Slow Down and Soak It In
A Summer Wellness Edition for Women Who Know How to Live
"Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." Henry James
Welcome to August
This One Is Different
You have probably noticed by now that this newsletter does not shy away from the hard conversations. We have talked about the real statistics on how women age. We have gone deep on the gut-brain axis, on chronic illness and what thriving genuinely looks like, on the invisible sacrifices women make when life gets difficult. We have been honest, sometimes uncomfortably so, because I believe you deserve that.
August is not that month.
August is the month of long evenings that seem to stretch forever. Of the insect chorus in the afternoon heat — that particular clicking, buzzing, alive sound that means summer is at its most full and unhurried. Of warmth that sinks into your bones like a slow exhale. Of feet in water and skin in sun and the particular luxury of a day with no particular agenda.
This edition is product-focused and I am going to be upfront about that. Not in an apologetic way — in the way of a girlfriend who has genuinely found things she loves and wants to tell you about them with the same enthusiasm she would bring to coffee. Because August is the season for exactly these products: the ones that let you be outside longer, feel better while you’re there, keep your energy high through every summer adventure, and take care of your skin and your body in ways that are as uncomplicated and pleasurable as the season itself.
We are also going to have an honest conversation about a few things that summer lulls us into missing. Vitamin D — the one we assume we’re getting in abundance and are often not. The summer cold that arrives just when you thought you were immune to everything. The way that long lazy days sometimes mean we’re nourishing everyone else at the barbecue and forgetting to nourish ourselves.
And we are going to let September whisper at us from just around the corner — because August is also the month when being just a little bit ahead of the curve means the transition back to routine feels like a step into something prepared rather than a scramble.
But first: the bugs. Let’s talk about the bugs.
Christina
Table of Contents
Look what we have this month!
- Welcome to August
- What's In Your Bug Spray?
- Canada Gifts with Purchase
- The Full Summer Kit - Essential Oils for Every August Moment
- The August Collection --Everything You Need to Be Outside, Feel Great and Arrive at September Ready for Anything
- Ten Affirmations for a Woman in Her August
- August's Spotlight - Mineral Sunscreen
- September is Whispering
- US Gifts with Purchase
- EU/UK Gifts with Purchase
- Australian Gifts with Purchase
- August Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
- Your Summer Energy Anchor
- The Easiest Business Conversations Happen in Summer
- Loyalty Perks -- Consistency Is Your Superpower!
- Events and Promotions - Time to think about FALL!
- New Product Launches -- Get Ready for Fall Bundle
- New Perspective Oilers' Education Series -- Summer Hiatus
- Join the New Perspective Oilers' Facebook community
What's In Your Bug Spray
The Summer Product That Protects Your Skin, Your Health, and Your Right to Be OutsideThere is a particular sound on Vancouver Island in August. It starts around dusk — or sometimes earlier, if you are near the water or the woods. The mosquitoes find you with an almost supernatural efficiency. And for most of us, the instinct is to reach for whatever is in the garage, spray it on liberally, and not think too much about it.I want to ask you to think about it. Just briefly. Because what most conventional insect repellents contain is worth a moment’s honest attention.The Problem with DEETDEET — N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide — has been the primary active ingredient in most commercial insect repellents since the 1940s. It works by interfering with insects’ ability to detect the carbon dioxide and lactic acid that signal a human host. It is effective. It is also a synthetic chemical that is absorbed through the skin, detected in blood samples after application, and classified as a mild toxin with known neurological effects at high concentrations or with prolonged use.The research on DEET at standard consumer concentrations suggests it is generally safe for most adults used as directed. But for women who are already reducing their toxic load in every other area of their lives — their cleaning products, their skincare, their supplements — reaching for a bottle of DEET because it is the only option available feels like a contradiction.It is not the only option.What Young Living’s Outdoor Blend Is Made Of
Young Living’s Outdoor Blend is built on a 99 percent active ingredient base — which means almost everything in the bottle is doing the work of protecting you, with the remaining 1 percent being vitamin E to condition and moisturise the skin. There is no DEET, no parabens, no phthalates, no petrochemicals, no synthetic preservatives, no synthetic fragrances, and no synthetic colourings. The base is pure sesame oil, which is itself mildly insect-repelling, and the essential oil blend is a carefully chosen combination of the oils with the longest traditional and evidence-supported history of repelling insects.The blend includes Citronella, Lemongrass, Rosemary, Geranium, Spearmint, Thyme, and Clove — each chosen specifically for its repellent properties. The result is a formula that is clinically proven to repel mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, is hypoallergenic, dermatologist tested, and gentle enough for use on children under adult supervision.It also, not incidentally, smells like summer. Light, citrusy, warm. Not the petrochemical cloud of a conventional spray but something that actually belongs outdoors.Using It WellDispense a small amount into your palm and apply evenly over exposed skin. Reapply as needed — particularly after swimming, sweating, or wiping down. One note on the sesame oil base: it can stain fabric, so apply before dressing or be mindful of light clothing. A small amount goes a long way.I keep a bottle by the back door, another in my garden bag, and a third in the RV. Because the goal is not to avoid being outside. he goal is to be outside as much as possible, for as long as possible, without spending August as a mosquito buffet.
August's Canadian Gifts with Purchase
August's Canadian Gifts with Purchase
Summer may be winding down, but these good vibes aren’t going anywhere. Stock up on sunshine, wellness favourites and free goodies at the same time.
Brighten your space—and your cleaning routine—with this MVP oil. Lemon essential oil brings fresh, uplifting aroma to awaken the senses,
reduce odours and brighten your day. Diffuse it solo or add it to your Thieves® Cleaner for an extra-zesty kick.
Hit reset with Thieves® Laundry Detergent. Powered by stain-fighting enzymes and our signature Thieves® essential oil blend, it delivers a deep clean for up to 64 loads. Refresh backpacks, towels and sports uniforms before the new season starts.
Unwind, revive, and conquer the day with this chill oil blend. Relieve It™ essential oil blend combines soothing oils with minty zest, comforting woodiness and an invigorating kick of black pepper for a balanced aroma.
100 PV (LR): Lemon essential oil, 15 mlLR retail value: $20.72
YL tip: Sticker residue that refuses to come off? Add 1–2 drops of Lemon oil to hard surfaces, gently rub and watch it vanish.
200 PV (LR or one-time order): Thieves® Laundry DetergentLR retail value: $78.29
One-time retail value: $53.94
YL tip:
Follow the instructions found on the garment’s care label. Add clothes. Start machine and add the proper amount of detergent for load size.
Use ½ cap for conventional washers.
Use ¼ cap for high-efficiency washers.
Use more, as needed, for large or heavily soiled loads.
300 PV (LR or one-time order): Relieve It™ essential oil blend, 15 mlLR retail value: $164.14
One-time retail value: $143.42
YL tip: Fighting off end-of-summer cold and cough symptoms? Dilute and roll onto your chest and temples to help reduce cough and cold symptoms and help relieve headaches.
Order early to earn more! Place your 100+ PV Loyalty Rewards order by Wednesday, August 5, and get a $10 product credit to use toward your next order!
Bonus offer
Plus, squeeze out 15 percent off Orange+ essential oil all month long! Versatile, zesty and full of life, it adds a delicious citrus zing to savoury meals or sweet desserts. Wake up your morning smoothie, juice, or NingXia Red® drink with a burst of orange flavour.
Discounted wholesale: $6.80
Discounted retail: $8.95
Discounted PV: 5.53
🌿 The August Collection
Everything You Need to Be Outside, Feel Great, and Arrive at September Ready
This is a product-forward edition and I said so upfront — so here is the full summer toolkit, chosen for August specifically and with September already in mind.
1. Outdoor Blend (Canada) or Insect Repellent (US) |
Why it’s here: Because being outside in August on Vancouver Island without insect protection is not a summer — it is a battle. And because the conventional alternative is a DEET-based synthetic chemical applied directly to your skin, repeatedly, for the entire season. Young Living’s Insect Repellent is 99 percent active natural ingredients: sesame oil base, and a blend of Citronella, Lemongrass, Rosemary, Geranium, Spearmint, Thyme, and Clove essential oils. Clinically proven to repel mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Hypoallergenic. Child-safe under adult supervision. Smells like summer.
How to use: Dispense into palm, apply to all exposed skin, reapply as needed after swimming or perspiring. Keep away from eyes. Note that the sesame oil base can stain light fabrics.
2. NingXia Red® |
Why it’s here: Summer energy management, cellular antioxidant protection against UV oxidative stress, immune support for the summer-to-September transition, and the nutritional foundation that makes the rest of the season feel supported rather than improvised.
How to use: 2-4 ounces each morning, and an optional additional ounce in the afternoon. Mix with sparkling water and lemon for the summer’s best mid-afternoon ritual.
3. Lavender Essential Oil |
Why it’s here: After-sun skin support, bug bite comfort, sleep in warm weather, and the universal summer calmer. Lavender is the one oil that every medicine cabinet and outdoor bag should have in August.
How to use: Dilute in a carrier oil and apply to sun-exposed skin after outdoor time. Apply neat (undiluted) to insect bites. Diffuse at bedtime. Add to a spray bottle with water for a cooling facial mist.
4. Peppermint Essential Oil |
Why it’s here: Natural cooling in the heat, afternoon energy reset, support for summer-cold respiratory symptoms, and the most effective car companion for long summer road trips. Peppermint is summer efficiency in a bottle.
How to use: One drop on the back of the neck and wrists for instant cooling. Dilute and apply to temples for clarity and focus. Diffuse in indoor spaces. Peppermint Vitality in water for a cool, refreshing drink.
5. Thieves® Essential Oil Blend |
Why it’s here: The September preparation begins in August. Thieves is the immune-support blend that anchors the transition from summer to fall, provides protection against the summer cold that appears just when you thought you were immune to everything, and works as a household support tool through the cleaner, the spray, and the diffuser blend. Stock it now before September makes it urgent.
How to use: Diffuse regularly. Apply diluted to the bottoms of feet. Use the Thieves Household Cleaner for all surfaces as school bags and outdoor gear return to the house. Use the Thieves Spray for on-the-go support.
6. Inner Beauty Collagen™ |
Why it’s here: Because skin that has been in the sun, the salt, and the summer all August deserves internal collagen support running alongside whatever you are putting on it topically. Marine collagen, hyaluronic acid, peach ceramides, and prebiotic tapioca fibre in one tasteless daily scoop. The gut-skin axis means this is doing double duty — skin support from within and microbiome maintenance through the dietary variation of summer.
How to use: One scoop daily in water, NingXia Red, a summer smoothie, or your morning iced coffee. Tasteless. Effortless. Genuinely cumulative.
The Full Summer Kit
Essential Oils for Every August Moment — Plus the Things Summer Lulls Us Into Forgetting
August is sensory. It is the season where aromatherapy is not an abstract concept but a daily reality — the lavender on sunburned skin, the peppermint in the afternoon heat, the grounding of cedarwood when the day finally cools. Here are the oils I reach for most in summer, woven through the moments that make this season what it is.
The Summer Oil Collection: Five for August
Lavender
The one you reach for after every adventure.
Sunburn relief, bug bite soothing, skin support after long outdoor days. A few drops in a carrier oil and applied to sun-exposed skin is one of the simplest and most effective summer rituals I know. Also: diffuse at bedtime when the evening is still warm and the bedroom needs to come down a few degrees of tension.
Peppermint
Your afternoon reset.
One drop on the back of the neck and the wrists on a hot afternoon is remarkable. Cooling, clarifying, instant. Also excellent for keeping the car comfortable on summer road trips and for the particular brain fog that arrives after too long in the heat.
Lemon
The bright, clean everything oil.
In your water for a refreshing summer drink. On a damp cloth wiped over surfaces at the campsite. Diffused in a space that needs freshening. Lemon in summer feels right in a way that is hard to articulate but impossible to argue with. Note: Lemon Vitality for internal use; standard Lemon topically and aromatically.
Tea Tree (Melaleuca)
The summer first aid kit in a bottle.
Insect bites, minor skin irritations, post-beach skin, small scrapes from trails and rocky shorelines. Tea Tree is the oil that earns its place in the outdoor bag every single summer. Dilute with a carrier oil for sensitive skin or children.
Stress Away™
Because even summer needs a pressure valve.
The blend of Copaiba, Lime, Cedarwood, Vanilla, Ocotea, and Lavender that smells like a holiday. Apply to wrists and inhale when the summer pace unexpectedly stops feeling lazy and starts feeling pressured. Also: diffuse on long evenings when you want the night to feel like it belongs entirely to you.
The Vitamin D Conversation Nobody Has in Summer
Here is something that surprises almost everyone when they first hear it: most Canadians, even in summer, are not getting the vitamin D they think they are.
The conventional wisdom is that summer sun = vitamin D sorted. The reality is more nuanced, and a 2025 systematic review of 22 studies confirms what many researchers have been noting for years: regular sunscreen use — which most of us apply diligently in summer because we are finally outside enough to burn — reduces vitamin D synthesis in the skin. One study found that 46 percent of consistent high-SPF sunscreen users ended the study with vitamin D levels below the deficiency threshold, compared to 37 percent of those who used less sunscreen.
The vitamin D picture in Canada is further complicated by geography. The UVB angle required for vitamin D synthesis is only achievable in Canada for a limited window of the day and a limited portion of the year — even in summer, morning and late afternoon sun (the times we most often garden, walk the dogs, or sit on the deck) does not produce meaningful vitamin D synthesis at our latitude. And as we age, skin’s efficiency at converting UVB to vitamin D decreases — research suggests older adults may need up to two and a half times more UV exposure than younger adults to produce the same amount.
The practical implication: vitamin D supplementation is not just a winter strategy for Canadians. It is a year-round strategy, even in the golden months when we are genuinely spending time outside. A daily vitamin D supplement, confirmed against a blood test with your doctor, is the insurance policy that August sun alone cannot reliably provide.
Young Living’s Master Formula and Super Cal Plus both contain vitamin D3 as part of their comprehensive nutrient profiles. If targeted vitamin D supplementation is part of your protocol, discuss optimal dosing with your healthcare provider.
The Summer Cold: The One Nobody Warns You About
There is a particular indignity to getting sick in summer. It feels like a betrayal of the season — everyone else is outside and luminous and you are inside with a box of tissues wondering how this happened in July.
Summer colds are real and more common than we expect, partly because summer social life creates exactly the conditions viruses love: crowded indoor spaces at festivals and events, air-conditioned environments that dry out mucous membranes, the relaxed immune vigilance that comes with feeling generally well, and the way that summer indulgence — more alcohol, less sleep, more sugar at the barbecue — gently compromises the immune function we take for granted.
The oils to reach for at the first sign: Thieves, which remains the premier immune-support blend regardless of season. RC for respiratory comfort and clearing. Peppermint for fever support and the clearing of congested sinuses. And NingXia Red, which we will talk about at length below, because its antioxidant and immune-supportive properties are not seasonal.
The lifestyle support: keep NingXia Red consistent even in summer when you feel too good to bother. Hydrate more than you think you need to — summer dehydration is an immune suppressor. And get the sleep you promised yourself when the daylight starts lasting until 10pm and the evening becomes very easy to stay inside.
Summer and Your Skin: Feeling Good Outdoors
August is beach weather, garden weather, shorts and sleeveless tops weather.
And for many women, it is also the month where feeling genuinely comfortable in your skin — not just your sunscreen, your actual skin — matters most acutely.
The gut-skin axis means that the microbiome work we talked about in April and July is showing up on your face and body in real time. Consistent probiotic support, NingXia Red for its cellular antioxidant protection, and the Inner Beauty Collagen that you have hopefully been taking since May all contribute to the skin that photographs differently at the beach — not because you edited it, but because you built it from the inside.
For the outside: lavender after sun exposure, Tea Tree for any post-outdoor skin irritations, and the Brightening Eye Cream which does its best work in summer when sun and salt and late nights conspire against the under-eye area.
And yes — keep wearing your SPF. The vitamin D conversation above does not mean abandon sun protection. It means supplement intelligently as well.
Ten Affirmations for a Woman in Her August
Read these slowly. Outside if you can. With a drink in hand and the insects clicking in the background.
1. I deserve to be outside, unhurried, and entirely present in this season.
2. My body is nourished and protected and free to enjoy everything August offers.
3. Rest is not laziness. In August, it is the whole point.
4. I choose products that support my health without compromising the beauty of the season.
5. I am allowed to let this month be slower, warmer, and less accountable to anyone’s schedule but my own.
6. I nourish myself consistently so that the indulgent days have less cost and the good days have more joy.
7. I am preparing for September from a place of abundance, not depletion.
8. My skin has been in the sun and the salt and the garden and I love it for every adventure it carried me through.
9. I arrive at the end of summer healthy, supported, and ready for what comes next.
10. This warmth, these long evenings, this particular quality of light — I am paying attention. I will not let August pass unnoticed.
August's Product Spotlight - Mineral Sunscreen
Young Living's Mineral Sunscreen is a must-have in our wellness routine!
We get all natural, broad spectrum sun protection that dermatologist-recommended, and the planet gets safe sunscreen that won't damage reefs and ocean life. If that's not a win, we don't know what is!! Added bonus – this summer staple is lightweight enough to wear under makeup for daily protection if you desire!
MINERAL SUNSCREEN AT A GLANCE
Non-nano zinc oxide provides safe and powerful SPF 50 sun protection for the whole family
Clean ingredients and zero skin-damaging chemicals
Dermatologist tested and cruelty free
Non-greasy, fast-absorbing formula without white residue
Formulated for all skin types
Formulated without avobenzone, oxybenzone, retinyl palmitate, parabens, phthalates, petrochemicals, UV chemical absorbers, artificial colors, or synthetic fragrances
MINERAL SUNSCREEN AT A GLANCE
Non-nano zinc oxide provides safe and powerful SPF 50 sun protection for the whole family
Clean ingredients and zero skin-damaging chemicals
Dermatologist tested and cruelty free
Non-greasy, fast-absorbing formula without white residue
Formulated for all skin types
Formulated without avobenzone, oxybenzone, retinyl palmitate, parabens, phthalates, petrochemicals, UV chemical absorbers, artificial colors, or synthetic fragrances
Reef-safe formula will not damage natural coral reefs and wildlife
Young Living's Mineral Sunscreen Lotion is your summer sunshine BFF. This formula offers broad-spectrum SPF 50 sun protection from harmful UVA and UVB rays, is reef safe, great for children and all skin types, and goes a long way! Made with non-nano zinc oxide, this sunscreen gives you peace of mind that you are choosing the safest sun protection for yourself, your family, and the planet.
KEY INGREDIENTS
We love that this product is a base of non-nano zinc oxide, but it is also filled with skin-loving essential oils like Helichrysum, Carrot Seed, and Frankincense that put a protective barrier on your skin and help retain the skin's natural moisture while out in the sun.
Non-nano Zinc Oxide: provides broad-spectrum sun protection to prevent burns (even on photo-sensitive skin); aids skin healing and recovery after injury
Helichrysum: a powerful regenerative oil that soothes, moisturizes and helps heal the skin
Myrrh: an ultimate skincare oil; soothes and moisturizes the skin and help promote natural healing
Carrot Seed: provides skin moisturizing, protection, and cleansing properties
Sacred Frankincense: the variety of Frankincense given to Jesus at his birth; a wonderful oil for skin soothing and healing and protection
WHY DITCH CONVENTIONAL SUNSCREEN?
Did you know that up to 75 percent of sunscreens are toxic, hiding many irritating chemicals? All those products whose active ingredients are avobenzone or oxybenzone (or something similar!) may be preventing some sun damage, but they are doing other damage at the same time. They can cause allergies, skin sensitivities, disrupt your hormones, and cause airway irritation.
Plus, most commercial products work by blocking either UVA or UVB rays but not both types. This means that chemical sunscreen manufacturers need to combine several different formulas/solutions into one product to prevent sunburns. The more chemicals that are added to the formula, the higher the chances are for negative reactions, allergies, and hormone damage. And for individuals with more sensitive skin, these sunscreens won't always prevent skin cancer and often cause reactions like hives, swelling and acne.
