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Living A Chemical Free Life

May 18, 2017 Leave a Comment

I thought I’d switch things up today. I normally blog about home decor or DIY’s.. but today I wanted to share with you a few products that I’ve added to my routine in the last few months. Since starting on my Essential Oil journey in May 2016 of trying to live a more pure and healthy lifestyle, I’ve become more aware of the toxins in my everyday products like Makeup, toothpaste, deodorant and face wash. These products we trust and growing up I never questioned what was put into these products. It wasn’t until I was made aware of the “Think Dirty App” ( An App you can scan or look up basic drug store items to see their toxicity level), that I was in complete disgust. I mean, I was putting these chemicals into my kids bodies. I was giving them these products. Products that could cause disease and cancer down the road. I was enabling this, and that hit me really hard.

See these products we’ve grown up with, we use on our babies, the elderly.. we trust these brands. But yet, they’re killing us.

“Did you know that the average woman puts 80 chemicals on her body before breakfast time?” and “The Average body consumes 5 pounds of makeup in a year!”

I mean, ew.

According to the David Suzuki Foundation –

“Many chemical ingredients in cosmetics have never been tested for their effects on human health and the environment. Health Canada and Environment Canada are slowly working their way through the assessment of some 4,000 existing substances — including chemicals used in cosmetics — that have been categorized as potentially posing a risk to human health or the environment”

So I’ve been on a hunt. Since I was already with Young Living, I immediately switched my toothpaste over to Thieves toothpaste and Orange Essential Oil.

Did you know that store-bought brands ( not naming as I do not want to be sued ) you aren’t allowed to swallow? They’re toxic for our systems.

With Thieves Aromabright toothpaste, they actually recommend you swallow to cleanse your throat and back of mouth. Did you know that the leading cause of bad breath is because people don’t cleanse the back of their mouth/throat? Bacteria grows and it’s impossible to kill, even with mouthwash. Although mouthwash is a chemical crap storm you’re just throwing down the hatch.

I also like to put a drop of Orange essential oil on my toothbrush to whiten my teeth. But make sure you’re using a reputable therapeutic grade essential oil. Again, companies like sage, and other main stream brands are D grade and more for a nice smelling home. Be sure you’re using a reputable grade A essential oil like Doterra or Young Living.

Living Life Less Toxic, Thieves Aromabright toothpaste, Orange Young Living Essential Oil

This method has improved my dental quality. I’d highly recommend you try!

I also switched all of our deodorants ( Glens, mine and Hudson’s ) over to Young Living Deodorant. Did you know that deodorant is the leading cause in breast cancer? It’s something millions of people use on a daily basis, yet it’s killing us.

Next up, I switched my daily cleaner over to the Art System.. it has cleared my skin up significantly and is packed full of the best ingredients. Among those ingredients are very expensive essential oils like Melissa, Frankincense ( Known to diminish fine lines and wrinkles ) and Royal Hawaiian Sandalwood essential oils.

My skin has been so much happier and brighter.

How we switched our toxic life to a more chemical free lifestyle young living art system, thieves, beauty counter

Since embarking on a healthier lifestyle when I bought my Premium Starter Kit last May, I’ve become way more aware of what I’m putting in and on my body, as well as the cleaners I use and basically anything that is airborne or touches my skin. Our skin is our biggest & most important organ in our bodies, protect it.

Also, thankfully to a friend, I switched over my makeup line too to Beauty Counter. It has way less crap in it. Plug it into the “Think Dirty” App and you will see.

If you think “Wow, those products are pricey” yes, they are, but they last 2-3 times the amount of time as a normal drug store item does as you use way less. You also have the peace of mind that these companies have put years into testing their products and the ingredients are right on the website for you to read and research.

Living A Less Toxic Life

Please hear me out when I say that this journey is not over. I still struggle with our foods because it seems everything these days, even our organic vegetables and fruits are laced with chemicals. I think the most important thing in our journey is that we have become aware and that we are trying to live as chemical free as possible.

