“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” M. Scott Peck

Time seems little and life feels so busy. The world we live in today is vastly different from even 10 years ago with more opportunity, more exposure and more pressure to do.

It is time to STOP the glorification of “BUSY” and get back to honour the power of “BEING”. It is time to care for the self. Life is an adventure, one that to enjoy we must be present in. Life is YOUR adventure and that means that YOU must be enjoying it – LIFE SHOULD FEEL GOOD.

“How you are treating yourself is how you are inviting the world to treat you”

I invite you to take a moment – just a micro-moment – and start to FEEL good again… in your body, in your home, in your relationships, in your mind, in your work and in yourself.

I invite you to start AROMA LIVING…

Self-care and self-love are two concepts that have gained much use in recent years with the explosion of the wellness and self-development industries.  It is quite common now to hear that if you want to improve your health, relationships, work, self-expression and enjoyment of life the first step is to love you first.  And at some deep level we all know that this is a truth with a capital T but here is the roadblock, HOW exactly do we LOVE ourselves, I mean what does that even look like?

Knowing how to love you best is quite personal as no-one person is the same. What feels good for some might feel like a chore to others and so there is no “drink-a-kale-smoothie-meditate-in-a-sauna-and-enjoy-euphoric-feelings-of-love-about-your-self,”universal solution. There is however a universal (and well-researched and documented) knowingness that when a person dedicates time to self-care they reap numerous benefits including:

• Reduced feelings of stress and anxiousness
• Improved concentration & productivity
• Heightened sense of self-esteem and confidence
• Increased energy levels
• Improved health
• Weight loss
• Happier relationships
• Deeper feelings of joy and contentment
• Lots of other fun benefits including better sex, better sleep, bouts of giggles and an increased desire to smile

My life (and the life of those in the near vicinity of me) transformed when I learnt how to care for myself in simple ways with the help of some special tools from nature – Essential Oils!

Essential oils offered a path to self-care that was easy, effortless and efficient. All of a sudden self-care was not hard because now I had tools that when used = self-love in action. Brene Brown says that love is an action, which is good, because I am good at taking action.

The more I learnt about self-care, studied essential oils and worked with clients to establish natural patterns of care the more I  realized that the problem with self-care and self-love as concepts is the pressure we create around them and the endless list of how it (they) can be interpreted.  It broke my heart to see so many friends, family, colleagues, mothers, and children and well, just generally people struggle to be kind to themselves when there was a quick, simple and easy solution.

I was immediately inspired to change the perception of self-care as selfish and give my sisterhood the secret to filling their own cup so that it overflowed and they could give more to others (with a genuine smile).

My motto is “Self-care is not selfish. It's essential”

Using essential oils as the tool, I developed quick “micro-moment” (think 5-10 minutes) care routines that supported the self to heal at multiple levels simultaneously. So, while the oils therapeutic qualities supported my physical body, their aroma and silky feel started working on the emotional and mental bodies and this, with my desire to serve my friends, family and community was why I developed the Aroma Living Program.

The AROMA LIVING PROGRAM has been specifically designed to support you to improve the quality of care that you give to you and build foundations that have your cup overflowing so that you can love, serve and give more to your people, your work, your passions and your world.