After the fortnight I've had (booted off Facebook, tumble dryer packing in, turns out it was just the fuse, and losing my new book document, then found), I'm looking forward to my swapsie session with @Ewa Skabek this morning. It will involve Reflexology and Crasnio-Sacral Therapy and of course plenty of smellies! ❤️ My little munchkins (grandchildren) bring me no end of joy. It was my grandaughter's 3rd birthday yesterday, but I'll be seeing her and her brother Saturday afternoon. I often get told off by my daughter for behaving like a big kid...... do I care? Of course not! 😂 My other self-care is taking myself off to a private woodland owned by a good friend, where I run Wild Women in the Woods every summer. I love the woods, the campfire and cooking and eating outdoors. 🌲 I'm also happy as a pig-in-muck when I'm investigating new oils. I've investigated and written about some 250 EO's over the years and I have another 20 odd I'm going to be looking into over the coming months. It's not just the chemistry stuff, I look at that as the oils A&P, I'm more interested in their personality, like finding out what really underlies a clients issues. What do you do for self-care?

Reading the book Gift of Power by Archie Fire Lame Deer, he talks about how it was inconvenient being a Medicine Man, Shaman and Healer because he would be called to administer healing to the tribe which was sometimes scattered across the reservation. The dilemma was, he said, that he was born to be the healer and Medicine Man. Do you feel that you have endured struggles financially or pycholgically because you were born to work in this field?

This morning's post is all about 'Levels'. You may have noticed next to your profile picture is a wee number. This denotes the 'Level' you have achieved in this group. Behind the scenes as it were, Skool has a bit of a 'gaming' system. They calculate your interaction in the group. The more you participate through liking, commenting, posting and participating, they award you points. The more points you get, the higher you will level up. This is also a way for us 'admins' of a group to offer you a reward for your participation! This morning I added an essential oil profile to each level. There are 9 in total and I have attributed an essential oil to each level. If you hop on the Classroom tab, you will find various things automatically unlocked for you, depending on what level you are at. If you then click on what is accesible to you, you will enter that specific 'classroom'. In the class, you will find the profile of the oil available for you to download. Once you have done that you need to click on the wee ✅ icon. Doing this will also add to your leveling up points. HOWEVER, if you upgrade to Premium membership for $6 which is just under £5 a month, a whole heap more besides the EO profiles will open up to you, including access to a monthly get together for example, and much more. So get cracking, have a read, like comments and posts, make a post as some of you have, explore the Classroom tab and see what is available to you and enjoy!

Come on @John Payne @Ernie Boxall and @Matthew Sulpizi what are your favourite smells, keep it clean! 😂 For the Aromatherapists in our tribe...... which eo's could we combine to replicate their fav smell's? Aaand.....go!......

What is your favourite, go-to aromatherapy book, excluding mine 😊, and your favourite book, of any genre, that you've read several times? I'll start, my fav Aromatherapy book is the one at the front of the photo. My 'other' favourite book is To Kill a Mockingbird with Perfume on equal footing. So which are your favourites?