How to Change Your Mindset

Do you ever feel like who you want to be is unachievable?

Does it seem like there is a block that prevents you from reaching your dreams?

Do you want to be positive but find you easily slip back into negativity?

Do old experiences keep you locked in fear or worry?

That was me…

In 2017, we discovered we were living in a home with hidden mold.

Chronic Lyme symptoms had emerged in myself and multiple children.

We had to leave our home and belongings to heal.

In the years following we were healing under the treatment of a wonderful doctor.

However, even with the healing, I was still very stuck emotionally.

Mold in buildings or feelings similar to that time period would trigger me often.

I looked for any tool that would help my brain heal. I slathered essential oils on my body to calm the fight or flight response.

While that helped, it didn’t cause lasting change.

I tried EMDR with a practitioner but her office was in a basement that was musty and caused strong reactions.

I felt so stuck in fear and worry.

I wanted to have hope and believe good for things in the future.

But my body was often in fight or flight.

I kept praying for help and full healing.

That is when I joined a business group with the purpose of growing my business.

The first step of the program was to do a Group Aroma Freedom Session with Heather Harbaugh.

Heather guided us through the Aroma Freedom Technique in her own amazing way.

Aroma Freedom is a technique that uses a series of questions and steps combined with essential oils to break negative patterns, mindsets and memories.

My first session was powerful and I knew this was a gift from God to me…

I started doing my own aroma freedom sessions often.

The Aroma Freedom steps combined with active prayer brought incredible transformation in my body and my mind…

• I started acting out of purpose and freedom instead of fear and anger.
• I was able to resolve significant effects from the various traumas I had experienced as a result of the mold.
• I have been able to be in a place of significant mold and not completely shut down like I used to be.
• My body is healing at a faster rate than ever before.
• I am creating loving boundaries for myself that I need for life and health.
• I have newfound ability to hear the Lord and follow His guidance.
• I moved through the fears and anxiety to trust and hope as we embraced our recent ministry transition.
• I am parenting with connection and love instead of fear and overwhelm.

I knew soon that I wanted to be able to offer this gift to others and so I began training and became certified as an Aroma Freedom Practitioner in January 2021.

That’s where I learned WHY this was working for such big change for me. Every experience we go through is logged in our brain. Difficult or hard experiences are often remembered more than those that were a more neutral experience. And that memory becomes predictive. It doesn’t just tell you what was – it tells your body what will be.

However a small bit of mold wasn’t detrimental to my body in the way that living in a home with hidden mold was. However my brain sensed the danger and went into alert. So I needed to disrupt the memory complex – the way the memory was remembered and what it was telling my brain to do.

That’s where aroma freedom comes in – it addresses the whole memory complex – the image, the feeling, the negative message or voice and where it was felt in the body. In the technique we bring all those pieces up and then we disrupt them with the smell of the oils. It works because of how the olfactory system and limbic system interact.

I love leading others through these sessions because I watch people go from upset and tight to calm and relaxed at the end of our time together. And suddenly people have insights and clarity about their dreams or struggles.

We end the Aroma Sessions with affirmations of truth and life.

That’s why I created my own set of affirmation cards that are now selling on Amazon to offer as a gift to women around the world to live in positive truth and love instead of fear or overwhelm!

This is a continual process for me to change my mindset. I need readjusting and “freeing” all the time. I choose to step back into my new ways thinking daily. I am so thankful for this tool to daily change my mindset and break through to the thriving life that God desires for all of us.

I invite you to thrive with me! If you are interested in your own aroma freedom session, you can learn more by clicking here! I offer 1-1 guided sessions and I also teach individuals or groups how to do this for themselves!