Boyer Sisters Pt 5: Balancing Body Humors with YL Oils

[SolomonFundy]

One gets the impression that Mama Boyer isn't much more mature than her daughters. Which is saying something. 

[Carm_88]

Why would you try to give up anything just before Christmas? Tis the season of over indulging! 

[dramallama]

7 hours ago, Carm_88 said:

Why would you try to give up anything just before Christmas? Tis the season of over indulging! 

I gave up carbs 4 months ago and I still doubt my willpower to get through the holidays.

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(But here they would probably invoke the soundness of their proposition as the truth, and say the rest of us were just deluding ourselves). 

Blah blah God's plan blah blah rebellious Jezebels need to submit to the will of the lord blah blah blah something about blessings etc etc.

[Ali]

16 hours ago, dramallama said:

I gave up carbs 4 months ago and I still doubt my willpower to get through the holidays.

There is no way that I could resist pecan pie at Thanksgiving or get through  Christmas without eating Christmas cookies. I wouldn't mind that excuse for avoiding pumpkin pie though. Good luck!

[HereticHick]

Its been what--6 weeks without a new Essential Oils blog post?? Is the Boyer sisters life so jam-packed they can't post more than once a month?

[Carm_88]

5 minutes ago, HereticHick said:

Its been what--6 weeks without a new Essential Oils blog post?? Is the Boyer sisters life so jam-packed they can't post more than once a month?

They'd like us to think that. I doubt there's much excitement going on in the Boyer household. 

[Carm_88]

Oh look a youtube video about conquering boredom! In the description Charlotte states that she is a "work at home gal"...mmmhmm. 

[usedbicycle]

On 10/10/2017 at 2:49 AM, SolomonFundy said:

One gets the impression that Mama Boyer isn't much more mature than her daughters. Which is saying something. 

I certainly got that impression from this Bwell post. 

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"Young Living came into our lives when we needed it most. Mom needed a whole lot of hormone support (old age isn’t easy on us ladies), and the monthly bills we were experiencing because of this weren’t so pretty, especially with our Dad being out of work. Mom remembered hearing about Young Living from a friend, and after discussing our options, we discovered that it was actually the cheapest viable option for us to help Mom while remaining on a budget. 

OK, let me get this straight. Mom Boyer discusses her options for hormone replacement therapy with her teenage daughters and budgets her treatment with them. Where does her doctor's advice fit in? Why do the girls use "we" when discussing the family's finances? Isn't Mom's medication the parents' problem? So weird. But back to the article...

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Our second investment was Mom’s health: Progessence Plus Serum and the FemiGen supplement. She needed all the help she could get, and making these monthly to bi-monthly purchases was far cheaper than what we were paying before.

Here's where it gets crazy. If you look up the Progessence serum, it's not a menopause treatment at all, it's a FACE OIL. Yes, just an anti-wrinkle, Vitamin E, oily face serum. The second one FemiGen is a plant and amino acid capsule that offers no hormone replacement at all. It's marketed to "support the special needs of the female systems*" but isn't specific to menopause. It could be for period cramps for all we know. No wonder it's a lot cheaper than actual hormonal medication.

*the asterix in the original text doesn't go to any footnote, which bothers me to no end, but it should read something like "the FDA does not support any of these claims". 

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Once she joined and began experiencing an incredible difference in her hormones, we were all sold 110%.

I'm sorry to say that from a scientific viewpoint, any improvement she felt is due to the placebo effect. Gullible people are more sensitive to it. Or she wasn't that ill to begin with, and they're just being dramatic.

This whole article made me annoyed with Ma Boyer and her lack of common sense. The girls don't socialize so they must get their ditziness from somewhere.

 

[hollyandivy]

What did I just watch??????? You get left behind alone as the youngest? I don't get it. And ten she cleans up the house, which according to her is a "mess" - girl, come to my house, I will show you a mess! I have three active kids with different interests , all go to public school, all are involved in sports and music. So you will find all kinds of stuff everywhere. It is what happens when life gets busy, nobody here is just hanging around at home doing stupid videos.....

[GeoBQn]

Here's ideas for Charlotte on what to do if you're bored:

1.  Get out of the damn house.

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That really should be enough.  Seriously, you have an energetic dog next to you.  Why not start by taking him for a walk in a new park?

[Ali]

44 minutes ago, GeoBQn said:

1. Get out of the damn house.

2. Get a real full time job.

[Carm_88]

8 minutes ago, Ali said:

2. Get a real full time job.

3. Stop blaming Brigid for everything. 

[AlwaysExcited]

1 hour ago, Carm_88 said:

3. Stop blaming Brigid for everything. 

4. Go to college. Or at least read a book that's not the Bible. 

[catlady]

12 minutes ago, AlwaysExcited said:

4. Go to college. Or at least read a book that's not the Bible. 

5. talk to people who are neither related to you nor are members of your own church.  and listen to them.

[Kleine Vampirin]

36 minutes ago, catlady said:

5. talk to people who are neither related to you nor are members of your own church.  and listen to them.

6. Create an account and come play with us 

[SolomonFundy]

30 minutes ago, Kleine Vampirin said:

6. Create an account and come play with us 

7. Learn some self-awareness. If you're running two websites that you never update, yet feel the need to tell other people how to "beat boredom", you need to evaluate your life choices.

 

Unrelated to our growing Boyer Manual for Self Improvement, I've decided that I'm totally at peace with Mama Boyer rubbing overpriced hippie snake oil on her face to treat her menopausal hormonal imbalance. After all, if they are going to pretend like their eldest daughter isn't suffering from untreated depression, and their younger daughter isn't dealing with what sounds like at least a few significant food allergies, then it only seems fair to deprive the rest of the family from actual medical treatment as well.

