June 2018 – thatnursewrites

Getting to Know the Oils and Getting Started

In order to become a Young Living member, you must purchase a Premium Starter Kit (PSK) In my next post I will talk about the different PSKs available and show you how to become a member.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: Young Living Essential Oils are not used to CURE any diseases or ailments. They are used to support body systems to promote and maintain health and wellness and a healthy lifestyle.

In this post I’m going to talk about the 11 essential oils that are included in the PSK and their uses. I’ve used every single one of these oils and while when you first see them, you’ll wonder what in the world you are going to do with them but you’ll figure it out quickly.

Familiarizing yourself with the oils in the PSK and what you can do with them is only the beginning of an exciting life long journey into health and wellness. The more you use the oils and other YL products, the more you share information with others who use them, the more you read YL’s blog and social media, the more you learn. It’s an ongoing process and learning experience. Once you start, you’ll never look back.

You’ll also learn which oils your body needs in a given day. One day you might need the Digize for that belly bomber cheesesteak sub you chowed down but the next day you might need a different oil for something else.

Lavender 5ml (retail price for 15ml 31.91, wholesale 24.25.) This oil has multiple uses. You can diffuse it in your room for a calming aroma. You’ll feel like you are in a spa! You can put a few drops in the bathtub. You can mix it with your favorite moisturizer and put it on your face to promote healthy skin.

Frankincense 5ml (retail price for 15ml 99.34, wholesale 75.50) You can use this during prayer and meditation. You can use this when you want to feel more grounded. You can Diffuse it. You can mix it with your favorite moisturizer to support your skin.

Citrus Fresh 5ml (retail price $20.72, wholesale price $15.75) Diffuse this to freshen up a room that you think smells stale.

Pan Away 5ml (retail price $47.67, wholesale $36.25 rub this on muscles of neck and back for a soothing effect.

Raven (15ml retail $47.04, wholesale $35.75)- you can rub this on your chest and throat when you need some extra support in your respiratory system.

Stress Away (retail $40.13, wholesale $30.50). You can diffuse this. You can put this on your wrists, behind your ears or on your forehead. I wear this on nights before I work. It gives me the feeling of well being and provides a restful sleep.

Vitality Oils are oils you can ingest.

Thieves Vitality (15ml Retail $45.72, wholesale $34.75) You can rub this on your feet, diffuse, or drop it in your tea when you feel like your immune system can use a boost.

Peppermint Vitality (5ml retail $13.49, wholesale $10.25) this oil has multiple functions. It provides a soothing effect on muscles, can be used for intestinal support and has antiseptic properties.

Lemon Vitality (5ml retail $8.22, wholesale $6.25) another multi use oil. Diffuse for fresh scented room, put it in your water to liven up the taste, put it in your skin lotion.

Copaiba Vitality (5ml retail $28.75, wholesale $22.00) this oil supports nearly every system of the body. Using it in combination of other oils, enhances the effects of the other oils.

Digize Vitality (5ml retail $18.42, wholesale $14.00)- worried about getting an upset tummy after eating greasy belly bomber meal? Rub some around your belly button or drop some in your favorite tea too soothe your tummy.

How Do I become a Young Living Member?

In order to become a Young Living Member, you must order a Premium Starter Kit (PSK).

Benefits of Young Living Membership:
Enjoy 24% off retail pricing
Participate in the compensation plan and earn compensation just by sharing Young Living
Qualify for exclusive Young Living member events throughout the world
Enjoy the benefits of Essential Rewards

I won’t lie, when I saw the price of the PSK I was in sticker shock but in reality if you add up the retail price for all the items in the PSK, that price exceeds the cost of the PSK. If you went on the Young Living website to order oils and you were not a member, you’d be paying the retail price which is higher than the wholesale price you’d pay if you were a member. If you were to add up the retail cost of the oils alone, not even including a diffuser, you’ll soon see that it exceeds the price of the premium starter kit.

As an Enroller/Sponsor, I make it even easier for you to get started because once you enroll with me, I make a phone call to Young Living customer service to put a $25 credit on your account to be used for future purchases AND I mail you a FREE copy of Essential Oils Pocket Reference Guide Seventh Edition. You will then be able to take advantage of whole sale prices on oils and products, versus retail prices. There is a considerable difference. I will then continue to be your guide and help you navigate your way through the world of essential oils and health and wellness.

