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Briana Brownlow fundraiser - FigsWithBri.com


6-22-08
Only half-way through the fundraising time period, and we've already reached our initial goal for Briana's fundraiser in a heart felt response from around the world - USA, Canada, UAE, India, Australia, Singapore, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Greece.

If you are inspiredto help support her in this journey, please use the ChipIn donation widget above. Your gifts are truly Love-In-Action. Bri and her husband, Marc, will be most appreciative! If you would like to get a sense of what a wonderful person Briana is, please visit her food blog: www.FigsWithBri.com

5-30-08
I'm also starting a fundraiser for my sweet daughter-in-law Briana Brownlow to help off-set medical costs on the breast cancer healing journey life has presented her. (She is one of 5% of women diagnosed under the age of 30. Bri was just a month shy of her 29th birthday.)

After a single breast mastectomy, followed by intensive chemo, with her life and my son's life challenged on all fronts, now 2-1/2 years later - breast cancer has returned. So, we're doing treatment differently this time - focusing on HOPE and the BELIEF that she will heal - using alternatives like mistletoe extract injections (Iscador), Xeloda (a tablet form of chemo), healing herbs, fresh organic vegetable & fruit juices (especially carrot & citrus), supportive gemstones, prayerwork, energywork, and much more.


5-23-08
NEW! If you've been wanting to use essential oils or learn how aromatherapy might enhance your life, my educational health advocacy services may be the resource you're looking for. I'm happy to discuss health / well-being issues that concern you and suggest or research essential oils appropriate for your situation. I can offer ideas on how to use essential oils you already have at home. Consultation rates are: $35-half hour or $60-full hour sessions.

Listed in the sidebar menu as Aromatherapy For You and Personal (Essential) Oils Blends, a page for each service itemizes costs and includes an on-line form for your Health History / Fragrance Preferences / Session Aims, which will help you clarify your goals and assist me in understanding your needs. Looking forward to working with you!

NEW! Our secure Gaia's Pharmacopeia store with essential oil blends I've formulated for various health issues is ready for your self-help health care needs. I've been finessing the details and it's pretty close to perfect. Give it a try!

NOTE: When you order, each synergestic blend is carefully assembled for you by my own hands from our current supply of precious essential oils. We do not have pre-blended inventory.


5-20-08
Oh, dear. Still debugging our Gaia's Pharmacopeia store that I put on-line last week. (The sidebar link works, but the store doesn't.....sigh.) Will be troubleshooting it this week. Be patient. It will be working smoothly soon. In the meantime, you can read about our special essential oils blends and order via email or phone from the blends page.

Speaking of blends, I'm really impressed with Bruise-Be-Gone. Therapeutic Citrus & Lavender essential oils blended with other EOs to speed healing of bruises & hematomas. The essential oils help dissolve blood clots, stimulate the lymphatic system to clear the tissues, minimize scarring, and heal the skin.

In the past month (April-May 2008) I've been using it for a small lower leg hematoma (banged myself with a bucket while gardening - OUCH!) and for several very nasty bug bites....maybe spider bites? I've been applying Bruise-Be-Gone twice a day, upon wakening & just before going to sleep at night. Works awesomely!

The hematoma has been dissolving slowly. It's taking a month or two. Is still slightly pink and I can feel small lumps under the skin surface with minor tenderness. It will be gone soon enough.

The bug bites heal more dramatically. In less than a week, they've gone from an intensely itchy-painful, swollen, hot, red, scary inflammation to being almost gone. I started out using Young Living's PURIFICATION blend for the first day to neutralize the venom toxins and LAVENDER and GERMAN CHAMOMILE to calm the inflammation, sooth itching & reduce pain for a day or two. Then I've been using only Bruise-Be-Gone 'til the skin's completely healed. Give it a try, if bugs love nibbling you, too.


4-2-08 Was speaking to a client in the past few days about complications her adult son's experiencing from an ankle amputation surgery due to an old injury. This lady's totally committed to holistic healing. Has cured herself with a variety of techniques. Her son isn't quite as open to alternative healing options.....yet. However, his amputation stump has developed two neuromas - nerves severed during the surgery, which are causing him significant discomfort.

She found this site & my custom Sweet Balm essential oil blend that helped another friend heal her neuroma. We also discussed my client's son using ForSoothe or Young Living Oils PanAway as other self-help essential oil healing options.

Anyway, all this lead to remembering emails about a variation of Gary Young's 100% Total Pain Relief pre-and-post op surgery therapeutic essential oils blend. I've named it GYPain™ and decided to offer it to my clients & customers, pre-blended, to use for chronic aches & pains, for neuralgia relief, and on minor wounds. More info - costs & user testimonials are available on the Custom Blends listings. Also, posted Julie Chertow's awesome 2007 testimonial from her abdominal surgery using her own variation of this blend, which is the one we're offering.

2-2-08 Happy New Year! Hope your end-of-the-year holidays were full of sweetness, nourishing your spirit as well as your connections with family & friends. Now, the CA Presidential Primaries & Valentine's Day are rapidly approaching....

NEW! 3 Custom Endocrine & Stress Blends

Cynthe has created several for Endocrine Support & Stress Relief as she learns more about chronic health challenges and experiments with managing her own endocrine balance issues:
- Inner Calm (stress relief)
- Masterful (pituitary support)
- Tranquility (hormone support, stress reduction, herpes/neuralgia relief)
Consider giving them a try, if any of these issues are health journeys you're traveling, too.

