My Shaklee Story

   My journey towards health and awareness began a couple of years ago in 2008 when I moved to Germany—a country much more health conscious than we are in the U.S. When I would visit the U.S. and eat my favorite foods I missed like Mexican, barbecue, and Chic-fil-A, I would get so sick to my stomach! It was like I had been on a forced detox while living in Germany because of the toxin free diet I had grown accustomed to. So when I ate those savory foods back home, my body revolted at the toxins I was putting into it. I no longer could remain ignorant to what I put in my body.

     When I came back to the States at the end of 2009, I began to talk to people about nutrition and  natural cleaning solutions and found out one of two things: 1) People were stuck in a rut with the mentality “What was good for my parents is good for me” and they couldn’t believe or imagine anything different than how they had been living. 2) The second group of people honestly were just ignorant (uneducated—not stupid!) about nutrition and just needed some educating—just like I did! I have been in both of these categories and didn’t realize it until I was out of the environment I had known for 22 years and started educating myself.

     Then I met Shaklee. I started my Shaklee business at the end of my grad school career where I was studying Linguistics and teaching at the University. I was also a nanny, trying to make ends meet because my university paid job just wasn’t paying all the bills (I was still below poverty even teaching at a University!)  I hit the end of my rope in grad school. I love to learn and have the gift of teaching, by God’s grace, but my life was so tied up and busy between teaching two Developmental Writing classes, the grading load that came with it, full time graduate classes, nannying, and a social life(?), that I was burnt out after one semester. I didn’t feel like I was making much of a difference at all and was losing a lot of sleep learning theories that weren’t helping anyone.
 
    Nutrition has been a passion of mine for a couple of years now and has grown with my involvement with the little girl I have watched for the last year and a half. Phoebe has Celiac’s disease which has been a unique challenge to find different ways of getting her the nutrition she needs between gluten free cooking and supplementing via whole food supplements. I realized through helping Phoebe that I love helping people with nutritional needs and that disease does not have to be a hindrance to one’s quality of life and there are so many different healthy, good options to increase one’s quality of life!

    So that is when I began my journey with Shaklee. Burnt out, fatigued, sleep deprived, and really just wanting to read a book on a rainy day, for fun and not for class! I desire to help people become healthy and am thrilled to be a part of a company with outstanding merit in regards to product purity, outstanding quality performance of products, and a company that truly cares about the environment and helping others. My schedule is more flexible with Shaklee and I in return am way more relaxed and less stressed. What’s more, I get to help others become healthy and I LOVE my job! Who can say that? Doesn’t it often feel like it isn’t work unless we are stressed out and hate our job? Not anymore for me. I came to the end of that rope in the insanity cycle and have left it there with the insanity. I am committed to enjoying life by loving God with everything, and loving others—and I am doing that through my Shaklee business.