Brain Support with Essential Oils

Brain Support with Essential Oils

Would you like to support your brain? Well maybe there is a way... essential oils with sesquiterpines! If it is true that humans experience between 50,000-70,000 thoughts per day, this is between 35 and 48 thoughts per minute! This is a lot of thinking per person, per...

DIY recipes

DIY recipes

If you are like me, I love to use health and beauty products that work AND are healthy for me. Several years ago, I realized that I could make my very own lotions, bath fizzies, sugar scrubs, etc. Oh, this was so exciting. Not only could I save money, but more...

How Oils Allow Me to Spread Love and Joy

How Oils Allow Me to Spread Love and Joy

February, a month of love, relationships, and taking care of our heart – in every sense of the word. When I started to spread essential oils, I chose to share with those I loved and was closest to.  I recently decided to get back to my roots. You will start to notice...

National Thyroid Awareness Month

National Thyroid Awareness Month

Did you know your thyroid is tied to almost every process in your body? And that issues with the thyroid are more prevalent in women? People often get confused between hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. The simple way that helps me to remember the difference is - the...

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Oh how I love December. Yes, we are celebrating the holidays – but it’s so much more than that. It’s a time of celebration, renewal, giving, receiving, and loving. And speaking of love- I love nothing more than giving essential oils as gifts. I am 100% certain we can...

Pre-diabetes. Be the Change during National Diabetes Awareness Month

Pre-diabetes. Be the Change during National Diabetes Awareness Month

I can't tell you how many times I have heard from friends and family" “my doctor told me I am fine, he is not worried about diabetes until my fasting glucose is closer to 125." If anyone has been paying attention to recent news, they know that this type of thinking is...

Healthy Lungs – Just Breathe

Healthy Lungs – Just Breathe

In honor of healthy lung month, it’s important to me to share some things that perhaps the general public may not be aware of or may not think too much about. You may be surprised at some of the ways you can help to keep your lungs healthy. Obviously, exercise and...

Healthy Aging…Something We All Strive For

Healthy Aging…Something We All Strive For

The truth is that our lifestyle choices really are the key to healthy aging. What we put in our bodies impacts how we look and what we see every day in the mirror. But the way we look is not the only indicator of healthy aging; how we feel is even more important. Here...

World Breast Feeding Week – August 1-7

World Breast Feeding Week – August 1-7

August is such a great month. It houses World Breast Feeding Week – August 1-7, Respect for Parents Day, and is my favorite month of summer. There is nothing more joyful than being a parent. What a blessing to bring a new person into this world. It’s also...

June is Men’s Health Month

June is Men’s Health Month

Forward: To search for the products listed in the blog below – please use the link below and click on shop.     https://www.mydoterra.com/heathermckinney/#/   This month I am dedicating my digital content to the men in our lives – sons, husbands, fathers,...

Gut Health Matters in April and Always

Gut Health Matters in April and Always

In honor of April’s Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month, I wanted to review some of my favorite tried and true tips for becoming more aware of your gut health.   My number one recommendation is to keep a “food and feelings” journal so you can remove...

Knowledge to Reduce Inflammation

Knowledge to Reduce Inflammation

It is important to understand inflammation. Inflammation happens in our bodies for a variety of reasons. For many of us, inflammation occurs naturally after we start a new or harder work out, when we cut ourselves, or when we are sick. Yet, many people live with...

Why Sleep?

Why Sleep?

While, as humans, we may look and act differently, for the most part (excluding abnormalities) we all need the right amount of sleep to be truly healthy.

Making Your Resolutions SMART

Making Your Resolutions SMART

Many of us have made New Year’s resolutions only to break them, or completely forget about them, by February. Yes, a small percentage of people enter a new year, make a resolution, and change their lives for the better. So, what is the difference between those who succeed at their resolutions and those who fail?

Make your Home a Place that Encourages Wellness.

Make your Home a Place that Encourages Wellness.

Wellness starts at home. We all know that is true. But it is so much more than that. Our homes evoke a feeling or an energy when we walk through the door. The feelings can range from calm to chaos; security to unhappiness. And obviously the more pleasant the feeling the more our home can heal us.

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