Podcast 173 — Practical Professionals: From Frustration and Overwhelm to Empowerment and Healing

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 retaken 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: From Frustration and Overwhelm to Empowerment and Healing

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today we’re diving into a story that I believe many of you will resonate with. It’s the journey from frustration and overwhelm to empowerment and genuine healing through Practical Homeopathy®.

I’m joined by Nicole here today. She’s a homeschooling mom of seven, a registered nurse and one of Joette’s Mastermind students. Nicole has walked through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® program, Mastery and now serves as one of Joette’s Ambassadors and is in the Mastermind program.

But more importantly, she’s someone who came to homeopathy the way so many of us do. Not skipping but crawling … searching for answers. Nicole’s story is raw, relatable, and incredibly encouraging: from debilitating migraines and autoimmune diagnoses to parasites, hormone issues and more. She has lived it, and she has uprooted so much of it using Practical Homeopathy®. You’ll hear more about that in just a minute.

So, on today’s podcast, she’s going to share how she went from her chronic illness and conventional limitations and years of searching to raising a family that relies solely on homeopathy. She now has a busy, thriving practice teaching homeopathy and helping her clients regain their health.

Nicole is here today to share what she’s learned, what she teaches, and why she believes there is hope for those who feel like they’ve tried everything. And this is going to be good.

Welcome, Nicole.

Nicole:

Thank you so much, Kate, for that beautiful introduction. Thank you for having me. I’m super-excited to be on with you today, and I cannot wait to dive into all of this.

Kate:

Yes, I am excited, too, because you mentioned just a minute ago, while we were talking before the recording, how you said that this has changed your life. Can you just elaborate on that just a bit?

Nicole:

Yeah. I mean, just a bit is so hard because it’s been so profound. This has just touched my life in so many different ways, not just from a business perspective and a shift, but it’s also affected my family greatly.

And then, as you mentioned in the beginning, just on a personal health struggle, I’ve conquered so many different ailments through Practical Homeopathy®. So, I’m ever grateful for all of the education that I’ve learned with Joette.

Kate:

And you went from learning about how to help yourself to now helping so many others through your teaching and seeing clients in your busy practice. And I think that’s exciting too, and how now you’re using what has been given to you, to now give to others.

Nicole:

Exactly. I started out as a conventional registered nurse. And for me, it was always my passion to help people. And when I quickly found in the health care system that we were essentially putting a Band-Aid on things, I knew there had to be a better way.

And once I found Practical Homeopathy®, I knew that that was going to be my contribution to help give back and to help people see true health can exist and give them back hope.

Going Back to School … Again

Kate: (04:17)

I think it’s funny because you said when you told your husband that you were going back to school yet again …

Nicole:

Yes.

Kate:

What was his reaction?

Nicole:

Oh, my goodness.

So, like I said, I started out as a conventional nurse, so that took some years to complete that schooling.

Went through conventional nursing; realized it wasn’t what I thought it was. So, I went back to school for my holistic bachelor’s degree.

My husband’s like, “Okay.”

Then I went back to school for nurse coaching — holistic nurse coaching. I dabbled in all these different modalities and all these things.

And then, when I learned Practical Homeopathy® was the missing link, and Joette started her Academy program. I turned around to my husband, and I was like, “Babe, I’m sorry, but I have to go back to school yet again.”

And he laughed, but he encouraged me to do so.

And then after I went through APH, Joette had, at that point, created the Mastery program. So, I was like, “Okay, Hon, I know I said, ‘yet again,’ like last year, but now I have to do this another year.”

So, I love education. I love learning, and I feel like this is kind of an area where we can learn forever. We can continue learning forever.

So, my husband, I think at this point, knows that I’m just going to keep on going. I’m just going to keep learning and adding.

Kate:

Right, because now you’re in Mastermind, and that could go on for years.

Nicole:

Exactly, exactly. You guys are kind of stuck with me at this point.

Kate:

No, we’re not stuck with you. We’re blessed to have you.

So, let’s just go through some of the things that you’ve personally addressed in your life with homeopathy, and then we’ll break it down — maybe several of those. And those who are listening to this podcast can hear how you helped with all of these conditions, and they can get some information and pass this on to others who might be needing it as well.

So, can you go through some of the things that you’ve addressed?

Nicole:

Yeah, absolutely. So, I have a long list, unfortunately.

Kate:

You’ve been pretty sick. Yeah.

Spent My Twenties Chasing Health

Nicole: (06:20)

Yeah. Yeah. I spent a lot of my life very sick. I do look at it as a blessing now, though, because it’s led me to be able to, like you said, be able to help other people and really come from it from an empathetic place of understanding and my own healing to kind of inspire other people with that. So, again, that’s what I like to do.

But my story kind of starts back in my 20s, when I kind of knew something was wrong. And I spent all of my 20s basically chasing my health, as so many people do. I was so sick that I looked at my husband one day, and I was like, “Wow, if this is what I feel like in my 20s, what am I going to actually feel like when I’m older?”

My husband used to look at me and say that “You are the oldest young person that I know.” Because I would get up and my knees would crack, or I would have aches and pains and all those things.

So, I spent all my 20s chasing my health. Being told by practitioners that I just needed to eat better; I needed to sleep better; I needed to exercise.

I, Kate, kid you not, that I even went to the ER once because I felt like something was stuck in my throat. And I was told by the doctor that I needed to chew my food better, that I probably just scratched my throat.

Well, it turns out, years later, that I was actually diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and that thing that was in my throat turned out to be a thyroid nodule. So, I know how to chew my food apparently.

Kate:

Wow.

Nicole:

Yeah. So that’s kind of where my journey began with my laundry list of diagnoses. After that, I had almost every diagnosis under the sun, every letter of the alphabet: my EDS and my MCIS and all those different diagnoses that we accumulate over the years. But I’ve been able to turn a lot of that around.

I found great help in the holistic world, but there was still a missing piece. And once I found Practical Homeopathy®, I was able to reverse a lot of that. So, I don’t know, did you want me to go into a little bit of each of those?

Kate:

Yes, I think that would be helpful. Do you want to start with the migraines?

Success Story: Migraines

Nicole: (08:40)

Yeah, absolutely. So, the migraines that I had were debilitating.

I first started suffering with those when I was probably about 14 years old. They definitely affected me greatly in my teenage years.

I remember I would be out with friends, and I would know that they were coming. I would sense that they were coming on, and I knew that if I didn’t go home quickly that the next thing would be vomiting.

And the only thing that really helped me at that point was going home and laying down and trying to sleep them off. So, that was earlier on.

As the years got older and I started working and became a mom, you can’t always go home and go to sleep. So, I ended up starting to use Excedrin. And so, Excedrin was basically the only thing that would take my migraines away, but I even got to the point where sometimes the Excedrin wasn’t working.

A lot of times, I would end up in the ER.

Sometimes, these migraines lasted days and even weeks. They were really debilitating. I would say that I got them very often, at least a couple times a week. So, they were very disruptive of my daily life.

As a nurse, I remember when you count your medication cart, you’re not supposed to stop. And I remember getting so bad that I would have to stop counting my med cart so that I could go into the bathroom and vomit because the migraines were so bad.

I remember driving home from my shifts and pulling over and vomiting.

So, it was brutal. It was really disrupting my life.

Kate:

Wow.

Nicole:

And to say that I have not had a migraine in years, that is one of the most profound things to me.

A couple of months ago, I looked back at my husband, and I said, “Do you realize that I have not had a migraine in years?” Not even had to take a pharmaceutical for it or even a homeopathic remedy for it. I don’t get them at all anymore, Kate. They’ve been completely uprooted.

So, something that affected my life so significantly … to not have it at all and not even have to use homeopathic remedies for it anymore, there’s no better medicine than this.

Kate:

Yes. Wow. And tell us what was one of the medicines that you used? I think, was it Bryonia that you …

Nicole:

Yeah. Yeah.

So, a funny story: When I first started with homeopathy, I was basically like most people, where I was like, “Okay, this stuff is great. I have a laundry list. Where do I start? I need 35 remedies for all the things.”

And obviously that’s not the way we do homeopathy. But in the beginning, I was like, “Where do I start?”

And so, I tried to tackle my headaches first. And headaches are one of the hardest things to … You’re like shaking your head, right?

Kate:

Yes. Yes.

Nicole:

I know because Joette did a podcast, I think, on this recently about how headaches are so hard to cover. And that was one of the things that I wanted to tackle first.

And believe it or not, at first, I didn’t know what the right remedy was. And it wasn’t working because I wasn’t choosing the right remedy. And I almost gave up on homeopathy because I was like, “Oh, this stuff isn’t working.”

And then I found the right remedy.

I found Bryonia, and that was what worked for me. I found that actually by taking the Gateway classes, some of the keynotes of Bryonia is worse from movement, better lying down, you know, that kind of thing. And it’s a really great headache remedy in general, and that fit my picture so well. And that’s something, like I said, I learned in the Gateway classes.

So, when I started taking Bryonia, I was just taking it as an SOS for acute headaches, and I started noticing over the years that I was getting them less and less often, to the point where I wasn’t getting them at all anymore. So, it was kind of unintentional, but that’s how it worked. So, that was Bryonia.

Kate:

Yeah. There are many homeopathic medicines that address headaches, and it depends on the type of headache that you have. But yes, Bryonia can be one of the ones. And I’m so glad that that worked for you because I just can’t imagine having to deal with that, those debilitating headaches like that.

Nicole:

Yeah. So, one of the other things that I wanted to mention about headaches is that when I took the pain (Make It Stop!) In the Protocol Course, I found multiple remedies, including a Banerji Protocol, that can help with headaches and migraines. So, that might be helpful for your listeners to check that course out.

Kate:

Right. That’s a great course.

Success Story: Parasites

Kate: (13:31)

Let’s talk now about parasites. I feel like parasites are a hot topic these days. So, tell us your story with dealing with parasites.

Nicole:

Yeah. So, my story with parasites happened just before they were a hot topic. I know that they’re a hot topic right now, but when I was actually going through The Academy, I was dealing with all kinds of health issues.

My health was moving along pretty well. I was pretty stable at that point with my thyroid conditions and all the things. And something hit me out of nowhere, and my health tanked. My thyroid numbers tanked, my nutrient levels tanked. I had yellow around my mouth. I had facial swelling; my lupus was flaring; I was having recurrent pink eye; skin things were popping up. I had elevated liver enzymes — enlarged liver.

I mean, all of this hit me out of nowhere. And I was doing a little bit of research on parasites at that time, and I was completely convinced that this was a parasitic infection that triggered all my autoimmune things.

And I actually went in to my holistic doctor thinking that she was going to run the labs and help me out that way, and she essentially blamed all my symptoms on autoimmune conditions.

So, then I went in to a conventional medical doctor with a textbook parasite story, and that doctor also blamed all of my symptoms on autoimmune conditions.

And my husband looked at me, and he said, “Nick, you know the parasite protocol with homeopathy.” He said, “So what have you got to lose? Why don’t you just give it a try?”

And all of us want validation, right? We want someone to agree with you and say, “This is it. This is what your problem is.” But I wasn’t getting that. And so, my husband was like, “Just do the protocol.”

Kate, when I did that protocol — within a week of being on the parasite protocol — I actually started detoxing parasites and within three days after the first parasite that I had detoxed, a skin condition that I had for years that nothing was touching ended up resolving and has not come back since.

