THE MAGIC ✨ OF THE DOTERRA CONVENTION AUS/NZ 2019

If there's a time to take your health into your own hands, like reeeeeally start living from a place where YOU and confident in looking after your own health with tools, resources and products at your fingertips and IN YOUR OWN HOME, the time is now.

I've just come back from the doTERRA Australia/New Zealand Convention and it's taken me a good week to really find the time and space to digest what it was. And beside incredible oils obviously, for me, my biggest memories when I close my eyes and think about it, are Community. Connection. Soul sisters. Friendships. Human spirit. Rising against adversity. Standing up for health. Freedom of choice. Empowerment. Positivity. And knowing I'm in the right place, doing what I believe in.

If you haven't already seen my Convention highlights on my Instagram go check it out coz you'll see all the fun there in under a few minutes! But for ease and quick reading I'm going to dot point all my highlights, learnings, and BIG things here for you as well. So without further adieu...

IMMUNE SUPPORTIVE SUPPLEMENTS : MY CURRENT FAVOURITES

I woke up the other week and didn’t feel the best ever. Taj had a runny nose and had been clingier and feeding off me more than usual, and two work mates also told me they didn’t feel so good... so perhaps something was going round (and sleeping half the night in Tajs bed didn’t help either). 

So, as soon as I got up feeling wrecked I whipped out a bunch of my current fav's for the season. And this is my apothecary for the few days that followed:

REACH FOR MAMA NATURES MEDICINES FIRST

Specifically, ESSENTIAL OILS ✨

Friends, you know I love these. I use them daily. They are my skincare, my cleaning products, my digestive support, my sleep support, my happy-liver perfumes, my this-mama-needs-a-break support...
They are Taj's cooling aid when his temp gets high, his calming and grounding support when his emotions are all over the place, his comfort and his skin soothing for cuts, scrapes, bites and bruises.

And they are all non-toxic. Safe. Powerful. Mama Natures medicines.

A GUT LOVING GINGER PECAN LOAF

Have I got the easiest, tastiest, gut happy loaf cake recipe for you!! ~ Yes, yes I do 😝 My GINGER

PECAN BREAD... and what makes this crack-bread (although I’ve never had crack) is an entire jar of organic activated pecan nut butter in it 😱

FANCY SOME CHRISTMAS GIFT CREATING AT MY PLACE?

Wanna come join me and make unique essential oil blends to gift loves ones (or yourself) this Christmas... all whilst nibbling on rum balls and sipping spiced iced chocolates with new friends?  🎄

OPERATION : NO CAFFEINATED COFFEE

About a month ago I posted this in my Instagram stories with loads of private replies, so I then posted it in my feed, again with loads of comments, and promised to write a post on how it was all going - the no coffee thing and what I was replacing it with.

Now the reason behind this was because there was a period of a few weeks where Taj's sleep was rough as guts and I wasn't coping the best ever. So instead of my decaf I asked B to make me his (regular, organic, caffeinated) coffee one morning (still Bulletproof style of course). And oh-my-holy-diggity-dang it was soooooo delicious! So it crept in daily again, and then maybe a second one (straight up black or iced) at lunch time... and it took me a while to notice it but two things happened:

AN IMMUNE SUPPORTIVE HOT CHOCCIE THAT TASTES LIKE CHRISTMAS

Recently I got sick. Yep true story. And it had been so long since I was previously sick that I honestly couldn't remember when it was... even with a huge house move from Cairns, pregnancy, birth, post-partum, and 18 months with little Taj (who had also never been sick til a couple weeks ago). I pride myself on never getting sick but I suppose as a parent, the lack of proper uninterrupted sleep is enough to have you catching something when it's going around. And the worse bit, you can't sleep it off with a mini human needing you.

So, on top of all dietary and supplemental protocols I had myself on, this was a deliciously comforting, warm and deeply nourishing drink I made and looked forward to drinking ~ AND it was helping my immune system with every sip!

WHOLE FOODS NUTRITION FOR MY 15-MONTHS BABY

When Taj started wanting foods early on, and as Taj has moved from pureed foods to mashed foods to finger foods, I have always given him the foods Brock and I eat. We don't sit down to steak and roast veg and feed him fish fingers and potato chips. Taj is a little human. HUMAN. So his nutritional needs are the same a big humans (in fact he needs better nutrition and more nutrients as he is growing at such a phenomenal rate). I'm not talking macros, micros, calories and so on. I'm talking REAL FOOD. He needs real food to thrive just as I do. And that's exactly what I feed him. So after my last blog outlining what and how I started feeding Taj from 6 months of age, I wanted to dive deeper and share what I'm doing with him now that he is almost 15 months young.

I once read that what a pregnant woman eats whilst pregnant has a huge impact on the growing child in terms of their tastebuds during their lifetime (of course we know what mama eats impacts bubba directly for many reasons, but tastebuds was a new thing to me). Essentially I recall this study presenting facts to show that the wider range of TASTES mama eats whilst pregnant will mean bubba is likely to eat a wide range also. When I was pregnant I was sure to eat sweet, salty, bitter, sour, meaty, fermented and so on... and besides being an already wholefood-eating-family, I feel this has made a big impact on the fact that Taj has always been an incredible little eater.