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Check out some uses for the 12 oils in your Premium Stater Kit below. Peppermint Vitality Focus & Energy Relieves head tension Freshens breath Add to hot chocolate for minty twist Add a drop to water for digestion help Add 5 drops to brownie batter Stress Away Calm Down & Relax Supports emotions + restful sleep Vacation in a bottle Dilute + rub a few drops on kid's feet Rub on temples + jawline to relieve tension Raven Chest Rub & Easy Breathing Add to coconut oil + rub on your chest Rub on feet at bedtime to help you breathe Rub on chest before exercising to uplift Add one drop to shower floor for refreshing steam Lemon Detoxing & Cleaning Add a drop to a glass of water Use 1-2 drops to remove sticky residue Diffuse for a fresh, clean scent Add 2-3 drops to a salad dressing recipe Add to water and soak produce to clean Lavender Sleep & Relaxation Rub a couple drops on your feet at bedtime Add a drop to your tube of mascara Add 4 drops to 1 cup of Epsom salts in a bath Diffuse at bedtime PanAway Chest Rub & Easy Breathing Add to coconut oil + rub on your chest Rub on feet at bedtime to help you breathe Rub on chest before exercising to uplift Add one drop to shower floor for refreshing steam DiGize Vitality Digestive Support Take 1 drop in a spoonful of honey Dilute and rub on abdomen before meals Take in capsules to support digestion Rub on tummies during bumpy car rides Peace & Calming Calm Down & Relax Diffuse for a restful night's sleep Dilute + apply to kids as a "tantrum tamer" Make a pillow spray with a few drops, water, and 1 tsp salt Apply to wrists and neck when stressed Citrus Fresh Vitality Odor Buster & Wellness Diffuse for an uplifting and purifying scent Add a drop to a glass of water for flavor and an immune boost Drop on cotton balls and stick in car air vents Add to baking soda for a DIY carpet powder Add a few drops to dryer balls for fresh laundry Thieves Vitality Immunity & Clean Air Add one drop to tea to boost the immune system Diffuse to purify the air Add 1 drop to apple cider for a warm drink Your immune system's BFF - dilute and rub on the bottom of your feet daily Add 1 drop to oatmeal for a yummy breakfast Check out YL's line of cleaners based on Thieves Valor Courage & Emotions Promotes confidence (nicknamed "liquid courage") Apply to wrists for emotional support Diffuse during your daily meditation session Use as your daily perfume Diffuse or apply to soles of feet before bed Frankincense Glowing Skin Add a drop to your moisturizer for skin support Diffuse for mental focus Rub on temples after a long day Dilute 50/50 and apply to skin Rub a drop onto the back of your neck to relax

