Win It!

See yesterday's blog to learn all about what an essential oil reading and recipe is and now how to win one for you!

I am giving away one essential oil reading and recipe  to the one name picked out of the  glass jar. How to get your name into the glass jar? Easy! Two steps

1. Follow this blog.

2. Comment on this post telling us what one scent in the world brings you joy. Is it the scent of a wet forest? Or standing by the ocean breathing in salt air? Do you like the scent of coffee in the morning or do you prefer to hide your face in freshly dried clothing from the clothesline? Let us know what smells make you just downright giddy!

Win an Essential Oil Reading and Recipe

Watch tomorrow for how to win a reading and recipe from me! What is it you ask?


read on!



How it started:

My first true introduction to essential oils was back in the 1970s. Not knowing what else to do with myself after high school and not ready to attend college, I enrolled in the Elizabeth Grady School of Esthetics where I learned skin care and make up. After six months of full time school, licensing by the state and canvassing the city of Boston for a job, I landed a spot giving facials at a posh Newbury Street salon. My very first client was also my last.  Upon touching her skin I could feel the parasite load she carried within and it was too much for me to handle. At the time I had not come to terms with my abilities as a clairvoyant and medium. I walked off the job but took with me a fascination and love for essential oils.

But it was in the 1990s, after years of playing with oils on and off in soap and potion making, that I started to study them within the realm of natural healing. Cut basil oil with a carrier and apply to herpes sores.  Peppermint and rosemary diluted and applied to the back of the neck helps defuse a migraine.  I mixed formulations for my hip dysplastic Newfoundland to help his mobility and found combinations to help me work through anxiety attacks in the middle of the night. Oils became part of my every day life.

In my psychic medium world of readings and consultations, I found my time meditating in the tub benefited from certain combinations of oils. But as I worked specifically with clients the potions changed. I came to realize that the recipes were energy specific to the clients themselves. I worked with that concept with my day-to-day life, making up oils by my own energy and wearing them. They uplifted me. They made me think more positively and changed the level of my own joy.  Over time I would suggest certain oils to friends that would match the energy their spirits needed. Each essential oil has its own identity – its own soul. I developed a deep love and respect for all of them.

I knew I wanted to continue my work with oils and had no idea how that would manifest itself. I had thought of actually making up the formulations for people here at the house, but taking on the sort of inventory I would need and making sure the turn over was high enough to warrant that sort of inventory was out of the question. Then I got a call one night from a friend who was having  a serge of life changing events. As we talked I started to write down names of oils. I did not know I was even doing that. I could see them around her and watched them intertwine to bring her into a level of safety and peace. I rattled off the oils to her and told her how to put them together and how to do a 10% solution that was right for her. I did not think twice about it.

A month later a box of chocolates came US mail. Inside was a note. “Thank-you so much for the oils. You changed things for me and made it possible for me to get up each day. You should do oils for everyone Bethanne for where ever they are in their lives.”

And there it is.

All readings for essential oils are done by e-mail not by phone. No scheduling is needed! 

What exactly is a personalized essential oil reading and formulation? 

The formulation itself is a recipe of aromatic compounds (essential oils and carrier oils) that have an affinity for your unique energy. This exact grouping (formulated by me, Bethanne Elion) can assist you in your emotional and spiritual growth. It can expand your realm of safety, remove blocks and support you as you redefine your boundaries and understanding of your short and long range goals and desires while achieving a sense of balance in your every day life.

Your recipe comes with a listing of the elements within it – why they were chosen and what each is known for at a spiritual level. A link will be included in the e-mailed information for recommended sites for purchasing all the ingredients to this unique blend. You purchase and mix the ingredients yourself with the easy to follow recipe.

The reading itself will reveal the name of the mixture and how these ingredients function synergistically, working together for your wellbeing.  I use my abilities as a spiritual clairvoyant and my knowledge of essential oils and healing to create your distinctive blend.

In summation,when you get  an essential oil reading and formulation, you will receive by e-mail a detailed recipe for the formulation, link or links on where to purchase the ingredients for you to easily mix up the oils yourself, explanations of each oil in the formulation, the name of the blend and information on how they work together for you.

Why can’t I just go to the store and buy a premade blend of oils?

Though there are an infinite number of blends available in stores and on line, none of these concoctions are blended exactly to your energy. A formula, for example, may be called Balance and contain oils that are known for balancing certain aspects of emotions or spirit. The question is, are they the aspects that apply to you?  Though some of the oils may be accurate, they may not be in the proper proportions for your needs.  They may also not be the right choice of oils at all!  Having your scents custom blended to your energy means that the choices are going to be 100% accurate to you and not to the general public which may apply to you a little, a lot or not at all. It takes the guessing out of it. You are a unique individual and your formulation should be unique to you!

