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 for his.

 

Kate:  Yes. Tell us a little bit more about that because I feel like this is fascinating that your kids wanted these, and what you came up with. Explain that a little bit more.

 

Jennifer:  Homeopathy has been a part of my life their entire lives. We’ve worked with it; they’ve used it. It’s second nature to them now. If they have an injury or an issue, we have a first aid box, and they go get their first aid with homeopathy.

 

Recently, something flew into my eye. I just had read the lesson that Joette had send out about Aconite being the Arnica for the eye.

 

So, when I’m having issues, I’ll say, “Hey, I just got something in my eye. I’m going to take Aconite because it’s Arnica for the eye.” I’m very vocal about what I’m doing.

 

Then a couple of days after that, something flew in my daughter’s eye, and she was having pain from it. She said, “Oh, I remember, Aconite is the Arnica for the eye.”

 

So, I’m always very verbal about what remedies I’m using, and why I’m selecting them, and they’re listening. They’ve had such great success with homeopathy. In fact, my son is very active. (Thankfully, we’ve only had one broken bone.) And he had injured his leg. He was busy, and he didn’t want to stop. The next day, he looked down, and he had this big purple bruise on it.

 

He said, “What is that?!”

 

I said, “It’s a bruise, Cyress! That’s how they look when you don’t work with it with Arnica!”

 

He was just aghast that a bruise could look like that because usually we apply Arnica topically, and you take Arnica by mouth for bruising. But that was just funny to me. He was horrified that this big purple thing was on his leg!

 

Also, I started doing this in books that I read. I would think if someone was injured or ill, I would think, “If I was there, and I wanted to use homeopathy, what remedies would I use?” I just started thinking that way is the way to educate myself about homeopathy.

 

We read aloud a lot in our life learning. We were reading a book about the Oregon Trail. It was a great opportunity because a lot of things happened to this poor family in “The Oregon Trail.” One of them was cholera. So, I said, “Well, if they’d had homeopathy, what would they have taken?”

 

So, we got out a book, and we read what cholera was and the symptoms. We discussed what remedies they might have taken.

 

Then another person had a snake bite … and, so different things. As we read books, we talk about, “If we were there with our homeopathy kits, what would we do?”

 

That is a fun way for us to learn homeopathy together. Hopefully, we’re not going to need that one day.

 

Kate:  Yeah, right? Yes, hopefully not. So, both of your children, then, asked you to get them something to carry the remedies.

 

Jennifer:  Yes. My daughter wanted the jewelry case that I turned into the homeopathic kit for hers. My son, he found a little box that fit perfectly into his backpack. He has about 15 remedies in it.

 

Kate:  Do you pick out the remedies that go in their cases, or do they pick them out?

 

Jennifer:  I picked them out. We talked about why I have each remedy that I have in my kit. Then we talked about why I use them, and what we would use them for.

 

Kate:  Do you have anything in their kits that explains if something were to happen, which remedy? You know what I’m saying … like a piece of paper or something?

 

Jennifer:  Right. I had a premade kit from a company that had a little booklet in there. We’ve used that booklet because it’s basically the same remedies. So, it has a little booklet on using each remedy.

 

Kate:  Okay. We’re going to show on Joette’s website below the recording of the podcast. You’re going to see a picture of the jewelry case that you’ve turned into your homeopathic and emergency kit, so to speak. You can see what we’re talking about by looking at that picture.

 

I think it’s brilliant, what you’ve done with the jewelry kit. I actually never thought of that. I’m thinking about making one for myself because I love how that jewelry kit holds those remedies from the picture that you sent me.

 

Then also you said that you have some other things in there, too. Tell us about that.

 

Jennifer:  There’s a larger zipper bottom. In that, I have some adhesive bandages. I have a saline vial for washing out wounds or even if somebody gets something in their eye. I have some herbal salts that I actually make in there as well for cuts and bumps. I have the original burn cream that I still use all these years. It’s great for bug bites and stings. Then I have Arnica cream.

 

Kate:  Who manufactures the burn and bug bite cream that you really like?

 

Jennifer:  Weleda. I used to be able to buy it at health food stores. At some point along in the last 15 years, they had stopped selling it directly in stores, But I call, and I order it from them directly. So, at the beginning of the summer, I call and order about four tubes of it, just so I have it. And I inevitably will give some away.

 

That’s the other thing I have in my kit: I bought some little tiny bags that seal at the top because I will inevitably give somebody my whole vial. Now, I have these little bags. I don’t know if they are showing on the photo or not. But I can put a dosage in there and give them the bag, and then I don’t give away my vials.

 

Kate:  Of the homeopathy.

 

Jennifer:  Yes, so I just bought a little packet of like 100, and I just keep those in there in case I want to share it with other people.

 

Kate:  That’s a good idea. I’m going to make one for myself. Thank you for sharing.

 

Jennifer:  Yes. Also, I don’t know if anyone else has had this experience, carrying the vials in their purse, but the labels on mine would tend to rub wherever they were. And this keeps the labels from rubbing off as well. So, this protects the labels. That’s just an extra bonus, so you don’t lose the writing on the outside.

 

Homeopathy for night terrors and poisoning

 

Kate:  All right. Let’s hear some of the ways that you’ve used homeopathy over the last 20 years! I bet you have some great stories to share with us.

 

Jennifer:  One of the things that immediately comes to mind is night terrors. I don’t know if you’ve been around someone that’s had a night terror. My daughter had night terrors, and they are terrifying for the person that is taking care of them.

 

You really can’t wake the person up, and it is very scary. At the time, I really wasn’t prepared homeopathically for them. Then fortunately, there was an article about them of using Ignatia. I used Ignatia in the 200 potency.

 

My daughter had a night terror … and because we’ve done homeopathy, and I would say, “Open up like a baby bird,” when we take our remedies. So, in her night terror, I was able just to say, “Open up like a baby bird,” and she actually did! And I administered the Ignatia. Within five minutes, she closed her eyes and truly went back to sleep. It was amazing because the previous one she’d had lasted for 20 minutes.

 

It happened again about two weeks later. We did just one single dose that night and she never had one since! That’s been probably three years ago.

 

Kate:  Yay! That’s awesome!

 

Jennifer:  Yes! That is awesome! I’m so grateful to have had that remedy for those. As a mother, in the middle of the night, it’s a very scary thing. Even though, you know, it’s not like the high fever, and you’re worried and all those things. But it is just a scary experience. I’m just so glad to have Ignatia.

 

I would keep thinking about the remedies that I would not be without, and Ignatia is definitely one of those.

 

Kate:  Yes. Do you ever take Ignatia while you’re going through that?

 

Jennifer:  I think that night, I did take it myself as well. I think while I was waiting for that five minutes to pass, I took a dose myself.

 

Kate:  Yes, even though you know logically in your head that it’s just a night terror. Still, for your child to be terrified like that is unnerving.

 

Jennifer:  It is. It’s very unnerving.

 

Kate:  What else?

 

Jennifer:  Poison ivy. We live in a rural area, and my son climbs trees. And you will climb through poison ivy and not even know that you climbed through it. He was really getting into it. I used the Anacardium, and it helped relieve the symptoms.