Joette Calabrese Podcast

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:00 Introduction The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® 02:04 What Brought Kirsten to Homeopathy? Pediatrician Pushback and Pizza 05:43 The Gateway and the Garden Injury Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 06:44 Success Battling Cellulitis (with the photos) Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy 08:00 The Photographic Proof of the Efficacy of Hyper/Ars 10:00 The Watershed Moment: Where Had These Medicines Been All My Life? 12:21 Success with Celiac Disease and Reducing Pharmaceuticals 15:48 Success with Rheumatoid Arthritis 17:18 From Mom to Practical Homeopath® 19:13 Learning Practical Homeopathy® Is Doable ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Joette’s Learning Center Joette’s Mighty Members Joette Calabrese on YouTube Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 126, with Joette Calabrese. Joette: Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:00) Hi, and welcome back to the podcast. We’re so glad that you’ve joined us today. We love that you’re here and are so excited about your homeopathy journey. So, thanks for being here. Today, we have a special treat. Joette is going to be talking to a special guest, so I’m just going to let her take it away. Joette: Thanks, Kate. So, I’d like to introduce Kirsten Decca. I’ve gotten to know Kirsten pretty well through the last few years because she’s been a student of mine for some time. She joined The Academy — and we’re going to hear all about that — and then, she went into the next year, the Mastery™ program. And now, she’s in our Mastermind program, and I really wanted you to hear her story. So, welcome, Kirsten. Kirsten: Thanks, Joette. It’s a pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me. Joette: Yeah, this is going to be good today. So, I’m interested in knowing — as many people are — a little bit about your life, what you do and what brought you to homeopathy. WHAT BROUGHT KIRSTEN TO HOMEOPATHY? PEDIATRICIAN PUSHBACK AND PIZZA Kirsten: (02:04) Okay. Well, I’m a mom of six. My husband and I live here in the northwestern part of Florida. My husband is retired Air Force, and we have moved up here kind of out into the country. We have a little homestead, and we raise chickens, and we have dogs and some goats and horses. My journey to homeopathy is interesting. I have a background in health care. I’m a licensed physical therapist assistant. Although I’m retired, I haven’t been in a clinic for probably, oh gosh, over 20 years now. But I’ve always loved anatomy and physiology. I’d like to say health care, although I feel different about what it actually is now. But my dad was actually a pharmaceutical rep, so I was raised with drugs. They were everywhere. It’s just what we did. In fact, I didn’t really know that there was even another way. If you were sick, that’s just what you did. You took a pill. Or actually, we used to have — I don’t know if you remember Kaopectate®, Joette. You remember? Joette: I do. Kirsten: So, we used to have it everywhere. And I don’t know why I thought it tastes good, but we would just drink it. We would go sneak it out of my dad’s samples and take Kaopectate. I don’t know how we ever went to the bathroom. But anyway, so to say that drugs were commonplace is just an understatement. I went to school to be the physical therapist assistant. I had played sports for years and years, had gotten injured and had had multiple surgeries. So again, drugs, drugs and more drugs during surgery after surgery. And then I didn’t really question until probably most of us … when we had children. So, I had my kids. And then, I had a son that began displaying some behavioral issues. And we just noticed something was different, and he was diagnosed with Asperger’s. So, that really kind of started me on my journey of questioning kind of what I had done. Was anything that I had done contributed to this? And so, I started reading, educating myself, and then I started asking questions at the doctor’s office, which that did not go over really well, and I began to get pushback. And so that even pushed me further in questioning. “Okay, why is this an issue? These are my kids. You would think they would welcome it.” I really expected the doctors to pat you on the head and go, “Good job!” But that was not the case. So, we started deciding not

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:00 Introduction: It’s Called a Cold for a Reason 02:20 What Is the Terrain? 03:22 The Immune System 06:00 Lean Into a Cold as an Opportunity To Cleanse 09:40 Stop Worrying. A Cold is Natural. Plus, We Have Homeopathy, if Necessary. ColdCalm® Oscillococcinum® Aconitum napellus 200 and Bryonia alba 30 14:53 Managing Expectations 18:26 Stay Calm. Don’t Fear a Cold 19:18 Become the Wise, Calm, Relevant Caregiver in Your Family ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Joette’s Learning Center Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Mighty Members The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Joette Calabrese on YouTube   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 125, with Joette Calabrese. Joette: Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION: IT’S CALLED A COLD FOR A REASON Kate: (01:00) Are you concerned about getting sick or your kids going back to school and being exposed to something that makes them sick? Well, let’s examine that today on this podcast. We’re so glad that you joined us. I’m Kate, and I’m here with Joette. Joette: Hi, Kate. Kate: Hi! I want to start with the basics. Joette. It seems like every year, especially in the fall, people can expect to get a cold. What do you think about that? Joette: Well, it’s called a cold for a reason, in my estimation. It’s because, generally, it’s the shift in weather. The weather gets cold, or, even if you’re not in an area where the weather gets cold, there’s a shift — an environmental shift. And it has been commonly understood that if someone gets a chill that they, you know, “Put your hat on, or you’ll catch your death of cold!” Well, I believe that that can be so. You can get quite sick if you get a chill … especially after you’ve been perspired or children running around in a playground or a park or something. And then they get a chill, And often, that’s what can lead to this. So, I believe that it does have something to do with the environment. But now, I also believe that it has to do with immunity. Now, when we say “immunity,” I don’t mean immune from bugs necessarily. I believe it has more to do with the terrain. WHAT IS THE TERRAIN? Joette: (02:20) What is the terrain? Well, it’s making sure that there’s strength in that terrain. And the terrain is upon which the person is depending to get through those times when their body might need to make a shift, like releasing toxins, et cetera. So, let me be more specific. I believe that if germs are ever-present — and that’s the way people see them — then why is it that people only get germy colds and flus at a certain time of the year? Pretty much it’s only in the fall, sometimes in the winter — January, February. (I’m talking about those parts … I’m talking about the U.S., but also in Europe, et cetera.) When that cold comes — that cold weather comes — and now are the germs more virulent? Do they get excited and start hopping onto people? Or are the germs always there, and those who have a good immune system are able to fend them off? THE IMMUNE SYSTEM Joette: (03:22) Well, if that’s so, then why are we even looking to germs? Why are we not looking to the immune system or the ability to be able to withstand an onslaught of this or that? Why not just count on that to start? So, the way that I look at it is that if we are taking care of ourselves, we’re eating good food — and I mean real food, food that’s made at home. Doesn’t mean we can’t go out to dinner occasionally, but homemade food where there are no ingredients listed on the package. Because if you’re reading ingredients, it means you’re already buying something that someone else has manufactured, and that is no longer whole. So, whole food — a beef roast put into the oven with carrots and onions and potatoes — and that’s dinner. That’s what I’m talking about. Eggs — well sourced — for example, cooked in butter. Yes, butter. And so that’s step one. Step two is making sure that your family and you are getting enough sleep and good rest. Going to bed early; getting out of bed early; sleeping in a room that’s clean with the windows slightly ajar, even in the cold weather (windows should be ajar so that there’s fresh air seeping through); keeping hands clean and the body clean and the home clean. Also

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30 Introduction Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 02:43 From Conventional Medicine to Homeopathy Joette’s blog 05:03 We Don’t Need Expensive Medical Terms; We Use Symptoms 06:29 Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® 07:25 Switching from HRT to Homeopathy Estrogen Dominance and Other Red Herrings Strong Enough for a Woman Saving Menopausal Women 08:25 Addressing Arrhythmia 09:30 Success with Severe Respiratory Illness in 2021 11:08 A Baby’s Amazing Turnaround 12:56 Attack of The Black Widow Spider The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy 16:55 “Does Homeopathy Really Work?” 19:18 Closing Advice The Learning Center Find a Practical Homeopath® ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Joette’s Learning Center Joette’s Mighty Members Joette Calabrese on YouTube   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 124. Joette: Hi! This is Joette Calabrese. My Practical Homeopathy® is transforming lives all over the globe by offering health freedom! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I say a podcast is priceless. I want you to hear — in their own words — how regular people just like you have reshaped their lives using the practical protocols I teach in my Practical Homeopathy®. So, with the help of my reporter Kate, I bring you this podcast series featuring interviews with moms, dads, teens, health care practitioners and Academy of Practical Homeopathy® students from all walks of life. With education, you can follow in these students’ footsteps. You can eliminate your fear of illness and injury by learning how to care for yourself and your family. Like them, YOU can be in control — without acquiescing to authority — to live healthier, more autonomous lives. Indeed, you, too, can heal yourself and your family through my brand of homeopathy — Practical Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) Welcome back to the podcast. I’m Kate. Today’s guest is someone I’ve known for years, and I’ll let her tell you more about that. But let’s just say that what she’s accomplished in the past four years has been amazing. I can’t wait for you to hear her story. She will share some dramatic stories using homeopathy and some tips on studying homeopathy. So, with that, everyone meet Susan. Susan: Hi Kate. It’s great to get to chat with you today, and I was so happy to get to meet you in November in Florida. Kate: Yes, it was great! Susan: And it’s amazing how a few years have changed so much for us. As you said, my name is Susan. And my husband and I have been married for 39 years, and we have three sons and four grandsons. We love to be outside, and we love to go camping and cook our food in the Dutch oven and just take our books and relax. And my passion had been homeschooling my children. And when they grew up and left home, it was a very good opportunity for me to plunge into studying homeopathy. That has become my passion. Kate: Tell me, Susan, how did you first hear about homeopathy? Because I know we connected in a Gateway to Homeopathy study group years ago, and that’s how we first met. But how did that come about? FROM CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE TO HOMEOPATHY Susan: (02:43) Well, like many other people, I had a lot of health problems, and I had a team of doctors working on my conditions, and I was getting some help. They did the best they could. They offered me a handful of prescriptions, and I said, “No, thank you.” And my doctor said, “I know. These come with many potential harmful effects.” So, I had ongoing fatigue and many food intolerances. Anything I ate would upset my stomach. I began listening to medical seminars and searching for answers: why I would have such painful fatigue, one good day and three bad days. So, I was looking into this. There’s a popular medical doctor talking about the M-T-H-F-R gene and mitochondria and your homocysteine levels. So, I was plunging into that. And at the same time, a good friend said to me, “You know, you should really look at Joette’s blog.” She said, “I’ve been helped with my food intolerances with that.” And I was really skeptical because I had not had a good report about homeopathy. It seems kind of strange. But for my regard for my friend — and I knew she was a good researcher and her whole family relied on her for medical information — I thought, “Okay, I’ll take a look.” I was very pleasantly surprised. Kate: That’s funny. You were skeptical. You looked, and then you have really exploded from there — from that first interaction with homeopathy, I guess you could say. Susan: Yes, Joette was different from anything I had been exposed to homeopathy-wise. She was a no-nonsense approach to health, and that really resonated with me. And I even saw that she had raised and homeschooled three sons in the country, just like me. I studied Joette’s blog for a year and a half. And I made a sp

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30 Introduction to Practical Homeopathy® Podcast #123 02:00 How Long Does It Take for a Remedy to Act? 04:41 … in Acute Conditions (e.g., a Cold) 06:10 … in Chronic Conditions (e.g., Arthritis) 10:00 If It Comes Back 13:12 Food Allergies 16:09 Remembering to Take Your Homeopathic Medicines 18:11 Homeopathy Can’t Help You If You Don’t Have the Knowledge to Use It The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Joette’s Mighty Members ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Joette’s Learning Center Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette Calabrese on YouTube   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 123, with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless women and men across the globe who have re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms together and embrace health care freedom. Join me as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an “esoteric” paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to everyone. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy — PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. Whether you have tried homeopathy in the past and were frustrated, or you are examining the possibilities of caring for your family yourself for the first time — you’re in the right place. In this podcast, I will offer you my decades of clinical experience as a practicing homeopath and years of teaching tens of thousands of students, so that you can become the hero of your family and community. This is true health freedom, my friends. This is my PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) Hi, Joette. We’re here in another podcast, and I want to know what’s on your mind. What would you like to talk about today? Joette: Hi Kate. A couple of things. I like to be able to discuss things that I think are going to be the most useful for the largest number of people. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR A REMEDY TO ACT? Joette: (02:00) One of the things I want to talk about is how long does it take for a remedy to act? I hear it often. And given this background: that there are thousands of conditions. Some say there are about 6-10,000 human sufferings/diseases (maybe it’s closer to 6,000). And there are just about equally the same number of homeopathic medicines. Now, we’re not going to cover all of these human conditions, and we’re certainly not going to be talking about 6,000 homeopathic medicines. But given that there’s such a grand landscape, we have to get what can seem complex (because it’s so voluminous) and focus it down so that it makes it easier. And so, when someone asks me, “How long does it take for a homeopathic medicine to act?” It depends on a number of factors. The first one is, is this condition that the person is about to approach an acute or is it a chronic? and that really matters. Now, sometimes, it’s a species of both. But let’s not go with the outlier. Let’s go with something that’s pretty obvious. For example, you’re driving home. And you’re in the car and suddenly — here’s the key word —suddenly you feel ill. Something’s wrong. “It feels like maybe I caught something.” That kind of feeling. “I feel as though something’s going on in my sinuses or my chest, and I feel weakened.” And you were just caught in the rain the day before or the night before, and it feels as though you’re going to be strapped with a flu or a cold or something. That is an acute. Because if you left it alone, you would not have it if you took nothing, and you just went to bed when you got home — which is not a bad idea. But if you did nothing, it’s not going to live with you for the rest of your life. It’s going to be over with in a few days or a week or maybe two weeks. But it will be over with. That is one of our definitions of an acute. If, on the other hand, you’re driving home. And you’re seated in your car, and your back is aching like it always does when you sit in your car for any length of time. And you can feel that it’s kind of arthritic in your hips and in your knees and in your back. That is generally … if it’s happened time and again, and it’s — for the most part, every time you get in your car, it occurs. That tells us that it’s likely a chronic. And it could be muscle weakness; it could be arthritis, could be tendon pain, et cetera. … IN ACUTE CONDITIONS Joette: (04:41) So, if we have an acute condition — generally speaking — and we use a homeopathic medicine to treat it, it works pretty quickly because the disease is not going to last very long. The condition’s not going to last long anyway, even if you did nothing. So, our expectation is that within a few doses, the person can

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30 Introduction 03:55 Discovering Homeopathy The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum JoettesLearningCenter.com 05:53 Men Need Homeopathy, Too 08:18 A Mom With Moxie Plus A Dad With Audacity The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Rethinking Detox with Practical Homeopathy®: How to Stop Stressing About Toxins and Fearlessly Achieve Health the Simple Way 09:32 Equals a Prepared, Courageous Couple 10:43 Success Story: Broken Leg 11:47 Success Story: Head Injury 13:12 Success Story: AFib and TIA 14:12 Success Story: Blood Clot in Calf 15:18 Success Story: Practical Homeopathy® for Pets Flynn and the Not-So-Fun Fireworks BOOM! It’s Fourth of July! (I’m Not Scared, But Others Are!) A Dog with Anxiety? There’s a Homeopathic Solution A Salute to Ignatia Real Medicine for Post-Traumatic Stress and More.) 18:50 Developing a Homeopathic Community 20:07 Success Story: One More Dog Tale Robin Murphy’s “MetaRepertory, Fourth Edition” 22:42 Being in a Group Is the Best Way to Learn Practical Homeopathy®! 25:24 Closing Advice: Be Prepared ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends Joette Calabrese on YouTube   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 122. Joette: Hi! This is Joette Calabrese. My Practical Homeopathy® is transforming lives all over the globe by offering health freedom! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I say a podcast is priceless. I want you to hear — in their own words — how regular people just like you have reshaped their lives using the practical protocols I teach in my Practical Homeopathy®. So, with the help of my reporter Kate, I bring you this podcast series featuring interviews with moms, dads, teens, health care practitioners and Academy of Practical Homeopathy® students from all walks of life. With education, you can follow in these students’ footsteps. You can eliminate your fear of illness and injury by learning how to care for yourself and your family. Like them, YOU can be in control — without acquiescing to authority — to live healthier, more autonomous lives. Indeed, you, too, can heal yourself and your family through my brand of homeopathy — Practical Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) Hi, and welcome back to the podcast. I’m Kate, and today I want to welcome a couple studying homeopathy together. Yes, you heard me right. It’s a couple! And they have some inspiring stories to share with us about how homeopathy has been, in their words, “Amazing, eye-opening and saved them thousands of dollars each year.” So, I want to welcome Kris and Gary to the podcast. Hi! Kris: Hi Kate. Glad to be here today. Gary: Hi, Kate. Kate: Hi. Let’s get started. Gary, I know you wanted to share a little bit of a background about who you guys are, where you live … so, let’s get started with that. Gary: So, we’ve been married for 44 years, and we have two grown children who are gainfully employed. Unfortunately, no spouses, no grandkids, but we have granddogs and grandcats, so we’re blessed. Kris was born and raised in Iowa. I was born and raised in Kansas. Her background … her father was a pharmacist, and her sister and brother-in-law were nurses. Her mom worked in administration in the hospital. After high school, she went to school to become a medical assistant. Kris: To work my way through school while I got my physician assistant degree. Gary: We met when she came down to Kansas because, in the seventies, out-of-state tuition in Kansas was cheaper than in-state tuition in Iowa. I’m a retired engineer. Kris is a retired PA (physician’s assistant). When she started taking homeopathy about two years ago … my background is in physical sciences, so I’ve taken chemistry, physics, that kind of stuff. When she started talking about potentization, it blew my mind because my chemistry was always if you diluted something, it weakened it. And so, let’s just say I was highly skeptical of the whole thing. Kate: You’re very analytical, I’m sure. Gary: Yes. Kate: Yes. Okay. So, Kris, you have this analytica,l skeptical husband, and I’m sure from your background too, you really had to think about this closely. But why don’t you give me — from your take — how did your journey to homeopathy look? DISCOVERING HOMEOPATHY Kris (03:55): Okay, a little over 10 years ago, our nieces were researching alternative medicines and treatments for their father who had multiple sclerosis. So then, essential oils came into all of our lives, and we saw it do miraculous things for all of our health. And it even helped heal some skin cancers in her father-in-law. Then one of the nieces joined what I call a “crunchy” Facebook group. She lived in a very large metropolitan area, and these people were women always searching for the safest product and the best product for their families. And

IN THIS PODCAST, CONNECTING THE DOTS WITH HELPFUL HINTS, WE COVER: 01:30 Good Health Is a Daily Practice 02:51 Walking 04:16 Helpful Hints on Getting Sun Without Toxic Sunscreen Chemicals 06:23 Early to Bed, Early to Rise 07:00 The Kitchen Is the Best Room in the House 08:20 Seed Oils 09:16 Water 11:10 Helpful Hints on Caffeine 13:12 Homeopathic Coffea 14:49 Connecting the Dots 21:50 Helpful Hints for Writing Out a Timeline 24:27 Connecting the Dots on “Never Well Since” 26:06 Stay Curious ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: JoettesLearningCenter.com Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Joette Calabrese on YouTube Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 121, with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless women and men across the globe who have re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms together and embrace health care freedom. Join me as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an “esoteric” paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to everyone. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for – my unique brand of homeopathy — PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. Whether you have tried homeopathy in the past and were frustrated, or you are examining the possibilities of caring for your family yourself for the first time — you’re in the right place. In this podcast, I will offer you my decades of clinical experience as a practicing homeopath and years of teaching tens of thousands of students, so that you can become the hero of your family and community. This is true health freedom, my friends. This is my PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. GOOD HEALTH IS A DAILY PRACTICE Kate: (01:30) Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. We love our community and are so thankful you’ve joined us today. I’m here with Joette, and she’s going to share some simple but important health tips that you are going to use to learn how to become a detective and connect the dots and discover clues that will help guide you to the right homeopathic medicines. But first things first. Sometimes, we forget to begin with the simple things, the things that are right in front of us. Maybe it’s not even homeopathy! You all know we get excited when we learn homeopathy, and we can have a tendency to just jump right to homeopathy, But we really should consider some of the basics. We were talking about this the other day, Joette, and you had some really good ideas toward that end. Joette: Hi, Kate. Well, these are not unusual ideas. They’re more gentle reminders. Good health is a daily practice. And instead of thinking of it as, “I’m doing this for my health,” just make it part of your … if not daily, at least a number of times per week for some of these things. So, some of them are so simple that it’s going to seem kind of strange that we even mention it. WALKING Joette: (2:51) And one of them is just walking — making sure you’re getting some exercise in. And if you can walk barefoot. Walk barefoot in your garden, walk barefoot in the park if you can take the shoes off. A lot of shoes, I hate to say it, are made in China. And we don’t know what the ingredients are in the inside of those shoes. And do we want to absorb something in the bottom of our feet? Especially where we are supposed to be releasing those elements or toxins, for example, out of the bottom of our feet. Do we want that to be touching some kind of a plastic or a formaldehyde or something like that? So, walking barefoot … walking barefoot, even around the house. Kate: I might add Joette that we have to be careful — or cognizant — of the possibility that pesticides were sprayed where we are walking. So, we don’t want to take that … Joette: No doubt about that. No doubt, obviously. I think it’s obvious. Yes, yes, of course. So, that means if we’re going to walk around in the garden barefoot, why not do some gardening? It’s great exercise. It is an activity, a hobby, a way of living that really doesn’t have to be big. It could just be a couple herbs. Could be bigger than that … could be much bigger than that. You could really make it into something that’s a real avocation. But gardening is a great idea. HELPFUL HINTS ON GETTING SUN WITHOUT TOXIC SUNSCREEN CHEMICALS Joette: (04:16) And then that also leads to getting out in the sun. And I mean without sunscreen! Anything we put on our skin is absorbed … instantly! The first time I ever realized that was when my son — my oldest son — got a fever. I didn’t know anything about homeopathy, or I knew very little about it. But I did know about herbs, and I knew that garli

