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Plant Therapy Spring Blends Set

Plant Therapy has created a set with the Spring Synergies in the Spring Blends Set. Made with 100% pure, undiluted essential oils, the Spring Blends Set will be a great addition to any oil collection.

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The Spring Blends Set contains 10 ml each of Island Sunset, Morning Sunshine, and Spring Fling and comes in a box that is perfectly packaged and ready to go.

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Each of these remarkable synergies have incredible aromas that will evoke all things that you love about spring. Easy to use and an easy way to keep your favorite spring aromas with you throughout the year, the Spring Blends Set is a must-have.

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Brand New Spring Blends Set
Puts a Spring In Your Step
Evokes All Things You Love About Spring
Remarkable Synergies
Wonderful Spring Aromas
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Plant Therapy Spring Blends Set 10ml morning sunshine — 10ml morning sunshine

Morning Sunshine: For a morning wake-up call that is sure to awaken your senses and leave your skin feeling silky soft, dilute Morning Sunshine to 2-3% in your favorite lotion or cream. Add to a diffuser, use in an aromatherapy inhaler, or 1 drop in an aromatherapy locket when your senses need a boost anytime during the day.

Plant Therapy Spring Blends Set 10ml island sunset — 10ml island sunset

Island Sunset: Create a calming, relaxing atmosphere that is reminiscent of the tropical islands by adding Island Sunset to your favorite Plant Therapy aromatherapy diffuser, aromatherapy inhaler, or add 1 drop to an aromatherapy locket or another passive diffusion. Not recommended for topical use.

Plant Therapy Spring Blends Set 10ml spring fling — 10ml spring fling

Spring Fling: Create an energizing, uplifting atmosphere that will awaken the senses by adding Spring Fling to your favorite Plant Therapy diffuser, aromatherapy inhaler, or add 1 drop to an aromatherapy locket or another passive diffusion. Not recommended for topical use.

The International Federation of Aromatherapists does not recommend that Essential Oils be taken internally unless under the supervision of a Medical Doctor who is also qualified in clinical Aromatherapy. All cautions listed for individual oils do not include those cautions from ingestion.

This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Bottles are filled by volume. Some bottle sizes may not be filled to the top, but do contain the volume of oil specified.

I’m God’s Favorite T-Shirt

By now, many of our friends and families have seen one of us rocking our new favorite “I’m God’s Favorite.” T-Shirts and made comments and/or asked about where it came from. So, we would like to share where we got them from. It’s actually a print-on-demand Shopify store that Daniel has been working on. We have decided to open the store in progress to the public so others can buy the shirts as well. Have a large order? You’re welcome to contact us for discounted pricing.

Independence Day: This Is Your Financial Independence Day

As we’re about to celebrate the US Independence Day on July 4, I’d like to submit the idea that we can also hope for and work towards our financial independence day. Just as our founding fathers fought for our independence back in the day, so we can today also fight to become financially independent, and for some of us, mark the day on our calendar when we found ourselves there, on our very own financial independence day.

Today, I’d like to talk about a training program that I’ve been looking into over the past month called, Wealthy Affiliate. While I’ve been a web developer for over 10 years now, I’ve found the training quite useful in terms of learning how to market a website, do keyword research and generate traffic.

What does this have to do with financial independence or independence day?

The training helps ordinary people that aren’t writers or marketers find out that they can be and that they can make income on the side or even a living out of it. When you think about it, everyone is an expert on at least one subject. Wealthy Affiliate provides the training on how to put that to good use and also provides the tools to succeed.

And Wealthy Affiliate is so much more too. Wealthy Affiliate is also an online community of over 800k active members from all walks of life that help each other succeed through forums, chats, and training built from past experiences. Members share with each other what works and what does not work. Also, members help each other when they get stuck. And, members give constructive criticism and provide feedback on each others’ websites to further boost search engine rank and community engagement.

How does the Affiliate in Wealthy Affiliate become Wealthy?

Affiliate marketing. The training provided at Wealthy Affiliate is a step by step guide on how to create a new website (with WordPress) and through thorough keyword research generate organic search engine traffic. When there’s traffic on the website(s), there’s also the potential for affiliate links. Affiliate links are, essentially, links to services and products that are related to what your website is about our products and services that we recommend. Once a user clicks on such a link and buys that service or product, the website owner receives a commission. Many website owners have become quite wealthy with this strategy.

Make it your financial independence day with Wealthy Affiliate

I’d like to challenge you today to mark this day, Independence Day, as the day that you begin your journey towards financial independence by giving Wealthy Affiliate a try and give yourself a chance to benefit from the many services and features that Wealthy Affiliate has to offer.

What can I do with the Starter Membership?

Here’s a comparison chart that shows exactly what’s available with the Starter Membership vs what Premium members get. Oh, and by the way, when you’re using the free Starter Membership, you get a discount to upgrade to Premium Membership. I recommend taking full advantage of the first 7 days of membership and learn as much as you possibly can, then, if you decide that Wealthy Affiliate is for you, upgrade your membership right before the 7 days are up and take advantage of the huge discount.

