On the Holiday Road The travel plans are made, the suitcases are packed, and the old family bus is packed to the brim with all the essentials. You’re all set for a Clark Griswold, National Lampoon-style road trip, complete with maps, sodas and bored teenagers. Suddenly you hear a voice from the back seat say, “I don’t feel so good”. Uh-oh. Carsickness has struck again and you realize your fun family vacation is going to involve a whole lot of cleaning the interior of the car. There are several things you can do for those that are susceptible to motion...

Do you get enough sleep? Sleep is the one thing we spend about one-third of our lives doing, but rarely think about- unless you can’t sleep. The Centers of Disease Control recommend the average adult get around 8 hours of sleep per night, but about 30% of adults report getting less than 6 hours.  Sleep is essential to life.  Not only does getting a good night’s sleep help you feel more alert and energized, but it is also the time when your body does its “routine maintenance” of hormone release and cell repair. In fact, a person can actually die...

Health and Wellness: Using Essential Oils Oils for health and wellness are becoming extremely popular in the 21st century, however they have been used for medicinal and wellness purpose as well as for fragrance for ages!  Essentially (pardon the pun), they are used for just about everything most of us have heard of or used it -- common essentials oils people are familiar with are of lavender or eucalyptus.  Out of the various essential oils available, lavender and eucalyptus are the only two that have a beautiful strong scent. Lavender has more of a calming floral fragrance while and eucalyptus has a sweet, rich...

Chronic Anxiety Picture this: you’re at the grocery store doing your usual weekly shopping. Suddenly, out of what seems like nowhere, you feel a panic attack coming on- your heart pounds, your body temperature rises, your pupils dilate, your stomach starts to turn and you break out in a cold sweat.  There’s no reason why you should panic at the grocery store, but it’s there all the same, you experience this crippling you when you least expect it.  Your ears are ringing with the pounding of the blood in your veins, your vision becomes a tunnel and when you try...

Baltic Essentials Oil Diffuser Necklace I wanted to take this time to tell you about one of my new favorite products. Baltic Essentials was so nice and offered to let me try out one of their beautiful necklaces that has an essential oil diffuser pendant! I am so in love with this necklace and I have worn it every time I have left the house. Scent is so powerful and can actually trigger memories. Not only that, but certain scents can be healing. Essential oils can help you relax or sleep, they can improve your breathing or digestion, they can even help...