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30 Introduction 04:24 First Experience with Homeopathy: Son’s Tummy Bug 05:37 Poison Sumac Is No Joke 07:02 Finding Joette: Efficient and Effective The Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy: Become a Revolutionary, Independent Thinker with Practical Homeopathy® Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 10:44 The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® 12:07 Launching Two Practical Homeopathy® Businesses and Continuing Education 16:45 Success Story: Rattlesnake Bite The Survivalist Guide 19:23 Success Story: Cystic Fibrosis 20:47 Success Story: Eczema 23:25 Success Story: Blood Clots Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 26:10 How Can Listeners Do This Themselves? 28:07 Quebracho for Upper Respiratory Symptoms Podcast 117: Let’s Catch Up and Learn About Quebracho 29:48 Closing Advice: You Can Do This Too Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: JoettesLearningCenter.com Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends Joette Calabrese on YouTube Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 120. Joette: Hi! This is Joette Calabrese. My Practical Homeopathy® is transforming lives all over the globe by offering health freedom! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I say a podcast is priceless. I want you to hear — in their own words — how regular people just like you have reshaped their lives using the practical protocols I teach in my Practical Homeopathy®. So, with the help of my reporter Kate, I bring you this podcast series featuring interviews with moms, dads, teens, health care practitioners and Academy of Practical Homeopathy® students from all walks of life. With education, you can follow in these students’ footsteps. You can eliminate your fear of illness and injury by learning how to care for yourself and your family. Like them, YOU can be in control — without acquiescing to authority — to live healthier, more autonomous lives. Indeed, you, too, can heal yourself and your family through my brand of homeopathy — Practical Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) If you want to hear about some amazing homeopathy success stories, how to become a “cool kid” who knows about homeopathy, understand what The Academy of Practical Homeopathy is, or maybe what it looks like to create a thriving homeopathy consulting business, or even just how to help those around you and those you love: this is the podcast for you. We’ve got a lot to cover today with a very special guest. So, let’s get started. Today’s guest is Leanne Burns. She’s a physical therapist, a homeopath, a homeschool mom, and embodies all things adventure. So, everyone help me welcome Leanne to the podcast. Leanne: Hi Kate. Kate: Hi! It’s so great to be with you today. We have a ton to talk about, and I know you and I could talk for hours and hours, but we won’t do that to the listeners today. But we’re going to pack a lot in this 20 to 30 minutes that we have together, and I would love for the listeners to get to know a little bit about you before we begin. Tell us about some of your adventures, Leanne. Leanne: Oh, boy. I still like to get out in the outdoors. I’ve always been an outdoors person, so I like to ski. I like to paddleboard but prefer to kayak. I’m a little bit faster on the kayak than the paddleboard. I boat; I hike; I walk every day. I just like to be outside, and a lot of things come to me when I’m outside. So, I’ve found some animals in distress when I’m out there, and I’ve been able to help them. Also, I hike a lot with my family, so I’m always carrying remedies and always prepared for whatever comes at us. Kate: And in fact, I remember one class that we had in The Academy — I don’t remember if it was a Mastery™ or Academy — but you were actually rock climbing. And you joined us for one of our classes — our live lessons — and that was pretty fun. Do you remember that? Leanne: I do remember that. That is another thing I do. Actually, my son’s a big rock climber and has been doing camps every summer. And last year, we did something different. We went as a family, and he took a couple of friends. And the guide said, “Hey, I’ll throw you in. Why don’t you do it too?” So, I got to do it for the first time on real rocks and not in a climbing gym. And other than that, I hike on rocks and climb around on ’em, but I’ve never been roped in and being belayed, so it was kind of fun. I got to belay my son, and he got to belay me on the rocks, and it was great. Yeah, great fun. Kate: That was commitment, Leanne, to join a class while you’re rock climbing. Anyone who has an excuse, I don’t think that there is one b

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30 Introduction 02:50 Know the Medicines for the Most Common Emergencies 07:20 Quick Onset Emergency: Aconitum Napellus Emergency Remedy Series: Aconite in My Purse 09:01 Aconitum Napellus for a Fright That Has Been Held for a Lifetime 12:51 Example: Anxiety Erupts Years After Trauma 15:18 How Often Is Aconitum Napellus Utilized? 18:09 The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy The Emergency Remedy Series JoettesLearningCenter.com ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Joette Calabrese on YouTube   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 119, with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless women and men across the globe who have re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms together and embrace health care freedom. Join me as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an “esoteric” paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to everyone. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for – my unique brand of homeopathy — PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. Whether you have tried homeopathy in the past and were frustrated, or you are examining the possibilities of caring for your family yourself for the first time — you’re in the right place. In this podcast, I will offer you my decades of clinical experience as a practicing homeopath and years of teaching tens of thousands of students, so that you can become the hero of your family and community. This is true health freedom, my friends. This is my PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) Hi, Joette. Joette: Hi, Kate. Kate: Hi. We’ve got so much information to cover today. So, let’s get going. Today, we’re going to talk about emergencies and a great remedy to have on hand. So, Joette, I think we should start out by first talking about what is an emergency — or how are we defining an emergency? Joette: When you think about the very nature of an emergency is that you don’t know it’s coming. You don’t know when it’s going to happen. It comes out of the blue. And given that makes it an unknown, it requires something important. What is that? That we plan in advance? That we’re prepared in advance. So, if there’s anything we know in life is that we will encounter an emergency at some time. Someone is going to get a burn, a stomach flu, someone’s going to sprain their ankle. So, it would behoove us to not only know the medicines for the most common emergencies but also to own them in the corresponding potencies. Know exactly what the medicine is and have the right potency on hand. Kate: So, Joette, yeah, how can people do that? I mean, that’s the next question, right?   KNOW THE MEDICINES FOR THE MOST COMMON EMERGENCIES Joette: (02:50) Yeah. The way they do that — the way I did it when I was first learning homeopathy — was that I figured what were the most likely emergencies to occur with my family at that time with only one child, and then I chose medicines accordingly. So, until we get to that point, though, when we’re unprepared, we worry all the time: that the child will get sick, that the child will get strep throat or chickenpox or conjunctivitis or something like that. But we should not worry because these illnesses — especially childhood diseases — are not what the most concerning aspects of childhood are. The real concern that mothers should have are the dangers to babies and children due to accidents. So, we’ve got two categories that I like to look at. Number one: regular childhood illnesses. And we need to know how to deal with these to make the mother less worried. You just have to learn how to … you have to know how to do this. Now, we’re not going to be talking about regular childhood illnesses today, but instead we’re going to talk about the concern of accidents, emergencies, because those are the true greatest threat to children and babies. Most people think that it’s infections; it’s sore throats, et cetera. No, it’s emergencies, accidents, burns, et cetera. So, as I said, where do we begin? You asked me, where do we begin? Well, it’s with the composition of your family and those around you. So, if you live in a retirement home or those around you are older, you should know the homeopathic medicines for issues such as insomnia or grief or urinary tract infections or even lacerations, arthritis, preparation for surgery. You need to know this. So, if you’re a grandparent that frequently watches your grandchildren, you need to know the remedies, for example, injuries from falls. But if you’re a middle-aged woman and you’ve finished with menopause, you want to know the

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 02:13 Introduction 07:43 Why Join The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®? 11:13 The Power of Study Groups: A Dramatic Success Story 21:36 Freedom From Fear 23:42 How to Join a Study Group The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: JoettesLearningCenter.com Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 118. Joette: Hi! This is Joette Calabrese. My Practical Homeopathy® is transforming lives all over the globe by offering health freedom! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I say a podcast is priceless. I want you to hear — in their own words — how regular people just like you have reshaped their lives using the practical protocols I teach in my Practical Homeopathy®. So, with the help of my reporter Kate, I bring you this podcast series featuring interviews with moms, dads, teens, health care practitioners and Academy of Practical Homeopathy® students from all walks of life. With education, you can follow in these students’ footsteps. You can eliminate your fear of illness and injury by learning how to care for yourself and your family. Like them, YOU can be in control — without acquiescing to authority — to live healthier, more autonomous lives. Indeed, you, too, can heal yourself and your family through my brand of homeopathy — Practical Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) Hi, I am Kate, and I want to welcome you to today’s podcast. I am super excited to talk today about connection. That’s one of the things that we’re going to share with you today, and it’s been one of the most important parts of my life throughout the last, I would say, 5 to 10 years. Because I’ve met dear friends from all over the world, and these women — these beautiful women — have become a part of my life — an integral part of my life, actually. And I don’t know what I would do without them. I met many of my dearest friends through Gateway to Homeopathy study groups, and it’s just been an amazing relationship that I’ve had. And it sounds funny to say, but some of my closest friends are really all over the United States and the world. And so today I want to introduce you to two beautiful women who have met in study groups, actually through the Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. And so, I want to welcome you to the podcast. Robin and Katie, welcome. Robin and Katie: Thank you. Thank you. Great to be here. Kate: So, I want to get to know you just a little bit. Robin, tell us a little bit about yourself. Robin: So, my husband and I, our two boys, we are in southeast Idaho. Picked up and moved from California about three years ago and randomly showed up in a town called Pocatello. Love it here and love being able to dive into homeopathy. We are very much of a people who like to take ownership of our health and of our lives, and so we take the time to really dig into that. But for a while, I just didn’t know why we were even here. And here we are, and I’ve been able to meet Katie, and it’s been a blessing to be here. Kate: Yeah. So, now you know one of the reasons that you ended up there, maybe. Robin: Exactly. It was so random, but here we are. And with that, too, Academy of Practical Homeopathy® — both Katie and I joined last year. So, it has been a fun ride. We’ll dig into that a bit during this podcast. Kate: Okay. Katie, tell us a little bit about you. Katie: I grew up in a very remote town in Idaho. We didn’t have a doctor. We didn’t have a hospital anywhere nearby. The nearest large town that we could even go Christmas shopping was three hours away. Kate: Wow! Katie: And so we learned to be our own doctor, to tend our own things, our own injuries, our own illnesses. And I’m so glad that we learned not to rely heavily on the medical system. Sometimes I’ve had relatives that have had to be taken by Life Flight because of emergencies. Really glad that we have it when it’s needed. But for the rest of the time, we just learned how to be self-sufficient for our health, and I’m so grateful for that. So, I didn’t know what to study in school. I tried massage. And then I got a degree in sports medicine and tried to learn more about supplements, herbs, essential oils. And finally, finally, I was introduced to homeopathy, and I have found the ultimate medicine, and it’s wonderful, and I love it so much. Kate: Never looked back, right? Katie: That’s right. That’s right. Kate: Yeah, I hear a lot of people say that. That’s what happened for me, too. You go through all of these other natural healing paradigms and when you get to homeopathy — which, unfortunately, is usually last (I don’t know why that is) — but it’s like: This is home. This is what I’ve been looking for.

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 02:13 Introduction 05:07 The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® (Join Founders’ List for more information) 07:07 Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 09:22 Joette’s Study Group: Find Your New Study Group Friends’ Facebook page Or, find a study group once you’ve already purchased the study guide, by logging in to your “Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I, Second Edition” portal page through The Learning Center. On the Welcome page, you will find a list of Joette’s Ambassadors leading study groups. 10:35 Joette’s Mighty Members 11:03 Monday Night Lives on Joette’s Mighty Members site or our simulcast network through the Joette Calabrese Facebook page, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), Rumble and now, Instagram 11:50 Joette’s free blogs 13:26 Quebracho 14:39 Dr. William Boericke’s “Pocket Manual of Homœpathic Materia Medica & Repertory” 18:15 Carbo veg 20:26 Materia medica for free online 21:24 Joette’s closing message on her movement and the global popularity of homeopathy ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: JoettesLearningCenter.com Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 117, with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their family’s health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms together and embrace health care freedom. Join me as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an “esoteric “paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy called Practical Homeopathy®. Now, whether you’ve tried homeopathy in the past or were frustrated, or you’re examining the possibilities of caring for your family yourself for the first time — you are in the right place. In this podcast, I’ll offer you my decades of clinical experience as a practicing homeopath and years of teaching tens of thousands of students so that you can become the hero of your family and community. This is true health freedom, my friends. This is my Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi everyone, I’m Kate, and I am here today with Joette Calabrese. Welcome, Joette. Joette: Thank you, Kate. Welcome to you, too. Kate: Yeah, it’s your podcast, but I’m welcoming you! I wanted to just say a little shout-out: Hello to those who might be new to your podcast and those who have been listening. But we’ve taken a little break from podcasts, and so we would just want to welcome you back or welcome you for the first time. This is a podcast all about Practical Homeopathy®. So maybe, Joette, just take a minute and tell us who you are and what this is about. INTRODUCTION Joette: (02:13) Well, my name again is Joette Calabrese, and we have kind of this little universe of information on our website and associated with the website. So, we’re going to talk about each of those components that we’ve put together for the past many years, and then what we’ve been doing recently. So, I’m a practicing homeopath. I have been for 36 years, actually teaching for 36 years … probably more in practice closer to 34 years. And now since that time, I’m spending a great deal of time teaching. It’s one of my great joys. Kate: And your goal — one of your goals … your big goal — is to bring homeopathy … Can you share that with us? Joette: Yes. My goal has been to bring homeopathy into every home and especially in the hands of the women — the moms, the grandmothers, those who are the caretakers, those who take care of children and grandchildren — but also for those taking care of their elderly parents, their pets, their livestock. So, whatever your family is comprised of, you, as the person in the home, need to know this information. Now, this does not mean that we don’t also have many people who are in our courses who are medical doctors and naturopaths and functional M.D.s, conventional M.D.s and nurses and chiropractors and physician’s assistants and et cetera, et cetera, but … Kate: Dads and EMTs. Joette: Yeah. We also have dads and EMTs. That’s right. We do. But the focus is to get this information to the hands of those who are at home, taking care of the family. That has been stripped for a long time from the hands of women, and now we’re going to put it back into their capable hands and give them the tools, so they don’t feel as though they need to run to a professional at every turn or that they need to use drugs at every turn. And the more — I always tell folks — the more they learn, the less angst there will be in your life. Kate: So, Joette, I know on your website you offer something for everyone — every budget — starting with blogs and podcasts, which there’s no charge. And you’ve been doing your blogs for how long now? Joette: You know what, Kate? I’m not sure. I think

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 03:47 Introduction 11:03 Zoom Meetings 19:33 Success Stories 39:46 Joining the Study Group 46:14 Benefits of The Study Group LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: “Carle has asthma” [Four Homeopathic Medicines for Asthma] I Was an Itchy Little Girl Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy The Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy: Become a Revolutionary, Independent Thinker with Practical Homeopathy® Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke Joette’s First Aid Chart S is for Staphysagria Liver Vitamins are Like Jewels Repetition is Good ‘til Causes Painful Hands Podcast 76 – Here an Itch, There an Itch, Everywhere an Itch-Itch [Symphonic] Symphytum for Pain Snap! Teeth Worthy Tips [Sign in and scroll down through the list.] Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind Joette’s Study Group: Find your new Study Group Friends’ Facebook page My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 116.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.   Kate: Hi, this is Kate. I want to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I have a lot of Moms with Moxie with me today. I’m so excited to hear their stories. I haven’t had much of a chance to get to know these ladies, but I do know one of them pretty well. We’ve gotten to know each other over the past year.   I’m very excited to hear what you all have been doing with your group. You’ve been meeting together now for a while, studying homeopathy together and kind of “doing life,” because I understand you met through a homeschool group. So, you’ve known each other for quite a while, and you’re on a journey together. I would love for the listeners to hear your stories and how you guys interact, how your study group works and what you guys do. I want to welcome you to the podcast.   And I want to first introduce my friend, Beth. She’s here, and she’s going to tell us a little bit more about the group and introduce you to these lovely ladies.   Beth …   Beth: Hi, Kate. Thanks so much. We’re all very excited to be here. I’m here with five of my good friends, and we meet about once a week. We just love homeopathy. It started with one of our homeschool moms mentioning it in our group and telling us, you know, “This is really cool.”   We were like, “Oh, well, we’ve got essential oils. We’ve got all these other things.”   She sent us to Joette’s website, and we’ve all just fallen in love with it. We’ve had so much success. And just being together once a week and talking about things and supporting each other through text messages has been amazing.   Kate: I know that you guys all met, like you said, through homeschool group, and then Suzy’s enthusiasm was contagious.   Beth: Yes.   Kate: That’s awesome. Actually, there are two Suzis on the podcast today. That’s going to be a little interesting. We have Suzy with a Y and Suzi with an I.   It’s Suzy with a Y that got you guys all fired up about homeopathy. I love that you said, “Oh, we have our essential oils. We’re fine. We have all these other natural modalities.” I think you said when we were talking earlier, Beth, that it’s like, once you find homeopathy, you’re like, “Ahhh!!”   That’s it! I mean, that is what you’ve been looking for all this time, right? Is that how you all felt?   Beth: Yes, absolutely.   Introduction Kate: Can you just introduce us to these ladies, and maybe you all could share a little bit about where you’re from and your story or your family? We would love to get to know you.   Beth: I’ll start with Suzy with a Y, our enthusiast. Suzy is still a homeschool mom. A couple of us are alumni, but she’s still doing homeschooling. She has a background in working in business and got into hospice and really loves to help people that have different issues. And homeopa

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 09:33 Advice for Learning Homeopathy 11:58 Stories of Medicines Used for Animals 20:00 Stories of Medicines Used for Humans 32:15 Carry Your Remedies LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Skin, the Ugly Truth: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Joette’s Mighty Members Sepia for Mother’s Day! This Time for Headaches Double, Double Boil and Trouble The Eyes Have It: Chronic Dry Eyes Dental Infections and Bone Spurs Let Me Google That for You RuralHillCreations on Etsy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 115.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi. This is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I have a very sweet friend here with me today. Her name is Elaine.   I’m excited to talk to you, Elaine, because we’ve just been chatting on and on about homeopathy. And, actually, I had to stop us because we were just sharing so much information — so much good information — that I wanted Joette’s listeners to hear what we were saying.   I’m excited because you have a lot of things to share. You’ve studied homeopathy quite extensively. You’re in school. You’ve taken quite a few of Joette’s courses. You help other people. You get calls. You just told me about a veterinary that called you. You have a lot to share. I am just thrilled to welcome you to the podcast, Elaine.   Elaine: Thank you for having me, Kate. I’m really excited to be here.   Kate: Yes. Tell us about your background.   Elaine: Well, my background is I am actually a college instructor, a nutritionist. I mostly teach nutrition. Sometimes I teach a drug course for the criminal justice students. I love my job. I love working with older, college age, as opposed to young kids. I have two grown daughters. One seriously believes in homeopathy. One is torn, not sure. So that’s a little bit about me.   I’ve dabbled in homeopathy years and years ago when my kids were really little, but I really only knew a little bit about Arnica, Calendula, Oscillococcinum. That’s kind of about my limit. I knew I believed in it, but I really didn’t know where to go. I didn’t even know how to find a homeopath, if I’d wanted to.   Kate: Right. You were telling me about the tubes, and all you knew was you pick up a homeopathic medicine and what it says to use it for on the tube.   Elaine: I remember Thuja because Thuja, it is so common today. I’ve been hearing about it, but I remember picking up Thuja and going warts. Okay, I don’t have warts. I put it back on the shelf. There was only one thing on each tube. Now of course, we know each remedy takes care of multiple things, but they can only put, like, one thing on the tube. I was kind of confused by that, so I really left it alone. And they didn’t have all these wonderful books that they have today.   Kate: Right, so many resources. In fact, we were just comparing materia medicas and repertories and having fun reading the introduction to those.   If you own a materia medica or a repertory, I want to encourage you, even the Banerji protocol book, go to the beginning and read because there’s a lot of extra information that you can learn in those books — just a wealth of information. So, definitely start at the beginning.   Let’s talk about how you found Joette and what you’ve done with homeopathy — kind of your progression throughout the years since you’ve learned that it’s more than just what it says on that little tube.   Elaine: I guess the hardcore stuff started four or five years ago when my asthma got really b