I’m so thankful everyday for my Young Living Essential Oils and the effect they have had on my families health. We’ve switched and ditched so many of our products over the last year and I think if I hadn’t embarked on Young Living, I never really would be been aware of how many toxins and chemicals I was really consuming and slathering on my body every day.

Instead of popping a tylenol or two for a headache, I know can throw peppermint or M-Grain on my head for instant relief.

Instead of giving my kids tylenol or cold medication I have alternatives like Thieves, Oregano and Lavender.

The list really has gone on and on.

Living a Less Toxic Life

Living A Chemical Free Life

Hope you’re all inspired to go into your home and  ditch some of your yucky products things that  you think are safe like Dove Soap, Shampoo’s and Dish Soap seem to test the highest on the dirty scale.

I’m always here to help educate and guide you in a chemical free lifestyle. If you’re wanting to read more on my journey with Essential Oils click here. 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today

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Filed Under: All Tagged With: Beauty Counter, Chemical Free, DIY, Essential Oils, Toxins, Young Living

5 Dollar Essential Oil Shelf

May 2, 2017 Leave a Comment

Hey guys!

Man… I feel like I’m being stretched so far these days. I haven’t even logged on to do any schooling in over three weeks, and my limits have been far over stepped. But I’ve seen some pretty incredible things in the last month. If you have  been reading my past few blogs, you’ll know what I mean.

I hope you don’t feel like I’m complaining. Because I’m not.. I’m loving being stretched by my limits. But because I am, I have less time to blog.

Today I pounded together this pretty ( very simple ) oily shelf so I won’t have to run up and down the stairs every time I want an oil from my other oil shelf. This took literally a few minutes to “build” and a 5 dollar piece of wood.

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Staying Well This Season

September 8, 2016 Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again. The leaves are starting to turn orange, it’s getting crisp in the evenings and mornings, people are pulling out their scarves & hunters. It seems like everyone and their mom has been flashing their Pumpkin Spice Lattes and kids are now back in school. This is literally one of my favourite times of year. I love everything about it. I love decorating my home, the storms that fall brings, candles & cozy nights sipping tea.

What I don’t love is how cold weather seems to bring nasty germs into our home. When our body is unwell, we aren’t productive. Thus making you take time off work, or keeping kids away from school – and who has time for that?!

This year, I’ve come up with a fool proof plan to help keep our bodies well & healthy. I’m going to give you my plan to keeping our bodies above the wellness line and immune system kicking the bugs to the curb.

Stay Well This Season With Thieves and Purification From Young Living. Stay Above The Wellness Line

 

Steps To Stay Well This Season

-Drop of Thieves Essential Oil On the bottoms of our feet, every morning.

-Remind my kids to wash their hands throughly & Not touch their eyes/mouth when at school.

-Purify our home with Purification Essential Oil & Thieves ( In the diffuser ) * Kills harmful bacteria in the air*

 

I also have a few other steps that we are doing in our daily routine to keep our bodies frequency level higher like take Multigreens, Super B and Ningxia Red. But that’s more to add nutrition, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals to our daily diet.

Keep Your Body Healthy With Ningxia, Super B and Multigreens from Young Living

If you haven’t checked out the many benefits & tests done on Thieves Essential Oil from Young Living, I highly recommend that you do. It’s so intriguing & this article is one of my absolute favourites. It is a very unbiased opinion as she didn’t even use Thieves from Young Living prior to performing these lab experiments.

Our journey so far has been great. We’ve been using Essential Oils since May and haven’t been sick yet. I’m sure we are in for something this season, but I hear the oils bring the duration and severity down quite a bit.

A little quick note as well, Thieves & Purification come in the Premium Starter kit, which is 10% off all month. Super awesome deal to get your hands on this while you can.

Hope you are enjoying a little peace & quiet while your kiddos are in school & hope the germs stay at bay.

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Filed Under: All Tagged With: back to school, blends, Diffuser, Essential Oils, Health, Healthy, Morning routine, Ningxia, purification, thieves, well, wellness

My Subscription Box.