And that was probably about three years ago at this point. Everything that I had going on then, all resolved after that.

Kate:

There is a blog that Joette wrote called “Intestinal Parasites, 6 Homeopathic Remedies to Consider.” So, for those of you who want to know more about that, you can go to that blog.

Nicole:

Yes. And that blog actually includes Cina, too, and that is one of the remedies that I had used that was mentioned in that blog. And that’s where my health really turned around using that remedy.

Success Story: Thyroid issues

Kate: (16:24)

Nice.

So, you also mentioned just a bit ago your thyroid and problems that you’ve had with that.

Nicole:

Yes. Thyroid’s another hot topic, unfortunately. Unfortunately, hypothyroidism specifically is usually very either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. I mentioned earlier that I had been chasing my health earlier in my 20s, and when I finally hit 30, I was so incredibly sick at that point, Kate, I thought I was dying. I thought I had cancer.

I crawled into the doctor, basically like Joette says. I crawled in, and I was like, “You missed something. I’m dying. I have cancer.”

My body systems were completely shutting down. And this is after a decade of going to various doctors and being told again that I just need to eat better, sleep better, exercise, all those things.

And so, they finally had diagnosed me. Nobody had thought to check my thyroid in all of those 10 years. And that happened, I think, because I wasn’t overweight for the norm, but I was overweight for me. And so, nobody thought to look even though I had every other textbook symptom.

Once I was finally diagnosed, I was thrown on a synthetic drug. Did not do well with that synthetic drug.

Then I went to a holistic doctor. She put me on the natural thyroid hormone. I had great success with it. However, the one thing that really hit me once I learned Practical Homeopathy® was that by being on a natural desiccated thyroid hormone that I was on, we’re essentially tricking our body into thinking that we healed, right? Because we’re putting something into our body and we’re telling our thyroid, “Okay, you don’t have to do the work anymore. We got this.” Right?

And so, we’re really not getting to the root of the problem. My body is depending on me to get lab work done and put this medication in my body. And I went the holistic route because I wanted to heal. I wanted to get better. And when I found out that there was Practical Homeopathy® for hypothyroidism, it became my goal to heal my thyroid so that I no longer needed these medications, even though they were considered natural.

So, that’s what I did. It took me a long time; I’m not going to lie. It definitely took me a long time, but I am now at the point in my life where, after using various thyroid protocols … which again, they can be found in several of Joette’s courses. She covers hypothyroidism in Good Gut, Bad Gut and Feminopathy and all those things. She does a lot on hypothyroidism in her courses.

But I found that I was able to not only get off of being on medication. For at that point, I had 20 years of my thyroid not functioning. At that point, my thyroid was severely atrophied. And I was able to come off of my thyroid medications, which I was told by natural doctors and holistic doctors that I would be on for the rest of my life — that my thyroid was so damaged that I would never come off of those medications, and Practical Homeopathy® changed that for me.

The protocols changed that for me. So, I am at a point now where not only have I been off of those medications, but I don’t even need the protocols, for the most part.

Kate:

Wow. That’s really incredible because, like you said, when you have a condition for so long, it sometimes can be difficult to heal from that. And so, I think that’s pretty incredible.

Nicole:

It’s been life changing. And again, it’s one of those debilitating disorders that can cause you to not participate in life because there’s so many umbrella symptoms with hypothyroidism, including crushing fatigue.

So, just to be able to free yourself from that and not have to worry about even taking a daily medication and seeing a doctor and getting labs done and getting the prescriptions filled and all those things … to alleviate all that stress off of you and to be able to function like a normal person again, it’s profound. It’s amazing.

Kate:

That’s a really good point. It’s not just having the right homeopathic medicine, it’s that you don’t have to do all those extra things and pay all that money. Really good points.

Success Story: Plantar warts

Kate: (21:01)

Okay. Well, let’s go into something not quite as serious: plantar warts.

Nicole:

Yeah, definitely not as serious as some of the other things that I’ve experienced. However, they were not fun either.

So, I had this plantar wart at the bottom of my foot. It was embedded into my foot, so it was flat. But it was causing me so much pain that I found myself that I was kind of walking on the side of my foot a lot to avoid stepping on it all the time.

As a nurse, I was on my feet a lot. That pain was getting to a point where it was really difficult.

And again, at that time I was working with a holistic doctor, and even she said, she’s like, “Even holistic things don’t really work for this. Usually, people have to have them cut off or frozen off, lasered, all these things.”

And I was like, “I don’t want to do that. I want to do it the natural way.” Right?

So, I found in Joette’s blog … it’s for warts. That blog is …

Kate:

“Not Just Any Warts; Molluscum Contagiosum.”

Nicole:

Yes, that one. I refer so many people to that blog because it’s so beneficial. She has a couple variations on that blog. There’s a couple of different remedies on that blog that were suggested, and just within about a week of using Antimonium crud (suggested on that blog), my wart resolved and has not come back. And that was probably about six years ago.

Kate:

I love it.

Nicole:

So, even the holistic doctor said I couldn’t get rid of that thing, and homeopathy did it.

Success Story: Trigeminal neuralgia

Kate: (22:36)

Yeah.

Okay. There are a few more things that I would really like to fit in if we can, because we could probably go on for a long time — many hours — but maybe we’ll have to do another podcast.

But today we’re just focusing on some of the things that you have experienced and one of those — and this is again, a painful condition — trigeminal neuralgia. So, talk about that.

Nicole:

Yeah, Kate, this is one of the most excruciating pains I have ever dealt with in my life, and I’ve dealt with some things. I’ve had kidney stones and migraines and all of these things, but this one came about. I had a dental cavitation, which, incidentally, I had learned through Joette that that was a thing.

Once I realized that I had a cavitation issue, I went to my holistic biological dentist, and I said to him, “I don’t know how I don’t have a cavitation, so we need to look at that. ” And he did the proper testing and found that I had several dental cavitations.

While I did use Practical Homeopathy® to help support my body through that healing, I also chose to go ahead and do a surgical protocol where they go in, and they basically clean out the jawbone and the infections. It’s a pretty extensive surgery.

It’s very taxing on your body, and I actually had three of those done within less than a year. And I probably, in retrospect, should have waited and should have spaced that out. But that third one was like opening up a Pandora’s box of I-don’t-even-know-what in my body, and with that came the trigeminal neuralgia.

I also have burning mouth syndrome, all of these things happening, but the trigeminal neuralgia is known as the suicide disease. And they call it that because the pain is so excruciating that people literally don’t know what to do with themselves.

And I attest to that pain. Hey, it’s a nerve pain in your face, and it goes in different areas. So, this pain was shooting into my ear. It was shooting up my eye. It was going down into my chin. It was excruciating pain. And luckily, Joette had a blog on trigeminal neuralgia.

So, of course, I went to her blog for that, and I was able to within less than a day find alleviation from those symptoms. And it was really sad for me because I’ve seen — now that I recognize it, and I’ve experienced it myself — I’ve seen other people experiencing it. And this is a condition that goes on for people for years, and I cannot imagine living with that type of pain.

And it’s no wonder they call it suicide disease because if you had to live with that kind of pain for that long, that’s horrible. If only people knew that there was a homeopathic solution and they didn’t have to suffer with that pain, that would just be profound for people to be able to deal with that.

Kate:

Oh, yeah. How long had you suffered with the pain before you found the remedy?

Nicole:

I right away went on the Joette’s blog and was looking for answers. So, I dealt with it maybe for a day or two. It was immediate relief. It was only a few doses, and it was immediate relief, and it did not come back.

Kate:

I was going to say that’s incredible, but I say that, it seems like, every day with homeopathy. I say, “That is incredible!”

Nicole:

I’m telling you, Kate, I cannot tell you how many times a day that I say that with even my own healing testimonials. We hear from students, from colleagues, from clients. It’s just you can say it forever.

Homeopathy does so much healing that it never gets old.

My dad used to say it, “You never cease to amaze me.” Well, Practical Homeopathy® never ceases to amaze me.

Kate:

So, in case people are wondering, that blog is called “Facial Neuralgia: A Torturous Pain.” So, you can look that up.

She also has Podcast 139, where Joette talks about cavitation. So, that would be another resource.

Nicole, I know these are just a few of the conditions that you’ve dealt with over the years, and I would love to hear more of your story at some time, and maybe the people that you’ve helped because you really have built a thriving practice now. And I know you have these kinds of stories. You hear them every day, which is so exciting. But can you give us some of your final thoughts as we wrap up this podcast?

Closing advice

Nicole: (27:11)

Absolutely, Kate. And again, thank you so much for having me on and just allowing me to share all the suffering that I’ve dealt with. I would love to be back on at some future date and share the so-many success stories that we’ve had with our family and clients as well.

But just from a personal note, again, like you said in the beginning, something that Joette has always said is that we don’t come skipping in; we come crawling in. And that is certainly the way that I came into homeopathy.

And so, some of your listeners might be in the same place of suffering, or I find a lot of people start to feel hopeless. They start to think that there are no solutions for them. Maybe they’ve been let down like I was by conventional medicine or even holistic medicine. I just want to let everybody know that with Practical Homeopathy®, there is hope. There is healing.

We can uproot the chronic conditions, and the things that we’ve been told that we can’t heal from is possible. So, I think, as Joette says, this is the medicine that we all thought that we were getting.

And so, I think that our listeners should jump in and get started on their healing journey so they could take back their health and allow their body to do what it was meant to do, which is to heal.

Kate:

Well put, Nicole, if you’re listening to this podcast and you’re wondering about maybe finding a Practical Homeopath™ like Nicole, you can go to FindAPracticalHomeopath.com, and there you’ll find Nicole and many other Practical Homeopaths who can help you on your journey.

And so, I hope that Nicole’s story has brought you encouragement, clarity and maybe even a spark of hope that you didn’t expect. Her journey is really a testament to what can happen when you refuse to give up and finally find a system of medicine, Practical Homeopathy®, that aligns with how the body was designed to heal.

So, if you are ready to begin your journey, there’s a place for you. It’s here.

Whether you’re brand new or you’re already deep into your studies, you’re welcome here. And we’d love to see you in Mighties, Mighties Plus, Joette’s study groups (The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy Study Groups), and The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, which, actually, we’re starting a new class soon.

So, if you’re hearing this podcast, you might want to check that out as well, and we’ll put a link in this podcast so that you can join our Founders’ list and get more information on The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

But for now, share this podcast with someone you know who could use the encouragement and information that Nicole shared here today. And I want to thank you for spending this time with us. We’ll see you in the next episode.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

But it’s critical that you learn how to use these medicines properly. These podcasts should serve as only the beginning of your training. Peruse JoettesLearningCenter.com to find fun study group opportunities and in-depth courses developed by subject.

So, with the proper training, you can join the thousands of students before you in developing the confidence and competence to protect the health of your family and loved ones with my brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

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Shell Shocked: 1 Cracked Turtle + 1 Prepared Daughter = 1 Happy Ending

Reading others’ success stories with homeopathy is not only inspirational, but it’s also aspirational. Those who study Practical Homeopathy® become increasingly prepared for any eventuality or emergency, whether it’s healing their families, nurturing friends, or providing first aid to rescued animals.

