Grief roller

Grief has been on my mind this week. There's no one right way to grieve of course, or any sort of magic wand to make it as fast and painless and linear as we sometimes wish it could be. But some of us have found comfort in approaches that incorporate essential oils, and I wanted to share those ideas with you.

The Joy roller above is the most common approach I've heard. People create daily rituals of rolling it over places like the heart, the neck, the bottoms of the feet, or anywhere that seems right, as they process their grief.

A couple other examples... I thought my mom would have wanted me to enjoy beautiful Dia de los Muertos flowers in her memory before leaving them for her. So I waited until after they were no-longer-fresh, then covered them in frankincense and left them at her grave. Another woman created a specific blend for a baby she had lost, and engaged in a ritual of rolling the blend in a heart shape above her heart. She chose a blend she never used for anything else, so that specific scent would always pull her to a place of remembering and connecting with her baby.

Of course everyone's process is different, but I hope this gives you some useful ideas.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or would like to talk more!

Happy oiling! :-)
Lindsay


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