What’s in the Premium Starter Kit?

The diffuser of your choice, the eleven oils listed, bottles and roller glide to share with family and friends, 2 packets of NingXia Red juice. The Savvy Minerals, NingXia Red, and Thieves diffuser kits differ from those with diffuser. Refer to website for more details.

Prices range from $150 to $260 depending on what you want in the PSK. Choices include:

Premium Starter Kit with Savyy Minerals $150.00

Premium Starter Kit Dew Drop Diffuser $160.00

Premium Starter Kit with Thieves $160.00

Premium Starter Kit with Ningxia Red $170.00

Premium Starter Kit with Aria Diffuser $260.00

Premium Starter Kit with Rainstone Diffuser $205.00

Premium Starter Kit with Desert Mist Diffuser $160.00

Oils Included in the PSK:

Lavender 5ml (retail price for 15ml 31.91, wholesale 24.25.)

Frankincense 5ml (retail price for 15ml 99.34, wholesale 75.50)

Citrus Fresh 5ml (retail price $20.72, wholesale price $15.75)

Pan Away 5ml (retail price $47.67, wholesale $36.25

Raven (15ml retail $47.04, wholesale $35.75)

Stress Away (retail $40.13, wholesale $30.50).

Vitality Oils are oils you can ingest.

Thieves Vitality (15ml Retail $45.72, wholesale $34.75)

Peppermint Vitality (5ml retail $13.49, wholesale $10.25)

Lemon Vitality (5ml retail $8.22, wholesale $6.25)

Copaiba Vitality (5ml retail $28.75, wholesale $22.00)

Digize Vitality (5ml retail $18.42, wholesale $14.00)

HOW DO I ENROLL?

click my link: https://yl.pe/7qnk This takes you to the choose your membership page and shows my enroller/sponsor ID on there.

Go to http://www.youngliving.com
click on “become a member”
add my sponsor/enroller number 13000369
go to screen that lets you pick out your PSK
go to payment screen
Congratulations, you are now a Young Living Member now you can start enjoying all that Young Living has to offer.

Questions? email me jennycrn@comcast.net

Stay Tuned

Please stay tuned. I’m in the process of drafting several more Oily posts. Things like, How to get started, Product use, Why Essential Oils etc.

Introverts in Business

I found this picture in a Facebook group that I belong to and I need to write about it because I am introvert and I’m trying to insert myself into the world of network marketing.

I am an introvert. That’s me. Don’t judge, it’s how I roll. I’ve been this way my entire life only when I was younger, I couldn’t grasp the concept. Life experiences and my career as a registered nurse have given me a true insight to who I am and what I want and inspire me to look within myself to process life.

I can extrovert myself to a certain extent each day and then I need to shut it down. I enjoy socializing outside of my house but at the end of it, I enjoy going home too. I prefer text and email communication. I have a select few people I choose to talk to on the telephone with. Everyone else, I’ll only call if I have something specific to say. I feel trapped when someone tries to keep me on the telephone or on a social outing when I’ve stated it’s time for me to retreat. Don’t be offended. It has nothing to do with you.

Realize what works for you maybe won’t work for me. Know that I observe people’s behaviors, facial expressions, body language and tone of voice when they are in my presence. I assess whether they are being genuine or fake to me. If your intentions towards me are not genuine, I will pick up on that. I can’t tolerate fake. Be careful how you ask me what I’m doing or what’s going on in my head because if your behavior, tone of voice, facial expressions or body language rub me the wrong way, I’m going to find this interaction intrusive and I will pull away.

So here I am trying to establish a Young Living Essential Oils Business for myself simply because I love their products. These products have benefited me and I want to educate and share. I’m having a difficult time though. It’s almost as if we can’t succeed in any network marketing business unless we flood social media with our posts. Pictures and videos. I refuse to put myself in a video. I can’t. That’s way too extroverted for me. I’m ok on Instagram but I don’t want to put these types of posts on Facebook. I feel like I’m bombarding people.

I joined a Facebook group for my business and one of the challenges today was to put post something about being an introvert in my Facebook status. I almost had an anxiety attack. I can’t even do that because I don’t want to share that about myself on Facebook. Those who know me well already know that about me.

