used and trusted qualified aromatherapists when its come to oils. I value purity so yes I had moved from cheap pharmacy ones to buying from the big oil companies but never saw myself going into the oily business. But a few things struck chords with me in an organic, not salesy way. First of all, my upline (the lady who signed me) I had known and watched for years and seen her own health journey and prosperity change in the time she started investing in oils, secondly I was buying these oils from renowned companies anyway for my own family and as gifts for friends, candles, soaps and clients... So I was spending retail costs on these and finally because I read an amazing book called Fearless and this lady has 6 aromatherapy qualifications and one thing she said was, paraphrased, Don’t be afraid of playing with oils. Yes they are volatile, yes they can be potentially dangerous and must be used with wisdom and must be high quality but I have learnt more from playing with oils than learning the chemistry and the genus of plants which make oils by far. She said oils have been used for thousands of years, from over 500 mentions of oils in the bible, to arabic and greek historical documents of oils, if mummies from over 4000 years ago can look that good with oils to embalm then they MUST work (made me laugh) (I need me some of that!)
It took the fear and overwhelm out of my health regime and of using oils. It took my worry of being unqualified out (Incidentally I love them so much I have started studying oils anyway with the Australian college of Aromatherapy) and when I saw immediate benefits in my family, it made it very easy to share.
People say that they can be expensive. Most things that are quality, are. But when I look at my nearly 270 drops per 15ml bottle of lemon oil for $18.05 and lasting 9 months if I used 1 drop a day; Uh guys hate to break it to you but that is vastly cheaper than buying lemons and trying to use the rind in all that you do. Go look up “what does Lemon oil do “ and “What is D-limonene?”
Whether you want to swap out chemical cleaners, replace toxins with your cooking with processed to using a couple drops of a quality oil (think oregano, black pepper, carrot seed, marjoram) and reap the benefits, alkalise, or rethink how you handle pressure and stress, and so much more, oils are for everyone. From the pregnant mum and new born baby, to the elderly and even pallative, and everything in between, even pets!
You won’t ever see change if you don’t take the risk.
There is a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay for just leaving things as they are. The highway to success is a toll road. Everything has a price.
If you have been sick you will know its costly, and uncomfortable.
If you have reached crisis, you are more likely to move from apathy to action.
If you see the value in a healthier, more wholesome and cost effective way for your families health, then join me and travel with me as I continue to learn and grow, and I will pass that on to you in any way that I can.
You will never know how easy it is, until you take a step, and ask.
Loads of love
Hannah
