From Survival to Sacred Frequencies: How Essential Oils and Sound Healing Transformed One Mother’s Mission

🎧 Episode Highlight: Healer Within Podcast with Guest Staci Cahill, Owner of Essential Wholeness 4 U

• Discover how a mother’s desperate search for healing led to a higher calling.
• Hear the extraordinary story of how essential oils dramatically improved her daughter's life-threatening asthma.
• Learn how Staci’s resistance to business ownership turned into a thriving heart-led, spirit infused practice.
• Explore how the pandemic nudged her toward sound healing, deepening both her purpose and connection to community.
• Understand the emotional power and healing properties of sound baths—from retreats and community-based sessions to deeply moving memorial services.
• Get inspired by Staci’s wisdom for lightworkers on trusting your intuition, following your soul’s nudge, and boldly stepping into your calling.
• Find out how you can attend one of Staci’s pop-up summer sound baths, monthly events, or book private healing sessions.
• Connect with Staci via her website: www.stacicahill.com
  or on social media or via email: 

https://www.facebook.com/essentialwholeness4u/

https://www.instagram.com/essentialwholeness4u/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/staci-cahill-06652966/

essentialwholeness4U@gmail.com

If you are a spiritual entrepreneur who would like to be a guest on "Healer Within" please send an email inquiry to amy@sensoriumhypnosis.com. To learn more about spiritual hypnotherapy or spiritual coaching services for lightworkers, visit www.sensoriumhypnosis.com  

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Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):

Hi there. This is Amy Marohn with the Healer Within Podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today, and I want welcome Staci Cahill, owner of Essential Wholeness 4 U as our podcast guest today. Welcome, Staci.

Speaker 2 (00:18):

Thank you, Amy. I am so excited to be here today. Aw.

Speaker 1 (00:22):

Thank you so much for your time. We have so many exciting things to learn about Stacy and her businesses. And Staci, I just wanna open our dialogue today about asking you how you ended up working in this spirit infused businesses, <laugh>. And just start from wherever your heart is leading you.

Speaker 2 (00:51):

I think, I mean, honestly, it was pro, well, 2011, 2011 is where this all started. And I got into doTERRA first. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. Not really looking for a business. In fact, adamantly not wanting to do a business with doTERRA. But my daughter was really sick when she was little. She was diagnosed with asthma when she was nine months old and had her first major attack when she was 11 months old and put on life support. And the doctors weren't really sure if she was going to make it. She was struggling with allergies and asthma and bronchitis and pneumonia all at the same time, and it was just a really rough week. After that, she was hospitalized somewhere around 18 times within the next 24 months and was on a plethora of prescription medications. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. Including inhalers that she needed every two hours around the clock, which means neither one of us were sleeping.

Speaker 2 (01:56):

And, you know, she was just turning three about that time. <Laugh> two year olds are trouble enough, two year olds on a bunch of steroids and a bunch of medications. It was trying for both of us. And I wasn't really looking for something else, per se, but I knew what we were doing wasn't working. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. I had grown up in a home where, you know, we had a lot of natural solutions as our primary care mm-hmm <affirmative>. So I knew this isn't where I wanted to go, but it was also such a life and death, touch and go situation for years with her. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. That I was scared to look at anything else. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. It first started with just doing another elimination diet 'cause I was determined to get to the bottom of what was happening and the doctors had tested her for anything and everything they could think of to figure out what was causing her to be so reactive.

Speaker 2 (02:49):

Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And long story short, I found out that she is allergic intolerant to food additives, food preservatives, and food dyes. So she didn't have any major allergies. You know, the gluten, the dairy nuts, all of those things that are normally the culprit, but anything that had the preservatives in it or food dyes and many of food, the food additives would send her into a asthma attack. So I was putting two and two together, figuring things out. I was at a craft fair with her and I saw a doTERRA booth and, you know, people had told me about it several times, but I was very, like I said, very resistant. Like that's, that's a fun little foo side job, you know, not, not not what I need for my real life health issues. Sure. but I, there was people there that I didn't know, so I went up and I talked to them and they noticed that my daughter was coughing, and as asthmatics do, she had not really stopped coughing most of her life.

Speaker 2 (03:55):

Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And so the gal asked if Katrina could, could smell this breathe oil. And of course I was like, sure she can, she can smell it. Like I knew that they were clean products. I knew they were natural. So I said, sure. And she put a drop of oil in her hand. I just started waving her hands like this in front of my daughter, and Katrina stopped coughing. And it was the first time in years that she didn't cough in a five or 10 minute timeframe. Oh my gosh. And I knew that there was something, something was happening. So I borrowed a book from this lady that was all about essential oils and full of research and evidence-based medical journals documenting what essential oils could do. I literally stayed up all night that night reading that book cover to cover, knowing that this was an answer that I didn't even know I was looking for.

