I call it my Health Revolution.
I was 39 years old, homeschooling my children, and running a household...and I was barely keeping up. Not because life was too busy, but because my body was quietly falling apart in ways I couldn't fully explain even to my doctors.
My digestive system was unpredictable and painful.
My thyroid was enlarged with nodules they wanted to biopsy.
A specialist had just diagnosed me with GERD, a hiatal hernia, and a narrowed esophagus.
My hormones were out of balance.
I had headaches, low blood pressure, seasonal allergies, and fatigue so heavy I took naps every afternoon just to make it through the day.
I cried a lot. I felt like I was living half a life.
A doctor handed me a prescription with a casual warning that it causes bone loss, they just didn't know what dose or for how long. I was 39. I hadn't even turned 40 yet and I was already being told to accept this.
I wasn't ready to accept it.
The moment everything shifted.
A friend had introduced me to essential oils the year before, but I wasn't ready to listen. The concept felt too foreign. Then one afternoon at a homeschool conference in Virginia, I found myself being drawn down a hallway toward a vendor booth. Something smelled different. Calming. I kept gravitating back without really knowing why.
It was lavender, diffusing quietly in the air.
Something in me recognized it before my mind caught up.
I went to a class shortly after and received a small sample of peppermint. That same week I woke in the middle of the night with the familiar stomach pain — the kind that usually meant a few miserable hours followed by days in bed. I put one drop of peppermint oil on my abdomen.
The pain stopped.
I couldn't believe it. I had been drinking peppermint tea for years trying to find relief. One drop of peppermint essential oil is the equivalent of 28 cups of peppermint tea. The power, the purity, the potency — it was unlike anything I had tried before.
When my sample ran out I chased my friend down to order more.
December 2011
What happened next.
I went to the dōTERRA Convention in Salt Lake City in October 2012 kind of as a skeptic. I wanted to understand the science behind these little brown bottles. And the science blew me away. I learned how essential oils work at a cellular level, how they balance body systems in ways that pharmaceutical solutions simply can't. DigestZen, for example, can support both diarrhea and constipation. You can't say that about an OTC remedy.
At one point during the convention I felt overwhelmed, like I was drinking from a firehose. I stepped away, sat quietly, and opened my scriptures. I said a quick prayer and read from a random page. I opened to 2 Timothy 3:14:
"But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them."
In that moment I felt seen. I felt heard. And I felt like I had found my purpose.
I've been learning and teaching ever since.
My first doTERRA Convention - Salt Lake City, October 2012 (I'm on the far right)
The transformation I didn't dare hope for.
I almost set aside the dōTERRA vitamins when they arrived in my first order, I thought I needed oils, not supplements. By September I decided to try them anyway.
The first thing I noticed was that I wasn't taking naps every day anymore.
Over the following months my face stopped looking so puffy and red. My skin cleared. My mood lifted. My whole outlook on life shifted. I started using an oil blend over my thyroid every day. By the following summer when I went in for my physical, my thyroid was no longer enlarged. My doctor no longer felt the need to biopsy.
Things I had resigned myself to living with simply changed.
My husband and me - Aruba Jan 2023
With my friend Sherri - doTERRA Convention Sept 2025
Where I am now.
Today I am a Certified Essential Oil Specialist, AromaTouch Technique Certified, and a Certified Essential Emotions Coach. But more than any credential, I am someone who has lived this transformation from the inside out — and have spent over a decade helping other women do the same.
I reach for my oils the way my mother reached for Lee's Save the Baby, instinctively and confidently, because I've seen them work. Now I watch my grandchildren receive the same gentle care, and something in me feels like things have come full circle.
When I'm not talking about oils, you'll usually find me with my family. I have 5 grown children and am Nani to 12 grandchildren, which, as you can imagine, pretty much means my heart is always full. I sew, walk, and read in the sun when I can, and my current obsession is upcycling old clothes. My husband and I have been together 36 years. My faith is the foundation under everything I do, including this.
I don't believe in quick fixes. I believe in learning, in trusting your body, in paying attention to what works. That's what I teach. That's what I live.
If any part of my story sounds familiar, the exhaustion, the confusion, the feeling that something is off but you can't quite name it, you're in the right place.
I would love to show you what I found.
I've been exactly where you are.
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