The Top 10 Reasons Your Teen Needs Young Living in their Life

It’s never been easy to be a teen, but things are getting increasingly complicated in our globalized 21st century world.  Young people are being labeled, judged, and challenged in new ways every day. Without good tools, guidance, and support, many of them struggle with a variety of obstacles like apathy, substance abuse, addiction, self-harm, and bullying to name just a few.  However, the opposite is also true - with the right tools, guidance, and support, teens can thrive, innovate, and inspire positive changes in our world.

After working with teens and young adults for my entire career, I have many tools to share with them, but I am especially passionate about empowering them with natural wellness.  When teens feel good and practice wellness, it is a lot easier to help them discover their purpose and give them other tools and opportunities for success.

When young people feel connected, understand a bigger picture and realize that they have choices; they can have an incredible impact on each other and the world around them.  The Young Living lifestyle, products, company, and community can empower teens in so many crucial ways, but here are ten of my favorites!

With Young Living, teenagers can

1. Reduce Stress

I haven’t met many teens (or people) who haven’t struggled with stress from time to time. On those rough days, they can use essential oils like lavender and frankincense or blends like Stress Away and Peace and Calming to relax, rest, and renew.  Good sleep, proper nutrition, and self-care are all great ways to reduce stress and Young Living oils, supplements, and personal care products are the purest and most potent natural products on the market.

2.  Support Wellness

Many teens feel indestructible in their good health and overall wellness while others suffer from the effects of poor nutrition, environmental toxins, and restless sleep.  Young Living teaches everyone about the importance of proactive wellness and good choices.  When teens take care of their bodies regularly with nutrition, quality sleep, and toxin-free choices, their immune systems are fully supported along with all of the systems of the body so their bodies can do what they were designed to do and the focus can stay on wellness!  Teens can use Thieves oil and the entire line of Thieves products and great supplements like Master Formula, Life 9, and Super C along with the nutrient infused Ningxia drinks to make sure they always feel great and have energy.

3.  Alleviate Odors

From sneakers and gym bags to lockers and messy cars, there are often many unpleasant odors that can be alleviated with essential oils.  Unfortunately, many people choose to cover up these smells with toxic sprays and other synthetic alternatives like scented candles that end up creating more health problems.  There are many essential oils that smell really good including lemon, lavender, peppermint, and orange, but my go-to oil to diffuse for bad odors is Purification and it also works in the vacuum, in sneakers and in the car vents!   

4. Ditch Toxins

Many young people have no clue what harmful toxins they put in and on their body every day.  Thankfully, Young Living has a complete line of personal care products including shampoo, conditioner, face wash, body wash, lotions, massage oil, deodorant, toothpaste, and more!  The Think Dirty app is my favorite way to analyze the lotions, hair products, and other personal care items that can cause serious long-term health issues.  Download it now, scan some of your favorite items from the drug store and leave me a comment with the results – I have a feeling you’ll be shocked at the ingredients!

5.  Create Connection

In order for teens to make good choices, it is important for them to feel connected to themselves, other people and to something bigger than themselves.  The Young Living community fosters connection to the self by bringing awareness to thoughts, feelings, and physical wellness and there is also a very clear connection to a bigger picture that allows young people to explore their relationship to the Earth and to better understand their faith.  This is all possible because Young Living is more of a giant family than a company since it is full of supportive, encouraging, inspirational people with the incredible D. Gary and Mary Young at the helm to guide the way.  It is impossible to be a part of this movement without feeling completely connected, respected, supported, and empowered!

6.  Spread Hope

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that hope is kind of my thing, so this is definitely one of my favorite benefits of Team Young Living.  With Young Living, teens can help others in infinite ways.  They can help others by sharing their experience with everything else on this list, but they can also get involved with major initiatives locally, nationally, and globally thanks to the Young Living Foundation. The Young Living Foundation is one of the most incredible non-profit organizations on the planet not only because of the causes it supports, but also because 100% of all donations go directly to the causes!  That is incredibly rare in the non-profit world, but not at all surprising to those of us in the Young Living family.

7.  Help Save the Planet

So many young people are passionate about saving and sustaining the environment and Young Living provides education, tools, and opportunities to really make a difference.  Young Living takes sustainable farming and takes their stewardship of the land very seriously and their practices yield the products that ultimately replace the harmful synthetics that are doing so much damage.  You can find out all about it at www.seedtoseal.com!

8. Live Oola

Oola is a term coined by the amazing Dr. Troy Amdahl and Dr. Dave Braun in their book, Oola: Find Balance in an Unbalanced World.  Oola is a state of awesomeness where your life is balanced and flowing and Young Living has helped to turn Oola into a multi-sensory experience.  Basically, Young Living teamed up with some of the coolest personal development dudes on the planet and created essential oil blends to help everyone achieve Oola.  Teens can check out the book and oil up with some Balance, Grow, or any of the oils for the 7 key areas of life – Family, Friends, Faith, Fitness, Field, Finance, and Fun.  Oola is for all ages, but giving these tools to someone at the beginning of their journey into life is a surefire way to equip them for greatness!

9. Build a Business

I don’t know of any other part time jobs for teens that offer limitless, willable, residual income and an opportunity to make a positive impact on countless lives, so the business opportunity is a pretty powerful reason to have Young Living in your life at any age!  Teens as young as 16 can actually begin exploring the business side of Young Living by sharing their love for natural wellness with others while building a team and earning stellar compensation.  It requires work and dedication for sure, but with tools like Gameplan by Sarah Harnish and 25 to Life by Adam Green, it is absolutely possible for young entrepreneurs to change lives and earn money.  For details, check out the 2015 Income Disclosure.

10. Be the Change

Many young people like to be trendsetters and there is no better trend right now than wellness, purpose, and abundance! There is a massive shift happening, but it is going to take an entire generation of people to stand up for the environment, clean living, nutrition, ethics, connection, and values.  With Young Living in their life, teens can be a part of all of that, stay above the wellness line, and work to make shift happen in a positive, proactive way that benefits the Earth and all of its inhabitants.

I know there are many, many other reasons, so please leave some comments below with your favorite #TeenOiler rationale, tag some friends who would be interested in this conversation, and share it with anyone who has teens or works with them.  If you need help getting started with Young Living, reach out to whomever shared this blog and, if you randomly happend across it, I would be happy to be your sponsor.  Last but not least, be sure to sign up below with your email address so you can be one of the first to know about the release of my new teen wellness guide!