Case in point, a recent Academy of Practical Homeopathy® applicant shared her success story with an injured turtle. Did Dr. Samuel Hahnemann know how far-reaching homeopathy would be as he unearthed the power of highly diluted and succussed natural substances?

I have no doubt he did. But I’m not sure he knew that a little turtle would have his homeopathic medicines to thank for a renewed lease on life.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

“My daughter accidently hit a turtle on a country road at dusk. She brought the turtle home to see if she could help it.

“The turtle looked like it was dead. It’s back shell had a cracked in it with flesh showing between the two pieces. It’s head, arms and legs were tucked inside the shell and the turtle was not moving.

“I had made my daughter a first aid kit based on the handout in Gateway I. All the remedies (except the cell salts) were in liquid form making it easy to administer it to the turtle.

“She dropped Aconite on it’s head and almost immediately his head emerged. Then he raised his head up towards her and opened his mouth. So, she put it a couple of drops of Aconite and Hypericum.

“The ‘dead’ turtle came alive and started walking around the box trying to climb the walls. We tried mending the shell but nothing would stick. The turtle was so frisky, we had to tape the turtle to a refrigerator dish to keep it from moving around as we tried taping its shell.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®, Shell Shocked Turtle

“(If you look closely you can see where the shell is separated).

“We kept the turtle a few more days to make sure it was feeling better and then returned it to where we had found it. When we let it out of the box it walked straight towards the pond, and we never saw it again.” — Cheryl M.*

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Well done, Cheryl. How beautiful. That incident, which could have gone very differently, was completely turned around by a little empathy and homeopathy. What a wonderful testimony that your experience with Practical Homeopathy® also equipped your daughter to handle the potentially fatal situation with sprezzatura.

Dear Reader, this could be you!

All it takes to develop this kind of confident, swift action is to study more and help anyone in need. Indeed, celerity is possible with Practical Homeopathy® because we value efficacy and efficiency. We don’t seek complexity when simplicity will do — and do much better.

This is the kind of student we have joining the Class of 2027 in The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. It matters not if you’ve had extensive experience with homeopathy or if you’re brand new to this paradigm. What you will learn — the skills you will gain — will give you the opportunity to become more valuable than you’ve ever imagined to yourself, the ones you love, and those in your community whom you’re able to help.

There’s no time like the present to:

Garner the skill and knowledge to achieve health freedom for your loved ones.
Exit the medical treadmill with confidence.
Achieve the power of proper attitude: the confidence we instill through The Academy experience.
Boost your family’s finances by utilizing your new expertise.
And be able to help a little injured turtle … when you least expect it.

If you have not yet joined my Founders’ List to learn more about The Academy, I urge you to do so today. There’s no obligation; it’s simply the only way we can send you more information.

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Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

*Lightly edited for clarity.

P.S. Are you interested in creating a homeopathy kit as this student described? Join a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group and receive the very same information her family relied on when they needed it most.

Who knows? A turtle may thank you one day. Or your child, spouse, aging parent or best friend. No speciesism here. Homeopathy works just as effectively for all living things.

4 Homeopathic Remedies for a Happier Father

Happy Father’s Day to all our Dads with Audacity, the men who support us in our homeopathic efforts and even learn homeopathy themselves. The movement to bring Practical Homeopathy® into every medicine cabinet in the world couldn’t succeed without you.

But we know your life isn’t always easy. You pull double duty: slaying dragons in your occupation while also caring for your family’s well-being.

This information — presented ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek — is for you. Who knows? These four homeopathic remedies may make you a happier father. Have them on hand for those unexpected moments when Dad-mode is coming on strong.

Just remember, don’t keep using homeopathic medicine for extended periods, like supplements or vitamins. We use homeopathy when a condition presents, and we halt when we’re very much better. We also halt if the medicine provides no improvement at all.

Be sure to read my foundational blog post, When to Stop, for more detailed information.

**1. Broken curfew? Ignatia amara 200**

“Da-aaaaad!! Gee whiz. Why are you still up?”

“Because it’s 1:30 a.m., and you’re an hour and a half past your curfew! Where have you been? Your mother and I have been worried sick! Why didn’t you answer your phone? I think you just took ten years off my life with worry.”

“Aw, Dad. Don’t fuss. Here’s some Ignatia 200. Take this twice a day for a couple of days, until you feel less worried. And keep it on hand for next time.”

“What do you mean, NEXT TIME???????”

Hmmm. Perhaps it’s best we cut away from this conversation before it turns ugly, eh?

Fathers, you know this drill. I’m sure you’ve been in a situation like this with your kids where you’re worried, and there’s nothing you can do. It’s hard for a man — for anyone, really — when there’s no action to resolve a problem.

No doubt, your daughter will be home soon — safe and sound. But until then, a dose or two of Ignatia amara 200 can help keep you from spiraling into the depths of uncertainty and worst-case scenario.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

**2. Sick child? Arsenicum album 200**

“Dad. Da-aaaad! Seriously! It’s just a cold. I’m not going to die. Why are you pacing, pacing, pacing outside my bedroom door just listening to me cough?”

“Honey, I’m just concerned about your health.”

“Overly concerned, I’d say. I’m not an infant anymore.”

“Young lady, you’ll still be my child when you’re 60 years old. I’m always going to be anxious when something is wrong with you. So just get used to it.”

“You’re going to be like this forever? Ugh. Being this obsessed with my every sneeze is not healthy for you. PLEASE, take this Arsenicum album 200 twice a day for just a couple of days so that I can recover from the sniffles in peace. Geeze. <Insert eye roll here.>”

Indeed, one of the keynotes of Arsenicum album 200 is an excessive fixation on the health and welfare of the family. (However, a healthy amount of caring and concern is not a pathology, no matter what this child thinks.)

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

**3. Depressed about economic concerns raising a family? Aurum metallicum 200**

“Hey, Dad. What’s the matter? You’re awfully quiet today.”

“Just thinking, Kiddo. Have you heard anything from your college applications?”

“Not yet, but I’m sure they’ll come soon. I’m hoping I’ll get my first choice and Yale accepts me! But if not, I’m sure Stanford or Notre Dame will come through.”

“You’re sure you don’t want to go to an in-state college? They’re cheaper, you know.”

“Nope. I’ve got this all mapped out for my career. It’s going to be awesome, doncha think?”

“Yep. I’m just worried about how I’m going to pay for it. Business has been so slow lately. But, hey, that’s not your problem. I’ll figure it out. Just let me sit here alone for a little while longer.”

“Oh, Da-aaaad, don’t be depressed. It’ll all work out. Here’s some Aurum metallicum 200. Just take a dose every three days or so, until you feel better. Easy peasy, right?!”

While Aurum metallicum 200 won’t increase your client base or fill your coffers, it has historically been shown to ameliorate the stark depression that many men suffer when business downturns strike or the pressure of providing for the family seems overwhelming.

So, while it’s not as “easy peasy” as this child may think, Aurum met is a helpful homeopathic medicine to get your mind right and get back to the salt mines with an improved outlook.

(As an aside, just as not every career requires a college degree, not every young person is cut out for university studies. If your child is bright enough to recommend Aurum metallicum to you for depression — no matter how flippantly — I’m betting that they might have what it takes to become a practicing Practical Homeopath™. Consider this blog post from the archives: College Isn’t for Everyone: 2 Valuable Alternative Career Paths.)

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

**4. Angry? Nux vomica 200**

Well, your child made it to college, and you managed to pay the tuition. But rather than hitting the books, they are apparently spending more time hitting the party circuit. Try as you might, you can’t rein in your anger at the family meeting around the kitchen table.

“I’m paying good money for tuition. Hard-earned money. More money than I’m paying for our mortgage! What are we doing here? Why am I doing that? Why am I paying for college if you’re not even going to apply yourself? <Slamming fist onto the table for emphasis.>”

“I had bigger dreams for you. You have the wherewithal; you have the acumen. Yet, here you are, wasting your intelligence.”

“Dad! Just because you’re an over-achiever doesn’t mean everyone is. I’ll buckle down soon enough to graduate, but I’m having fun with my squad, Bruh! Why don’t you take Nux vomica 200, twice a day for a little while until you can chill a little bit! I’m low-key worried about your stress level. No cap!”

You’ll get no argument from me that your college-aged child needed this kick in the derrière — for their own good. However, if you can get past the attitude and the slang, the actual advice isn’t all that bad.

We often discuss Nux vomica for cases of overdoing it. However, another hallmark of Nux vomica is that it is for Type A people who expect others to perform at the same pace. Those who are not achieving their milestones in a timely manner are frustrating impediments to progress.

For instance, in traffic, do you find yourself talking out loud to the other drivers? “What the heck is that guy doing? <Hitting the horn.> Get out of the way. I got things to do.”

You cannot stand to wait because of others’ slowness.

Have you caught yourself saying to an assistant at work, “What the heck? I gave you this 20 minutes ago! It should have been done in five minutes.”

That’s a call to consider Nux vomica 200, twice daily for a short time, until expectations — and emotions — become more realistic.

Disclaimer:

Kids, I cannot be held responsible for your father’s reaction to these sarcastic scenarios. But, with a little diplomacy, you can suggest homeopathic medicines that can help them deal with you growing up.

Better yet, why not get home before curfew, stay healthy with Practical Homeopathy®, get a part-time job to help put yourself through college, and prioritize your studies over endless partying.

That’s the best prescription for both you and your father, especially on his special day today. (But a little homeopathy on the side couldn’t hurt.)

Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

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Podcast 172 — Broken Bones Are No Match for the Intelligent, Orderly Action of Well-Chosen Homeopathic Remedies

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00 Introduction: Broken Bones Are No Match for the Intelligent, Orderly Action of Well-Chosen Homeopathic Remedies

01:23 Be prepared in case of emergency

02:03 What is homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy®?

06:35 What homeopathic medicines might we use over the next few days?

10:25 After the bone has been set and it’s healing

12:02 Addressing the emotional component of physical injury

13:33 If surgery is required

17:35 Case management

19:46 Closing Advice

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

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Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 172, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Broken Bones Are No Match for the Intelligent, Orderly Action of Well-Chosen Homeopathic Remedies

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome back to the podcast, everyone. Today we have another jaw-dropping, bone-shattering episode with Joette.

We’re going to hear from Joette about her decades of experience with broken bones — how she’s handled those situations and the details — broken all the way down for you, even case management.

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Where do we start with this topic?

Be prepared in case of emergency

Joette: (01:23)

Yeah, no one wants a broken bone, right? And it’s always so shocking and scary when it happens, especially at that moment. You’re wondering if that bone will ever be the same.

It’s a very scary thing, and it can be for any age. But especially as people age, it’s even more important.

So, we need to know what to do and own the medicines and have them on hand. That’s important.

It’s one thing to know what to use and not have them on hand. In the end, it becomes very frustrating.

Kate:

I know we take our remedies — our homeopathic medicines for emergencies — with us when we’re on the go because that’s the definition of an emergency. You just don’t know when it’s going to happen.

Joette:

That’s right.

**What is homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy®?**

Joette: (02:03)

So, I want to take a step back first and start at the very beginning. Since you’re listening to this podcast, you might already know what homeopathy is, but for those who are new to homeopathy and listening for the first time, I want to explain what it is.

It’s often confused with the general term natural medicine or naturopathy, et cetera, referring to kind of a broad category: modalities such as herbs, essential oils, supplements, vitamins, et cetera.

