By Shari Caspert, Mom of 17 year old Matthew Aromatherapy: Back to School Essentials For your Special Needs Child, Teacher, Therapists, Aides & You It’s September and it’s time to get organized. Time for our family to get ready to go back to school. IEP’s, backpacks, shoes, clothing, supplies and Essential Oils! As parents of special needs children, we often separate our kids and families as “Special Needs” , however the start of school brings the same issues for everyone in our household. Our emotions, excitement & anxiety are heightened whether we are attending pre-school, elementary school, middle school, high school or college. We are all typical and have the same issues as…

This has been quite a crazy winter! We live in Northern New Jersey, have had lots of “indoor” family time due a very harsh winter season. We have all gone from the “Holidays”, right into bad weather and Matthew has had many “snow days” off from school, how I loved those as kid!!! What is best for our Angels and families? Routine, fresh air, eating well, sleeping well & controlling “stress”. This helps us keep our minds, bodies and immune systems working well and helps to protect us from colds and flu. It is important to keep our spirits uplifted, and our bodies and minds balanced. This is how we…

By Shari Caspert, Mom to Matthew age 17 I was introduced to Young Living Essential Oils three years ago by another special needs Mom, our son Matthew was 14 at the time… I really had no experience with essential oils, or aromatherapy. I always thought that we lived a pretty healthy lifestyle, ate well, exercised & tried to get a good nights sleep – tricky with our Angelman Kids! We are now a family that lives on Stress Away, Deep Relief, Lavender, Peace & Calming, Frankincense, Lemon, Thieves, Ningxia, Peppermint and more.. This is my everyday survival kit!!! I am sure that you are wondering, How can this help me? …