EssentiallyWellLaura
Dedicated to giving you the very best in wellness education, DIY tips and tricks, and more tools in your toolbelt to get and keep you and yours healthy.
About Me
Hi, I’m Laura.
I’m In love with Jesus, gleefully married to my handsome husband, mom of four stunning daughters, three precious grands, and I can’t forget to give honorable mention to all of the dogs, cats, and chickens I get to play with!
I’ve been using natural tools for myself and my family’s (yes, my pets too) wellness for 8 years. Even in the first month of using these fantastic little bottles, I was so impressed that I had to start oiling my friends!
My life changed! I embarked on a journey into wellness and prevention rather than being sick and in pain all of the time. The journey blessed me with a business and since then, I’ve ventured into learning even more ways of toxic-free living! I’ve also finally found a clean make-up line, a natural weight loss system, and another brand that I trust for herbal products. I’m so excited to share what I’ve learned with the world!
My story
I’ve worked in western healthcare for nearly 30 years. I remember when I worked in Grand Rapids and one of the hospital systems there started building a holistic facility, I thought that was all nonsense. I specifically remember wondering why on earth would anyone waste their time with all of those so-called treatments when all they had to do was do “normal things” like doctors/pills/real hospitals. That was in the 1990s. Allopathy was all I knew….until 2014. My story literally changed after that and my FUTURE health would change course in a huge way!
I learned how to take control of my health. I have hundreds of inspiring stories about the oils that I will eventually write about. But my biggest blessing from the product line wasn’t an oil; it was the supplements. I had always HATED taking vitamins; prenatal or one-a-days or expensive specialty brands. They ALL made me feel nauseated and NONE of them made me feel any better. I definitely hesitated when I saw that doTERRA carried a supplement line. But I knew that at my age I really should be taking certain supplements so I started the Life Long Vitality Supplements. The education for that supplement pack is here and here and I won’t go into that now but I do HAVE TO TELL YOU NOW that those 3 bottles of supplements…within 2 days…not only made me feel better, they supported my spine by triggering a healthy inflammatory response in my body!!!! It was nothing short of miraculous. Now, EIGHT YEARS LATER, I cannot imagine the condition that I would be in without that plant-based nutrition in a bottle! I feel better today than I did 20 years ago! And since I’m an MRI Tech, I’ve SEEN what my spine and discs looked like BEFORE and AFTER taking Life Long Vitality!
my spine was aging fast!
You see, my spine was deteriorating by my mid-20s. I had my first blown disc and subsequent laminectomy when I was 27. After that, I lived with back pain and I lived on ibuprofen. I took it daily and every month I’d take a week’s break because I knew it was hard on my kidneys. I was in pain with the otc tablets and I was in worse pain without them. My 2nd surgery was approximately 12 years later. This time it was emergent and came two days after I blew another disc out while moving a patient. Fortunately, I’m an MRI Technologist and the injury happened at work. The company allowed me to have an immediate MRI. The injury was so severe that I had immediate drop foot. Again, fortunately, my employer was the good kind of employer who also happened to know a fantastic neurosurgeon at the hospital across the street from my company. They moved quick so that I wouldn’t have as much residual nerve damage and I was in the OR the next morning in Kalamazoo.
Let me tell you a little secret that you may not have really thought of…..I had surgeries to fix broken parts, right? BUT the surgeries ABSOLUTELY DO NOT change the root cause of raging cycles of inflammation and oxidation and deterioration.
So, pain not only continued for the next 20 years, it gradually increased. My spine…my discs…my spinal joints…kept spiraling downhill. Doctors told me there was nothing I could do about it. I have Degenerative Disc Disease. So I lived on ibuprofen, took breaks from it, and grew a tolerance for pain.
Enter doTERRA
My best friend invited me to a “party” in her living room. We experienced several oils together as her daughter was giving us wellness education about each one. I was intrigued at how the “oils” didn’t feel greasy on my hands. It amazed me that my airways opened immediately when I breathed in a TINY DROP of peppermint oil. I loved the citrus oil drops in the ice water she provided. It just made sense to purchase a kit because my husband and I were working on opening a gift shop and wanted something “natural” in the shop to be “cool”. So I wanted to explore a little and test the product.
Since then, I haven’t looked back! MAN, did things start to move fast after that!!! I’m a researcher by nature AND my favorite subject in college happened to be A&P and Pathology, lol. I carried those little bottles everywhere and when family or a friend would complain of XYZ, I usually had a solution with me!
HELPING PEOPLE FEEL BETTER WAS, AND STILL IS,
MY ABSOLUTELY FAVORITE THING TO DO!!!!
I had always wanted to help people feel better. It’s one of the reasons that I went into the medical field. BUT NOW….I’m not just imaging patients; I’m actually impacting pain points for people that I care about!!! I found my niche, my passion, my calling!
Since then I haven’t looked back. Not only did I change the course of my spine health, my journey expanded as I learned new things and swapped out the products in my bathroom cabinet for pure essential oils. I learned the effect of aisles and aisles of commercial products on our bodies and now I AVOID those synthetic and toxic options. Whether a chemical goes in me or on me, I search for any chance to replace it with plant-based alternatives. I’ve had so much success with this journey that I’m passionate to teach others that there ARE options, and those options will have a profound change in YOUR wellness too. I’m dedicated to giving you the very best in wellness education, DIY tips and tricks!
It’s never too late to make changes and give your body the tools so it can do what it’s designed to do……HEAL ITSELF!
Let’s Hang Out!!!
I WILL show up at least biweekly to write and teach about all the things that I have personally used or have recommended for my customers and friends. I have 8 years of content….that is of education, recommendations, and of stories from real souls that have had positive outcomes! It will take time to get it all in here and will be ongoing as my life’s passion. PLEASE KNOW that I AM approachable and you can email me for one-on-one help. Go to my contact page here and I will promptly respond.
While I have worked in western medicine for decades and I do love to research all things about the human body, please understand that I AM NOT A DOCTOR. I am trained only on wellness education of my brand of products and also with my own research and experiences and the experiences of my tribe. ANYTHING that I TEACH ABOUT MY BRAND ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BE USED in the use of other brands…..IT IS NOT SAFE! doTERRA is the ONLY brand that is now able to label their lavender as Pharmaceutical Grade and their other oils will be following that same stringent testing and will eventually be permitted the Pharmaceutical Grade labeling.
While doTERRA is the ONLY science-based essential oil brand and is paving the path in evidence-based usage, I must still make sure that you know that these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.
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