Inner Strength by Aromatherapy Associates
The Posse is one of those wonderful places where a lot of people, myself included, feel comfortable baring some of our most personal challenges and sharing in a lot of our more personal joys. This year started out in particularly challenging fashion – I lost my beloved stepsister and then, hard on the heels of it, lost my father to a ripe old age. Health and other issues have plagued me, as they have so many others…and I have been feeling that sense of ‘quiet desperation’. I felt weird sharing that info, then I thought ‘waitaminit. It’s The Posse.” So I’m sharing, so I can tell you about some stuff that is helping me get through it. In these weird times, I always turn to aromatherapy. I scent my sheets with ylang ylang and clary sage and I dab a bit of bigarade on my lightbulbs. I place a drop of eucalyptus on a washcloth in the shower in the evening and a drop of spearmint in the morning. I’ve worked with EOs for a long while, trying to perfect a blend that would calm my ...