Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing

by Vannoy Gentles Fite

[Beth C.]

Essential oils are many things to many people, and knowing how best to use them - and do so safely - is extremely important. There are a variety of books out there, some better than others, that give this information. Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing is one of those. However, I'm not sure that this one is quite what I would recommend. The first part of the book is primarily about chakras, and blends that will help with various issues related to them. Then come other sections - and I'm a bit concerned about the section that promotes blends for bipolar disease and paranoia. Both of these, among others, are very serious mental conditions, and - in general - people with those mental illnesses are not always in a state of mind to be worrying about mixing up blends. Not only that, but it is not uncommon for someone with one of these mental illnesses to think that other "treatments" can take the place of their medication - and for these conditions, that could be disastrous. Unfortunately, knowing that these are in there colored my reaction to much of the rest of the book, and while a lot of it was interesting, it's not one I will be adding to my shelf.