DIY Ache Rub with Essential Oils

    99% of Americans complain of discomfort...the other 1% cannot speak or ..something. Discomfort is something we ALL will deal with at some point in our lives. So it comes as no surprise that one of my favorite DIY recipes is for a ache rub. I have given away tons of this lovely salve because of how amazing it works. The recipe here will make about 5 ounces. I bought small 1oz containers (Here) because a little works very well and it works so well that you will want to share it with others. My biggest issue with sharing is that it takes quite a bit of essential oils to make, so I also made smaller containers that I bought (Here) and printed a recipe on a pretty piece of paper. I gave the bigger ones to close friends and family and the smaller ones, I was able to sample out for those I did not know or weren't that close to. My biggest goal for my wellness advocates is to thrive in a self sustaining business. So, unless you have a ton of money or you're making gifts - keep your samples smaller so you're not breaking your bank. We want to share the joy of these oils with others, but we cannot put ourselves into poverty doing so. They will understand, I promise! So, here is my favorite recipe for ache relief rub...make, use, enjoy!

You will need:
Makes about 5oz

You can get your essential oils by clicking Here.

3oz Coconut Oil (You can get this at most grocery stores and pretty much all health food stores)
1oz Cocoa Butter (I get mine: Here)
1oz Beeswax (I get mine: Here)

This is the base...now add any combination of oils you wish!
I like to choose some from each category so that it works for a lot of different things. I also found that I needed to add more peppermint but others say less is OK for them. The point is, please customize to what best fits YOUR needs.

Recommended Oils: Choose ONE from each category:

At least 30 drops of ONE oil to help with ache relieving:

-For bone pain - Soothing Blend or Cypress
-For joint pain- Wintergreen or Roman Chamomile
-For muscle ache- White fir or Clove

 At least 10 drops of ONE oil to help with tension relief:

-For shoulder, neck and back tension- Marjoram, lavender, Helichrysum or Massage Blend
-For a muscle tear - Marjoram
-For muscle spasms- Basil or marjoram
-for ligament pain- Lemongrass
 
At least 10 drops of an anti-inflammatory: 

-Eucalyptus, Frankincense, Melaleuca, Myrrh are all great for their anti-inflammatory properties

At least 10 drops of an oil to help support circulation:

-Cypress, Rosemary, Thyme and Massage Blend are all great for increasing circulation

 and- 

10 Drops of Peppermint- Peppermint is important to the recipe and it's recommended not to be omitted. Peppermint is considered a "driving" oil and helps "drive" all of the oils into your body

Directions: This is the easy part! 
   Combine coconut butter, cocoa butter and beeswax in a small glass bowl and put in a sauce pan with 2 inches of water (double broiler method). I recommend NOT using a true double broiler because the oil and butter is very hard to clean off the pans...so I recommend ONLY using glass. You can also melt this into a mason jar and omit the metal tins completely. Melt and mix in the Mason jar and just store in the same jar.
   After the ingredients are mixed and melted completely, pull off of the heat and let sit on the counter for several minutes - up to 45 minutes. You want the mixture to cool to the point where it just begins to harden and isn't so hot anymore. Essential oils do not thrive in heat, and the very hot mixture will compromise some of the therapeutic benefits of your oils.
    When the mixture is at desired temperature - mix in your oils. No particular order, and then mix well. Then allow the mixture to cool all the way...I put my mixture in the refrigerator so that it hardens quicker. And...Viola! Done! It's simple, effective and absolutely amazing! 

        My favorite combination and the one I use all the time now is Soothing Blend, Lemongrass, Cypress, Peppermint, Marjoram and Frankincense. I can apply to my very flared up sciatic nerve and literately within seconds - I can walk without pain. It works for several hours and you only need a wee little bit for it to work. Rub it in, and if you wish apply a warm compress to help the oils soak deep into the muscles.

