Healthy Families

Healthy Families with special guest, Amanda Filla – Episode 340

Most of us want healthy families, especially in this time of worry over the latest virus. It is time to meet our essential oils expert, a homeschool graduate, and homeschooling mom of eight Amanda Filla. Amanda is a podcaster at Simple Blessings & Oils

Amanda grew up in a pretty natural household. When something happened, mom usually had some sort of a concoction or a natural way of doing things. And my grandma was always into vitamins and herbs and just natural living. And so when I grew up having my first baby, I knew a little bit about living in a healthy family.

I started diving into homeopathy and my husband was the one who saw the quickest results. He had a lot of seasonal issues and had taken lots of medicine in order to feel better. So when homeopathy came in, it was just like this huge light bulb went off. We started eating healthier, we started really watching what we were bringing into our home and realizing that chemicals and things like that who are actually causing us to be sicker. We also started getting advice from experts – check out here if you wish to do the same. And then, a friend of mine invited me to an essential oil class. I’ve heard of lavender and peppermint, but little else. It’s been eight years since we’ve started using essential oils and it’s just kind of been a spiral effect as to how we can keep ourselves healthy.

God gave us all of these tools, to make us healthy. And no, if you break a bone or you know, something gets smashed, we have doctors! But I think as a culture we’ve gotten away from figuring out what’s really wrong, whether it’s a common cold or having a toxin in our environment. We just expect this magic pill to fix everything.