dōTERRA’s 2025 New Products

TLDR

dōTERRA’s new 2025 products are here. They are now available in the US Warehouse!

Essential Oils: RevitaZen Essential Oil Blend

New Supplements: RevitaZen+ Advanced Organ Detoxification Complex

New Products: PastTense Stick & Castor Oil

This is my first time attending dōTERRA’s convention virtually outside of the pandemic years. I enjoyed watching all the sessions online and am excited for the new products!

RevitaZen & RevitaZen +

RevitaZen is known as dōTERRA’s Detoxification Blend. It contains Tangerine, Rosemary, Geranium, Juniper Berry, Cilantro and Ginger essential oils. The blend was created to provide daily support for healthy organ function and promote the body’s ability to detox naturally. The focus is on long-term wellness vs. quick fixes.

dōTERRA is working on preclinical research to show how the blend can support healthy liver function, healthy digestion, colon function, and kidney health as well as aiding detoxification with antioxidants to counteract free radical damage that might occur during a detox.

The benefits of this product include:

supports healthy liver function*
delivers antioxidant protection*
aids healthy digestion and colon function*
supports kidney health and the elimination of excess water through natural diuresis*
aids detoxification*

RevitaZen+ Advanced Organ Detoxification Complex is a mouthful of a product name but fitting for how much it does. It is a dual chamber capsule product that contains black cumin, milk thistle and articoke as well as the RevitaZen blend with Cumin essential oil added in. The product promises to help maintain optimal organ function.

The benefits of this product include:

supports healthy liver function.*
promotes kidney health and filtration, according to preclinical research.*
aids digestion and colon health, according to preclinical research.*
helps the body eliminate toxins more efficiently.*
provides antioxidant support to reduce oxidative stress.*
helps support a healthy inflammatory response during periods of stress, like when toxins build up.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease

Castor Oil

dōTERRA’s Castor Oil is USDA-certified organic, cold-pressed, hexane-free, and vegan-friendly. It’s rich in ricinoleic acid and the perfect carrier oil to support daily wellness and self-care routines.

I use Castor Oil a few nights a few in Castor Oil pack applied over my liver.

The benefits of this product include:

ability to deeply hydrate and nourish the skin
support healthy hair and scalp
soothes and comforts when worn as a castor oil pack

PastTense Stick + Sweet Gum

The PastTense Stick with Sweet Gum contains the loved essential oil blend found in PastTense which includes Wintergreen, Lavender, Peppermint, Frankincense, Cilantro, Roman Chamomile, Marjoram, Basil and Rosemary plus the addition of Sweet Gum essential oil. It comes in the new mess-free, easy-to-use stick form that has lent itself well to our Deep Blue, Serenity and Frankincense products.

The benefits of this product include:

applies smoothly without a greasy feeling in an easy-to-use stick.
formulated without parabens, phthalates, and synthetic fragrances.
delivers a noncomedogenic formula that’s safe for sensitive skin.

3 Day Algonquin Park Canoe Trip with 5-Year-Olds

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We were supposed to do this 3-day Algonquin Park canoe trip last year, but had to switch weekends last minute. We weren’t able to get Norway Lake when changing the reservation, so I was excited to snag a campsite on the lake this year. This canoe trip happened in mid-August.

The original reason why I booked this trip was that while the twins are young, I’m looking for canoe trips without portages. This also allows us to pack as if we were car camping. A massive tent and air mattresses just wouldn’t cut it on a portage trip. I also like booking campsites where there are minimal sites on the lake.

I had researched the trip somewhat in terms of the campsite and the lake, but I didn’t do my due diligence for the actual paddle to the lake. You’ll see why in a second.

We rented a canoe from Algonquin Outfitters. They leave it beside the parking lot at the Spruce Bog Boardwalk. You then have to carry it down the trail to the bog. My husband put it in on the boardwalk side. We actually unloaded the kids and the bags on the other side of the highway. I carried everything down to the bog’s edge while my husband managed the canoe. He dragged it under the bridge, which was low on water, and we loaded it on the other side.

We then proceeded to push off and get stuck in the muck. Have a watch of the video to see exactly how many times we got stuck in the mud or on beaver dams.

