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The Adventure to Adopt my First Essential Oil Tree

The Adventure to Adopt my First Essential Oil Tree

An essential oil tree?
Okay, so it is a tree that just so happens to be able to produce essential oil, and not just any essential oil!  But I think that should designate it as an essential oil tree...  I mean, that is practically a superpower, right? 

As we continue the Adventure for #RealLife series here, be sure to sign-up to receive each of the adventures delivered conveniently to your inbox!  Also, the title image with this blog that looks like oil with light-reflecting through it, ask me about that and my Northern Lights Black Spruce facial available nowhere else in the world than on the farm I will talk about below!

The Call of the Northern Lights

It's been a long time bucket list dream to see the Northern Lights, and the chance finally came to chase that dream in the spring of 2020. It became a race! The health concerns of the time were threatening to close the borders between the USA where I live and Canada where the lights were dancing and calling my name.

We packed our bags and traveled to the Northern Lights Farm and Distillery in Fort Nelson, BC.  This farm was established on pristine wildland and was incredible to experience! The Black Spruce trees grow there under the incredible energy and force that we beautiful know as the Northern Lights.  As a result, it has tested with a higher frequency than any other Black Spruce oil, so it was aptly named the Northern Lights Black Spruce specifically by Young Living.

Read to the bottom for one of my favorite recipes with this incredible oil!  

My Baby Tree Adoption

We had a really unique opportunity during the week that we spent at the farm harvesting, distilling, and bottling our own bottles of essential oil (in case those things weren't magical enough).  We were allowed to adopt a baby Black Spruce and dedicate it to be grown in the next crop on this farm.

My Mom and I each picked out our own tree and then we burned our own special message into a tree round to send along with our tree.  I branded my tag and sent my love to this precious plant that will someday return to me in a beautiful little glass bottle beaming with frequency and wellness.

We did all of this in March and patiently waited until June for the soil to thaw and the land to be ready for the next phase for these trees...

Planting Day Dedication


The time came and we got to see our tree planted and dedicated!  We will now continue to get photo updates as it grows and until we come to visit again.  How fun, thanks to the Northern Lights farm team, they rock!  Now soak up all those Northern Lights little trees, we will visit soon 🌲💫💜


Do you know which essential oil blends use this special Northern Lights Black Spruce oil?  Here are some, they all branch out from this one amazing tree!  Christmas Spirit (of course), Abundance, Hope, Valor, Gathering, Highest Potential, Sacred Mountain, and Motivation.  Could you use any of those in your life?  Let's get you some!


It's time now to share my number one favorite recipe for this oil (outside of slathering myself in the amazing blends pictured above of course).

RECIPE GIVEAWAYS

This one is so simple and it's my nightly go-to for the best smelling, relaxing, diffuser blend!  
In honor of our Canadian friends made on this adventure, why don't I also share a skincare secret with these two blends? Thanks to YL Canada for the recipe:

Did you enjoy this info?   You might enjoy my adventures in foraging!  You might just be inspired to cook something right out of your yard... #SayWhat?!? Check it out right HERE.

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Meet Echo Schneider, Chief Adventure Officer

 
Overworked, burned out, and with waning loyalty to an industry that had lost its way and was no longer true to itself.  Of course, career burnout was at an all-time high in my sector and amongst the worst in any field.  It wasn’t all even just about work, though my perfectionism often got the best of me there more than other parts of my life.  I look back and see that I was overwhelmed and questioning so many areas of my life.  Was I doing the right things? From diet to products I bought, from how I was involved in the community to time I was spending with family, and from how I was walking out my faith and showing up in a meaningful way to my world. In this craziness is where I found myself.
 
Healthcare (watch my fingers make air quotes as I say that word and use the term loosely at best) in the US had long been bought and paid for and was no longer masking their symptom management and disease maintenance focus.  It had lost its focus on health; they could give you a pill or cut you open.  But to nurture your health and foster your body’s God-given ability to heal itself, they no longer knew how to do that.  Or worse, no longer desired to be in the business of prevention and healing.
 
