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dōTERRA Serenity Stick + Valerian

A stick you roll over your wrists, your chest and your neck as the evening starts. Lavender, cedarwood, ylang ylang and valerian.

🌙 30 g · lavender · cedarwood · ylang ylang · valerian
dōTERRA Serenity Stick + Valerian

What it does

Your sense of smell is the shortest route to your brain. Scent goes straight into your limbic system, the part where emotion and memory live, with no relay station to translate the signal first. That's why a scent can take you somewhere within seconds.

This stick uses that. You roll it over your wrists, your chest and your neck at the moment you close off the day, and you breathe in calmly a few times. Do that every evening at the same point in your routine and your body starts coupling the scent to whatever comes next. After a few weeks that coupling is solid enough to work as a starting signal.

The blend holds lavender, cedarwood and ylang ylang, topped up with valerian root, coriander, marjoram, Roman chamomile, sandalwood, vetiver and a whisper of tonka bean and vanilla. Valerian is one of the oldest plants in the European evening tradition; it was in the herbals long before anyone thought to say sleep hygiene.

The base is coconut oil with tapioca starch and sunflower wax, so the stick glides on dry, with no greasy layer on your hands or your sheets.

Why this lands so directly

Every other sense sends its signals via the thalamus first, your brain's switchboard. Your sense of smell is the exception: it wires straight into your amygdala and hippocampus. Scent is the only sense with a back door to how you feel.

The Serenity Softgels are the counterpart from within; the stick is your anchor for the moment itself. I use them alongside each other, and the stick comes on holiday because it can't leak.

Why this one

Through your sense of smell

Scent is the only sense with a direct line to your emotional system. That's why this works within seconds.

With valerian

The classic Serenity blend, topped up with valerian root, sandalwood and vetiver.

Dry, not greasy

Coconut oil, tapioca starch and sunflower wax. No oil on your hands, no marks on your pillowcase.

Goes in your hand luggage

A stick can't leak. Your evening routine simply travels with you.

How to build an evening signal with it

1.Roll the stick over the inside of your wrists, across your chest and around your neck as you start into the night. Feel free to skip the soles of your feet: the work is in the aroma, and you want to be able to smell it.
2.Bring your wrists to your nose and breathe in calmly three times. That breathing in is the part that counts.
3.Do it every evening at the same point in your routine: after brushing your teeth, before the light goes out. Repetition is what makes the coupling strong.

Serenity in three forms

The same calming blend, three ways to reach for it.

Serenity Restful Complexthe softgels: valerian and lavender from within → Adaptiv Touchthe roller for tense moments during the day → Adaptivthe capsules for dense weeks →

Fancy giving it a go?

You can order the dōTERRA Serenity Stick on its own, or, and honestly this is what I always suggest, open your own account and get 25% off it.

View the Serenity Stick Start with 25% off
About that 25%: with your own doTERRA account (free, no compulsory orders, cancel monthly) you pay the wholesale price on everything. Order more than once and the account has already paid for itself. I'd just do it; you order the same thing and simply pay less.

Cosmetic product for external use. Not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease. Avoid the eye area. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding or taking medication, speak to your doctor first.