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:09 Getting into Homeopathy 14:42 Recommendation for Learning Homeopathy 19:31 Venomous Bites Story 39:16 Amazing Birth Story 43:18 Other Remedies 50:23 Words of Wisdom LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back Homeopathy Needs You and a Tip to Tuck in Your Toolbox What to Expect When Using Homeopathy: Part 2 Survivalist kit Birthing Series Part One: Turning a Breech Baby Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 114.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.   Kate: Hi, this is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, I’m joined by a wonderful Mom with Moxie. This mom has moxie — let me tell you. Her name is Rachel.   Rachel, welcome to the podcast.   Rachel: Hi, Kate. Kate: Hi. I’m so excited to have you here. This is going to be a gripping podcast. You are going to talk today about venomous bites, right, Rachel?   Rachel: Yes, more than one. Kate: More than one. Not one, not two, but three different venomous bites that you have used homeopathy to overcome. I’m excited to hear your story, and also for you to tell us about how homeopathy just really meshes with — or is an integral part of — your life and all the important parts of your life; how it is really intertwined in each of those areas. I’m excited for you to share your story with the listeners today.   Let’s get started by having you just tell us a little bit about yourself, Rachel.   Rachel: Yes, sure. I’m married with four kids and a whole bunch of animals. I live in California. Yeah, homeopathy just touches all the important points of my life: family, ministry, helping other people, helping my animals and my plants thrive, and also feeding me intellectually. Like Joette says, “Intellectually delicious.” It is! It feeds my soul. So, I am thankful to God for homeopathy. It does, it touches all of the important points of my life.   Kate: I know when I had younger kids, it was so important to have that something that I could do with my mind that fed me and helped me to continue to grow — because, I mean, raising kids is amazing. I love being a mom. But it’s also nice to have that thing that you can do to continue to grow and learn and then turn around and use it to help your family and others like you said.   How old are your kids, Rachel?   Rachel: They are 12 all the way down to two. So, I’ve got a houseful. Kate: You’re a busy mom. You don’t have time to figure this out as the situation occurs. You really need to know what remedies to use and have them on hand and be ready to go, I would imagine.   Rachel: Yes, very well said. There are things that you can leisurely say, “Oh, I’ll go research that.” But sometimes, you got to know — on the spot — figure it out. And so studying ahead of time is huge.   Getting into Homeopathy Kate: How did you get into homeopathy or come to find out about it? Rachel: Yes, our story is … it all started with a duck, actually.   One of our ducks, he was this special heritage breed that we had to wait like two years for the back orders to be fulfilled before we could get him mailed to us. He had a problem. It’s this thing that happens sometimes where they just keep getting abscesses on their feet.   We called the breeder, and he said, “Oh, I’m so sorry. Once that shows up, they never get rid of it. You can try to treat it, but they’ll just always get it again and again. And he is not good breeding stock. You don’t want to breed him.”   We were crestfallen! I just refused to give up on this guy. We had tried. Actually, we tried what the breeder said. We tried the a

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 06:28 The Homeopathy Evangelist — Leading Study Groups 10:18 Memorable Homeopathy Success Stories 16:06 Homeopathy for family 22:58 Special Story 24:34 Some Tips LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions Podcast 69 — “Life’s a Tragedy” Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 113.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, and welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, I have a Mom with Moxie here, and it is very exciting. If you are at all interested in leading Gateway groups, you’re going to want to sit down and listen to this podcast because she has something exciting to share with you.   This Mom with Moxie — her name is Julie — and she feels called to the healing arts. I can see that in her. I’m very excited to get to know her better and to hear more about her story, as I’m sure you all are. I’d like to welcome Julie to the podcast.   Hi, Julie.   Julie: Hi, Kate. Kate: It’s great to have you here. I’m looking forward to hearing you talk about how you’ve transitioned from being a nurse to now using homeopathy which you feel is like Joette says, “God’s medicine.” I’m very excited to hear about your journey and how you’ve led nine Gateway to Homeopathy study groups in the past year, Julie.   Julie: Yes. Kate: You just came to find out about Joette a year ago. You’ve already led nine groups along with a friend of yours through the Gateway I and Gateway II.   But before we get to that, I want to give you an opportunity to just introduce yourself to the listeners.   Julie: Sure, Kate. I was a nurse for about 12 years in pretty much every area of the hospital that you could imagine. I did infectious disease. I did cardiac for a while. Emergency department was the longest. I did enjoy the emergency room, but I did a little experiment while I was in the emergency room.   I asked patients who came into the triage base what their medications were for. I said, “I know what they’re for, but do you know what they’re for?”   Invariably, they would tell me they did not know what they were for. Then we go to the next one. They would say, “Oh, that one I know what that one’s for, that’s to heal the side effects of this one.”   It just went on down the line. I started seeing a really clear pattern there with the medicines that we were giving through the system of medicine. Eventually, through some life circumstances found homeopathy and switched over.   Kate: Tell me about that transition, Julie. You just decided, “I just can’t do this anymore because I’m not seeing these patients get better long term”? How did you make that switch?   Julie: Well, the switch was with my son — my oldest son — he was getting croup. It was like clockwork twice a year. That would probably be my first really true introduction to homeopathy because I thought there has got to be a better way.   We would take him into the ER twice a year; his oxygen stats were super low. I’d have to rush there; I was so worried that they were going to have to intubate him every single time that we went. He would get shots of racemic epi which required heart monitoring. He would get Decadron which were steroid shots, and they were giving him horrible night terrors that we couldn’t wake him from.   It was taking forever for him to get well. I just knew that it was because he wasn’t getting rest. He wasn’t getting what he needed. His body, in some way, wasn’t getting what it needed.   So, I just had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that something needed to change. I prayed about it. There was one day that I thought, “I wonder if these little blue tubes of medicine could help.” I started

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   03:34 Road of Change 13:17 Homeopathic Medicines Used 27:44 Dr. Dale’s ALL FLU [Editor’s note: ALL FLU is now called Dr. Dale’s COLD GUARD PLUS.] 29:09 Tips for Caretakers   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Podcast 87 – Moms with Moxie: A “Spouse with Spunk” Relish: activities for elders with dementia Best Remedies for Seniors Joette’s free resources Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions Role Reversal: Taking Care of the Elderly Podcast 92 — Flu Got You, Too? Podcast 110 — Moms with Moxie: Eavesdrop on Study Group Friends My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 112.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. With me today is a dear friend of mine. Welcome, Tracey.   Tracey: Awww. Thank you, Kate. It’s nice to be with you.   Kate: Thank you. For those of you who want to get to know more about Tracey, go to Podcast 87, and you can hear her story.   But today we’re going to be talking about something that’s near and dear to our hearts. Tracey and I work together — but not only do we work together, we share a very special bond that was created because of our moms. Tracey, you and I …we live far apart from each other, many, many states apart.   Tracey: Yes.   Kate: But Tracey, even though we’ve never met in person, I can honestly say that you’re one of the few people that “gets” me.   Tracey: I feel the same way. You have been a lifeline for me more often than not. Thank you.   Kate: Yes, like seriously, like tears are welling up in my eyes as I say that because you’re just so dear to me, and I know that you’re always there to listen when we’re struggling.   I’ll explain to you why that is in just a minute. But to give you a little background, our mothers both had a stroke several weeks apart a little over two years ago. Crazy, right, Tracey?   Tracey: It was incredible, Kate, because one moment you were keeping me afloat by sending me your care and concern and lifting me up. Then a few weeks later, you were in the same boat. It was surreal. It was surreal.   Kate: Yes. Right. I mean, that whole time seems surreal in my life. It still kind of does anyway, right?   Tracey: Yeah. Yeah.   Kate: Are we living in a dream?   Life has been extremely interesting over the last two years. I know you feel the same way; you’re nodding your head right now.   Tracey: That’s one way to put it — extremely interesting.   Kate: Yes, interesting. To me, this whole thing has made me aware that to live each day to its fullest because you never know when your life is going to change. It’s gut wrenching, and I don’t even know how to put it into words. How …   Tracey: It almost makes it feel like life is fragile. I don’t mean that to sound pessimistic. We should be grateful for every day that’s going smoothly and well. But things can change in the blink of an eye. So, we have to be appreciative.   Road of Change Kate: Right. For both of us and our moms, I know that that has been the road. It’s been a road of change daily, just trying to navigate this.   But in case you haven’t noticed by now, Tracey and I are going to spend some time talking about what it’s like to walk along this road with our moms and to navigate their care. So, we’re going to spend this podcast talking about some remedies that have been helpful for us and just some tips about walking down this road in a way that is honoring to our moms and in a way that hopefully is helpful to them physically.   I thought we could start off by giving everyone a sneak peek into our days with our moms — what that’s like — and just to help people to understand what that looks like. So, when we talk about the homeopathic medicines, you’ll have a little bit of a picture as to what’s going on. Tracey, go ahead.   Tracey: Sounds perfect.   Ka

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   03:12 From Skeptic to Healer 09:39 Experiences with Homeopathy 26:23 Homeopathy Transformed My Life 30:04 Sharing Insights LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy Joette’s First Aid chart Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions Cell Salt Series: David vs. Goliath My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 111.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, this is Kate. I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, I have a special lady with me, and her name is Rachna. I’m excited because Joette sent me a message and asked me to interview her for the podcast.   When I saw her name come through, I was happy because I met her in a study group. So, I feel like I’ve known her for a while now. I’m really excited, actually, to get to hear more of her story and for you guys to hear all the ways that she’s used homeopathy — because she sent me a really long list of some things that she’s done successfully with homeopathy.   So, I just want to welcome you to the podcast, Rachna.   Rachna: Thank you, Kate, for having me. It’s an honor. I look forward to speaking with you.   Kate: Yes, I’m excited. Let’s get started by … if you wouldn’t mind just telling us a little bit about yourself?   Rachna: Yes, absolutely. I’m married. I’m a mom of two. I have a set of twin boys. I am a conventionally trained physician from India. I came to the U.S. for higher education. The plan was to go back, but after I finished school, I was offered a great job at one of the top-ranking cancer hospitals in the U.S. It was too lucrative of an offer to give up, and I decided to work for a few years, get some experience and then go back to India.   But you know things don’t always go as planned in life. I ended up staying back here. And the rest is history, as they say.   Kate: Well, I’m glad that you stayed here. You sent me some notes before this interview. I thought it was really intriguing what you wrote in the last paragraph. I was wondering. Would you be willing to just read a little bit of what you wrote for the listeners? Because I want them to get an idea of how important homeopathy is to you.   From Skeptic to Healer   Rachna: Absolutely. Well, homeopathy has completely changed the direction of my life. I could never have imagined a year ago that studying this great medicine would be one of the best decisions of my life. It has made my life more purposeful, more meaningful. It’s so empowering as a mom to be able to cure my family on my own. It has made me the healer in my household. So, just like Joette says, “This is God’s medicine.” I’m just in awe of this wonderful medicine.   Kate: It’s very interesting that you refer to homeopathy and how it’s empowered you to be the healer in your home when you actually have a conventional medical background.   I would love for the listeners to hear just a little bit about your process of how you came to feel this way about homeopathy when you had these tools already — which I’m sure like many of us, we’re grateful for the use of those medicines or surgeries when it’s needed. But just let me hear a little bit of the background as far as that goes — like, how you came to homeopathy, or how it came to mean so much to you.   Rachna: Absolutely. Well, being from India, I was all too familiar with homeopathy. It’s very popular in India as you probably already know, but I never had any faith. I was very skeptical.   Since I was so deeply entrenched in Western medicine, I never really thought that those little white pills could do anything. I never gave homeopathy a second thought. If anything, I thought it had more of a placebo effe

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:09 Gateway to Homeopathy Study Group 14:08 Secret Santa 17:24 Study group stories 33:56 Favorite Remedy LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Podcast 93 — Moms with Moxie: Sharing with Gateway Friends Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Zoom Signal Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind Look What You Could Do for Free, Folks S is for Staphysagria Surgery: Answering Your Questions Anticipating Surgery, Homeopathy Can Help Vertigo as the World Spins Podcast 81 — Ladies Only The Downward Spiral: Antibiotics and Recurring Infections Homeopathy Can Spoil a Girl: Medicine for Depression A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 110.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today’s podcast is going to be a bit different because we have not only one Mom with Moxie with us but actually four Moms with Moxie.   I met all of these special ladies that I now consider friends in the Gateway to Homeopathy study groups over the years. So, we wanted to have them on the podcast to give you a little insight into the Gateway study groups, and to hear from each of them about their experience with homeopathy.   I know you’ll enjoy listening to them as they share from their hearts today. I’d like to start by welcoming Michelle, Michele, Hillary and Tina to the podcast today. I’m so excited to have you guys all here joining me today.   Michelle: Hey, Kate.   Tina: Hello.   Hillary: Hey, Kate.   Michele: Hey, Kate.   Kate: Let’s take a minute before we dive in. I want to introduce you to each of these ladies. I’m going to start with Michele (the Michele with one L not two). Michele and I have been meeting together on these study groups for quite a long time. I feel like you’re one of my best friends, and we’ve never actually met in person, which is really interesting. But we talk every day. It all started with the study groups. With that, Michele, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?   Michele: Well, I’m from Chico, California. Kate and I live quite away from each other. We just connected so much with these study groups. I’m a mom of five boys and a husband. We have a little grocery store in Chico. I am just having so much fun with Kate leading these study groups now and meeting these women from all over the world and just making great friends.   Kate: Michele, you’re actually on another podcast. I interviewed you on Podcast 93. If people want to hear more from you, they can listen to that podcast.   Michele: Yes.   Kate: Great. Now let’s go to the Michelle with two Ls.   Michelle: Hi Kate. Good to see you.   Kate: Good to see you, too.   Michelle: I’m from Chicago. I’m a chiropractor and a certified functional medicine practitioner. I am a mother of two teenagers. I have a husband who’s also in practice with me.   Kate: Great, thank you. Great to see you here today.   Michelle: Thank you.   Kate: Let’s go to Tina.   Tina: Thanks for having me. I really appreciate this. I’m Tina from Bangor, Maine. I have three children, a husband and a couple of businesses. I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learned.   Kate: Yay! All right. Last, but not least, Hillary.   Hillary: Hello. I’m Hillary. I live in Washington State. I’ve been using homeopathy for about three years, and I love it. I’m just glad to be here.   Gateway to Homeopathy Study Group Kate: Let’s get started by talking about the place where we all met. That is the Gateway to Homeopathy study groups.   For those of you who may not be familiar, Joette has a Gateway to Homeopathy study guide, I and II. We all met there. There are so many stories, right, about these Gateway to Homeopathy group

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   02:52 Journey to Homeopathy 14:32 Homeopathic Success Stories 20:45 Where to Get Information for the Protocols 29:00 Advocacy 33:15 Words of Wisdom LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Joette’s Study Group: Find your new Study Group Friends Facebook page Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Prenatal Preparation with Homeopathy: The Best Gift You Could Give! The Secret Life of a Colicky Baby Americans for Homeopathy Choice My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 109.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m here today with a Mom with Moxie. She is a wife, a mother, homemaker, an educator. She loves her grandchildren. She’s a fantastic study group leader. She’s also an amazing advocate for homeopathy. But we’ll get into that in just a little bit. First, I want to welcome Cathi to the podcast.   Hi Cathi!   Cathi: Hi Kate, thank you so much for having me.   Kate: Yes, I’m very excited to get to know you. We both lead study groups, so I feel like I know you from seeing you a lot on Joette’s Find Your Study Group page.   Cathi: Absolutely. I feel like we’re kindred spirits.   Kate: Yeah, yes. I’m excited to hear your story. Just to give our listeners a little heads-up: One of the big things that you’ve used homeopathy for that you’re going to talk about is allergies.   All right, so let’s get started. Cathi, tell us a little bit about yourself if you would.   Cathi: Yes, I am a wife and a mother. I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart for 32 years. I have four children — two married with their own families and two still living at home — and I have four beautiful grandchildren. I’m really blessed they all live close by.   There have been times where one of my daughter’s family lived further away. That’s a really a neat part of my homeopathy journey in that I was able to help her with my grandson with a situation. It was so empowering because we just did a few texts. I knew what to do because of my study group, and I was able to help her help my grandson get better.   Kate: Awww, now tell us about your journey to homeopathy.   Journey to Homeopathy Cathi: Well, you mentioned allergies. It is kind of funny that my journey to homeopathy was in a large part because of the allergies that run in my family. When I was a young mother, I did my very best to keep my children healthy — to keep my family healthy — but they were prone to allergies. As I said, it is common in my family. My husband has environmental allergies, and all four of my children had allergies.   I remember in the early days when I was a young mother trying my best to use the over-the-counter medications that I knew of to treat their symptoms. What usually happened was I would seemingly treat a symptom, and then a short time later, it would come back with a vengeance. Before you knew it, we’d end up in the pediatrician’s office, and more often than not, they would be on another antibiotic.   As I look back now, I think we were just on an antibiotic merry-go-round. It would be one antibiotic after another after another. What eventually happened was that the symptoms continued to grow worse. We were referred to a specialist — actually a couple of different specialists — one of them being an allergy specialist who recommended allergy shots, among other things. And we did that whole recommendation. We didn’t see any improvement. Probably we saw worsening along the way.   At one point, I remember being referred to a specialist for my four-year-old daughter. It was recommended that she had surgery, and she was scheduled to have her sinuses scraped. That was a big deal! Because being four years old, she had to be put under. Even just doing the MRI ahead of time, they had to put her under so that they could have her completely still to do the MRI.   It just seemed that we were constantly in the offices of the doctors an

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 03:36 Alternative Routes and Other Background History 10:04 Recovery Process 14:57 Headaches 20:04 Dog Story 22:52 Feeling Empowered LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy: https://survivalmedicine.joettecalabrese.com/survivalist-guide-to-homeopathy/ Allergic!? Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back: joettecalabrese.com/allergic The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs: joettecalabrese.com/aa Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind: joettecalabrese.com/ggbg My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 108.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, this is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today is another Mom with Moxie podcast. I have a wonderful mom here whose name is Lisa.   Lisa has a story that I believe a lot of you have as well. If you feel that you’ve tried so many things … You’ve tried essential oils; you’ve tried herbs; and you’re stuck. You just don’t know where to go. You still have issues, and you’re not getting to the point of healing that you want to be at.   I think you’re going to want to hear Lisa’s story because that’s exactly what happened to her. With that, I want to welcome and invite Lisa to share her story with us.   Lisa, so thankful that you’re here today.   Lisa: Hi, Kate. Thanks for having me.   I have a long history of holistic medicine as well as traditional Western medicine. I went to school to become a registered dietitian, and I worked in hospitals for about 10 years. Then I moved into education.   I have had lots of health problems that started from infancy that continued on well into my 50s.   One of the exciting things that happened to me is when I was at my last legs of feeling like I was never going to regain my health, I heard a summit where Joette was speaking. (And to be honest with you, I don’t remember which it was. I think it was probably around gastrointestinal health.) She was talking about IBS and some other protocols.   From there, I connected with her. Then that was the beginning of the improvement of my health. Without homeopathy, I can’t imagine that I would be where I am today.   Kate: Well, I’m anxious for the listeners to get to hear more about how you have gotten to that place of healing today and more about your time with Joette. But I want to step back for just a minute and talk about your history and how you grew up — because you have actually a pretty fascinating history with your parents and their interest in alternative medicine.   So, give us a little background here about your grandfather and your mother, and what they did.   Alternative Routes and Other Background History Lisa: Sure. My grandfather was, I consider, a visionary. In the 1940s, he went to Chicago to study to become a chiropractor. Back then, chiropractors were actually part of physiotherapy or what we now call physical therapy.   But he came back to New Hampshire after that training, and he raised my mother and her sister in a more of a holistic manner. So, my mother grew up in that alternative medicine background.   Then when I was young, and my brother was young, we were both having health issues. Mine were related to bowel, and my brother’s were related to chronic ear infections.   She figured out that it was food-related — specifically dairy — and she was having a hard time finding whole foods in the area that we live. So, she decided to open a natural food store. I was seven years old at that time, and I grew up in the health food industry.   One of the things that was interesting about growing up in the health food industry in the mid-to-late 70s and the 80s is that if you went to a health food store at that time, you were thought of as being a “hippie.” I’m dati