    Let me know how you like this ache rub! If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at beavanhook@gmail.com - I would be happy to help you in any way that I can!Want the ache rub without all the mixing and making of it? Visit my website at www.inspiredbylife.bigcartel.com and purchase it there!

With a warm heart and oily hands-
Bea

A Common Misconception

   I need to clear a few things in the air...because the view people have on me is wrong and I know that it is my fault. I do not disagree with the use of modern medicine. In fact, I am grateful for modern/western medicine and how far science has brought the medical world. I am grateful for medicines to help cure cancer, colds, ear infections, and other serious diseases, viruses and infections. Its come to my attention that some of you think that I am this huge anti-medicine hippy..and that is simply not 100% accurate. So why do I push the natural life? I will tell you...

   I love essential oils and I love how they have helped our family flourish into healthier beings. I love that when someone gets hurt I have an immediate on hand pain reliever. When our toddler cannot sleep - I have a natural sleep aid. When I am stressed, tired, lazy, sick or whatever I happen to be that day - I have something that helps with that too. I love that I have watched healing and witnessed what I could only describe as miracles. Of course my life and health is not perfect..yet, but I know that the path we are traveling now will lead to the healthiest and happiest days of our lives.

   It used to be that when I was stressed so badly that I could not get over the funk I would have to call the doctor and have my Xanax increased. I was in pain everyday from my fibromyalgia, I had headaches - migraines, back pain, and intense panic attacks. My life was miserable..all. the. time. I'd wake up and wonder why at my age did I have to be in so much pain...and I would think to myself "How am I going to live when I am old?" If I am in this much pain now...and then add on top of it the natural pains of aging...I would surely be a crippled, cranky, miserable old lady. I was on multiple medications, supplements and lifestyle paths to try to ease some of my discomforts but the medicine only added to my pain, I hated the side effects and sometimes decided it wasn't worth the relief. It was a trade off...HOW would you like to feel? Yet, both options seemed to be painful and miserable ...so I just gave up.

   Not many people know this about me but I started my college career in medical school. I tested out of all of my prerequisites, and was accepted into Nursing school on the track to become a medical assistant. I took 3 courses and decided that the field wasn't for me. I wanted to help others, and I wanted to be in the health field but in those three courses I learned more than my fair share of the negatives that medicines can do to our bodies. I also decided that I would be mentally unable to deal with giving patients treatments that I did not believe in. So I took a leap, and changed paths to where my true passion was..Marketing. I enrolled into college in 2010 as a business major. It was the best decision I ever made for myself, at the time. I still wanted to help people but I knew that I could not help them with their health, so I wanted to become an entrepreneur. My goal - to open and run a 100% self sustaining business...would this be possible? I don't really know..yet.

  Anyways, back to natural living. Another time in my life that a lot of people do not know about is my drug and alcohol infested teens and early 20's. To ease the pain I'd drink, smoke dope, take copious amounts of Xanax, percocets, Vicodin and whatever other medicine I could get my hands on. One of the biggest wake up calls in my lifetime was early 2010 right before I moved from Ohio to New Hampshire. I was in intense pain, crying and so stressed. I was ready to go, ready to just end it all. So, while my son was his Nana's visiting for the night I took a few Xanax, a Flexeril (muscle relaxer), an Oxycontin (a strong pain reliever) and washed it down with about six back to back shots of 1800 Tequila. I don't remember much of anything after doing that..except waking up on the floor several hours later in a puddle of my own drool. I lay on the floor and cried..who had I become? So desperate to feel nothing, no pain, no anxiety and no twitches in my body that I resorted to something that could probably of killed me. What about Christopher? Did he deserve this? ..no, but neither did I. That was my defining moment - health wise. I stopped taking pain medicine unless I needed it and could not bare the pain anymore. I decided to take less Xanax, less medicine all together and I decided I was going to get healthy...but, nothing changed INSIDE my body so I went on with my life in pain and being miserable. During this time I also went through a very nasty divorce, a new relationship, moving 1,000 miles away from where I had called home for my entire life, a new path in school, and working with my son, Christopher and his autism. For almost two years I was a completely upside down person. I was angry or confused...or hurt..or lonely? I don't know...I did feel alone in the world, and I lashed out on the very few people that loved me.  The man that held me at night and told me it was going to be okay was the person who took the most of my anger. He was confused and hurt because he did nothing to deserve what I was giving him and I was so depressed over life and the pain I went through everyday that I was unable to explain to him that it wasn't him. I would find things that made me emotionally upset but I would turn it into something more than it was. I was crazy..a woman on a rampage.

