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A great, affordable essential oil blend!

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I have to share this essential oil blend that I recently ordered from Amazon. I know many people are die hard YL essential oil customers, but frankly, I can't afford that all the time. If I was ingesting my oils, I might feel differently, but I'm not and I need to be able to afford them. I do use YL Stress Away which is an amazing blend and it has helped me immensely in acute panic situations. I put some on my temples and the base of my neck or inhale some slowly and it makes a huge difference in my heart rate and everything! I certainly don't know everything there is to know about oils; I'm still learning little bits here and there. What I do know is how they've helped me immensely. I have trouble sleeping. A lot. Sometimes it's just plain ol' insomnia and sometimes it's my severe anxiety. Sometimes it's both! For a long time, I have taken Xanax or Ativan twice a day to help with it. While I always had a low dose and only two per day at most, be
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A Whole New Adventure

Admittedly, I'm the last person that I'd expect to be writing about health and wellness and how to be more natural in your life. I've always been the type to grab medicine or eat unhealthy comfort food and ignore wellness in my life. The last few years, however, I've been suffering from a chronic illness.   First, a little background info about my condition. I have a disease called Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. I have had more than 17 surgeries in the past 6 years, including 3 full brain surgeries. Basically, I have too much spinal fluid. When it builds up, it puts pressure on your brain and optic nerves. This causes vision problems (I almost went blind) as well as excruciating pain, dizziness, vomiting, etc. I also have what is called status migrainosis, which means I can get migraines that last 3 days or more and require IV medication to "break them". I've had migraines so bad that I've been hospitalized, including one that mimicked a stro
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