Kate:

Yeah. We hear that all the time, don’t we?

“Oh yes, I know what homeopathy is.”

And come to find out they think it’s other things.

Joette:

They think it’s vitamins or nutrients or something.

Kate:

Yeah.

Joette:

But that’s not the case.

So, homeopathy — let’s give you a definition — is a system, a very specific system of medicine that is fundamentally different from allopathic medicine, which is the conventional method and also other natural healing modalities.

So, let’s start with allopathic medicine, which is conventional. It tends to focus heavily on suppressing symptoms — just getting rid of the pain at the cost of something else, perhaps.

But in contrast, homeopathy seeks to stimulate the body’s own healing mechanism because it’s always looking to correct the problem (that’s what fever’s about; that’s what pain and swelling is about) and correct that underlying imbalance that causes the symptoms in the first place.

So, symptoms are not worthy of being removed. They’re worthy of the underlying problem being corrected, so the symptoms are no longer needed.

And now Practical Homeopathy®, which is what I teach, is the method of using homeopathy in a more straightforward, protocol-driven — so formulaic — way for families (especially mothers and grandmothers because they take that so seriously) to confidently heal their families at home, even in conjunction with modern medicine.

Kate:

It’s pretty exciting because you’ve trained actually hundreds of homeopaths through your Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, and they’re helping people all over the world with this method.

Joette:

Yes.

But if you’re a mom and you want to treat your own family —or grandmother — this is your place.

So, let’s get back to broken bones, shall we? Right.

What do we do immediately after a bone break?

Joette: (04:17)

What do we use after the accident happens? Right after it’s happened. You discover there’s a broken bone, or you don’t even know if it’s broken yet. You just think, “Uh-oh.” You might feel disoriented. You don’t know where to go from here.

What do you do next?

So, let’s start with some homeopathic medicines that help with the severe pain and even the initial shock. And you want to have these on hand, friends. I can’t reiterate it enough.

There are three medicines: Aconitum (Aconitum napellus), Arnica (Arnica montana) and Hypericum (Hypericum perforatum).

So, I like to use these generally. I like to have them in a 200 potency. Or sometimes we own higher potencies, too. Arnica or Hypericum can easily be used in a 1M. So, you might want to have that on hand for when the trauma is pretty noteworthy.

So, what do we do with those three medicines?

Well, I like to call it “toggling.”

We toggle these medicines back and forth when the accident first happens for the first, say, hour or two, or even after that.

And we begin to space them out, as the use of the medicines become less and less needy.

So, at first, you might perhaps alternate them every five to 10 minutes. Aconite, Arnica, Hypericum. Then, the next one.

Now you’re not using them all simultaneously in the mouth all at once. You’re toggling them so that there’s time in between them — maybe five, 10 minutes or so.

And you use that over the first hour or two, and then you would take them less and less frequently as the symptoms determine.

Now we’re not treating symptoms, remember. We’re using the symptoms to determine how often these medicines should be used.

And what are the symptoms? The shockiness, the shakiness, the anxiety, the pain, the disorientation.

We’re using these medicines to see how these things move along … how these symptoms move along.

Kate:

Now, you’re not saying don’t go to the hospital if you know you have a broken bone.

Joette:

No. I’m not saying that. No, you’re on the way to the hospital.

In fact, if you’ve got someone in your family who knows how to use this (because perhaps you’ve trained your children how to do this), they’re driving, and maybe someone else is in the car administering the medicines to you (if it’s you who has the broken bone or potential broken bone).

What homeopathic medicines might we use over the next few days?

Kate: (06:35)

Okay. So that’s the first few hours. Now what about the rest of the day and the following day, once you’ve received the proper medical attention that is needed, what would you do next?

Joette:

Well, we might continue using Aconitum a few times every day, especially if it’s that shocky feeling. Again, Aconitum is for that sense of being overtaken by something big like this. And you can use that in the next few days.

But usually, we stop that medicine because that shocky, that shaky feeling, that core feeling like something big has happened starts to go away. And what replaces it — or is in conjunction with it — is the pain.

The pain of a broken bone can be really noteworthy. So, then we would continue perhaps with Arnica montana and Hypericum — toggling them.

And, as we use these medicines, I want you to take note. “Wow, every time I take that Hypericum, I do feel a little bit of relief. Arnica sort of helps, but Hypericum is really the one that …” Okay. Now we’re going to concentrate more on Hypericum and maybe back off of Arnica.

Or it might be the other way around. It might be that Hypericum is not acting as well as Arnica is. So, then we pull away from using Hypericum as frequently, and we drop any that we don’t need.

But always, my friends, we’re keeping in mind that you may not need it now, but in six hours, 12 hours, a day later, “Oh my gosh! I think I need that Arnica again.”

Or “I think that Hypericum really was helping.”

Reinstate it back in again. Don’t assume that what’s happening is that that medicine is no longer correct. No, we’re going to adjust accordingly.

Kate:

Talk about how we can maybe go down in potency as well. Maybe we’re using it in the 1M potency at first, but we could start to see as the pain gets less and less that maybe, now, we don’t need it in the 1M potency anymore, and we go down to 200.

Joette:

Yes. And that could be … maybe.

It’s too complex at this point in time if you’re not experienced with doing this. But yes, we adjust. We adjust accordingly.

If we start with Hypericum in a very high potency, like a 1M because the pain is extraordinary, and we’re finding that it’s acting, then we might go down a little bit. We might go to a 200, but I don’t know that it’s as necessary as you might think. We might just stay with Hypericum 1M and just use it less frequently.

You’ll get the hang of it after a while, and the more accidents that you treat broken bones, et cetera, the more likely.

Or maybe it’s not even a broken … maybe it’s a bruised bone. We don’t know that until you get into the hospital and get those X-rays.

Once we’ve got that extraordinary first few minutes, that first day under our belt, then we can start thinking about another medicine, and that medicine is Bryonia (Bryonia alba).

It’s for that pain that is worse from movement, especially if it’s significantly worse from movement. It’s kind of a dull and aching and bruised pain. Sometimes it might have something more stabbing (pain), but it is generally known for its bruised and aching pain.

And so, people who end up needing to use Bryonia usually want to be completely still — at least in that bone, that area of the body — and rest. Or they want to apply a little bit of pressure to it to help hold it in place and give it a little more comfort just to have that gentle pressure applied.

There’s your indication that Bryonia alba is the medicine you want to start using.

Kate:

Okay, great.

So, to recap, the first-line medicines that we might think of are Aconite, Arnica and Hypericum. And then we transition to Bryonia if the pain continues and we feel like something else is needed to help with that.

Joette:

Especially if there’s elements from movement. Yes.

After the bone has been set and it’s healing

Kate: (10:25)

Okay. So, what about after the bone has been set? We know what to do for the pain. It’s getting better. What is next?

Joette:

The next place to go is you can still employ some of these pain medicines should they be needed, but they may not at some point. Depends on the person and the location, et cetera.

Then we start thinking about a combination medicine of Symphytum officinale — Symphytum 200 and taken with Calc phos 3. (Now, sometimes people don’t have Calc phos 3. They only have 6. I would call them both very valuable.)

Sometimes they’re mixed together: you can mix them together in the mouth and put them in simultaneously. Sometimes, they’re toggled also: Symphytum 200 and then a few minutes later, Calc phos 3 or 6.

These two medicines are specific for bone injuries and especially for knitting the bone. And the reason that I emphasize the word “knitting” is because before we start knitting, we have to make sure that the bone is in its proper place.

So, if there’s a chance that this bone could get out of place, and it has to be … and the doctor is assuming that it’s going to be many, many weeks before they’re going to even look at placement again. No, no. You want to make sure that you’re using this medicine ONLY if the bone is absolutely in its place, because no one expects this medicine to work as quickly as it does — except for homeopaths.

So, the doctor will not know this. It’s important that you do not use this medicine until the bone is absolutely in its proper place.

Addressing the emotional component of physical injury

Kate: (12:02)

Along with these physical injuries, there can be excessive worry. The ongoing stress of this accident happening, maybe even infection, the “what-if” questions: “What if this doesn’t heal correctly?”

What would you use for those kinds of thoughts?

Joette:

Well, the biggest one that I always think of is Ignatia (Ignatia amara) 200C.

See, fixing the bone is great, but sometimes the trauma of the accident happening or the body going through surgery (which could happen … could result in surgery) in a kind of unsteady mind.

That is completely normal and real, but don’t use Ignatia if it’s not necessary … if the person doesn’t have these feelings. But if they do and they’re plagued, by all means, Ignatia 200, twice daily, is a great medicine for this.

So, you’ve most likely seen this through a lot: emotional pain because of the trauma of an accident happening or a physical pain or trauma of a bone being broken. All that goes with this: the bruising, the blood loss, having the bone reset, et cetera. And not to mention if the person needs surgery, the body is then subjected to a bunch of drugs and anesthesia.

Now, all of this can be hard on the body and the mind. So, in a case where, after we’ve experienced all of this, this whole cacophony of your life after such a condition or a situation, things are then left constantly worrying. I would definitely choose Ignatia 200, say, twice daily.

If surgery is required

Kate: (13:33)

That’s great, Joette.

Now, what about surgery? Because sometimes we have to go in and have that surgery to correct that fracture.

Joette:

Surgery: We’re going to be looking at the use of Arnica montana, which you might’ve already been using. We might use Arnica montana just before the surgery, which helps protect against bleeding and infection, et cetera.

But what might even precede that is the angst of surgery. Now, not everyone feels angst over surgery. Many people feel nothing about it. Don’t give it a second thought. They’ve never had surgery. They don’t realize what a big deal it can be. It’s not always … what it can be.

And that’s when we use a medicine named Gelsemium. So, we don’t ever want to overlook this because Gelsemium is the medicine for courage, and it really does act. It’s amazing how often we might want to use that for the angst that precedes or starts boiling to the surface when we know that surgery is forthcoming.

So, before they wheel their loved ones into the operating room, Gelsemium is a quiet hero for those facing that ordeal: the dread, the trembling or that heavy anxious feeling — feeling like the knees go weak and the mind gets foggy with anticipation.

So, it’s especially useful for someone who feels overwhelmed by the thought of the anesthesia, the incisions, or all of those little details that keep piling up on their thought process.

And sometimes those people who get to this point and have such angst that they even can get chills or even diarrhea from that nerve-wracking thought of forthcoming surgery.

So, then I suggest Gelsemium 30 taken every, maybe, two or three times the day leading up to the surgery and maybe the morning of if needed.

And I find time and again — I’ve used it myself — it calms the nervous system. I’ve actually used it before I go into a dentist’s office. It doesn’t dull the mind like psychotropic drugs do, like synthetic drugs do in the allopathic world. But instead, just helps the body go into the procedure in a more relaxed state.

And it doesn’t force relaxation; it simply puts you back to yourself. And then, I think it helps lead to a smoother recovery afterward.

Kate:

Okay. So, before we talk about case management, what if the person has had things like screws or plates put in the body during surgery? Is there anything else that we might need to know about maybe an infection or possibility?

Joette:

Yeah, let’s talk about one more medicine, shall we? And that’s Staphysagria.

Staphysagria, usually in a 30 or a 200 potency, my friends, is especially important when surgery is involved. And it is specific for the incision at the site of the screws, the plates, the pins holding that bone together. Staphysagria is the go-to medicine for when there is a clean surgical wound.