It's Sunday night. I'm sitting on a flight for work that has been delayed by over an hour now after the first flight was also delayed. The other people I am flying with have been a bit irritated that the flight keeps getting delayed but truly, I have yet to get irritated - it just is what it is. I came to this realization and just had to stop and reflect. I have flown many times and several times had delays but NEVER have I been so calm and 100% okay with the delay. Irritated, frustrated, hungry, tired, cold - yes. Calm and at peace - no. For the record, I'm not some amazing person who is calm during stressful situations or when things don't go according to my plan. I am Type-A, let's have a plan for everything, have actually gone through phases where I plan everything down to the minute including going to the restroom - I'm not kidding y'all - kinda person. I am working on being a bit less structured but uh, I don't always handle stress the best - I typically sleep very little and eat lots of candy. I digress. So we are waiting for the plane to even arrive and the guys are not a fan of the delay. My response is along the lines of "Y'all, we are going to get there tonight still and we have nothing to be late for." I suprised myself. I truly meant what I said and had no resentment in my heart toward this delay. And I don't think that my reaction was me. My reaction was a manifestation of the transforming of my heart that the Holy Spirit is performing. Seriously, I love people. Always have. But I tend to be quick to blame someone for something going wrong. But I didn't. And in traffic, I'm begining to be more gracious and less irritated when people drive funky. And it isn't because I'm some great person - it's because I am searching after Jesus and trying to know Him better. You become like the 5 people you spend the most time with. I know that I have picked up traits from people that I wish I hadn't because I was surrounded by people who acted in ways I didn't want to. One of the biggest and most prominent examples in my life is language. I do not believe that I am called to use profanity but that is very much against society's viewpoint. In every job I have ever worked, people have cursed (or cussed, choose whichever you prefer. I chose to say cursed because typically that is what people are doing - cursing someone or something. Anyways, back on topic). I worked in a bar-b-que restaurant in college and my best friend actually called me out one day after I had worked 5 of the 6 weekend shifts on my language and my accent. I was tending to use more foul language than not and my accent always got bad after a long weekend - I accidentally pick up people's accents, always have. A few days of being around people that didn't use that language and I would be almost back to normal before going to work again on the weekend. And I justified it saying, well, I don't actually MEAN what that word means or it was just a slip of the tounge, or everyone else says it so I can too. But that isn't right. Yeah, everyone else can do it, but that doesn't mean it is healthy for me, that doesn't mean it is beneficial for me, that doesn't mean that is what I have been called to live like. You see, what I have been learning over the past few years but especially over the past few months is that God has a plan for me but He also realizes that I live in a sinful world in a sinful body that is tempted to do sinful things. So He gave me guidelines to live by, not to keep me from doing the "fun things," but to keep me from doing the wrong things. He told me not to use profanity, not because He wanted to limit my language but because He wants me to be set apart from this world and He doesn't want the enemy, the devil, to have a way to worm inside me. Cursing, cussing, that is just language that has been preverted. But what it does is allow the devil to have something to latch onto and say "Well, this isn't so bad so what about something else?" and God loves me too much to want to allow the enemy to have that position in my life. So He gave me guidelines and said that of I seek after Him, His burden is light and that He will align my heart with His. God loves me so much He sacrificed His son for me. His ONLY son. And when I say "Thank you Father," when I accept that gift that He gave me by sacrificing His son for the bad I've done, and I chase after God trying to learn more and more and more, I become more like Him. My heart becomes softer so that I pray for the guy that cut me off in traffic because I want his day to get better. I calmly handle a delayed flight because I have the grace of God inside me that says, "Hey, it isn't anyone's fault and even if it were, love them enough to not blame them." I choose not to curse and to fill my mind and ears with sermons and worship songs not because I wanna be a great Christian but because I wanna be more like Jesus. I want to love with passion, I want to be able to bless people and heal people not because of me, but because I have humbled myself enough to become a vessel for God to use. I don't really know why I wrote this, why I shared so much except that maybe you need to hear this story. I've been easily jaded for years, cynical and I have a seriously dry sense of humor. But I am striving for something more than that. And I am getting there with the help of God becuase of God. There is no reason my reactions should change. Oh, you could say "Well Lyss you are reading better things and listening to bettet things to better yourself so of course you'll change." I call that junk. I like self-help books a lot. And I have read or started a bunch of them. And listened to the podcasts. I love the idea of doing everything all by myself and making myself a better person in the process. But let me be real with you - nothing has changed. And you might say "Well you ARE only 22." And to that I say, get over that PLEASE. I have people tell me I am too young to understand or to old to understand regularly. I argue that I am just the right age - and so are you. There is never a time too early or too late to become better than you were yesterday or better than you are today or than 15 years ago. My life is being transformed at 22 by a God that I knew but didn't pursue or really even care about 10 years ago and I wish I would have cared 10 years ago because my faith would be today what I dream it can be in my future. Chasing after God has transformed me and I would actually even go so far as to say I am not the same person spiritually or emotionally or mentally who graduated 5 months ago. I heard a pastor say the other day "Knowing Jesus and accepting Him as your saviour is just the beginning, not the finish line. There is so much more for you after that, if only you will reach out and take it." 10 weeks ago, I made this same trip for work and my flight got delayed by 15 minutes. I was irritated and just wanted to get home and wanted to know who had screwed up so much that they delayed my flight. Today, 10 weeks later, my flight got delayed and I was prepared to sit in the airport for hours waiting for the storm to pass with absolute peace in my heart. If this is what God can do in my heart in 10 measly weeks, I can't wait to see what He does in 10 years. Questions for discussion: What happened the last time you flew?What has God done in your life lately to transform it? What do you wish for to happen in the next 10 years?

What on Earth am I doing?