As so many professional people were doing in the modern economy, we, as healthcare professionals, we’re doing more with less.  Mandatory overtime, poor ergonomics, and complete lack of an environment to practice self-care were the norm.  And to make it worse?  Because of our specific industry, we added in a loss of our medical freedoms just to stay and do our jobs.  The days of job security were long gone, and I watched in fear as friends and colleagues in sectors across the board were being laid off just to help top leaders move the stock up for shareholders.  How terrifying that this could be the reward for lifelong dedication and hard work!
 
At home, it didn't feel much better.  I fought to find a non-existent work-life balance and to be present while feeling exhausted (have you ever come home from work to fall asleep on the couch and finally be awoken when your Mom calls? Tell me this isn’t just me!).  I was disappointed in myself seeing my self-care fall away, time with friends and family slipping by, and I wasn’t spending the time I wanted serving with my church family or in my community.  
 
Add to that the confusion and frustration of what should have been simple daily choices.  What foods should I be eating? Is this trendy thing something I should try?  Wait, is the product good or bad, I paid more for it, but I feel like I saw an article on them that there was a recall or they were green-washing.  So frustrating and such a time-suck trying to keep up and have the health and abundance our family deserved!  I felt like at every turn that I was running to keep up and felt like I ultimately just found more of the same lies in the name of profits, and more ways my health was ultimately paying the price, yet again.
 
How could anyone thrive in this culture when even those who were well educated and seeking out something better faced with such daunting challenges?  I know, first-world problems, but I longed to create something more, a legacy for myself and others.  To break generational chains and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it stuck in this rat-race.
 
Set the stage for that something.  I have, for so much of my life, been interested in learning, growing, and being a student of personal development.  From an investment with top leadership development companies through their programs for years to Law of Attraction to Conscious Language and so many others, I was finding the mentorship and teaching I needed to make the changes I so desperately desired.  
 
There wasn’t an overnight shift or an immediate awareness to change, but I began to find my path slowly and as a result, was investing myself in new ways.  I was raised by a wise and visionary Mother who had shown me what it was to be an entrepreneur.  I always admired that title and was drawn to it in many ways.  As I dabbled in businesses from my youth through college and beyond, I was picking up pieces of freedom and a stage where I could work for myself to create something new.  
 
As the years went on, I kept pushing myself in that path.  I was helping others, and I was welcoming a team of like-minded friends and family to come with me.  This was possible; we were doing it!  It wasn’t easy, we were doing a side-hustle while still being full-time professionals and wives and Mothers, but we were doing it none the less.

I'm so excited to have found a platform to speak truth. To show up for others in "true health" in ways that I didn’t know could exist when I started down this path.  But I know now that we don't have to settle any longer.  Any of us, friends!  It's time to live the great adventure that you were made for.
 
Now it’s time to move beyond business beyond vocation.  Now we are building a blessing.  That has so many meanings, one being the definition of “a herd of unicorns,” in case you didn’t know.  I was given the title of ‘unicorn’ from a dear friend when she came to know me and saw what I was capable of achieving.  And now it’s my turn to see that light in you.  Join me, and together, we can create a community and movement with a vision to change it all.
 
I don't care what your background is.  What education you received growing up in business, finances, or medicine.  Those things don't matter.  We are walking a new path to freedom in all areas of our lives.
 
I'm writing a new future and destiny for myself and my family, and I won't journey alone.  A mentor taught me to carry the confidence that God has called me to rise, but I will not rise alone.
 
I'm reaching out my hand to you (don't worry, I recently used a plant-based hand sanitizer) so that you are not alone; we will do this together!  
 
You are so worthy.  
 
Your family and your dreams are worth it.  
 
Together we can do this, but you must take the first step. ðŸ‘Š

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