Butterfly Balance Wellness Center

Essential Oil Testimonial Database, and My Own Crisis Averted!

I discovered an absolutely wonderful website called Oil Testimonials. I've been using Young Living Essential Oils for a while now, personally and in my practice, but there is so much to learn about what they can do for your health and wellness. I have to admit that it's still not an automatic response to pick up an oil for a health crisis; most of us were raised with medications in mind, and that's the first thing we think of and rely on. There are a few oils that I really know in terms of what they're good for, but this website has been a huge help to me in learning more about them.

There are multiple memberships to this site, and I use the free option which gives you most of the functionality of the site. It clearly explains the benefits to upgrading to Silver or Gold memberships on their FAQ page, but there is a wealth of information available with a free membership.

Oil Testimonials is a essentially a database of testimonials from members about their usage of Young Living Essential Oils for various needs/issues. You can enter an issue in the database (like "headache," "bronchitis," "pain," etc.) and multiple testimonials pages will come up. You can read what the member had to say about the issue, which oil(s) they used, and the outcome. It's really opened my eyes to what is possible with the oils.

Last night I was doing some cleaning and noticed that my right ankle was swollen. I pulled up the leg of my pants to take a look at it, and noticed that my lower leg was extremely red, swollen and much harder than usual. It was also a little bit painful and had a tingling feeling, and so red that it looked sunburned against my pale foot.  I elevated my leg and decided to do some Reconnective Healing on it. When I placed my hand on my lower leg, I noticed there was so much swelling and fluid under the skin that my hand actually left an indent. I won't lie - I was a bit alarmed. When you google those symptoms you get all kinds of awful things looking at you on the computer screen, most of which tell you to go to the emergency room. Uh oh!

Give the Gift of Wellness

Did you know that Butterfly Balance Wellness Center offers gift certificates?

Give the gift of health and wellness to your loved ones this holiday season. Until December 31, 2012 I am offering a special holiday discount - purchase a $90 gift certificate (good for one session of Health Kinesiology or Reconnective Healing in the next year) for only $70. And if you purchase a package of 3 gift certificates, you will receive the $20 holiday discount on top of the usual 20% package discount! Please contact me to purchase.

Interested in essential oils as gifts? Young Living offers high quality essential oils that I use in my practice, and they have many seasonal items that would make great stocking stuffers and holiday gifts. Please visit my Young Living website to purchase those items. Ask me how you can save money with distributor discounts.

I've also set up the Butterfly Balance Wellness Shop which offfers items (via Amazon.com) that I personally use in my home and/or practice, or that come highly recommended by my holistic colleagues. Click here for the shop.

Wishing you and your loved ones all the best during the holiday season!

 

Note: Due to FTC guidelines, I am now required to disclose that if you click on a link in this post (or any other post or link on my blog) and purchase Young Living Essential Oils, books/products through Amazon.com or nutritional supplements through AIM Companies, that I will receive a small commission as a result of those purchases. Thank you for your support.

No Mistakes?

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Richard Bach

Do you agree with this quote? Do you think we need to have unpleasantness in our lives just in order to grow?

I think some of the choices I've made at the forks in the road of my life, and/or challenges I've endured, have been necessary to become the person that I am today. But there are others I could've done without, and which have changed me in ways that are not necessarily beneficial, and some that have been downright harmful to my wellness and well-being. This is where Health Kinesiology and Reconnctive Healing been helpful to me personally, in healing some of fall-out of those less-than-helpful belief systems and experiences.

I would love to share these healing systems with you, to help you follow the path that is most beneficial for you. You can make appointments online by clicking here:

 

or feel free to contact me for more information.

Note: Due to FTC guidelines, I am now required to disclose that if you click on a link in this post (or any other post or link on my blog) and purchase Young Living Essential Oils, books/products through Amazon.com or nutritional supplements through AIM Companies, that I will receive a small commission as a result of those purchases. Thank you for your support.

Balancing Butterflies?

A question I've been asked recently is what Butterfly Balance means.

I originally started out my practice as West Seattle Wisdom. I liked the idea of a location identifier (West Seattle) and the Wisdom referred to the wisdom we gleam from muscle testing in Health Kinesiology. But I decided that was too limiting of a name (suggesting incorrectly that only West Seattleites need apply, and wisdom was often thought of in terms of education, not energy work), and one night the name Butterfly Balance (and the logo) came to me.

Butterfly: Butterflies start their lives as caterpillars. It then form a chrysalis around itself (what we think of as a cocoon, although I understand cocoons are technically for moth caterpillars, not butterfly caterpillars) and they emerge transformed into a beautiful butterfly. Caterpillars are a worthy insect/being in their own right, but they transform into another existence, reaching their true potential of what they were meant to be all along.

That's how I see people: we are all beautiful, worthy beings right now. But we have so much potential in us that is crying to get out. We may not even realize all the things holding us back from reaching that potential. With Health Kinesiology, we use muscle testing to determine what YOUR body wants and needs to get there, and we work together to follow that path. You emerge from the process (and from Reconnection work as well) uncluttered from those burdens, fully stepping into your power. Others can see the beauty within you once you've gotten rid of the junk holding you back. You can see it too. You've become the beautiful butterfly you were always meant to be.

Balance: a multi-faceted word. This blog started as the Health/Life Balance Blog. When I think of balance, I think of yin and yang from traditional chinese medicine, and the yin yang symbol is "used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn. Opposites thus only exist in relation to each other."*

I also think of the concept of life balance - trying to balance our work with our home life with our health and obligations, etc., etc. Not always easy to do in my experience, but worthy of striving for, to protect our sanity!

Finally, and most literally, Balance is what we're doing in Health Kinesiology: balancing the meridian system of the body. We find out what stresses the meridian and energy system and put it out of balance, and we correct those imbalances in a session.

Are you living your life in a chrysalis/cocoon, not living up to your potential? Would you like to discover your butterfly beauty and live a live a life in balance? Make an appointment today to see how we can work together to change your life. 

 

*Courtesy of Wikipedia

New Beginnings and Visions

I was recently working with life coach Andrea Owen at Your Kick Ass Life Coaching about my practice. With her guidance I was able to visualize where I want to see my energy work practice by the year 2025, and what it would take in the years between now and then to get that vision to become reality.

I realized that while I was grateful to have had the office space at ActivSpace, it was time to move on. My clientele is growing and I was quickly outgrowing the small space. I sat down and made a list of everything I wanted in my next office: a larger treatment room, a quiet and more professional environment, a waiting room, a conference room to hold free community talks on health and wellness topics, and a more convenient location. I wrote a Craigslist ad in the commercial real estate section asking for leads on that type of space. The next day an ad appeared from someone renting space that was exactly what I had asked for! (Thanks, Universe!)

Yesterday I turned over the keys to my old office and am thrilled to now be working out of my new office which better reflects my "big picture" vision!

I am now taking appointments at 3515 SW Alaska Street (2nd Floor) in West Seattle. It is a 2-story brick building on SW Alaska Street between 35th and 36th Streets. There is a small parking lot located mid-block in the alley behind the building (enter from 35th or 36th, first driveway south of Alaska), and it brings you directly to the second floor entrance. The bus stop is directly out front for easy access from much of West Seattle and also downtown Seattle. Click on the Contact tab above for a photo of the building and a link for driving directions.

Stay tuned for information about an Open House to celebrate the new location, and I will soon announce free monthly sessions to discuss health and wellness topics. I can't wait to serve your wellness needs at the new and improved Butterfly Balance Wellness Center; you can book an appointment right now online by clicking the button below. See you soon!