This is a question I keep asking myself. I have dreams of businesses I want to open, yet I put those on the back burner for security. I want to share what I love, specifically ways to live healthier, with my friends and family, yet every time I have the opportunity, I get embarrassed and clam up. I know what I want my life to look like in ten years and I see the path I need to get there, but it scares me and so I hold myself back from the steps I know I need to take. It is a weird thing, seeing your own ability to succeed and having it utterly terrify you. It shouldn't, and I know that, but it does. While I am not positive where this originated, I feel wrong being better at something or succeeding at something more than other people. For example, my roommate invited me to go rock climbing, a recreational activity she loves. Due to who I am and the skillset I possess, we discovered that I could advance in the difficulty level of the routes faster than she could. However, I was convinced that, if I climbed better than my roommate, she would hate me and we would no longer be friends. Yes, I am aware that is crazy, but that was my thought process. Over the last couple of months, I have realized that, if someone is my friend, they won't actually care if I am better at something than them (which my roommate reassured me of). And, I have realized that if someone does care that I am better than them, it literally does not matter in the slightest. That being said, it is still a struggle for me to remember that. Looking at the two paragraphs above, I realize that the word "I" is said a lot. And, I realize if I was reading this, my question would be "And your point is...?" My point is something that I have only realized recently - my success or failure does not influence how people think of me. And, if it does influence how people think of me, I don't want to be associated with them anymore than I have to be. This evening, after I had started this post and then postponed finishing it, I came across a quote from a woman I had never heard of until I Googled her name. She is, according to the internet, in the running for the presidential election but I know nothing about her so note that this is not an endorsement nor a slam against her. The quote was this: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson The beginning 2 sentences resonated with me because I realized that it is utterly true in my life. I am scared of success more than of being inadequate. I am scared that I will let success run my life and that I will become a horrid person because of it. And I do not think I am alone. But, if you are like me in that fear, this is what I have realized: I determine who I will be, what I will act like. I get to make the choice today, tomorrow, and every single day to be who I want to be. And I don't want to be a horrid person. So I will choose not to be. And that choice starts today. My dreams are not going away, I am simply taking a different path to get there than I ever thought I would. My fear of sharing what I know and love is simply me being selfish, because if I have knowledge that can change a life and I don't share it, that is on me. And, what I have begun to learn is that when I share what I love, when I pursue what I love, my dreams begin to become reality. I get to chose to be a kind, loving, God-filled person today so that as I grow, I grow as a kind, loving, God-filled person. Thanks for coming on this ride with me, as I learn about life. I am not claiming to have it all figured out - actually, I don't claim to have anything figured out besides that I am broken and need Jesus. But, what I do say, is that I am working, day-by-day to figure it out. All are steps forward, though some days feel like steps backwards, but it is all part of this beautiful journey called life. I know this post was a bit long but I hope it is as helpful for you as it has been for me as I have come to realize for myself that my current reality can be changed by nothing more than a simple thought.

Hey Y'all! I know it has been a hot minute since I last posted. The last few weeks were filled with presentations, finishing senior projects, family coming into town, and graduation. I passed all my classes and now, I am officially a college graduate! A few weeks shy of four year ago, I graduated from high school. I had my life planned out - college for a degree, then my career path to basically running a Fortune 500 company, traveling for work for a few years then settling down, having kids, loving my job, eventually to retire and love retirement. I was always told how important a 5-year plan was, well I had a 50-year plan. Today, that isn't the case. I thought I wanted to work a big fancy job and be the boss of everyone. I think the reality is, I wanted to be my own boss and that was how I saw that happening. I wanted to work a job that let me travel the world. The reality is I want to travel and the idea of being paid to travel was appealing. I still want to have kids but I want to foster kids too. I still want to love my job but I want to love my life while I have my job. I was talking with a friend a few months ago and one thing she said really stuck with me, "Are you willing to spend a few years of your life living like most people won't so you can live the rest of your life living like most people can't?" And I have slowly realized over the past few months that the answer to that question for me, is yes. I have dreams of ideas and businesses that I want to pursue but that isn't a life most people want. It is however, a life I want. "Are you willing to spend a few years of your life living like most people won't, so you can live the rest of your life living like most people can't?" I want to be my own boss. I want to run with my dreams and ideas until they become a success. I want to make my life and the lives of the people around me better in small ways everyday. So that is what I am going to do. I keep getting asked, "What are you doing now that you are graduated? What is your plan for your life?" What am I doing - whatever I want. Specifically right now, I am pursuing a few business ideas in Tuscaloosa. What is my plan for my life - to love what I do, to be the healthiest I can be, and to help others love their life and be healthy. So, for those of you wondering, that is my current plan. For those of you not wondering, here is a picture of Faith being cute. Oh, and anyone reading this that has dogs that like to chew, the Nylabone ® DuraChew ® toys (Faith is chewing on one above) are phenomenal. We have 2, both dogs love them, and they seem to never die. Not kidding. Also, just for the record, this is not a paid advertisement, it is just my honest opinion on a toy my dogs love. The company doesn't even know I exist. Anyway, that is my current plan which means y'all get to follow along as I learn what it takes to start a business, what life looks like when you don't have a job immediately after college, and how to make my life look like what I want it to. And if you want to follow along in snapshots, I just started an Instagram @livinglifewithlyss ! Have a great Friday!

