Hey!

I want to share some exciting news with you—simpleshiftstowellness.com is returning to its roots by sharing essential oils alongside our other resources to help you overcome anxiety and emotional trauma.

If you've been here from the beginning, you know that I used to sell Young Living Essential Oils & essential oil-infused products.

In fact, this email used to be called Your Anxiety Toolkit, where I would share anxiety tips, mindset shifts, scripture, and health tips to support your healing journey. (I'm considering returning to that format- but more on that another time.)

But I stopped for a long time to focus on blogging and, really, to be totally transparent- to work through some emotional issues.

From a strictly financial standpoint, direct sales with Young Living was more successful than any of the affiliate products I share. (I think to date I have made eleven cents with affiliate marketing.)

But I stopped sharing Young Living because I thought I had to be this perfect non-tox billboard of a human being to sell oils.

I felt I had to be a certain kind of woman, mother, Christian, homeschool mom.

That I had to bake bread and sit in a field with a picnic basket, happily homeschooling my kids every day while dousing us all with oils. That my home had to be perfect, that I had to be charismatic yet vulnerable, that I had to be...well, someone I'm not.

At the core of it, I was trying to create a new identity instead of approaching it as a person who sells products that I believe in.

As I'm working through my underlying trauma issues, I'm learning to separate my identity from what I do. I'm learning to get to know Donna and accept her as she is.

Low-tox living will not solve all of our problems, but it can help us get healthier.

And that's the focus of simpleshiftstowellness.com. To show you that you can make great changes for your family without losing your mind or thinking you need to be someone you're not.

And I'll share my process throughout this new endeavor as I have along my healing journey.

If you're on Instagram- I made a short video about this all here.

I'll leave you with my favorite affirmation that I learned from my Emotional Coach, Ryan of @beatanxiety.me:

I say this multiple times a day because it's true. And a year ago, I didn't believe it, but now that I do...the sky really is the limit.

I hope you can say this too and really believe it. Because you are loved, respected, and accepted.

Thanks for being here,

💕Donna Bartos | Anxiety Recovery Blogger

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