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:21 Side Effects of Supplements, Vitamins and Medications 16:13 Have More Than a Doctor on Your Team 22:09 Sobering Effects from Drugs 33:37 In a Nutshell LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Podcast 23 — Moms with Moxie: Snap! Broken Bone. (the x-ray referred to in this podcast) Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Mighty Members ‘Want to take a slightly deeper dive and discuss topics that risk censorship on Facebook? – join me on my Mighty Membership site. Hosted safely on a private server away from Social Media and public membership site’s prying ears.   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 107 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively.   So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi, this is Kate. I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I’m here today with Joette. We are going to talk about regaining wellness with homeopathy.   But how do we get started? And it’s not what you might think.   I feel like I say that often, Joette: “But it’s not what you might think.”   We’re going to put a little twist on that today and take a step back and look at the whole picture. Tell us what that means, Joette? What are we going to talk about today?   Side Effects of Supplements, Vitamins and Medications   Joette: Well, the biggest picture that I would like to look at today is the side effects of supplements and vitamins and medications, of course, and how they reveal more than we think they do. If we’re paying attention, we can see aspects of our health diminishing as a result of them.   Kate: In fact, that might be the very thing that’s standing in the way, and so to speak, “blocking” us from progressing in our healing.   Joette: You bet. In homeopathy, we have a phrase called, “There’s an obstacle to cure.” I’ve seen it happen far too many times with medications, but I don’t know that people think much about vitamins and certain supplements.   Now, not all supplements. Let me also say that if the supplement is made up of 100% … I don’t know … honey, or made from some ground-up dehydrated vegetables, we’re not talking about that. I’m talking about supplements that have synthetics in them and ingredients that are difficult to pronounce. That’s when I pull back and say, “That’s not such a good idea.”   First, let me say that we can start with meds.   There’s no such thing as a conventional drug without side effects.   Just because you’ve become accustomed to it doesn’t mean there are no side effects. I’m going to say it again: there is no such thing as a conventional drug without side effects. There must be side effects. Otherwise, the drug will not act.   Now, that sounds maybe like it’s flying in the face of logic. But if you’re using something that is of gross substance (meaning it’s not diluted such as homeopathy and then succussed and diluted and succussed and diluted and diluted, et cetera) what remains in the original substance has to have a downside to its upside.   It doesn’t mean that conventional drugs don’t have value. It just means you have to kind of weigh it out. Because if you have surgery coming up, you’re going to have to have, perhaps, general anesthesia. I don’t think I’d want surgery without general anesthesia, but there’s a downside.   The downside is you might have headaches; you might have long term brain fog.   Kate: Nausea.   Joette: Nausea, neuropathy, there are many side effects that are associated with general anesthesia. But if you need that surgery, then you just have to accept it.   That’s where I say let’s save those meds for those times — because you don’t know what’s forthcoming.   You don’t know if you’re going to have an accident. You don’t know if you’re going to fall off a cliff or get hit by a Zamboni. You don’t know what’s going to happen in your life … fall off a horse, like you did, and break your arm in two places, et cetera, et cetera. You don’t know when that’s going to happen, so you want to save — if you possibly can — the use of conventional drugs for those times in which they’re truly needed.   What I find, however, is that folks use drugs and take them every day for chronic conditions — sometimes conditions that aren’t even medical, as far as I’m concerne

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   03:24 With a Moo-Moo Here … 12:24 And a Cluck-Cluck There … 24:30 Everywhere a Meow-Meow … 31:35 Treating Animals and Humans with Homeopathy LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Calcarea carbonicum (for milk fever in cattle) “Fowl Cholera Epidemic! Homeopathy Averts a Catastrophe in the Flock.” Cuprum metallicum 30C (for fowl cholera) Sulphur 30 (for foul odors/illness in feral or barn-raised animals) “Homeopathy is Purr-fect” My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 106 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively.   So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.   This podcast was recorded after the Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy course semester began. So, depending on when you’re listening to this recording, the course may or may not be open for registration. But not to worry — new semesters open regularly. So, stay tuned. And now, let’s get started with the podcast:     “Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O …” Kate: Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I bet you’re wondering what Old MacDonald’s farm and homeopathy have to do with one another. Well, I actually just wanted to listen to Joette sing again.   Welcome, Joette, to the podcast today.   Joette: I love working with you, Kate. Kate: Because we’re silly, that’s why.   Joette: Yes, I know it’s fun. To do this or not, the podcasts must go out!! Kate: So, we’re going to talk about animals and homeopathy today.   Just a little teaser, if you haven’t seen it already, by the time this podcast is aired, the kids’ curriculum that you’re producing should be out and have started. We’re pretty excited about that. We’re in the mode of talking about animals and what homeopathic medicines to use — along with the medicines for humans as well. But in this course, we are going to be discussing a lot of the homeopathics for animal issues.   So, we’re going to focus in on that today, right?   Joette: The Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy: Become a Revolutionary, Independent Thinker with Practical Homeopathy®. Kate, you’re giving yourself too little credit. Kate is the lead person who is organizing and putting this all together and helping me produce it. Basically, you’re producing it, and I’m helping you. Kate: I’m just using your materials to put it together, so, we’re a good team. I’m super-glad to be doing it.   Today, Joette, I want you to share some of your stories of how you’ve used homeopathy in the past with some of your animals — of which you’ve had many. Let’s start off with a cow story. How about that?   Joette: Yes, well, so I want to put it in perspective because if anyone’s been following me, then you know that I live in South Florida, and I don’t treat animals so much anymore.   But we raised our children in the country, south of Buffalo. And we had a small farm — 15 acres — and it was kind of a “hobby” farm of sorts. We had ducks and chickens and goats and down the road were llamas, and cows and horses. And so, it was really a great place for me to learn how to treat animals, and to live around animals! Even though I’ve always been a city girl, it was a great opportunity for me. You want to hear a cow story? Kate: Yes, I know you have a lot of stories with animals. But I think there’s one in particular about a cow that it was a dire situation, and you helped the cow.   With a Moo-Moo Here… Joette: Yes. Let me also preface this by saying that for those who believe that homeopathy is just placebo: I don’t know how a cow would be able to pick up on the intention of the farmer giving a specific homeopathic medicine. So, if it shows anything, it shows the efficacy of this medicine, and that it is absolutely not placebo.   So, one day, I got a call. At that time, I had a brick and mortar office, and I got a call from someone I knew whose cow had just birthed its calf and was dying.   This farmer was a seasoned farmer and had seen this happen many times: It’s called milk fever. The medical term is hypocalcemia. I was unfamiliar with it; I’m not a vet; I don’t have a lot of experience. My study was in anatomy, physiology and pathology for humans, certainly not veterinary study.   I didn’

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:49 Introduction to Homeopathy 11:20 A March Virus 17:44 Fire Ant Story 22:29 Miscarriage 26:13 Lessons Along the Way LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Good Gut, Bad Gut course My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 105.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy podcast and another great Mom with Moxie episode.   It’s about to get personal and real on this episode of the podcast. I think it’s safe to say that our guest on today’s podcast has had times of heartbreak, which have taught her more about homeopathy and inspired her beyond what she could have ever imagined when she first learned about homeopathy.   With a super-interesting background and now a life changing passion for homeopathy, she is excited to share her successes and challenges with us — and anyone who will listen. I’m thrilled that she’s willing to share her story with us today. I want to welcome you to the podcast, Erica.   Erica: Thank you. I feel so honored to be here. Thank you. Kate: Let’s start off by getting to know you a little bit, Erica. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your family.   Erica: Sure. I’ve been married to my husband for just about nine years. We are blessed with two children, a three-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy. We also have an eight-year-old Schnauzer mix who is actually our first baby.   I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from college, also where I met my husband. During college, I started interning at NASA, and I went from college to NASA and became a flight controller for the International Space Station.   After I got married to my husband, I left NASA and joined my husband’s company which is an oil and gas company, so we could travel the world together. We lived in both South Korea for a bit and Japan.   Now, I’m working in the Digital Transformation Group and managing the development of a software platform that has the potential to change the way that our project teams work in the future. Kate: I have so many questions for you, Erica. Erica: Okay. Kate: I’m going to start with: how did you come to join the NASA team? Did you just wake up one day and decide, “I want to work for NASA!”?   How did that happen? I’m so curious. Erica: It really was a lifelong dream because I have always been interested in space. I did high school reports on NASA. When given the opportunity, I would always pick a space topic. When I was in college — it was in my sophomore year — I went to the career fair at school. And I decided, “Why not talk to the NASA booth?”   They called me back for an interview. Then afterwards, I got a call saying, “Would you like to come intern at NASA down in Houston?”   I said, “Yes.” So, that’s how it started. Kate: That’s pretty exciting. Erica: Yes, and just such a fun place to work — just the dream job. Kate: Yes. Another question that I had that came to mind was with your engineering background, were there any obstacles that you had to overcome to really start to study and use homeopathy? Erica: The fact that homeopathy is science-based really resonated with me. Once I learned about homeopathy and realized what it could do, it’s been so wonderful and there is no barrier at all.   The funny thing is that I never heard about homeopathy until the last couple of years when one of my church friends introduced me to it. Since then, I just can’t get enough. Kate: I think that’s important for people to understand because I hear the word “energy” being thrown around a lot. While we know that everything is created with energy, to me, it makes it sound a little more, I don’t know, “New Age-y.”   I like the fact that you said it is science-based. That’s what I see, too, because everything that is created is science-based, right? The world. Erica: Absolutely. Introduction to Homeopathy Kate: You mentioned a friend int

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:00 Classical or Practical Homeopathy®? 18:56 What’s a “Simillimum?” 28:46 Case Management 34:47 The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® 37:40 My Mission LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Coffea 200C (for anxiety) Ruta 6 or Ruta 200 (for strained ligaments) My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 104.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively.   So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.   Kate: Hi, this is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I’m here today with Joette. We have some very interesting things to talk about.   Hi, Joette!   Joette: Hi, Kate. It’s always fun. Classical or Practical Homeopathy®? Kate: Yeah! We’re going to dig deep today. We’re going to be talking about sort of a heavy subject.   So, I have a question for you. When I go online and try to look up remedies for certain conditions, I can find an abundance of information on acute conditions, but it is super-hard to find information on how to treat chronic conditions.   Tell us what your perspective is on that, Joette.   Joette: Well, that was exactly my frustration when I was a young mother dealing with my children. I was happy to find how to treat a fever and otitis media and conjunctivitis and strep throat and an injury. But boy, when it came to food intolerances or allergies or my mother’s chronic arthritis or my mother’s insomnia, et cetera … my father’s heart condition — it drove me crazy (which is why, of course, I decided to start studying classical homeopathy).   That’s where there’s a division. Because what you’ll find online and in homeopathy books (we’re talking about books that are directed to the general public), is they’ll teach only those acute conditions. Because the goal of the classical homeopaths and the classical homeopathy schools is to encourage moms and grandmothers that the only way they can learn how to treat a chronic condition is if they become classical homeopaths.   And that is a very expensive and time-consuming endeavor. In the end, when these moms and grandmothers finish these courses, they are able to understand classical homeopathy, but they still don’t have the practical experience or results. They don’t have practical methods. Kate: So, you’re not saying it’s a bad thing to study classical homeopathy. You’re just saying that even though you’ve gone that route, there’s still something that’s missing.   Joette: Classical homeopathy offers a good foundation if you want to become a practitioner.   As a practitioner, you need to understand the history of homeopathy. You need to be very familiar with Dr. Samuel Hahnemann’s aphorisms. Many of them should be memorized. You should know how to navigate a repertory (inside and out, not only manually but also in a program), medicines in the materia medica and know their keynotes. That gives a very good foundation for someone who’s going to hang out a shingle. Except that’s all it gives — is a foundation.   It does not leave the student (once they graduate) with a practical aspect of how to treat the person. That’s what’s missing.   You’re left with a very vague notion of what needs to be done. Because the goal of the classical homeopath is to find THE simillimum — the one medicine — the constitutional remedy that will stimulate that person’s ability to correct everything in that person’s body, and now you’re pretty much done.   I don’t know that very many classicals would actually agree that that is exactly what happens. But that’s the message.   Instead, what I do is I teach Practical Homeopathy®, so that the family has everyday practical ability to be able to take care of someone in their family who has food intolerances or eczema — yes, chronic conditions — or lax ligaments or chronic anxiety or chronic insomnia or arthritis, et cetera … allergies.   These are the kinds of things that … although it’s interesting to know and useful to have those acute conditions, and what to do with them that’s given to the general public, this — what I’ve just described to you — those chronic conditions — are what everyone is suffering from.   To leave that out and to instead insist that th

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 05:45 Homeopathy Journey 08:55 Children Using Homeopathy 23:30 Methods Used in Giving Homeopathic Medicines to Animals 29:49 Keys to Success with Homeopathy LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Sepia for Mother’s Day! This Time for Headaches The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events, and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 103. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, this is Kate. I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, I have a Mom with Moxie with me, and her name is Lyda. She’s going to share with us a lot of information. But something I wanted you to know up front — so you’re ready to take notes — is that she’s going to talk about animals today because she’s very educated and has a lot of experience on using homeopathic medicines with the animals on her farm. So, for those of you who have a farm or just animals, be ready to take some notes. All right. Lyda, welcome to the podcast. Lyda: Thank you. I really appreciate you having me on, and it’s quite an honor. Kate: We’re so glad to have you. I’m excited for you to share with the listeners of this podcast because you have some pretty amazing stories — and one in particular I’m thinking of, but we’ll get to that in a little bit. First, I want you to tell us about yourself. Lyda: We live in Western Colorado just outside of Grand Junction. My husband and I have been married 27 years. We have five kids: four boys and a girl, ranging in age from 11 to 25. My husband has been in the printing business for 30 years, but he’s just this next week transitioning into a real estate job, so that’s exciting. He’s very supportive of me and everything I take on, especially homeopathy. He’s been very helpful in that. We have the farm where we raise Herefords, chickens, Jersey cows, sheep, turkeys, hens, and a really big garden, and we also raise Australian Shepherd and Great Pyrenees puppies. So, we’re very busy. Kate: Oh, my gosh, I don’t know how you do it all. I love those Pyrenees. We talked about this earlier, but we had a Great Pyrenees, and they’re amazing dogs. Lyda: They are. They’re very different than any other dog I’ve ever been around. Kate: You use them as protection for your other animals, right? Lyda: Yes, I do. Kate: Yeah, yeah, they’re amazing. It sounds like you have a very busy life. I’d love to hear about your day. What does your day look like? Lyda: Oh, goodness! I start the day out milking as soon as I can — before it gets hot right now, because it is so hot. We grass feed all of our animals. So, it’s a lot of moving animals around to new pastures. We raise the meat chickens that have to be moved (which my son does that). We put all our cows on new pasture every day; put our sheep on pasture. So, it’s just a lot of taking care of animals. I raise pullets to sell to people — that are young laying hens — and so I take care of those. I stop somewhere in there for a meal. I spend as much time in the afternoon in the garden getting that taken care of, and then it’s pretty much supper time, and we go to bed. Kate: Exhausted, right? Lyda: Exhausted, yeah. Kate: Now, when you move the animals around — the Herefords — do you use horses or four-wheelers or just walking? How do you guys do that? I’m just trying to picture it. Lyda: Yes, just walking. I mean, we have horses. My daughter, shows horses, but we don’t use them. We only have 10 acres. But my oldest son lives right next door to us, so we use his 10 acres. The cows know that in the morning they get to go to a new pasture. They pretty much move themselves. You just open gates and close gates and away they go. Kate: Do you try to make most of your own food from scratch like from your garden and d

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 03:55 How to accomplish things 09:40 Barnum Effect 14:12 Staying slim 18:44 Organizing the Medicines 23:41 The Ant and the Grasshopper 27:05 Use of Arnica LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Arnica 200 My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 102 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively.   So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.   Kate: Hi, this is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Joette and I are here today, and we’re going to get personal.   Joette: Uh-oh.   Kate: Yeah, right? You should be scared, Joette. I’m going to ask you some personal questions.   Actually, this is something I’ve been wondering for a long time. You are so busy, Joette, and you do so many things. If you don’t mind, I want to share with the listeners some of the things that I see you do. Is that okay?   Joette: Sure. Just don’t tell them that one story … No, no, no.   Kate: Okay, alright.   I see you stitching, fixing things, and mending things. I actually don’t know what you’re doing, but you’re doing something with a needle and a thread sometimes during our meetings. I just heard recently — you told me — that you were learning Spanish. You are swimming, now. You love to study words. You’re always talking about something that you’re learning, some person that you’re following on a podcast and something that you’re learning about. It’s mind boggling to me all the things that you do in addition to your more-than-full-time job of being a homeopath.   So, I thought it would be really interesting for your listeners to hear about your day, and how you accomplish all these things. You want to share that with us?   Joette: Okay. I don’t know how interesting this will be, but we’ll give it a try.   Kate: Well, I’m interested! And I figure if I am, other people are as well.   Joette: Well, one of the things, one of the rules I have — and I was having a hard time with it for a while — was getting to bed early so that I could get up early. And my swimming has put that into place for me. I like to get to bed early enough so that I know that I’ll be up before the sun rises, and I can get started.   Kate: Now, Joette before you go on, I want to tell a little secret. Sometimes I email you at midnight my time which is one o’clock your time, and you answer me back.   Joette: I do.   Kate: So … I know you’re not always going to bed early.   Joette: No, I’m not always going to bed early. But you might note Kate that it was before I started swimming. Because since I’ve been swimming, pretty much, I am sleeping soundly. Going to bed around 9:30/10 o’clock, and it’s been really, really good for me.   I mean, I would say perhaps occasionally I might be up. But generally speaking, I try to keep that habit alive and well.   Kate: But how can you do that when you are on live Q&As until late in the evening, sometimes?   Joette: Those are the nights. When I’m on with the Study Groups (for example, your Study Group), and I have a lot of questions to answer, I never leave those study groups without answering every single question and make sure that everyone is satisfied. It sometimes goes to 10:30/11 o’ clock. I’ve even gone as late as 11:15 on some of those groups!   Those are the nights that I don’t sleep so well, in spite of the fact that I’ve been swimming during the day. It does take me time to wind down. And then I get online, and I see what emails I need to respond to, and invariably, there you are.   How to accomplish things   Kate: Tell us how you accomplish all the things that you do. What’s your secret?   Joette: What’s my secret? I established my day in advance. So, I know what I’m going to do the next day partly because I’m scheduled. I mean, my calendar is completely full. I’m scheduled all day and into the evening with appointments; with clients; with meetings with say, you or Tracey (who I collaborate with writing) or with Shannon (to discuss clients) or a meeting with my husband or a meeting with our consultant. I am scheduled all day, pretty much every day except Sundays. Then, of course, there are my clients most of the day. From 1

