Communicating with Newbies

Up until 2010, I'd always heard that everything caused cancer, and I literally just laughed it off. I just figured something would take us out eventually, be it cancer or something else. 

The beginning of my journey was with household cleaners. Detergent, shampoo, dish soap, all that stuff. When I realized the links between the ingredients and heart disease, allergies, asthma, neurological issues, and more, it really shook me.

I was so bothered that when I was in the grocery store, I almost asked a woman if she knew what was in that giant bottle of detergent she had in her cart. I just knew I would look like a psycho, so I stopped myself from uttering a word. However, I felt guilty. I felt like she really, really needed to know! 

This is the same urge that I see a lot of people have every day as they wake up to this realization.  Some people actually act on it. 

There are a few things that I've learned over the past 15 years. 

1.) Be mindful of your audience. If you have not built up a rapport with them, then you really don't have that space to speak truth into their life. Not because you don't know what you are talking about, but rather because your words will fall on deaf ears. Instead, build up your relationship with them, and let the truth drip out here and there, naturally. 

2.) Change typically, if not practically always, only happens after someone has been shook awake. I hate, hate, hate this! I'd rather just tell you, and you hear me. But it's like telling someone the plate is hot and their immediate reaction is to grab the plate! Just love them through it, and be there when the dominoes fall. 

3.) Concentrate on the man in the mirror. Control you, and realize that the rest of the world is also in control of themselves. It's overwhelming to step outside of the four walls of your abode and be hit here and there with toxins. After all, a trip to the grocery store consists of a giant gasp of air to go make a mad dash for a scrub brush in the center of my least favorite aisle. But what can I do to change this? Tell the manager or store owner? They are simply supplying what their customers are asking them to. 

Instead, make ripples. Our home is our toxin free oasis, and the people I know, know good and well what my opinion is on this stuff. (I can see your heads bobbing! lol)

I make ripples by taking my dollars and supporting the companies that create clean products.

I make ripples by living as toxin free a life as possible.

I make ripples by training my children to read labels and know how to identify carcinogens and neurotoxins. 

I make ripples by planting seeds where ever I see soil that is willing to accept the seeds that I have to plant. 

The world is waking up around us. It really is. Love them through this transition, especially when you take into consideration #2.

We love comfort. We want to be steady in our ways. We don't want to alter or change the way we do things. The only reason we are willing to make those sacrifices is typically because something tragic happened to us or a close loved one. It practically never happens just because someone told you about it.

So, be mindful of that as you take this journey. I don't know about you, but the thought of someone suffering, or being hurt by things they aren't aware of, makes me sick to my stomach. I just flat can't stand seeing people hurt. 

That's why, the best thing we can do is walk alongside them, planting seeds, and loving on them the best we can. 

~Love to you all!~

~Lacy~