30 Day Challenge - Day 30

This post is 4 days late for a couple reasons. First, I've actually had a kinda busy weekend. Second, the spare time I had, I spent napping. And third, I wasn't 100% sure how I wanted to end this challenge. On Thursday, which was technically Day 30, we were going to go climbing and then we had a tornado watch that shut campus down after 5 pm so that didn't happen. I wound up going to Target, getting cookie dough, and then making chocolate chip cookie waffles. Highly recommend cookie waffles especially with ice cream on top. Yum. It was so good. Anyways, that was my Thursday night - watching the How To Train Your Dragon Netflix TV show while eating ice cream on cookie waffles during a tornado watch. It was fantastically relaxing. So I guess that, at the end of my 30 Day Challenge, I should reflect. Honestly, what I have learned the most is that doing something you enjoy on a regular basis isn't as difficult as it sounds. For some reason, I think we have it in our brains that making our life something different, something we enjoy is impossible if we don't take giant steps. Let me just tell you, I have more fun now than I did in January. Not because I have made a dramatic life change but because I have made one single conscious choice, every single day for a month, to do something I enjoy or that relaxes me or that is new to me. I've heard it said before that your life is not one big moment it is just a bunch of little moments that culminate as your whole life. If that is even remotely true, why don't we take small moments and enjoy them more often? As humans living in the 21st century, we make thousands upon thousands of choices a day. It sounds crazy to think that one choice each day can change your life but it can. A month ago, I really thought I was going to get a week into my challenge and fail. And, if I remember correctly, I did fail. I had a day where all I did was work and the stuff I had to do because I was too busy to do anything else. But I then made a point to do something I like the next day and the next day. Y'all I'm not saying that every day will be a success, I'm not saying every day will be hunky-dory, happy-go-lucky. I am saying that when you make the choice to be happy, your day goes a lot better. When you make the choice to like what you do, life becomes a bit more enjoyable. I promise, I'm not trying to preach to you or be some sort of fancy person that gives life advice because they know everything. Trust me, I'm not fancy and I do not know anything close to everything. What I do know is what I have done, what I have tried. And I know what my response would be to reading this. "Right. Well, that seems to work great for you but it would never work for me. I am too busy/tired/occupied/lazy to do that right now. And it just seems like a lot of work anyhow. Stop telling me what will make my life better. You don't know me. My situation is different." Maybe that isn't your response. Maybe you are 100% considering making choices in your life that make you happy. But maybe that is your response. Or maybe your response is a bit different but still is honestly along the same lines. Maybe you didn't have a response at all. I don't care. I am talking to you. You are amazing as you are right now. But we are not created to stop growing. We are created to flourish. And being in a place where you are too busy and tired to do anything that makes you happy isn't flourishing. I know. I've been there. And I am telling you, as someone who decided to never go back to being in a situation where I can't choose happiness, one choice a day, even a small choice, can change everything. So what did I learn from my challenge? I validated something I have been learning over the past few years - one choice a day really does change your world. I hope you have enjoyed following my 30 day challenge. I invite you to stick around as I figure out what I am going to do with my blog from here on out. If you click here, you can subscribe to my blog and get an email every time I create a new post, that way you stay updated. TBH, the reality of me posting more than once a day or so is very slim so you won't be spammed with emails. I'll see y'all around again shortly!

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Premium Starter Kit Oils

December 6, 2019

Check out some uses for the 12 oils in your Premium Stater Kit below. Peppermint Vitality Focus & EnergyRelieves head tensionFreshens breathAdd to hot chocolate for minty twistAdd a drop to water for digestion helpAdd 5 drops to brownie batter Stress Away Calm Down & RelaxSupports emotions + restful sleepVacation in a bottleDilute + rub a few drops on kid’s…

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The Delayed Flight

October 25, 2019

It’s Sunday night. I’m sitting on a flight for work that has been delayed by over an hour now after the first flight was also delayed. The other people I am flying with have been a bit irritated that the flight keeps getting delayed but truly, I have yet to get irritated – it just is what it is. I…

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What on Earth am I doing?

June 10, 2019

This is a question I keep asking myself. I have dreams of businesses I want to open, yet I put those on the back burner for security. I want to share what I love, specifically ways to live healthier, with my friends and family, yet every time I have the opportunity, I get embarrassed and clam up. I know what…

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I Graduated!

May 10, 2019

Hey Y'all! I know it has been a hot minute since I last posted. The last few weeks were filled with presentations, finishing senior projects, family coming into town, and graduation. I passed all my classes and now, I am officially a college graduate!

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30 Day Challenge – Day 30

April 22, 2019

So that was my Thursday night - watching the How To Train Your Dragon Netflix TV show while eating ice cream on cookie waffles during a tornado watch. It was fantastically relaxing.

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