Why doTERRA Pt 1 : MY PERSONAL JOURNEY
my very first doTERRA National Annual convention in 2014 with baby Naila, 3 months
This last weekend, 11 years after this picture, I wrap up my 11th convention
Next Spring I will attend my 10th doTERRA Leadership Business Training
As I have been reentering my doTERRA business over the last 6 months, having just had a couple years of only having time to maintain it due to Covid season business loss globally, I have been taking the time to remind and remember why.
My personal journey
on this blog I dive into : my Why, again. Why do I choose this? Why does it still give me chills and tears to do so. Why does it pull me back, even when I want to quit or give up, with connection, serving health and healing in my community and afar. (Pt 2 is all about doTERRA)
My personal story
I am a life long health and wellness lover, having taught fitness since age 19, as also a dancer and dance teacher, training clients one on one through those years - helping them exercise, maintain their fitness goals, heal / rehab injury& ailments, give nutrition and hydration education, remind them about rest and emotional wellness, BE their friend too … as, all of us teachers, are doing the same for our own bodies simultaneously.
Adding motherhood stepped up our home and my own life too. Now non toxic products were a must in our home. I would read label after label to ensue what we used on our home and bodies was clean. I would start making my own products and begin the journey of learning about herbs through a dear friend and my most favorite herb shop The Secret Garden in SLO, where I am originally from.
In 2011, we moved to Kauai. A few months into settling here, I was sampling our Terrashield for mosquitos on me and baby Daysha. I was trying Lavender essential oil for the first time, (now my biggest tattoo) for my anxiety and immediate calming for us both. I was adding Wild Orange to my home made cleaners in the kitchen and trying Frankincense for basically anything. I could incorporate these into my clean recipes for home and health. I could keep using herbs and spices along side them. Using our God given Plants for Health Healing and Homes in this newly expanded way blew my mind.
I was in awe. These little drops were POWERFUL, effective and you only needed drops at a time. I bought my starter kit ( back when we had to start with a kit). And I could not keep my mouth shut. I just kept organically sharing, in my days of being home with Daysha, and traveling back home.
By about 6 months I had a part time income, and an Ohana of near and dear customers that I would hear success story after success story from about their health, in their homes
By 2 years I had income replacement money, a bigger business team also creating what I had for their own lives, and even more near and dear ohana I still aid today.
This was all with complete time freedom in my years of having and raising the girls as a stay at home mom. It had to fit in to that flow. By simply sharing what I love and use for my homes health and well being, I receive commission. I feel confidant and excited about what they each buy and use. We are all educated and supported by transparent information, excellent customer service, and I receive free business coaching on going as I grow.
Around 2016 Essentialshine, formally Aloha Essentials, once also the Shine Shop!, was created around this time. I knew then and now, it is NOT all doTERRA. Essentialshine is an umbrella for all the the ways I can teach, share, and create with the purpose of serving our world in health and wellness.
I also still teach fitness, and dance. I make and sell products. I teach in person and online classes. I share and teach about healing and the stages I have faced from early 40’s to today at 50, as a woman. and… I dream of so much more in the works, expanding my education as a Level 2 Aromatherapist, Wellness Coach and creating so much more on my own- to buy and attend in person or online.
I keep re-choosing doTERRA as the essential oils and clean products and supplements I love the best, that have shown their success year after year for my customers.I am a 12 year product of the product. And so very grateful we can create a side job or career in simply sharing what we use.
As I continue to help people Shine for who they are born to be in all I do.