And that’s not before. Generally, we’re going to use it afterward.

It’s remarkable for that sharp, stinging, cutting pain that lingers after the surgeon’s knife, and it helps the tissues heal smoothly around foreign objects like hardware, metal hardware.

So, we give it once or twice a day. This is after the surgery, shortly after, within a day or so, and then tapering as the incision calms and the pain eases.

So, we watch for that typical Staphysagria picture: The person may be oversensitive to pain or feel as though the wound is still fresh even many days after.

You might not realize that this should be used until many days after. Because when it’s used, it prevents excessive scar tissue, reduces the deep soreness around the screws and those incisions, and it keeps the body from building into an infection and allowing the body to accept the hardware without ongoing inflammation.

Case management

Kate: (17:35)

Great. Now we’re going to talk a little bit about case management.

Once you’ve gone through these things, and you’re on your way to healing, can you tell us how to know which medicines are working and how to know when to stop using the medicines or maybe start another one again?

Joette:

This is one of the most common questions, and it’s a good one.

Let’s talk a moment about proper case management. This is huge, friends, because this is where so many people miss the real power of Practical Homeopathy®.

Once you’ve chosen your medicine, whether it’s Arnica, Calc phos, Symphytum, Gelsemium or a combination, your job now is really to focus on the case like a hawk.

You want to look for shifts in pain — I mentioned that earlier. A reduction in swelling, changes in bruising, color, and probably most importantly, the improvements in the person’s overall energy, their appetite and sleep, because those are satellite aspects of being human are all the other conditions that seem irrelevant, but they are quite relevant.

Now, in the first few days, you may need to repeat the remedy more frequently — or the remedies — sometimes three to four times a day, but as soon as clear improvement sets in, and you’ll know this because your skills, your observational skills will have been honed by then, you back off perhaps to say twice a day, then even once as needed.

So, we don’t want to overtreat a condition that’s improving. If something stalls or a new symptom picture emerges, you might layer in a complementary remedy or switch to repeating the remedy more frequently, or even, as you become more nimble at doing this, switch the potency.

And this is a responsive approach. It requires thoughtfulness and is what turns a simple bone break into a more swift and better, stronger recovery instead of a long painful ordeal. This is where the art of Practical Homeopathy® is at its finest, my friends.

Closing advice

Kate: (19:46)

Joette, this has been a lot of great information. I’m sure everyone has been taking notes during this. But also, you can go to JoetteCalabrese.com or PracticalHomeopathy.com and look up the transcript from this podcast, and all of it will be right there for you.

Can you kind of wrap this up and give us some additional wisdom as we finish this podcast?

Joette:

Well, let me just say this, because if you happen to look at the X-ray of the broken bone, it looks really dramatic. But that X-ray is no match for what I consider the intelligent, orderly action of well-chosen homeopathic medicines.

So, from shock to pre- or post-surgery, nourishing the bones, or simply pain management, Practical Homeopathy® has been quietly and reliably doing this work for over 200 years.

But remember, it’s not just about grabbing a remedy and hoping for the best. That’s where proper case management makes all the difference in the world.

So, watch. Watch the case. Note the changes in pain, the swelling, the bruising, and especially the person’s energy, their sleep and their overall well-being or lack of it.

Sometimes we repeat the frequency in the early days and then space it out as improvement sets in.

Other times we may need to layer in a second medicine if something lingers on.

Kate:

This has been so great, Joette. I think everyone will benefit from hearing your words of wisdom on broken bones. Is there anything you want to leave us with today?

Joette:

Well, I’ve seen it time and time again in my practice, with my students, in their families, and even in my own family: The child who was back on the soccer field within weeks … earlier than expected. The grandmother whose hip fracture healed with far less pain and dependency. Even the, say, athlete who regained full strength without that lingering weakness so many suffer.

This is the real medicine, my friends. This is God’s medicine. It’s gentle, it’s deep acting and without the side effects that often come with conventional approaches.

So, keep your kits stocked, your powder dry, your notebooks handy, and your confidence intact. You don’t have to live in fear of every fall or every accident. You, my friends, now have tools that work with the body’s own wisdom instead of against it.

So, I say, if you want to go deeper into bone healing, trauma protocols or any methods I teach, head over to my website or join us in one of our ongoing courses.

And so, I guess I’d say until next time, stay close to Practical Homeopathy®, trust the process and remember you were made to heal.

So, we’ll see you next episode. Thanks, Kate.

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

Kate:

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit PracticalHomeopathy.com.

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Some have even built flourishing careers in homeopathy. Our time-tested four-part business blueprint works to fill Academy graduates’ practices and classrooms with people actively seeking the help that they can now confidently provide.

Not only are these Practical Homeopaths™ able to experience the immense personal reward of helping others heal, but they also enjoy a new, sustainable income stream that supports their families’ futures.

Have you considered joining The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®?

Enrollment is now open for our sixth graduating class — the Class of 2027.

Our student body is shaping up to be a diverse group. They’re mothers, grandmothers, husbands, young people, and even seasoned health care professionals seeking efficacious alternatives for their patients. We have students from every walk of life and every profession: farmers, secretaries, musicians, nurses and … and … and …

However, they are all cut from the exact same cloth as you. They all want health autonomy for themselves, as well as for their loved ones or clients, through a natural, polite, reproducible, economical medicine.

Applicants answer a key question during the application process: “What brought you to Practical Homeopathy®?” The responses have been inspirational.

Do you recognize yourself in any of their answers?

What brought you to Practical Homeopathy®?

“Finding Joette that first time sparked my interest. Who was this lady I’d never heard of before? Is she real? Is her information accurate? Why does she give so much away for free? I guess you could say I was curious to know more but also very suspicious. The more blogs I read and the more digging I did not only in her website but others where her name appeared helped to convince me this was not a scam and her passion made me want to jump in the deep end.

“Practical Homeopathy is providing real solutions for the countless infirmities plaguing humankind.

“My driving motivation to be a part of the academy is a selfish one. I want to have satisfying answers for why a person is unhealthy and how to resolve it safely. I want positive health results without eventual side effects down the road for my loved ones. I want to put the pieces of this healthcare puzzle in my mind together and see the big picture not just for me but for the generations after me. I also am so intrigued to learn more about how and why homeopathy got shoved aside only to be replaced by something so inferior. It’s infuriating!”*

“I was looking for homeopathy schools online and this school stands out because it seems more intimate and less university-like. I like its emphasis on “practical” rather than esoteric methods of treating people. And I like the offering of how to open a successful practice. … I also found how Joette spoke about her beliefs to resonate with mine too: I don’t like to be told what to do, what to think, and how to feel about my family’s health.

“I’ve always used more natural methods first with my kids, and only Tylenol when they needed it (feeling horrible, very hot). I would like to refine these skills so I can help my dad with his carpal tunnel, and my mom when something comes up for her.”*

“I am a nurse who knew as soon as I began my career inpatient that I wasn’t actually healing people and in fact I was just part of a large system. Since 2020, I have had a radical change of heart and I find myself on fire for holistic health that actually nourishes our body and promotes the healing it knows how to do. I recently watched the Intro to Homeopathy done by the Children’s Health Defense and I am on fire to learn more! I asked the Catholic Homeopathy Facebook Group I’m in and they immediately recommended you! I’m excited to learn more about the academy.”*

“I am a pharmacist that left traditional practice settings years ago to homeschool my children. At that time I had just learned about essential oils and my mind was ‘opened’ to alternative treatments. I’ve been on a journey of learning since then and just this last summer started researching homeopathy. My son had had a concussion and my friend came over and I watched before my very eyes some undeniable changes in him that could only be attributed to the remedies she was giving him. I was intrigued. I started listening to Joette’s podcasts and have now listened to all of them at least once. I just completed Gateway I. I am now praying about next steps. Is the Academy the path that God has set before me to get back into ‘practice’?”*

“Literally every single day there is someone asking me for help: headaches, learning difficulties, OCD, varicose veins, sinus infections… sometimes if feels like a full-time job and I want to be able to confidently help them! I don’t want to defer the answers to another or shrug helplessly anymore. I know homeopathy can effectively address my family’s needs and I want to learn the art of this medicine so that I can pass it along to the next generations. I feel that it is my responsibility and privilege to learn homeopathy for them, and then over the years I will be able pass it along to them as I continue to grow and practice.

“I believe that there is no other school in existence that could provide me with a lifetime of experience that Joette provides for her students! As Mark Twain has stated, ‘20 years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.’ My time has come. My opportunity is now.”*

“Hello – our family has always prioritized health and are fortunate to be raising our children the same way. I am a Functional Medicine Practitioner myself but wish to expand my knowledge into homeopathy mainly to support my children’s health in times of need.
Our kiddos rarely get sick but when they do I want to feel confident in what homeopathics to provide them and build my wellness cupboard up at home to have these on hand when sickness does pop up.”*

Why Do YOU Aspire to Study Practical Homeopathy®?

Surely one of those deeply personal and aspirational messages struck a chord with you.

What is your “why” for coming to Practical Homeopathy®? Could it be the same as one of those students’?

They say knowledge is power, but it is not. Knowledge is powerless. It is the application of, and the action taken with the knowledge you’ve garnered that makes you powerful.

Join my Founders’ List to learn more. There’s no obligation. Signing up is simply key to receiving more information. Like these students, you owe it to yourself — and your family, clients or patients — to at least take a look at the future that could be yours.

The only thing The Academy is missing is you!

Warmly,

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

P.S. Wherever you are on your journey, I will meet you there.

If you’re not quite ready to take a deep dive into this highly sought-after healthcare autonomy, I understand.

Often, the hardest part is getting started.

So, why not test the waters in a tried-and-true study group utilizing my Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum. It’s the economical, fun and supportive first step toward learning the foundational information that will start you on the path to becoming a hero to your family. A study group is precisely how I learned homeopathy decades ago … now made more accessible by systematizing my years of experience.

*Lightly edited for clarity and to protect privacy. Names were omitted to protect the student’s willingness to provide a personal testimonial.

Tummy Terrors: Relieve Incarcerated Gas With Practical Homeopathy®

Judging by the emails my team receives, it seems gas is on everyone’s mind these days. No, I’m not talking about the kind you put in your car. I’m talking about the kind we sometimes suffer after eating the wrong foods.

I recently wrote Farewell to Flatulence: Finding Freedom from Gas With Practical Homeopathy®, which should provide enough information to assist in most cases. However, I did receive this follow-up question in the comments:

“What is recommended for gas that doesn’t make its way out easily and causes many gas pains?”

Incarcerated gas

My friends, as annoying and embarrassing as passing gas can be (especially in polite company), it can be quite painful when the gas won’t pass. As the gas builds up, the sufferer often feels like they swallowed a beach ball.

This condition is called incarcerated gas or trapped gas, and the homeopathic medicine that immediately comes to mind is Lycopodium.

Historically, for this unresolved gas pain, Lycopodium 200 is utilized twice daily until very much better. It has been a successful mainstay of my practice.

What about gas with indigestion?

Now, if there is indigestion, especially with an acidic taste, or if rectal burning occurs, an alternative to consider could be Nat phos 6X.

You can read more about this medicine and its use in my blog post, Heartburn, Reflux and Indigestion.

