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Hi,

 

I'm Mary Ann and I live in San Diego with my two cats and work at a

law firm in Del Mar. As my name states, I love to crochet

(although my first real choice was " rambo " after my high flying,

death defying kitty but there are just too many Sylvester Stalone

fans out there). Although I joined a few months back, work got

totally insane and it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I actually

started looking/reading through some of the old posts on this and the

ATFE groups

 

I too was introduced to AT by the dreaded YL a few years ago when I

was going through some pretty trying emotional stuff (severe panic

attacks etc.) by a friend/therapist at the time. Normally I have a

very skeptical mind when it comes to things, but since it was someone

I trusted and the oils seemed to work for me and I was pretty much in

survival mode, I continued to use them despite feelings of unease

that I just couldn't put my finger on. Ironically it was the man

himself who started me on this particular journey after listening to

one of his " poor me, everyone hates me " speeches on some training

tapes I had bought earlier but never listened to until a few months

ago. Despite my frustration with searching on the computer, I

finally found Graham's website (after having to go through page after

page of YL websites first of course). And Graham, a big THANK YOU!!!

for your website (you saved one more) and getting me pointed in the

right direction. Long story short, Graham's site led me to Marcia,

then Kathleen (belated Happy birthday BTW) and then finally Butch who

led me to here.

 

I have to come clean and fess up to the fact that I do have all the

YL oils (sigh :-{, if I only knew then what I know now) training

tapes through 2004, a few books etc. if anyone would like to

sniff/compare or peruse them I'm more than willing to share/compare.

 

As for oils, my absolute favorite is Sandalwood followed by

Frankincense, Ylang Ylang and Rose (Laender used to be in there but I

tend to go back and forth on it nowadays). I have the Cooksley and

Wormwood books, Butch just set me up with Martin's and Sylla's books

and after reading post after post from Marge I'm anxiously waiting

for Gabriel Mojay's book on oils for emotional healing.

 

I would like some help/advice. As I said, I work for lawyers and it

tends to get extremely stressful and I like to use the oils for

grounding and keeping me energized when I have to work 10-12 hour

days. Although most people on my floor like the oils, some people

have complained and I'm trying to find a discrete way of being able

to use them without having to run to the bathroom/outside for a quick

fix. Sometimes I feel like I have to repeat to myself " I am not a

crack addict, I am an oil addict - crack bad - oils good " when I'm

sneaking around trying to use them without offending anyone. Right

now I just open up the bottle and take a quick sniff but I wonder if

there's a better way??

 

Anyway, I'm thrilled to be here and am anxous to learn as much as I

can even though my extra time is pretty limited right now.