A Grander Scale

As a massage therapist, Durell Darr used a different brand of essential oils until she started developing sensitivities to them. When a friend later intro duced her to doTERRA, she noticed that they were different and didn’t give her any bad reactions. She started using them on her clients and they started asking for her to teach a class—so she did.

One class led to another and before she knew it, Durell had a growing team. She hadn’t wanted to start a business. She had three jobs and after 15 years of marriage had been blessed with an unexpected pregnancy. But, toward the end of her pregnancy she started experiencing carpal tunnel pain that did not go away after she gave birth. She says, “I had a hard time even holding my baby because my hands felt like they were broken. I was scared that I would never massage again.”

As months went by and the pain persisted, her husband, Eric, suggested she go back to teaching doTERRA classes to make up for her lost massage income. She had taken a break from doTERRA because of her son, so she decided to go back to that, and pretty soon her business exploded. Durell says, “The flood gates opened and I went from just barely Gold to Diamond within a year.” She was eventually able to return to doing massage, and says it’s something she will never stop doing. But, she has cut back her hours significantly to spend more time at home with her son and to work full time in her doTERRA business.

Durell has held jobs since she was 11, so she has always known how to work hard, but she never learned how to play. She says, “In my mind I had the limiting belief that you can’t work and play at the same time.