How My Big Toe Convinced Me That Essential Oils Work

I’m an experienced business leader/executive who provides in-depth consultation and business coaching, allowing individuals to achieve personal success and business growth. As a business leader/executive, I know the importance of essential oils to keeping me healthy. But I haven’t always understood. It took a drop of an oil blend on my big toe to convince me of the power of essential oils.

I used to have horrible "seasonal respiratory issues" (running nose, itchy eyes, etc.).

They were so bad that I didn’t sleep well, most nights resorting to propping myself up to elevate my head and waking up multiple times a night to blow my nose. One day at the office, after a particularly bad night, I was complaining about my allergies and how they were affecting me. A co-worker insisted that I needed to meet with his wife. He said she could help me. We set up a meeting and she showed up with a basket full of essential oils, a book about how to use them, and a diffuser. Once she spent some time telling me all about essential oils, she advised me to apply an oil blend to my big toe when I went to bed that night.

I thought… “Clearly she didn’t get it”. I tried to explain that my problem was allergies, pointing at my head and my sinuses (which were, clearly, a long way from my big toe).

She just smiled and repeated her instructions to apply the oil blend to my big toe. I took the basket with the oils, not wanting to be rude but thinking that she really didn’t seem to understand my issue.

That night I told my boyfriend about the meeting, expressing my skepticism that putting anything on my big toe was going to magically clear up my sinuses. “What do you have to lose?” he asked me. Agreeing with him, I applied the oil blend to my big toe, rolling my eyes in the process. Then I went to sleep.

I slept all night. Without being propped up on uncomfortable pillows or using a half a box of tissue blowing my nose all night. It was the first night in a long time that I had been able to do that.

The next morning, I asked my boyfriend if he thought it was the oil blend that had made a difference. “Who cares!!??” he said. “You were able to sleep. I’d call that a win.”

It felt like a miracle and that’s how Breathe® became my “gate-way” oil

I didn’t set out to build a business with dōTERRA. I was content to have found what seemed like a miracle cure for my allergies.
My position as a leader/executive is a big job and a full work week.
However, as I began to use and learn more about these amazing oils, I decided I wanted to share them and started my dōTERRA business part time. In the years since, I’ve been building my business outside of my full time job. I love researching and gaining understanding about essential oils and supplements, and I especially love helping people change their lives for the better by sharing that information.