Let's talk about reefs super quickly. An estimated 14,000 tons of sunscreen go into the ocean each year and most (all the chemical based ones) kill coral reefs. It is such a problem that Hawaii passed a bill banning these chemical ingredients that harm coral reefs!
Just say no, friend. Grab some Mineral Sunscreen. Your skin, your health, the planet, and likely your dermatologist will thank you!
FULL INGREDIENT LIST
Zinc oxide, Caprylic/Capric triglyceride, Beeswax, Ricinus communis (Castor) seed oil, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Cocos nucifera (Coconut) oil, Tocopherol, Polyglyceryl-3 polyricinoleate, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) seed oil, Isostearic acid (Helichrysum) oil, Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender) oil, Commiphora myrrha (Myrrh) resin oil, Cistus ladanifer (Cistus) oil, Cananga odorata (Ylang ylang) flower oil, Daucus carota (Carrot seed) oil, Boswellia sacra (Sacred Frankincense) resin oil
HOW TO USE MINERAL SUNSCREEN
Apply liberally to clean, dry skin 15 minutes before sun exposure.
Reapply after 80 minutes of swimming or sweating.
Reapply immediately after towel drying or at least every 2 hours.
MINERAL SUNSCREEN HACKS
If you need an easy way to apply your mineral sunscreen (hello kiddos!), we highly recommend this simple sunscreen applicator. Simply pour your Mineral Sunscreen into it and apply. Or try one of these simple DIY hacks!
DIY Sunscreen Spray
An entire tube of YL Mineral Sunscreen
1/2 bottle of ClaraDerm Spray
Continuous spray bottle
Mix the two ingredients well in the spray bottle, then pop the top back on. Easy to use and so good on the skin!
DIY Sunscreen Spray II
Make sure to test for small amounts of time if you have fair skin or are concerned about diluting the sunscreen.
1 tube YL Mineral Sunscreen
8 oz fractionated coconut oil
20 drops Lavender
30 drops Carrot Seed
Continuous spray bottle
Add all ingredients to the bottle, and shake to combine!
Your Summer Energy Anchor
Why NingXia Red Belongs in August — and Every Month That Asks Something of You
Let me tell you about a particular summer scenario I know well.
The day starts with ambition. There is gardening to do, a walk with the dogs, maybe a trip to the beach or the farmers’ market. Friends are coming for dinner and there is bread to bake and a salad to assemble. The afternoon runs long and hot and glorious and then suddenly it is 4pm and the energy that felt limitless at 9am has simply and completely departed, and the dinner is still not made, and you are sitting in the garden in the heat wondering where you went.
This is not a character failing. It is physiology. Heat increases the physiological cost of everything the body does. Blood that would normally be circulating to organs and muscles is redirected to the skin for cooling. Sweat depletes electrolytes. The combination of heat, activity, social engagement, and imperfect summer nutrition creates an energy demand that the body is not always prepared to meet.
NingXia Red is the product I want to talk about for this, and I want to talk about it honestly rather than as a sales pitch, because the reasons it works for summer energy are specific and worth understanding.
What NingXia Red Is Actually Doing
The wolfberry — the primary ingredient in NingXia Red — is one of the most nutrient-dense whole foods documented in traditional and modern research. It is extraordinarily rich in antioxidants, specifically zeaxanthin (which protects the eyes from UV damage — relevant in summer), polysaccharides that support immune function, and a broad spectrum of amino acids and trace minerals that support cellular energy production.
The antioxidant work matters in summer because oxidative stress — the cellular damage process driven by UV exposure, heat, and physical exertion — is at its highest in August. Free radicals generated by sun exposure, by the metabolic demands of heat, and by intense outdoor activity create a burden that the body’s own antioxidant systems need support to manage. NingXia Red provides concentrated polyphenol antioxidants alongside the fruit and essential oil blend that makes it genuinely effective as a daily cellular support tool.
The energy effect is not a stimulant effect — there is no caffeine, no sugar spike, no afternoon crash following it. It is the quieter, more sustainable energy of a body that is genuinely well-nourished at the cellular level. The kind of energy that means 4pm feels manageable rather than desperate.
The Summer Protocol
Two-four ounces in the morning is the foundation. In summer I sometimes add a another ounce mid-afternoon — the 3pm version of reaching for the biscuit tin, except what you are reaching for actually helps. Mixed with sparkling water and a slice of lemon it is the summer drink I genuinely look forward to every afternoon.
It pairs beautifully with the 14-Day Reset protocol we have been building through the year — and if you have not done yours yet, August is a surprisingly good time. The lighter eating, the outdoor movement, and the natural rhythm of the season make the two weeks feel less like an intervention and more like an alignment with what summer is already asking of you.
The Nutrition Reality of Summer
Here is the honest conversation: summer nutrition is often wonderful in theory and inconsistent in practice. We eat more fresh produce, which is genuinely excellent. We also eat more barbecue and less considered meals, more celebrations with food that was chosen for the occasion rather than for our bodies, more ice cream at the beach and more wine at the deck party.
This is not something to feel guilty about. It is something to support intelligently.
NingXia Red provides the consistent nutritional foundation that means the indulgent days have less cost and the good days have more benefit. Life 9, taken consistently even through summer, keeps the microbiome working well through the variations in diet that the season brings. And Inner Beauty Collagen, added to a morning smoothie or your NingXia Red mocktail, keeps the collagen support running regardless of how consistently you remembered to eat your leafy greens this week.
The best summer nutrition is not perfect nutrition. It is the foundation that makes imperfect nutrition less impactful and good nutrition more powerful.
New Canadian members to Young Living automatically get 10% off their first order and I offer a $25 account credit if you are a new sign up for loyalty rewards with a 100pv order!! New US members can use the code ShareYL at checkout for the same 10% off!
Talk about making it easier for you to say YES to your HEALTH!!!
That's the only thing you need... NingXia Red! The brand new MAKE A SHIFT RESET bundle is HERE and is the lowest price per ounce of the entire Ningxia lineup!!
Plus you'll get FREE:
• Coaching
• Primal Food Guide
• Simple activities designed to speed up metabolism
• Community
• Motivation
• Giveaways
• And much more!
Who's ready to do this???
Join me and others to do this together! It'll be so much fun!
Once you grab your supplies, I will send an invitation join us in our Facebook group, and every day we remind you what to do and why.
All you do is use the NIngxia, drink your water, move your body and eat well. Your cheerleaders are in the FB group!
Send me a PM or email and I will send you a personal invitation to the Reset group (not the sneak peak group).
Don't delay!!!! There is STILL TIME to get your Ningxia to your door!
August's US Gifts with Purchase
AUGUST 2026 US GIFTS WITH PURCHASE
I honestly cannot believe summer is almost over - like how did that happen?! 
While I am really looking forward to the fall season, we still have a full month to soak up the last joys of summer while gearing up for all things back-to-school. August's Gifts with Purchase will help support our skin and hair after these last long, hot days of the season. Let's take a look!
100 PV Gift: Tangerine 15ml (Loyalty Order Exclusive)*
Tangerine is bright and citrusy and while it can still calm emotions, it also has an energizing and refreshing quality to it. Try it in your brighter diffuser blends or to add a little citrusy punch to those Simplified Summer Collection!
• Has a bright, cheerful aroma that cleanses and refreshes the air.
• Offers digestive support when taken internally and is a key ingredient in Young Living's Slique products to help support healthy weight management.
YL Tip: Energize your space. Diffuse Tangerine’s sweet, upbeat scent at your desk, during your commute, or while tackling your daily to-do list.
While I am really looking forward to the fall season, we still have a full month to soak up the last joys of summer while gearing up for all things back-to-school. August's Gifts with Purchase will help support our skin and hair after these last long, hot days of the season. Let's take a look!100 PV Gift: Tangerine 15ml (Loyalty Order Exclusive)*
Tangerine is bright and citrusy and while it can still calm emotions, it also has an energizing and refreshing quality to it. Try it in your brighter diffuser blends or to add a little citrusy punch to those Simplified Summer Collection!
• Has a bright, cheerful aroma that cleanses and refreshes the air.
• Offers digestive support when taken internally and is a key ingredient in Young Living's Slique products to help support healthy weight management.
YL Tip: Energize your space. Diffuse Tangerine’s sweet, upbeat scent at your desk, during your commute, or while tackling your daily to-do list.
200 PV Gift: Melaleuca Quinquenervia 15ml
You may know it as Niaouli, but if you've ever seen Melaleuca Quinquenervia and wondered what to do with it, all you have to do is think of how you use Tea Tree. It's cleansing, it's good for skin, and it helps get rid of those unwanted odors that hang around a bit too long. Just remember, there's a reason it's an ingredient in Melrose right alongside Tea Tree oil, because it really works and it's been used alongside it for a lonnnng time by the aboriginal people of Australia.
• Can be diffused to cleanse the air and neutralize unwanted odors.
• Helps maintain healthy-looking hair and scalp and can be used as a natural deodorant.
YL Tip: Dilute with a few drops of jojoba oil and apply topically to help maintain healthy-looking skin.
300 PV Gift: Longevity supplement
This isn't just about longer life, it's about a fuller life. The Longevity blend of oils supports brain health, our immune systems, and healthy skin to give us a fuller life as we age and healthier looking skin. Gary Young specifically chose these oils for their antioxidant properties, which helps fight oxidative stress and the stresses of our every day lives!
• Thyme essential oil may help protect DHA levels, a nutrient that supports brain function.
• Frankincense essential oil may support general health and well-being.
• Orange essential oil contains d-limonene and may support the immune system.
YL Tip: Amp up your antioxidants. Take 1 softgel daily to nourish your body with a blend of Thyme, Orange, Clove, and Frankincense essential oils packed with antioxidant properties.
BONUS August Loyalty Order EXCLUSIVE:
Get 15% off Mindwise satchets when you add it to your Loyalty Order in August!
• Mindwise satchets (Item # 20223): MindWise supports normal cardiovascular and cognitive health using CoQ10, ALCR, and GPC ingredients, along with fruit juices and extracts, turmeric, and premium essential oils.
Those Mindwise satchets perfectly pair with daily Ningxia, especially with the school year coming up. Mindwise first + Ningxia chaser = a great day at school or work!
Thinking ahead, have you started your back-to-school shopping with YL? If so, tell us your must-haves in the comments below so we can all add them to our orders this month! I hope your August is full of sunshine and all good things, friends!!August's European Gifts with Purchase
August is here, and so are this month’s PV Gifts 
From uplifting aromas to everyday wellness essentials, this month’s selection is all about helping you feel refreshed, balanced, and ready for what’s next.
Dream big, enjoy the final weeks of summer, and discover the gifts waiting for you this August 
Which one would you love to receive?
Which one are you most excited to try?
August's Australian Gifts with Purchase
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August's Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
September is Whispering
Getting Ahead of the Transition So It Feels Like a Step Forward, Not a Fall Back
I promised you a September preview, and I am going to deliver it now — while August is still warm enough that it feels like planning rather than resignation.
Because here is what I have learned about the September transition after years of living with it and watching women navigate it in this community: the women who arrive at September feeling good are almost universally the ones who saw it coming in August and did something small but intentional to prepare.
The women who feel ambushed by it are the ones who were so committed to the idea of summer being infinite that they are genuinely surprised when the school bus appears and the alarm goes back on and the calendar fills up again overnight.
You are smarter than that. So let’s talk about what September is actually going to ask of you.
The Immune Reality of September
September is the beginning of respiratory virus season in Canada. Not because the cold causes colds — the virus causes the cold — but because the conditions of September create optimal transmission: children return to school carrying every rhinovirus and influenza strain from their summer social lives, indoor gatherings resume, ventilation decreases as windows close, and immune systems that have been lulled by warm-weather wellness face their first real test of the season.
The preparation that makes the most difference is not reactive. It is the consistent probiotic and prebiotic support that keeps the gut-immune axis functioning optimally. It is the vitamin D supplementation that we discussed above, which means your levels are maintained rather than scrambling to build in October. It is the NingXia Red that runs as a constant rather than something you reach for when you already feel the scratch in your throat.
Thieves — both the essential oil blend and the household cleaner — deserves its own August preparation moment. The Thieves line is your September kit, and having it stocked before you need it is the single most practical thing you can do while August is still on your side.
The Routine Rebuild
Routine is genuinely healthy. The research on circadian rhythm, sleep, and metabolic function all points to the same thing: regularity supports every system in the body. The summer drift away from routine is wonderful and necessary. The September return to it is not a loss — it is a recalibration.
The women who navigate this best are the ones who build their September routine around their wellness practices first, before the commitments and the obligations fill the schedule. The morning NingXia Red. The probiotic on the bedside table. The twenty minutes of movement that gets scheduled like a meeting rather than squeezed in if time allows.
August is the moment to decide what that looks like. September is the moment to execute it. The plan made in the hammock is often the one that actually holds.
The Emotional Transition
Let me say something that does not get said enough about September: the transition is not just logistical. It is emotional. Summer has a pace and a freedom and a quality of light that feeds something in women that the rest of the year does not quite reach. Letting it go is a small grief, even when the return to routine is genuinely welcome.
Acknowledge that. Do not power through it pretending the loss of August is not real. Light a Stress Away blend on a September evening and let yourself feel the season shift. Bring the lavender indoors and diffuse it where the garden used to be within reach. Keep one summer ritual — even one small one — running into September as a thread of continuity rather than a clean break.
September’s newsletter theme will be building on everything August has given you — the energy, the skin, the immune foundation — and channelling it into the season ahead. Watch your inbox.
The Easiest Business Conversations Happen in Summer
Why August Is a Quieter but Surprisingly Powerful Month to Build
Here is something I have noticed after several years of building this business through every season: August looks like a slow month. And on the surface it is. People are away. Inboxes are quieter. The urgency that drives January and September is nowhere to be found.
But slow is not the same as stopped. And the conversations that happen in August — relaxed, unhurried, over a barbecue or a dock or a long walk — are often the most genuine ones of the year.
Nobody is in a rush in August. Which means when a conversation about the insect repellent comes up, or someone asks what you are drinking with your sparkling water and lemon, or you mention that you have been sleeping better all summer and someone wants to know why — there is time to actually have that conversation. Not a pitch. A conversation. The kind that leads somewhere real.
The August Invitation
The best business development I do in August happens without a strategy document. It happens because I am genuinely using the products, genuinely talking about them in the context of my actual life, and genuinely interested in whether they could support the lives of the people around me.
The Insect Repellent is one of the easiest conversation starters of the year. Everyone has a bug problem in August. Nobody loves their DEET. Saying “I use something different now — want to try some?” is a complete and entirely non-pressuring business conversation that leads naturally to a product experience that leads naturally to a customer relationship.
NingXia Red at the barbecue, in the bright red mocktail glass, always generates questions. The Inner Beauty Collagen in the morning smoothie that you happen to mention when someone comments on your skin. These are not performances. They are the natural overflow of actually living with products that work.
Building in August for a Brilliant September
September is the business month. The back-to-routine energy, the immune anxiety, the desire to feel on top of things after the drift of summer — September is when people are most receptive to new habits, new products, and new conversations about their health.
The groundwork for your September business is laid in August. The customer you made comfortable with the Insect Repellent will be ready for Thieves in September. The person who tried the NingXia Red at your barbecue will want to know where to order it when the summer colds start. The friend who admired your energy all August will ask what your secret is when October hits.
August is the planting month. September is the harvest.
Do not underestimate what unhurried conversations in warm light can grow.
If this sounds like your kind of community, your kind of energy and your kind of dream, join us!
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💡 Tip: Stack your points, stock your supportive products, and show up for yourself every day. This isn’t about perfection — it’s about not giving up.
Young Living Events and Promotions
Tired of Back to School being Back to Being Sick?
Join me in person Sept 10 (before the bugs take hold) at 630pm and we will talk about staying healthy even if you have kids/grands in school, are amongst a lot of people in your daily life, or have health concerns that make you susceptible to catching every roving virus.
Check out Thieves cleaning products, immunity boosting supplements, and essential oils that can support you staying healthy even if those around you are falling.....
RSVP to the link in the QR code in the poster above. I can't wait to share some strong tools and fun solutions.
Dreaming of Convention???? Time to Plan for Summer 2027 & Beyond!
It’s a few truly unforgettable days filled with inspiration, education, new product launches, and the kind of excitement that reminds you why you fell in love with natural wellness in the first place. I cannot tell you how much going to convention in 2024 changed me!
Whether you come to learn from world-class speakers, connect with friends from around the world, or be the first to experience what’s new, Convention has a way of sending you home refreshed, encouraged, and full of ideas.
If you’ve been thinking about attending, now is the perfect time to start planning ahead and mark your calendar for the upcoming dates! Grab your tickets here!
2027 Americas Convention
Salt Lake City + Mt. Nebo Farm
June 23-26, 2027
2028 Regional Tour Stops
Dates & locations to be determined
2029 International Grand Convention - 35th Year Anniversary!
Spokane, Washington Date to be determined
US Fall Bundle! Time to Get Cozy!
LIMITED-TIME ONLY FALL BUNDLE
If you're as excited as I am that fall is just around the corner, then you're going to LOVE this! 
Introducing the limited-time Fall Bundle, a collection of seasonal favorites designed to help you and your customers bring cozy fall vibes into your homes without candles or synthetic scents!
This bundle is LIVE starting today, Saturday, August 1, and is available on both one-time and loyalty orders. Here are all the details:
Item No.: 50436 (US)
Wholesale: $129 | PV: 100 | Retail: $242.77
$184.50 value —your customers save over $55!
Contains:
Orange essential oil, 15 ml
Nutmeg essential oil, 5 ml
Christmas Spirit™ essential oil blend, 5 ml
Vanilla oleoresin, 5 ml
Clove essential oil, 15 ml
Bergamot essential oil, 15 ml
Thieves® Cleaner, 14.4 oz.
FreshStart™ Diffuser
Why you'll love it:
Features seasonal scents customers look forward to year after year
Includes a diffuser for a complete experience right out of the box
Great for gifting, sharing, and introducing others to Young Living
Supports seasonal promotions and enrollment conversations
This is an amazing entry point for new customers who want to refresh their homes for fall, swap out synthetic fragrances, or get started with essential oils. And yes—the Fall Bundle is eligible for the Starter Bundle Bonus. Woo hoo! Happy fall, everyone!!
Introducing the limited-time Fall Bundle, a collection of seasonal favorites designed to help you and your customers bring cozy fall vibes into your homes without candles or synthetic scents!This bundle is LIVE starting today, Saturday, August 1, and is available on both one-time and loyalty orders. Here are all the details:
Item No.: 50436 (US)
Wholesale: $129 | PV: 100 | Retail: $242.77
$184.50 value —your customers save over $55!
Contains:
Orange essential oil, 15 ml Nutmeg essential oil, 5 ml Christmas Spirit™ essential oil blend, 5 ml Vanilla oleoresin, 5 ml Clove essential oil, 15 ml Bergamot essential oil, 15 ml Thieves® Cleaner, 14.4 oz. FreshStart™ DiffuserWhy you'll love it:
Features seasonal scents customers look forward to year after yearIncludes a diffuser for a complete experience right out of the boxGreat for gifting, sharing, and introducing others to Young LivingSupports seasonal promotions and enrollment conversationsThis is an amazing entry point for new customers who want to refresh their homes for fall, swap out synthetic fragrances, or get started with essential oils. And yes—the Fall Bundle is eligible for the Starter Bundle Bonus. Woo hoo! Happy fall, everyone!!
Wellness Education Opportunities - Summer Hiatus
Our Evening Wellness Education Sessions take a break for the summer so we can all enjoy our time outside.
See you all in September!
If you are itching to learn - check out these replays of previous classes and drop me a note to tell me what you think OR if you have an idea for a clas.
If you have a SPECIFIC topic you would like to see covered-- send me an email and we will see what we can provide!
Join the New Perspective Oilers Facebook Community
Stay up to date on ALL the happenings for our community via the FB group! Lives from Convention, new product announcements, and any breaking news will hit the group first!
