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Ready to jump start January and make strides to reaching your 2018 health and wellness goals? YL has you covered!

What's so great about these promos is that they work on so many levels. If you're wanting to start living a healthier lifestyle, these are for you. If you already do, these are still for you! 

Maybe you just want a little "me time" in your life this year or you've started a new workout regimen and your muscles are recovering. Guess what? A relaxing massage with Deep Relief or PanAway followed up with a nice bath with Copaiba infused bath salts will give you that "me time" and your muscles will thank you for it! 

No matter what your goals for 2018 are, these oils and the Super Cal Plus (we all need this in our lives) can help you along the way. What ways can you incorporate these into your plan for 2018? Here are some ideas for use:

Spearmint Vitality - supportive of a healthy metabolism, as well as the digestive, immune and nervous systems. You can take Spearmint Vitality in a capsule or in your favorite beverage.

Deep Relief - keep this in your gym bag or anywhere close at hand to provide refreshing, cooling relief to muscles following exercise; supportive of muscles, joints, and the circulatory system.

Super Cal - a calcium and magnesium supplement that supports muscle, dental and bone health

PanAway - a blend of Wintergreen, Helichrysum, Clove and Peppermint, this oil is a favorite for relief from aches and pains due to exercise or occasional headaches

Copaiba - This oil is actually supportive of every system in the body, especially since it's supporting of the body's natural, healthy response to inflammation. A favorite use for this oil is for muscle and joint support, but it has a wide range of uses!

Here's the full breakdown of January’s PV promos:

100 PV:
Spearmint Vitality 5-ml*

190 PV:
Super Cal Plus
Deep Relief 5-ml*
Spearmint Vitality 5-ml*

250 PV:
PanAway 5-ml
Super Cal Plus
Deep Relief 5-ml*
Spearmint Vitality 5-ml*

300 PV:
Copaiba 15-ml
PanAway 5-ml
Super Cal Plus
Deep Relief 5-ml*
Spearmint Vitality 5-ml*

*Remember, in order to get the Essential Rewards Exclusive Spearmint Vitality 5-ml and the Essential Rewards Exclusive Deep Relief 5-ml, you have to be enrolled in Essential Rewards (ER) and have an order that meets the PV requirements for those items. 

The extra bonus of meeting these PV amounts with your ER order is that you get even more ER points to spend later!

There you go - a great way to help you make this year yours and get a fantastic jump start on the New Year! We hope you had a wonderful 2017, and here's to an INCREDIBLE 2018!!!

On the 12th day of oils, my true love gave to me....a Young Living Diffuser!

Confessions of a diffuser addict...when Luke moved back home last year, one of the first comments he made was, "How many diffusers do you have???"...He can't complain since kept the dew drop diffuser in his bedroom when he lived with us. Noah brought the bamboo diffuser out of his bedroom recently, which means that it's back in the family room. The rose home diffuser is in the kitchen, the desert mist diffuser is in the basement and the Rainstone is next to our bed...At least I share the diffuser goodness!!! I need to replace my Orb diffuser - I've REALLY missed it. I love it at my desk, but it's essential when we travel!

I love that I can use our diffusers to completely change the atmosphere of our home or to quickly freshen a room. I can use them to help us stay alert and focused or unwind and relax or to help us get a restful night's sleep. We ALWAYS use our diffusers when our immune systems need support and since we have more than one in our family who deals with occasional tummy upset when traveling, we definitely no longer drive any long distances without our orb puffing out some peppermint! That little orb has transformed car traveling for us for sure!

Here are some of our favorite diffusing combos:

What I always suggest is to think about what you want to support with the oils and put that in your diffuser.

Did you know when you use a cold air diffuser it can actually cause the oils to remain suspended in the air for several hours because it atomizes the oils, creating a micro-fine mist in the air? Because the oils aren't being heated, their therapeutic properties are being kept intact.

I fell in love with our original, home diffuser from the first moment we used it! Because YL's diffusers are high grade plastic, I know they'll be able to handle the potency of YL's oils and won't break down, especially when citrus or hot oils are being diffused. I love that depending on which one I'm using, it can even run through the night if we want. Once you have one and you begin bringing it from room to room, you realize you don't want to have to do that, so you start adding more to your collection over time and then suddenly you discover that you've amassed a collection of a half dozen or more of them. It's just the way it happens!

 

Diffusers are such an easy way for our entire family to enjoy the benefits the oils provide! Yah, I’m a diffuser user and I’m proud to admit it!

Here are some other diffuser combo favorites for the season. Enjoy! 

On the 11th day of oils, my true love gave to me....a bottle of RC....and I was breathing easy!

RC has 3 types of Eucalyptus, plus Myrtle, Pine, Marjoram, Lavender, Cypress, Tsuga, and Peppermint. I bet there are some oils in that blend that you've never even heard of! And did you know that there's more than one type of Eucalyptus? I sure didn't!