Speaker 2 (04:51):

Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. I also had a sample of that breathe oil she gave me to take home. And every couple hours when I would normally give her her inhalers, I put the essential oils on her feet. Again, because she is so sensitive, I didn't wanna put them near her mouth and her feet was close enough. And it worked. And that first night she did not need an inhaler all night. Oh my gosh. She was able to breathe on her own. She slept well. And I knew that I had just found an answer to prayer. So that's where it all started over the next couple of weeks, couple of months. I had a lot of people noticing the shift that it made in my daughter. One, her pediatrician helped her get off of all of her medications, and she was completely managing her asthma with diet, lifestyle choices and essential oils.

Speaker 2 (05:42):

And we had friends and family coming to us going, what, what are you doing? What's different? Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. All I could say is I don't, I don't know. It's these oils and they're working. Just keep praying that this is the answer that we need. And the more I learned, the more I shared, the more people were coming to me like, do you think it would help with this? I'm like, I, I don't know, but I know, here's what I can tell you about the safety of it. Here's what I can tell you about the, the company and the, the product and where they're sourced. And if you wanna try it, I'm happy to help you try. And we saw so many immediate results for so many people for different health challenges, which was really, it was just <laugh>. It was so rewarding personally. 

Speaker 1 (06:26):

Goodness.

Speaker 2 (06:27):

But what I think I noticed the most was that people were having hope again. And that's really what got me, me stuck on this business idea. It wasn't the sales. I was a single mom. I mean, I, I didn't need one more thing on my plate. Sure,

Speaker 1 (06:43):

Sure.

Speaker 2 (06:43):

But when I kept helping friend, after friend and colleague after colleague mm-hmm <affirmative>. Find hope on a, a health situation that they had given up on, like, this is just, we're stuck here. It was an amazing eye-opening experience that just transformed the rest of the trajectory of my life and my daughter's life. Mm.

Speaker 1 (07:04):

Wow. It's different, Staci, when and ideas spirit infused versus via human engineering, <laugh>, in other words, everything just happens organically, doesn't it? Does you find something that works for you and that you really believe in? It begins to come up in conversations naturally and organically, and people start to get curious. Yes. Oh, and they push past their, their myths about something like this and the value that it could potentially add in terms of turning down the volume on symptoms that aren't very well addressed in the western medicine world. Right. so, amazing. Stacy, what an incredible story. I wanna push forward a little bit more to your more recent business <laugh> and how you got from where you were to where you are now, because that's a very interesting story in and of itself.

Speaker 2 (08:16):

It is. So I, I love that you lean into the spirit led 'cause I don't think that, I don't think there's a decision in my life that is not just grounded in a deep intuition, in a deep spirit led decision. So I now have incorporated sound healing into my health and wellness practice. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. I've been doing that for about two years. And that also started not necessarily because I was looking to expand mm-hmm <affirmative>. Into that realm, but I, post pandemic was really grieving a loss of my team, both in people that had moved on or circumstances had changed. I was also missing the connection I had, I had spent the, you know, 10 years of my business teaching health and wellness classes about doTERRA and essential oils every week to the public. That was, that was how I built my business.

Speaker 2 (09:13):

And post pandemic. I really struggled to get people to come outta their houses. Either they were afraid and they didn't wanna come out, or they, they just had gotten accustomed to staying home and there was a disconnect. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And my soul was longing to have human connection again to be able to reach to people and to see the hope in their eyes when they tried something new. And I spend a lot of time in prayer and talking with my business coach and going, I don't, I don't know what to do. I'm trying to do classes again, but people don't wanna come out and I can do them online, but it's just not the same. And what do I do? And you know, when you put that out into the universe and I kept questioning like, what do I do? How, what am I gonna do next?

Speaker 2 (09:56):

How am I gonna overcome this obstacle? Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. You know, I got invitations to go to sound baths and I got somebody saying, Hey, I just saw this sound bath training. Do you know anybody who might be interested? And all of these hints just kept dropping in sound healing, sound baths, you know, sound therapy. And I'm like, well, I've done that. Like, that sounds like fun. I could, I could look at that. So I started exploring it as a business opportunity to overcome that obstacle. I can reconnect with people, I can hopefully get them out of their house, come to an event that is just dripping with heart support and connection. And in doing that, I found as soon as I got the bulls, I started the training first. And it was all learning, like things that I already know, similar to plants and essential oils, sound has a vibration and a frequency.