I don’t want to come across as a salesman on social media. I’m not a salesman. I’m a Registered Nurse. I’ve chosen to become a Young Living Educator/Distributer because I love the products and I believe in using essential oils and products to support a healthy lifestyle. I use these products myself every day. Throughout my 29 year relationship with my husband, I’ve always joked that he swears by 3 name brands: Sony, Volkswagon and Apple. Well Young Living is a brand that I swear by and if you follow my posts you will see.

So these posts that I write about Young Living products are an act of educating and sharing. I have the ability to enroll and sponsor people who are interested in a Young Living membership. Feel free to inbox me jennycrn@comcast.net with questions. Along with that I can become a mentor in your essential oils journey.

Inspiration and Just Because

I should be getting my dirty laundry downstairs to sort and start washing. I should be getting into the shower because we have a graduation party to attend today. I’m not doing any of those things so now I have to type fast because right now I need to write.

I’ve kind of pushed writing aside these past few months. Last year, I created an online account with 750 Words. It’s essentially a writer website that holds you accountable to write daily using the “Morning Pages” concept from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way. I participated for a year. For a few months though I began to realize that writing everyday sometimes felt like a chore. I get up at 0415 to get to my 0600-1530 shift at the hospital so I physically can’t get up any earlier than that. Morning pages out the window. In the evening I’m not always at my best to write something. I wasn’t feeling inspired anymore and I often didn’t have anything pressing to say. I used it as a journal basically. My blog posts because infrequent as well. In April I decided to drop it all together. My daughter’s track season was in full force and both kids had a lot going on. It was also in April that I decided to share my love of essential oils with others and educate them into a more a healthy life style. Thus, I took a Business Academy course with Young Living and am trying to build a business. I don’t want writing to feel like a chore to me. Ever. I want something to trigger my inspiration and then I’ll push everything aside when I have a burning urge to write, as I am doing today, right now.

Ironically this morning the inspiration returned, hence the quote I have posted. I woke up, checked my phone and there was a notification from WordPress that a person that I follow on WordPress mentioned me in his post. I read his post and the post that I’d written a year ago when I’d met him. Below is the link to his post.

https://brothersontheat.com/2018/06/09/day-93/

To summarize, June 8, 2017, my husband and I drove 70 miles from our home in a suburb outside of Baltimore to Pen-Mar County Park. Our mission for the day was to provide food, “trail magic” for Appalachian Trail Thru Hikers as they hiked through this park to get into Pennsylvania. We met some really nice hikers. We fed them, we talked to them, we wished them well and left the park smiling. I’m fascinated by the idea of thru hiking so trail magic was something we chose to do “just because”. Because I’m Italian and I like to feed people. One hiker invited me to follow her on Instagram which I did but as the summer ended I grew curious to know if the hikers we’d fed that day reached Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. I follow various Appalachian Trail pages on Facebook and was eventually fortunate to see that more than half the thru hikers we’d met and fed that day had completed their thru hikes. Coincidentally on an Appalachian Trail facebook page, I ran across one hiker’s blog on WordPress . He’s writing now about his 2017 thru hike. Yesterday marked a year that my husband and I met that group of hikers. So this morning I discovered that he’d written about his hiking day on June 8, 2017 and referred to the blog post I’d written that day entitled, “Just Because”.

So my point of all of this is that inspiration comes from different places when we least expect it. That’s how I like to write. That’s how I always wrote papers during my academic career, when inspiration strikes me. I think about those hikers from time to time and wonder what their post trail life is like now. I didn’t forget about that day with the thru hikers but I hadn’t given much thought to the blog post I’d written to share. Reading the hiker’s post and then my own from a year ago made me realize that I still have things to write about. So, thank you Straps for that.

Now I really need to shower and get on over to this graduation party. More to come.

March Books

Here I am on June 9, 2018 writing about the books I read in March. Hey, what can I say, life gets in the way sometimes. We get into a routine, something disrupts it, we fall off the wagon, we get back on and keep going. Thanks to my handy, dandy Goodreads app on my phone, I’m able to pull up precisely which books I read. For one of my followers who likes to remark about my strange ability to recall dates, yes, I have the dates.