This happy group of people are all here to work on our wellness, with the help of some terrific Young Living Products. Join the group to be first in the know about new education opportunities, new product launches, and some pretty fabulous draws!
Until August
This has been one of the editions I have most wanted to write.
Not because it is easy territory — it is not. Writing honestly about chronic illness, about the starting point problem, about the gap between what the wellness industry offers and what a significant proportion of its audience actually needs, requires care and precision and a genuine respect for the complexity of what women are living.
But I believe this conversation is overdue. And I believe that the women reading it — whether they are managing something significant themselves, or love someone who is, or simply recognise that their body has become more complex and less predictable than it once was — deserve to have it said plainly.
Thriving is not conditional.
It is not reserved for the body without complications.
It is available, in the most genuine and evidence-based sense of the word, to every woman willing to start from where she actually is and build with intention from there.
The research supports this. The stories of women who have done it support this. And I believe, with everything I have, that you are capable of it.
Christina
Thriving Is Not Optional:
Living Fully With the Body You Actually Have
“You are not the illness. You are the person who has the illness. That distinction is everything.”
— Anonymous, from the chronic illness community
Welcome to July
The Conversation the Wellness Industry Refuses to Have
Let me say something that almost nobody in the wellness space says out loud.
The wellness industry was built for healthy people.
Look at the images. The influencers. The before-and-after photos. The “optimise your performance” programmes and the “become your best self” retreats.
They assume a starting point of a body that is fundamentally cooperating. A body with no autoimmune disorder flaring, no chronic pain recalibrating the day, no cancer diagnosis rewriting the future, no cardiac history requiring careful navigation, no diabetes demanding constant negotiation, no fatigue that cannot be solved with better sleep hygiene.
And if your body does not start from that clean, cooperative baseline?
The wellness world largely does not know what to do with you. It either ignores you entirely, offers a watered-down version of its healthy-person content with a few disclaimers added, or — most damagingly — implies that if you just tried hard enough, you could get yourself to that clean baseline too.
This edition calls that out. Directly.
Because the truth is that the majority of women in midlife are managing something. According to the most recent data, 47 percent of all chronic conditions globally disproportionately affect women. Autoimmune diseases — of which there are over 200 — affect women at rates of two to one over men, and in some conditions as high as nine to one. Heart disease, diabetes, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, thyroid disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer survivorship, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis — these are not edge cases in a community of midlife women. They are the room.
And every woman in that room deserves a wellness conversation that starts where she actually is.
This month we are having that conversation. We are going to look at what it means to thrive — not in spite of a complex health situation, but alongside it, with it, and sometimes because of the extraordinary clarity it brings. We are going to look at the research on post-traumatic growth, the gut-immune axis, the lifestyle interventions with the strongest evidence base across chronic conditions, and the deeply human evidence that a life can be full and extraordinary and meaningful regardless of the cards the body has dealt.
Thriving is not conditional on a perfect body. It never was. And it is most certainly not optional.
Christina
Table of Contents
Look what we have this month!
- Welcome to July
- The Starting Point Problem
- Canada Gifts with Purchase
- Ready, Set, Explore Wellness!
- The Anti-Inflammatory Foundation Collection -- Six Products for the Common Thread that Runs Through Almost Every Chronic Condition
- The Common Thread
- Ten Affirmations for the Woman Thriving in an Complex Body
- July's Spotlight - Valor Essential Oil Blend
- What the Women Who Thrive Have in Common
- US Gifts with Purchase
- EU/UK Gifts with Purchase
- Australian Gifts with Purchase
- July Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
- The 14 Day Reset - An Anti-Inflammatory Starting Point
- The Business That Starts Where You Are
- Loyalty Perks -- Consistency Is Your Superpower!
- Events and Promotions - Time to think about FALL!
- New Product Launches -- The Awaken Tour Products are LIVE!
- New Perspective Oilers' Education Series -- Summer Hiatus
- Join the New Perspective Oilers' Facebook community
The Starting Point Problem
What the Wellness World Gets Wrong — and What Thriving Actually Looks Like When Your Body Is ComplexThere is a moment many women with chronic conditions describe with striking consistency. It is the moment they walk into a wellness space — a class, a programme, a community, a conversation — that is genuinely trying to help, and feel, within minutes, that it was not built for them.The advice is good. The intention is real. But the starting point is wrong. It assumes a body that is fundamentally available for the prescribed approach. And a body managing lupus, or recovering from cancer treatment, or navigating a flare of rheumatoid arthritis, or living with the complex cardiac history that changes what ‘push yourself’ means — that body is not available for the prescribed approach. Not because she is not trying. But because the prescription was written for someone else.This is the starting point problem. And it is not a small one.
Who the Wellness Industry Was Actually Built ForThe global wellness industry is currently valued at over five trillion dollars. It was built, marketed, and continuously refined around a particular archetype: a person who is fundamentally healthy and seeking to optimise. The language of ‘peak performance’ and ‘unlocking potential’ and ‘becoming your best self’ is aspirational language built on an assumption of a functioning baseline.Women with chronic conditions are not optimising from a stable baseline. They are navigating a dynamic, often unpredictable relationship with a body that has its own agenda — and doing so while also trying to live a full life, maintain relationships, work, raise families, and find meaning and joy wherever they can.The research on this is unambiguous. A 2024 National Academies report commissioned by the NIH found that women with chronic conditions frequently experience dismissal, minimisation of symptoms, and misdiagnosis within healthcare systems that were not designed with their specific presentations in mind. The result, the report states, is ‘poorer health outcomes when they defer care or are denied appropriate care.’ The wellness industry has not done significantly better.
Beyond the Diagnosis: Reconstructing the SelfHere is what the research does show, and it is genuinely remarkable. A 2024 study published in the journal Qualitative Health Research found that people living with chronic disease engage in active, sophisticated identity work — what the researchers call ‘reconstructing a meaningful self’ — as a core mechanism of psychosocial adjustment. The study found that meaning-making is not a passive response to illness; it is a deliberate, generative process that people with chronic conditions are, in many ways, more practiced at than those without.There is also the well-documented phenomenon of post-traumatic growth — and here the findings are particularly relevant for this community. A 2024 peer-reviewed study found that higher levels of post-traumatic growth were specifically observed in women and in those with more complex health situations. Not despite the complexity. Alongside it.Post-traumatic growth does not mean the illness stops being hard. It means that within the hardness, something new and often unexpected grows: closer relationships, greater personal strength, a changed life philosophy, and the emergence of new possibilities that would not have appeared on the original, uninterrupted path.The women who thrive most fully with chronic conditions are not the ones who have found a way to make the condition disappear. They are the ones who have stopped organising their entire identity and their entire life around the condition — and rebuilt both around something larger and more essential.
A New Definition of ThrivingThriving, in the context of a complex health situation, is not the absence of symptoms, flares, difficult days, or grief about the body you had or expected to have. It is the presence of intention, agency, genuine connection, and the kind of self-knowledge that only comes from having been in negotiation with your own body for an extended period.It looks like a woman with rheumatoid arthritis who has built a morning routine that honours both her joints and her spirit. Like a cancer survivor who has restructured her priorities in a way she would never have found the courage to do before. Like a woman with a cardiac history who knows her body more intimately than she ever did when it was asking less of her.This is not toxic positivity. It is not ‘everything happens for a reason.’ It is the honest, evidence-based recognition that the human capacity for meaning, adaptation, and growth is not defeated by illness. It is, in fact, often most clearly expressed through it.
July's Canadian Gifts with Purchase
July's Canadian Gifts with Purchase
Sunshine season essentials are here! From uplifting citrus vibes to grounding daily rituals and outdoor-ready freshness, this lineup will have you set for wellness on every adventure you take all summer long.
Bright days start with Citrus Fresh™ blend. This uplifting blend combines Orange, Grapefruit, Mandarin Orange, Tangerine, and Lemon essential oils into one sunshiny blend designed to keep your space—and outlook—feeling fresh all summer long.
Busy summer? Stay grounded with Frankincense essential oil. With its warm-woodsy aroma, it’s the perfect companion for creating peaceful summer moments—whether you’re travelling, resetting after a busy day or simply carving out time for yourself.
Meet your new summer must-have! Formulated with essential oils traditionally recommended for outdoor use, Outdoor Blend is hypoallergenic, non-greasy topical and perfect for camping, beach days and backyard evenings for the whole family.
100 PV (LR): Citrus Fresh™ essential oil, 15 mlLR retail value: $27.96
YL tip: Add a few drops to a travel spray bottle with water or witch hazel and lightly mist your car, beach bag, towels, or hotel room for an easy, on-the-go refresh.
200 PV (LR or one-time order): Frankincense essential oil, 5 mlLR retail value: $82.24
Shop retail value: $54.28
YL tip: Add 1–2 drops to your favourite unscented moisturizer or facial serum for an easy summer glow ritual while traveling or after long days in the sun.
300 PV (LR or one-time order): Outdoor BlendLR retail value: $151.65
One-time retail value: $69.41
YL tip: Apply before walks, soccer games, patio nights or while camping to make summer outdoor moments feel even more enjoyable.
Order early to earn more! Place your 100+ PV Loyalty Rewards order by Sunday, July 5, and get a $10 product credit to use toward your next order!
Bonus offer 
PLUS—enjoy the summer sun and savings with 15 percent off our Charcoal Mask all month long.
Discounted wholesale: $45.90
Discounted retail: $60.40
Discounted PV: 36.55
Ready, Set, Explore Wellness 
Canada!
This is so fun!
Ready to explore, share and earn rewards? Summer adventure is calling, and we’ve packed the essentials!
For new explorers: Start your journey with any first-ever one-time or loyalty order of 150+ PV and score a free Young Living backpack complete with adventure-ready accessories, plus a refreshing 15 ml bottle of Eucalyptus Globulus essential oil.
For adventure buddies: Wellness is better when shared! When you help a friend place their first-ever 150+ PV order and you place your own 150+ PV order during the promotion period, you’ll both receive a free Young Living backpack bundle, including the Eucalyptus Globulus essential oil.This summer adventure kit includes:
• Young Living backpack for all your travel essentials
• Fanny pack, compact for on-the-go adventures
• Notebook, to capture summer memories and reflect
• Pen, ideal for journaling
• Eucalyptus Globulus essential oil (15 ml), to stay refreshed on every expedition
Grab these summer adventure freebies before they’re gone! Get equipped, share the adventure, and make wellness part of your journey!
🌿 The Anti-Inflammatory Foundation Collection
Six Products for the Common Thread that Runs Through Almost Every Chronic Condition
Every product in this collection was selected because it directly addresses the inflammatory and immune pathways that research identifies as central to the chronic conditions most commonly managed by women in midlife. These are not general wellness products with a chronic illness note added. They are chosen specifically for this purpose.
As always: discuss new supplements with your healthcare provider, particularly if you are managing a complex condition or taking medication.
1. Life 9™ Probiotic |
Why it’s here: The gut microbiome is the immune system’s primary training ground, and dysbiosis — microbial imbalance — has been identified as a contributing factor in rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and a growing list of other autoimmune and chronic conditions. Life 9 delivers 17 billion live cultures across nine complementary strains in a delayed-release capsule designed to survive stomach acid and arrive intact in the lower intestine where immune modulation happens.
How to use: One capsule each evening before bed, consistently. Consistency over weeks and months produces the microbiome shifts that matter.
Impact: Supports microbial diversity and gut lining integrity, reduces inflammatory signalling from the gut, and positively influences the immune balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory responses.
2. NingXia Red® |
Why it’s here: The polyphenols in wolfberry — NingXia Red’s primary ingredient — function as prebiotic compounds, selectively feeding beneficial gut bacteria, while simultaneously providing one of the most concentrated antioxidant profiles available in a whole-food supplement. Oxidative stress is a driver of inflammation across virtually every chronic condition; targeted antioxidant support is a direct intervention.
How to use: 2 ounces each morning. On high-demand days or during flares, some women use 4 ounces.
Impact: Reduces oxidative stress and systemic inflammation, supports the gut microbiome through polyphenol prebiotic activity, and provides sustained cellular energy support without stimulants.
3. Green Omega™ |
Why it’s here: Omega-3 fatty acids — DHA and EPA specifically — have the most extensive evidence base of any single supplement for reducing systemic and neuroinflammation. They are studied extensively in cardiovascular disease, autoimmune conditions, cognitive decline, and depression, all of which involve inflammatory mechanisms. Green Omega provides these from a clean, plant-sourced algae base, avoiding the heavy metal and rancidity concerns associated with some fish oil products.
How to use: As directed daily with a meal containing healthy fats.
Impact: Direct anti-inflammatory action through prostaglandin pathway modulation, support for cardiovascular and cognitive health, and gut lining integrity preservation.
4. Daily Prebiotic Fibre™ |
Why it’s here: A probiotic without prebiotic support is significantly less effective. Prebiotic fibre feeds the beneficial bacteria the probiotic introduces, accelerating microbiome diversification and sustaining the anti-inflammatory capacity of the gut ecosystem. For women managing conditions that involve chronic inflammation or gut permeability issues, this amplification effect is clinically meaningful.
How to use: One scoop in water, NingXia Red, or a smoothie each morning.
Impact: Amplifies Life 9’s microbiome-building effect, supports blood sugar regulation, and contributes to the short-chain fatty acid production that directly reduces gut lining permeability.
5. Super Magnesium™ |
Why it’s here: Magnesium deficiency is particularly common in women managing chronic conditions, partly because many medications deplete it, partly because chronic stress accelerates its use. Magnesium is involved in over 300 enzymatic processes including inflammation regulation, cortisol management, sleep architecture, and the overnight repair of gut lining and immune tissues. It is foundational support that most women managing chronic conditions are not getting enough of.
How to use: As directed in the evening, approximately one hour before bed.
Impact: Reduces the cortisol-inflammation cycle that worsens many chronic conditions, supports the restorative sleep that allows gut and immune repair, and provides direct anti-inflammatory enzyme support.
6. Valor® Essential Oil Blend |
Why it’s here: The psychological and physiological cost of managing a chronic condition — the anticipatory anxiety, the identity renegotiation, the daily unpredictability — activates the stress response in ways that directly worsen inflammatory burden. Nervous system regulation is not a soft add-on to an anti-inflammatory protocol. It is part of the mechanism. Valor’s grounding blend supports the daily practice of beginning from a place of calm and agency rather than threat and depletion.
How to use: Apply over the heart each morning as the first ritual of the day. Before the phone. Before the news. Before the plan. This one is yours.
Impact: Supports parasympathetic nervous system activation, reduces the cortisol-inflammation feedback loop, and reinforces the daily choice to begin as the whole person rather than the managed patient.
What Inflammation, the Gut, and Nearly Every Chronic Condition have in Common -- and What You Can Do About It
If you have a chronic condition — almost any chronic condition — there is one word that runs through the research like a thread through fabric. That word is inflammation.
Cardiovascular disease. Autoimmune disorders. Type 2 diabetes. Cancer. Neurodegenerative conditions. Chronic pain syndromes. Inflammatory bowel disease. A 2024 editorial published in Frontiers in Medicine states it plainly: ‘Inflammation is directly associated with the morbidity and mortality of a diverse number of chronic health conditions.’ It is not a side effect of these conditions. In many cases, it is the mechanism.
This matters enormously for how we think about supporting health when a chronic condition is already present. Because if inflammation is the common thread, then the lifestyle interventions that most reliably reduce systemic inflammation are not just generally healthy — they are specifically, directly relevant to the conditions most of you are managing.
The Gut as the Control Room
Of all the systems involved in inflammation regulation, the gut is the most central and the most modifiable.
The gut microbiome — the community of trillions of microorganisms living in the digestive tract — is now understood to be a primary regulator of immune function. Up to 70 percent of the body’s immune cells live in and around the gut lining. The microbiome trains these cells, communicates with the brain via the vagus nerve, produces the short-chain fatty acids that keep the gut lining intact, and directly influences the balance between inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immune responses throughout the entire body.
When the microbiome is disrupted — through poor diet, chronic stress, antibiotic use, or the medications many chronic conditions require — the gut lining can become more permeable. In autoimmune research, this is referred to as increased intestinal permeability, and a 2024 review in Immunological Reviews found that compromised gut barrier function is ‘often the case in autoimmunity,’ with microbes traversing the barrier and triggering immune responses that can exacerbate the very conditions they are living alongside.
The relationship between the gut microbiome and autoimmune disease is now one of the most active areas of research in immunology. Seven major autoimmune diseases — including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes — have all been shown to involve measurable dysbiosis, and microbiome-targeted interventions are actively being studied as complementary treatment approaches.
For women managing chronic conditions, this is not abstract science. It is the most direct available pathway to influencing the inflammatory environment in which their conditions exist.
What the Evidence Supports Across Conditions
A large international observational study published in the Journal of Global Health in 2024 examined lifestyle factors and health outcomes across 16 prevalent chronic diseases simultaneously. It identified four ‘bridge’ lifestyle factors that connected health outcomes across the widest range of conditions:
- Consumption of fruits and vegetables: Connected to improved outcomes in diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, and insomnia.
- Reduced sitting duration: Connected to improved outcomes in eczema, fatty liver disease, and heart attack risk.
- Frequency of exercise: Connected to improved outcomes in autoimmune disease, depression, and heart attack risk.
- Overall amount of exercise: Connected to improved outcomes in anxiety, gastric conditions, and insomnia.
Exercise, in particular, has a growing and impressive evidence base in the context of chronic inflammatory conditions. A 20-year systematic review of 87 studies involving nearly 2,800 participants found that regular exercise programmes produce measurable anti-inflammatory effects in people with autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. The mechanism is direct: exercise triggers the release of anti-inflammatory myokines from muscle tissue and suppresses the inflammatory signalling pathways that drive flares and disease progression.
This does not mean pushing through a flare. It means that gentle, consistent, adapted movement — calibrated carefully to what the body can support on any given day — has genuine, documented, physiological anti-inflammatory effects that are relevant to almost every condition on the chronic disease spectrum.
Supporting the Gut-Immune Axis Practically
For women managing chronic conditions, supporting the gut microbiome is among the highest-return lifestyle investments available. The evidence base for this is significant and growing rapidly.
- Probiotic supplementation: Targeted probiotic strains have been shown to reduce inflammatory markers, support gut barrier integrity, and positively influence immune regulation across multiple chronic conditions. A high-quality multi-strain probiotic with delayed-release delivery is the practical tool.
- Prebiotic fibre: Feeding the beneficial bacteria already present in the gut amplifies the microbiome’s anti-inflammatory capacity. Tapioca fibre, inulin, and diverse plant fibre are all effective prebiotic sources.
- Omega-3 fatty acids: DHA and EPA reduce neuroinflammation and systemic inflammation through multiple pathways, have been studied specifically in autoimmune and cardiovascular contexts, and support the gut lining integrity that prevents immune dysregulation.
- Polyphenol-rich antioxidants: Polyphenols — found in concentrated form in wolfberries, berries, and certain plant extracts — act as prebiotic compounds that selectively feed beneficial bacteria and directly reduce oxidative stress, the cellular damage process that drives chronic inflammation.
- Anti-inflammatory dietary patterns: A 2025 systematic review found that adherence to a Mediterranean dietary pattern — high in plant diversity, healthy fats, and anti-inflammatory compounds — provides measurable benefits for quality of life and inflammation-related outcomes in people with autoimmune diseases.
None of these interventions replace medical treatment. Every woman managing a chronic condition should be working closely with her healthcare team. But the research is increasingly clear: lifestyle and nutritional support do not merely complement treatment. They actively modify the inflammatory environment in which the treatment is working — and that matters.
Ten Affirmations for the Woman Thriving in a Complex Body
These are written for the woman who is managing something real — and also for every woman who sometimes forgets that thriving and difficulty are not mutually exclusive.