The paddle ended up being around 2 hours to the campsite. I don’t think I would’ve planned this trip if I had known about the conditions. Padlding through a bog is really not that enjoyable.

Because we were so close to the Visitor’s Centre we also had service the entire time. Which was great for staying connected but I really enjoy being cell-free on our canoe trips.

So you park your car at the Spruce Bog Boardwalk Trail and then hike down the trail until you see that squiggly line on the other side of the highway. That’s your paddle trail to the lake. When you get out of the bog you’ve reached Norway Lake. We paddled to the right to get the furthest campsite.

If you can get the campsite to the right, I highly recommend it. The other one near the bog looked nice but was high up on some rocks. The far one away from the bog is a huge site, with a big campfire area on a point. Unfortunately, we were in the park during a fire ban, so we couldn’t enjoy the space, but it was great for the twins to play on.

This is the first canoe trip where we’ve just hung out at the campsite for an entire Saturday. The kids did really well entertaining themselves with binoculars. I also found a baby moose track near our tent, which was a bit worrisome. We definitely heard animals around our tent both nights but nothing too crazy.

Meals consisted of scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast and dehydrated camping meals for lunch and dinner. Just boil water, pour in bag, steep and serve. Easy peasy.

I also packed hot chocolate and marshmallows for dessert. We did pack smores but with no campfires allowed, we had to cook them over the propane stove, which is just not as fun.

The trip was a success, the perfect weekend away. The paddle back through the bog only took 1 hour since we knew how fast we’d need to paddle over the beaver dams to clear them.

All in all, a good trip but not one we’d probably repeat! LOL

Country Living & Bugs

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We moved out to the country at the beginning of this year and we have NO shortage of bugs.

Asian lady bettles, european paper wasps, and house flies, Oh My.

And now that it’s spring, the mosquitoes and ticks have come out from hibernation. We’ve pulled countless ticks off the dogs already and one off my husband.

I can’t afford to get bit by a tick or let our almost 5 year twins get bit so cue NatPat to the rescue.

NATPAT is a wellness company in Beaverton, Oregon that makes essential oil-infused patches. The company was founded in 2020 by parents looking for a natural way to support their family. They created stickers infused with essential oils, from farms in Australia, that are scientifically proven to protect against outdoor invaders.

We were graciously sent 4 packages of stickers to try.

Mosquito Patches for Kids

Mosquito Patches for Adults

Kids Tick Repellant Stickers

Itch Relief Patches

The company recommends using them within 6 months of opening the package.

So how do they work:

The patches are made with AromaWeave technology, which is a biodegradable bamboo fiber that holds and diffuses essential oils. When you place a patch on your kids or yourself the technology slowly releases the essential oil aroma over several hours,

Since the essential oils in NATPAT’s patches are scientifically proven to ward off bugs, the aroma keeps ticks or mosquitoes away when you place them on your clothing or body.

The stickers have a lot of fun designs on them so I let the kids pick which ones they wanted before sending them off to Forest School the other day. So far so good and no ticks have been found on the kids yet!

I’ll update the blog after we’ve had a chance to use them for at least a month!

2025 Goals & Intentions

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Happy New Year.

This is my hands down favourite blog of the year. Drum roll, please. My 2025 goals and intentions! I love writing these down every year so I have them transcribed in one place (for my own reference). And should it bring you motivation, inspiration or maybe even a few good ideas that you might want to try on for size then I hope you enjoy reading!

Before I even BEGIN to think about smart goals for 2025 I start with how I want to feel.

So here are my 2025 core desired feelings:

Here are all the words I wrote down before I culled it down to my four.

Confident, Bold, Magnetic, Ease, Vibrant, Electric, Courageous, Energized, Empowered, Grounded, Inspired, Connected, Calm, Slow to Anger, Non-Reactive, Transformed, Challenged, Wonder, Discovery, Expansive, Delight, Resilient, Safe, Nurtured, Supported, Aligned, Fulfilled, Illuminated, Passionate, Assured, and Fearless

Magnetic: I want to be magnetic to opportunities and people. I want to vibrate at the frequency that attracts the right business opportunities and people into my life.

Challenged: I want to feel challenge in my career. I want to feel challenged in building an entrepreneurial business with my husband and diversifying our income with an online business as well. I want to feel challenged in my workouts and in my personal growth.