[Jeronimo]

Charlotte would make an amazing employee at a department store or something!

She is so smiley and energetic - what a shame she's wasting her talents shut up at home bouncing off the walls and making stupid videos.

Find a new outlet Charlotte!

[Threff]

I know I’m a bit old, but the way she handled those vinyl records made my teeth itch. You can tell she must have never played one, (let alone have saved up her pocket-money for, like, three months, to get Non-stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell), to be getting her grubby paws all over the grooves like that.

LPs were WELL expensive back in the day, and you treated them like an archeologist handling the dead sea scrolls, or you ended up with unplayable scratched pocket-money-destroying crap.  We used to try and melt our badly-damaged ones in the oven to make plant pots, but that’s another story.

Fair enough, she’s probably going to nail them to the wall or something, in the name of shabby chic, but gah. Can’t help myself after a lifetime of extreme vinyl-handling skills.  I will now go back to lurking, and tell some teenagers to get off my lawn.

[catlady]

@Threff , me too!  i finally watched that useless video last night, and i was shouting in my head, "Edges, Charlotte!  Edges!"  and i lovelovelove your avatar!  

maybe i'm over-thinking, but the video in general reminded me of how infantilized these two are.  the overall message is "if you're bored, clean your room."  that was something my mom said to me when i was a kid and stopped saying somewhere in my early teens.  another boredom-buster for Charlotte would be to learn a thing or two about design/decor.  she might then be inclined to do more than hang up a few doodads, and find a better way to work in Gabe's postcard--all she did was prop it up against another knick-knack.  come on, Charlotte; try harder.

 

[Palimpsest]

8 hours ago, Jeronimo said:

She is so smiley and energetic

That's one way of putting it.  I find Charlotte incredibly irritating and would hate to have to spend much time with her.  In the videos she's constantly interrupting, chattering on about nothing, and being annoyingly pushy and perky.  I want to channel Mr Bennett to Mary:  "That will do extremely well, child. You [Charlotte] have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.” 

Perhaps Charlotte will grow up and dial it down to smiley and energetic soon.  I hope so.

45 minutes ago, Threff said:

I know I’m a bit old, but the way she handled those vinyl records made my teeth itch.

You are not alone.  I positively winced too.  Then I realised that to Charlotte they were just "decor." A word I hate with a deadly passion.  And now you have broken the ice, please stop lurking and post some more!

16 hours ago, SolomonFundy said:

After all, if they are going to pretend like their eldest daughter isn't suffering from untreated depression, and their younger daughter isn't dealing with what sounds like at least a few significant food allergies, then it only seems fair to deprive the rest of the family from actual medical treatment as well.

It is rather obvious the Boyers don't believe in conventional medical treatment and probably don't believe in health insurance either.  I wonder whether they even have Scamaritan.  I also wonder whether Charlotte is dealing with actual food allergies or is just allergic to having nothing productive to do.  Other than worry about her gut and her pimples.

On 10/13/2017 at 12:36 AM, usedbicycle said:

I'm sorry to say that from a scientific viewpoint, any improvement she felt is due to the placebo effect. Gullible people are more sensitive to it. Or she wasn't that ill to begin with, and they're just being dramatic.

Quite - and thanks for looking all that pseudo-scientific babble up for us.  That Boyer post annoyed me with all the "Mom needed all the help she could get crap."  Menopause is not the end of the world or the death of womanhood.  Nor is HRT always necessary.  In fact, sometimes the risks outweigh the benefits of HRT and women are often advised only to take it if necessary.  I was lucky and sailed through menopause.  I am very high risk for osteoporosis but there are other treatments for that.

 

[Threff]

1 hour ago, Palimpsest said:

You are not alone.  I positively winced too.  Then I realised that to Charlotte they were just "decor." A word I hate with a deadly passion.  And now you have broken the ice, please stop lurking and post some more!  

Ah well, I might have a go, at that.

[Sobeknofret]

3 hours ago, Threff said:

(let alone have saved up her pocket-money for, like, three months, to get Non-stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell), to be getting her grubby paws all over the grooves like that.)

Still love that album. I got it for Christmas one year.  Might even have been the same year I got the Cure's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

*waves at the kids to get off her lawn along with Threff*

[hoipolloi]

@Threff - another here who winced at Charlotte's mistreatment of vinyl. Haven't owned or played a vinyl LP in over 25+ years but some things never leave you!

Re: Ma Boyer. Almost certainly, it was peri-menopause that was causing problems, as it does for many. Menopause itself is a snap! It's true that there's been too little research into peri-menopause and how some of its worst symptoms might be alleviated. It's also true, as @Palimpsest pointed out, that HRT is not a cure-all nor is it for most women.  Nonetheless, I can pretty well guaran-damn-tee you that essential snake oils will do nothing for peri-menopause unless, as in Ma Boyer's case, you succumb to the placebo effect. For a lot less money, and probably as much relief, you can alternately turn on a fan, go swimming, take a nap, have a glass of iced tea, etc., etc. 

[Threff]

4 hours ago, Sobeknofret said:

Still love that album. I got it for Christmas one year.  Might even have been the same year I got the Cure's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

*waves at the kids to get off her lawn along with Threff*

I saw The Cure live, at The Dominion at Tottenham Court Road once. It’s in the top best five gigs of my life list. Along with Madness, at the same venue, and Squeeze at a socialist workers party thing in 1982. 

Shit, I’m old.

[Naga Viper]

6 hours ago, Threff said:

I saw The Cure live, at The Dominion at Tottenham Court Road once. It’s in the top best five gigs of my life list. Along with Madness, at the same venue, and Squeeze at a socialist workers party thing in 1982. 

Shit, I’m old.

But good taste is forever. Lurk no more and tell us more about your vinyl collection.