Hey friends. I am so happy that you’re here and I am so eager to share my passions with you all! If you have known me over the last few years, you would know that I love writing! I started writing two years ago when my husband and I were going through a rough season of infertility. I found that it felt so empowering to be honest and to use my struggles to bring glory to my friend, Jesus. There’s nothing that screams true faith like glorifying God while in the depths of the valley. It was such a great experience and so many people kept up with our journey! Writing was becoming my favorite and cheapest hobby! It is my best skill when it comes to communicating with others, though I still fail miserably at times when it comes to getting the point across. I am the queen of rambling to say the least, but if you can bear with me, I promise you will not be disappointed!

In 2015 I started to become very aware of my health. It was obvious that I was not in good health and I started to become very concerned about my well-being. I was newly married and entering such an exciting time in my life. The weight of feeling sick all of the time is not something that a newly-wed wants to have to deal with. My husband and I felt that we needed to start seeing some doctors and make an effort to be healthier. Whoa buddy, we were about to embark on a long ride to recovery.

Come January of 2016 we were starting to get some answers as to why I always felt so ill. Hormone imbalances, insulin resistance, and an overactive thyroid were all discovered. I began taking so much medication and in all honesty, I never saw much of a change. I was so discouraged and nothing was making me feel better nor was it helping our efforts to get pregnant. I finally broke down and starting seeing a fertility specialist who took me seriously and wasn’t as focused on helping me get pregnant, but more so on what she could do to help me be healthy. She had discovered that I had several uterine polyps and we would go to have those successfully removed. One month later I naturally conceived a healthy, now four month old beautiful baby boy.  Though I had the most wonderful pregnancy and delivery, my health issues were still alive and well.

Fast forward to October of this year. I am a busy mama trying to learn the ropes of parenthood while also battling a ridiculous amount of illnesses. I am always sick. Without fail, I cannot eat hardly anything without horrible stomach pain. I am always itchy, shout out to my fellow friends with chronic eczema, we will find a way to heal! Battling stomach pain and eczema doesn’t even cover half of it. I struggle so much with aching muscles and joints, sometimes I cry it hurts so badly. I have described the pain to people as, “LITERALLY WORSE THAN GIVING BIRTH!” It is no joke. I cramp so badly in my lower abdomen that I would have bet you a ton of money that I had polyps again, had I not gone in for a sonogram last Wednesday to find out that I had none. What is so frustrating about all of this is that if you look at my blood work, you would see the hormone imbalances, insulin resistance, a slightly overactive thyroid and that I am anemic. All of this goes back to my doctors and what do they do? Prescribe more medicine that never helps.

In light of all of this, I have decided to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.” to modern medicine. Let me be clear, I think modern medicine is wonderful. God so sweetly blessed us with intelligence and science to create medicine. In no way, shape or form am I saying that you shouldn’t use medicine. If your kid is running a high fever, please give that baby some Tylenol. However, in my special circumstance, I am so darn tired of relying on medicine that can harm me from overuse and that never truly makes me better.

When I look into everything, I can’t help to get passionate about all of this. I mean, it is my health we are talking about, but also so many others out there. How many people are suffering from the same things I am? How many of them spend countless amounts of money on seeing doctors and having test after test done, just to end up being told that everything looks fine or to just keep taking their medication. Y’all that is crap. We do not have to idly sit by, nod our heads yes and continue living a life where we just mask the problem and keep eating, breathing and medicating ourselves with toxins. Not when we have the ability to change it. At least not me.

That is why I jumped on board with Young Living. That make it literally effortless to cut toxins out of your life. From essential oils to replace medicine or to help heal you, comfort you and boost your immunity, to beauty products, cleaning supplies and even organic products for your little ones at home. It is so easy to rid your life of all of the yuck and to start taking the road less traveled to feeling great!

So welcome to my blog. As you can see, I am fired up for clean living, but that’s not all! I am over the top excited about Jesus, my family and eating!! In the next few days I will start sharing some amazing testimonies and all the ways to eat well, clean “green”, parent like a pro (as good as we can because parenthood is hilariously hard) and serve God like we mean it. All said and done, my prayer for my family and yours is that we all find our way to live a refined life. Life doesn’t wait for us to decide to be healthy or happy, so why should we?

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