Speaker 2 (10:51):

So it was very much in alignment what I was doing. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And then I got my hands on the bowls and I started to play. And I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but I have quickly come to admit that my sound healing therapy practice for others is just as much a benefit for me as it is for them. <Laugh>. Completely. I get it. I love it. I, the first time I played with my bowls and felt that vibration mm-hmm <affirmative>. My soul was at rest in a way that it hadn't been in years. And so I started offering sound baths to get people to come out and I would pair them with essential oil classes. Yeah. Yeah. And then I started doing them individually where I'm just doing a sound bath and here's an oil that I'm diffusing or using during the Sound bath or private sessions that stand alone wearing one way or the other. But it has opened up a whole nother door to, to not just another modality that I can use to help people, but a whole open door to my heart that I didn't even know was missing. And now I'm like, oh, this is, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Yes. And not an either or. Right. Uhhuh, it's

Speaker 1 (12:02):

Like, well

Speaker 2 (12:03):

Now you're on this path and you should do this. I'm like, oh no, I'm not forgetting my roots. I love, I love my oils. Yes. But together there's a synergy that is amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:15):

Absolutely. And I find in the work that I do mostly serving lightworkers, they're so multifaceted in terms of their creativity and their, their curiosity in multiple modalities. So I hardly ever see a lightworker just doing one thing. It seems like every handful of years they're integrating yet again, another amazing, one of the healing tools or healing arts. So I commend you for that. Stacy, I'd also love to share with others who are listening or watching this podcast more about where you've been with your sound baths. Where have you been thus far and where can people find you with any sort of regularity? So, 'cause you've been very creative <laugh> with where you've shown up in sound baths, so let's learn a little bit more about that. Yeah,

Speaker 2 (13:18):

Absolutely. So it started off and my most consistent location is at a chiropractor's office. Uhhuh <affirmative> here in my hometown in Monroe Monroe. And, you know, he's, he is a guy that has supported my business for years, and so he has the space and I do a monthly sound bath in his space. Mm-Hmm. And it can hold up to 20, 25 people in there easily. So I do that one once a month, usually on a Friday night. I also have done a lot of stand standalone one-off type things. I do a lot of retreats either as a co collaborator or organizer, or I've done retreats where I'm just the guest and I come in and I offer the, the sound healing mm-hmm <affirmative>. Or their guests, either as a group, as a session in the retreat, or as an add-on service where people can have a private sound healing session while they're at the retreat. Oh. I have, and that's something I love doing retreats. I've traveled down to Utah to do a retreat down there with some friends, and I've also done sound baths in like corporate settings at like a doTERRA event with a hundred people where they come to gather and we just start the session with a brief five or 10 minute guided meditation and sound bath just to get everybody grounded and in the right space. Oh,

Speaker 1 (14:36):

Beautiful.

Speaker 2 (14:37):

You know, and then just this last weekend this sounds kind of awful, but it might be my favorite, favorite sound bath that I've ever done, because I was asked to come and do a short sound bath at a memorial service. Mm-Hmm. And I had never, I had never really thought of that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:56):

The me, the, the moment was so beautiful. Like, I get a little choked up just thinking about it because here's all these loved ones gathered in his home to honor him and remember him and his passing. And they took, you know, 20 minutes and paused and participated in a sound bath with me, which was something that he was very passionate about and integrated into his daily practices meditation and sound bath. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And it was such a beautiful way to honor him. And I was so, so touched that his wife invited me to come and be part of that service. Then again, it was one of those, I never would've thought of it doing a memorial. So that wasn't in my business plan. Yeah. In my must do. And yet it was such a beautiful way to witness and bear witness to a group of people walking through grief and being able to see them in that moment in his home.

Speaker 2 (15:52):

Just pause. And, you know, some had emotional releases and some had you could tell that they were just able to relax in a time that had been stressful. Right. Whenever you're processing in grief. And it was so beautiful to be able to be part of that. So I don't know what that looks like in the future, but it just opened my, my eyes to sound therapy can be anywhere from one-on-one to group to corporate to very personal. Sure. I love exploring that with, with guests, like whatever they're looking for mm-hmm <affirmative>. We can tailor a event specific to them and what their needs are.

Speaker 1 (16:32):

Oh, Stacy, that's beautiful and brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I, you know, one of the things I love to ask Lightworkers on this podcast is to share some of their wisdom with other budding or even well established spiritual entrepreneurs. Just any bit of wisdom that you've experienced from your life or from your business or your current business model. What can you share with others who are, might want to do something in the healing arts or expand upon what they're doing currently?