In closing, I’d like to offer anyone who is interested in learning more about the program at Wealthy Affiliate, please reach out to me with any concerns or questions. I’m here to help. You can use the comments below or send a message via the contact form.

Green Tea Summer Morning Smoothie

Our newest morning favorite is a green tea smoothie we like to call the green tea summer morning smoothie. It’s easy to make and only has 5 ingredients
To 24oz of unsweetened, cold almond milk, add:

1 teaspoon local raw honey
1 teaspoon green tea matcha
(we recommend Aiya’s Organic Ceremonial Matcha)
1 teaspoon cacao powder
(we like the organic cacao from Thrive Market)
1 drop peppermint oil
(we use Doterra peppermint oil)

Blend on high for 30 seconds. Enjoy!

Optionally, add a couple of ice cubes before or after blending. We’ve found that we like both options to make it colder or the no ice option with cold almond milk, either way it’s awesomely refreshing and boosts focus!

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Daniel and Luci’s Tasty Summer Hydration Drink

Ready for the summer? Today, we got surprised by a hot sunny day in Santee, CA. Not that it’s strange for us to have beautiful sunny weather here in San Diego, but it’s been cold and rainy the last few weeks. So was today just a fluke or what marks the first day of our summer?

What you don’t want on a day like this though is to get dehydrated! Drinking plenty of water is definitely a good thing, especially if you’re a coffee drinker. But not everyone likes just “plain” water so here’s our recipe for a tasty summer drink that will definitely keep you hydrated.

In 1 gallon of filtered water add:

1 medium orange, cut in 1/4 inch slices
1/2 cucumber, cut in 1/4 inch slices
10 mint leaves (fresh is better but dried will do too
Add ice if you want it cold

Gently mix it all up and enjoy!

Cucumber, why?
Cucumbers help your body to retain water. Remember how we mentioned coffee drinkers? Caffeine actually does the opposite, it helps your body get rid of water. Cucumbers are also alkaline which means that it helps your body regulate it’s pH, neutralizing the acidity from other foods, especially processed foods, and gives you a better chance of warding off infection.

Orange, why?
Citrus in general help cleanse your intestines and even promote fat burning and weight loss. But perhaps what makes it so good in our drink is that it helps reduce stress, refreshing and revitalizing along the way.

Mint, why?
There are all sorts of things that mint is good for and along with the orange and cucumber, it’s actually pretty tasty too! Mint also refreshes is known to take headache away, by smelling it or massaging some of the essential oil on your temples. Imagine what it can do to your dehydration headache if you drink it!

Where do we get our ingredients? Our favorite place for these ingredients is Growers Direct. They’re a small, farmers-market-like shop on University Avenue, on the border between San Diego and La Mesa. All their produce is locally and organically grown/sourced and way cheaper than Sprouts or Whole Foods. More information can be found HERE.

Superfood Power Smoothie with Navitas Naturals

Last week I ordered a number of Navitas Naturals products and decided to experiment with a Superfood Smoothie. The following is what I was able to come up with and has become a favorite for us. Here it is in a nutshell:

In a blender add:

1 cup almond milk (we use Blue Diamond)

2 cups warm drinking water (around 80 F is fine)

1 tsp Navitas Naturals Goji Powder

1 tsp Navitas Naturals Camu Powder

1 tsp Navitas Naturals Lucuma Powder

1 tsp Navitas Naturals Acai Berry Powder

1 tsp Navitas Naturals Pomegranate Powder

2 heaping tsp Navitas Naturals Cacao Powder

contents of 1 capsule of Nature’s Way Elderberry

contents of 1 capsule of Nature’s Way Echinacea

1 eye dropper of Solgar Vitamin D3 (5000 IU)

2 eye droppers Omica Organic Liquid Stevia (with vanilla)

1 tbsp (local) raw honey

1 pinch of ground turmeric powder

Blend all ingredients for about 1 minute.

The reason why I use warm water for this is so that the honey would dissolve better (note that the raw honey should not go over 110 F or else you’ll kill the enzymes that make it so good for you). Well, it’s like drinking a hot chocolate that’s cooled off quite a bit. So, if that’s not your favorite way of drinking a chocolate smoothie, other alternatives that we’ve tried is to simply add a few ice cubes and then blending it again, which makes a tasty cold chocolate drink, or dissolving the honey in the warm water beforehand and then having it cool down in the fridge before making the smoothie.

Whole Lifestyle Nutrition

I recently came across this website, Whole Lifestyle Nutrition: Organic & Holistic Recipes and Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle – Real Food Made Simple. It’s full of great resources and recipes for the whole family, so I just wanted to pass it along…

Here are also some current items available from Whole Lifestyle Nutrition:

Gluten Free & Grain Free Breads, Batter & Doughs eBook

Clay Diffuser Necklaces

Organic Peppermint Lip Balm

-Daniel