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 3:40 Journey to Homeopathy 9:47 Pregnancy 18:38 Things Handled with Homeopathy 24:30 Tips and Wisdom to Share LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Baby Grande: sold as part of the Combo Pack (my top 7 products). Information can also be found in my free blog post series, “Birthing.” https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/turning-a-breech-baby/ https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/premier-remedy-for-child-birth/ https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/birthing-part-three-baby-is-born-but-youre-not-done-yet-neither-is-homeopathy/ Allergic!? Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy Podcast 98 – How to Take Your Own Case: Prioritize! First Aid in a Pinch (free first aid chart) My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 101. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, this is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, I have a wonderful friend here whose name is Chris. Chris is a Midwest gal just like myself. Welcome, Chris. Chris: Hello, Kate. Kate: It’s great to have you here. I’m so excited to hear from you today. Chris: It’s good to be here. It really is a pleasure. Kate: Tell us about yourself, Chris. Chris: Well, like you said, I’m a Midwest gal — born and raised right here in Central Illinois — and married to Mike for seven years. Have three kids, 2, 4, 6. They keep me very busy. In my free time, I like to bike, hike, be outdoors, garden. My winter sport is quilting and sewing. I’ve got to do that on those cold months around here. But most of that is to keep me sane while I have my main job of staying at home, raising the kids and being a mom — which is the hardest, craziest job I’ve ever had — but I can’t see myself doing anything else. Kate: As you’re saying this, back in those days when I had young kids, and I feel you. Chris: It’s crazy. Kate: Yes. Chris: You can’t wrap that up into a sentence, really. Kate: No. Chris: It’s wonderful and still insane. Kate: Yes, the best, most challenging … Chris: … job I’ve ever had. Kate: Most fun … Chris: Yes. Kate: Exactly. Chris, in your spare time, I know you are an outdoorsy kind of gal, and you like to bike ride and do a lot of things outdoors with your family. And we’re going to get into this in just a minute, but I find it kind of ironic because you have a lot of issues being outside and doing those things because of some allergies, right? Chris: Yes. I have some seasonal allergies as well as some pet allergies — which I don’t know if we’ll talk about this, but I don’t have any! But I usually steer clear away from animals. Yes, being outside and being around anything in the garden, I’m usually careful about those sensitivities and asthma. I love being active and doing things, but exercise-induced asthma has been a plague in my life for quite a few years. Homeopathy has really helped out with that. Kate: We’re going to get into that in just a minute. But talk to us for just a few minutes about your journey to homeopathy. What did that look like? Journey to Homeopathy Chris: Well, it started when I became a mom. My daughter was six months old. I think I just remember her having some pain or bruises. A friend mentioned Arnica. I had no idea what it was, went to the local natural food store, found it — like the one place in town that had it. I didn’t even know how the heck to even open the bottle. Turn it over and twist the cap, right? So, I’m pretty sure I didn’t even give it to her a lot. I mean, maybe it was more like one or two times I gave it to her. But other than that, it just sat on the shelf for about a year. Then my daughter got her first ear infection. That’s when I knew there had to be something else. It just led me down that path of finding a different alternative to caring for my family as opposed to giving her antibiotics. That really was the gateway to my homeopathy journey. Kate: Now, talk to us for a minute about that struggle that you had when your daugh

  In this special 100th podcast, we cover: 02:05 In the Beginning … 12:30 Let It Snow; Let It Snow! 19:28 Joette and Perry’s Chance Meeting 24:48 “I Have to Write a Book!” 29:19 Joette’s First Client — and Office 33:37 Where is Practical Homeopathy® Headed? Links and resources mentioned in this podcast: How I started out with homeopathy My first book: Cure Yourself and Family Joette’s Mighty Members (my new membership group) My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 100 with Joette Calabrese! Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Joette: Hi folks, Joette Calabrese here. Perry: Hi folks, Perry here. Joette: We are doing something a little different today because this is our hundredth podcast! Perry: Wow! Joette: Because of that, we thought we’d celebrate with something just a little different because people ask me about this all the time. And I don’t know how much I want to reveal here, but Perry is my husband. So, I am going to kind of interview him, and he is actually going to kind of interview me as well. We are not going to talk too much about homeopathy in terms of what to use or philosophy or theory or aphorisms, or anything. Instead, today we are going to talk about where we’ve come from, where we’ve gone, where we plan to go with Practical Homeopathy® and JoetteCalabrese.com. So, hi, honey! Perry: Hi, honey! Joette: We are going to start by talking about, I guess … people ask me when did I start teaching. And I can’t believe people would be interested in this stuff! But they have asked me to … so, we’re going to do this. Perry: We are going to give you a little bit of background on Joette and I because maybe that’s interesting. We don’t think it is, but let’s go ahead and try. In the Beginning … Joette: Okay. So, many people may know my story and how I started out with homeopathy, and I am not going to go over that because I have written about it on my blog, and it has been published, etc. But instead, I will start talking about something that we never really talked about that much and that was that I used to teach many study groups in people’s homes and churches and church basements and schools, all over Western New York (which is Buffalo, New York area). Perry: This was when the kids were a little bit older because I would go out at night as well. I owned a construction company. So, we didn’t argue about who was going to go to work. But I would come home from the day, have dinner, and plan to go back out again, and Joette would remind me, no, she had a study group to teach. I was staying home with the kids. In many respects, I enjoyed that, but we needed to get Joette’s business up and going – or at least build her client-base — because that was what we were doing at that time. So, she would go out, sometimes five nights a week! Joette: Yeah, yeah. For years I did that. I would say it was probably two years where Monday night I taught in Black Rock (which is a section in Buffalo). Tuesday night it was Orchard Park (suburb). Wednesday was the West Side of Buffalo. Thursday was Amherst, New York (outside of Buffalo). Friday … I mean it was really like this, and I was also teaching at the same time at Daemen College. I was teaching classical homeopathy. So, it was a very … Perry: To the nurses. Joette: Yeah, to nurses. Well, they were undergrad nursing school. It was a very busy, busy time in our lives, and we were living at that time … Perry: In Colden. Joette: … in Colden, New York, which was 15-acre farm that we had put together. And, we were homeschooling our kids. We had a lot on our plate. Perry: Right. We did. Joette: When I look back at it, I say, “Wow! What great years!” But it was a lot of work. We were very, very busy. We had two goats and 30 chickens, and you and the kids were raising bees. Perry: Ahhh, we were raising bees. Let me tell you about those goats, folks. We would try to pen these goats in. We had a 6-foot high electric fence. And these goats would climb up the side of the hut that I had built for the chickens and the goats, and they would leap over that fence. Joette: And they were Pygmy goats. Perry: Well, they were sold to us as Pygmy goats. Either the boys fed them too much, or we were sold a bill of goods. Anyway, these goats would get out, and Joette would have clients at that time coming to the house during the day. Joette: It was an office. It was actually my office connected to the side of the hou

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 03:11 “Nourishing Traditions” 10:31 Learning is Key 16:50 Becoming a Matriarch 19:29 Polar Opposites: Complacency 22:38 Polar Opposites: The Savior 26:05 Pneumonia/Bronchitis and Ear Infection LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs How to Raise a Drug Free Family Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Cold and Flu chart (Developing a Homeopathic Brain – A Cold, A Flu, A Cough; Which Is It; Which Remedy?) Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 99 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, I’m Kate, and I would like to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, we’re going to have a different type of a Mom with Moxie podcast. We’re actually going to be talking about “the big picture.” Jordan is a big picture thinker, and I can’t wait for you all to hear what she has to say about the power of being a matriarch. So, Jordan, welcome to the podcast. Jordan: Thanks for having me, Kate. Kate: I am so excited because we’re going to be changing things up a little bit. You are going to be talking to us about the big vision. Like, what is the big picture? Why are we doing this as moms? Why are we using homeopathy, and what does this mean to us, and how does it empower us? So, before we get started, Jordan, tell us about yourself. Jordan: Sure. I’ve got five little ones. I have all the way from eight years old down to nine months old: Terry, Simon Peter, Elijah, Thérèse and Felicity. I homeschool them. I’ve been doing that now for a couple of years. But before I was homeschooling, I was a youth minister for about 10 years. That’s kind of my other side passion is ministry, reaching out to teens. So that’s really heavy on my heart. This May, I’m celebrating my 10-year anniversary, so that’s super-exciting. I’m relatively new to homeopathy. This has really been only something I’ve been doing for now, like, maybe eight months. But I am just so passionate and excited to share what I’ve learned — and hopefully, to encourage those who are learning, too, along the way. Kate: Yes, I can’t wait to hear what you have to say. When we talked a little bit earlier, I was very excited that you wanted not just to talk about those individual success stories or the struggles that you might have with homeopathy, but to talk about how this really can change our family’s lives. How it can empower us! You said that yourself, you’re very new to homeopathy. But at the same time, I feel like you have a lot of wisdom in this. So, I want to hear about what led you to finding out about homeopathy. How did that journey come about? “Nourishing Traditions” Jordan: I’ve always been suspicious of the allopathic medical paradigm for a long time, but I didn’t know what to replace it with. I just kind of still went along with it for the most part, so gave Tylenol, Benadryl, things like that. But then, I really, Kate, can boil it down to certain key events where something shifted in my thinking. And the first key event was when my mom handed me the book “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon — and I would recommend any mom to get that book. Kate: What a great mom you had that she gave you that book! That’s awesome! Jordan: She did! I think she was surprised I read it. Because literally, she took it and gave it to me, and I think within a month, I had read it cover to cover. I was just on my way to Minnesota. I had a long, 12-hour car ride from Michigan. So, I opened it up, and I read it. My husband was driving, so I was sitting in the passenger seat and just reading, reading. And it opened a huge door that I didn’t know was there. I got into raw milk first. As I was reading it seeing that was a big thrust of Sally Fallon’s way of thinking, I was like, “Okay, let’s do

  In this podcast, we cover: 01:27 Fictional Girl Named Maddy 05:58 Number Rating System 15:58 Food Intolerance 18:58 Determining what is most important 25:06 Sprezzatura Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 98 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi, this is Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I’m here with Joette today. Hi, Joette! Joette: Hi, Kate, always great to talk like this. Kate: Yes, we have so much fun on these podcasts. Today, we are going to be talking about what it’s like when you first start using homeopathy, and you are so excited. Right? You finally found homeopathy, and you’re so excited. You’re trying it for some conditions, and it’s working. And now, you want to treat everything, right? Joette: Now let’s make our bodies perfect and live forever. Fictional Girl Named Maddy Kate: Right. So, what we’re going to do today is we’re going to talk about this fictional girl named Maddy. I’m going to give you an example of a case, Joette. We see this all the time. I’m sure you do. I hear people in the Study Groups who get excited, and then they want to treat everything. They want to heal every single symptom that they have, their family members have, their friends have — which is great, right? Joette: But enthusiasm needs to be tempered sometimes, and we have to pull back and be a little more logical. Kate: We’re going to flesh this out. I’m just giving you an example, Joette. Maddy has osteoarthritis, right? She has pain in her joints. She has food intolerances which gives her bloating and gas. She has alopecia so maybe some thyroid issues. She has white spots on her nails. She’s 20 pounds overweight. She doesn’t sleep well at night, and she has a little patch of eczema on her neck or her back. Joette: How old is Maddy? It’s most likely that Maddy is not in her 20s. It can happen. But most likely the osteoarthritis is usually the tipoff that she’s older. She’s postmenopausal. She’s in her 60s, most likely 20 pounds overweight. All of this is super-common for someone in the late 60s, for example. (This is fictitious, right?) Kate: Exactly. Joette: Maddy is not real, so let’s put her exactly where she would fit in the scope of demographic. I would say Maddy is probably about 65. Kate: You see a lot of Maddys, I would imagine, Joette, because this may be some typical conditions that people in that age range are dealing with, yes? Joette: Yes. You know what you didn’t mention about Maddy? My guess is that she’s got anxiety, too. Kate: Of course, she does. Joette: You bet. You bet. Things that come her way or her family’s way, she worries about her grandchildren. You know, it keeps her up at night sometimes. You did say insomnia, right? Yes, she has insomnia. Kate: Maddy is really excited, Joette. She’s just taken some of your courses. She joined your Study Groups. Joette: Down, Maddy. Down! Kate: She’s listened to all the podcasts, read the blogs, and she wants to tackle the world!! Joette: Yes, yes, great! That’s good. We don’t want to extinguish this excitement! But what we want to do is then put it all together for her so she can understand how she approaches something like this. Kate: And Maddy’s dog has a tick disease. We could go on and on, right? Joette: Yes, well, her husband’s got, you know, sciatica pain, and he’s about 40 pounds overweight. He has chronic constipation. We could go on and on and on because that is the profile. It’s “baby boomer” profile. That’s basically what we’re describing here. The most important thing that we have to do first is to see what is it that’s keeping Maddy down? Is it the alopecia? In other words, if her hair is so thin that she looks like she has almost no hair — she’s starting to wear a wig — then by all means, that’s really important to her!! That’s going to change everything for her, especially for a woman. That is a big deal for a woman. But if we’re talking about alopecia in which, well, her hair’s falling out a little bit too much, and it’s thinner. It’s not the same as it was when she was in her 20s, of course. Whose anything is the same as when we were in our 20s? If it was just a mild case then we can put that on the back burner for now. It’s just not as important. And, it might

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 06:16 Food Intolerance 09:25 Protocols or Remedies 11:47 Accurate Diagnosis 23:12 Travel with Homeopathic Medicines LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Courses page When a Cold or Flu Hits Hard, Hit Back My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 97. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi! I’m Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I’m here with Regina today, and she has lots of good tips to share with you. So, get your pen and your paper out and get ready to take some notes. Regina, welcome to the podcast! Regina: Thank you, Kate. Great to be here. Kate: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where you live, your family? Regina: Well, I’m originally from New England, but I’ve lived in Annapolis, Maryland for the last 19 years. I’ve been with my husband … we’ve been married 40 years now. I have a stepson and daughter-in-law and two grandchildren, and my sister and her daughter and husband and stepchildren, and some other family in the area. So, we get to spend a lot of time together. Kate: It’s kind of fun because some of your family actually uses homeopathy as well. You get to share that with them. Tell us a little bit about that. Regina: Yes, that’s been great. I’m very fortunate. All the family members are pretty open to it. My husband became sold on it when we fixed his gout. My daughter-in-law has really taken to it. It’s been great fun because it’s given us a great subject matter to get close … because of always talking back and forth on text: “What are you using for this? And what are you using for that?” So, it’s been great. Kate: You have a homeopathy study buddy built right into your family. Regina: Yes! Kate: Wonderful. Okay, so you have taken every one of Joette’s courses, is that correct? Regina: Gateway to Homeopathy and every one of her courses. And I cannot tell you how much I’ve learned in each and every one of her courses. Every time she says she’s doing a new course I get so excited because I know I’m going to learn so much, and then you can refer back to it over and over and over again. Kate: Actually, you were in one of the study groups that I led quite a while ago. That’s so fun! Regina: That is right, right, exactly, back in the beginning. Kate: Yeah, that was a while ago. You’ve also consulted with Joette. Regina: Yes, I started consulting with Joette back in February 2017, because my headaches had gotten so bad. And it’s so much fun talking with her. I look forward to every session. She has a great way of handling not only adults, but I’ve seen her interact with teenagers and preteens. She just makes every situation so manageable. She doesn’t get thrown by anything, and she’s experienced so many things. I don’t think there’s a condition she hasn’t ever heard of! So, it’s been great working with her. That, combined with the classes, has been a deep-dive education over the last three years in homeopathy. Kate: How did you get to homeopathy? Take us back just a little bit and tell us about your journey. Regina: I’ve had chronic conditions my whole life — eczema, gut issues, allergies, colds, headaches. Like most people, I spent most of the time working with allopathic doctors. Then I realized that by the time I reached my 50s, I was just sick of being sick all the time and decided that I would study what was causing it. And spent the next 10-12 years studying naturopathy and using everything I could learn to help myself get healthier. I did dental work, diet work, supplements, energy work. Everything helped a little bit and somewhat, and I was making some progress — but not enough. And then some things started getting worse. My headaches started getting worse. My food sensitivity started getting worse, and my world was getting smaller. Everything I ate was restricted. Where I could go was restricted. I knew I had to do something different. I had been doing some homeopathy with a

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   01:14 Symptoms 07:14 Fatigue 11:54 Medical Tests 15:55 Alternatives to Homeopathy 21:57 Influenza 24:58 Sprezzatura   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 96 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively.   So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration — you need as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi, I’m Kate, and I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. I’m here with Joette today, and we are going to be talking about “keeping it simple.” Joette, you wanted to share with your listeners about the idea of symptoms, and how sometimes, they can actually be side effects from some things that we might be taking. So, why don’t you expand upon that today?   Symptoms   Joette: Sure, let me start with this. That is that symptoms are key in homeopathy — not because we want to treat them, but because we honor them, and we use them. They are our gifts.   I know that’s hard to believe when someone’s suffering. The last thing you’re thinking of is that this headache is a gift. But in a way, it is because it directs us to which homeopathic medicine will help correct it.   Symptoms are just representations of something that’s going on deeper.   Now, let me say parenthetically, we needn’t know what it’s representing. That’s not the job of the homeopath or the person who’s using homeopathy. The job of the homeopath is to use that information.   So, if there’s itching in the middle of the night only, that’s different than itching after taking a shower. That’s a symptom that matters!   If we are treating symptoms with drugs — steroids, for example, for that itching, or magnesium (gross magnesium), or whatever else we might be taking — it can cause trouble.   It might relieve that itching in the middle of the night, but that’s not what necessarily we’re looking for.   Now, that sounds really ridiculous for someone who is new to homeopathy. Kate: Right.   Joette: But the problem is that steroids don’t cure! Homeopathy has the ability to do such. I’m not going to tell you it’s going to cure every case or how far it will go. But steroids don’t cure; they actually suppress. Suppression of symptoms is a naughty word in homeopathy. We don’t want to suppress anything. Those steroids might indeed get rid of that itch at that time. But later on, now the itch, my guess is — and it’s an educated guess because I’ve seen it happen many, many times — now the itching is not in the middle of the night. Now the itching is first thing in the morning and in the middle of the night. Now the itching is not just on the scalp. Now the itching is on the flexors and on the belly and on the nose. So, it gets worse and worse, and we need stronger and stronger steroids to hold it down. It’s like pushing down on a water balloon, and then it bulges up somewhere else. And you press down on that bulge, and it bulges somewhere else. So, symptoms are very, very important in homeopathy. We use them; don’t treat them. Symptoms can be caused by a myriad of substances.   And so, when someone tells me that they have a condition — or they only have symptoms, they don’t even have a name for the condition necessarily — my first question is, “What are you taking?”   Always.   “What are you taking?”   They think that “natural substances” will not cause trouble, but I totally disagree. So, it can be natural substances such as vitamins — although I don’t think they’re all that natural, and we’ll get into that too in a minute — or supplements, food supplements, et cetera.   Drugs will most definitely cause symptoms. They’re called side effects. There is no such thing as a drug without a side effect. If you’re taking a drug, you’re going to get a side effect.   End of discussion.   It may not be what you expect, but you will get a side effect — unless you get on it for a short period of time, and you’re done, and you get off it quickly enough. But if there’s ever a chronic condition or a chronic use of a drug, just count on it. That’s what it will cause.   But I also warn people that homeopathy can cause symptoms, too, if it’s used incorrectly. So, many time