1. I am not my diagnosis. I am the person who has the diagnosis, and she is extraordinary.
2. My body is not my enemy. It is asking for my attention, my care, and my patience. I can give all three.
3. Thriving does not require a perfect body. It requires an honest, intentional, fully inhabited life.
4. I honour what my body can do today without diminishing what it may do tomorrow.
5. My health history has given me self-knowledge that most people never develop. That is a genuine gift.
6. I choose to build my life around my values and my relationships, not around my condition.
7. I support my body with the best available tools — not because I can cure it, but because I can care for it.
8. The research is clear: my daily choices directly influence my inflammation, my immune function, and my quality of life. I make those choices with intention.
9. I am allowed to grieve what is hard and celebrate what is possible in the same breath.
10. I thrive not in spite of my story. I thrive because of everything my story has made me capable of.
July's Product Spotlight - Valor Essential Oil Blend
Valor is one of Young Living's best selling oils -- for good reason!
This slightly woodsy, slightly sweet oil blend is wonderful for emotional health and helps soothe our overactive thoughts!
A blend of Frankincense, Black Spruce, Blue Tansy, Camphor, and Geranium, Valor was formulated based on historical writings about Roman soldiers who were said to apply plant extracts for courage and confidence before going into battle. We use it for the battles of daily life today!
Valor is one of our mainstay oils for everything from helping soothe our minds and bodies during stress, releasing stored trauma, and easing anxious thoughts and emotions. It is also a wonderful oil to reach for at the end of the day to let go of all that has happened and all your worries so that you can relax into sleep.
VALOR AT A GLANCE
Contains Blue Tansy, an oil that is specifically calming to the Central Nervous Systm
May enhance the appearance of healthy-looking skin
Enhances massage for a rejuvenating experience
A foundational daily blend that features a positive aroma to inspire confidence and courage
A key component of the Raindrop Technique
Creates a grounded environment for yoga and meditation
Valor is one of our mainstay oils for everything from helping soothe our minds and bodies during stress, releasing stored trauma, and easing anxious thoughts and emotions. It is also a wonderful oil to reach for at the end of the day to let go of all that has happened and all your worries so that you can relax into sleep.
VALOR AT A GLANCE
Contains Blue Tansy, an oil that is specifically calming to the Central Nervous Systm
May enhance the appearance of healthy-looking skin
Enhances massage for a rejuvenating experience
A foundational daily blend that features a positive aroma to inspire confidence and courage
A key component of the Raindrop Technique
Creates a grounded environment for yoga and meditation
VALOR & EMOTIONS
Valor essential oil blend contains blue tansy essential oil, an oil that specifically helps to calm the Central Nervous System. Valor essential oil blend releases the emotions of:
Losing a battle
Inability to cope
Fear of conflict
Aggression/passive aggression
Defensiveness
Feeling persecuted
This list practically spells out “Fight or Flight.” These are the core issues of chronic stress: needing to protect ourselves, or face conflict head on. These extremes of trying to stay alive cause our body to tell certain organs or processes, “Wait - we don't have time - we just have to run. There's no time to digest, reproduce, or sleep.”
That's really not a program to have switched on 24/7.
When your body receives the message for years on end that there isn't time to process your own thoughts and emotions, you slowly lose connection with yourself. You can begin to feel like you're not quite sure that you know who you are anymore outside of what you “get done” in your various roles or titles.
The passion in your life begins to dim because of being starved during this survival process. Emotions like happiness, joy, laughter, curiosity, passion, and compassion are essential to a healthy, balanced life. Fight or Flight doesn't shut down the bad emotions, it begins to block them all - except for fear and anger. And whatever triggers we haven't dealt with become survival instincts.
Valor has properties that get to the core control centers of these programs. When we're ready to make a change, to start challenging that survival mode with a better way of thinking and living, this is the perfect oil.
Using Valor for support can be as simple as applying some to your shoulders, the bottoms of your feet, the back of your neck, or anywhere that you're experiencing tension or a stressful tightness in your body. It's the ultimate diffuser oil with its deep, grounding fragrance.
Valor essential oil blend contains blue tansy essential oil, an oil that specifically helps to calm the Central Nervous System. Valor essential oil blend releases the emotions of:
Losing a battle
Inability to cope
Fear of conflict
Aggression/passive aggression
Defensiveness
Feeling persecuted
This list practically spells out “Fight or Flight.” These are the core issues of chronic stress: needing to protect ourselves, or face conflict head on. These extremes of trying to stay alive cause our body to tell certain organs or processes, “Wait - we don't have time - we just have to run. There's no time to digest, reproduce, or sleep.”
That's really not a program to have switched on 24/7.
When your body receives the message for years on end that there isn't time to process your own thoughts and emotions, you slowly lose connection with yourself. You can begin to feel like you're not quite sure that you know who you are anymore outside of what you “get done” in your various roles or titles.
The passion in your life begins to dim because of being starved during this survival process. Emotions like happiness, joy, laughter, curiosity, passion, and compassion are essential to a healthy, balanced life. Fight or Flight doesn't shut down the bad emotions, it begins to block them all - except for fear and anger. And whatever triggers we haven't dealt with become survival instincts.
Valor has properties that get to the core control centers of these programs. When we're ready to make a change, to start challenging that survival mode with a better way of thinking and living, this is the perfect oil.
Using Valor for support can be as simple as applying some to your shoulders, the bottoms of your feet, the back of your neck, or anywhere that you're experiencing tension or a stressful tightness in your body. It's the ultimate diffuser oil with its deep, grounding fragrance.
The 14-Day Reset: An Anti-Inflammatory Starting Poing
For Every Woman - and Especially for Women Managing Something Complex
The 14-Day Reset is not simply a protocol designed for people who are already well and want to feel slightly better.
It is a protocol designed for the gut-immune axis — which means it is relevant, and often profoundly so, for women who are managing inflammatory, autoimmune, metabolic, and cardiovascular conditions alongside their general wellness goals.
An important note before we begin: if you are managing a chronic condition and taking medication, please discuss any new supplementation with your healthcare provider. The products in this Reset are food-based and generally well-tolerated, but your specific situation deserves specific guidance.
Why the Gut Is the Starting Point
As we explored in this month’s second article, the gut microbiome is a primary regulator of systemic inflammation. For women managing conditions that involve inflammatory mechanisms — which includes virtually every condition on the autoimmune, cardiovascular, and metabolic spectrum — supporting the gut is not a peripheral wellness activity. It is working directly on the mechanism.
The 14-Day Reset creates a concentrated window of gut-focused support that research suggests is long enough to produce measurable microbiome changes, reduce inflammatory markers, and begin the cascade of downstream benefits in digestion, mood, energy, skin, and immune regulation.
The Protocol
- NingXia Red (102 oz over the 14 days and yes there is a checklist to help) --Wolfberry-based polyphenols act as prebiotics, feeding beneficial bacteria while providing antioxidant protection against oxidative stress — particularly relevant for conditions with high inflammatory burden.
- Half Your Body Weight in ounces of water drank daily - flush your system
- Daily Walk -- single best exercise for every body
- 20-40 Squats After Lunch and Dinner -- engage those thigh muscles in the fight
- Eat a Primal Foods (low carb, low oxalate, high protein) diet to help reduce inflammation in your body
What to Expect
For women managing chronic conditions, the Reset experience is often more gradual than it is for those without complex health situations, and the changes may show up in different places. Less post-meal inflammation. Improved energy stability. Sleep that feels more restorative. A modest reduction in the background level of discomfort. These are not dramatic claims — they are the documented downstream effects of supporting the gut-immune axis consistently for two weeks.
This Reset is a starting point, not a cure. But for many women managing complex conditions, it is the starting point that finally makes the right sense for where they actually are.
New Canadian members to Young Living automatically get 10% off their first order and I offer a $25 account credit if you are a new sign up for loyalty rewards with a 100pv order!! New US members can use the code ShareYL at checkout for the same 10% off!
Talk about making it easier for you to say YES to your HEALTH!!!
That's the only thing you need... NingXia Red! The brand new MAKE A SHIFT RESET bundle is HERE and is the lowest price per ounce of the entire Ningxia lineup!!
Plus you'll get FREE:
• Coaching
• Primal Food Guide
• Simple activities designed to speed up metabolism
• Community
• Motivation
• Giveaways
• And much more!
Who's ready to do this???
Join me and others to do this together! It'll be so much fun!
Once you grab your supplies, I will send an invitation join us in our Facebook group, and every day we remind you what to do and why.
All you do is use the NIngxia, drink your water, move your body and eat well. Your cheerleaders are in the FB group!
Send me a PM or email and I will send you a personal invitation to the Reset group (not the sneak peak group).
Don't delay!!!! There is STILL TIME to get your Ningxia to your door!
July's US Gifts with Purchase
Happy July!
Summer has us all one foot out the door at all times. So let's not waste any of our valuable time and jump right into July's Gifts with Purchase. They're pretty amazing. 
100 PV Gift: Lime 15ml (Loyalty Order Exclusive)*
Lime! Want a bright, funky, fun twist on your summer diffuser blends? Add Lime. Want your Stress Away to pop even more? Add Lime. Want to citrus up your Thieves Cleaner? You get it.
Lime is so good and a must have for summer!
• Uplifts the senses, neutralizes unwanted odors, and purifies the air when diffused.
• Contains antioxidants and may provide general wellness support when taken internally.
YL Tip: Diffuse with Vanilla oleoresin and Bergamot essential oil for a bright, tropical home aroma.
Lime! Want a bright, funky, fun twist on your summer diffuser blends? Add Lime. Want your Stress Away to pop even more? Add Lime. Want to citrus up your Thieves Cleaner? You get it.
Lime is so good and a must have for summer! • Uplifts the senses, neutralizes unwanted odors, and purifies the air when diffused.
• Contains antioxidants and may provide general wellness support when taken internally.
YL Tip: Diffuse with Vanilla oleoresin and Bergamot essential oil for a bright, tropical home aroma.
*To earn this reward, place your qualifying order as a Loyalty Order. If you're not already part of the Loyalty Rewards program, you need to be! It's the best way to get your orders, earn free gifts, and earn points to spend later on Young Living products! If you want to learn more, check it out here:
200 PV Gift: Lemon Myrtle 5ml
Sometimes we overlook incredible oils. Lemon Myrtle is one of those that gets overlooked because people just think it's another lemon. It's so much more! You might have heard of this as "sweet verbena" and it's actually in the myrtle family! So push all your preconceived citrus thoughts aside and get this oil in your collection. It's great for skin, it's bright and uplifting, and it might just be your new favorite.
Sometimes we overlook incredible oils. Lemon Myrtle is one of those that gets overlooked because people just think it's another lemon. It's so much more! You might have heard of this as "sweet verbena" and it's actually in the myrtle family! So push all your preconceived citrus thoughts aside and get this oil in your collection. It's great for skin, it's bright and uplifting, and it might just be your new favorite.
• Pair with YL’s Maximum Strength Acne products which promote clear and blemish-free skin.
• Use as a sweet and uplifting personal fragrance or diffuse to cleanse and purify the air.
YL Tip: Add to your lotion for some citrus-scented love for your skin or diffuse it at your outdoor party for a fun, cleansing scent.
300 PV Gift: Super B supplement
Super B is your summertime energy powerhouse. It's easily absorbed and gets our B vitamin levels up, which helps give us natural energy and actually maintains it throughout the day. Helps cut out those lulls that can happen from a lack of proper nutrition and keeps us going on these busy days.
Super B is your summertime energy powerhouse. It's easily absorbed and gets our B vitamin levels up, which helps give us natural energy and actually maintains it throughout the day. Helps cut out those lulls that can happen from a lack of proper nutrition and keeps us going on these busy days.
• Helps support a healthy mood with all eight B vitamins and maintains healthy energy levels.
• Absorbs easily and can help ease occasional feelings of everyday stress.
YL Tip: Take 2 tablets daily with a meal. Take a few hours before or after taking other medications or natural health products.
BONUS July Loyalty Order EXCLUSIVE: Get 15% off Golden Turmeric supplement when you add it to your Loyalty Order in July!
• Golden Turmeric supplement (Item # 37798): Golden Turmeric's unique water-dispersible formula makes it 24 times more bioavailable than standard turmeric products, so you can enjoy the full benefits of turmeric and relax, restore, and recover. It combines the benefits of high-quality turmeric and prebiotics into a delicious mango rose drink that supports your body’s natural response to inflammation, immune response, joint health, mobility, and recovery after exercise. Drinking one glass can support healthy digestion as well as your gut-brain axis.
Stay energized and in a great mood all summer long. Plus, adding Golden Turmeric to your daily routine is going to have you feeling even better! Less inflammation and better joint health? Sounds like a match made in heaven, especially as we run around trying to keep up with the kids and grandkids.
July's European Gifts with Purchase
July's Australian Gifts with Purchase
Celebrate International Essential Oils Day this month with a collection designed to inspire calm, courage and confidence every day. 
From soothing lavender-infused self-care to empowering essential oil blends, this month's promotion is thoughtfully curated to support your wellness journey. 
Reach any of the following PV minimums with your July Loyalty Rewards order and receive these amazing free products!
July's Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
What Women Who Thrive Have in Common
The Psychology, Research, and the Practices That Build a Life Larger than Any Diagnosis
I want to tell you about a finding in the chronic illness research that stopped me in my tracks.
Researchers studying post-traumatic growth in people living with complex chronic conditions found something that the standard wellness narrative was completely unprepared for. It was not that growth happened despite the difficulty of the condition. It was that, in many cases, the specific challenges of living with chronic illness — the recalibrations, the renegotiations, the forced confrontations with what actually matters — were the mechanism of growth.
The thing that produced the extraordinary lives was the very thing that threatened them.
This is not a small finding. And it is not permission to romanticise illness or pretend that chronic conditions are secretly gifts. They are not. They are genuinely hard, often painful, sometimes terrifying, and always requiring more of a person than they should have to give. But within that hardness, something remarkable and well-documented happens for a significant proportion of women: closer relationships, increased personal strength, a changed philosophy of life, and the emergence of new possibilities that the uninterrupted path would never have opened.
What the Research Identifies
A 2024 study published in PLOS Mental Health, conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta, found that the search for meaning in chronic illness — the active, deliberate process of finding significance and purpose within the experience — is directly linked to positive psychological adjustment and wellbeing. This is not passive acceptance. It is generative, purposeful work that the mind does, often without being asked, when it is given the right conditions.
Those conditions, the research consistently finds, include:
- Social connection and community — the single most consistently identified protective factor across every chronic illness study
- A sense of agency and control, even in small domains, when large ones have been taken away
- The ability to reconstruct identity beyond the diagnosis — to be a person who has a condition rather than a person who is a condition
- Engagement with meaning and purpose — work, creativity, relationships, contribution
- The presence of at least one person who sees the whole woman, not just the illness
The Identity Question
Of all the psychological challenges that chronic illness presents, the identity question is perhaps the most quietly devastating and the least often discussed. A 2024 study on the identity work of people with chronic disease found that ‘reconstructing a sense of self is core to the psychosocial adjustment’ of anyone navigating a permanent health condition. The people who fared best were not the ones who accepted their diagnosis most quickly or most gracefully. They were the ones who actively, deliberately rebuilt an identity that was larger than the illness — one that included the condition without being defined by it.
This matters practically, not just philosophically. A woman whose entire self-concept has been reorganised around her condition tends to make decisions in service of managing the condition. A woman whose self-concept is organised around her values, her relationships, her purpose, and her identity as a full human being tends to make decisions in service of her life — which includes, as one important consideration among many, managing the condition.
The difference in daily experience between those two orientations is enormous. And it is available to both women equally.
You are not the illness. You are the person who has the illness. And that person — her values, her relationships, her capacity for love and contribution and joy — is not on the diagnosis form.
The Practices That Build a Larger Life
Across the research, the practices that most consistently support thriving alongside chronic illness are neither exotic nor expensive. They are, in many ways, the same practices that support thriving in any context — but they take on a particular importance and a particular meaning when the body is also asking something significant of you.
- Daily rituals that signal selfhood, not just symptom management: The morning cup of tea that is yours. The walk that is not about exercise data but about being outside. The creative practice that exists entirely outside the illness narrative. These matter more than they appear to.
- Community that sees the whole person: Not a patient community, though those have value. A community of women who know your full life, your sense of humour, your ambitions, your history — and who happen to also know about the condition.
- Language that preserves agency: The difference between ‘I can’t’ and ‘I’m choosing to manage my energy differently today’ is not semantic. It is physiological. Research on perceived control and chronic illness outcomes consistently shows that agency language — even small acts of reframing — produces measurable differences in stress response, pain perception, and immune function.
- A wellness practice that starts where you actually are: Not the version designed for someone else’s body. A practice that takes your specific situation as its legitimate and honoured starting point, and builds from there.
- Permission to define thriving for yourself: Not against the standard of a woman without your condition. Not against who you were before. Against the honest, generous, compassionate question: given everything, what does living fully look like for me today?
I want to leave you with this.
I have my own version of this story. I have a body that has asked very significant things of me and that continues to require careful attention and intentional support.
And I have found, as the research suggests, that the negotiation with that body — the daily, honest, sometimes frustrating, often surprising negotiation — has not diminished my life.
It has, in the ways that matter most, made it larger.
Why a Complex Health History Might Be Your Most Powerful Business Asset
Let me say something that business opportunity conversations rarely say.
Your health story is not a liability. It is not something to manage around or disclose carefully or apologise for.
For the right business, in the right community, with the right products, your lived experience of navigating a complex health situation is the most credible and powerful asset you own.
Here is why.
The Gap in the Market Is Enormous
We established in this month’s introduction that the wellness industry was built for healthy people. That means there is a vast, underserved community of women — women managing chronic conditions, recovering from significant health events, living with autoimmune disorders, navigating cancer survivorship, managing cardiac or metabolic conditions — who are actively looking for wellness guidance that starts where they are. Not where the industry assumes they are.
Most wellness businesses cannot speak to this community authentically, because most wellness entrepreneurs have not lived it. You have. And authenticity, in a market drowning in curated perfection, is worth more than any credential.
The Products Are Directly Relevant
The gut-immune axis that we explored in this month’s second article is not an abstract concept for this community — it is the mechanism underlying the conditions most of them are managing. The inflammation that runs through every chronic disease on the spectrum is directly addressed by the products in this collection: Life 9 for microbiome support, NingXia Red for polyphenol antioxidant and prebiotic activity, Green Omega for the omega-3s with the strongest anti-inflammatory evidence base, DiGize for gut motility and digestive comfort, Super Magnesium for the cortisol and sleep support that every woman managing a chronic condition needs.
You are not selling supplements to healthy people who want to feel slightly better. You are offering evidence-informed lifestyle support to women who are actively looking for every modifiable advantage available to them. That is a completely different conversation, and it is one you are uniquely positioned to have.
The Business as Part of Your Own Thriving
There is one more dimension to this that I want to name directly. For many women managing chronic conditions, the financial picture is complicated by the condition itself — reduced working hours, career interruptions, medical expenses, the compounding financial impact of a body that requires more investment to maintain.
Building a Young Living business does not require physical stamina, a nine-to-five schedule, or a body that cooperates on demand. It requires genuine knowledge, authentic relationships, and the willingness to show up — even imperfectly, even on difficult days — in a community of women who need what you have to offer.
The women on my team who have complex health histories are consistently among the most compelling and most trusted voices in their communities. Because they are not promising a perfect body. They are modelling a full life. And a full life, as this entire edition has argued, is available regardless of the cards the body has dealt.
If you are curious about what this could look like for you — your specific situation, your specific capacity, your specific community — I genuinely want that conversation. Reply and just tell me where you are. We will build from there.
✨ Loyalty Rewards --
— Consistency Is Your Superpower ✨
✨ ✨
Change doesn’t happen overnight. Your metabolism, your energy, your body’s rhythm — all of it responds over time, with continuity, not intensity.
One 14-Day Metabolic Reset? It’s just the beginning. Your body will want more. And that’s exactly what it needs: repeated, supportive action without stress, worry, or guilt.
This is where Loyalty Rewards comes in:
- Keep your reset routine going consistently
- Earn points to spend on products that support your energy, metabolism, and overall wellness
- Remove the anxiety of “what next?” because you’re supported every step of the way
Think of it as a long-term partner for your body. Every choice, every small reset, every day of consistency adds up — and Loyalty Rewards helps you do it joyfully.