My late father was able to overcome his dependence on over-the-counter antacids with Nat phos. If you haven’t read his story, I encourage you to check out my blog, David vs. Goliath.

Joette Calabrese, Tummy Terrors: Relieve Incarcerated Gas With Practical Homeopathy®

Enjoy food without gassy gut pain

Obviously, the best way to keep our guts happy and healthy is by eating good, nutritious, well-prepared foods. I would prefer that none of us eat the products of modern industrial gastronomy that will almost certainly lead to gas, indigestion and worse.

Rather than ingesting the symphony of preservatives and emulsifiers found in foods served in buckets or under arches, my family and I choose farm-fresh, home-cooked meals.

However, as I’ve said before, I want everyone to be able to eat a fast-food meal without dire consequences. When push comes to shove, and there’s no other choice — like on a late-night road trip when everything else is closed — we can counteract nutritional nihilism by having homeopathy on hand.

Add Lycopodium 200C and Nat phos 6X to your well-curated homeopathy kit, and you’ll be prepared.

If you enjoy this content, please share it. Also check out my podcasts, Monday Night Lives, and connect with me on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

P.S. Have you joined my Mighty Members yet? As much as you enjoy my Sunday blog posts, imagine getting an extra one each week containing even more information. That’s what the Mighties receive, along with other benefits too numerous to mention. (Click here to read all that you could receive.)

For instance, in my recent Memo to Mighty Members #313*, I offered an alternative homeopathic remedy for bowel incontinence, in addition to what I already discussed on the public blog.

As you know, there is more than one way to crack a nut in homeopathy. So, I want my Mighties to have the education necessary to pivot if the first-choice medicine doesn’t quite act as expected.

Don’t miss out any longer.

For less than the cost of one of those drive-thru cuisines of convenience, destined to make your gut ache, you can instead discover even more about the deliciousness of Practical Homeopathy®. I look forward to seeing you in our ranks.

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Podcast 171 — Moms with Moxie: Finding Your True North

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58 Introduction: Finding Your True North

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

“MetaRepertory, Fourth Edition” by Dr. Robin Murphy

“Nature’s Materia Medica, Fourth Edition” by Dr. Robin Murphy

03:40 After searching, coming back home to Practical Homeopathy®

“Organon of Medicine” by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

“The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann” by Dr. Thomas Lindsley Bradford

06:26 Why Practical Homeopathy®?

08:40 Success Story: A large, scary boil

Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy

Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

10:57 Success Story: Staph infection

Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning

12:21 Success Story: Insomnia

Ditch the Drugs and Use Homeopathy for Insomnia

12:57 Joette brings homeopathy into the home

14:23 Closing Advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 171.

Joette:

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Finding Your True North

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today I’m joined by my friend, Kelsey.

Kelsey has come up with a theme for this podcast, and it’s called “Finding Your True North.” And I can’t wait for her to tell you why she’s chosen that title for today’s theme of the podcast, but I want to tell you a little bit about Kelsey.

So, as a mother whose greatest charge is caring for her family, Kelsey has seen Practical Homeopathy® work powerfully in her own life, from healing stubborn boils and gut issues to resolving a serious staph infection in hours, as well as insomnia with a single well-chosen remedy.

So, like Sherlock Holmes, she knows it’s not just what we know but what we can prove. And today, Kelsey will share how, after exploring far and wide, she’s arrived back where she started, only now with a deeper appreciation and understanding.

So, Kelsey, I can’t wait to hear your stories, and I want to welcome you to the podcast.

Kelsey:

Thank you so much, Kate. It’s so good to see you today.

Kate:

So, Kelsey, tell us a little bit about your background.

Kelsey:

Well, Kate, as you know, I was privileged to take the Gateway I and II with you and Michele many years ago, and I was hooked. I actually ended up taking Gateway I and II for a solid year. I just kept coming back again and again.

Kate:

We’ve known each other for quite a while.

Kelsey:

Truly. And it was the community that I enjoyed so much and the camaraderie and just kind of finding a place to ask my questions about homeopathy. It was such a wonderful opportunity. So, that was my first real entry into homeopathy.

Kate:

Right.

Kelsey:

In kind of the natural progression, I took Joette’s larger courses. And so those blew my mind because it was just unraveling the onion of learning.

I did all of her larger courses, and then after taking Joette’s larger courses — around that time — The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® was opening up. And so, I naturally dove right in and was a part of the pioneer class, graduating in 2022.

And I just loved that. It offered a solid foundation for students studying homeopathy in history and in the materia medica.

But I think what I loved most was the interviews. Joette actually interviewed the late Robin Murphy, and it was such a great opportunity to learn from one of the masters.

Kate:

Right. That was such a good interview. I loved that, and it’s too bad that he’s no longer with us. But we use his repertory and materia medica all the time, don’t we, Kelsey?

Kelsey:

We do. It’s a foundation of everything Joette teaches. I mean, it’s one of my favorite books to have around me.

Kate:

Then tell us what happened next.

After searching, coming back home to Practical Homeopathy®

Kelsey: (03:40)

Okay. So, after I graduated with Joette and APH, I decided that I would try classical school. So, I went for one year. And for a variety of reasons, it just wasn’t the right fit for me.

So, I decided to step back and reassess my priorities. And as I stepped back, I came to realize that really it was the strict teaching in classical homeopathy that wasn’t really sitting right with me — that there’s only one way to use it. I was having a bit of a tough time with that, especially considering all that I had learned in The Academy.

And so, really, I started to do more research and look back on what I had learned in The Academy.

If you look at the “Organon” and its various editions written by Hahnemann himself, as well as the great book by Dr. Thomas Lindsley Bradford called “The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann,” it actually shows the progression of Hahnemann’s understanding of homeopathic methodology over time.

And if you look at it, the third edition is really different from the sixth edition. It’s obvious that there were changes and updates as Hahnemann unearthed and understood more about his craft.

And so that really stood out to me as a reality that there are more ways to use this modality than just one.

So, I think all of us would agree that scientists and practitioners need to be open to change and growth in their fields. The laws of the universe stay the same — like the Law of Similars, of course — because the Creator doesn’t change, and He put these laws in place. But our understanding of them and how they work is subject to change.

And so, I think no matter what field we’re in, human beings are constantly uncovering and learning more about God’s world. The Drs. Banerji and Practical Homeopathy® both humbly acknowledge this fact by blending a variety of methods together for a truly effective modality.

Kate:

So, what led you to this, what you’re calling “a coming home”?

Kelsey:

Yeah. Well, it’s interesting. In the midst of my searching, I was given a very sobering diagnosis, and it made me just stop everything completely and reassess what I knew about homeopathy.

The rubber met the road for me.

With this diagnosis, I had to ask myself, “What method of homeopathy would I employ during such a time?” And I turned to what I knew — and what I knew worked.

And that’s when I came home again to Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

Oh, I love the way you put that because we missed you when we didn’t see you, and we’re glad to have you back. And it’s very exciting what you’re doing, and I can’t wait to see what your future using this medicine and helping others leads to.

So, I want to ask you now to talk more about that coming home for you and what that felt like and what that means to you now.

Why Practical Homeopathy®?

Kelsey: (06:26)

The thing I love about Joette’s method and Practical Homeopathy® and what the Banerjis have put out is that these methods are accessible, and they’re reproducible.

So, even when I was in school, I would constantly refer people to Joette’s blog because she provides so much information, and she makes homeopathy so easy, anyone can use it.

And what I love is that this method is not out of touch. It’s really logical. And I think the best part — honestly for me because I love research — is that it’s backed up by over 200 years of clinical data and success enjoyed by the Drs. Banerji.

I truly believe that Practical Homeopathy® moves us forward. I’m reading a book right now about George Washington. And he was a farmer, and he was a master gardener. He came up with more effective ways to plant his crops, and in the book it talks about this invention that he made.

He developed a barrel with holes in it that could be rolled around in a field to drop seeds more efficiently. This was a fantastic invention at the time, but we would not use something like this today, right?

Kate:

Right. Yeah, that’s true.

Kelsey:

Right. Most large-scale farmers have developed greater technology to get the job done.

To me, this is not unlike what led to the development of Practical Homeopathy®. The method that Joette teaches has its roots in the genius findings of Hahnemann, while also making room for the discoveries and advancements that took place over time.

I mean, we would expect this kind of progression with any other form of science or technology, right?

Kate:

Right. Yes.

Kelsey:

So, like, the Banerjis and Practical Homeopathy® does not stay stuck in one place. They move us forward and allow us to expand our knowledge of just how this gorgeous modality works in daily life. I love that.

Kate:

You’ve really put a lot of thought into this, Kelsey, about the differences and the different methodologies and why you’ve come back to Practical Homeopathy®.

Kelsey:

Yeah. I mean, I think it helps to have both sides and to see sort of why people do what they do, and then to look at reality and see how science actually works and how things change over time. It really has helped me to have a foundation that is solid.

Success Story: A large, scary boil

Kate: (08:40)

Okay, Kelsey, let’s get to the meat of the podcast, which is your successes. I know you have a lot to share, but if you can boil it down to maybe three or four things that you think could be helpful to those who are listening today.

Kelsey:

Oh, that’s tough because there’s a lot of good things that have happened, but I’ll try.

Kate:

Okay.

Kelsey:

I will start with a neat story that was about me because that’s where I really learned how to use homeopathy was with myself first.

But essentially out of the blue, I got this boil, and it was super large and scary and developed really quickly. And so, at the time I didn’t have a lot of experience with homeopathy. And, of course, I did what most people would do, and I just went and got an antibiotic.

Well, we didn’t know that I was allergic to this antibiotic. And so, after one dose, I had a really bad reaction. It was anaphylactic. It was scary, and it really just made me think like, “I can never take this again.”

And so that, for me, was when the rubber met the road. I went searching, I found Joette’s blog. The blog name is “Nailing MRSA with Homeopathy,” and I just thought, “Well, let me go ahead and try these remedies. I’ll see if they work.”

And within just a few days, the boil that was angry, red, infected was completely better, and it just blew my mind.

Unfortunately, in that same story, I endured the most horrendous gut dysbiosis following this antibiotic, which can happen sometimes. I was at my wits’ end, Kate. I didn’t know what I was going to do.

I was very limited on what I could eat. It was like overnight my world changed. And if you do any research about gut dysbiosis, you know that this can happen for folk.

And so, I went crawling to Joette — as she says people often do — to homeopathy. And I had seen functional medical doctors; I had seen allopathic physicians. And truly Joette and Practical Homeopathy® was what got me up the mountaintop and down again.

From there, I was absolutely hooked. So, I became a client of Joette, and she recommended a protocol specific to gut dysbiosis.

Those are in the Good Gut, Bad Gut course for those of you that have it or are looking to learn more. And it actually changed my life. It made me so much better.

In about six months, I was back to my normal self.

Success Story: Staph infection

Kelsey: (10:57)

Okay. The next story I have is about a family member who got a staph infection on her lip.

Now, this family member was getting a makeover done and was using borrowed lipstick. And unfortunately, she had already had a little bit of a canker sore on her lip, and within just a few hours of getting the makeover, her lip got really big. I mean, it happened quickly.

And so, she reached out to me. Went to bed that night (didn’t seem like that big of a deal), but by morning her lip had doubled in size. She could barely close her mouth, and it was severely infected.