The moment I open the bottle RC and catch a whiff of it, I'm instantly comforted and in some ways transported back to my childhood, as I'm reminded of the old-fashioned rub remedies my parents used to use to help me through constant bouts of bronchitis.

RC was designed to help support the upper respiratory system. When I need that kind of support to stay well, I apply it over my sinuses, on my chest and even under my armpits where there are lymph nodes that connect directly to your lungs.

RC was an instant favorite for me and for our kids because of the way that it naturally helps us breathe easy through the spring and fall. Our favorite way to handle those seasons is to take a capsule with 4 drops each of Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender Vitality oils, then apply RC over our sinuses and put a bit of lavender on the bridge of our noses and just inside the nostrils. If we're feeling "pressured," we might layer Copaiba over the RC over our sinuses and even our chests. It's a combo that works really well together! We also love to diffuse RC, often with Thieves and Purification.

If you're using RC topically, it's best if you apply it with a carrier oil, like coconut or olive oil, because this blend contains "hot oils" that may cause irritation to sensitive skin.

This is yet another oil we won't run out of, especially in the three seasons when we need the upper respiratory system support the most! It's a must-have in one's arsenal of oils!

On the 10th day of oils, my true love gave to me....a bottle of lavender!

EVERY night this oil gets rubbed between my palms, then over my pillowcase. I lay my head down on my pillow, my thoughts actually quiet, and I drift off to sleep peacefully....The sense of peace and calm that come over me when I smell its fragrance is so comforting!

Each new tube of mascara I purchase gets 2 drops of lavender in it before I use it. Not only does it smell amazing (TOTAL spa experience), my lashes are long and thick and healthy after having done this for about two months.

Abigail and I each love soaking in a warm tub with Epsom salts and lavender, letting daily stresses simply wash away as each of our muscles unwind....

Personally, I also like to use a bit of lavender on my wrists when those occasional, monthly headaches hit.

Lavender is always included in my daily moisturizer because of the way it supports my skin. It's so good for skin health that when we get a burn from cooking or we've spent too much time in the sun, we apply lavender to help soothe our skin and alleviate discomfort.

Our family relies on Lavender, along with Lemon and Peppermint, to help alleviate seasonal upper respiratory discomfort. I also like to put a bit of it on the bridge of my nose and just inside my nostrils for easy breathing.

Did you know you can also use Lavender Vitality in your cooking and baking? YL has an incredible Lavender lemonade recipe that I fell in love with while visiting YL's lavender farm in Mona, Utah. Delicious! You can find the recipe on this link: https://www.youngliving.com/blog/honey-lavender-lemonade/.

Did you know that Lavender has SO MANY uses that it's been nicknamed the "Swiss Army Knife of Essential Oils"?  If in doubt, use lavender!

On the 9th day of oils, my true love gave to me….a bottle of Stress Away… (Otherwise known as LIQUID GOLD in our house!)

I’ll never forget Brian’s reaction to me one night early on in our oil journey. It had been A WEEK and on top of that, it had been A DAY. I was maxed beyond belief and my sweet husband came home needing to download about HIS difficult day. I sat at the kitchen table, head resting on my hand as he filled me in. I was just trying to hold it together.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my purse – and I remembered that my bottle of Stress Away was inside….As I sat there, I reached into my purse, grabbed the bottle of Stress Away, applied it to my wrists, nape of the neck and behind my ears. I put it to the side and continued to listen to Bri. NO JOKE – within 30 seconds, Bri stopped talking, pointed to the bottle and rather insistently said, “What IS that? Seriously – WHAT IS IT? Because whatever THAT is, there’s a TOTAL change in you. I don’t know what you just used, but you’re DIFFERENT!”

Yep….Stress AWAY!

Nothing brings a sense of total calm over me like this oil does. It was designed to address the natural stress response in our bodies and that’s exactly what it does. It smells like vanilla and lime and a bit of coconut (fractionated and included as a carrier oil). It’s beach bliss in a bottle!

My favorite way to use this oil is always topically. I happen to absorb oils really quickly, so it has almost an instantaneous effect on me, but it may take 5-20 minutes for others to notice a difference. I’ve heard so many people talk about how they were totally stressed out, applied it, then a short time later, they simply noticed that they felt a whole lot “better” - as in calmer, more relaxed and uplifted.

Other ways to use this oil are by diffusing it, adding it to bath salts and enjoying a relaxing soak, or even rubbing a bit between your palms and taking in a deep breath of it. When I apply it to my wrists, I usually take a few deep breaths of from what’s been applied.

I think my “funniest” story about this oil is the way it was passed around the bleachers during a couple of the final Jr. Hornets football games during our 7th grade season. It was MUCH needed and I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a repeat of that in the seasons ahead!

As a momma of four, all I know is that there are so many times where I’m glad I can say, “Please pass the Stress Away!!!”