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[jrockingw]

What is JRockingW - Welcome

Hi friends,

I don’t think I’m a super interesting person but I have experienced life.  I had some rough years and I’m making it out the other side of that right now.  I can’t pinpoint a “that was the day everything changed”.  There were a series of events that positioned me to receive, acknowledge and embrace what I was and where to go. Now I get up and wonder what the day has in store, what I can either be refreshed about or learn new.  But first, the backstory. 

I noticed a history of every time I would find myself reaching that ultimate goal of total joy, something would come along and crush it.  A man that was more than I ever fantasized about was stolen from me by drugs after he had been sober for more than 10 years.  My best friend, soul mate, a rescue AmStaff named Sparky passed away suddenly (that’s a story deserving its own title, maybe I’ll share that later). We only got to have 2 years together. Getting to mourn had to take a back burner because I used every dime I had trying to save him and was made homeless for it. (I would do it over the exact same way if I had to)  A job I truly enjoyed going to every day replaced my boss with a woman that had a point to prove and picked off the long term folks one at a time.  It only took about 3 months for her to cull the herd and by Christmas I was gone too.  The day I got the call for a new job, I was so excited.  The next phone call 3 hours later was from the police notifying me my mom had passed.  Are you seeing the pattern develop here? There are as many or even more of those stories I didn’t mention. I felt like an MMA fighter going in the ring against yet another face that was way better than me.  One kick to the thigh, down.  Get up, another kick.  The other guy never had to even break a sweat.

Fast forward, because taking care of mom’s end of life is another story for itself later too.  All these life events set me up to receive and become someone greater than I could ever have imagined.  Maybe my total stubbornness required all those experiences to, “get it through my thick skull” as mom would say, to get me to this point.  My best hope now is that I don’t need a reminder!!

Mom was the craftiest and most creative person I know.  She did it all; knit, crochet, macrame, sewing, leather smith, could tan hides, needlepoint, beading jewelry for the local tribe, ceramics, a hella good cook, essential oils, dog trainer, horse trader, race track groom, and farrier. I wanted to carry on something of her so I opened my spirit for guidance and was lead to the beading and essential oils.  I found several books of hand written notes and recipes she had created for herself and the horses she cared for in the race barn over the years.  As I began reading them I was inspired to return to my roots.  I had given up horses more than 10 years prior after riding, showing and training for nearly 30 years.  But when I turned my back on horses, that dreaded pattern seemed to develop.  Along with it came depression, anxiety, social phobia and a diagnosis of PTSD, SAD and panic disorder.  

First I found myself wanting to start offering equine sports massage therapy again to the local horses. I was certified back in 2001 at Equissage in Va.  My sister sold me her PEMF blanket and I added that to my therapy.  I was putting hands on horses again and it came back so naturally.  After a year of learning more about the essential oils (EOs) sparks in my brain began firing. I added EO aromatherapy to my regime of sports massage.  Then  I started thinking about riding, training and even racing again.  Now I’m 49 years old, so I can’t be a race horse jockey again.  But I can sure get back into training and barrel racing.  For the first time in more than a decade, I have hope, goals, optimism and am inspired.  All thanks to moms books of EO recipes for the performance horse.  And of course, thanks to experiencing first hand the effects of those recipes as I use them regularly myself.  

My heart and soul are to make the very best products the best available ingredients I can to support the careers and daily life of the performance horse, JW Naturals can easily cross over to human use for emotional, spiritual and physical support if your curious or a user of EO products.  It took a while to come up with a name for the magic I was feeling.  First I called it Montana Belle but that didn’t feel connected enough to my roots.  It was the life I had the last decade without my mom, a horse or any knowledge about EO’s in it. Then it happened, J - Jossie,(me), W - Wendy (mom)!  Yes, that’s it.  JRockingW - JW Naturals was birthed.  Birthed from love and tragedy.  Triumphs and fails.  Heartbreak and heart healing.  

I’m going into my second year of learning.  Sometimes I feel the more I learn the less I know.  But what I do know now confidently is what gifts I’ve been given by God.  He is the first I give thanks to for every breath I’m allowed, every moment I get to savor and every horse and person I get to help and inspire.  

Thank you for reading, I hope something I said gave you a smile, a twinkle in your mind and maybe even inspired you today, your next today and the today after that.   Please feel free to comment.  Your sure to inspire someone somewhere at the right moment for them (or me).