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   06:14 RN background 07:56 Homeopathic stories 13:31 Farmhands and homeopathy 15:03 During harvest time 17:02 Saving calves 24:22 Snakebite remedies 27:54 First aid box 30:22 Some advice LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Allergic!? Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back First Aid Chart Boys, Concussions, and Broken Furniture 3 Homeopathic Remedies for Mastitis Homeopathic Remedy Kits Frost Nip, Frostbite; This Medicine Works From Tendon, Bone and Cartilage Problems to Healing with Homeopathy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum       Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 95.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, I’m Kate. I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, I have a very special Mom with Moxie with me. Her name is Michelle.   Michelle, I want to welcome you to the podcast.   Michelle: I am glad to be here, Kate. Kate: I’m glad to have you. You have so many things to share with the listeners today. I’m super excited to dive right in because we have a page full of things that you’ve used homeopathy for. And I’m sure this isn’t even all of it, Michelle — that you’ve written down here.   Let’s get started. Michelle, tell us a little bit about yourself. Michelle: I am a wife to a farmer and a rancher. We live on a lot of prairies that we farm, and we live close to some rivers where we run cows. I have three grown children, and I am grandma to 11. Even my parents live kind of close. So, all of our family lives together and works together on a lot of occasions. I like to spend a lot of my free time just learning more and more about how to be a good Christ-follower. I like to teach. I like to help. I do have a medical background. I’m an RN. I think that’s all the exciting things I can think about myself right now. Kate: I think that is super-special that you live so close to all of your family. I know you’re close with your children and your grandchildren and your parents. I think that’s pretty amazing that you are surrounded by your family. That’s, I think, what every mom wishes for, right? Michelle: I think you’re right. It really is wonderful. Kate: Yes, living on a farm — a working farm in the prairie — you have a lot of occasion to use homeopathy. But before we hear about your stories, I want to know a little bit of your background, Michelle. Tell us how you came to find out about homeopathy and start using it. Especially, I’m interested because you have a medical background: you’ve worked in the medical field. So, tell me about that transition. Michelle: Yes, it’s because of the grandkids. The mothers of all the grandkids were starting to use — talk a lot about essential oils. So, I thought I want to be the good grandma, and I want to learn! (And so I know what they’re even talking about because they’re medicine — or they are choosing to use it as their medicine.)   So, I started researching that, and I ended up listening to an online summit that was considered an essential oil summit, but Joette spoke on there.   After I heard her, I went back and listened again. And the next day I listened to her again. My brain just started working, and I kept thinking, “Is this some new kind of medicine? Is this the latest hottest deal?”   I just spent time thinking for about three months. I didn’t change my mind super-fast.   But I went to her blog site then, listened to some of her podcasts, read some of her materials, did some other research and in about three months’ time realized this is not new medicine. It’s an old medicine. I realized how it was made and a little bit about what they know.   I just said, “I think I can learn about this,” and I did!   Then all the kids go, “Mom, this is so much better than what essential oil was offering us. It has a lot broader scope.” Kate: That’s interest

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:15 Stramonium for Night Terrors 08:47 Stramonium for Pets 14:14 Watching Violent Movies LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Stramonium by Paul Herscu Stramonium 200C Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 94 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi! This is Kate, and I’m here with Joette. I want to welcome you back to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast.   This is a bit of an impromptu podcast. Because Joette and I were just doing some work together, and she thought of a subject that she really was passionate about and wanted to share with you listeners.   And so Joette, why don’t you get us started?   Stramonium and Night Terrors   Joette: When you and I were just talking, I was recalling a story about one of my children. It was from many years ago, and how I studied a specific medicine and the medicine was Stramonium, S-T-R-A-M-O-N-I-U-M, Stramonium.   At the time when we needed this medicine for my son, I was a novice in homeopathy. But I knew enough that if I found the right medicine, that it would abort the condition.   Well, this was the condition. We used to borrow movies from the library when my children were growing up. We borrowed the movie, “Swiss Family Robinson.” I’m talking about the version from 1959 — this was an old version. Great story, nice movie, great movie for kids.   But, my son was very young — he was about six maybe, at the time. He was very taken by the scene where the bad pirates were going to harm the family — the Swiss Family Robinson family. He wanted to watch it over and over again. He was obsessed, almost, by watching this one scene.   I know what he was doing. It’s what children do — and all of us, for that matter — is trying to process it. I don’t think it ever occurred to him that someone would try to hurt a family. Of course, he was relating to the family, probably greatly. He wanted to watch it over and over again to make it clear in his mind. It was something that he had never experienced and was trying to understand what was going on. Why would somebody want to hurt this family?   And so, with that, then when he would stop watching the movie … we’d borrowed it from the library for a week. When he finished watching the movie, he would play with his Lego guys. And these Lego guys who were kind of peaceful creatures up until that point became aggressive — very aggressive — and killing the bad guys. I mean, not just killing, but you know, killing in really gory ways that I didn’t even know he understood. Kate: Oh, my goodness.   Joette: His good guys were stabbing the bad guys. These Lego creatures were having wars constantly.   And, then he would go to bed — that first night he went to bed — and he had a terrible nightmare. In fact, it wasn’t a “mare.” It was a terror!   We ran into his room because he was screaming and turned the light on, and he would not wake up. And that’s what a night terror is: They are out of their mind with the images in their brains, and they can’t let it go.   And so, it would take an awful lot for us to calm him down. We’d have to have bright lights on. He needed the bright lights.   In those days, I used homeopathy classically. I didn’t know that there was a protocol for violent thoughts or severe angst from witnessing something that was violent. All I knew was to repertorize, and so I repertorized in my book, and I found Stramonium.   Now, I had many materia medicas at the time, and I certainly opened them up, but it wasn’t until I totally delved into it. I purchased a book titled “Stramonium.” It was just simply on the subject of Stramonium by Paul Herscu, and I read it from cover to cover.   Meanwhile, it was night after night of this with my son suffering, not being able to sleep, all of us not being able to sleep because of these night terrors. When I finally convinced myself that Stramonium was the medicine, I gave him a dose of Stramonium 200C.   Now again, in those days very classically thinking, I was thinking only one dose, maybe two doses over two days, maybe a third dose, but that was it! You don’t give any more.   And so that’s what I did. I gave

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 02:16 Journey to better health 10:04 Ways to use Homeopathy 15:10 Homeopathy for cancer and surgery LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joint American Homeopathic Conference in Orlando, Florida National Center for Homeopathy Homeopathy for Plantar Fasciitis blog No More Pneumonia: Homeopathy and Pneumonia Anticipating Surgery? Homeopathy Can Help Surgery: Answering Your Questions A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Watch Out for Dem’ Bones Rethinking Detox with Practical Homeopathy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 93 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Welcome to the practical homeopathy podcast. I’m Kate. I’m here with a dear friend of mine today, a Mom with Moxie. Interesting story – we actually met in one of Joette’s Gateway to Homeopathy study groups many years ago. We’ve become dear friends since that time. So, those of you who are wondering whether or not you should join a Gateway to Homeopathy group, I highly recommend it because you will meet some really amazing women. Today, I want to welcome my dear friend, Michele, to the podcast. Welcome, Michele! Michele: Hi, Kate. It’s good to be here. Kate: Yes, I’m so excited that we get to do this podcast together. You have some pretty incredible things that you and your family have been through over the years. We actually learned about Joette about the same time many years ago. So, I feel like you are my homeopathy journey buddy. Journey to better health Michele: Definitely been a journey to better health. Kate: Before we get into your stories about using homeopathy, tell us a little bit about yourself. Michele: I am married to a wonderful husband who totally supports my love for homeopathy, and he loves it, too. We have a small convenience store in Chico, California. I have five boys ages 14 to 23. Four are still at home, and I’ve homeschooled them all the way through. Three have graduated. One more will this year, and I have a 9th grader left. Kate: Let’s talk about how you came to know about homeopathy? Michele: Well, I was actually using homeopathy and didn’t even know that I was — through a naturopath that I was working with a little bit. My kids had got the swine flu, and I did. We were hit really hard. We even had the diagnosis of it. I started using Oscillococcinum and Cocculus indicus and Nux vomica. I didn’t even know they were homeopathic, but they worked. The flu only hit us for three days instead of weeks. We were so blessed! Then I met Joette in 2012. She came to Chico for a two-day homeopathic intensive course through our Weston A. Price group. I was like, “Oh, wow, I was already using these remedies!” That was the moment I really fell in love with homeopathy. Kate: Tell the listeners … What was Joette like in person? (Shhh. We won’t tell her we’re talking about her.) Michele: She’s just same as she is on the Facebook Lives — just so much fun. It was a two-day — like all day — two-day intensive. It just was such a pleasure to listen to her, and I left there feeling encouraged and uplifted. She even … I think she brought Perry with her and two of her sons. So, it was so neat to see their family traveling together. Kate: I’m pretty excited because she is going to be speaking at the Joint American Homeopathic Conference in Orlando, Florida. For those of you who are interested in possibly attending that conference, it is sponsored by the National Center for Homeopathy. It’s May 15th through the 17th at SeaWorld. So, that will be a fun time. If you’re interested in coming there, you can go on to homeopathycenter.org and find that information about the conference there. So, Michele, let’s get back to you. After you met Joette, you realized that you had already been using some homeopathic medicines. Then I assume you started studying more about homeopathy, and what steps did you take next? Michele: Well, we got a really neat workbook along with our course. I studied from th

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:08 Remedies for flu 10:16 Homeopathic medicines as prophylaxis 17:07 Signs that show whether or not a medicine is acting 21:14 Things that help the body when ill 21:59 The Antibiotic Alternative course LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: My free flu chart Oscillococcinum Boiron Dr. Dale’s Wellness Center: Dr. Dale’s ALL FLU [Editor’s note: ALL FLU is now called Dr. Dale’s COLD GUARD PLUS.] Rhus tox 30 mixed with Bryonia 30 (Banerji protocol) No Flu Here in India, but Boy, It’s Big Back in the US (Banerji protocol of Rhus tox 30 alternating with Bryonia 30) Arsenicum album 30X or 30C Gelsemium 30 Aconitum 200/Bryonia 30 (Banerji protocol) When a Cold or Flu Hits Hard … Hit Back! The Antibiotic Alternative Info-graphic Allergic?! My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum       Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 92 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. Today, Joette and I are going to be talking about the flu. It’s been going around, it’s that time of the year, and we’re going to talk about: how do you know it’s the flu, what remedies to use, and some other things.   So, Joette, why don’t you get us started?   Remedies for flu   Joette: Well, one of the things that I want to mention is that when someone has a bad cold, they often think it’s the flu. It may not be the flu, and sometimes it’s difficult to decipher. Also, with allergies, sometimes folks get allergies, and they can’t tell whether or not it’s a cold, or it is allergies, et cetera.   One of the distinguishing factors is when someone has allergies, generally, they don’t get a fever; generally, they don’t have achy joints and bones. That’s more related to colds and flus. We can distinguish that. We can put that aside.   We can also say that if no one else around you is sick with the similar symptoms, that it is more likely your allergies rather than what’s going around in your community, in your home, in your church, et cetera.   Now, to distinguish between the cold and flu — that can be rather difficult. The flu is, for lack of a better way of describing it, a gobsmacking cold. I mean, you’re really sick with the flu, generally.   A cold is annoying, it’s uncomfortable, but you can generally push yourself through it, and get to your daily tasks. But influenza, generally speaking, really brings you down and assigns you to your bed — or at least, the sofa — for several days. So that helps a little bit.   Kate: One of the things that can help you determine whether or not it’s the flu or something else — or walk you through what to use for the flu versus allergies or coughs or colds — is the free flu chart. That will actually pop up on Joette’s website when you go to joettecalabrese.com. It will pop up and ask you if you want to download that free flowchart. You can just click on that and you’ll have access to that. [As of this recording in February 2020. Click on this link, if the flu chart does not pop up on the main page.] That will walk you through what remedies to use in each of those situations whether it’s flu or a cold.   That’s one good resource. I know we have some other resources that we’re going to talk about in a little bit.   Okay, so let’s get started. Let’s flesh out what to do if you truly do have the flu then, Joette.   Joette: Okay, so there are a couple of different ways — actually, there are many different ways — to approach flu (or cold for that matter). The reason there are so many choices is because homeopathy is vast, and it’s been around for over 230 years. The homeopaths in France most likely do it a little differently … homeopathic medical doctors. In fact, in France, that’s usually who prescribes these medicines are the pharmacists and the medical doctors. And in Spain, they might be doing it a little differently. In India, it’s different than that. In the United States, it’s different.   Then we also must adjust accordingly — according to the genus epidemicus. It can make a big difference. The “genus epidemicus” is a term to describe the kind of medicine that we would use — homeopathic medicine that would be useful for a very, very lar

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:49 Homeopathy for all kinds of illnesses in general 08:29 Calc carb for cataracts 13:28 Joette’s courses 14:35 Ignatia for PTSD 16:12 Arnica for labor pains and Caulophyllum for stalled labor 18:25 Hypericum, Arsenicum album, and Ledum for animal bites and puncture wounds   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Cataracts Halted, Even Improved with Homeopathy Rethinking Detox with Practical Homeopathy®: How to Stop Stressing About Toxins and Fearlessly Achieve Health the Simple Way Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocol for Mental and Emotional Conditions Good Gut, Bad Gut Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum (Parts I and II) Combo Pack: Top 7 Products (including Baby Grande) He Bit Me! Homeopathy Cures Animal Bites The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Feminopathy My blog, podcasts, Facebook Live events and courses   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 91.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.   Kate: Hi and welcome to another “Mom with Moxie” podcast. I’m excited for you all to get to meet our guest today. Her name is Janie and she has been using homeopathy for a very long time. So, I’m really looking forward to learning from her today. Welcome to the podcast, Janie.   Janie: Thank you very much, Kate.   Kate: I would love to start off by learning a little bit about yourself.   Janie: I’m married, and I live in England. I have three grown-up children who don’t live at home anymore and two lovely little grandchildren.   Homeopathy for all kinds of illnesses in general   Kate: Awwww! So, you have been using homeopathy for a long period of time. Tell us how you got started learning about homeopathy, and then the history from there in using homeopathy.   Janie: Okay. I think I’ve probably been using homeopathy almost as long as Joette. I started when I was pregnant with my first baby. I got itchiness on my belly one day, and it spread to all of my body really rapidly. I tried everything natural that I could think of — or knew of or could hear about — that was possible to help. The only things that worked were about three or four cold showers a night, and then slathering myself with almond oil, and wearing a cotton nightie that was up to my neck down to my wrists and down to my feet so I wouldn’t touch the bed clothes when I got back into bed.   Kate: That sounds miserable.   Janie: It was really awful. I was at a health food store one day, and the man there said, “Why don’t you look at some of our books. There are some books on homeopathy. I think that might be able to help you, and it’s safe to take when you’re pregnant.”   I looked through and found an anti-itching remedy in one of them, and I bought the book. I took that remedy every two or three hours during the course of the rest of the pregnancy which was about another six weeks or so. It really helped. It was the only way I could survive it.   It happened again in my next pregnancy, but for longer. And I was so pleased because I knew what to do; I knew what I could actually help myself with (in terms of coping). That was 23 weeks that I had the itching in that pregnancy.   I hadn’t figured out which remedy might help to uproot it, obviously. So, I learned a bit about homeopathy in between those two babies because I found a local homeopath who was teaching a class on first aid with homeopathy. I had about eight or 12 weeks of night school, and that was really, really useful. That, along with the book I had bought, helped me to look after my family when they were little and do all sorts of things to sort them out with bumps and goose eggs and broken bones and a bee sting that was in the hand of one of my friends’ babies (the arm swelled up and went all the way up the arm) and a fairly severe swelling reaction to a vaccination.   There were all sorts of things that I was able to treat when I was a mom with first aid. But I didn’t know how much I didn’t know … until I’ve learned how much I didn’t know since I came across Joette’s courses and her

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:22 Be prepared: Own your medicines 03:25 Know how to order 04:52 Be prepared with knowledge 06:24 Be prepared in advance 07:01 Stay informed 08:01 Join a study group 10:12 Have a study-buddy 11:06 Listen while you work 12:32 You know more than you think 13:34 Start small 14:55 Use Google 16:30 Don’t be discouraged 17:42 Buy from reputable pharmacies 18:27 Learn the individual medicines contained in combination remedies 19:17 Know how to administer the medicines 22:38 Keep important homeopathic medicines in your purse 23:59 Invest in yourself 25:24 Do not encourage people to get off of their conventional drugs 26:22 Use the protocols 28:20 Don’t give up LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Homeopathy kits Boiron, Washington Homeopathy, Hyland’s Homeopathy, Hahnemann Homeopathy My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum My courses Online materia medicas and repertories A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Dr. James Tyler Kent’s materia medica Americans for Homeopathy Choice “Podcast 89 titled “ACTION REQUIRED! Due in 5 minutes!” JoetteCalabrese.com homepage for searches ColdCalm® “Emergency Remedy Series: Keep Calm! (ColdCalm®, That Is.)” Oscillococcinum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 90 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: In today’s podcast, we’re going to continue on with the theme “2020 Twenty.” That is the theme that we’re going to run through this coming year. You’ll see lots of things titled “2020 Twenty,” and we’re going to be giving you twenty tips today to take into 2020. Joette, let’s get started. Joette: Love it. It’s 2-0-2-0 for the year, and then “twenty” spelled out. It’s the “Twenty of the 2020.” Kate: Yes. So, let’s get started with your twenty tips for 2020, Joette. Start us off. 1. Be prepared: Own your medicines Joette: Okay. Well, you and I worked on this a little bit. The first one we came up with was, “Be prepared.” I mean, that just goes without saying, I suppose. But you know what? Sometimes, we need to hear these things time and again. That means, own your medicines. If you think you know or you know what medicine to use, you have to own it! Because there’s nothing worse than saying, “Okay, my child needs Hepar sulph because of this ear infection.” It’s Saturday evening around seven o’clock when no stores are open, or you live in an area where they don’t carry them anywhere. There’s no Whole Foods or Wegmans or anything like that — or Walmart, because sometimes Walmart carries them. And you have to wait until Monday morning to order it! And you don’t get it until Tuesday or Wednesday from Amazon. Well, that makes no sense. You need to own homeopathy kits. I don’t mean one kit. I’m using the plural — kits — because one kit is not enough. You want a 200 Potency kit, you want a 30th Potency kit, and you want a cell salt kit, just to get started. There are others as well. But I can’t urge folks enough to invest in that. Then you’ll be ordering a lot more than just those. Those are just your basics. Kate: I always tell people, have a backup kit, and then have a backup-backup kit, and so on and so forth. When I share with my study groups the kits that I have and the backup-backup-backup kits, and how I’ve actually used the medicines out of those backup-backup-backup kits, I think they’re surprised. But you really need to own more than one kit. Start with one if that’s all you have money for right now. Just start with one. Joette: One step at a time. That’s right. But what you should be spending your money on, that should have been one of our tips. This is what you should be spending your money on. Not nail polish. Not café au lait from Starbucks. This is where you spend your money — because this is an investment. Kate: Okay, Number Two. 2. Know how to order Joette: Well, what I want to tell folks is how to order. I suggest that folks order a couple of different ways, especially if you’re looking not just for the kit, but for single remedies. Order via Amazon for next-day delivery, and literally, you’ll get it the next day. But if you want to get a discount, I urge you to go to Boiron (B-O-I-R-O-N), and order there because … they won’t have all of the medicines you’re looking for, but they’ll have a good number of

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   01:17 Americans for Homeopathy Choice 02:49 Meetings with the FDA 09:54 Draft Guidance 32:08 Donations to Americans for Homeopathy Choice   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Americans for Homeopathy Choice (homeopathychoice.org) Hyland’s, Boiron, Hahnemann, Washington, OHM Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 89 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: Hi, folks. Today, we’re doing something a little different than we have done in the past. I’m going to be interviewing Paola Brown. She’s going to tell us all about her organization. You may already know about it. If you don’t, I want you to know about it.   We are very involved with Paola’s organization on many different levels. I want you to be involved right along with me. You don’t have to do a lot of work. You just have to be even just one toe into the water in getting involved with this wonderful organization.   Paola, tell us about your organization. Paola Brown, here you go, Sweetie.   Paola: Thank you. Americans for Homeopathy Choice.   I just thought I’d start right from the get-go and tell them what they can do. They can go to homeopathychoice.org. Right now, we are seeking 100,000 comments to go into the FDA docket. I checked today, it’s January 5th, and there was about 25,000 comments in there. So, we’re needing this to really pick up. The deadline is January 23rd. So, if you go to homeopathychoice.org, right on the homepage…   Joette: Homeopathychoice.org. We’ll have this listed down below for you folks to click into.   Paola: Yes. We have software that if you’re in the US, that makes it super easy for you. Just click, click, click, and it goes straight to the FDA.   If you’re international people, you can also comment. We have a copy-and-paste that makes it super easy.   Right from the get-go, pause this podcast, run over there, and get that done. But we can talk about the background of the issues, too, of course. Joette: I always tell folks, I’ve written many times to the FDA and other government bodies in my adult life, and I find that if it’s short, and it’s concise, and it’s not just an opinion, but perhaps a short story (how Belladonna helped your child with pain and ear infection or how Chamomilla has helped your teenage daughter, and you need to have this medicine available, and you need all your homeopathic medicines available), how your doctor uses it, or how your practitioner uses it, and give examples — but no anger! No sarcasm. Don’t do that. You will just turn them off.   You want them to actually read these and say, “Wow, this is interesting. Look at this person’s arthritis improve by using Rhus tox and Symphytum,” or something like that. We want them to know that we are real people out there. We’re not oddballs. We simply decided to use homeopathy often instead of drugs — but sometimes alongside drugs as well.   We’re not anti-medicine. We are pro-medicine. But we’re also very much pro-homeopathy. It’s very important that they understand that there’s a large body of citizens in the U.S. and elsewhere who are very interested in keeping homeopathy alive. Because indeed, Paola, it is under threat, isn’t it?   Paola: It is. It really is under threat. In the United States, our government works better when we can speak up and communicate and help our officials do the right thing. If we don’t get involved, I think that’s how overreach happens. That’s how things slip away from us. It’s such an important role as a citizen or as a resident of this country. You don’t have to be a citizen, obviously, because the international people can comment, but as a resident of this country to speak up and to help them understand your perspective, because they don’t know it.   I remember at our very first FDA meeting, we brought our homeopathy kits, me and the moms.   Joette: FDA meeting, meaning you went to DC. Now, you live in Budapest.   Paola: Right. Now, I live in Budapest.   Joette: You flew from Budapest to DC to meet with the FDA. That’s the kind of commitment Paola and her group have in trying to keep homeopathy safe because … let me just say parenthetically that, what happens in the United States happens then throughout the world. We are leaders in many, many ways, even in, believe it or not, in homeopathy. That has switched recently. It used to be Europe was number one. Now, the US has become number one in users of homeopathy.   Okay, so you went to the FDA, and you brought a kit.   Paola: Yes. We passed it across the table. That was our very first meeting, and the person who was really heavily involved in writing the draft guidance was in that meeting. I don’t think that person had ever seen a h