Your transformation is a journey. One reset is the spark — Loyalty Rewards keeps the flame alive. 🔥
💡 Tip: Stack your points, stock your supportive products, and show up for yourself every day. This isn’t about perfection — it’s about not giving up.
Young Living Events and Promotions
Tired of Back to School being Back to Being Sick?
Join me in person Sept 10 (before the bugs take hold) at 630pm and we will talk about staying healthy even if you have kids/grands in school, are amongst a lot of people in your daily life, or have health concerns that make you susceptible to catching every roving virus.
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NEW PRODUCTS LAUNCHED!
Check out what’s new and exciting at the Awaken Tour!
The Awaken Tour products is now available to shop in Canada!
Start exploring them now and learn how these products can fit into your routine.
Awaken™ essential oil blend, 5 ml (LTO)
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Okinawa Shell Ginger™ essential oil, 5 ml (Here to stay!)
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From hydrating pick-me-ups to uplifting aromas for elevated daily routines, this is the kind of collection you don’t just try—you experience.
Wellness Education Opportunities - Summer Hiatus
Our Evening Wellness Education Sessions take a break for the summer so we can all enjoy our time outside.
See you all in September!
If you are itching to learn - check out these replays of previous classes and drop me a note to tell me what you think OR if you have an idea for a clas.
If you have a SPECIFIC topic you would like to see covered-- send me an email and we will see what we can provide!
Join the New Perspective Oilers Facebook Community
Stay up to date on ALL the happenings for our community via the FB group! Lives from Convention, new product announcements, and any breaking news will hit the group first!
This happy group of people are all here to work on our wellness, with the help of some terrific Young Living Products. Join the group to be first in the know about new education opportunities, new product launches, and some pretty fabulous draws!
Until August
This has been one of the editions I have most wanted to write.
Not because it is easy territory — it is not. Writing honestly about chronic illness, about the starting point problem, about the gap between what the wellness industry offers and what a significant proportion of its audience actually needs, requires care and precision and a genuine respect for the complexity of what women are living.
But I believe this conversation is overdue. And I believe that the women reading it — whether they are managing something significant themselves, or love someone who is, or simply recognise that their body has become more complex and less predictable than it once was — deserve to have it said plainly.
Thriving is not conditional.
It is not reserved for the body without complications.
It is available, in the most genuine and evidence-based sense of the word, to every woman willing to start from where she actually is and build with intention from there.
The research supports this. The stories of women who have done it support this. And I believe, with everything I have, that you are capable of it.
Christina
The Invisible Sacrifice:
What Women Give Up When Times Get Hard — and Why That Has to Stop
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Sharon Salzberg
Welcome to June
A Frank Conversation
This month I am going to do something a little different.
I am going to stop being polite about it.
The world is expensive right now. Uncertain. Politically volatile. Financially stressful in ways that feel relentless. And I know what happens to women when the pressure rises. I know because I have done it myself, and I watch it happen in my community every single day.
We cut ourselves first.
The supplement gets dropped. The appointment gets cancelled. The walk gets skipped. The hour of sleep we were protecting gets sacrificed. The meal we were going to prepare gets replaced with whatever is fastest. And we tell ourselves it is temporary. We tell ourselves it is responsible. We tell ourselves we are managing.
We are not managing. We are disappearing.
This edition is a direct, honest, and I hope ultimately empowering conversation about what that disappearing actually costs — not just to us, but to the people we love and the futures we are trying to build.
We are going to look at the statistics on how women age in this country. They are not comfortable. They are not designed to frighten you — they are designed to wake you up, because the research is very clear: the decisions you make about your health in your forties, fifties, and sixties are not small decisions. They are the decisions that determine the quality of the decades that follow.
And then we are going to talk about what you can actually do. Because the answer to hard times is not to abandon yourself. It is to become more strategic, more intentional, and more unapologetically committed to your own wellbeing than you have ever been.
This is not an easy conversation. But it is the right one. And I would rather have it with you now than not at all.
Christina
Table of Contents
Look what we have this month!
- Welcome to June
- The Numbers Nobody Reads to Us
- Canada Gifts with Purchase
- The Foundation Collection -- Six Products That Deliver the Most Impact for Your Investment — Prioritised for Hard Times
- Why We Cut Ourselves Off First
- Ten Affirmations for the Woman Who Has Been Last on Her Own List
- June's Spotlight -Master Cellular Nutrition
- The Non-Negotiable Rest
- US Gifts with Purchase
- EU/UK Gifts with Purchase
- Australian Gifts with Purchase
- June Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
- The Non-Negotiable List
- The Conversation about Money Nobody is Having,
- Loyalty Perks -- Consistency Is Your Superpower!
- Events and Promotions - Something Wonderful This Way Comes!
- New Product Launches -- The Awaken Tour kicks off strong!
- New Perspective Oilers' Education Series -- June's Monday Night Classes
- Join the New Perspective Oilers' Facebook community
The Numbers Nobody Reads to Us 
What the Statistics Say About How Women Actually Age — and Why We Need to Hear ThemLet us start with the facts. Not the softened version. The actual numbers.
Women in Canada live, on average, approximately five years longer than men. That sounds like a gift. And in some ways it is. But there is a catch that nobody puts in the brochure — and it is a significant one.
In 2021, women spent an average of 10.9 years in poor health. Men spent 8.0 years. Women live longer, but they spend almost three more years of that longer life in poor health, disability, or diminished capacity.Read that again.
A full decade of poor health. That is not a statistic about other women.
That is the trajectory we are currently on if we do not make different choices now.
The research calls this the gender health paradox: women survive longer but they do not necessarily thrive longer. They outlive men, but they do so carrying a disproportionate burden of chronic, non-fatal, disabling conditions — osteoporosis, arthritis, depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal disease, and dementia in very old age.
The Financial Reality Is Equally Stark
Here is where it gets personal in a different way. The longer life women live is also, on average, a financially harder life.Canadian women receive 83 cents for every dollar men receive in retirement income. That pension gap currently stands at 17% — and it is larger now than it was in 1976.
Not smaller. Larger. Nearly fifty years of advancing workplace participation, of closing wage gaps, of women entering every sector of the economy — and the retirement income gap has actually widened.
Why? Because the gap is not just about wages. It is about the years women spent out of the workforce caregiving. The part-time work that came with fewer pension benefits. The conservative investment choices that compounded at lower rates. The career interruptions that pension systems were not designed to accommodate.
In 2024, 49% of Canadian women had less than $5,000 in savings. 28% had no savings at all. Among women aged 55 to 64 — the women reading this newsletter — 36% have no retirement savings whatsoever.
In 2020, approximately 200,000 more women than men aged 65 and older were living below Canada’s low-income cut-off. Poverty rates among women are highest for widows over the age of 75 — precisely the demographic that women’s longer life expectancy delivers them into.
The Chronic Disease Trajectory
Now let us connect the financial picture to the health picture, because they are inseparable.
Postmenopausal women experience a 15-fold higher burden of osteoporosis than premenopausal women. Osteoporosis is not just a bone density issue — it is a fracture risk, a hospitalisation risk, and, research now shows, a dementia risk. A 2024 study found that adults with osteoporosis had an 80 percent higher risk of developing all-cause dementia than those without it.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women. But because the recognised symptoms were largely defined by male presentations, women are frequently misdiagnosed or sent home. The result: worse outcomes, later interventions, higher mortality rates once heart disease takes hold.
Depression, anxiety, lower back pain, and musculoskeletal disease are all more prevalent in women than men. These are not the conditions that kill quickly. They are the conditions that erode quality of life over years and decades.
Women are spending a larger share of their additional years of life with a disability than men — and that disadvantage has been growing, not shrinking, over the past four decades.
What This Means Right Now
I am not telling you these numbers to frighten you. I am telling you them because I think you deserve to make decisions about your health with your eyes fully open.
When you drop the supplement to save money, you are making a decision that has compounding consequences. When you cancel the appointment because it is inconvenient, you are making a tradeoff that costs more than the cost of the appointment. When you stop moving because life is too busy, you are accelerating a trajectory that the statistics have already mapped.
The women in the data who end up in poverty at 78, in a care facility at 82, managing multiple chronic conditions through their last decade of life — most of them did not choose that. They simply did what women are trained to do. They prioritised everyone else and assumed their own needs could wait.
They waited too long.
The most important health decisions you will ever make are not the dramatic ones. They are the small daily ones you make right now, in your fifties and sixties, when the consequences are not yet visible but are already being determined.
The good news — and there is genuinely substantial good news — is that most of what the research identifies as driving these outcomes is modifiable. Bone density loss can be slowed significantly with targeted nutrition, strength training, and supplementation. Cognitive decline has identifiable risk factors that lifestyle choices directly address. Cardiovascular risk in women is dramatically reduced by consistent movement, sleep, and inflammation management.
The statistics describe a probable future. They do not describe an inevitable one. But changing them requires choosing yourself. Consistently. Now. Even when the world is difficult. Especially when the world is difficult.
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🌿 The Foundation Collection
Six Products for Visible, Photographable, Undeniable Transformation
This month’s bundle is built differently. Every product has been chosen on a single criterion: the highest health return for the investment, with evidence to back it. No luxury additions. No nice-to-haves. The six things that the research and my personal experience most strongly support for women in midlife who are navigating stress, financial pressure, and the health trajectory we discussed in this edition.
1. Super Magnesium™ |
Why it’s the foundation: Magnesium deficiency is one of the most common and most consequential nutritional gaps in midlife women. It is involved in over 300 enzymatic processes — including sleep regulation, cortisol management, bone density maintenance, blood sugar control, and nervous system function. In a stressful season, it is the first supplement to add and the last to remove.
How to use: As directed in the evening, approximately one hour before bed.
Return on investment: Improved sleep quality within one to two weeks. Reduced cortisol-driven anxiety. Better blood sugar regulation. Direct support for bone density — one of the primary drivers of the chronic disease statistics we discussed this month.
2. Life 9™ Probiotic |
Why it’s foundational: Gut health is not a wellness trend. It is the literal foundation of immunity, mood, weight regulation, and systemic inflammation management — all of which are under increased pressure during stressful times. A high-quality probiotic delivering 17 billion live cultures across nine strains, in a delayed-release capsule that actually reaches the intestines, is one of the most impactful daily investments a woman in midlife can make.
How to use: One capsule nightly, before bed.
Return on investment: Measurable microbiome shifts within two weeks. Reduced bloating and improved digestion. Better mood stability as serotonin production normalises. Improved immune resilience exactly when stress is suppressing it.
3. NingXia Red® |
Why it’s foundational: Oxidative stress is the cellular damage process that underlies virtually every chronic disease discussed in this month’s statistics article. NingXia Red’s wolfberry-based antioxidant profile is one of the most concentrated whole-food antioxidant sources available, and its polyphenol content provides prebiotic benefits simultaneously. Two ounces per day is a cellular investment that compounds over time.
How to use: 2 ounces each morning as a consistent daily ritual.
Return on investment: Sustained energy without stimulants. Reduced systemic inflammation. Immune support. Gut microbiome diversification. Long-term cellular protection against the oxidative damage that accelerates ageing.
4. Green Omega™ |
Why it’s foundational: Omega-3 fatty acids are among the most researched supplements in existence, with consistent evidence for cardiovascular protection, neuroinflammation reduction, cognitive support, and gut lining integrity. Green Omega delivers DHA and EPA from a clean, plant-sourced algae base without the heavy metal concerns associated with some fish oil products. For women managing cardiovascular risk, cognitive health concerns, or mood instability, this is non-negotiable.
How to use: As directed daily, with a meal containing healthy fats for optimal absorption.
Return on investment: Cardiovascular protection — directly addressing the leading cause of death among women. Neuroinflammation reduction — supporting cognitive clarity and dementia risk reduction. Mood stabilisation through the gut-brain axis.
5. Daily Prebiotic Fibre™ |
Why it’s foundational: A probiotic without prebiotic support is like planting seeds without watering them. Prebiotic fibre feeds the beneficial bacteria your probiotic is cultivating, accelerating the gut shift and improving its durability. It also independently supports blood sugar regulation, satiety signalling, and healthy bowel function — all of which are under pressure in stressful periods.
How to use: One scoop mixed into water, NingXia Red, or a morning smoothie daily.
Return on investment: Amplifies the impact of Life 9. Reduces hunger hormone disruption. Supports healthy weight management. Improves energy stability through blood sugar regulation.
6. Valor® Essential Oil Blend |
Why it’s foundational: In a month where we are talking about the psychological and physiological cost of chronic stress, a daily grounding practice is not optional — it is the non-supplement support that holds everything else together. Valor’s blend of Black Spruce, Blue Tansy, Frankincense, and Geranium supports nervous system regulation, emotional steadiness, and the daily ritual of choosing yourself before the demands of the day begin. It is the least expensive item in this collection and, in difficult times, perhaps the most important.
How to use: Apply over the heart each morning before the day begins. Breathe deeply. This is your signal to yourself that today, you come first.
Return on investment: Nervous system regulation. Cortisol management through intentional ritual. The emotional grounding that makes every other health decision easier to sustain.
Why We Cut Ourselves Off First
The Conditioned Reflex That Is Making Women Sicker — and What to Do Instead
You did not randomly decide to put yourself last. You were trained to.
From the time most of us were old enough to observe the adults around us, we were watching women manage everyone else’s needs before their own. We were absorbing the message that a good woman is a selfless woman. That asking for things — time, money, rest, attention, care — is a form of taking something that rightfully belongs to someone else.
These are not small lessons. They wire themselves into our nervous systems, into our identity, into the automatic responses we reach for without thinking when life gets hard. And when life gets hard, the first thing that disappears is not the grocery budget. It is the self-care budget. Because in the hierarchy of needs that most women carry, their own needs are at the bottom.
What Happens to the Body Under Financial Stress
When financial pressure rises, cortisol rises with it. Cortisol is the primary stress hormone, and in the short term it is adaptive — it helps us respond to threats. But chronically elevated cortisol is profoundly damaging to almost every system in the body.
It disrupts sleep. It promotes abdominal fat storage. It suppresses immune function. It degrades gut lining integrity. It impairs the production of oestrogen, progesterone, and thyroid hormone. It accelerates bone density loss. It increases cardiovascular risk.
In other words: the stress of financial hardship, combined with the decision to stop investing in your health because of financial hardship, creates a compounding spiral. The stress makes your body more vulnerable. Removing the supports that protect your body makes you more vulnerable to the stress.
This is not a moral failing. It is physiology. But it is physiology you can intervene in.
The Invisible Costs of Self-Sacrifice
There is a version of this story that sounds like virtue. She gave everything to her family. She never complained. She put everyone else first.
Here is what that story leaves out: what it cost her body over twenty years of chronic stress and self-neglect. What it cost her family when she became the one who needed care rather than the one who provided it. What it cost financially when her declining health created medical expenses that dwarfed everything she had saved by not investing in prevention.
Prevention is not a luxury. It is the most cost-effective health strategy that exists. Consistent supplementation, regular movement, adequate sleep, targeted nutrition — these are not indulgences. They are the investments that keep you out of the healthcare system’s most expensive tiers: hospitalisation, long-term care, chronic disease management.
Every time you cancel your own needs in service of someone else’s comfort, you are making a withdrawal from a health account that does not have unlimited funds.
The Reframe That Changes Everything
What if prioritising your health is not selfish? What if it is the most generous thing you can do?
A woman who maintains her bone density through her fifties is far less likely to fracture a hip at seventy-five and require years of care from her family. A woman who manages her cardiovascular risk through consistent lifestyle choices is far less likely to become the burden she spent her whole life trying not to be. A woman who protects her cognitive health through sleep, nutrition, and social connection is far more likely to remain the capable, contributing, vibrant person her community depends on.
Looking after yourself is not taking something away from the people you love. It is ensuring you remain someone who can actually be there for them.
Practical Strategies for Hard Times
- Protect the non-negotiables: Identify the three to five health practices that have the highest impact for you — sleep, movement, a specific supplement, a daily ritual — and ring-fence them. These are not the first things to cut. They are the last.
- Reframe the cost: A daily supplement that costs $2 is not a luxury. A single hospitalisation costs you and your family so much more than money. The economic argument for prevention is overwhelming; we simply rarely frame it that way.
- Use community: Hard times are when community matters most. Accountability partners, shared resources, group support — these cost nothing and multiply the impact of individual effort.
- Start with one thing: Self-care does not require a complete overhaul. It requires consistency with one thing. The woman who walks for twenty minutes every day outperforms the woman who plans a perfect wellness programme she never begins.
The world will always have reasons for you to sacrifice yourself.
Financial pressure.
Family needs.
Global uncertainty.
Political chaos.
There will never be a moment when the conditions are perfect for prioritising your health.
That moment has to be created. It has to be chosen. It has to be protected, often against the very impulses that feel most virtuous.
Ten Affirmations for the Woman Who Has Been Last on Her Own List
These are for the mornings when the world feels heavy and your own needs feel like the most dispensable thing on the list.
Read them before anyone else needs something from you.
1. My health is not a reward for getting everything else done. It is the foundation that makes everything else possible.
2. I am allowed to be expensive. I am allowed to be a priority. I am allowed to cost something.
3. The statistics describe a probable future, not an inevitable one. My choices are rewriting the trajectory.
4. Choosing myself is not taking something away from the people I love. It is ensuring I remain whole enough to be there for them.
5. Hard times are not a reason to abandon myself. They are a reason to hold on tighter.
6. I release the conditioning that made self-sacrifice feel like virtue. My wellbeing is not selfishness.
7. I invest in my body the way I invest in everything else I want to last.
8. I am not managing. I am thriving. Those are different things and I choose the second one.
9. The woman I am becoming in her seventies and eighties is being shaped by the choices I make today.
10. I am worth the supplement. I am worth the appointment. I am worth the walk. I am worth the twenty minutes. Full stop.
Longevity-focused wellness doesn’t have to be complicated.
Between every shiny, new biohack and the endless research into what actually works, it’s easy to feel like aging well requires more: more products, more protocols, and more guesswork.
The good news? You can get the support you need with Master Cellular Nutrition!
This supplement was specifically created to bring what you need into one smarter daily system.
MASTER CELLULAR NUTRITION AT A GLANCE
Contains DeepSpectra Frankincense2 extract from upcycled botanicals
MASTER CELLULAR NUTRITION AT A GLANCE
Contains DeepSpectra Frankincense2 extract from upcycled botanicals
High-potency formulation with no artificial colors, preservatives, or stimulants
Three-phase system designed to simplify your routine and reduce excess packaging
Healthy-aging support. Supports healthy cellular division and generation for everyday vitality
Targets pathways associated with cellular senescence (“zombie” cells) and helps support routine biological signaling associated with healthy aging
Supports healthy aging by helping protect cells from oxidative stress
Helps convert nutrients into cellular energy to support vitality
Inflammation support. Supports a healthy inflammatory response to oxidative stress
Nutrient saturation. Helps fill common nutrient gaps, including calcium and magnesium that support strong, healthy bones.
Master Cellular Nutrition supports three core components of healthy aging: healthy cellular function, a normal inflammatory response, and nutrient sufficiency, all in one daily packet—and not just by providing the nutrients your body needs, but by helping you absorb and benefit from them on the cellular level.
Master Cellular Nutrition is designed to be your daily foundation. It delivers 100% or more of the Daily Value of many key essential vitamins and minerals, so you may not need as many additional products. Because it combines multiple benefits into one simple system, it can help streamline your routine and reduce supplement overload.
The Non-Negotiable Reset
Two Weeks of Choosing Yourself When the World Suggests You Shouldn’t
Here is what I know about difficult times: they are exactly the wrong moment to abandon your foundations. And they are exactly when most women do.
The 14-Day MetabolicReset is not a luxury programme.
It is a strategic intervention — a defined period of concentrated self-investment that produces visible, measurable results within two weeks and creates momentum that is genuinely hard to stop once it begins.
In a month where we are talking honestly about what women sacrifice and what that costs, this is the practical answer.
Not a complete lifestyle overhaul.
