Aug 25, 2022
“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” ~ Yasmin Mogahed
Guest Introduction:
Grit, Grace and Gratitude: Navigating Emotional Wellbeing with Essential Oils is a new podcast series. Join me on this journey and learn the benefits of essential oils for your mind, body and spirit.
Welcome to another episode of Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I’m your host Cindy MacMillan and I’m joined today by Leah Brashear.
Each week, I interview coaches, spiritual explorers and essential oil educators from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in-between. Self-love, well-being, and mindset are at the heart of our conversations because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.
Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:
I am delighted to introduce my guest, Leah Brashear.
Leah is a wife, a mother, and an essential oils wellness advocate with dōTERRA. Her family has been using essential oils since 2019. These essential oils have helped her family through her daughter's journey with developmental hip dysplasia, through her journey with degenerative disc disease, and supported their physical and emotional wellness journeys as well!
Help me welcome my very special guest, Leah.
1:58 I've actually given myself a lot of time to really think about it and kind of meditate on what that really means. And through doing that, I realized that both personally and, in my business, it's about allowing ourselves to be real and raw and vulnerable in our current situations, whatever that may be at the time. And not only with ourselves, but with the people around us. I think that when we allow ourselves this opportunity to be truly authentic, it creates this beautiful space to be able to learn more about ourselves and about other people.
4:02 I've also been thinking about all of our “ands”, how none of us are just one thing.
5:07 My daughter was diagnosed with developmental hip dysplasia when she was born, she was actually born with both of her hips completely dislocated. And that kind of was the trigger to us getting started with essential oils.
9:26 It's like if this is so amazing, and it's helping our family so much what am I doing keeping this to myself? There's so much benefit in just simply sharing my story and allowing other people to have a healing opportunity like that too.
10:59 The oil that I would choose for grit would be a blend that doTERRA has called Northern Escape. And it's the oil for stable transitions, which I think is really beautiful. And it's a blend of seven different tree oils. And the positive properties for this blend are stable, adapting, enduring, grounding, acceptance, all of these things that really help us to know like, I am strong, and I can do this, I think that's really beautiful. And surrendering control is another property of this.
16:08 That's what's beautiful about essential oils, I have diffusers all over my house. And what I like to do is set oils next to my diffusers and I have them in places where I see them. So, I have him in the bathroom, I have them in my kitchen, I have him in my living room and I have the oils that I like to use throughout the day next to them. So, it's really easy to remember, oh, I need to turn my diffuser on and use this to help me and by the bed, that's a really great place to use them too.
21:56 I think, honestly, it would be my journey with doing the business side of doTERRA. In how I kind of always, before I had this idea of who would learn from me, you know, what do I do? What do I have to offer people and then having this opportunity to just share with people and to see I'm changing people's lives just by being me, just by sharing what I love and what I have learned. And getting that opportunity to learn from other people too.
Thank you for listening and I'm grateful that you're tuning in. If you loved the conversation that I'm having today with Leah Brashear and you want to continue the conversation or you want to share your takeaways (the big aha), or just any ideas that come up…come on over to Instagram. That is where I spend most of my time when it comes to social media. I'm @cindy.macmillan on Instagram. Make sure you're following me. Jump into my DMs, say hello. I'd love to hear from you.
Friend, Have a wonderful day wherever you are in the world!