Peppermint Chocolate Chia Pudding

Prior to March of 2014, I had one goal: make it through another day. For three years, my husband had been sick in bed with Lyme disease, and during that same season I went through a scare with cancer. Our four children were quite young at the time and just meeting the basic needs of my family while caring for my sick husband was overwhelming on the best of days. I would often end the day on the couch, alone, with a snack and a movie. I was gaining weight, losing motivation, and feeling alone and hopeless. There's an old proverb that says, "Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick." My heart was sick.

Then in March of 2014, a friend invited me over to her house learn about Young Living essential oils. I wasn't interested. We had paid over $25,000 in medical bills to find answers for my husband and were left with no money and fewer answers. How on earth could essential oils be any kind of an answer when we had seen the best specialists in the country and tried so many different treatment plans? BUT, my friend made a really great cheesecake, so I went. My plan was to buy a bottle of lavender to support her home party, then be on my way after enjoying some cheesecake. 

What I hadn't expected was that on that night, our lives would forever change. As I sat in her family room, I learned about the power of pure, therapeutic essential oils that were so different from what I had purchased from the health food store. Sitting there, I felt hope beginning to rise for the first time in 3 years.

By the time my cheesecake was gone, I was ready. I knew that I needed these oils in my home. If they didn't work, my home would at least smell good! And yet somehow I knew that I had just found something so different from anything else on the market. I became determined to see changes in our health through the power of essential oils.

Now, years later, our lives have changed in ways I couldn't have ever imagined. We are healthy. We are strong. We are filled with hope for our family, and for the lives of friends and family that God brings to cross paths with us. It set us on a path toward better health, and it became a source of income that has let us travel, be more present with our children, and let my husband step away from corporate America to pursue his own business desires. 

If you are here and feeling a lot like I was before March of 2014, there is hope! I have seen these oils and products change so many lives around me as friends and family have decided to 'give these oils a try,' just like I did. 

What if they work? What if they are the answer you have been looking for? If you would like to learn more, spend some time looking around this site. I created The Grounding as a place to let hope arise. Then please reach out to me! Click the 'contact me' button so we can chat. I am passionate about seeing lives change through the power of these incredible essential oils, found in the beauty of nature. 

It is the power of hope.

My friends, it's time. Let your journey of hope begin!