Aura Cacia Choose Calm Geranium Review | #essentialoils

For most of us, the summer vacation month are coming to an end.  This doesn't really mean that the end of the unbearable heat and stressful days are in our near future, though! Aura Cacia is a Aromatherapy and Natural Personal Care company that uses pure essential oils to promote health and healing.  Their CHOOSE CALM campign is a great way to spread the word about how to relieve relieve stress and worries from traveling and the heat, naturally. As a labor doula, I work with many different essential oils (including Aura Cacia), and although I've never worked with geranium…
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Benefits of Clary Sage Essential Oil | #birth #doula #essentialoils #natural

I'm pretty sure I haven't even talked about the benefits of one of my favorite oils, here on my blog.  Have you ever heard of Clary Sage?  Chances are, you haven't, unless you've had a natural (or medicated, for that matter) childbirth with a doula or a midwife. Clary Sage is one of my favorite oils for several reasons.  Aside from the fact that I absolutely love the deep, earthy aroma, it has several therapeutic properties as well. I've used Clary Sage at several births, and I'm always amazed at how it does it's job beautifully!  It turned me into…
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