Assured: As you can see above, one of the first words that I’ve been attracted to in the past and this year was confident. But I found that I really started embodying confidence at the end of 2024. When I was looking at Confidence synonyms, Assured stood out to me. It’s this level of confidence that comes with an extra level of wisdom and calmness. Guaranteed confidence no matter the situation.

Nurtured: I want to feel nurtured in my routines and how I move through this life. From taking care of my nervous system, to my health, to healing after workouts. I want to nurture myself and remain open to being nurtured by others.

So after I choose my core desired feelings I start with a life category audit from the previous year.

Life Category Audit

Here is how I ranked my life categories based on how 2024 went. 1 = not happy with this area of my life, 10 = I’ve got this area figured out. And this year I avoided picking 7 for any category because I find that it’s a safe pick. When you pick 7 it’s not too low but it’s also not too high. However, if you’re choosing a 7 is it really a 7 or do you need to rank it lower and actually address this area of your life.

Career 8

Finances 8

Health 6

Fitness 6

Nutrition 6

Travel 9

Home 9

Spiritual 9

Couple 9

Family 9

Friendships 4

Leisure 8

So after ranking my life categories, I focus on setting goals first in my lowest-ranked categories:

Friendships

I ranked friendships as a 4 this year because while I was able to focus on some really great friendships this year I am craving deeper connection and conversations.

Here are my friendship smart goals for the year:

Book 1 monthly friendship date (with current friends or for meeting new people)
Coordinate monthly potlucks with like-minded women
Join a like-minded female community

In 2019, I had started a monthly potluck with people who followed the autoimmune paleo protocol (AIP). I really loved getting together with other people who ate similarly to me but the vibe just wasn’t what I was looking for. In November of 2024, my friend Karen had friends over for a brunch and it was just so nice to be around positive, warm women. So more of that this year please!

Last but not least, my friend Lianne has asked if I would join a dinner/networking series for female Ottawa entrepreneurs so I’ve raised my hand to join them.

Health & Fitness

I’ve ranked health & fitness at a 6 for the last two years. While I’ve made significant improvements in 2024. If I am still not in a place I’d like to be. By the end of 2025, I want to feel assured, confident and that I’m nurturing my body. I’ve said that I want to feel happy looking in the mirror but this year I’m using bolder language like “I want a bangin bod”. No more sugar coated vanilla words.

I will continue to challenge myself in my workouts through my personal trainer. The result of continued challenging workouts will be losing weight, gaining energy and feeling excited to look in the mirror again. One of my leisure goals is to compete in a Ballroom dancing competition and those dresses can be tiny. So I would love to look good in one before I step on the competition dance floor. So my fitness goal is linked to a leisure goal and directly tied to having a “bangin’ bod” again.

Here are my Fitness smart goals for 2025:

4 Workouts a week (2 challenging)
Yoga (once a week)
Ballroom dancing lesson (once a week)

When it comes to my health, I’ve been tackling several things over the years from supporting my liver health, ensuring I don’t experience another MS relapse to strengthening my pelvic floor due to a pelvic floor prolapse. From a health perspective, there are three priorities that I have for 2025. Unfortunately my pelvic floor prolapse is not healing based on simple exercises so I am going to pursue surgical intervention in 2025 as it’s getting to a point where it’s affecting the quality of my life. After doing a parasite cleanse in December of 2024 and voiding my body of multiple parasites I’ll be implementing this twice a year moving forward. And then last but not least I’ll continue focusing on keeping inflammation low in my body to avoid any MS relapses.

So here are my Health smart goals for 2025:

Finish the Sexy Autoimmune Academy (to continue educating myself on overall care for myself)
Do a Parasite Cleanse (2x a year)
Do daily pelvic floor strengthening & relaxation prior to surgery

I also want to work on my sleep health and period health so there are a few things I’ll be implementing.

Going to bed by 9 – 9:30 pm
Reading from 8:30 – 9:00 pm each night
Eating raw carrot salads and increasing my magnesium in the back half of my cycle.

Nutrition

I wanted to track my protein intake last year and that simply didn’t get done so I’m keeping this as a goal in 2025.

I’m going to start with a goal of 132g of protein a day.

