My WHY – Why I Joined doTERRA

I want to share my answer I wrote to a friend who asked why doTERRA... I have nothing to hide, I know many people want to know, why someone joins doTERRA and so here is — my WHY.

"I wanted to answer, but life just got busy suddenly.

I perfectly know what you want to say about doTERRA. I was in that mindset for the last 15 years. What changed is that since I'm separated for the last decade (now divorced), I was forced to get jobs that otherwise I would never take on — just to survive. Very bad experiences, you know it well. Jobs where nobody cares about who you are, what talent you have, or at least has some respect that actually you give your life to that company... they got the success and I got the pain and exhaustion... maybe once a year a bottle of wine because I was exceptionally better than other colleagues...

In the last week since I jumped in (I didn't just start it slowly, but literally jumped into the deep water), I already can tell how many things have changed in my life. Like my strength is back: I'm not scared anymore of my ex-husband, I don't care what other people think, as my life is up to me to live, and I don't want to live it in a miserable way anymore. I know that I have talent, I'm capable of doing things, but I always needed support. A community that will understand my ups and downs when it's about business and success, or even how my mood is today... I found it in doTERRA. I found a great system where I can grow, I can learn. They have a great functional system I can rely on (I missed this a lot), guidance on what to do first, what techniques are there to support myself and the business growing. They have everything. It is not me trying to figure everything out by myself about how to do things — someone else already did it, tried it, and it works. I was stuck on this level for years basically. I was not motivated, I didn't know where to start, etc.

Now I can interact with people who are on the same level as me, starting it out just now, and there are others ahead of me who are there for me to help and hold my hand, especially now at the beginning (which I also missed).

There are stories in many places about single women who started a small business and made it successful. They say: alone... then somewhere in the story they say that there is a husband, a friend, someone who was doing certain things in the background and gave support, moral, IT or other... That is not making a business alone!... That's a lie — a very false picture of how they got to success.

I'm alone!!! I live abroad, no relatives, no old friends, nothing like that. I had to build my circle myself starting from zero. As a "bonus", a costly divorce (money and time).

Now with doTERRA I don't feel alone. For the first time in a very long time finally I can tell: I'm not alone.

Don't get me wrong, I always appreciate my friends, like you, and you were always there for me. But you know what I mean when I have to carry on a life alone with a child to raise (you did that too). But this past year was really heavy on me: going through the divorce, losing all that money, no justice. A woman at 50+ has to go back to work after being for decades at home taking care of a family (including kids that were not even mine but HIS), and still society expects me to recuperate 20+ years of absence from a career (which is basically equal to none by now, of course). And so I should find a job (any!) to survive...

My last 2 jobs were:

1) Acceptable as for a career, but mentally, ethically, and morally it was under and beyond normal...

2) Hard physically, no career option and absolutely no recognition. My health was at risk and the management wasn't there for me to offer a lighter, more human position... No... but I could choose to accept it (and my health was the price) or leave (and everything else was the price — becoming unemployed).

You know all this. I can't take that anymore. And I won't pay my health — thus my life — to anyone! I raised 3 kids (1 mine, 2 my ex's). I think I deserve a better life than what I have.

So why not with the support of doing something that I actually like doing? I love essential oils (doTERRA has great quality), I love using them, I love helping people. I make my tallow balms that I combine and improve with essential oils already. So why not doing it where I get support and recognition? That's what doTERRA offers me. And I want to take it.

Did I get any in the last 25 years???

I hope you don't think it's a harsh or false explanation. I do believe now it's my time to fly - up high.

Lots of love and hugs,

Saoirse"