Oh how cool is this!

My friend and founder of Hidden Wisdom Radio is running a contest on her facebook page.  The prizes are very very cool indeed. Please check out the link to Bernadette's Vision on Facebook.

Essential Oils for the Empath

On last night's Hidden Wisdom Radio Show Bernadette Dickinson and I discussed  what it is like to be empathic and tools to use to handle every day life if you are. Two essential oils that often end up in formulations I do for empaths, especially ones just learning to get a  handle on their gift, are frankincense and lemon in combination.

Frankincense helps for spiritual and emotional boundaries and for removing anything negative existing within your auric field. I call it the llama in the field. Llamas are known guard animals and can protect livestock from predators. That is one of the joys of using frankincense in your home or on your person. This essence helps produce a feeling of emotional stability while protecting your boundaries and helping you to understand exactly what those boundaries are. With that understanding it makes it easier for you to define whose emotions you are feeling - yours or someone else's feelings. The sweet spicy scent of frankincense also helps to raise one's energy higher and helps to find your courage while instilling a sense of inspiration.

In formulating for empathic souls I came across a pattern of two oils in combination within their formulations - frankincense and lemon. Lemon is the oil of clarity and direction. It completes the ability to define who you are and who someone else is and separate out the two. If in a crowd of people the empath can often be overwhelmed by other's emotions. Lemon aids in understanding where you start and end and what should be held onto and what should be discarded. It uplifts one's soul and emotions making it easier to operate from a place of love and understanding while seeing life for exactly what it is. Lemon also helps cleanse the spirit and in combination with the guardian at the gate, frankincense, they will aid you in repelling negative forces and thinking.

My preferred place to purchase my essential oils is far and away hands down Mounatin Rose Herbs . They have ethical practices of running their business and support ethical growers and wild crafters. Not only that their prices are reasonable and most certainly NOT over priced, nor are they a pyramid scheme. Please check out their web site. I have been purchasing from them for well over a decade now and have always been impressed by their customer service and their commitment to the planet's ecology.

For personalized essential oil readings from me please visit my website!

Psychic False Pregnancy

Despite being able to see some things quite clearly psychically, there are times I feel it is very important to use both sides of the brain in making decisions or finding answers. One of those times happened yesterday with my six and a half year old Newfoundland dog, India. She is an unspayed female and at about the two month mark since having her heat.

India started her signs of having a false pregnancy and with the time frame she is due to deliver the ghostly pups by Friday the 13th of this week. She is not the alpha bitch of this household (insert your own humor here). As a subordinate it is not surprising that she goes through such false pregnancies. In the wild  it is the alpha female who has the pups and the other females go through false pregnancies and have milk to nurse the litter if needed or can take over if something happens to the alpha. How beautifully nature provides! So India goes through her false pregnancies and deliveries.

This time it has escalated though! Her pawing the carpet and digging holes outside is accompanied by howling with head up to the sky and whining and clinging to me. She literally has been spooning with me at night. I have to say with the cold weather she is saving a bundle on my heating bill by having her as a blanket! But despite seeing in my mind's eye a faux singleton pup in her uterus, and despite seeing my guide throwing out CBC results in a waste paper basket because there was nothing there to worry about, I was concerned because there is an overlap of symptoms with something very serious - Pyometra. Her overlap symptoms included excessive water drinking, panting, not eating. Her body temp was normal but with a big dog like this I won't take a chance. I decided to take her in for a quick check.

The vet I use for emergencies is somewhat local - Dr. Christian. She is just lovely! Always cheery and happy to see India. Though she is western in her methods she is very open to my ways and so respectful. I can work well with someone like her because of that mutual respect. She checked India over and felt that she was within that first stage of the false pregnancy - the week before delivery. The next stage would go for about three weeks then all should calm down. She did a swab of the vulva and no infection was found and we decided to hold off doing a CBC since India did eat and did not vomit and she really just looked like a massive false pregnancy case.

I realized while standing there that we had a double whammy going on at that moment. It was not just a  full moon but a full moon in kidney season by Chinese Five Element. The moon can effect dogs with kidney, thyroid and adrenal issues or the sex organs. We had those two issues plus I have been noticing excessive chem trails in the sky as of late. No doubt that that could be effecting her hormone levels as well.

So I loaded my big black love bug back into the car and had just enough time to make it over to the lake to watch the sun set and to photograph it. I felt a sense of relief. Even though I do trust what I am shown, I want the validation that I am not sugar coating anything because it is my dog and I love her so much. Sometimes we don't want to see things as they really are. That and when it comes to health issues nothing beats a lovely diagnosis with test results that are valid and accurate. If the testing is safe to do and not real money grabbers I will opt every time to have that sense of peace.

