I’m not okay. And I’m done pretending that I am. (insert Jelly Roll song or a drum roll) I’ve been running on empty for many years. Looking back, it likely started in my 20s, when I believed I had to work three jobs to be valued: to help people, to feel good, to be worthy. Nursing. Caretaking. Showing up. All while quietly abandoning my own needs; unsupported or not seeing it. Right now, I don’t know where Healing Hollow is going. And I am finally at peace admitting that; al

We found some links and we will keep adding to it. I get tired of people saying that hand sanitizer needs to be 40% alcohol or that people are crazy for trusting essential oils over medicines because there is so much research on them! Here are some, for now.... Great studies on what oils do for bugs and viruses: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322085 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182053/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02786826.2012.7089

This post is going to be raw, heartfelt, a bit negative, realistic, with some pinches of positive in there. It has been playing on my mind for months if not a few years and writing was always my go-to for therapy.  Trigger Warning Too!! Small business the last few years for many has been non-stop pivoting, from increasing costs to cover costs to decreasing costs to stay in competition with the large corporations. When I started blending oils, I was a pilates instructor, my si