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:24 Are the best results reserved for the purest people? 05:13 Factors that affect one’s responses to homeopathic medicines 10:15 Synthetic drugs 26:25 Homeopathic remedy tip especially for the holidays   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Ignatia amara 200C My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 88 with Joette Calabrese. Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Welcome back to the podcast, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We’re going to spend a little time reflecting today. Joette, you’ve been using homeopathy and seeing clients for quite some time. I believe it’s been over 30 years.   Joette: Well, I’ve been using homeopathy, I started studying it about 32, actually 33 years ago. But I didn’t go into full-time real practice where I actually hung out a shingle and met with clients full-time until about 25 years ago. Kate: Well, that’s still a very long time.   Joette: It is. It is.   The best results reserved for the purest people?   Kate: Yes, and you must have seen so much in that period of time. I imagine that you have a lot of observations that you’ve made over the years.   Joette: I have seen a lot. Many of the ideas that have come to me have changed through the years.   For example … we might as well just get into it. For example, I always thought — I expected — that those who would have the best results would be the purest people, meaning babies. I always assumed that babies would get well much faster from a chronic condition — I’m not talking about acute so much, but a chronic condition — much more readily than an adult would. An adult who had many years of medications would not respond as well as a child.   I’ve proven that wrong time and time again.   It doesn’t mean that it’s more one way or the other. But just when you think you’re going to expect to see something that’s going to take six months, you see a change in three weeks, even for a chronic condition! It doesn’t mean it’s necessarily completely healed, but we often see a shift that’s big enough that the person can say, “Oh, my gosh! This is really making a change in my life, and so I want to keep going with this.”   Or with a young person, a child, a baby, that we see eczema, and sometimes it can take me many, many months to witness a dramatic change.   So, when people say to me, “Well, I know my case is more difficult because I’ve taken many drugs; I’ve taken lots of antibiotics; I’ve been on the birth control pill for 10 years; I’ve used steroids — that’s going to really impede my movement forward.”   I always say, “No, not necessarily. It wasn’t necessarily the best way to live our lives by taking all of those meds, but it doesn’t mean that you’re not going to move forward quickly.”   It sometimes is quite surprising how it’s not what we expect. Kate: Yes. That’s very interesting. I would not have thought that. Someone who has had a history of many, many chronic conditions, and you would expect thinking logically that this is going to be tough, sometimes you see that change right away and vice versa. That’s very interesting.   Joette: It’s the same with cancer, too. I don’t take cases of cancer, but I worked in the Banerji clinic (Homeopathic Research Foundation in Kolkata). I worked at the clinic for a period of time every year over a period of eight years. I worked with Dr. Prasanta Banerji who took only cancer and kidney cases — when I was there, at least, those many years.   We would see a case where it was first stage cancer, and it would take an awfully long time for the homeopathics to act or perhaps not even at all. We may not crack that case. On the other hand, we’ve seen fourth stage cancer turn around! So, even the stages don’t matter of a particular illness.   I’ve seen in my own work on a day to day basis. Rheumatoid arthritis that seems downright unbudgeable turn around in eight months — not to the point where the person has absolutely no arthritis or no pain, but enough has been removed so that even the markers show improvement! The fatigue is gone. The pain is not as extreme. The pain doesn’t last as long. It’s not as a

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 06:19 Cantharis for UTI 08:36 Zincum metallicum and Cuprum metallicum for Restless Leg Syndrome 11:17 Coffea for sleep problems and Nux vomica and Ignatia for Overstressing 18:56 Helleborus niger for Dementia 20:39 Antimonium crud and Arsenicum for Itchy Skin 21:29 Sepia for Hormones LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Recurring UTIs and Antibiotics: Stop the Cycle Podcast 81 – Ladies Only Get a Leg Up Over Restless Legs Counting Sheep? Try Homeopathy A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Life’s a Tragedy Homeopathy Kits Free Downloads and Articles page Here an Itch, There an Itch, Everywhere an Itch-Itch. Sepia for Mother’s Day! This Time for Headaches Ditch Birth Control Pills Courses Page My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 87.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.   With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Today, I am so excited to be able to welcome a dear friend of mine and someone that I am privileged to be able to work with. She’s a co-worker of mine with Joette’s team. I’m super excited for you all to get to meet Tracey.   Tracey, welcome to the podcast.   Tracey: Wow, Kate, thank you. That was such a sweet introduction. I’m excited to be here with you on your podcast. Kate: I’m excited to have you. Normally, we are on the backside of the podcast doing the work for them. But now, you’re actually being interviewed. It’s super-fun.   Tracey: It feels like a role reversal.   Kate: Normally, I get to interview Moms with Moxie or Dads with Audacity. We even have Teens with Tenacity. But you have your own category for yourself. Why don’t you share that with us?   Tracey: Well — full disclosure — I’m not a Mom with Moxie because I’m not a mom. So, I thought, “Oh, I have been married for 36 years, so what if I’m a ‘Spouse with Spunk’?” Kate: That’s awesome. You know what? That fits you because you are spunky, too.   Tracey: Awwwww. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, Joette always says, “It takes guts, spunk, and moxie,” so I figured I’ll fill in that middle category.   Kate: Right, and you do that well.   Tracey: Thanks.   Kate: All right, let’s get to know you a little bit, Tracey. Who is Tracey?   Tracey: Oh, wow! The Cliff Notes are that I have been married 36 years. My husband and I met in college in California. We lived there for most of our lives and just fairly recently moved back to Florida (where I had been born) to be closer to my mom. She’s 96 years old. So, that’s a pretty big number, and we thought it was a good time to be here with her.   Kate: Your mom is actually 96 years “young” because she is also spunky.   Tracey: She is. I inherit it from her, definitely. Yes, she’s amazing. Kate: In fact, doesn’t she still go to Pilates?   Tracey: She does. She does Pilates twice a week. She has a private session. She has really inspired a lot of other people that want to get their parents involved in it. She’s in good shape. Kate: That’s incredible. Wow! I’m just in awe of her.   Tracey: Thank you. Kate: Tracey, have you heard of homeopathy before you started working with Joette?   Tracey: Well, I had heard of it, but I didn’t know exactly what it was — which I don’t think is that unusual for newbies. I will admit that I am a newbie. I’ve only really been involved with learning about homeopathy for a couple of years, and I’m so inspired by the other Moms with Moxie who are so well-learned and so successful in their use. So, they inspire me.   But my first exposure to homeopathy was seeing the blue tubes in the health food store. I would walk by and think they look so fascinating and so professional. I thought, “Oh, I wish I knew what all of these words meant.” And I didn’t know really how to learn about them. But now I do, so I’m really enjoying my exposure to homeopathy. Kate: When you started learning about them, was that w

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 02:36 A course on pain 06:24 Caulophyllum, Magnesium phosphoricum for pain 19:15 Hypericum, Staphysagria, Arnica, Aconitum after surgery 22:00 Learning the pain protocols and medicines 24:06 Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   My new course: Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good Boiron More specific information on use of Caulophyllum: Birthing Part Two: The Premier Remedy for Childbirth and a Few More Birthing Part Three: Baby is Born, but You’re Not Done Yet! Neither is Homeopathy More specific information on use of Mag phos 6X: Cell Salt Series: Grab Your Mug; It’s Mag Phos! More specific information on surgery medicines I used: Anticipating Surgery? Homeopathy Can Help Surgery? S is for Staphysagria My Learning Center (complete with Course Selector: How to Pick a Course) My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events     Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 86 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.   Kate: On today’s podcast, we’re going to be talking about pain which, as many of you know, is a big crisis that we are facing right now. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, over 2 million people had an opioid-use disorder in 2018, and on average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. Today, Joette, we want to talk about pain, and how we can address it from a natural perspective.   Joette: There was a time when I dedicated my life to urging anybody whose lapels I could seize and ears I could bash. But now, I approach my subject of homeopathy with a little more grace. I guess I’ve aged.   But I guess there’s also another reason. It’s that I don’t need to scream it any longer. People are clamoring for this information. They’re looking for the alternatives. The jig is up!   These painkillers … am I going to say they should be illegal? Of course not.   There is a place for these kinds of painkillers, I believe. In late stage illness where there is no choice and when homeopathy fails us, then we may, indeed, have to go to something that’s chemically derived. But why even consider it if we can avoid using something that could be so detrimental in the long run to our lives and to our families’ lives?   That’s why we have decided to put together a course on pain. You’ve got the title there, right, Kate?   Kate: Yes.   Joette: Because I don’t have the title memorized yet because this is all new to us. We’re still organizing it and putting it all together.   A course on pain   Kate: It’s “Make It Stop: Escape From the Prison of Chronic and Acute Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®. Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good.”   Wow, Joette, that’s a tongue twister.   Joette: That’s why I couldn’t remember the title, but I wanted to get it all in there!! I want to make it really clear what I’m going to be teaching. We want to have this knowledge, this information, these techniques at our fingertips like a Swiss Army knife of knowledge. We want to be constantly prepared because do you know when the next time you or someone in your family will have pain?   Kate: It’s a total surprise. You never know when that’s going to happen.   Joette: It is the true definition of an acute. It comes on suddenly! You don’t know when it’s going to happen. You want to know how to parse through whether it’s an injury, so it’s extrinsic or intrinsic, it’s something internal, whether it’s from the gut from food that has been eaten that was bad, whether it’s a chronic condition that’s related to hormones, (for women, for example, with menstrual pain or headaches that are specific to the hormone shifts), whether it’s an injury, an automobile accident, a ski accident. We need to be prepared.   Now, I will say I am prepared. I know my medicines. I know them inside and out, and I own them.   Kate: That is key! That is key, Joette.   Joette: Absolutely, because if you know, “Oh, my gosh! This is absolutely a call for Caulophyllum,” and you don’t own it, now what? Wh

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:47 History with Homeopathy and hints 10:10 Homeopathy for night terrors and poisoning 14:55 Homeopathy for chemical sensitivities, animals and plants 25:52 Exploring healthy living LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Terror in the Night The Perils of Summer: Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Cell Salts: The Easy Homeopathy Cure Yourself and Your Family Feminopathy course The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Sunburn and Dehydration? Homeopathy Offers the Cure Ditch the Gatorade and Make My Son’s Homeopathic Electrolyte Drink Gateway to Homeopathy II: Only available for purchase through your resource page, after having taken the prerequisite Gateway to Homeopathy I (referenced below) My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 85. Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Welcome, everyone, to another Mom with Moxie podcast. Today, I’m excited for you all to get to know Jennifer. She’s with me here today. Welcome, Jennifer. Jennifer: Hi, Kate. Thank you so much for having me. I’m really excited to be here. Kate: Good, me, too. I’m really excited to get to know you a little bit more and to hear your story. Let’s get started by hearing from you about your background, and maybe how you came into the natural healing modality. History with homeopathy Jennifer: Well, I live in Central Texas. I’m on a life-learning journey with my son who’s 12, and daughter, nine, and my husband. We live on Unruly Farm, which is a small farm. We have a dog, cats and chickens. My background is in the social sciences, and I love research. So, it’s kind of translated into me into researching healthy and holistic living — which is my segue into learning and using homeopathy. Kate: You must have been passionate then about natural healing for a long time? Is that true? Jennifer: The last 20 years, yes. Kate: Oh, wow. Jennifer: Yes. About 20 years ago, I was exposed to a chemical that I had a severe reaction to. It started me on a journey with reclaiming my health and understanding chemical sensitivities. It just led itself into holistic living. During that time, I discovered a lot of different things that people were using — diet and herbs. I really had not even heard of homeopathy. Now, when I look back, I think, “How could I not have heard of homeopathy in my whole life?” It’s stupefying to me! I got a sunburn. I was using aloe vera gel and all of the herbal things, and it just wasn’t doing the trick. I went to a little health food store that I frequented, and I asked the person, “What would you recommend for sunburn?” She said, “Try this,” and she gave me some burn cream. I put it on and within 15 minutes, I had about a 60% reduction in pain. I thought, “What is this stuff?” I didn’t even read the label. I just purchased it. So, I looked, and it said, “Homeopathic Preparation of Cantharis.” Kate: So, that was the first time that you’ve ever heard of homeopathy. Jennifer: That’s correct. It was the first time. It was about 20 years ago. So, I became really interested in what worked so well for the sunburn. And I went back to the health food store, and I purchased my first book. You know, it’s hard now to think back about my life before homeopathy. It really is. I mean, you know how they say when you’re learning a second language, you start dreaming in that language, and you know you’re really getting it? So, I had a dream the other night, and in the dream, I was telling somebody about a homeopathic remedy. So, I think it’s become a second language for me almost. Kate: Wow! Fantastic. Jennifer: It is translating for my children, too. They both have their own little homeopathic kits that they carry in their backpacks. They both asked for them because I have a kit in my purse that I like that I finally developed with a jewelry organizer. So, my daughter said, “Oh, I want one of those!” So, we got one. Then my son, he said he wanted something — but he wanted something a little tougher. So, he has a nice little plastic case

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:40 Importance of self-education 06:12 Finding time amid busyness 10:32 Repetition of remedies and provings 21:21 Starting with the study groups 26:04 Tips on easy learning LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Stop It! How to Antidote a Bad Drug Reaction A Salute to Ignatia Real Medicine for Post-Traumatic Stress and More Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind Allergic!? Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Dr. James Tyler Kent’s Materia Medica My free blog Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 84 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi, I’m Kate. I’m here with Joette today for another episode of the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, Joette is feeling a little spunky, and we are going to have a conversation about self-education. So, Joette, let’s talk about education. I know you’re very passionate about it, and you have a lot to say. Let’s jump right in.   Importance of Self-education   Joette: Yes, I’m very opinionated, especially lately, regarding universities. My husband and I actually discouraged our sons from going to the universities because we didn’t want to lose them. I think that’s what happens in these universities. Certainly, there is a reason to go to college if you want to get a further degree such as medical doctor, engineer, astrophysicist. Okay, I get it. Now, that makes sense! You need to go to college, and then you need to do some post-grad degrees.   But to get a degree in music, really? I’ll tell you about music.   My father, who never went to college, was a very successful man. He was a finished musician. He played in symphonies. He played flute, classical flute. He also played jazz in big bands. He was in a lot of the big bands in Buffalo when big bands were hot back in the 30s and 40s and 50s. He played trumpet. He did not go to college for that. I’m not telling you that there aren’t good teachers in colleges for trumpet or flute, but he sought it out.   He worked in the dry cleaners establishment, delivered dry cleaning, and had all kinds of little jobs, so that he could make enough money when he was a young man, so as to take lessons from the teachers that he sought out regionally — all around Buffalo, New York.   But he was also a businessman. He had small businesses. He bought and sold real estate. He had a small construction business when he was a very young man, and Buffalo was a very hot town at the time. Actually, Buffalo has come around quite a bit, but it went through a difficult time in the last 40, 50 years. But at this time, it was a very exciting city.   He went to New York City and bought hundreds — maybe even more than that —of ties (men’s neckties) and brought them back to Buffalo. He got a big, long dowel, strew it across a tiny little room — which was really not even a store, it was more like a closet with a door to the street — and sold neckties. He was enterprising. He did that to make a living. Then he had a delicatessen. He had a lot of businesses.   But my point is that in spite of him being able to take care of a family, he still educated himself. I’ve often told the story of how when I was about 12 or 13, he switched from a complete focus on trumpet playing — and he was a very good trumpet player — to learning how to play the flute as well. He played constantly. He practiced constantly.   I know I’ve told this story. When he picked me up from school in high school, he would have the flute by his side, and I would be in the passenger seat. At every light that turned red, he’d pick up his flute, and he would play a riff, or he would play a scale. Then he’d play it in the minor, and then he’d do the arpeggio. He hoped for

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   05:55 Roadblocks to Learning 13:11 Gateway I and II Classes 17:28 “Careful, I might bite.” 19:54 Headaches, Feeling Overwhelmed, and Earaches 25:00 A Badly Broken Nose 27:10 Words of Encouragement   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind Gateway to Homeopathy I and Gateway to Homeopathy II study groups Podcast 57: My Dirty Little Secret “No Joy: Postpartum Depression”         Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 83.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi. This is Kate. I am here with a wonderful Mom with Moxie who I am really enjoying getting to know. Her name is Emily. Emily, I want to welcome you to the podcast. Thank you for being here.   Emily: Oh, thank you for having me. I’m very excited.   Kate: Emily, tell us a little bit about yourself.   Emily: Well, my husband and I have been married for 25 years. We have nine children ages 23 to almost 2. I homeschool them all. I’ve graduated two, and I have a senior this year.   Kate: Wow! You are a busy mom. I just want to pick your brain how you’ve done this.   Emily: Not well. There you go.   Kate: I’m sure you’ve done a great job.   Emily: My kids are amazing. But I am pretty sure that it had very little to do with me. They’re just great kids. Kate: Oh, no. You seem like a great mom already since I’ve known you only 15 minutes.   Emily: There you go. That’s the limit! After that, it’s downhill!   Kate: Downhill? No. You were telling us about yourself. You homeschool?   Emily: Yes. We’ve homeschooled since the beginning, and I’ve graduated two. I always say that that gives me street cred — that I’ve got them all the way from beginning to end. Then my 17-year old is a senior this year. So, I have a senior, a freshman, a fifth grader, a second grader, a first grader, and then I have a first grader (but she has Down syndrome, so she has special needs), and then the baby.   Kate: I feel like you should be given the title, “Supermom.”   Emily: That’s not true.   Kate: Emily, I loved what you wrote when we were going to record this podcast. You wrote down that you’re truly, madly in love with this medicine. It sounds like you are really excited about homeopathy. You have been using it for a while. Tell us about that.   Emily: Well, I’ve been using it consistently for 15 years. But my first experience was Hyland’s Teething Tablets when my oldest was a baby. I was a very young mom. I was at the mercy of the doctors we could afford, and they used a lot of fear tactics to manipulate me into doing what they felt was best for my kid — not what I felt was best. But I knew I shouldn’t be giving her Tylenol every time her mouth hurt, every time she had a shot. It just seemed like a lot. So, I went into the health food store and asked. They gave me teething tablets, and they worked like a dream. Right? Because they’re good things.   Kate: Yes, they are.   Emily: I still actually have a bottle of the old teething tablets, and I hoard them.   Kate: Yeah. Right.   Emily: Then fast forward with my fourth baby, I had really bad afterbirth pains. My midwife recommended Arnica. We actually stopped at Walgreens because they carried Arnica back then. I don’t remember. But I used that instead of Tylenol, and it worked so much better.   So, I was hooked, and I loved the idea. I was fascinated with the idea that I’d been able to treat my family, myself. Another homeschool mom offered a class on the flu. It was just basically you bought the book, and she just flips through it and mentions some of it.   I bought the book, and I inhaled it. I read it cover to cover three times. That’s all the classes I had. So, I just read materia medicas. I read Kent’s lectures. I did National Center for Homeopathy First Aid class, and I taught one of those. (hose poor moms. I just was just kind of like a fire hydrant at them.)   I loved the results we were having. Every single time, I give it to my kids or anybody and it works, I’m always just

