Essentially doSARA LLC (est. 2018) started as a doTERRA based independent contractor business entity a few years after SARA discovered the powerful and effective properties of certified pure, therapeutic grade essential oils. She was originally in search of quality ingredients for her previous company crafting food-grade bath and body products, but soon realized the power potential these properly distilled extracts had across many aspects of health and wellness. Originally falling in love with the empowerment they brought within her own home, she was inspired with the potential that high quality essential oils provided for women, mothers and families everywhere. She started sharing. SARA spent years learning applications and protocols, discovering informational resources, scientific studies, teaching doTERRA essential oil classes, providing consults, leading workshops, crafting products, and building a team of like-minded others. She worked her way to the business level of Gold (although solidly only to Silver) and had years of residual, supplemental income for her and her family. It was inspiring and fun… until it wasn’t.

The “building” side of the business led to burn-out. Although many factors contributed to this lifestyle ‘changing of the seasons’, she just couldn’t continue playing this game. Coming face-to-face with the barriers of numbers, goals, endless ‘trainings’ and continually changing ‘building systems’, Essentially doSARA needed to rest.

This “rest” lasted several years, continuing through the COVID shutdowns of 2020-21. The residual income was very appreciated through this time, truly highlighting the benefit of the doTERRA business model, and solidifying that it wasn’t the system that caused the burnout, but the way it was being used. Only now, in 2024, is there the urge to plant seeds for something new.

During this downtime, Human Design found SARA, and what a turnaround it was! Finally, a system, a language, an external schematic to experiment with in teasing apart who she had fundamentally been designed to be from birth, and where aspects of ‘non-self’ had penetrated and distracted instead. SARA discovered that she was a 6/2 Manifesting Generator… she was currently “on the roof” with her 6 line personality… add that to her 2 line hermit body - no wonder she needed the “rest.” SARA often felt previously limited and constrained by conventional business advice saying to “find your niche” and “simplify your message” to apply to the masses. She’s a Manifesting Generator… not here to find one way, but ALL the ways! To experiment with how those ways connect, to make sense of them, and the most efficient way to apply them,. SARA is primarily Individual in her circuitry as well. She was never designed to “appeal to the masses.” She is an individual through and through, and thrives when supporting others in differentiating in deep, one-on-one and small group interactions.

The COVID shutdowns provided another opportunity, and that was to dive headfirst into research on how to finally establish a functional and sustainable homestead. Always interested in self-reliance, sustainability and food security, the downtime gifted by COVID allowed ample study on not only how to garden and grow food, but to learn how to do so with principles of permaculture, food-forests, and regenerative agriculture. Not only was SARA ‘getting back to nature’ in her choices of lifestyle and medicine, but quite literally getting back IN to nature. Recognizing that living with nature, within nature, as the part of nature that we inherently are, is the only sustainable way to security and resilience. How symbolic for every other aspect of life! 

Essentially doSARA is no longer solely about essential oils, it is about the gifts SARA can pay forward, her medicine that she can share with the small tribe of like-minded individuals that find her and decide to work with her. Combining graduate studies in counseling psychology, years of experience in teaching/tutoring at the primary, secondary and collegiate levels, self study and application on mind, body, spirit and environmental integration, Human Design, biology and physiology based nutrition and movement, regenerative agriculture and homesteading, SARA aims to be a liaison, a doula of sorts, to help individuals transition to a life of wellness and authenticity through sustainably working within nature, and building their capacity for self reliance. “Distill your Truth. Own your Essence. Differentiate.” SARA wants to be known as the one who helped walk people “home”.