August 14, 2016 2 Comments

As pretty  much all of you know, I’m kind of a die hard fan of  Young Living products. So much so, that I started to become wholesale member a few months ago. This means that I literally and I mean literally, just share how I’m using my oils & products and they gave me cheques for signing up new members. It’s that easy. For three months now I’ve been part of a program called “Essential Rewards” it’s my subscription box. Every month I can choose what I want in my order for that month, cancel it or skip it. There are never any fees of any kind and if I want to cancel, I totally can.

The best part of being a part of Young Living is that not only do they give you hundreds of dollars of products for free for spending a certain amount, but I literally do not have to spend a dime of my own money because I’m getting very very generous cheques from Young Living already that I just put some towards my subscription box.

The last few months have been really really difficult with our home business and the money that I have made from Young Living alone has helped keep our little family afloat and to be able to pay our bills. So I will forever be thankful for this amazing company & the products which have kept me sane.

What's in my Subscription Box, Essential Rewards, Young Living Essential Oils, Best Program In The World, No Fees, No Cancellatino Fees, Free product

 

See this giant box? I paid nothing for it. NOTHING. Below I will give you a breakdown on what I received. I didn’t photograph everything I received as we’ve been using it & some of the packaging is ugly & torn now.

Our Young Living Subscription Box, I Received All This Product FOR FREE, Just through Sharing, Essential Reward is Absolutely AMAZING

 

What was in my Essential Rewards Subscription Box?

  1. Pure Protein Complete 
  2. Multigreens
  3. Agilease
  4. Super B
  5. Cool Azul
  6. Breath Again
  7. Two Young Living BPA Smoothie Bottles
  8. Peace & Calming ll ( FAVOURITE OIL )
  9. Inner Child ( YOU NEED THIS )
  10. Idaho Blue Spruce 
  11. Clarity
  12. Gentle Baby ( EVERY MAMA + CHILD NEEDS THIS )
  13. Bergamot Vitality 
  14. Owie
  15. Eucalyptus Globulus
  16. Thieves Dental Floss 3 PK 
  17. Gary Young Book – Leader In Essential Oils
  18. 83 Essential Reward Points To Spend On Anything Of My Choice

=402.44 USD ( FOR FREE )

 

So, is that not crazy, or what?! The supplements & Protein Powder are far beyond any brand I’ve ever tried. My body is starting to feel like a body again. Not sluggish or crappy. I also have a TON more energy.. and the oils, I’ve written enough on them already, I think you can read some of my more specific blogs on the quality of the oils.

Why Essential Rewards From Young Living Is The Ultimate Subscription Box, I Got Everything For Free Just For Sharing The product, Most High Quality Product Ever.

 

One of my favourite oils in this haul is “Inner Child”. The last few months, but especially last two weeks have been unbearable. These oils can do SO much for your mental state. I’ve been dealing with some pretty unbearable stress, because I’m clearly not meant to own a business and we are doing everything in our power to find a buyer at the moment. But Anyways, the oils can do so so so much for your mental health & Stress. I like to use oils topically, internally and in the diffuser. But the last few days I’ve been applying “Inner Child” directly to my wrists and neck and it has done such wonders for my anxiety attacks. It’s supposed to help you release negative emotions. It’s a must try!

Hope you are all having an amazing weekend. It’s been a long haul for us – but we’re excited for summer to end and resolutions brought to our life and business.

Sorry my posting has been so few lately. We haven’t had much time to do any DIY’s and my brain has been in other areas right now. I hope to get a Rustic DIY up late next week – so stay tuned!

 

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Filed Under: All Tagged With: Be Healthy, Essential Oils, Essential Rewards, Health, Healthy Lifestyle, income, Stay At Home Mama, subscription box, wealth, wellness, Young Living

Troubled Sleeper? Read This

August 8, 2016 4 Comments

For 7 years now, I’ve been an awful sleeper. Pretty much since I conceived our first child. We have a 6, 5 and 1 year old. Our days are spent very busy between our home based business, activities, dealing with the fighting, tantrums and life with three kids under six. But then, at night, when we expect to hit the hay and say adios to the world. Our children would wake up in cycles. Brinley at 12 Am to eat, Cai at 2 AM to pee, Hudson at 3 AM to drink and then again and again.

