Hi friends!

This has been an incredibly heavy week for many of us. News from Canada and overflowing dms of hardship and transition all over the world have kept my heart and head in a state of prayer and wanting to help as much as I can!!! We are still in an Airbnb and praying over properties and where we are supposed to land for the time being.

One of our great friends just left after a few amazing days and Oliver is coming to visit us so my heavy heart is simultaneously overflowing! This is going to be a shorter email as we’re taking a bit of a break this week to enjoy family.

Here’s what you’ll find in this week's email...

• We answered 2 more FAQs (long ones)! If you missed any of our previous FAQs, you can find them here.
• After reading through so many of your questions, we realized a lot were related to products we talk about on IG. We decided to create a separate questionnaire for you to ask these questions so we can attempt to answer more of them. You can ask product questions here and we will get back to you ASAP.
• This Saturday at 6PM PST(8 PM CST), we're going to attempt to go live on IG again. We hope to see you there!
• Next Thursday at 6PM PST we are running a private Zoom call to discuss essential oils, how we use them, and how you can add them into your health routine. If you’re interested in joining the zoom, click this link and we’ll email you info before the call!
• Winners of last week's giveaway announced!
• This week's giveaway winners are being chosen today! Remember, for Oct-Nov, we are giving away a grand prize EVERY WEEK. We are sending a separate email to the winners! Keep an eye on your inbox! You have until 5PM PST today(Friday) to get your entries in!

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FAQ's Answered This Week

1. Any tips for sex after having a baby?
2. Any suggestions on how to balance growing your business with time with your children?

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Any tips for sex after having a baby?

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Sex and sexual health are not talked about NEARLY enough….and we are going to try to change that here in this newsletter. But not until we are more settled and not on the road :)

But the quick answer for sex after a baby (whether vaginal OR C section) is PATIENCE mixed with proactive tools and communication.

One of the most disturbing aspects of postpartum care for women is the “6 week checkup”. This is supposed to be when we get the “all clear” for sex (insert hysterical laughing face and then serious sad face).

I had zero tools for postpartum after my first baby when I was 24 yrs old and I remember lying to my husband after my check up with my midwife. I told him she said I wasn’t ready to have sex yet and needed a few more weeks to heal. I was in such a DEEP depression (depletion) I could barely even think about having sex emotionally, never mind physically.

Arggghhhh I need to write a book on this topic alone. BUT for the sake of this newsletter…..remember…sex is healing, sex is loving, sex is incredible but only when 2 people are loving and healing and in communication around it.

Every birth is different, with different physical and emotional triggers and possible traumas. The biggest difference between my first postpartum sexual experience and 3rd (15 years later) was knowledge, tools, confidence in communication and grace.

Knowing so much more about my body, and giving it what it needs during the 4th trimester season of the greatest depletion ever after giving everything to creating a human life inside of me for 9 months. I made sure I was recovering and replenishing on a cellular, physical and emotional level!

Proper hydration is HUGE. Nutrient dense nutrition is HUGE. Skin to skin as much as possible is HUGE. Making sure I had help (even just enough to take a shower) is HUGE.

We used to live in tribes where mothering the mother was normal and imperative to human existence. Now, mothers who take pictures of themselves on a computer while double pumping and “bounced back” are praised (but I can assure you the emotional toll is devastating).

So back to sex…I would encourage you to do pelvic floor exercises (especially if you didn’t during pregnancy) so that your organs don’t prolapse from the weight of the baby and water in utero. This can cause pain during sex.

I would also highly recommend starting with massage (or communicate if you don’t feel like being touched because you have babies hanging off you all day long). Skin to skin with your partner is just as healing as skin to skin with your baby.

​ASEA has been my greatest healing tool internally and externally when it comes to cellular communication and rapid healing. I still use ASEA to this day after sex to heal any pain around my episiotomy scar 18 years ago.

Also the Joylux has been a complete game changer for my sexual experience postpartum. (Internal red-light therapy with gentle heat and vibration). But if you are unable to make that investment in your season then I would recommend coconut oil or a nontoxic lubrication.

Ok…more to come on that…that’s what she said…

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Any suggestions on how to balance growing your business with time with your children?

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The way we are growing our business while raising children is based on prioritizing…not balancing. We quickly get burned out when we try to “balance” everything because it’s IMPOSSIBLE!

When we set priorities and remain flexible (because kids aren’t robots and they have accidents, emotions, needs and phases) we are able to make time for different tasks and not everything at once. Seasons are different for everyone and it’s important to do what you can in the season YOU are in and not compare yourself to anyone else especially when raising children because everyone is so beautifully unique and comparison will steal your joy.

Speaking of joy….that is a key way we are able to build a business and spend time with our family. We have found joy in working from home in a business that helps people! This brings us SO MUCH JOY!

Whether it's working with my beauty counter team, our Asea team, or Young living team, or creating content for partnerships on social media, or talking to personal clients…we are able to do this all from home and prioritize our time and when we schedule “work” that brings us an income, and “work” raising our family.

We make our own schedule and it is able to change as frequently as the kids change. We have not always been able to wake up early because sleep was a priority when the kids were babies, but now that they are older we are able to make it a priority to wake up a few hours before them and fill up my cup so we can give to everyone else from my overflow instead of our reserves… We also take turns to make sure we can create time to focus on taking care of ourselves. You cannot fill anyone else up from an empty cup.

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Congratulations to our 2nd and 3rd place winners who are receiving wellness bundles tailored to the season they're in!

Caroline - @mcboys

Nicole - @nsclemson

Grand Prizes To Choose From This Week

Our 2nd week’s winners will be chosen tonight at 5PM PST, and notified by email. They will be able to choose one of these amazing grand prizes! The next winners will be chosen next Friday at 5PM PST. Enter here if you haven't!

• ​Therasage Thera360 Plus Infrared Sauna + Coaching to teach you how to best utilize the sauna from our friends at Therasage.(code ANGI10)
• ​Somavedic EMF Kit - Somavedic Device + Pendant(code ANGI)
• ​Organifi - 3 months of their Complete Health System(code ANGI)
• ​ASEA Redox - 6 Month Supply
• Sleep Package - Chilisleep Sleep System + Blue Light Glasses
• Air + Water Package - Airdoctor 3000 + Berkey Water Filter​

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Love Angi & Arlynd(and the kids)

Ps. Keep your eyes out for the most incredible mindful gift guide we have ever put together that’s dropping in the next few days!

Pps. If you’re new to our newsletter, you can find our last few emails here!

Ppps. We received a LOT of questions about ASEA after last week's email, and we know their website is hard to navigate. In the next week or so, we will be putting out a blog with all the most important info about ASEA in one place. We will send that out, but in the meantime, if you have any questions please submit them here and we will get back to you!
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