Not a significant financial commitment.
A focused fourteen days of doing the foundational things consistently, and watching your body respond.
Why Two Weeks Matters
Two weeks is the biological threshold at which the gut microbiome shows measurable shifts in composition. It is the window within which cortisol patterns begin to respond to consistent lifestyle intervention. It is long enough to experience real change and short enough to commit to without feeling overwhelmed.
It is also, not coincidentally, the period within which most women begin to feel the difference between their before and their current self clearly enough that continuing becomes the obvious choice.
The Metabolic Reset Protocol
- NingXia Red (102oz over the course of the 14 days- don't worry there is a checklist to help you remember): Your antioxidant foundation. Reduces systemic inflammation, supports blood sugar stability, and provides polyphenol prebiotics that feed beneficial gut bacteria.
- Movement (30 minutes daily, non-negotiable): Not a workout. A commitment. A walk, a stretch, a resistance session — the form matters less than the consistency.
- Primal Eating methods to reduce inflammation and support your metabolism -- Low Carb, protein forward (especially in the morning)
- Squats after Lunch and Dinner -- 10 minimum but 30 is best....work your way up.
- 50% of your ideal body weight in water ounces per day
What Choosing Yourself for 14 Days Looks Like
It looks like taking your NingXia Red before you make anyone else’s breakfast.
It looks like putting protein on your breakfast plate.
It looks like a thirty-minute walk that you do not cancel even when the day is full.
It looks like sleeping when you said you would sleep instead of staying up for one more hour of worry.
It looks like always having water bottles filled and ready so you don't have to wonder how much you have drank already
It is not dramatic.
It is not Instagram-worthy.
It is the quiet, unglamorous, enormously powerful act of deciding that you are worth two weeks of your own consistent attention.
The statistics in this newsletter describe where neglect leads. The Reset is the first step in the other direction.
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Your sunny-day wellness lineup is here.
June’s gifts with purchase are made for summer routines, outdoor adventures, and everyday wellness. From essential oils for outdoor sprays and post-activity massages to simple superfood nutrition, these gifts help you feel your best wherever summer takes you.
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Find joy in the little things this June 
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The Non-Negotiable List
What to Protect First When Budget, Time, and Energy Are Under Pressure
Let us get practical.
If you are in a period of financial contraction, if you are anxious about money, if you are considering cutting your wellness spending — I am not going to tell you that money does not matter or that you should spend freely.
I am going to tell you something more useful: which things to protect, why they are worth protecting, and how to get the most impact for the least cost.
Because not all wellness spending is equal.
Some of it is genuinely foundational — it has compounding, measurable, long-term returns on your health and your finances. And some of it is pleasant but not essential.
In a tighter season, the skill is knowing the difference.
Protect Sleep Above Everything
Sleep is free.
And it is the single most impactful health practice available to women in midlife.
During sleep, the gut lining repairs itself. Cortisol regulates. Growth hormone — which supports muscle maintenance and fat metabolism — is released. The glymphatic system clears the neurological waste products associated with dementia risk. Immune function restores.
No supplement compensates for chronic sleep deprivation.
No workout overcomes the metabolic disruption of poor sleep.
If you can protect one thing, protect your sleep. A consistent bedtime, a darkened room, a phone left outside the bedroom, and a magnesium supplement that costs less than a coffee per day — that is the foundation.
Protect Movement — Especially Resistance Training
Movement is also largely free. And for women over fifty, resistance training is not optional — it is the intervention with the strongest evidence base for preserving muscle mass, bone density, metabolic rate, insulin sensitivity, and cognitive function simultaneously.
You do not need a gym membership.
Bodyweight exercises, resistance bands, or light dumbbells produce meaningful results.
Two to three sessions per week of thirty to forty-five minutes is the evidence-based recommendation.
The cost is almost nothing. The return is enormous.
The Supplement Hierarchy: What to Keep When You Are Choosing
If budget requires you to choose, here is the hierarchy based on evidence and impact for midlife women:
- Magnesium: Involved in over 300 enzymatic processes including sleep regulation, cortisol management, bone density, and nervous system function. Deficiency is extremely common in midlife women. The cost-to-impact ratio is unmatched.
- Omega-3 fatty acids: Reduce neuroinflammation, support cardiovascular health, maintain gut lining integrity, and directly address several of the leading chronic disease risks for women. A clean plant-sourced option like Green Omega is a long-term investment in cognitive and cardiovascular health.
- Probiotics: Gut health is foundational. A high-quality probiotic like Life 9 supports immunity, mood, weight management, and inflammation — the mechanisms that underlie most chronic disease. The daily cost is modest. The systemic impact is significant.
- A comprehensive antioxidant supplement: NingXia Red provides polyphenol-rich antioxidant support that reduces oxidative stress — the cellular damage process that accelerates ageing and drives chronic disease. Two ounces per day is the equivalent of a daily insurance policy for your cells.
What Not to Cut: The Appointment
I want to say something directly about medical and wellness appointments, because this is where women’s self-sacrifice shows up most invisibly.
Women consistently delay or cancel their own health appointments while maintaining everyone else’s.
The result is that conditions that are highly treatable when caught early — cardiovascular changes, bone density loss, thyroid imbalances, blood glucose trends — are identified later and managed at significantly greater cost and impact.
Keep the appointment. Rearrange something else. The appointment is not a luxury. It is surveillance of the most important asset you own.
The Community Strategy
One of the most powerful and cost-free resources available in difficult times is community — women who are navigating the same pressures, sharing knowledge, holding each other accountable, and reminding each other that self-prioritisation is not selfish.
This is, in part, why communities like this one exist. Not to sell you things, though we do believe in the products we use. But to be the place where the conversation happens honestly, where someone notices when you go quiet, and where the standard is women taking their own wellbeing seriously.
You do not have to do this alone. And in difficult times, you really should not try.
The Conversation About Money Nobody Is Having
How Cutting Your Wellness Spending and Cutting Your Income Opportunity Might Be the Same Mistake
I want to connect two threads that do not often appear in the same conversation: the financial anxiety that makes women sacrifice their health spending, and the income opportunity that could make that sacrifice unnecessary.
Because here is the reality I see: women are cutting their supplements, their appointments, their wellness investments — because they feel financially squeezed. And at exactly the same moment, they are walking past an income opportunity that was specifically designed for the kind of woman who knows what it feels like to need something better.
Let me be direct about the numbers, because this month is a month for directness.
The Financial Picture for Women Is Not Improving on Its Own
We established in this month’s first article that Canadian women retire on 83 cents for every dollar men retire on. That the pension gap has widened over fifty years, not closed. That 36 percent of women aged 55 to 64 have no retirement savings at all.
These numbers are not going to be fixed by the systems that created them.
They require individual action. And the most powerful individual action available to most women is not financial planning — it is income creation.
The most recession-proof financial strategy available is building an income stream that grows with your effort, not one that is capped by someone else’s decision.
What This Business Actually Is
Building a Young Living business is, at its core, the act of sharing genuine results with people who need them.
That is it.
You are not selling a concept.
You are not pitching a lifestyle.
You are a woman in midlife who has found products that genuinely support her health, telling other women in midlife — who are currently sacrificing those very supports because of financial pressure — that there is a way to access them at a discount and build an income at the same time.
The women who are cutting their supplements right now are exactly the women who need this conversation.
And you are the exact right person to have it with them, because you are living the same pressures they are and you have found a way through.
The Dual Outcome
This is where the two threads converge. A woman who builds this business:
- Earns commission on her own product purchases, reducing or eliminating her out-of-pocket wellness costs
- Builds team income that grows without a ceiling and without anyone else’s approval
- Creates a retirement income stream that is not subject to the gender pension gap
- Models for her community what it looks like to prioritise health and financial independence simultaneously
- Has a reason to talk about wellness products that is credible, personal, and visible
The last point matters more than it might seem. When you are building a business around these products, your commitment to your own health becomes publicly visible. Every NingXia Red you drink, every walk you take, every supplement you choose becomes content, community, and credibility. You are not sacrificing your wellness to save money. You are investing in it more visibly and building income around that investment.
What to Do Next
If you are currently cutting your wellness spending because of financial pressure, I want you to consider that there may be a third option beyond “keep spending what you cannot afford” and “stop looking after yourself.”
That third option is a conversation with me.
Not a pitch. Not a presentation. A genuine conversation about where you are, what you need, and whether what I am building could be part of your answer.
Because the women in my team who were most financially stretched when they started are often the ones who built the most urgently and consistently — because they had the clearest reason to.
Difficult times create the most motivated builders. And I would rather you be building than cutting.
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Change doesn’t happen overnight. Your metabolism, your energy, your body’s rhythm — all of it responds over time, with continuity, not intensity.
One 14-Day Metabolic Reset? It’s just the beginning. Your body will want more. And that’s exactly what it needs: repeated, supportive action without stress, worry, or guilt.
This is where Loyalty Rewards comes in:
- Keep your reset routine going consistently
- Earn points to spend on products that support your energy, metabolism, and overall wellness
- Remove the anxiety of “what next?” because you’re supported every step of the way
Think of it as a long-term partner for your body. Every choice, every small reset, every day of consistency adds up — and Loyalty Rewards helps you do it joyfully.
Your transformation is a journey. One reset is the spark — Loyalty Rewards keeps the flame alive. 🔥
💡 Tip: Stack your points, stock your supportive products, and show up for yourself every day. This isn’t about perfection — it’s about not giving up.
Young Living Events and Promotions
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NEW PRODUCTS LAUNCHING!
Check out what’s new and exciting at the Awaken Tour!
The Awaken Tour products will be available to shop soon. Start exploring them now and learn how these products can fit into your routine.
Awaken™ essential oil blend, 5 ml (LTO)
A warm, earthy, inspiring scent to use as you break free from old patterns and step into new possibilities
Item No. 51654
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NingXia Zyng™ Sparkling Yuzu Lemonade with Lavender (Seasonal) ####OMG This is going to be phenomemal for Summer 2026! ###
Your new summer caffeine fix for a thirst-quenching, plant-powered pick-me-up in every fizzy sip
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Okinawa Shell Ginger™ essential oil, 5 ml (Here to stay!)
A rare oil with a softly woodsy, slightly sweet aroma that invites the energy of Okinawa’s blue zone into your home
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Simplified by Jacob + Kait™ Summer Collection (LTO)
A collection of three mocktail-inspired scents that whisk you away to lazy summer days and hot tropical nights
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Wanderful Edge™ Diffuser, Tropical Green (LTO)
The iconic waterless, cordless, spill-free diffuser, now sporting a tropical-green print that makes a statement in any space
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From hydrating pick-me-ups to uplifting aromas for elevated daily routines, this is the kind of collection you don’t just try—you experience.
Wellness Education Opportunities - MONDAYS!
MONDAY June 1 2026 - 630pm Pacific Time on Zoom - Curious about GLP-1 and Natural Alternatives to the Poke?
Meet Balance and Burn
If you are…
Frustrated by weight loss resistance
Experiencing energy crashes, cravings, or constant hunger
Have concerns about blood sugar or insulin resistance
Feel like you’re ‘doing everything right’ but stuck without results
… this class is for you!
We aren’t about quick fixes or extreme dieting. It’s about understanding how your body works so weight loss feels easier and sustainable.
What to expect from this class
Clarity on why weight loss can feel hard
A simple framework you can start this week
Understanding how GLP-1 support fits into real life
Frustrated by weight loss resistance
Experiencing energy crashes, cravings, or constant hunger
Have concerns about blood sugar or insulin resistance
Feel like you’re ‘doing everything right’ but stuck without results
… this class is for you!
We aren’t about quick fixes or extreme dieting. It’s about understanding how your body works so weight loss feels easier and sustainable.
What to expect from this class
Clarity on why weight loss can feel hard
A simple framework you can start this week
Understanding how GLP-1 support fits into real life
June 8, 2026, 630pm on Zoom -- Menopause? Naturally! Meet Daily Hormone Essentials
Hot flashes? PMS? Night Sweats? Brain Fog?
Come meet your new hormonal best friend!
Daily Hormone Essentials has just been released by Young Living and has clinical proof behind its claims!
June 22, 2026 - 630pm pm Pacific Time on Zoom - 14 Day Metabolic Reset
Are you feeling sluggish?
Can't seem to kick that inflammation?
Do you need more energy?
Vitality?
Are you ready to feel vibrant again? Aligned? Energized?
Then this class is for you!
You're here because you are ready to feel better - more energized, more grounded, and more in tune with your body.
And we have JUST the thing!
Let's talk abot the 14 Day metabolic reset where we focus on 4 key pillars to reset your energy and support your whole-body wellness.
June 29, 2026 630pm Pacific time on Zoom -- Aging is Inevitable -- Aging WELL is your Choice -- Meet Master Cellular Nutrition
Introducing the Master Cellular Nutrition™ system, your simple, daily vitality and nutrition system designed to support healthy aging.*
Unlike many complicated vitality stacks and protocols, this system supports healthy aging with nutrients your body can benefit from on the cellular level.*
It combines the support you need into one smarter, simpler system:
Unlike many complicated vitality stacks and protocols, this system supports healthy aging with nutrients your body can benefit from on the cellular level.*
It combines the support you need into one smarter, simpler system:
Healthy aging supportSupports healthy cell function and targets pathways associated with cellular senescence (“zombie” cells and helps support routine biological signaling associated with healthy aging)*
Inflammation supportSupports a healthy inflammatory response to oxidative stress*
Nutrient saturationHelps fill common nutrient gaps, including calcium and magnesium that support strong, healthy bones*
Think of it as your daily LINC to vitality:
L — Longevity-focused wellness*
I — Inflammatory response support*
N — Nutrient saturation*
C — Cell support targeting senescence pathways*No random stacks. No complicated protocols. Just a simple, consistent approach to healthy aging support that fits your lifestyle.*
Join me to learn more about this supporting system designed to help you age well!
Join me here On MONDAY Evenings!!
And if you can't make the evening, check out our replays here
If you have a SPECIFIC topic you would like to see covered-- send me an email and we will see what we can provide!
Join the New Perspective Oilers Facebook Community
Stay up to date on ALL the happenings for our community via the FB group! Lives from Convention, new product announcements, and any breaking news will hit the group first!
This happy group of people are all here to work on our wellness, with the help of some terrific Young Living Products. Join the group to be first in the know about new education opportunities, new product launches, and some pretty fabulous draws!
Until July
I want to close this month’s edition by saying something I mean sincerely: thank you for reading this.
This was not the gentlest newsletter I have ever written. The statistics are hard. The conversation is uncomfortable. And I know that reading about pension gaps and chronic disease trajectories while you are already anxious about money is not exactly relaxing.
But I wrote it because I respect you too much to keep the comfortable version of the conversation going. The women I care most about — the women in this community — deserve to make decisions about their health with accurate information, not reassuring half-truths.
The picture for women who do not prioritise their health in midlife is genuinely difficult. The picture for women who do is genuinely different. And the distance between those two futures is not as large as it feels. It is made up of small, consistent, daily choices that compound over years into a completely different outcome.
You have everything you need to make the choice. You always have.
With directness, love, and an absolute belief in your capacity to choose differently,
“Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean me first. It means me too.” — L.R. Knost
Christina
May
The Audacity of Blooming - Before and After Stories that Change Everything,
“The woman who blooms the loudest is almost never the one who had it easiest. She's the one who decided to bloom anyway"
— Anonymous
— Anonymous
Welcome to May
There is a before and after to almost every significant thing in a woman’s life.
Before she knew. Before she changed. Before she chose differently. Before the thing that broke her open and rebuilt her into someone she hadn’t yet imagined she could be.
We talk about before and after in the context of bodies and photographs and transformation challenges. But the most meaningful before and afters I know are the ones that happen on the inside — in the gut, in the metabolism, in the mind, in the mirror of who we are becoming.
This May, we are celebrating all of it.
The dramatic pivots and the quiet ones.
The before and after of a health crisis that rewrote the rules.
The before and after of a gut that finally started working with you instead of against you.
The before and after of a metabolism that woke up.
The before and after of a woman who said yes to something she almost didn’t believe she deserved.
These are not just stories of physical change. They are stories of courage. Of willingness to look honestly at what was, and then do the work to create what could be.
Christina
Table of Contents
Look what we have this month!
- Welcome to May
- The Before Nobody Talks About
- Canada Gifts with Purchase
- The Audacity of Blooming Collection -- 6 Products for Visible, Photographable, Undeniable Transformation
- Before the Shift, After the Shift
- Ten Affirmations for a Healthy, Thriving Gut
- May's Spotlight - Balance and Burn
- The 14 Day Before and After Reset - A Defined Window for a Visible, Measurable Transformation
- US Gifts with Purchase
- EU/UK Gifts with Purchase
- Australian Gifts with Purchase
- May Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
- Before the Shift After the Shift
- The Before and After Nobody Photographs - What Saying Yes to the Business Actually Changed
- Loyalty Perks -- Consistency Is Your Superpower!
- Events and Promotions - Something Wonderful This Way Comes!
- Free Product Guide
- New Perspective Oilers' Education Series -- May's Offerings!
- Coffee with Chris
- Join the New Perspective Oilers' Facebook community
The Before Nobody Talks About 
What Two Heart Attacks Taught Me About Stress, Survival and Choosing to Live Differentkly
I want to tell you about a version of me you’ve maybe never met.....She woke up exhausted every morning and pushed through anyway. She ran on adrenaline and obligation and the quiet, persistent belief that if she just worked harder, tried harder, gave more, everything would eventually be okay. She had a body that was sending her signals she didn’t know how to read — or maybe didn’t have time to read — and a nervous system that had been in crisis mode for so long that crisis felt like normal.That was my before.The after came in the form of two heart attacks. And the four minutes I spent not breathing that changed, quite literally, everything.What My Body Was Trying to Tell MeI want to be honest about what life looked like before my heart gave out, because I think a lot of women are living some version of it right now and calling it fine.I was chronically stressed — the kind of stressed that feels like your baseline rather than an emergency. I wasn’t sleeping well, though I’d stopped noticing that, too. I was eating on the run, managing everyone else’s needs before my own, and treating self-care as something I’d get to eventually, once things calmed down. They never calmed down.My body was inflamed. My cortisol was almost certainly chronically elevated. My cardiovascular system was under pressure that I was completely unaware of because I had never been taught to listen to the language my body was speaking. I thought what I was feeling was just life. Just what being a woman in midlife felt like.I was wrong. And it nearly cost me everything.“Stress is not just a feeling. It is a physiological event — a cascade of hormones and inflammatory responses that, left unmanaged over years, can quietly dismantle the body from the inside.”Four MinutesThe first heart attack was terrifying. The second one, the one that required four minutes of CPR to bring me back, was something else entirely. There are things that happen in four minutes of not being here that I am still learning to put into words. What I can tell you is that I came back different.Not immediately. The immediate aftermath was fear and grief and a body that needed to heal and a mind that was still catching up to what had happened. But underneath all of that, something had shifted permanently. I had been given the extraordinary and terrifying gift of clarity.I knew, in a way I had never known before, that I did not want to go back to my before.Building an AfterThe after has been built slowly, deliberately, and imperfectly. It did not happen all at once and it is still happening now.It started with stress management — real stress management, not bubble baths and occasional yoga, but a genuine daily practice of calming my nervous system. I began using essential oils as part of that practice: Valor over my heart each morning before the day began. Deep breathing that actually reached my belly. Gary’s Great Day Protocol — Valor, Joy, Harmony, White Angelica — not as a ritual for its own sake but because each one of those bottles represents a conscious choice to begin the day differently than I used to.It continued with nutrition. With sleep as a non-negotiable rather than a luxury. With learning the difference between the stress that is informative and the stress that is simply destructive, and building the capacity to respond rather than just react.And it continued with community. With surrounding myself with women who were also choosing to live differently. With deciding that the second half of my life would be lived in full colour, not just survived.Why I’m Telling You ThisI am telling you this not to shock you or to make you worry, but because I know that somewhere in the women reading this newsletter right now, there are women who are living in my before. Women who are running on empty and calling it strength. Women whose bodies are sending signals they have learned to override. Women who have put themselves so far down the list that they have almost forgotten they are on it.Your before is not your destiny. But it does require your attention.The most powerful thing I did for my health was not a supplement or a protocol or a product — it was the decision to take my own wellbeing as seriously as I had always taken everyone else’s. Everything else followed from that one shift.The after is worth fighting for. I promise you, it is worth every uncomfortable, inconvenient, countercultural choice it takes to get there.
