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My name is Michele and I am a WAHM with a 20-month-old son. I worked in corporate America sales and project management in the telecommunications industry for 12 years and it was always a good fit. I waited until I was in my 30s to have my first child and just thought I’d have a baby and then go back to work- no problem. Unfortunately, my last employer did not think that being in sales and being pregnant was a good fit. So I was suddenly down sized in my fourth month of pregnancy. After freaking out for a few weeks, I decided to relax and enjoy my time off. I am a Type 1 Juvenile Diabetic so the pregnancy was high risk and I finally accepted my lay off as a blessing in disguise. My baby was born 4 weeks early at 5lbs 10.5oz via emergency C-Section, but he was completely healthy. Three days later we brought him home. Life, as we knew it, completely changed. I was, and still am, completely amazed at how much love you have for your child. Well after a full year at home with him, I knew I had to go back to work. The old bank account was at an all time low and the credit card debt was reaching new heights. I interviewed and interviewed with many employers in many industries and came home every time to my little boy... and cried. I just could not leave him in daycare for 14 hours a day while I worked at a job I could care less about for less pay than I had ever made. It was then I began looking around for work from home opportunities. I had no idea that there were so many! I narrowed my focus and found the Stayin Home and Lovin IT team.

My initial reason for joining the Stayin Home team was that they were promoting consumable products that every household purchases on a monthly basis. However the products they are promoting are better, safer and healthier for use in our home, better for our health, and cost 20%-40% less than retail prices. This made sense to me as a consumer -- I buy the same products I am already buying, direct, have them delivered to my door, save money, have a 60-90 day open bottle return policy guarantee, and get 10% back on my purchases every month to use towards other products. By becoming a customer of the Wellness Company I get better products, safer products, healthier products that cost less and I can also take advantage of medical savings plan, vehicle savings, internet savings, phone savings and financial services- what could make more sense than this for everyday purchases? I was sold (even though technically we don’t sell anything). My journey began and I converted my home to chemical free products and began a vitamin regimen.

It is important to me to really know what I am selling, promoting or educating people on, so I began researching household cleaning products. Armed with this knowledge, why would I continue to use everyday products that I had been using in my home when there are much safer alternatives? I won’t, but that of course, is a personal choice.

So that is my story and I’m sticking to it. I encourage everyone to look around at your living environment and research the possibility that chemicals may be causing some of your everyday health complaints. I encourage anyone with health problems that have not found all of the answers that they want in Western Medicine to look outside of the box for alternative help. This first step is to educate yourself. The next step is to begin to eliminate toxics from your daily life.

For information on the products I represent, please feel free to email me or visit my website to request more information about business possibilities or just about switching stores for better, safer, healthier products.

michelethompsonlarimer@msn.com

http://michelelarimer.stayinhomeandlovinit.com

Live Well, Laugh Often, and Love like you’ve never been hurt!!!

I wish all of you fellow Ryzer’s success in your life, both professionally and personally.

Consumer products that we use everyday are filled with toxic chemicals that would require special handling if used in a chemical laboratory or in the workplace.

Chemicals in the home can put everyone at risk. Cancer, birth defects, genetic changes, heart disease-most symptoms (physical and psychological) have been associated with certain chemicals used in common household products.

An EPA report stated that indoor air pollution is one of the nation’s most important environmental health problems. According to the EPA, most homes have airborne concentrations of hazardous chemicals that are two to five times higher indoors than outdoors. In one five-year study, the EPA reported that a number of homes had chemical levels seventy times higher inside than outside. (1)

The consumer Product safety commission reported that 150 common household chemicals have been linked to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological abnormalities. (2)

Most poisonings happen slowly, over a long period of time, by daily exposures to toxins in the air, and chemicals that come into contact with the skin. Household products are among the most toxic substances we encounter daily. In one study conducted over a fifteen-year period, women who worked at home had a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who had jobs away from the home. The study concluded that the increased death rate in women was due to daily exposure to the hazardous chemicals found in ordinary household products. (2)

In 1989, a house subcommittee asked the NIOSH to analyze 2,983 chemicals used in personal care products. The results were as follows: 884 of the ingredients were found to be toxic. Of these, 778 can cause acute toxicity, 146 can cause tumors, 218 can cause reproductive complications, 314 can cause biological mutation, and 376 can cause skin and eye irritations. (3)

Sources:
Nancy Sokel orange, Poisoning our Children (The Noble press, 1991)
Carolyn Rueben, “Warning: Your Home May Be Hazardous to Your Health”, EastWest Magazine 19, no.7 (July 1989)
Judith Berns, “The Cosmetic Cover-up,”Human Ecologist 43 (Fall 1989)