     It hurt and it still hurts to think about how I acted but I have to let that go...I know it wasn't me, the real me. The pain and stress was unbearable at times and I would fall behind on life. Pain led to anger which led to depression and more pain and more anger. I was sick, my brain was sick and my body was slowly murdering itself with pain. I'd take so much medicine to try to make the pain go away but it never worked and little did I know that I was adding to my dismay.

     Early in 2014, an old friend came back into my life in the strangest of ways. I would complain about pain on Facebook and complain about having another headache or that today I couldn't walk. Jane would leave comments on my status and then disappear for another week. Comments like "I need to help you, I have an oil" or "I have these healing oils...lets chat". I didn't ignore her..exactly..but I was busy being in pain and I really didn't know what the hell she was talking about. So, we scheduled a time - eventually - to chat and get together via Skype. It was an amazing chat and we spoke alot about these healing oils...interesting thought, an oil that can help with pain and headaches, stress and infections. Interesting...indeed. So, I jumped on board and ordered the Home Essentials Kit. A few days later I'm looking at these bottles of oil wondering what in the world I got myself into. So that is where I started..exactly where you are - ready for change, ready for a new life? I started not even knowing what an essential oil was and they changed this skeptics life.

    So about medicines. Do I use medicines? You can bet your butt I use medicines. What mother in their right mind would let a child suffer through an ear infection if it seems the oils aren't working? What mother would let their child suffer from an infection if the oils are not seeming to be enough? The oils are so powerful, so complex that we, or at least I, just do not understand the entire complexity of them. I will go to medicines and I am so grateful that they are there. If I go to the hospital, I will not deny medicine unless I know I can. Our thought - Use medicine when necessary but replace as much as you can with nature. We now do not have to go to the doctor except as a last resort. There are many medical problems that we just do not suffer with anymore...Our oldest used to get nose bleeds...after using lemon and lavender three times he hasn't had once since...its been about a year. My stress level is 90% lower, our nonverbal autistic toddler can speak, I'm recently cancer free,  my pain is 80% decreased and I sleep with no sleep aides...not even an oil based sleep aid....I could not list the ways my life has changed without sitting here writing for a week straight. It's just so insane and amazing and I am grateful every single day for the essential oils and natural product knowledge that I have gained. And I am so grateful that my journey has led me on a path that not only allows me to practice business and marketing which I passionately love but also my desire to be in the healthcare field, teaching and inspiring others with treatments and knowledge that I 100% believe in.

   So in summation...we do believe in medicines. We do USE medicines...but its not our first option, and it is our last resort. We love the natural life and we try to be as natural as can be. The truth is..that I just do not know how to be completely 100% natural and I am happy with that. We are rest assured knowing that the chemical load we are putting in our bodies and our children's bodies has drastically decreased and we are going to live longer and healthier as a result. The chemicals, metals and toxins that I have put in my body over the years are slowly leaving...giving me more energy and brain power and I am happy with that.



    So, what is your reason to make a change? Are you tired of living in pain and stress? Looking for an extra income while helping others? I want to teach you what I know...let me show you how your life can change with not only doTERRA, but with other natural alternatives. Email me if you'd like to chat! <3 Beavanhook@gmail.com

With a warm heart and oily hands -
Bea

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