She had a staph infection.

And so, we worked together, and she basically gave herself eight hours before she was going to take an antibiotic. She ordered the antibiotics in the morning; she took the remedies recommended in the morning as well. And by that evening, her lip was completely down. And by the next day, the infection was gone. She was amazed.

We found a protocol for such an instance on Joette’s blog called “Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning.” And so, if you want to look there for that information, it’s all there.

But it was truly one of those moments where we thought, “Is this going to work?” And it did, and both of us became even bigger believers.

Kate:

Oh, good. So, she didn’t ever end up taking the antibiotic for her.

Kelsey:

She didn’t. They were ready to go — available for her if she needed them — but she did not need them.

Kate:

That’s awesome.

Okay, and I think you have one more story that you’re going to share with us.

Success Story: Insomnia

Kelsey: (12:21)

Yes. This one is just a sweet one.

I spend a lot of time with my mom. And she just turned 70, and she has been experiencing insomnia, and it’s really gotten her down. And so, we looked on Joette’s blog. And on it you’ll find one called “Ditch the Drugs and Use Homeopathy for Insomnia.”

And so, my mom employed Ignatia 200C, and it has completely resolved her insomnia. She sleeps like a baby every night, and it’s glorious.

Kate:

Oh, I love that remedy. I think so many people could use that.

Kelsey:

Oh, it’s true.

Kate:

What a great thing. It’s tough when you can’t sleep for sure.

Kelsey:

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Joette brings homeopathy into the home

Kate: (12:57)

So, Kelsey, you have something funny that we had talked about earlier regarding lipstick and Joette.

Kelsey:

How ironic that we would talk about lipstick after that staph story, Kate.

Kate:

Right? Exactly.

So, tell me how you’re comparing Joette to Chanel and lipstick and homeopathy, and how you’re incorporating that all together.

Kelsey:

Okay. So, what I love about learning from Joette is that she literally puts red lipstick and Chanel on homeopathy. And what I mean by that is she has a way of making it stick. It’s beautiful. It’s elegant with her stories and her charisma.

And I also was thinking about it further. Another analogy I like to say is that I believe Joette is to homeopathy what Julia Child was to French cooking.

Okay. So, most of you know that Julia brought the beauties of French cuisine into the homes of the average American housewife. She made something that was very unreachable into an accessible pleasure for the ordinary home cook. And in the same vein, I believe Joette has brought an otherwise ethereal and quite out-of-reach modality into the home, in order to aid the family in caring for itself.

I mean, I believe French cooking should regularly grace our tables because it’s so good. And along those same lines, I think that homeopathy deserves its rightful place in the home first.

Both Julia and Joette have made that a possibility.

Closing advice

Kate: (14:23)

So, as we wrap up the podcast, do you have any final thoughts or wisdom that you want to share with the listeners?

Kelsey:

I do, Kate. I have two quotes I’d love to share with you if you’d let me.

Joette:

Sure.

Kelsey

The first one is from the great classic “The Hounds of Baskerville.” And in this book, Sherlock Holmes says, “It is not what we know but what we can prove.”

And as you know, the materia medica is made up of provings — both accidental and intentional. And so, with Holmes, we can confidently say that homeopathic medicine is not just about what we know in theory, but about what we can actually prove. And I just love that.

And the final quote I’d like to share is from T.S. Elliot, and it goes like this: “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.”

And why this quote rings true for me especially is because I went searching, when really, I had everything right in front of me.

I had these beautiful methods of Practical Homeopathy® and a stellar guide in Joette. And it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t explore or extend our learning, but when we do, we might just find out — like I did — that we come home with a deeper appreciation and understanding of what we had all along.

And so, with Holmes, I can confidently say that I don’t just know this to be true now. I can prove it.

Kate:

Oh, I love that.

Kelsey, it’s been a pleasure having you here, and I know the listeners have enjoyed the podcast, just like I have enjoyed talking to you. So, thank you so much for your time.

Kelsey:

Thank you so much, Kate. It’s been a pleasure.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

Kate:

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit PracticalHomeopathy.com.

Squirrel! A Practical Homeopathy® Success Story of a Little Furry Friend

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®, Squirrel! A Practical Homeopathy® Success Story of a Little Furry Friend

Friends, I’ve said it before: Homeopathy is an equal opportunity healing modality. No speciesism here. Whether the sufferer is a man, woman, infant, senior, cow, camel, dog or even a squirrel, our well-chosen homeopathic medicines act in the same polite, effective, reproducible manner.

Case in point: I received an email from one of my Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group students that perfectly illustrates how additional education can help anyone be prepared for unexpected illness or injury.

It may be your family who needs you as their healer, or it could be a friend or co-worker. In this case, it was one of our furry friends who needed help, and this Practical Homeopathy® student knew just what to do.

Just look at his cute little face, fingers and toes, as you read the fascinating story in her own words.

The Squirrel

“So yesterday afternoon, I noticed a squirrel messing around with the squirrel baffle on my bird feeder. It seemed like he was trying to kick it off or something because he was really working at it!

“Then my teenaged son went outside to see what he was doing, and we realized he was caught – the fingers of both of his “hands” were caught in the seam of the squirrel baffle! He was flipping all around and squeaking, and it was all pretty horrifying, so I went inside and got a blanket, and my son got a screwdriver and between the two of us, managed to catch him and pry the baffle open enough to free his poor little mangled paws.

“I sent my son in to get a glass of water, and we put in a dose of Arnica 200 and Aconite 200, stirred it up, and managed to drip a few drops in his mouth.

“I had a wound spray made of water with Calendula, Arnica, and Hypericum that we sprayed on his poor little hands.

“Then we popped him in a dog carrier and let him hide out under the blanket while we looked for a wildlife rehabber (I have cats, so I didn’t want them catching him if he couldn’t climb trees well).

“When we got to the rehabber about an hour and a half later, he was still hiding out under the blanket – until the rehabber tried to get him out! Then he started to zip around in the crate, and when the rehabber managed to net him, found the tiniest hole in the net, squeezed through, parkoured off my son, and CLIMBED A TREE!

“Our last sight of him was about 25 feet up an oak.

“The rehabber couldn’t catch him and said he’d keep an eye out for him and try to give him some nuts with antibiotics if he could. (I have my doubts that he’ll ever see him again!)

“I was so amazed that those poor little mangled fingers were ready to work after so little time! Homeopathy (and tough squirrels) for the win!

“(This is after many, MANY semi-comatose lizards that my cats have brought in, treated with a dose of Aconite and a dose of Carbo veg in a little dish of water that we soak their bellies in and sit them in the sun, leading to miraculous revivals!)”

— Beth V.*

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

Well done, Beth. I’m sure that you and your son have attained hero status among your backyard residents … not to mention your family and friends (and probably one impressed animal rehabber).

You are well on the pathway to health freedom through Practical Homeopathy®.

I urge everyone to follow your example and be ready for anything. As I’ve said before, accidents don’t make appointments. We must be prepared for anything … at any time. Preparation is one of the beauties of this intellectually delicious study.

Join us!

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Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

P.S. If you have not yet joined a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group, my friend, what are you waiting for? The time to prepare is NOW, and new study groups are forming all the time.

Order your study guide today, and you’ll be directed to a list of study group leaders, including my experienced Ambassadors who are forming classes.

I learned homeopathy through a study group, and it’s a method I recommend wholeheartedly. Learning with others not only gives you a glimpse into conditions your family may not have experienced (yet) and also provides a close-knit support group to stand with you when trouble arises.

You never know when a squirrel — or a loved one — may need your help.

*Lightly edited for clarity.

Podcast 170 — Practical Professionals: A Skeptical Nurse Becomes a Confident Practical Homeopath™

In this podcast, we cover:

00:59 Introduction: A Skeptical Nurse Becomes a Confident Homeopath

02:03 Why look for alternatives to conventional medicine?

05:27 “Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?”

06:21 Tip #1: Don’t wait to start

JoetteCalabrese.com

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

08:42 Tip #2: A tincture of time

10:01 Tip # 3: Fear not

12:01 Success Stories

13:30 Closing advice: Give Practical Homeopathy® a chance

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Joette’s Mighty Members

FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 170.

Joette:

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®.

Introduction: A Skeptical Nurse Becomes a Confident Homeopath

Kate: (00:59)

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m so glad that you’re here with us today.

I can’t wait to introduce you to our special guest. If you’ve ever felt stuck between conventional medicine and natural options or if you’ve wondered whether homeopathy could really work for serious everyday family health challenges, today’s episode is going to speak straight to your heart.

Joining us today is Erin. She’s a registered nurse with decades of experience. She’s also a mom, a breast cancer survivor, and now a successful homeopath.

Erin went from being deeply skeptical of the little white sugar pills to using Practical Homeopathy® confidently for everything from insomnia and vertigo to abscesses, injuries and chronic conditions in her family.

So, Erin, I want to welcome you to the podcast. It’s so great to have you here, finally. We’ve been waiting for the listeners to hear your story.

Erin:

Thank you, Kate. I am so happy to be here.

Why look for alternatives to conventional medicine?

Kate: (02:03)

Oh, I’m happy you’re here.

So, let’s start at the beginning. You are a registered nurse — have been for many years — and you followed the conventional medicine paradigm with your family. What finally made you start looking for alternatives?

Erin:

It actually started with our oldest child, when he entered kindergarten. After about two weeks, the school called us and told us that he needed to be medicated because he couldn’t sit still, and he was too disruptive.

My husband and I weren’t willing to jump to medication as a first step. That led us down the common path many people take. We tried herbalism, essential oils, naturopathy, functional medicine, but everything felt so complicated and time-consuming or just managing symptoms without really giving any lasting improvement.

We stayed in those approaches for a while simply because we didn’t know there was anything better.

Kate:

Right. And then you faced a health crisis. Tell us about what that was and what happened afterward that led you to homeopathy, if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

Erin:

Oh, sure. So again, I was completely in the Western medicine paradigm with my routine checkups. And I went to just a regularly scheduled appointment, and they found something that led to more tests. Eventually I ended up with a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Again, I followed every recommendation they had. I did the surgery and the treatments — the whole protocol. But when it was over, I was left with all the side effects that I wasn’t expecting: the months of insomnia with the crushing exhaustion and the brain fog and the anxiety. And then the constant vertigo started day and night, and I just really had no quality of life at that point.

My mom kept telling me about this lady on the internet named Joette, who had something that could help. She kept offering me these little white sugar pills. And at first, I completely brushed it off.

I thought my mom was falling for some internet charlatan, and I was genuinely concerned for her because now that became an extra worry that I didn’t feel that I had, I guess, the brain power to deal with.

Kate:

That’s funny. So, I think a lot of listeners can relate to that skepticism.

So, what finally made you try these little white pills?

Erin:

Honestly, it was desperation. The insomnia was unbearable, and my thought was, “If I can just sleep, maybe I can function again.”

So, I agreed to try the remedy that my mom had learned from Joette’s blog. It was Coffea cruda. And within three days, I was sleeping again. I could not believe it.

My mom never once said, “I told you so.” She was very gracious in that regard.

But a few days later, I mentioned how terrible my vertigo was. And, of course, my mom said Joette had a protocol for that, too.