Finally we put our foot down and said enough was enough. I mean, we can pretend sleep is for the faint, but really we were living in a zombie apocalypse, and it was affecting every area of our life.

On May 14th, I bought Essential Oils from Young Living. My main goal in life was to chill out, but I didn’t have high hopes for even that. As soon as I got our diffuser I popped in some lavender and northern lights black spruce, and we slept much better, but still not 100%. Shortly after making our first purchase we also bought Vetiver.

 

The heavens opened.

 

Angels Sang.

 

It was heaven.

 

The Best Essential Oil For Sleep, Knocks Anyone Out, Old Age, Pregnancy, Menopause, Insomnia, Babies

 

 

Our Nightly Routine: 

Put two drops of  Vetiver & 4-6 drops of Cedarwood, Bergamot or Lavender in the diffuser 20 minutes before we go to sleep, so that the room is filled up with molecules.

Rub a bit of lavender on the soles of our feet and jump into bed and count to three, I promise you will start dosing.

For our babies, we do the same for the diffuser, but we spray their bedding with gentle baby/cedarwood mix.

 

We use this mixture if we’re traveling, on the go ( in roller bottles ) and we always bring a diffuser with us. I can promise you, it will be a life changer.

I’ve recommeneded this combo to people with

-Old Age

-Pregnancy

-Baby/Children

-Menopause + Pre Menopause

-Insomnia

-ADHD

and so far each & every person I’ve recommended it to comes back with glowing reviews and has reordered this oil.

 

For people who are new to Essential Oils, I ALWAYS recommend that you buy a Premium Starter Kit as it’s the best bang for your buck. You get 380 dollars of product for 199.99 In Canada or 160 In USA ( and then I’m also giving back 25.00   )  You can add a Vetiver bottle onto your order and I can promise you – you will never go back.

Essential Oils have a lot more amazing benefits other than sleep, but I thought I should post this as, who doesn’t need more sleep?

 

Want to chat more? Hit me up in the comments or check out my page designed JUST for Essential Oils.

Hope you’re all having an amazing week!

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Filed Under: All Tagged With: Anxiety, Diffuser, Essential Oils, Sleep, Vetiver, wellness, Young Living

How To Make Your Kids Sleep In 1…2…3

June 24, 2016 1 Comment

How TO Make Your Kids Fall Asleep. The Number One Blend To put your kids to sleep. Essential Oil mix For sleep

As some of you know, It has almost been six weeks that I’ve been using essential oils. Now hold up a sec, don’t laugh. They have some amazing properties. I never thought I would be a user of essential oils to be honest. I thought only hippies used oils. Harsh, but true. I even took a entire year to sign up – no lie.

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DIY Laundry Detergent

June 14, 2016 Leave a Comment

DIY Laundry Detergent, DIY Easy Toxin Free Laundry Detergent Made In Minutes, 74 Loads of Laundry, Essential Oils, Chemical Free
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We have been on a  journey to turn all of the chemically yucky products in our home into natural and chemical free products. My friend, Keltie,  over at Keltie Says blogged about this amazing DIY Laundry Detergent. Not only does it smell amazing, but it isn’t full of toxins. Here is the low down on how to make it in under thirty minutes and it lasts for Seventy-Four loads. Double the batch and you do the math. Laundry Detergent for days!

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Filed Under: diy Tagged With: Chemical Free, Cleaning, DIY, Essential Oils, Home, Laundry, Natural Products, Toxin Free

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Hi! I'm Jessica Sara Morris. Lifestyle Blogger, Interior Designer and Mama to Four. Occasionally spontaneous but mostly a hermit who lives in stretchy pants.

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Lifestyle Blogger, Interior Designer and Mama to Four. Occasionally spontaneous but mostly a hermit who lives in stretchy pants.

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