Before I begin, I have to share something significant to March. March 1; the start of spring high school sports. My daughter is now in the final days of her sophomore year of high school. In track she’s a sprinter and ran JV for a second year. March 28, 2018 was the first track meet of the season. I stood in the rain and watched her run her first 100M relay of the year. She came from behind and closed the gap for her team with so much finesse and grace and walked off the track having beat her time from last year, feeling on top of the world. My hands were wet and cold and I couldn’t get my phone’s camera activated in time but I don’t need a camera to remember that run. It was priceless and only the beginning of a season that she showed so much growth and potential as she prepares to run varsity next year.

Did I have my nook at the track meet? You bet your ass I did!

1. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline. This book was written by the author who wrote Orphan Train. This book takes place in Coastal Maine. The main character Christina, who’s family was descendants of Nathanial Hawthorne, is the subject of a painting. The painting speaks of the subject’s simple yet complicated life. This book was by no means as powerful as Orphan Train was.

2. The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips. This book made my heart ache for the main character. Violence and cruelty, these things really happen in families. They did then and they do now. Although there are many more rights now for abused children than there were in the 1950’s, society still turns the other cheek. Sometimes we just don’t know what goes on in people’s homes. It takes place in rural Georgia in the late 1950’s. Tangy, an African American teenager is torn between remaining loyal to her crazy mother or taking the opportunity to change her life. A heart wrenching read.

3. Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center. Switching gears a little here. The main character Helen, with no survival skills or wilderness knowledge, has an opportunity to spend three weeks on a wilderness hike in Wyoming. Reading books like this is always an inspiration and I’m happy I read it.

4. The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve. This book is a historical fiction about the summer long drought fires that take place on the coast of Maine in 1947. The story focuses on the main character Grace’s struggle, with the fires. Struggles to keep her family safe and endure the drama and pain her husband causes her. It was a good read and I couldn’t put it down. Days later, this author passed away.

So that’s it for March. Stay tuned for April and May.

Essential Oils: The Facts Part 1

In my previous post, I talked about the beginning of my journey into Essential Oils and Young Living. In this post, I’m going to talk about their history, what they are and how to use them.

You don’t have to be an aromatherapist or health care provider to use Essential Oils, you just have to choose to use them. All you need is that one experience, a conversation, a blog post, the scent of oils on someone else, etc to plant a seed in your mind and your curiosity will carry into the beginning of a wonderful journey. The more you use them, the more you’ll want to learn and share your love with others as I am doing here with you.

Believe it or not, essential oils have been around since biblical and ancient times. They were considered to be, “man’s first medicine” and were used to treat illness, and were used in religious and spiritual rituals. Essential Oils are mentioned in the Bible over 1000 times. Gifts of Frankincense and Myrrh were brought to baby Jesus by the Wise Men upon his birth. Jesus and Mary were anointed with Spikenard. The Egyptians used essential oils to make cosmetics, deodorants and embalming fluids. During World War I and II, essential oils were used for antiseptics and wound healing. After WWII, essential oils were rediscovered and each year their uses grow.

So what are essential oils? In a nutshell, they are the most powerful part of the plant and are distilled from shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, fruit, rinds, resins, and herbs. To quote a fellow oiler, “They are the lifeblood of the plant”. They are not used to “cure” ailments but they are used to “support” various systems of the body including, the skeletal system, the muscular system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the endocrine system and the immune system. They are also useful in brain health, balancing hormones and maintaining a healthy weight. Wait, there’s more. This is actually one of my favorites about these oils. They provide spiritual and emotional support and aid in stress relief.

Essential Oils can be used three ways: Aromatically, topically and the Young Living Vitality line is ingestible. Tests have shown when inhaled, essential oils reach the heart, liver, and thyroid gland in three seconds. When applied topically, they reach the blood stream within twenty-six seconds. A normal healthy body expels the oils in three to six hours. Yes, Essential Oils are safe. When applying to the skin, some oils require a carrier oil such as Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Almond Oil, V-6 Enhanced Vegetable Oil or Jojoba Oil.

Are they safe? Yes. Always dilute an oil before applying it topically on a child and never put an oil near your eye.

Still curious? Keep reading. More posts will follow this one. If you want to know more right now, feel free to email me. jennycrn@comcast.net.