May's Canadian Gifts with Purchase
Invite Intention into Your Everyday
Move into May with intention by inviting more plant powered goodness into your everyday routine. Brighten your space with the sweet uplifting scent of Tangerine oil. Thieves Fruit and Veggie soak washes away unwanted residue so nothing gets in the way of all that fresh, vibrant flavour. After long, bustling days, apply Panaway blend to your shoulders, neck and back for a refreshing, cooling sensation that soothes your skin that helps you unwind and feel restored.
Order early to earn more! Place your 100+ PV Loyalty Rewards order by Thursday, April 5, and get a $10 product credit.
Bonus offer this month is something I have come to LOVE -- the Jade Facial Roller Set -- if you are looking for a Mother's Day gift that bringsrelaxation THIS IS IT!
A beautiful, cooling and firming Jade Facial Roller PLUS a bottle of Frankincense oil - long chosen by women for beautiful skin.
🌿 The Audacity of Blooming Collection
Six Products for Visible, Photographable, Undeniable Transformation
Every product in this collection was chosen because it produces results you can see. Not someday. Not eventually. In the mirror, in your photos, in the way you carry yourself when you feel like you are genuinely inhabiting your body again.
1. Inner Beauty Collagen™
Why it’s here: This is the product I have before-and-after photos for — and the results are the reason it anchors this entire collection. Inner Beauty Collagen delivers bioavailable type I marine collagen, peach ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and prebiotic tapioca fibre in one tasteless daily scoop. Unlike most collagen products that use bovine sources, marine collagen is more bioavailable and better absorbed by the skin, which means the results arrive faster and are more visible. It also contains vitamin C, zinc, and biotin — the trio that supports collagen synthesis, glowing skin, and healthy hair and nails simultaneously. And because it contains prebiotic tapioca fibre, it actively supports the gut microbiome at the same time, connecting the inside work to the outside results in one product.
How to use: Mix one scoop into 4–8 ounces of water or your favourite hot or cold beverage daily. It is tasteless, so it disappears beautifully into anything. My personal favourite: two ounces of NingXia Red, half a cup of sparkling water, and one scoop of Inner Beauty Collagen. Delicious and doing double duty on skin and gut in one morning ritual.
Visible impact: Young Living’s own data shows visible reduction in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles in as few as three weeks of consistent daily use. Women using it report improved skin texture, firmer-feeling skin, and a luminosity that shows up in photographs. Hair and nail strength typically improve within four to six weeks. Take your before photo on Day 1 and a progress photo at Day 21 — this is a product worth documenting.
2. Brightening Eye Cream
Why it’s here: The eye area is where stress, poor sleep, and hormonal change show up first and most visibly. This cream targets dark circles, puffiness, and fine lines — the trifecta of the midlife before that most of us are trying to address.
How to use: Apply a small amount morning and evening using your ring finger — the weakest finger, which prevents over-pulling on delicate skin. Tap gently rather than rubbing.
Visible impact: Reduced puffiness is often visible within days. Dark circle improvement and fine line reduction develop over four to eight weeks of consistent use.
3. Lavender Crème Essential Oil Blend
Why it’s here: Sleep is the most underrated beauty treatment available, and this rich, lavender-forward blend creates the sensory cue that tells your nervous system it is safe to fully rest. Poor sleep ages you faster than almost anything else. This is your counter-measure.
How to use: Apply to the neck, chest, and wrists as part of a deliberate evening wind-down ritual. Breathe deeply. Diffuse simultaneously for full effect.
Visible impact: Improved sleep quality within one to two weeks of consistent use. Skin that regenerates properly overnight looks measurably different — more even, less puffy, more luminous — within weeks.
4. NingXia Red®
Why it’s here: Antioxidants are the body’s primary defence against oxidative stress — the cellular damage that accelerates visible ageing. NingXia Red’s wolfberry-based antioxidant profile supports skin from the inside, working on what topical products cannot reach.
How to use: 2 ounces each morning. For a visible-results focus, take consistently for a minimum of 30 days before assessing.
Visible impact: Women who take NingXia Red consistently commonly report improvements in skin clarity, reduced puffiness, and a general brightness that others notice before they can pinpoint its source.
5. Life 9™ Probiotic
Why it’s here: The gut-skin axis is real and measurable. A healthy, diverse microbiome reduces systemic inflammation, which shows on the skin as clearly as it does in digestion. Life 9 is the internal foundation of the external results this collection is designed to produce.
How to use: One capsule each evening before bed, consistently. The 14-day mark is typically where gut-related skin improvements begin to show.
Visible impact: Reduced facial inflammation, fewer breakouts, improved skin tone evenness, and the natural luminosity that comes from a gut that is no longer driving systemic inflammation.
6. Super Magnesium™
Why it’s here: Magnesium deficiency accelerates visible ageing through its effects on sleep, cortisol, and the cellular repair processes that happen overnight. It is one of the most common nutrient deficiencies in midlife women and one of the most impactful to correct.
How to use: Take as directed in the evening, approximately one hour before bed.
Visible impact: Improved sleep quality within one to two weeks. Reduced cortisol-related skin changes — including puffiness and dullness — over four to six weeks. Women often describe looking “more rested” as the first visible change their friends comment on.
Before the Shift, After the Shift
What Happens to Metabolism in Midlife — and What You Can Actually Do About It
If you have noticed that your body seems to have changed the rules sometime in your forties or fifties — that the same food, the same exercise, the same habits that once maintained your weight now seem to produce completely different results — you are not imagining it. You are not lazier than you used to be or less disciplined. Your metabolism has genuinely changed, and understanding how and why is the first step to working with it rather than against it.
Let’s look at the honest before and after of what midlife does to metabolism, and then let’s talk about what an actual after — a supported, nourished, recalibrated metabolism — can look like.
The Metabolic Before: What Changes and Why
Metabolism is not simply a measure of how fast you burn calories. It is a complex system of hormonal signalling, cellular energy production, muscle maintenance, and inflammatory regulation. In midlife, several things happen simultaneously that alter this system significantly.
- Muscle mass declines: Beginning around age 35 and accelerating after menopause, women lose muscle mass at a rate of roughly one to two percent per year without targeted intervention. Muscle is metabolically active tissue — it burns calories at rest. Less muscle means a lower resting metabolic rate, even if nothing else about your lifestyle has changed.
- Oestrogen decline shifts fat distribution: Oestrogen influences where the body stores fat. As it decreases, fat storage shifts from the hips and thighs toward the abdomen — a metabolically distinct type of fat that is more inflammatory and more resistant to conventional weight loss approaches.
- Insulin sensitivity decreases: Cells become less responsive to insulin, meaning blood sugar regulation becomes less efficient. This leads to more frequent energy crashes, increased cravings, and greater tendency toward fat storage — particularly after meals.
- Sleep disruption compounds everything: Poor sleep raises cortisol, disrupts hunger hormones leptin and ghrelin, reduces growth hormone production, and impairs the overnight cellular repair that keeps metabolism functioning efficiently. Many midlife women are caught in a cycle where disrupted sleep worsens metabolic function, and poor metabolic health further disrupts sleep.
- The microbiome shifts: As we explored in April, the gut microbiome changes significantly with hormonal transition, with less diversity and higher proportions of bacteria associated with increased caloric extraction and systemic inflammation.
The Metabolic After: What Recovery Actually Looks Like
The metabolic after is not about returning to a younger version of your body. It is about creating the conditions for your body to function optimally at this stage of life — which is genuinely possible and often more powerful than women expect.
Women who successfully recalibrate their midlife metabolism consistently report a recognisable set of changes: sustained energy through the afternoon without craving stimulants, less abdominal bloating, more stable mood and fewer energy crashes, weight that begins to shift gradually and stay shifted, and sleep that actually feels restorative.
Getting there involves working with the biology, not against it.
- Strength training: This is non-negotiable for metabolic health in midlife. Rebuilding and maintaining muscle mass directly increases resting metabolic rate. Even two sessions per week of resistance training produces measurable metabolic improvements within six to eight weeks.
- Protein prioritisation: Aim for 25 to 30 grams of protein at each meal. Protein has the highest thermic effect of any macronutrient — meaning the body burns more calories digesting it — and it directly supports muscle synthesis and satiety signalling.
- Blood sugar management: Eating in ways that prevent blood sugar spikes and crashes — beginning meals with protein and vegetables, limiting refined carbohydrates, and not eating carbohydrates in isolation — dramatically improves insulin sensitivity over time.
- Gut microbiome support: A diverse, thriving microbiome improves insulin sensitivity, reduces systemic inflammation, and positively influences the hunger hormones that govern appetite. Life 9, Daily Prebiotic Fibre, and NingXia Red work together as a metabolic gut support system.
- Sleep protection: Treat sleep as a metabolic intervention, because it genuinely is. Consistent bedtimes, a calming evening routine, and targeted support like Super Magnesium can shift the metabolic picture significantly within weeks.
The metabolic after is not about perfection. It is about consistent, evidence-informed choices that accumulate over time into a body that functions, feels, and looks different. Women who commit to this process are often astonished by what their bodies are capable of at this stage of life.
Your metabolism is not broken. It is asking for a different kind of support than it used to need. And when you give it that support, the after can be extraordinary.
Ten Affirmations for Your Before and After Journey
Read these with your morning cup. Return to them when the before feels too close and the after feels too far.
1. My before made me who I am. My after is who I am becoming.
2. I am not behind. I am exactly where my story needs me to be right now.
3. Every choice I make today is a brushstroke in the after I am painting.
4. My body is not my enemy. It is a brilliant system asking for my attention and care.
5. The discomfort of change is not a sign I am doing it wrong. It is a sign I am doing it.
6. I release the story that it is too late. It is not too late. It is, in fact, exactly time.
7. I have survived every before. I will bloom in every after.
8. I invest in my health with the same seriousness I give to everything else I love.
9. The woman I am becoming is already inside me. I am simply removing what has been in her way.
10. I bloom with audacity and without apology.
Want the support of GLP-1 products without the harsh side effects or chemicals found in popular options?
Look no further!!
Give your body the support it needs and amplify your daily habits with the Balance & Burn System! This GLP-1 support system is a wellness-first way to support your weight goals.
BALANCE & BURN SYSTEM AT A GLANCE
Helps support production of GLP-1, a naturally occurring hormone in the gut that impacts healthy blood sugar metabolism.
Helps your body use fat efficiently for energy
Helps maintain healthy triglyceride and lipid levels already in the normal range
Supports a healthy gut and microbiome diversity
No harsh side effects
System consists of two supplements: Balance & Care and Burn & Control
BALANCE & BURN SYSTEM AT A GLANCE
Helps support production of GLP-1, a naturally occurring hormone in the gut that impacts healthy blood sugar metabolism.
Helps your body use fat efficiently for energy
Helps maintain healthy triglyceride and lipid levels already in the normal range
Supports a healthy gut and microbiome diversity
No harsh side effects
System consists of two supplements: Balance & Care and Burn & Control
Take Balance & Care packets in the morning, and take Burn & Control capsules before lunch each day.
Your body is already doing the work, and so is your metabolism. Let Balance & Burn give it focused, science-backed support and optimize those natural processes for better results.
Add these daily supplements to your healthy habits like hydration, exercise, and eating. This system amplifies those, so they're more important than ever!
DAILY HABITS WITH BALANCE & BURN
Use in your daily self-care routine
Start your morning with a Balance & Care packets Just pour straight into your mouth. No water, no fuss, just great taste. Added bonus for pairing with NingXia Red!
Take one packet of Burn & Control every day. One packet includes three capsules – the Burn capsule and the 2 Control capsules.
Keep up other healthy habits like hydration (don’t forget the minerals like Mineral Essence), exercise, and eating well (good, high quality protein!).
BALANCE & BURN AND HEALTHY WEIGHT
Meet the system that helps support your healthy weight management with clinically studied botanicals, as well as pre- and postbiotics and essential oils. These ingredients work together to help your body use fat efficiently and maintain healthy blood sugar levels already within the normal range—so you feel good inside and confident outside.
Unlike harsh alternatives, the Balance & Burn system is designed for daily balance without the side effects, giving you a wellness-first way to feel confident in your body. Because when wellness feels this fun, balanced, and effective, you won’t just see the difference—you’ll love living it.
In contrast to a GLP-1 medication which mimics the GLP-1 hormone, natural support systems like Balance & Burn are designed to work with your body’s own physiology and support healthy metabolic pathways rather than act like a drug that you must keep dosing indefinitely. Systems that help support the body’s own production of GLP-1 (through nutrition, botanicals, and metabolic support) complement lifestyle habits rather than replace them.
HOW IT WORKS
The Balance & Burn system is a GLP-1 support system designed to help your body maintain normal, healthy blood sugar levels and promote fat mobilization. It combines key botanical nutrients, pre- and postbiotics, and essential oils that work together to support healthy microbiome diversity to promote overall metabolic health.
This system helps your body:
Maintain healthy blood-sugar levels already in the normal range
Use fat efficiently for energy
Maintain a proper balance of body fat and lean muscle mass
By supporting a healthy gut, improving how your body uses nutrients, and helping maintain balanced energy and fat metabolism, the Balance & Burn system helps you feel your best. Use it as part of a healthy diet and active lifestyle to help support healthy body composition and well-being
THREE SUPPLEMENTS, AMAZING RESULTS
Balance & Care stick pack: Supports a balanced gut microbiome and GLP-1 production, which impacts blood sugar metabolism; also signals a metabolic transition for healthy body composition and helps enhance butyrate (a beneficial short-chain fatty acid) production in the gut for L-cells modulation.
Akkermansia postbiotic for supporting GLP-1 production, which impacts blood sugar metabolism and healthy microbiome diversity
Wolfberry polysaccharides, agave inulin, and soluble tapioca fiber to maintain gut microbiome diversity
Allulose sweetener that won’t spike blood glucose
Mineral-rich French gray sea salt, also known as Celtic Sea salt
Grape extract, which promotes a healthy gut microbiome modulation due to its prebiotic benefits effect
High levels of polyphenols from grape extract, which help cultivate the foundational bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila
Burn capsule: Supports healthy body composition, helps maintain a proper balance of body fat and lean muscle mass, and provides ongoing support for metabolic health when used with a sensible diet and regular exercise*
Plant-derived caffeine that helps maintain metabolic activity
A blend of citrus polyphenols and guarana extract to help support lipolysis
Green tea polyphenols, including EGCG, that provide antioxidant support
Black ginger extract that helps support vitality and overall wellness
Grapefruit, Bergamot, and Cinnamon Bark essential oils
Control capsules:
Supports healthy weight management and body composition, helping induce a metabolic shift towards body fat, when combined with a sensible diet and exercise; also promotes a healthy glycemic profile, insulin sensitivity, and supports healthy blood sugar levels already within the normal range.
Phytosomal berberine for enhanced bioavailability
Ginger essential oil for gut health
Your body is already doing the work, and so is your metabolism. Let Balance & Burn give it focused, science-backed support and optimize those natural processes for better results.
Add these daily supplements to your healthy habits like hydration, exercise, and eating. This system amplifies those, so they're more important than ever!
DAILY HABITS WITH BALANCE & BURN
Use in your daily self-care routine
Start your morning with a Balance & Care packets Just pour straight into your mouth. No water, no fuss, just great taste. Added bonus for pairing with NingXia Red!
Take one packet of Burn & Control every day. One packet includes three capsules – the Burn capsule and the 2 Control capsules.
Keep up other healthy habits like hydration (don’t forget the minerals like Mineral Essence), exercise, and eating well (good, high quality protein!).
BALANCE & BURN AND HEALTHY WEIGHT
Meet the system that helps support your healthy weight management with clinically studied botanicals, as well as pre- and postbiotics and essential oils. These ingredients work together to help your body use fat efficiently and maintain healthy blood sugar levels already within the normal range—so you feel good inside and confident outside.
Unlike harsh alternatives, the Balance & Burn system is designed for daily balance without the side effects, giving you a wellness-first way to feel confident in your body. Because when wellness feels this fun, balanced, and effective, you won’t just see the difference—you’ll love living it.
In contrast to a GLP-1 medication which mimics the GLP-1 hormone, natural support systems like Balance & Burn are designed to work with your body’s own physiology and support healthy metabolic pathways rather than act like a drug that you must keep dosing indefinitely. Systems that help support the body’s own production of GLP-1 (through nutrition, botanicals, and metabolic support) complement lifestyle habits rather than replace them.
HOW IT WORKS
The Balance & Burn system is a GLP-1 support system designed to help your body maintain normal, healthy blood sugar levels and promote fat mobilization. It combines key botanical nutrients, pre- and postbiotics, and essential oils that work together to support healthy microbiome diversity to promote overall metabolic health.
This system helps your body:
Maintain healthy blood-sugar levels already in the normal range
Use fat efficiently for energy
Maintain a proper balance of body fat and lean muscle mass
By supporting a healthy gut, improving how your body uses nutrients, and helping maintain balanced energy and fat metabolism, the Balance & Burn system helps you feel your best. Use it as part of a healthy diet and active lifestyle to help support healthy body composition and well-being
THREE SUPPLEMENTS, AMAZING RESULTS
Balance & Care stick pack: Supports a balanced gut microbiome and GLP-1 production, which impacts blood sugar metabolism; also signals a metabolic transition for healthy body composition and helps enhance butyrate (a beneficial short-chain fatty acid) production in the gut for L-cells modulation.
Akkermansia postbiotic for supporting GLP-1 production, which impacts blood sugar metabolism and healthy microbiome diversity
Wolfberry polysaccharides, agave inulin, and soluble tapioca fiber to maintain gut microbiome diversity
Allulose sweetener that won’t spike blood glucose
Mineral-rich French gray sea salt, also known as Celtic Sea salt
Grape extract, which promotes a healthy gut microbiome modulation due to its prebiotic benefits effect
High levels of polyphenols from grape extract, which help cultivate the foundational bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila
Burn capsule: Supports healthy body composition, helps maintain a proper balance of body fat and lean muscle mass, and provides ongoing support for metabolic health when used with a sensible diet and regular exercise*
Plant-derived caffeine that helps maintain metabolic activity
A blend of citrus polyphenols and guarana extract to help support lipolysis
Green tea polyphenols, including EGCG, that provide antioxidant support
Black ginger extract that helps support vitality and overall wellness
Grapefruit, Bergamot, and Cinnamon Bark essential oils
Control capsules:
Supports healthy weight management and body composition, helping induce a metabolic shift towards body fat, when combined with a sensible diet and exercise; also promotes a healthy glycemic profile, insulin sensitivity, and supports healthy blood sugar levels already within the normal range.
Phytosomal berberine for enhanced bioavailability
Ginger essential oil for gut health
The 14-Day Before and After Reset
A Defined Window for a Visible, Measurable Tranformation
Every genuine before-and-after story has a starting point.
A moment when someone decided to stop waiting for the right time and began. The 14-Day Reset is designed to be exactly that: a defined, supported, intentional beginning that produces results you can actually see and feel within two weeks.
This is not a deprivation protocol. It is not about eating less or pushing harder or white-knuckling through cravings. It is about giving your body — your gut, your metabolism, your skin, your sleep — a concentrated period of targeted support, and then watching what it does with it.
The Visible Results Timeline
Here is what two weeks of committed Reset support typically produces, in roughly the order it arrives:
- Days 1–3: Digestion begins to shift. Some adjustment is normal and brief.
- Days 4–7: Energy becomes more sustained. The afternoon energy drop begins to ease.
- Days 7–10: Bloating measurably reduces. Sleep quality improves. Mood feels more even.
- Days 10–14: Skin begins to reflect the internal changes. Clearer, less puffy, more luminous.
