Like many of us, I knew that lavender is a really nice oil… smells good, promotes relaxation and more.

We find it in handwashing soap, laundry soap, dryer sheets… we find lavender in EVERYTHING.

A friend had gifted me with a diffuser, and I enjoyed diffusing lavender as well.

Next… my dogs: I had been told that if I ran the lavender during thunderstorms it would help calm my dogs… and that totally worked.

THEN!!  My older dog [Coco] developed a cough. I don’t need to go into all the steps here, however someone I knew was a Young Living Distributor. She gave me some Thieves^® essential oil (a proprietary blend).

Well, it certainly didn’t hurt her, maybe it did help. So, I bought some. It helped!! [Anything for our kids, right ??]

Allow me to digress for just a bit: a friend called me, excitedly and said I had to learn Raindrop Technique^®. I had never heard of it, but he knew that I was studying Reiki. He had received a ‘Raindrop’ treatment, and he believed this is something that I would enjoy, I would be good at it, and it would go well with Reiki…. that I simply HAD. TO. DO. IT.

OK… got the memo. The timing was not perfect.

Back to Coco - - so, I started diffusing lavender and Thieves^® essential oils everywhere, all the time. That, and a few other lifestyle changes, and she was better!!  I was THRILLED… this changed her life, and mine as well.

Later down the road, when I was ‘ready’ I did find someone to teach me Raindrop Technique^®, which was developed by Young Living’s founder, Gary Young.

I will be forever in gratitude to Laura Fowler, LMT, for her patience, guidance and love for teaching me what essential oils can do, both as a facilitator of Raindrop Technique^®, and even more importantly, how to keep myself and my dogs healthier.

Using the oils has brought me out of countless ‘bronchial challenges’ that, in the past, would have landed me in the hospital with bronchitis, or pneumonia, or worse.

I was offered suggestions, which I chose to employ. For me, personally, using essential oils made it possible to completely avoid the toxicity of anti-biotics. I now find that when ‘something comes up’ my new go-to is ‘what oil would be good for this’?

There is clearly a time and a place for Western medicine… however for me, if it can be addressed and treated in a holistic manner, I am on it.

** I AM NOT A LICENCED PHYSICIAN. I CAN NOT DIAGNOSE OR TREAT YOUR MEDICAL CONDITION**