Speaker 2 (17:18):

Absolutely. I think this is, this is such a powerful question because like you said, what, what we're called to, what we're looking into where, where our life is supposed to be, yes, it's about us and who we can serve and what we can do, but it's also, it's where you're being called to be where there's a need and you are the right person to fill that need. Yeah. so my biggest wisdom and advice for anyone who has that, that nudge of maybe I should or is this for me, is to, you know, shirt get consults, talk to your, to your business plan, your family, whoever it is that speaks wisdom into your life, but ultimately turn into your own intuition. Like mm-hmm <affirmative>. Those messages are not dropped on your heart for no reason.

Speaker 2 (18:04):

If you are thinking it, if it's been brought into your space, there's probably a reason. And sometimes that reason might be that you are the messenger where you get the, the inspiration and it's for somebody else, but more often than not, it's really that you are the only you this world will ever have. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. You're the only person who has that unique skillset, those strengths, that timing for what you're called to. And I think we get so busy and we doubt ourselves so much and get distracted by the clutter of the world that often we forgot to listen to ourselves. Yes. So that's my biggest advice.

Speaker 1 (18:43):

Yes. Oh,

Speaker 2 (18:44):

Trust your inner wisdom, your intuition, and when you're called to it boldly, step into it because there's a purpose for that. We need you,

Speaker 1 (18:54):

Stacy, such beautiful wisdom, so eloquently stated, and I appreciate, I need your oils

Speaker 1 (19:04):

<Laugh> sniffing in peppermint, and I'm excited to have some of your product in my hypnotherapy space. Stacy and I absolutely will be co-creating something in the future where we bring forth some guided meditation and maybe self hyp and energy healing along with her amazing healing art forms. And so we'll be excited to announce that in the future. Stacy, I want to make it as easy as possible for listeners and viewers to find you. So let's talk about your website, how it's organized, and any future upcoming events where people can catch some of your magic so <laugh>.

Speaker 2 (19:52):

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So there's website is just stacicahill.com. Staci with an IKO with C and on my website there are a couple of tabs to a blog as well as one that is specific to sound healing and one that is more specific to doTERRA. So you can easily come and explore either thing. The website is recently being updated, so there's still a little hint of the past homeschooling pieces that were on there, but it's all part of me, so I'm not taking that away. But it's pretty, pretty cut and dry now to be able to find doTERRA and sound healing and there'll be more content and blogs pouring in over the next couple months. Also I am on social media, on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn. All of them have the same handle, which is my business name, essential Wholeness for you.

Speaker 2 (20:47):

That's the number four and the letter U and you can find me and follow me on all of those. This summer, my most exciting thing is I am doing some pop-up sound baths. I really want to reach the community and expose more people to sound healing. And those people who have never heard of it or may not be interested or know what it is I'm going to show up at local parks and beaches and public spaces and do just a sound bath for anybody who's in the area free of charge. To know where I will be, you'll wanna get on my mailing list, which you can get onto either through the website or through my social media. And that's probably the easiest way to find me this summer is at a popup event. There'll be anywhere around the Puget Sound, probably a little bit further 'cause I do love to go and adventure.

Speaker 2 (21:40):

And then I also, like I said, have the, the monthly Sound Baths in Monroe, the second Friday of the month. So you can attend that as well. Those ones are by reservation. And again, on my website there's a link to, to find those. And beyond that, reach out. I would love to connect with you and tailor an event specific to you or help you find some help with the right doTERRA products. And even my email is Essential wholeness for you@gmail.com. So pretty easy to find anywhere that you might be connecting with others.

Speaker 1 (22:14):

Oh, Staci I'd love to be your groupie <laugh> just around. I am excited, you know, to learn more about the sound healing about the oils. For anybody who's watching or listening, I'm definitely going to produce a transcript. And Staci, I will absolutely put all of, you know, your, your website, your email, your social media links in the posts that I do on YouTube and on the Spotify podcast and on my social media. I appreciate SI appreciate you so much, Staci. I appreciate all the light and the love and the healing energy you bring onto this earth plane. We desperately need it. We desperately need you. I am excited to help you make more connections and reach a wider audience through some of my platforms and venues. Thank you wholeheartedly for your time, your graciousness and the wealth of information that you've provided about your healing modality and the tools that you're using. Staci, thank you again.

Speaker 2 (23:31):

Thank you, Amy. This has been such a treat. I just love being in your space and in your energy, so thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. See what we can create together.

Speaker 1 (23:40):

Absolutely. I'm excited for that. And, and again, for those who are listening or watching, you can find all of my podcasts including previous podcasts on my website - www.sensoriumhypnosis.com. And again, this is healer within most people find it on Spotify, but you can find it kind of all over the place now. <Laugh> <laugh> podcast, there are so many of them. Stacy, again, thank you and I look forward to, to co-creating some things together in the future. Thank you so much. Alright, take care. Thanks to the listeners and watchers out there. Take care. Bye now you.