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:16 Arnica for bruising 09:17 A family study group 13:32 Aconite and the surgical protocols — for a dog 17:41 Lyme remedy 21:03 Bioplasma on plants LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   Homeopathic remedy kits Chronic Lyme Disease: Are You Sure About That? (blog post) Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Students of Joette Calabrese Facebook group Buster, the Bad Office Dog’s blogs From Tendon, Bone and Cartilage Problems to Healing with Homeopathy (blog post) My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 82.   Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi! This is Kate. I’d like to welcome you to another Mom with Moxie podcast. I get to meet some pretty fabulous women on these podcasts, and today is no exception. I have a super Mom with Moxie who has used homeopathy in many different ways, even on plants! So, I’m pretty excited to get to learn from her and for you all to meet her. So, Janet, welcome to the podcast.   Janet: Thank you. Good to be here.   Kate: Janet, let’s get to know you a little bit. Can you tell us about yourself?   Janet: Sure. I live in Virginia just outside of Washington DC. I’ve been married for 33 years, have two adult sons who both found wonderful women who I love.   Kate: Oh! That’s a blessing.   Janet: It is a huge blessing. I have a four-month-old grandson, two dogs, and two granddogs who visit often. Every one of them mentioned above has used homeopathy. Each household has kits so they can call me if they have issues.   Kate: Oh, that’s great! They use the homeopathy and like to learn about it.   Janet: Absolutely. Well, they have me, so they’re not so much on learning too much about it. But they know the Nux vomica remedy for hangovers — all the important ones.   Kate: That’s funny.   Janet: Yeah. My daughter-in-law, actually, she asked me to be in the delivery room when she delivered my first grandson.   Kate: Oh, that’s so special.   Janet: It was very special. So, we made good use of the pregnancy and childbirth section of Joette’s Survivalist Guide. She actually was the first one to use Nux vomica for something other than hangovers when she had nausea during pregnancy.   Kate: Okay, so that helped her during her pregnancy?   Janet: It absolutely did. My son actually called me a couple of times during her pregnancy when she was in Texas, and I think had a cold or something. He said, “Mom, is there something that Shelby can use for her cold symptoms?” (since she couldn’t take over-the-counter meds like Advil or Tylenol because she was pregnant). So, I sent a picture of Boiron’s ColdCalm. She was in Texas at the time. She could just go to that pharmacy and find that in a store. And it worked!   Kate: Yay! That’s great. I guess I haven’t thought about that much because I’m not having babies at this time. But that is one advantage of homeopathy is it’s safe for the most part. There are a few remedies that you want to be careful of using when you’re pregnant. But it’s a much better alternative than using allopathic medications when you’re pregnant. So, it’s a great option to have.   Janet: Yes, I agree.   Kate: Tell us a little bit about how you came to know about homeopathy or study homeopathy. Give us your pathway into homeopathy.   Arnica for bruising   Janet: Well, I’m athletic, and I sometimes bruise or fall. So, my first introduction to homeopathy was Arnica, and at the time, I didn’t even realize that Arnica was homeopathy. I think a dentist had said, “Oh, here, your teeth are … use Arnica.” I searched for Arnica, bought it, and it helped.   Then my husband and I were adjusting a shower door, and there was a really heavy hinge, and it fell. I reached my hand out to catch it. I’m like, “Oh, this is going to really hurt and bruise.” Even my bones hurt.   So, I Googled, and I think Joette’s site might have come up, and it said to take Arnica. So, I took Arnica. I had Boiron’s little box of it. I took it, I think, once an hour for the first three hours, and it never bruised — and I bruise easily.

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   01:16 Infections 08:48 When the remedy is acting; use of observational skills 14:59 Uprooting the condition 18:08 UTI and honeymoon cystitis 20:53 Feminopathy relaunch Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 81 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Hi. I’m Kate, and I’m here with Joette again today for another podcast. Today, we’re talking about female issues. So, all you ladies, listen up. This is going to be an important podcast for you. We’re going to talk about a common condition that a lot of women experience. Get your pens and papers ready to take some notes.   All right, Joette, let’s get down to business and talk about these feminine issues. What do you want to discuss today?   Infections   Joette: Well, one of the most common female conditions is infections: bladder, kidney, urethra, ureter, et cetera. I do want to cover that. Particularly for those who have chronic UTIs, I’m speaking to you because everyone believes that they have to take antibiotics. In my experience — not my personal experience, although I’ve certainly had a few UTIs many years ago — but in my experience in listening to my students and clients and taking cases for the last 25-30 years, I have noted that the history — because I take the history and I take the history of a person’s health quite seriously — that the history is often, “Got a UTI, used an antibiotic. Got another UTI, used an antibiotic; another UTI, antibiotic; UTI, antibiotic; UTI, antibiotic.” It gets faster and faster and tighter and tighter.   Now, they’re using that more and more frequently until after many rounds of antibiotics, we often see women left with interstitial cystitis that feels like a urinary tract infection, but they don’t find the microorganisms in the urine.   So, it’s declared, “Nope, you don’t have an infection!”   “But it feels like it. I have the urgency. I have the frequency. I have the pain, pain afterwards. Sometimes the pain radiates down the legs. I have aching in my kidneys. What is going on? You don’t find anything?”   That is often interstitial cystitis. Kate: What is “interstitial cystitis?” That’s a tongue twister.   Joette: Yes, it is. Well, interstitial cystitis is what they often call bladder pain syndrome. It is a feeling as though you have a bladder infection and those other areas: lower urinary tract, upper urinary tract, in the back, et cetera. Often if it lasts more than about six weeks, that is frequently what is then pronounced as, “Well, it’s a syndrome instead of an acute infection.”   Not nice! Because what it is — a syndrome, especially in this particular case — means what was originally an acute condition is now a chronic condition.   What’s the difference? An acute comes and goes, and it’s over with. If treated properly, it comes and goes and is often over with for many months or years or perhaps even forever. If treated incorrectly, in a sloppy manner such as just throwing drugs at it that only kill microorganisms, then we often end up with a chronic condition — which means that the person, the woman is suffering (it’s usually a woman) … suffers from this chronic pain and discomfort and urgency and frequency. But more often, it’s really awful pain.   One person described it to me once as, “It felt like someone set my uterus on fire, and then stomped on it with combat boots.” The pain was horrible! So, it felt like she had been kicked. But before she was kicked in the bladder, there was tremendous burning pain.   And so, their entire lives — and I’ve worked with many, many women with this condition — their entire lives are focused around one organ, the bladder (and those that are relative to the bladder, so, the kidneys, the ureter, the urethra, et cetera), and it ruins their lives.   Now, they can’t go anywhere. They can’t count on anything. They have to wear pads. The pain is all encompassing. Being tethered to the bathroom is chronic. It’s not nice.   I believe that the problem has to do with the sloppy, poorly way the urinary tract infection was dealt with at the onset. If we use a homeopathic medicine that is correct, that suits this condition and this person, we will find that there is no need to go to a bazooka to kill a mosquito. Kate: A bazooka. What an image.   Right! That happens so often.   Joette: Listen. I know that antibiotics have been lifesavers in the past. They have saved people from d

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:   02:30 How the books define homeopathy 11:08 A nurse’s comment 16:45 I have a mission 22:05 Kate’s Study group 23:51 Ignatia amara LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Gateway to Homeopathy II: Only available for purchase through your resource page, after having taken the prerequisite Gateway to Homeopathy I (referenced above) Joette’s Blog, podcasts, Facebook Live, and articles in Wise Traditions   Free Resources (articles, research papers, studies) Find a study group: Joette’s Study Group: Find your New Study Group Friends Ignatia amara     Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 80 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Joette, we’re here to talk again about, “What is homeopathy?” We’re going to answer that question and expound upon that a little bit more today in this podcast.   Joette: Yes, that’s right, Kate. The reason that I wanted to expound on this a little bit more is because last time when we discussed, “What Is Homeopathy?” I gave more of a history of homeopathy so that people can understand what’s behind the story and also what to say to folks.   This time, I would not urge people to get too involved in explaining this, but sometimes we want to have a better understanding ourselves. Should we come across someone who wants a little more explanation, that’s what I wanted to offer today — just to get a little bit clearer about what homeopathy is. Kate: So, in the Gateway II, we talk about this very question, “What is homeopathy?” I know the reason that you put that in there is because you wanted to give people tools that they could use when they’re asked that question. So, I know that you wanted to talk about what you’ve written in your Gateway II study guide.   Joette: Now, Gateway II is the second group that follows after taking Gateway I, which is a study group. These are all virtual study groups for those of you who don’t know what is available for learning experiences. Kate: So, it can be virtual, or it can be some ladies or men. We’ve had a group of men getting together in their home and going through these study guides. It’s a really great resource for people who want to learn more about homeopathy. So, I know you wanted to dive into that book just a little bit.   How the books define homeopathy   Joette: Yes, yes. So, this is what I’ve written. I’m going to read directly from the book, page 35:   “Homeopathy is a system of medicine that’s fundamentally different from conventional allopathic medicine. Whereas allopathic medicine focuses on suppression of symptoms, generally, homeopathy seeks to correct the underlying imbalance that cause the symptoms in the first place. Homeopathy achieves this by strengthening the body’s own defenses, thereby allowing the body to heal itself. Another way to explain homeopathy is that it works on the principle that “like cures like.” This principle says that any substance that can cause illness in a healthy person can cure that illness if manipulated in such a way as to minimize the toxic properties and leave only the curative ability. That’s done, of course, through homeopathic medicines. This is accomplished through a manufacturing process where each medicine is prepared using a series of repeated dilutions and succussions.”   By the way, this is very mathematical and pharmacological. It’s not done willy-nilly. This is done in a very systematic way.   “So, these medicines are made by homeopathic pharmacies in accordance with the standards and processes described in the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, which is HPUS, and are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.”   So, homeopathy is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration because it is considered medicine. They’re not supplements, not herbs, not vitamins, not essential oils. In fact, I used to consider it holistic, and now I’m thinking a little differently about how we present that because as soon as you say holistic, people think that what I mean is it is synonymous with holistic. Homeopathy is not. It is a very specific medical paradigm that does not use conventional drugs. That’s really the best way to put this. Kate: I think that is the main thing that homeopathy is confused with is they hear the word homeopathy, and they think that it means just general natural medicine including all of those things that you mentioned: es

    IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:21 Gut Issues, bronchitis, hormonal issues 09:24 A supportive family 13:20 All about dogs 21:00 Spreading homeopathy with Arnica, Ipecac, Aconite-Bryonia 24:20 Arsenicum album 200 & Antimonium crud 200 for bed bugs 28:08 “Catastrophilia” LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   The Weston A. Price Foundation My articles in Weston A. Price’s quarterly journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum       Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 79.     Joette: Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®. Kate: Hi! Welcome again to another Mom with Moxie podcast. Today, I am here with Sharon.   Sharon, welcome to the podcast!   Sharon: Thank you. I really appreciate the opportunity of talking with you.   Kate: Well, I’m excited to learn more about what you’re doing with homeopathy. I know you have a unique family situation, and that you have a lot of pets that you use homeopathy with.   Sharon: That’s true.   Kate: So, you have a lot of stories about taking care of those pets and using homeopathy. So, I’m excited to hear about that.   Sharon: Well, we live in a country situation. We have lots of strays — cats, dogs, we’ve had a goat or two, a horse. I’m not treating any of those, but we have taken in quite a few stray dogs and stray cats. And we have chickens! My husband was adamant about having chickens so that we could have eggs. I made him promise that we wouldn’t have to eat them.   The chickens have been very healthy overall. But when there has been a problem, it’s very easy to put a pellet in water for them to take. I know that they’re going to get an appropriate dose of what their needing to have for that particular thing that’s going on. So, I’ve given the chickens remedies.   Kate: That’s awesome. Let’s start by getting to know you a little bit better. Tell us a little bit more about yourself.   Sharon: I was born here in California. I am the oldest of five children. My dad, he went to medical school. We moved to Oregon, and he started a general practice. Then we moved several places after that because he wanted to do more education and ended up being a psychiatrist. So, we moved all over the place.   One of the things that I remember that relates to how I ended up becoming interested in homeopathy is that my mom and my sisters and I went to Germany to meet my dad who was already there. Before we went to Germany, we had to have … I don’t know how many … 15 different vaccines because of all the things that we might encounter as far as diseases were concerned.   We also had to use a military dentist. I remember I had so many cavities in my mouth. I don’t know if that was nutrition going on before we were there, but I had all these cavities in my mouth. I ended up with a lot of gut issues that I was having a hard time finding ways to deal with. I believe that it all went back to that period of time where I had so many vaccines in my body and so much mercury in my mouth that that kind of led eventually to me going on a path to become more healthy.   Kate: So, that leads us into how you came to be interested in homeopathy. You talked a little bit about that. Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about the specifics of you learning about homeopathy?   Gut Issues, bronchitis, hormonal issues   Sharon: I had tried many things. I had gut issues. They basically had been there through a lot of my life, but I dealt with them. I didn’t know that there were any other ways to treat them. Especially being the child of a doctor — because there’s always a medical thing that you can do when your father is a doctor. So, all of those things were tried. I got to the point where I was in my, probably, late 20s, early 30s, and I kept getting recurrent bronchitis issues. Whenever I had a cold, it would go straight into my chest.   At one point in my life, I went to school to become a court reporter which is a stenographer kind of a thi

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:37 Allopathy versus homeopathy 10:00 Joette’s elevator speech on homeopathy 15:20 How to get started 20:58 Conventional medicine as needed   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: My blog Weston A. Price, the Wise Traditions (my articles) Quick Start Guide (decide what steps to take next as you learn homeopathy) Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum My Free Community (links to research and articles about homeopathy)   Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 78 with Joette Calabrese.   Joette: This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy. Kate: Joette, a few minutes ago, we were talking about what we did this weekend and last week. We both had occasions where we had to answer the question, “What is homeopathy?” I think this is a really good question that gets asked a lot by the people that I talk to and I’m sure your students, right?   Joette: That’s right, all the time. Kate: So, you had an interesting conversation with someone. I want to hear how you answered that question with this person. So, tell us a little bit about what happened, and who you met, and how you answered that question.   Joette: Well, the person that was asking me the question is a very seasoned businessman, very successful. I had to do a presentation in front of a group, and I was being critiqued on what it is we do in my work. So, it was very important to me that I made it super-clear what it was but without carrying on and on.   It is difficult when someone has been using homeopathy — even if it’s just for a short period of time or even a longer period of time — it’s easy to get caught up on how homeopathic medicines are made because they are made so differently from conventional medicines. Conventional medicines are just … they get a substance, they mimic it synthetically, and they manufacture it in a manufacturing pharmacy.   Homeopathy, of course, is much different than that. So, because of that, many of us — especially in the beginning when we first learn about homeopathy — get caught on that rung of the ladder. When instead, what people are looking for is, “What is this and how can it help me?” Or, “How did it help you, and then I can decide whether or not it could help me.” Kate: It’s almost like — when I’m listening to you talk — that it’s what we learn in sales. Right? I mean, we’re not trying to sell this person on something, but we can overcompensate.   Joette: Oh, yes, we are! I’m trying to sell the world on homeopathy! I want this medicine out there. I think that humanity will be much improved if we can get rid of the dependency that we so deeply have on synthetic drugs. I believe homeopathy can do wonders for the structure of the family. I think it can do wonders for the elderly and for — here’s one of my big things — for independence, because we tend to get depressed. Excuse me for going off on this tangent, but I believe that we, as humans, get depressed when we’re dependent.   My mother is dependent on me. (I don’t think it depresses her. She has late stage Alzheimer’s.) But when she was going into it, it was her greatest concern. It was my father’s greatest concern: “I don’t want to be dependent on you.” That’s why I think it’s so bad for adult children to stay at home too long. I think it’s so bad for people to go on welfare for long periods of time. I understand if it’s needed, in a time of need for a short period of time, but if you want someone to be a fully active, vibrant human being, they have to be independent.   So, if I have not sold you on homeopathy, I have not done my job! I want you to be so sold on homeopathy — not you Kate because you already are — but I want you listeners to be so sold on homeopathy that you can now sell it to others. That’s what I try to do when I explain what homeopathy is.   Allopathy versus homeopathy   So, this is what I said to this group of people. I said, “There were two kinds of medicines in North America. There were the conventional medical doctors (the AMA types that we all know today), and there were the homeopaths. Both went to medical school. The homeopaths went to homeopathic medical school — just as rigorous in those days as conventional medical school was back in those days (in the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, even long before then).   I’ve actually written a book on it! We had just over 100 homeopathic hospitals in the U.S. The conventional medical doctors had just under that … as I recall, it’s something

  IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 04:19 Plantar Fasciitis 07:51 Symphytum 200 and Rhus tox 30 15:28 Celiac disease and Crohn’s disease 20:43 Detached retina 22:02 Blood poisoning   LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:   The Weston A. Price Foundation A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions Joette’s blog posts Joette’s podcasts Joette’s Facebook Live archive Homeopathic Remedy Kits       Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 77. Joette: Each day from my office, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe, and I want to share them with you. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines, and your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep these successes a secret any longer. So, with help from my roving reporters, we bring you a mini-podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity.” See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them, have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy. Kate: Hi! This is Kate. I am here with another Mom with Moxie today. Her name is Holly. We’re getting to know each other a little bit, and she’s fantastic. I think you guys will love to hear from Holly and the things that she’s doing with homeopathy. So, Holly, welcome!   Holly: Hi, Kate. Kate: Thank you for being here, taking time out of a busy family weekend to do this. So, thank you.   Holly: Thank you so much for having me. This is exciting! Kate: I’m super-excited to get to know you. So, tell us a little bit about yourself, Holly.   Holly: Well, I am a somewhat stay-at-home mom. I home school my 13-year old son. I do marketing and communications for our family business. I have been working with homeopathy off and on for about ten years but really only seriously the last few years — maybe three years. Kate: But you’ve known about homeopathy and used it for actually a very long time. You started to use it anyway, right?   Holly: Yes. Yes, I did. Actually, I came across it … we had a tragedy in our family. We lost my stepdaughter to cancer when she was ten years old. Kate: Oh, my goodness!   Holly: It led me on this discovery of alternative medicine, therapies, diet, nutrition. Jordan Rubin, his book, “The Maker’s Diet” … I read … mentioned the Weston A. Price organization, so, I started reading a lot of their information. That’s actually how I found Joette and some of her early information that she had. Again, this was about 12 years ago, I guess.   Then I purchased a homeopathy kit after reading some of Joette’s blog posts and articles that she had published with the Weston Price organization. I didn’t really know how to use it. At that time in my life, I was so busy and absorbed with a toddler. I would just read a little here and there, and I didn’t educate myself enough. So, I didn’t really know what I was doing, and so, I would just use it here and there.   Thankfully, my son was really healthy. We didn’t have a lot of occasion, I guess to use it. So, it kind of went off on a shelf, got dusty, and I forgot about it for a long time. Kate: You seriously forgot about it?   Holly: Well, I knew it was there, but it almost overwhelmed me, I’ll be honest. Because he would get the flu or a couple of little things like that, but I would try it. And I really only understood the classical approach at that time — even that, I barely understood. So, when you see a list of 15 possible remedies, and you’re supposed to analyze your 2-year-old’s emotional state and all of these different things, it seemed impossible to me — or very daunting, I should say that. So, I didn’t have a great success with it and hadn’t really tried to use it a lot. Like I said, I just kind of set it aside, and it would just be in the back of my mind. Kate: I understand what you’re saying, Holly, because when kids are young, they can’t answer your questions. In classical homeopathy, you really have a lot of questions that you could ask them that would be helpful for you to choose the right remedy. So, when kids can’t answer those questions, it makes it a lot more difficult, I think.   Plantar Fasciitis   Holly: Yes. That’s how I felt. So, I was just intimidated by it. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe that it worked. I just thought, “This is probably too much for me right now.”   I had already, at the same time, was delving into learning about nutrition and essential oils and herbal remedies and decided that maybe that was easier for me. So, I spent many years really using oils and making a lot of things from scratch, tinctures a