Bring on the MyFitness Pal tracking. I’ve also set a reminder for myself in my Reminders app to input my tracking every night around dinner time so that it gets done.

Last but not least, I’d like to start cooking more. Since my twin pregnancy, my husband Mike took over all our dinner cooking but I miss cooking with him, which we did during my pregnancy. So the goal would be to cook with him at least once a week and continue to introduce at least 1 new recipe into the meal plan weekly!

Career

I scored Career as an 8 this year as my full-time job is going extremely well but I’m being pulled to become an entrepreneur.

I initially wanted to start an online business and revive my Autoimmune Thriving brand but then we went and bought 160 acres in the country in December of 2024. We have held a vision for an Airbnb rental business since 2021 and we’ve just been waiting for the right property. So keep an eye out as we’ll be bringing Wild Escapes to life over the course of 2025.

I am also going to relaunch my 2026 Essential Planner next fall.

While I have hopes to revive my Autoimmune Thriving brand to support other autoimmune warriors, I’ll have to gauge if I truly have the capacity. My priorities are my full-time job, Wild Escapes and The Essential Planner.

And while I might not have time for this endeavour I have a few children’s books in me that I’d love to create and birth into the world!

Finances

While we are moving to a new property in the country we are still retaining our current house in the suburbs. We have found renters for our current house so we’ll be carrying a mortgage on both properties. With that and launching a new business our finances will need to be managed a bit differently this year. We are also saving for building a new house in the future so we’ll be also focusing on squirreling away money for our dream build.

So my financial goals for 2025 are:

Launch Wild Escapes with minimal debt
Grow investments 6% for the year
Follow a monthly budget that includes savings for a dream build

Leisure

Last year for leisure I said I would choose a monthly self-reliance or resilience challenge depending on how I felt. But because it didn’t get planned out it didn’t happen. I liked challenging myself two years ago by learning how to become more self-reliant and more resilient so I’m planning these out this year. Some I’ve done before and others will be new to me.

Self-Reliance Challenges

Knitting (January)
Install Generator (February)
Change A Tire (March)
Learn Some Herbal Remedies (April)
Gardening (May)
Composting (June)
Split Firewood (July)
Plant Identification (August)
Foraging / Mushroom Hunting (September)
Root Veggies Storage / Seed Saving (October)
Hunting (November)
Butchering / Animal Field Dressing (December)

Resilience Challenges

Weekend Digital Detoxes (January)
No Processed Sugar (February)
10 Push Ups Daily (March)
Cold Water Plunges (April)
10 Pull Ups Daily (May)
Morning Sun Gazing (June)
Reduce Phone Time (July)
No TV (August)
Daily Morning Stretching (September)
Wim Hof Breathing (October)
10,000 Daily Steps (November)
Daily Morning Prayer & Silence (December)

Last but not least, I mentioned in my health and fitness section that I want to try my hand at a ballroom dance competition this year. There is one in May and one in August so we’ll see if I can get ready for the one in May!

Travel

I love setting goals around travelling three times a year. With us moving into a new home and starting a new business we might need to put this goal on the back burner in the short term.

Home

We move in January to a new home in the country. It’s not our dream home and eventually we’ll be building a new home on the land but in the meantime, we’ll work on renovating the new house so it’s an easy sell once we’ve built the dream home.

Our renovation list includes (in no particular order):

New Back Deck & Sunroom
Gym in the Garage
New Kitchen Countertops (Possibly New Kitchen Cabinets)
New Primary Bathroom Shower
New Guest Bedroom Flooring
New Laundry Room Flooring

Our future dream home plan will be to build a Barndominium so we’ll have fun planning out the design as we up level the current home.

Spiritual

My spritual ranking went from a 6 to a 9 this year as I truly focused on this area of my life. I have the most delicious morning routine now and so I’ll continue my smart goals as they feel so good in my life.

My spiritual smart goals are:

Daily morning meditation
Daily journaling
Daily devotional & Bible reading

Couple

Last year I ranked couple as a 9, if you had asked me halfway through the year how I’d rank this category I would have ranked it as a 1 as we went through some really tough times this year. But at the end of the year, the ranking is back up to a 9. When this area of our life is suffering all other areas suffer so we immediately address issues as they come up and work through them as a couple. I’m proud of how hard we work on our marriage and how much fun we’ve been able to bring back into our relationship. We’ve challenged each other to grow and I’m so proud of us and the family unit we are nurturing together as partners in love and life.