- Day 14: Take your after photo. The difference is often striking
The Core Protocol
- NingXia Red (2–4 oz daily): The polyphenol and antioxidant foundation. Supports the microbiome shift, reduces systemic inflammation, and feeds the skin from within.
- Life 9 (1 capsule nightly): Rebuilding the microbial ecosystem that governs digestion, mood, skin, and metabolism.
- Daily Prebiotic Fibre (1 serving daily): Feeding the beneficial bacteria Life 9 is establishing. The two work together as a system.
- Inner Beauty Collagen™ (one scoop daily): Marine collagen, hyaluronic acid, peach ceramides, and prebiotic fibre — working from the inside to support skin texture, hydration, and the gut microbiome simultaneously. Three weeks of daily use is where visible results begin to show.
- Super Magnesium (evening): Ensuring the overnight repair cycle — where gut lining, skin cells, and metabolic regulation all happen — is fully supported.
Document Your Before
Take your before photo on Day 1. I know. Nobody loves this part. Do it anyway.
Take it in consistent lighting, at the same time of day, with the same angle. Face and midsection if you are comfortable. This is not about scrutiny — it is about evidence. Because when you reach Day 14 and the reflection in the mirror feels different, you deserve to have proof of how far you have come.
The before and after of this reset is not just physical. But the physical is where we often need to see the evidence first — the tangible, undeniable proof that what we are doing is working. That proof changes everything. It turns a practice into a commitment. It turns a commitment into a lifestyle.
Let's Help You Get Started
New Canadian members to Young Living automatically get 10% off their first order and I offer a $25 account credit if you are a new sign up for loyalty rewards with a 100pv order!! New US members can use the code ShareYL at checkout for the same 10% off!
Talk about making it easier for you to say YES to your HEALTH!!!
That's the only thing you need... NingXia Red! The brand new MAKE A SHIFT RESET bundle is HERE and is the lowest price per ounce of the entire Ningxia lineup!!
Plus you'll get FREE:
• Coaching
• Primal Food Guide
• Simple activities designed to speed up metabolism
• Community
• Motivation
• Giveaways
• And much more!
Who's ready to do this???
Join me and others to do this together! It'll be so much fun!
Once you grab your supplies, I will send an invitation join us in our Facebook group, and every day we remind you what to do and why.
All you do is use the NIngxia, drink your water, move your body and eat well. Your cheerleaders are in the FB group!
Send me a PM or email and I will send you a personal invitation to the Reset group (not the sneak peak group).
Don't delay!!!! There is STILL TIME to get your Ningxia to your door!
May's US Gifts with Purchase
May 2026 US Gifts with Purchase
Happy May! We are sprinting through spring. Feels like it just started, but the flowers are blooming, the gardens are looking amazing, and before we know it, summer will be just around the corner!
May's Gifts with Purchase help with staying well, grounded, and making sure our body's functions are running smoothly so we can make the most of the rest of this season and be ready to head into the next! Let's take a look.
100 PV Gift: Lavender Vitality 5ml (Loyalty Order Exclusive)*
Lavender has so many uses (it's called the "Swiss Army Knife of essential oils" for a reason), sometimes we forget some of its most common ones and how good it is for us! It's calming, it supports our immune system, has antioxidants, and should be included in any nighttime routine.
• With its delicate floral favor and antioxidant properties, Lavender Vitality is the perfect addition to your nighttime routine. Add 1 drop to a calming cup of tea for a peaceful experience.
• Add 2 drops to a vegetarian capsule to take advantage of Lavender Vitality’s antioxidant properties.
• Add a drop or two to baked goods or lemonade for a delicate floral flavor boost.
*To earn this reward, place your qualifying order as a Loyalty Order. If you're not already part of the Loyalty Rewards program, you need to be! It's the best way to get your orders, earn free gifts, and earn points to spend later on Young Living products!
Lavender has so many uses (it's called the "Swiss Army Knife of essential oils" for a reason), sometimes we forget some of its most common ones and how good it is for us! It's calming, it supports our immune system, has antioxidants, and should be included in any nighttime routine.
• With its delicate floral favor and antioxidant properties, Lavender Vitality is the perfect addition to your nighttime routine. Add 1 drop to a calming cup of tea for a peaceful experience.
• Add 2 drops to a vegetarian capsule to take advantage of Lavender Vitality’s antioxidant properties.
• Add a drop or two to baked goods or lemonade for a delicate floral flavor boost.
*To earn this reward, place your qualifying order as a Loyalty Order. If you're not already part of the Loyalty Rewards program, you need to be! It's the best way to get your orders, earn free gifts, and earn points to spend later on Young Living products!
200 PV Gift: Valor 5ml
As everything starts to speed up as we get closer to summer, Valor can help us stay grounded and confident. Courage in a bottle is one of the many ways it's been described, and the feelings of confidence we get from it will have us ready to tackle anything life throws at us. Plus, after hours working in the garden or sitting in uncomfortable chairs and stands watching your kids play sports, a few drops of Valor on your neck and back can help ease the tension and give you some much needed relief.
• Gentle, grounding resets are an important part of any wellness routine. While you meditate or take some deep breaths, try this tip: Rub 2 drops of Valor blend between your palms, cup them together, and breathe in the comforting scent.
• Refresh throughout the day by directly inhaling Valor blend or massaging it onto your neck, chest, hands, or wrists.
• Diffuse the inspiring aroma while you work to align your mind, body, and spirit and let go of the barriers that make you feel stuck.
As everything starts to speed up as we get closer to summer, Valor can help us stay grounded and confident. Courage in a bottle is one of the many ways it's been described, and the feelings of confidence we get from it will have us ready to tackle anything life throws at us. Plus, after hours working in the garden or sitting in uncomfortable chairs and stands watching your kids play sports, a few drops of Valor on your neck and back can help ease the tension and give you some much needed relief.
• Gentle, grounding resets are an important part of any wellness routine. While you meditate or take some deep breaths, try this tip: Rub 2 drops of Valor blend between your palms, cup them together, and breathe in the comforting scent.
• Refresh throughout the day by directly inhaling Valor blend or massaging it onto your neck, chest, hands, or wrists.
• Diffuse the inspiring aroma while you work to align your mind, body, and spirit and let go of the barriers that make you feel stuck.
300 PV Gift: Super Magnesium supplement
Usually when people talk about magnesium, it's for muscle recovery or sleep, but did you know that when magnesium is absorbed and dispersed properly it supports over 300 functions in our bodies?! Plus, Super Magnesium contains melon juice concentrate that helps reduce oxidative fatigue and stress while helping you maintain normal energy levels. Super Magnesium isn't simply another magnesium supplement, it also helps support healthy organ function, a calm nervous system, metabolic health, and so much more.
• From a.m. to p.m., Super Magnesium supports healthy, normal energy levels, a calm nervous system, restful sleep, and metabolic health. It’s made with one of the most bioavailable forms of magnesium and a melon juice concentrate to help deliver it where it’s needed.
• Decreases physical fatigue while supporting an active lifestyle and normal energy levels.
BONUS May Loyalty Order EXCLUSIVE:
Get 15% off Mineral Essence when you add it to your Loyalty Order in May!
• Mineral Essence (Item # 3222): Mineral Essence is a balanced, full-spectrum ionic mineral complex enhanced with essential oils that delivers those essential ionic minerals to your body in a bioavailable form so it can quickly and fully absorb them for their maximum benefit.
Get 15% off Mineral Essence when you add it to your Loyalty Order in May!
• Mineral Essence (Item # 3222): Mineral Essence is a balanced, full-spectrum ionic mineral complex enhanced with essential oils that delivers those essential ionic minerals to your body in a bioavailable form so it can quickly and fully absorb them for their maximum benefit.
Full body support this month to help keep that "spring" in your step all season long. 
I mean, who doesn't love a free Lavender AND Valor in the same month? Plus that Super Magnesium is one you need in your daily routine if it's not already! What else are you getting this month? Let us know your May essentials in the comments!
I mean, who doesn't love a free Lavender AND Valor in the same month? Plus that Super Magnesium is one you need in your daily routine if it's not already! What else are you getting this month? Let us know your May essentials in the comments! May's European Gifts with Purchase
May's Australian Gifts with Purchase
Refresh, reset and indulge in the essentials you’ll love.
This month is all about helping you feel fresh, radiant and revitalised each day.
Enjoy a curated collection of beautiful essential oils paired with low-tox skincare - everything you need for a simple, yet elevated daily ritual.
Perfect as a gift, or even a well-deserved treat for yourself.
Reach any of the following PV minimums with your May Loyalty Rewards order and receive these must-have essentials for free!
May's Daily Diffuser Recipe Calendar
What My Gut Looked Like Before
The Bloat, the Brain Fog, and the Before-and-After Nobody Prepares You For
Before and after photos of gut health transformations are not as dramatic as the ones we see in fitness advertisements.
You cannot always see the difference in the mirror — at least not at first. But the women who have been through a genuine gut reset will tell you that the before and after they felt was more significant than anything they ever experienced on a scale.
The before looks like this: bloating that arrives reliably after meals and sometimes seems to have no clear trigger.
A heaviness in the midsection that is not about weight but about inflammation and gas and a digestive system that is working against you.
A 3pm fog that rolls in so predictably you have organised your day around it. Moods that shift in ways that feel chemical rather than circumstantial. Sleep that is light and unrefreshing.
A general sense of not quite functioning at full capacity that you have been calling normal for so long you have forgotten what the alternative feels like.
Sound familiar? It should. This is the before for an enormous proportion of women in midlife, and almost none of them have been told that it is a gut story.
The Before Inside the Before
What makes the gut before particularly insidious is that it often develops so gradually that there is no clear moment of change to point to. The digestive comfort of your thirties gives way to the sensitivity of your forties gives way to the genuine dysbiosis of your fifties, and each step felt like just… getting older. Just how things are now.
I want to offer a reframe: it is not how things have to be.
The gut microbiome is remarkably responsive to intentional support. Research consistently shows that meaningful shifts in gut composition can occur within days to weeks of dietary and supplemental change. The women who commit to a genuine gut health protocol almost universally describe a recognisable arc: things shift in the first week, often with some adjustment as the microbiome rebalances.
By week two, digestion begins to feel different. By the end of the first month, the brain fog has started to lift, sleep has often improved, and the midsection bloating that they had accepted as permanent has diminished noticeably.
The After: What Changes First
Here is what the gut health after tends to look like, in roughly the order it arrives:
- Digestion becomes more predictable and comfortable within seven to fourteen days
- Bloating, particularly post-meal bloating, reduces significantly
- Energy in the afternoon stabilises — the fog lifts
- Sleep becomes deeper and more restorative as serotonin production normalises
- Mood feels more even and resilient — less reactive, more grounded
- Cravings, particularly for sugar and processed foods, begin to reduce as the microbiome shifts
- The midsection begins to look and feel different as inflammation decreases
- Skin often improves — the gut-skin axis means that a healthier gut frequently produces a clearer, more luminous complexion
That last one surprises many women. The connection between gut health and skin health is well established in the research but rarely discussed in the context of everyday wellness. When the gut lining is healthy and the microbiome is diverse, systemic inflammation decreases — and that shows up on the skin as readily as it shows up in digestion.
Making the Shift
The foundation of a gut health transformation is consistency rather than complexity. The women who achieve the most dramatic before and after results are not the ones who did the most things — they are the ones who did the right things every single day.
A daily probiotic that actually reaches the intestines. A prebiotic fibre source that feeds the beneficial bacteria you are cultivating. An antioxidant-rich whole food supplement that reduces inflammation and provides polyphenol prebiotics. A commitment to more plant diversity, more hydration, and less of what the inflammatory bacteria thrive on.
The gut after is waiting. And the distance between your before and your after is often shorter than you think.
The Before & After Nobody Photographs
What Saying Yes to This Business Actually Changed
I want to tell you about two versions of my professional life. Not to sell you something — but because I think the before and after of this particular decision is one of the most honest stories I can share with you, and I think some of you need to hear it.
The before had a ceiling. I worked hard — I have always worked hard — but there was a fixed limit to what that work could produce, no matter how much more I gave. My income was determined by someone else’s decision. My schedule was determined by someone else’s needs. My value — the way I was seen and recognised and utilised — was filtered through structures that had not been designed with women like me in mind. I was capable of so much more than my circumstances allowed. And I had been telling myself for years that this was just how work worked.
The Financial Before
Financially, the before was characterised by the particular anxiety of a life without cushion. Not poverty — I want to be clear about that — but the constant low-level tension of a life where unexpected expenses feel like genuine threats, where retirement is an abstract concept rather than a real plan, where the income ceiling means that generosity toward the people you love most has limits you hate.
I knew what I wanted to provide for my family. I knew what Gerry and I wanted our later years to look like. I knew what it would take to support Jessica and James and be present for Alex in the ways I wanted to be. And I knew, in the before, that the gap between what I wanted and what was possible felt very wide.
The Identity Before
Here is the piece that is harder to talk about but more important: in the before, I felt invisible in a way that is very specific to women at this stage of life.
We have spent decades being competent. Being the ones who hold things together. Being useful and capable and needed. And then the world shifts around us in ways that make us feel like what we have to offer has somehow become less relevant. Like the window for our ambitions has closed. Like leadership and growth and building something significant are things that happen to other people, or happened to us once and won’t again.
That invisibility was quiet and pervasive and I had almost accepted it as permanent.
The After: All Three at Once
The financial after of building this Young Living business has been real and it has been growing. It is not passive income in the sense that I sit on a beach and watch money appear — it is income built on genuine relationships and genuine results and genuine care for the women on my team and in my customer community. But it is also income that is not capped. Income that grows as my team grows. Income that rewards the kind of work I love most.
The identity after has been the surprise. I did not expect to feel, in my sixitges now, like I was finally becoming the version of myself I had always been working toward. Leading a team. Mentoring women who are earlier in their journey. Being taken seriously — not because of a title someone assigned me, but because of the results I have produced and the community I have built. That has been extraordinary.
And the time after — the freedom that comes with building something that works even when I am on the road, or at a dog show, or taking a morning for myself — has changed what ordinary days feel like. I work four to six hours. I choose which four to six hours. I am present for the people I love in a way the before never allowed.
“The before kept me safe. The after set me free. And free, it turns out, was worth every uncomfortable, uncertain, awkward step it took to get there.”
I am not telling you this is easy or that it happens overnight. I am telling you it is real. And if you are sitting in a before that feels too small for who you are — in your finances, your identity, your time — I would genuinely love to have that conversation with you.
Hit reply. Tell me where you are. Let’s talk about what the after could look like.
✨ Loyalty Rewards --
— Consistency Is Your Superpower ✨
✨ ✨
Change doesn’t happen overnight. Your metabolism, your energy, your body’s rhythm — all of it responds over time, with continuity, not intensity.
One 14-Day Metabolic Reset? It’s just the beginning. Your body will want more. And that’s exactly what it needs: repeated, supportive action without stress, worry, or guilt.
This is where Loyalty Rewards comes in:
- Keep your reset routine going consistently
- Earn points to spend on products that support your energy, metabolism, and overall wellness
- Remove the anxiety of “what next?” because you’re supported every step of the way
Think of it as a long-term partner for your body. Every choice, every small reset, every day of consistency adds up — and Loyalty Rewards helps you do it joyfully.
Your transformation is a journey. One reset is the spark — Loyalty Rewards keeps the flame alive. 🔥
💡 Tip: Stack your points, stock your supportive products, and show up for yourself every day. This isn’t about perfection — it’s about not giving up.
Young Living Events and Promotions
Clean, Elevated!
SPRING FLING Launches!!
Happy Spring friends! Here's all the new goodies, that are blooming this Spring!
Happy Spring friends! Here's all the new goodies, that are blooming this Spring!
Wanderful Edge™ in Blue Linen ---OHHH YOU NEED ONE OF THESE! Item No. 50758
Wholesale $68.75 | PV 16 | Retail $90.46
Fresh Linen™ Laundry Detergent - Most beautiful fresh scent without the harmful chemicals Item No. 50572
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Simplified by Jacob + Kait™ Fresh Linen™ essential oil blend, 10 ml - Your whole house can smell like line dried linen! Item No. 39533
Wholesale $44 | PV 35 | Retail $57.89
Fresh Lemon™ Glass Cleaner Concentrate, 1 oz. Item No. 46941
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Fresh Lemon™ Glass Cleaner Concentrate CollectionItem No. 51875
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Fresh Lemon™ Foaming Hand Soap Concentrate, 2 oz. *Coming soon!*Item No. 49110
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Fresh Lemon™ Foaming Hand Soap Concentrate Collection *Coming soon!*
Item No. 50288
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Fresh Lemon™ Foaming Hand Soap Concentrate Refill, 8 oz. *Coming soon!*
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Thieves Foaming Hand Soap Concentrate Refill - A must have for every homeItem No. 48918
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Lavender Foaming Hand Soap Concentrate, 2 oz. *Coming soon!*Item No. 49118
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Lavender Foaming Hand Soap Concentrate Collection *Coming soon!*Item No. 50285
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Doesn't this look like the cover of a seed catalogue?
Wonder why?
Well Young Living isn't just an end product company it is a company of farms and farms use seeds. Our Seed to Seal Commitment puts into practice a set of high values for sustainability, quality, and care. So you don't have to worry about hidden toxins in anything you buy!
Want to see all of Young Living Canada's product line in one place? This gorgeous new Product Guide is just the thing-- the link for the e-book is below but you can also order a hard copy with any purchase you make!
So nice to see the complete collection all in one place and spend time dreaming about diffuser blends!
Wellness Education Opportunities - NEW DAY OF THE WEEK!
MONDAY May 4 2026 - 630pm Pacific Time on Zoom - GLP-1 Class - Balance and Burn
If you are…
Frustrated by weight loss resistance
Experiencing energy crashes, cravings, or constant hunger
Have concerns about blood sugar or insulin resistance
Feel like you’re ‘doing everything right’ but stuck without results
… this class is for you!
We aren’t about quick fixes or extreme dieting. It’s about understanding how your body works so weight loss feels easier and sustainable.
What to expect from this class
Clarity on why weight loss can feel hard
A simple framework you can start this week
Understanding how GLP-1 support fits into real life
Frustrated by weight loss resistance
Experiencing energy crashes, cravings, or constant hunger
Have concerns about blood sugar or insulin resistance
Feel like you’re ‘doing everything right’ but stuck without results
… this class is for you!
We aren’t about quick fixes or extreme dieting. It’s about understanding how your body works so weight loss feels easier and sustainable.
What to expect from this class
Clarity on why weight loss can feel hard
A simple framework you can start this week
Understanding how GLP-1 support fits into real life
May 11, 2026 - 630pm pm Pacific Time on Zoom - 14 Day Metabolic Reset
Are you feeling sluggish?
Can't seem to kick that inflammation?
Do you need more energy?
Vitality?
Are you ready to feel vibrant again? Aligned? Energized?
Then this class is for you!
You're here because you are ready to feel better - more energized, more grounded, and more in tune with your body.
And we have JUST the thing!
Let's talk abot the 14 Day metabolic reset where we focus on 4 key pillars to reset your energy and support your whole-body wellness.
Join me here On MONDAY Evenings!!
And if you can't make the evening, check out our replays here
If you have a SPECIFIC topic you would like to see covered-- send me an email and we will see what we can provide!
COFFEE WITH CHRIS
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This happy group of people are all here to work on our wellness, with the help of some terrific Young Living Products. Join the group to be first in the know about new education opportunities, new product launches, and some pretty fabulous draws!
Until June
Every woman reading this is somewhere in her before-and-after story.
Some of you are deep in a before that feels like it might be permanent. Some of you are in the middle — past the old version but not yet fully in the new one. Some of you are looking back at a before that once felt impossible to leave, amazed at how different the after turned out to be.
All of it is part of the story. All of it is the audacity of blooming.
May is for flowers that push through what was supposed to hold them back. It is for the second act, the reset, the yes that comes after years of maybe. It is for women who have decided that their most extraordinary years are not behind them.
They are, in fact, exactly here.
With so much love and a deep belief in your after,
Christina