As an animal communicator and pet psychic I feel that there is a sense of ethics that needs to be followed regarding prescribing and diagnosis. I do neither! I have been goaded many times by would be clients who insist that I diagnose their pets. I will point you in the right direction and give the feelings and how it manifests physically but I am not an x-ray machine nor is there a DVM after my name. Having an animal looked at by a professional eye can be a life saver and is another aspect of getting the whole picture even for someone like me who sees the inside story without the x-ray machine. Vets see myriad animals every day and have an extreme reference in their experience as to what is happening in an individual case. Though one may choose to do a different course of action than a vet suggests, the diagnostic tools can be priceless.

My vet felt I probably had more rabbits in my hat than she to help India have some peace through her faux pregnancy. I have been putting rescue remedy on India's earflaps and spraying a bit into her mouth and also using a bit of lavender essential oil to massage her neck and head so that she inhales the fragrance of it. I also used a wee bit of rose essential oil to keep her spiritually high and equal to me since we reflect each other in so many ways.

Here is one of my shots from the lake after our veterinary visit.

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Radio Show and more of the Dental Mayhem

Last night Bernadette Dickinson and I brought back Hidden Wisdom Radio. Our new time  live on Blog Talk Radio is Sunday nights 5PM Pacific, 6 PM Mountain and 8PM Eastern. One can also download it or listen on line after the live show any time.

It felt right to be back in the groove of relationship coaching. We talked about detachment. I am going to listen to the show again over coffee after I finish writing today's blog!

If you have been following the return of my blog, you know that last year, against my better judgement and intuition I had dental implants put in where I had lost two molars. The amount of dental work I have needed is in direct response to my body's  state of being overly run down and abused by focusing my attentions on everything and everyone else but myself. This is not an unusual event for many women, especially those with households and children. For me it was sick animals and a huge home and property.

I left off at developing food allergies. I could not tolerate any refined foods at all. It was not just wheat or gluten but rather anything processed or pasteurized. I also realized that by keeping a diet of more alkaline ph foods I could control the burning in my mouth. One afternoon I indulged in a rice cracker. The result was a blood blister that broke immediately in the back of the roof of my mouth. That was the last refined food I have eaten.

As someone who has been deeply involved in nutrition for dogs for nearly twenty years you would think my diet would have been better than it was. I allowed sugars and sweets and ate sourdough breads even though I never really felt wonderful after indulging in foods made from flours. It was time to really focus on what I could eat to maintain myself through figuring out how to handle what had happened to me.

My diet became all about the greens. Green salads, green vegetables like Brussel sprouts and green peppers and loads and loads and loads of kale became the focus. A year before this I disliked kale. But the more I focused on green as the center of my food universe, the more I found myself craving it. Quinoa with sauteed garlic, Brussel sprouts and a squeeze of lemon became a normal breakfast. Though lemon is acidic is alkalizes the body and I bought lemons by the armload. My acupuncturist recommended adding lamb for the protein which worked out for me. People are usually surprised to hear that I am not a vegetarian. I am not and that is not easy for me in ways I will one day discuss here.

My other discovery came by intuition. I had found I needed to bring something to drink with me where ever I went in case my mouth felt very acidic (which is always did). I forgot to bring a kombucha drink with me when I had to go wait for my car to be serviced. I ran into the Rutland Coop and discovered that  the GT's Kombucha line available throughout the US now has a three flavors with chia seeds in them. It looked rather odd but I was very drawn to it. Chia is known for its use in endurance sports. The native Americans used to use it to keep their stamina over long treks. I purchased two. For the first time since being ill I found I had a bit of energy. I was amazed at how one bottle of the Cherry Chia seemed to help revive me. I now buy two cases of this at a  time and drink one to two a day. It is rather an indulgence because of the cost but it is worth it for the energy it gives me to get things done like work!

My diet now is not unlike what someone would do for any illness, higher  alkaline ph, no refined or pasteurized foods, raw milk from grass fed cows and fresh organic foods preferably locally grown. It is more time consuming than throwing a sandwich together but I have found the average meal takes me 20 minutes to pull together. Next summer I am adding raised beds to my yard to grow my own greens and a juicing garden. For once I am coming first and it is working for me.

I know that when I have the implants removed and my body finds its way back to normal that I will not be going back to eating the way I was. I have truly felt such a connection to the way I am eating now - very cleanly and for nutrition rather than culinary delight. Oddly and thankfully the way I eat now has become the only culinary delight I want. I crave quinoa and juiced drinks. I make an ice cream with no sugar but rather raw cream, egg yolks and a few chopped dates as the sweetness. The raw cream and eggs are so good for my teeth! and health!

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