We have several NEW articles on our Essential Oils Blog covering a wide range of topics: Essential Oils for Travelers, Supporting Healthly Thyroid Function, Oils for Death & Dying Transitions, and for Babies' Health. (NOTE: The Blog is temporarily off-line.)

Come to the blog to read more (see links below). And PLEASE make a bit of time to contribute articles of your own. There is much to share and we have LOTS to learn from each other.

Learn to Use Therapeutic Essential Oils, Safely & Effectively!
1-21-08 Update

Aromatherapy with therapeutic-grade essential oils (EOs) is excellent for first aid; daily self-care; and can be used to ease physical, emotional, mental or spiritual suffering in health care / healing settings...often with profound results.

Massage practitioners / bodyworkers, alternative therapists, hospice / holistic nurses, parish nurses, chaplains & ministers, parents, teachers, daycare providers, health-minded teenagers to seniors can use aromatherapy with therapeutic essential oils effectively.

If you're NEW to therapeutic essential oils with no idea where to begin, what EOs to buy or use, first...check this list of my family's favorite 'all-purpose' essential oils. It was originally compiled for a friend interested in alternative health, who asked me for some ideas of where to begin.

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9-19-07 Added two articles based on my personal research & techniques working with essential oils. Hope you find them interesting.
~ The Healing Path...A Journey of Challenge, Grace, & Inspiration
~ Distance Healing with Therapeutic Essential Oils

WELCOME to our Essential Oils BLOG!

Excited by our personal experiences / results from using the wonderful therapeutic essential oils distilled by Young Living Essential Oils (Utah) and....

Inspired by the sweet folks we've met through the Certification in Clinical Aromatherapy workshops taught in Sebastopol north of the San Francisco Bay Area ....

We created our on-line Therapeutic Essential Oils Users Blog (Click link to get to the blog pages), so we can share our discoveries, educate ourselves, support our health journeys, and best of all...stay in touch and nurture friendships!

The EOs Blog will only be lively and valuable, if you add interesting, informative postings of your own. You may post comments without joining as a member. But if you wish to write articles, you will need to sign up, first. We will get your sign-up via email and reply - giving you a password with permission to add your own oils experiences / ideas to the various sections.

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6-30-08
The Essential Oils Blog is back on-line! I'm rebuilding the articles and comments now. I'll be sending an email invitation to everyone, who used to be a member to re-join us, once it's all together. Any new readers / site visitors are welcome to be part of our community.

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4-16-08
Our Essential Oils Blog is temporarily off-line. Our internet hosting space suffered a devastating hacker attack from eastern Europe as an April Fools' Day strategy. Our former ISP required us to pull ALL our websites off the internet completely within 4 days in order to disconnect from the cyber terrorists....and the havoc they were wreaking to other domains as well. We have hired a skilled webmaster to implemented very strict securtiy protocols to avoid an intrusion in the future.

Because of our lack of experience with aggressive professional hackers, we had little time to plan our recovery strategy. As a result some of the Essential Oils Blog information is permanently lost.....like all our user registrations and reader comments.

I'm really regretful and saddened by the loss. Did salvage all my articles, which I will be re-assembling in early June. Will send out an email invitation to those of you who I knew were member-participants and look forward to reading your articles & contributions.

2-2-08 Update
The NEWEST blog postings include:

Other good resources are:

Hope you'll join in ~ whether you're new to essential oils or a long-time user ~ so we can build a wonderful virtual community!

The Institute of Spiritual Healing & Aromatherapy has been teaching their Certification in Clinical Aromatherapy (CCA) workshops in Sebastopol, CA for the past two years. The final class in the 3-part series was scheduled to be taught the first weekend in May 2008.

Unfortunately, Linda Smith got sick. Our ISHA CCA-303 Aromatherapy Workshop was cancelled at the last minute. We've rescheduled the open-book exam & mini-research project presentations for May 31st at my home. Class participants have been sent details via email.

rosemary sprig gifNOTE: Cynthe Brush - the host of this site - will be concluding her role as the North Bay Area coordinator with the May 2008 workshop. She wants to finish her own CCA studies, develop her essential oils healing practice, and dedicate more time to this EOs User Blog.

Others, who may be interested in the CCA workshops, please check with ISHA directly.

This site was originally created to provide answers to your questions about the ISHA CCA Workshops, a superb, holistic, 240-hour course that integrates a thorough education in the appropriate clinical use & application of essential oils, energy healing methods & directed intent (or prayer work).


Certification means students will have obtained professional aromatherapy training and be able to practice the clinical application of therapeutic essential oils, guiding clients/patients in their healing journeys. Specifically:

  • Students learn about essential oils to ease many physical health challenges as well as for emotions & emotional situations.
  • Students learn about the physical - mental - emotional frequencies & the chemistry of essential oils.
  • They learn how to identify which essential oils are best for clients/patients in a given situation.
  • And will be taught how to formulate custom essential oils blends for individuals.
  • Students learn & experience some wonderful hands-on healing techniques for aligning energy for well-being.
  • As well as learning how to allow healing energy to flow through your mind, body & hands as a healing channel.