Author: Essy Dias

So you may be wondering what is up with all this ‘wellness’ stuff. When did I get into all this, is it a new religion? lol. So I owe you the whole back story.

I see my whole life as one amazing journey with my Lord, the highs and even the lows all have lead me down a particular path. I love it when all the pieces of the puzzle start coming together and begin revealing a beautiful scene. It fills you with hope and desire to continue.

I guess I have to go pretty far back, I had my first experience with doctors and the medical industry when I was around 6 I think. I remember that’s when my sore throats started, and my parents were told that I needed to have my tonsils and adenoids removed…so off they came. I hope that parents today are a bit more educated and know the importance of keeping their child’s entire lymphatic system whole and not give in to the first suggestion of surgery…but we’ll get back to that later (maybe). They were also told that this might help in getting me to gain weight (I guess that kicked in around 30 years later…oh where’s the rolling eyes emoji when I need it.)

Anyway…I’m not sure how much that all helped, I continued to get awful strep throats and a myriad of other illnesses through my early years. Then along came the sinus infections in my adult hood. Antibiotics for the win, right? Ummm… again… we’ll leave that for later. Then there was the whole infertility fiasco…shocker of shockers…come on…I was so darn healthy all my life…how could this be? But no worries…the medical industry has a pill for that (injections actually)…and nope…no lifestyle changes needed…gosh…you don’t even have to find out why your beautifully created body isn’t doing the thing it was created to do…you know…self heal.

And then Panic Attacks…what? Where did that come from? No just kidding…that was never asked. But here honey…more pills for you. How long after that did my heart start going off kilter? Is there a correlation? Shhh. It’s SVT…here take these…that is if you don’t want to have surgery. Are you sure you don’t want to have surgery? We can burn that little extra pathway in your heart and it will be good as new? What…I have an extra pathway? Did you see it? How do we know? Shhhh…you’re not very compliant…we think you need to go see a psychiatrist. Ok…but wait, how am I not compliant…I’ve taken every single thing that you have given me….all the things you said would heal me. Oh right…you didn’t use the word ‘heal’ …so what were we trying to do? Shut me up? :'( Anyway…the diagnosis and the list of medications we’re growing exponentially, until I said enough. Thank You Lord for giving me the strength to say ENOUGH!!!

Finally found an MD who didn’t push meds, who was willing to do all the tests and work with me. We looked at diet and how it was causing inflammation. Then the Lord took over from there and continued to inspire me to keep learning. This desire to learn and to reach others with whatever I was learning was growing right along with my frustration with the medical and pharmaceutical industry. I remember when I was in middle school wanting to be a Pediatrician. Then in high school that changed and I now wanted to go to Nursing school. I can now see how that wasn’t the path the Lord had in mind for me as that would have gone right along with the status quo of conventional medicine… I was meant for something different…to live life outside the proverbial box.

This may sounds like I’m totally dissing conventional medicine and I’m really not. It has its place for sure. When my son swallowed a few magnets that perforated his intestines, it was a medical team at Children’s Hospital that saved his life. Our medical industry as it stands is great for critical care, but when it comes to chronic ailments it can be such a struggle. In that case we need to become self advocates, we need to learn about our own bodies and its needs and we have to have the strength to do all that is required.

I just realized that it has been quite a while since my last blog post. The Lord has been leading me through so much, I’ve been sharing quite a few bits and pieces of it on Instagram and on facebook, but I forget to sit and compose a more complete post here. So today I want to share with you some of the things that have been going on lately and how the Lord answers prayer sometimes in the most natural way.

2019 was filled with many ups and downs regarding my health. After a very intense health crash at the end of 2018 where I had landed in the hospital over night. I started learning about the alkaline diet and the alkaline way of life in general, and also about the lymphatic system. I came across a book called ‘Get off your acid’ and it really changed things around for me. I was able to get myself off of a medication that I had been on for a couple of decades and greatly impressed my primary care physician as well as my cardiologist with how well I was doing. But diets on their own are difficult to maintain, and if you’re relying solely on them then it’s easy to relapse. That’s kind of what happened to me over the Summer, I wasn’t back to square one but had slid enough to cause a health struggle.

I’ve always had an affinity for a more holistic approach to health care…diet, exercise, vitamins and herbs… any gentle form of healing, as pharmaceutical drugs often have a very negative effect on me…curing one thing, but leaving me with so many other issues. So, when I started to struggle again…I went back to praying… and listening. The Lord kept showing me ‘Frankinsense’…mind you, I wasn’t much into oils at this point. I had some that I had bought on Amazon and used them to make the house smell nice instead of using air fresheners which literally made me ill (as well as many other things I had around the house…cleaners, my husband’s cologne, soap, laundry detergent…the list was insane by this point and it was very hard to explain to my family. It’s not that I didn’t like these smells, I did…sometimes very much…but they made me physically ill.)

By the end of November I got an invitation from my friend Cath, for me to come to her massage studio, where she had another friend from our Route One Networking Group, Kimberly Marrama, come in and introduce us to essential oils. More specifically Young Living products. During the course of her presentation, she goes on to mention Frankinsense and my ears perk up at this point, and then she mentions something about the lymphatic system and the light bulb started coming on. She enthusiastically shared her experience and knowledge with us. We got to test some of the oils, I had brought my 17 year old daughter with me who absolutely loves this stuff…and we were in heaven.

