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Ashley Schneider

Independent Wellness Advocate

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. Everyone is a skeptic about something during some point in time in their life. I will fully admit, I too was and still am slightly a skeptic as well. But sometimes, you have to jump with both feet rather than test the water with one toe. Needless to say, I am jumping in full force. I am a skeptic that will become the leader of the pack. My story is simple. I am a Colorado native that has been pushing through each day to make it to the next. I have been blessed with a good hand at life with a couple speed bumps here and there, emotionally and physically. Being raised in Colorado, I was raised up around horses and other animals through out my childhood. I have been built up with a firing spirit in my blood and lightning in my veins. I set higher standards for myself than most would, and I don’t plan on changing that. I push myself to the limits and almost further than what my body can handle. It wan’t until roughly 2015, that my body had finally said that enough is enough. And there, I began to play a huge guessing game and I got introduced to essential oils. For months, my body would almost reject food or anything that I put in it. I say almost reject because of the condition that I was in. Anything that I would eat, drink, or put into my body... gave me a pain that I can’t describe. My body wouldn’t eject what I had ingested, it just simply kept it inside, like a trapped monster. This carried on for months, in and out of the hospital, nights bent over in tears crying. I couldn’t eat without the pain showing itself nor could I really drink. Pain killers just made it worse. Getting sent to one doctor after another, trying to figure out what in the world could be going on; time after time I got called crazy or they tried to diagnose me with some crazy mental disorder. Mentally I was perfectly fine and I knew something wasn't right. Months went by with no luck, but gave it one last chance. I went in for a full blood panel draw. Figured if something inside wasn’t functioning the way it should, it would show up in the blood samples. And it did. I was expecting something simple, something that could be cured in a chunk of time. But that wasn’t the case. My body doesn’t absorb the vitamins and minerals like it should. My b12 levels were dangerously low with a verity of other problems with my intestines and stomach. That is when I started into Lemongrass during the day and Lavender at night. It sounds simple and easy... but through the stress and pain internally, those two gave me what I needed to get the strength each day to continue fighting what I later came to terms with, Bell's Palsy. Bell’s eventually led me to get bi-weekly injections of b12 which I still continue to this day... but getting the sleep that I need, my immune system has been fighting off the colds & viruses going around, I use other oils for joint pains & muscle pains... and that is just the start! Looking at everything around me on a daily basis, how many toxic chemicals get put into our bodies with out us really blinking an eye... is almost sickening. I understand some chemicals out there are hard to avoid unless you are put into a plastic bubble, but with these oils, I am able to push those toxins out of my body. Not only feeling better but my ability to function day in and day out has also strengthened. And just to think that this is just the start. I am not here to tell you how to run your life. I am not here to live your life. I am not here to tell you what you should and should not do to your body. I am here to help and grow with everyone else. I too am learning every single day more and more about what these oils can do to not only the human body but our animals as well. Nor am I here to scare you of what is directly in front of you. I am simply here to share, learn and grow... and make a strong team in the process!