Essentially Rosemary

This week I’m sharing with you an essential oil made from an herb that is always in my herb garden, doTERRA’s Rosemary! With an herbal, energizing aroma, this is the perfect oil to kick off the autumn season. Rosemary essential oil is useful for cooking, promoting...

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Sweet Treats of Lavender

Lavender can be used in many dishes and beverages! First, let's make an delicious Lavender Simple Syrup. Heat two cups each sugar and water, stir to dissolve. Add 2–3 drops of doTERRA lavender essential oil. Pour into a glass container; cover. Chill up to two weeks....

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Lavender Hand Scrub

Are you craving sweet or salty? Here's a quick and easy do-it-yourself recipe, and you have the choice of using either Epson salts, sea salt or sugar as the base for your scrub. It's totally up to you! However you choose, it's a lovely self-care practice to soothe and...

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No Nonsense Nose Scents

Here are few olfactory offerings... Here are a few recipes to get you started on your "loving lavender" journey! You may choose to start off with only diffusing lavender all by itself, then begin experimenting with some of these to see which ones become your...

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Essential Living – Lavender

This week I’ll be highlighting one of my favorite doTERRA essential oils, Lavender! When I was a young girl my grandmother had a huge lavender patch in her garden. She taught me how to grow it, harvest it, dry it and use it to make lace lavender sachets for the...

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Validation

Again.  I sit here rubbing my bruised pride/heart because I’ve once more been shot down when I sought recognition and praise. I was so proud of myself for accomplishing a very technical project in a new software package. I was met with a lukewarm response to my...

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Hardened Heart

"And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:” Ezekiel 11:19 KJV" Bitterness, pain and unforgiveness encase the heart and hide it from the world....

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Today: Gentleness

I write today’s devotional from my mother’s hospital room.  I sit here watching her sleep in her bed, while my daughter is curled up, crashed on the green vinyl recliner chair.  Mom was diagnosed with renal failure and we’ve spent the last several days here, amidst...

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Hope

Room with a view I look out again from the hospital window.  Last night the storm raged; torrential, violent rains and winds doing their best to uproot the vulnerable trees from the earth, or minimally bend them in half until they cower under the bullying of the...

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