Five years ago, I felt a quiet but persistent calling, and it came from a deeply personal place.
Many many moons ago, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. What began there eventually spread, and we lost her far too soon. Like so many families, cancer touched ours in ways that changed us forever. For a long time, I wondered what I could do with that loss.
Then one day, the answer became clear.
I couldn’t change my mother’s story, but perhaps I could help another woman become more aware of her own body. Perhaps I could encourage women to care for themselves before life forced them to.
That was how the Breast Health Challenge NOW Journey began.
At first, it was simply about education. Teaching women how to love their breasts and massage them with or without doTERRA pure essential oils. Sharing simple lifestyle practices. Introducing them to the beautiful support that doTERRA essential oils can offer for both physical and emotional wellbeing.
But over the last five years, something unexpected happened.
Women didn’t just tell me they became more aware of their breasts.
They told me they felt calmer.
More connected.
More present.
They looked forward to the two quiet minutes they gave themselves each day. they realised how rarely they stopped to simply listen to their own bodies, and I realised something too.
Breast health isn’t only about our breasts. It is about the relationship we have with ourselves. As women, especially mothers, we spend so much of our lives caring for everyone else. We remember school lunches, appointments, birthdays, work deadlines and everyone’s needs before our own.
Somewhere along the way, we stop asking ourselves a simple question:
“How am I?”
Not because we don’t care. Because we’ve forgotten to include ourselves in the care we so freely give others.
Our bodies are always communicating.
Sometimes through ease.
Sometimes through tension.
Sometimes through exhaustion.
Sometimes through a quiet whisper asking us to slow down.
This year’s Breast Health Journey is still about caring for your breasts. You’ll learn a simple breast massage practice. You’ll discover how essential oils can become gentle companions for everyday wellbeing.
Whether you’ve been using doTERRA for years or you’ve never opened a bottle of essential oil before, you are warmly welcome.
But it is also about something more.
It’s about creating two minutes each day to reconnect with yourself.
A hand on your heart.
A gentle breast massage.
One deep breath.
One thoughtful question.
A moment to simply listen.
Because I believe your body is wise, she has been speaking to you all along. Sometimes she simply needs a little space to be heard. This journey/challenge isn’t about adding another thing to your already full life.It’s about remembering that you matter too.
That your health matters.
That your wellbeing matters.
That caring for yourself is not selfish.
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give the people you love. After all, when a woman feels rested, supported and deeply connected to herself, everything around her begins to change.
She mothers differently.
She loves differently.
She leads differently.
Not because she has become someone new, but because she has found her way back to herself. That is my hope for every woman who joins me this year, not simply that she’ll learn more about breast health, but that she’ll remember something even more important.
The wisdom she has carried within her all along.
I would love you to join me for this year’s free online Breast Health Journey.
We’ll begin together with a live Zoom, spend 21 gentle days caring for ourselves, and gather once more at the end to reflect on what we’ve discovered.
It all begins with two minutes a day.
Sometimes that’s all it takes to begin coming home to yourself. Link below to register for zoom call on 29th July 19:00 SAST, there will be a recording if you are unable to attend.
Love always
Theoni