Since our travel plans need to be put on hold for the short term with the move and new business I would like to take at least 1 weekend trip away together. Thankfully we love to explore new and unique Airbnbs so I can use it as research for the new business (and expense).

Family

And when it comes to our family unit we’ve grown so much together and life is just so good. Last year I had set the following intentions that we’ll continue with because they just work for us.

We spend time every morning as a family connecting
We have dinner together every night and go for a walk as a family and with our dogs after dinner (especially in the summer)
We have a winter & summer bucket list
We spend long weekends up at the family cottage
We go on monthly Mommy/Daughter & Daddy/Son and then Mommy/Son & Daddy/Daughter dates.

And this year we are choosing to place our kids in the Acton Academy school model and found a really great franchise in Ottawa for the kids to try. While we had started homeschooling the kids in 2024 we also recognized that if we are going to build a business together that we’ll need the space to dedicate to that and the kids deserve an opportunity to thrive. While we’ll never put our kids in the public school system we found a unique private school model that we resonate with!

Let’s do this 2025!

2024 Year In Review

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Every year before writing down my goals for the year, I decide how I want to feel. The important part of this exercise is deciding how I want to feel as I achieve the goals I’ve set out for myself. Before we get into my 2024 year in review, here were the core desired feelings that I wanted to feel this year.

Here’s a little more about the choice behind each word:

Electric – I wanted to feel jolts of excitement to course through me as I moved through life this year. In previous years I had used words like lit up before but Electric just landed differently for me and as I write this blog in the back half of December I have truly felt like life is coursing through my veins with an electric feeling. I keep saying that gratitude is oozing out of me so for me, I definitely feel electric with excitement for life lately!
Radiant – I wanted to feel more connected to my husband and to my family. I wanted to feel more present in everything we do from weekly & monthly planning to daily walks and family time. We have put so much work into saving our marriage this year that I can truly say I feel radiant in my relationship with Mike and thus our family is thriving.
Expansive – I wanted to feel energized in my body and in the things I choose to pursue from career to hobbies to friendships and more. I have taken this year to do some really deep mindset work and I no longer feel like the person who started the year. So my mindset has truly expanded this year so I can hold more.
Vibrant – I wanted to feel more enriched in relationships from friends to simply people we are surrounded by. I would say I applied this word more to how I feel in my body and my health and postpartum weightloss. With consistent workouts, yoga and ballroom dancing I feel more vibrant in my body everyday.

2024 Goals In Review

So as I do every year, I spend time setting goals by life categories. I start by doing a life audit and ranking each category and then I set goals starting with the lowest ranking categories in my life. In 2024 here was how everything was ranked:

Health, Fitness, Spiritual and Friendships = 6

Nutrition & Leisure = 7

Home & Travel = 8

Career, Finances, Couple & Family = 9

Based on this audit, I set goals in Health & Fitness first, then Spiritual and Friendships. Because of my Health & Fitness goals, more goals seemed to fall into place more easily.

Health & Fitness

In 2024, I wanted to feel happy looking in the mirror. And for me that meant, I wanted to feel confident looking at my body in the mirror. Which translated into continued postpartum weight shedding.

At the beginning of the year, I continued to program my own workouts. I bought PDF workouts from a friend but I didn’t feel challenged enough in my workouts and I didn’t always do 3 – 4 workouts a week. Halfway through the year I ended up hiring a personal trainer to push me and keep me accountable. I’ve been fairly successful in staying consistent with my workouts due to the accountability and programming.

My Health smart goals were:

1. Finish the Sexy Autoimmune Academy

2. Start the next healing protocol with my Autoimmune Academy practitioner.

3. Measure minerals mid-year to see where my levels are at and plan accordingly.

I still haven’t finished working through the academy but I did follow up with my practitioner and completed 2 parasite cleanses with them at the beginning of the year. I actually ended up doing a third parasite cleanse with different supplements in December and was wowed at the results. The amount of parasites that I excreted was insane! Another intention I had for the year was to prioritize my health so I didn’t experience any MS relapses and I’m proud to say I was symptom free again this year!

