Facing the Waves: Working Through Grief with Essential Oils and Stories of Hope, by Heidi Seamon and Sue Ann Grann

Facing the Waves is an uplifting and proactive guide to help you reclaim your health and hope as you journey through grief.

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This book serves as an inspirational tool—each chapter pairing poignant, relatable stories of faith that highlight specific types of grief with practical oil protocols to help you address the common physical and emotional challenges associated with loss—plus journal questions to help you navigate the next steps of your grieving process.

As doTERRA® Wellness Advocates, Sue Ann Grann and Heidi Seamon have been entrusted with the special honor and responsibility of helping many, not only in their health journeys but during their most painful moments of loss. The two have partnered to create a movement of healing during a time when the collective world is hurting. The believe that no one needs to "go it alone" in their grief.

You are invited to curl up in a cozy spot with your favorite cup of comfort and dive in! As you sit down with the stories of those who have traveled this road before you, allow this book to offer you the tools to help you find relief from loss and a sense of divine hope to carry on.

Publication: 2022.

Pages: 115.

Binding: Softcover.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Heidi Holland Seamon: Heidi hails from Almost Heaven, West Virginia, where she learned the value of hard work and helping others. She grew up in a big Italian family with a love of music and sun-filled summers on the lake. A creative at heart, Heidi has always found joy in making something out of nothing.

After her brother's sudden death at age twenty-four, Heidi experienced true grief for the first time. Atlee was her only sibling and, all of a sudden, the one person who shared her childhood memories was gone.

Heidi was introduced to doTERRA essential oils in 2013, which quickly expanded from gradual daily changes to a lifestyle focused on natural wellness. After an unexpected emotional experience during a talk about loss at a doTERRA Leadership conference, Heidi found herself drawn to helping those experiencing grief and began working to lessen their pain. She created a class on essential oils for grief, which led her to Sue Ann, who inspired this book.

A lawyer by trade, Heidi startted on her path to help others, and how serves as the General Counsel for a tech company. She considers herself blessed to work with two companies that treasure their people and want to leave a positive mark on the world.

Heidi shares her home among the hills with her very musical and lively family, including her husband of twentry-plus years, Davin, and her three children, Laryn, Antonin, and Agustin.

Sue Ann Grann: Teasing that she was born with built-in fins and a pen in her hand, former competitive swimmer and TV Writer/Producer Sue Ann Grann has always used water and writing for therapy.

Both were terrific outlets for her after the loss of her father and four other influential people in her life. Having learned so much about herself during her grief journey, Sue Ann has always felt drawn to support friends during this often isolating process.

After many unsucessful years trying to start a family, Sue Ann and her husband Eric hit the jackpot with their triplet boys Ian, Gavin, and Aaron, and their daughter Ana-Clare, all in two years. One son endured a serious seven-year medical battle, which ultimately led Sue Ann to discover the power of doTERRA essential oils. Committed to sparing other parents a similar fate, she became a doTERRA Wellness Advocate and considers her a job a joyful ministry.

Following the sudden loss of her two senior citizen dogs in the same year, Sue Ann heard Heidi teach a class on essential oils for grief. She was excited to use this information to help so many friends and customers—and with her writing background, know there was an opportunity to incorporate stories and journaling to offer hope and healing.

Having spent most of her married life in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sue Ann and her husband, four teens, and two South Korean rescue pups now live outside Atlanta, Georgia.

Sue Ann is also very active in human trafficking awareness and prevention.

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Dedication

Table of Contents

A Note from the Authors

Getting Started

Essential Oils Basics

Basic Support Oils

The Aftermath of 2020: Grieving the World We Once Knew

You Are My Sonshine: The Loss of a Young Child

A Light in the Darkness: Grieving an Estranged Family Member

What Happens When You Blink: The Grief of Letting Go

Look for the Signs: Loss Through Cancer and Amputation

Travel Through Grief: The Unexpected Loss of a Soulmate

Peaceful Purpose: The Loss of an Aging Parent

The Gift of Grief: Life After Miscarriage

Dwelling on Goodness Over Despair: The Loss of a Young Adult Son

Serenity After the Storm: Losing a Father with a Mental Illness

Closing the Door to the Past: Grieving the Loss of an Absent Father

Additional Support Oils

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Losing a Child in a Violent Crime

Tell it to Your Heart: Life Lessons Through the Loss of a Beloved Pet

Cose by Me: Grieving the Loss of a Marriage and Mom in the Same Year

The Lone Cypress: Reuniting With a Father Before He Passed

Dancing in a Green Dress: The Loss of a Parent After Chronic Illness

Epilogue: Using Your Pain for Your Purpose

Acknowledgements

Disclaimers

References

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