Essential Oils Giveaway,...and a Coffee Chat with Amanda of Young Living Oils...

Good morning, everyone!

I hope that your week has just flown by, and more than anything, I hope that you have had a wonderful week full of many satisfying moments! 

Mine has been packed with canning, and piano lessons,
and getting ready for school,
and on and on and on and on and on.

But TODAY, I am incredibly excited for TODAY!

I am blessed to be able to introduce you to a wonderful friend of mine, Amanda Friedl of Young Living Essential oils! She has graciously agreed to share her life, her family, and her business with us this weekend, not only through a great interview we had the other day,

but also through a giveaway that is being opened up to YOU!

Go ahead, squeal and spill your coffee.

We have plenty of things to wipe it up with here.

This post will stay up all weekend, and you can earn different points for different participation every single day! So be sure to read all about what she is sharing with us, and then get involved at the end of the post!

Q: Amanda, what are the three most important things in your life, and tell me a little bit about them:

A: My favorite things~ My faith in God is the most important thing in my life. In times of peace, and times of trouble, He has been my constant.

My second favorite thing in my entire life is my family. I'm a wife (to an amazing man who serves God daily as a pastor), I have lots of children, biological, adopted, guardianship and fosters. We have raised 8 adult children, now have four grandchildren, and still have a full dining room table most days.



 My third favorite thing in my life is probably homesteading ~ to me that encompasses my full time job of animal care, gardening, canning and dehydrating, and keeping my mini-farm running.



(this is Amanda and her new small garden of 50x80 that she started this year to add dry beans, corn and squash to feed her family and her livestock!~)

Q.  Why did you choose Young Living Essential Oils, and how long have you been operating your business?

I would like to invite you over to my blog where I did a post about this, and answered this question:

Click here for Amanda's story!

but to summarize it, I chose Young Living Essential Oils because I felt I could trust them. They are leaders in the industry, have been around since 1993, and are of the highest quality.

I started with nine simple oils that are available in
 the Everyday Collection.
Here is a good picture of them.

I found that using these oils I can solve many of life's day to day health and wellness issues. Being a one-income, homeschooling family, I love that I can fix many things without running to the doctor and running up expensive medical bills, or become dependent on OTC or prescription medicines.

Q. Tell me about your top two favorite oils and how you use them....

A. My two favorite oils are the two reasons that I share about Young Living Essential Oils with other people! They have changed our lives! My first favorite essential oil is the Peppermint.



To make a long story short, I intended on buying this oil to treat my migraines. I had read it worked just by applying it to the temples. (note to self~ remember to put this in purse so you don't run out in stores, with children or at parades...the last time I used OTC treatment instead.)
Guess what else this works marvelously on?
Arthritis---just rub a bit on the spot
Fevers---apply a small amount to the bottom of the feet, wait ten minutes, repeat 3x
Muscle Aches--on location
Stomach aches---for bloating as well as nausea, IBS,  and Crohn's
and sinus congestion---apply on site

and that is just to name a few! 
It also works marvelously to give you a little "pick me up" if you are low on energy mid-afternoon, as you can just rub a drop or two on the backs of your hands, or wrists for a quick smell. To share how enormously my husband's life has been changed: he was suffering with bulging discs in his back, and they had even recommended surgery. We met with a surgeon, and it just did not go well. We received his kit about a month later, and started frequently applying peppermint for pain relief. It worked! We have added some other oils since that time to help with the back, but peppermint is his fall back for pain relief.

The next oil was a life changer for me, personally. It is Lavender oil.



I have already stated how much homesteading plays a role in my life. The reality of that is that I need to be out in the garden, in the dust of the barn, by the animals to make that happen. Lavender oil has hugely helped with my allergies. Other areas of life that you might find help (as I have) are helping you or others, sleep, scarring, stop bleeding, dry skin or eczema, and right now---stopping the itch of bug bites!

(Please note that the above suggestions are very abbreviated. For more in-depth insight, and reference, please refer to the
Essential Oil and Desk Reference.

In summary, Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential oils provide safe and effective natural pain relief. It is also important to discover the cause of the ailment and not just treat the symptom.
That is where true healing lies.

Q. If you could communicate one important thing to our readers about essential oil use, 
what would it be?

A. It would be that it is important to purchase quality essential oils for using on your family or on your person. I started by using cheaper oils in my soaps, and know that when you put oils on your body, it is vital that you trust the source.

Thank you Amanda, for your time and effort in sharing this with all of us today and this weekend! I understand you also have something as a giveaway for the readers this weekend!
Would you share what it is?

Sure! In celebration of Heather 
signing up as a distributor 
with my amazing team...
(yes everyone, you read that right! I signed up because this company has the most amazing track record and fantastic products I could find in my months of research!)
I have decided to give away one of these gorgeous clutches designed to hold essential oils (pattern may possibly be different than what is shown in the picture) as well as the winner's choice of either Lavender, Peppermint, or Thieves Essential oil bottle!




So, at the bottom of this page, you can enter the giveaway for the free clutch and essential oil bottle of your choice!

However, for all those wonderful readers who have listened to me in the past talk about herbal medicine, and who are interested in learning more about Young Living Essential oils...who are interested in purchasing or browsing through this catalog...
and especially for those of you who might be interested in signing up and sharing this amazing company with people who could use this knowledge and teaching right where you are at,
I, Heather, am also holding a giveaway for you.


If you sign up for the Everyday Essential Oil Collection, which contains 9 bottles of oil as pictured above,  using my membership#1495694 then you will get a free book just as pictured below as my gift to you. Honestly, if you want to learn about essential oils, this book is a fantastic reference guide and teaches you how to use all the Young Living Essential oils in depth and to treat many,
many different health issues.

If you sign up for one of the other distributorships as well as the Essential Rewards Program using my membership number #1495694, I will also send you a clutch just like the one being given away in the giveaway that Amanda is also running today. Perfect for holding those bottles of essential oils, they come in nine different patterns, and can be a great organizing tool for all those little amber bottles. Personally, it is one of the first things I am purchasing for my essential oils collection.

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If you are interested in ordering from Young Living and perusing the online catalog, you can click right here to head over there, or to sign up for one of the above free gifts.
Come sign up as my customer or team member
and use my member number: 1495694 in both boxes
This sets you up as a current customer through The Welcoming House Blog. Contact me and I will walk you through it, and personally enter you into the giveaway. :)

Thank you to many of you who have sent emails, asked about these oils, and encouraged me to take this step forward as I am learning more and more about natural healing. If you have any questions at all, or want to talk to me about these oils and why I chose them, why don't you contact me via email using the Contact me tab at the top of the blog? I would love to help in any way I can, and encourage you to learn how to take care of your health naturally! I am pretty sure I did not share this above, but signing up for a distributorship, even just for personal use, gives you a 24% discount on retail priced products for the next year even if you only order once! So it is a great deal all around not just to have this wonderful product, and learn how to help your family, but also to be able to share with others!

Are you ready for the giveaway?
Winner will be chosen Monday morning!
Ready, set, GO!
Enter in the RaffleCopter below!

Blessings to you and yours,
Heather

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