I didn’t end up measuring my minerals mid-year so doing a blood panel this year will be important to see where I’m at.

My Fitness smart goals were:

Do 4 Workouts A Week (2 Challenging)
Meet Myself On My Yoga Mat Once A Week
Try Running (Pelvic Floor Allowing) In The Spring (Run A 5K)
Sub Goal: Rehab My Pelvic Floor

I would say I managed to do 4 workouts a week 80% of the time since hiring a trainer. I consistently went to yoga once a week on Tuesday nights. I attempted running a few times in the Spring and Summer but unfortunately my pelvic floor is so bad that I wasn’t able to stay consistent with this.

I worked with a friend in January to start healing my pelvic floor. I’ve been doing exercises, relaxation and strengthening breathing and contraction exercises but unfortunately I think my pelvic floor was quite injured in the forcep birth delivery of the twins and I’m ok with exploring the possibility of surgery this coming year to heal.

As part of my pelvic floor work I was challenge by my friend to do something to help me get back into my body. So I decided to try pole dancing this winter. The following month I tried ballroom dancing and ballroom dancing stuck for the rest of the year. I’ve learned two kinds of dances (cha cha & east coast swing) and showcased them in two of the Studios Dance Showcases this year. I’m excited to keep going and even set a goal in this area of my life next year.

Spiritual

I ranked my spiritual life category as a 6 as well because I felt like I was having a fair weather friend relationship with myself and with God. I really wanted to stay consistent with my spiritual morning routine.

My spiritual smart goals were:

Be consistent with daily morning meditation
Be consistent with daily journaling and write at least 1 page a day
Be consistent with reading my Bible every morning

I’m so proud of where I taken this life category this year.

My delicious morning routine looks like:
– Wake up and make warm lemon water
– Make decaf coffee and head down to my meditation corner
– Do at least a 10 minute meditation
– Spend 15 mins in quiet with God and my committee
– Journal
– Read my Daily Devotional
– Read my Bible

I would say I’ve been able to be consistent at least 90% of the year so I’m really proud of how I feel in my relationship with God and by giving myself quiet time every morning. I’m just a much better person when I spend my mornings in quiet before the world pulls me in different directions.

Friendships

I ranked friendships as a 6 as well because my friendships have completely changed since getting pregnant with our twins and living through the plandemic (that’s not a typo). At the beginning of the year I craved deep connections with other women and wanted to prioritize the current friendships in my life and try and build new ones.

Here were my friendship smart goals:

Book 1 monthly friendship date (with current friends or for meeting new people)
Book 1 friend trip with my friend Aubrie
Book 1 trip with my friend Shannon to the Adirondacks (Shannon and I travelled to the Adirondacks back in 2019 so I’m excited to book a fall trip with her this coming year.

I was really consistent with friendship dates and prioritized current friendships in my life. I had the best dates from coffee dates, to dinners out, to a knife skills class and Aubrie and I ended the year with a sausage making class.

I wasn’t able to book a friend trip with my friend Aubrie or Shannon this year due to competing life priorities.

Nutrition

I’m really proud of how I nourish myself and our family. We mainly eat AIP for my health. The majority of our food is farm-to-table. We order our beef from Arc Acres and get the majority of our produce from Ottawa Farm Fresh or Lytle’s Organic Vegetables.

With my fitness goals this year, I wanted to be in a slight caloric deficit and I wanted to ensure I was eating the appropriate amount of protein so I had plans to track my protein intake.

And just for fun, I wanted to learn how to bake a new recipe each month with the twins.

I’m afraid to report that I didn’t end up tracking my protein at all and baking fell by the wayside. The only thing I was able to do consistently was make Apple or Strawberry / Rhubarb Pies!

Leisure

For 2024, I had wanted to create a long list of things for a resilience and a self-reliant challenge and then each month, I would pick from the list a challenge for myself based on how life is evolving.

I completely gave this goal up as life had just too much on my plate and I didn’t have the capacity to add this in. I still think it’s a great goal to have but I didn’t want to jam pack my months with too much stuff.