I immediately came home and ordered my starter kit and it was like Christmas when it arrived. I just had to get out the bottle of Frankincense that came with it and started looking up recipes to use it on. I found one for a face cream  and began using it religiously…I’m serious…like in obedience to God. Had no clue why other than I felt strongly that this is what I needed to be doing.  I did have some skin issues, a mole between my eyes and some scarring from my teen years dealing with acne. Also, at the age of 56, I’m thinking the Lord just thinks I need a little extra help in this department. lol. But if someone had asked me then what I most struggled with health wise, I would not have said skin issues…not even close.

Well, a couple of weeks later I go to my regularly scheduled doctor’s appointment and they didn’t like the look of that mole I mentioned before. The skin specialists came in and felt sure it was Basel Cell Carcinoma, so they booked an appointment at the dermatologist right away. That was followed up by a biopsy which confirmed within days that I had a very common form of skin cancer.  But quite frankly…I don’t care how common it was…knowing that there was any type of cancer cells in my body kind of freaked me out and escalated my stress level. My mom had died of cancer, and it runs rampant in my extended family. I know that cancer cells can come and go, and that our body can usually deal with it…so if it hadn’t…something within me wasn’t right. High acidity explains it… especially due to lengthy highly stressful and emotional life events.

I felt confident though that if the Lord was providing me with something to help me then it would all be ok…He had this covered. 😀 I had sometime leading up to the biopsy and then a couple of weeks from then until the scheduled Mohs surgery and I was committed to doing all I could on my end to help the healing along. I went back on my alkaline diet, used my my face cream with the Frankinsense and diffused relaxing oils to keep me in the present moment and not worrying about anything that I had no control over.  And of course, asked prayers form anyone that I came in contact with.

The surgery went very well, they only had to go in and cut twice…sometimes it can take many attempts, as they go layer by layer to get all of the cancer. I followed doctors orders for after care, and used the Vaseline instead of my cream while the stitches were still in place, but now I’m back to using the Frankincense cream and I’m fully confident that it will help keep the scarring to a minimum. I’ve now also bought the YL Sun Screen lotion as well as their body lotion. I’m getting rid of all the household toxins I can, and replacing them with YL products. I take my health seriously. If you think these health products are expensive, you should see my medical bills from this surgery alone. 🙁  I’d rather spend my money on health maintenance, wouldn’t you?

I need to add a little blurb here…when I started mentioning oils, some friends felt they needed to warn me against the ‘pyramid schemes’ out there. Honestly… if more people can make a living through these amazing products by dispersing education and sharing their own experiences, I’m all for it. I listen to God’s voice and His leading, and this is all I want to show others to do as well.  God doesn’t need a product to support my healing process… but if He chooses to use one, who am I to say no? I didn’t say no to pharmaceutical drugs all those years and no one batted an eye.

If you’d like to know more about this feel free to contact me.  Here is my link if you’d like to order a start up kit…it comes with so many amazing oils and other great products at a highly discounted rate. You’d pay so much more if you were to buy everything separately. Anyway…I know that I sound like an advertisement and I’m not even sorry for it. lol. Just ‘stepping into’ obedience and doing what I’m feeling called to do.

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In my last post, The Values Factor I mentioned my great passion for making the Kingdom’s attainability starting right here and now, known, and desired. Many who call themselves Christians have never even considered the possibility of becoming saints when they die, never mind becoming one in this life.

What if I were to tell you that not only is it possible, but it’s actually what we were created for. Anything short of this lofty goal is a total waste of a life.

God created Paradise for His Children, the saints…it’s our home as had been His plan from the very beginning. Even though on this side of eternity many of us unfortunately have wasted much time trudging through the desert or even stuck in Egypt … it doesn’t take away from the fact that heaven… our promised land is ours to inhabit…entrance was forfeited for a time when sin entered the world but it was bought back for us at an incredible price by the King Himself and although we won’t experience its totality until this life is complete, we can have a share in it right now.

So what does the kingdom look like in the day to day? Does it mean we all have to be absolutely perfect in everything we say and do and all look a certain way? Perfect house, perfect cooking, perfect everything? Maybe a halo to boot? Ummm…not quite.

Worldly perfectionism is NOT holiness. And THAT is the only criteria for inhabiting the Kingdom… we need to be holy just as Jesus is Holy! Maintaining a state of Grace!!

If we think of sin as specs of dirt on our glasses, it distorts our vision making us unable to even see the Kingdom, or see it only very faintly. Holiness or being in a state of Grace then is unobstructed vision.

This is why our Blessed Mother’s prayers on our behalf are so powerful. She was ‘full of grace’ as per the angel that approached her.

So how is this accomplished? Well, not by our own merits that’s for sure. If there had ever been even the smallest possibility of entering heaven based on our own good works, then Jesus wouldn’t have had to come and be crucified and die for us.

It’s only by His grace which He imparts to us first through our Baptism, that grants our sanctification and then is lived out through a life of faith.

This faith is not mere lip service, with all due respect to my Protestant friends.

Uttering a prayer is certainly a great start… but we’ll have to back it up with action…or what I like to call ‘Holy Obedience’.

Like Mary tells us in the Bible “do whatever He says”.

Jesus didn’t leave us to struggle on this earth on our own.

He left His church in charge of serving His people. Providing nourishment for the journey via the Sacraments. And He left us to live in community with one another and be a light in a world that is growing in darkness.

For further reading!!

The Communion of saints by Pope Francis