I also wanted to get more successful at gardening and try my hand and hunting again in the fall. Our garden was slightly successful again this year. I was able to grow a few zucchinis, cucumbers, a ton of green onions, a few cabbages, and snap peas. My unsuccessful crops were carrots, beets and brussel sprouts.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get out hunting this year as my full-time work flew our entire agency out to Thailand this year right in the middle of hunting season.

Home

When it came to our home I had requested a more usable home gym. Mike ended up installing a foldable bench and squat rack that I used all year.

We had also been continuously searching for a new place to live since we moved back to Ontario in 2021. And we finally found our dream property half-way through the year. We ended up putting in an offer on house with 160 acres in August while we were travelling with our family and after getting an accepted offer we tried to sell or rent our house. It took us a while but mid-December we finally got an offer to rent our house and so we’re moving to our dream property at the end of January!

Travel

I planned 3 trips this year and ended up taking an additional 3 business trips.

1. Adventure Trip – We took the twins to Banff

2. Honeymoon Trip – Mike and I took our annual honeymoon to Mexico

3. Relaxing Trip – I didn’t end up taking a friend trip this year (which was going to be my relaxing trip) but I did end up traveling three times on business

4. Business Trips:

Denver for ETHDenver with my full-time work
Salt Lake City for dōTERRA’s annual convention in September
Bangkok, Thailand for Devcon with my full-time work

Career

In 2024, I wanted to continue to thrive in my full-time role as a marketing director at a web3 marketing agency. I wanted to offer fractional marketing services to clients and I was hoping to rebuild my dōTERRA business back up to Premier.

I’m still thriving in my web3 marketing agency and was promoted half-way through the year to a Sr. Marketing Director role. I didn’t take on any fractional clients due to bandwidth and did not put any extra effort into my dōTERRA business. I was able to relaunch my Essential Planner with a 2025 version this fall!

Now that we’ve purchased 160 acres in the country we’ll be launching an Airbnb Business in 2025 but more in my 2025 goals blog about that!

Financial

In 2024, I had wanted to increase my income from $200,000 to $300,000. This would’ve been a safe goal but I had really wanted to generate at least $600,000 in revenue in 2024 with multiple income streams.

While I wasn’t able to increase my revenue to the $600,000 mark I was able to increase it to my safe goal of $300K.

From an investment perspective, every year I want to grow our investments by 6%. This year I was only able to see a 4% growth at the time of writing this blog.

Couple

I’m really proud of how my husband and I connected again this year. We continued with weekly date nights. I had wanted to continue with working together from a coffee shop after dropping the kid off at forest school but this year they were in a full day forest school so it didn’t make sense to work from a coffee shop all day.

We continued our annual tradition of a honeymoon and travelled to Mexico this year for a week away. I was also able to bring Mike with me to Thailand.

We celebrate our anniversary in August. We were supposed to go camping with our family this year but Mike’s best friend wanted to host his bachelor party that weekend. So while Mike was away for the weekend he came home the Saturday night of our actual anniversary and took me out for dinner at Gezelig in Westboro.

We’ve continued to work at the strength of our relationship. Through really hard conversations we’ve continued to work on issues and come out stronger. Our relationship is in such a good place at the end of the year and I’m so grateful for the growth we’ve experienced together.

Family

At the beginning of the year I envisioned the following things for us:

We spend time every morning as a family connecting.
We have dinner together every night and go for a walk as a family and with our dogs after dinner.
We go on one annual trip a year.
We have a winter & summer bucket lists.
We spend long weekends up at the family cottage.
We go on monthly Mommy/Daughter & Daddy/Son and then Mommy/Son & Daddy/Daughter dates.
We are homeschooling the kids in addition to them attending 1 – 2 forest schools.

I’m happy to say that all of these things and more happened for our family.

I love the time we spend together in the morning and the evenings. Our summer was filled with time outside and lots of family walks after dinner. We travelled to Banff with the twins this summer and showed them the mountains. We headed up to our cottage for 4 long weekends this year. We prioritized activities for our family and the twins attended a Tuesday and Friday full-day Forest School! We attempted homeschooling, although it wasn’t the best for us we had fun teaching the kids a few things before they start school in January.

Overall, I love how we prioritize our family and growing our bonds and doing things together. I can’t wait to continue to make new memories next year.

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