Even though I was still on the prescription medicine that was causing the vertigo, I decided to try it. It took about 10 days before I began noticing a real difference. And over many months, the vertigo finally improved significantly — I would say, 90 to 95%. And I was amazed all over again.

Kate:

Yeah. Vertigo can be debilitating. So, I can imagine you were very relieved.

What came next for you was you wanting to go deeper and really study this. Tell me about that.

“Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?”

Erin: (05:27)

Sure. I just kept thinking, “Why didn’t I learn about this in nursing school?” I knew that I needed to learn more. And that’s when I heard that Joette was opening her Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

My mom encouraged me to apply. Even though I felt brand new to homeopathy, I decided to go ahead and try it. And I was part of the Pioneer class of 2022.

Then I went on to complete the Mastery program, and now I’m in my third year of the Mastermind program.

It truly changed my life. I’m now living my dream of helping others, and I owe it all to Joette and my persistent mom and Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:

What a long way you’ve come, Erin. I mean, think about it. You didn’t even know what homeopathy was, and now this is a big part of your life, and you actually see clients. So, it’s very exciting.

Erin:

Yes.

Tip #1: Don’t wait to start. Practical Homeopathy® meets you wherever you are.

Kate: (06:21)

So, Erin, you’ve put together some top tips for listeners of this podcast who may be just starting out or a little hesitant. So, I’d love it if you could go through them.

And your first tip is: Don’t wait to start. Can you explain what you mean by that?

Erin:

Absolutely. Yes. Don’t wait to start learning or using homeopathy. I think so many people feel like they need to learn everything first or they need to clean up their diet or change all their habits before they can begin using homeopathy. But Practical Homeopathy® meets you exactly where you are on your wellness journey.

You don’t have to be perfect or fully prepared. Just begin.

Joette has wonderful resources on her website. You can just go to JoetteCalabrese.com and click on the “New to Homeopathy” link.

You can also click on the link for her blogs or podcasts and just start listening and reading. I send these links out to people all the time because they are just so informative.

I also think it’s really important to find a community of like-minded people — your tribe, right? That’s what we call it. And now we talk about finding our tribe.

A really great way to do that is to take the Gateway class that Joette has written.

Kate:

It’s called Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®, and it’s a study guide that you can use to guide you through a study of homeopathy.

Erin:

Yes. I teach that class, and so do many others. It’s a great way to meet other people who are wanting to learn homeopathy also.

Kate:

And if you’re looking for a community of people to do that with, once you purchase the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study guide, there is a list of study group leaders on the website that you’ll see.

And also, Joette has a Facebook page called Joette’s Study Group, Find Your Study Group Friends. So, that’s where people who are leading study groups post, “I’m leading a study group starting next Thursday.” And they give all the information, so you could find a group of people there to go through your study guide with.

That’s great advice, Erin. I love that.

Okay. Let’s move on to your second tip, Erin, which is about being patient with the homeopathic medicines. Talk to us about that.

Tip #2: A tincture of time

Erin: (08:42)

I think this is probably the hardest part for most of us (it certainly was for me): the waiting for the homeopathic medicines to work. Because homeopathy is not like taking Tylenol or Benadryl or something that forces our body to do something immediately.

It’s more like giving the body a set of instructions that it reads and follows at its own pace to bring itself back into balance.

So, for chronic issues especially, patience is key.

Sometimes you experience a quick resolution with the homeopathics. But it can also take time, as I said, especially when you’re healing chronic conditions you’ve had for many years.

Healing also isn’t always linear. Sometimes it’s two steps forward and one step back. There are good days and not-so-good days, but overall, from start to finish, we see that we’re headed towards healing.

Kate:

Kind of like when you had the vertigo, I imagine, Erin, is what you’re talking about: when it didn’t happen overnight that your vertigo was completely gone, but you mentioned it was days that it gradually kept getting better.

Erin:

Yes, exactly.

Kate:

Great advice, Erin, to be patient with the medicines and consistent. I think that’s the other thing. Yeah.

Erin:

Right.

Kate:

You have to take them.

Tip # 3: Fear not

Kate: (10:01)

And your third tip gets to the heart of why so many of us are drawn to homeopathy. Tell us about that.

Erin:

Yes. Take control and conquer your fear.

Practical Homeopathy® has removed so much of the fear surrounding illness in our family and replaced it with real hope. Since I took the first dose of Coffea cruda, we’ve faced all sorts of challenges.

My dad has suffered with tremors for many years. I was in the first year of The Academy studies, and Joette spent a great deal of time teaching us about our homeopathic medicines, and she does it alphabetically.

So, fortunately for me, Cuprum metallicum was a C. It’s at the beginning of the alphabet, and I learned about it pretty shortly in. I wanted to help my dad with the Cuprum for his tremors, and it did! Over the course of several weeks, we saw an improvement in his tremors for about 50%, but then it stopped. It plateaued right there.

So, I was concerned, and I wanted to talk to Joette about what do we do now.

But while I was having my consultation with Joette, my dad and my mom got together and decided, “Well, if a 6C worked, we’ll try it in a 200C.” And they switched that to a 200C.

And he had had a head injury several years ago that had taken away all of his sense of smell and taste, and a few weeks on the 200C, suddenly he was able to smell and taste again. Not everything, but about 50%.

So, it was truly amazing that head injury was old. It wasn’t what I thought we were working on. I was just simply looking at the tremors, and we were able to help both with the same medicine.

Kate:

That’s so funny that they just went ahead and made that change. What a great thing. And we know that Cuprum is one of the top remedies — Cuprum metallicum, that is — is one of the top remedies for head injuries. So that’s great.

Success Stories

Erin: (12:01)

Yes. Then I’ve used the first year of The Academy — A, the beginning of the alphabet. Arnica, at that point, was the only remedy I had learned in The Academy.

And I burnt my thumb on the hot burner of a stove, and it immediately turned white and kind of crispy. And I didn’t know about other remedies other than Arnica. So, I just started taking Arnica. I took like three doses, and the pain went away, and it never even blistered. So, I was truly amazed by that as well.

Kate:

Arnica never ceases to amaze me.

Erin:

I know.

Kate:

It’s useful for so many things. Yeah.

Erin:

Yeah. I have people ask me, “Well, can I use Arnica for that? ” And I’m thinking, “Probably.”

Kate:

What else do you have, Erin?

Erin:

So we’ve used, again, homeopathy for so many different things within our own family with internal abscesses and pleurisy, pneumonia, UTIs, migraines, chronic back pain, sciatica, poison ivy, allergies, eczema, road rash, essential tremors, the irregular heartbeat, frozen shoulder, low thyroid, high blood pressure, ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety. I mean, the list goes on.

The Practical Homeopathy® has risen to every single one of those challenges for us.

Kate:

Well, that’s amazing. And what an inspiring list, and I’m sure you have so much more that you could talk about.

Closing advice: Give Practical Homeopathy® a chance

Kate: (13:30)

Before we wrap up today, is there anything else that you would like to share with our listeners?

Erin:

Just that if you’re feeling overwhelmed or skeptical like I once was, give it a chance. Start small, be patient and watch what happens. The results can truly be life-changing.

Kate:

Oh, Erin, thank you so much. That was beautiful. I appreciate you sharing your personal story that took you from a skeptical nurse and cancer survivor to a confident homeopath, and you’re truly helping families every day. I love hearing what you’re doing. Your journey is an encouragement to me and all of us.

So, friends, if you’re listening to this podcast and Erin’s story resonated with you, I want to encourage you to share this with someone else that you know might be suffering as well, and want to share homeopathy with.

Consider, as Erin said, going to Joette’s website and just starting … reading her blogs and listening to the podcasts. And consider possibly, even like Erin, joining The Academy at some point the next time a class opens up.

As you said, Erin — so well — Practical Homeopathy® helps us to be fearless, and it truly puts us back in the driver’s seat of our health and the health of our families.

So, I want to thank you for listening today. Thank you, Erin, for being here. And until next time, stay curious, be empowered and use Practical Homeopathy® to take charge of your health with confidence.

Joette:

It’s my honor to share many lessons on this simple method of using homeopathy for free —without affiliates or advertising — here in my podcasts, but also my blog posts and Monday Night Lives.

Kate:

To learn more and find out if homeopathy is a good fit for your health strategy, visit PracticalHomeopathy.com.

The 10th Anniversary of the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: Changing Lives One Family at a Time.

For many, my Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum has opened the pathway to health freedom, as students come to the invaluable realization that they can hold in their own hands the ability to treat their families’ ills … themselves.

It all began ten years ago.

It’s hard to believe, but in 2016, I wrote the inaugural edition of the Gateway to Homeopathy. I intended for it to be what reading, writing and arithmetic are to proper, traditional fundamental education: the principles that will stay with you for a lifetime … the tools and resources you need most.

Within a month, over 350 students had joined study groups, and I knew immediately that we were onto something.

You see, even as far back as ten years ago, there was a societal yearning to discover an alternative to conventional Western medicine, a desire for health care autonomy, and a hunger to learn homeopathy via a less esoteric, less complex methodology.

During my studies under the Banerjis — medical doctors whose clinic in Kolkata, India, treated over a thousand patients a day with homeopathy — I promised Dr. Pratip that I would bring homeopathy into the home by teaching mothers, grandmothers and others everything I possibly could.

And I’ve kept my promise, starting with the Gateway to Homeopathy.

A proof-of-concept decades in the making

The way I initially learned homeopathy almost 40 years ago was effective and exhilarating because I wasn’t alone. A group of friends and I started a study group. We met every week for years, comparing notes, asking questions, discovering answers and learning, learning, learning.

My little group found it advantageous to use a now-out-of-print homeopathic study guide to ensure we all were studying the same information every week. We all were on the same page, literally and figuratively. And by being on the same page, we could remain focused on what we needed to learn. It also augmented our learning because the guide incorporated the perspectives of other great minds in the field.

So, years later, I wrote Gateway to Homeopathy as a means to guide others in replicating that same, successful learning method. The Gateway was (and continues to be) a study guide that takes individuals by the hand through foundational lessons in homeopathy. Once complete, a student is well on their way to developing the skills to become the health care provider for their family and friends.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

From humble beginnings

In 2016, we were a small, bootstrapped company. My office was attached to my home — a converted garage. My team, including Shannon and Eileen (whom many of you know from calls into my office), my husband, my kids and I spent countless hours printing, collating, hole-punching, spiral-binding and shipping the Gateway to Homeopathy study guides.

Yes. We did everything ourselves.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

To hear Eileen tell the tale, punching those holes was the hardest part. It took tremendous arm strength to punch even just a few pages of each 175+ page book at a time. Then, any spare moment we had away from clients or the phones was spent on the tedious work of installing and bending the spiral binder.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

The entire process was time-consuming, yes. But it was such fulfilling work … knowing that our cause was bigger than any of us. We were changing society, one home at a time.

We were riding a wave. I truly believe we’ve contributed to the wave, but I also believe this has been an organic wave, too, because people are still looking for alternatives.

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®

A seismic shift in thinking

The world has shifted, my friends. People have had it with the old ways. People are now questioning, and that’s good. When we don’t question, we more easily fall into other people’s agendas — agendas that are not always in our best interest.

We know we’re making a difference when schools and even other homeopaths want to associate with us. We’ve reached a point where we’re recognized, and we have the Gateway to thank. Our study group curriculum raised the visibility — not so much of us, per se — but rather of regular folks just like you using homeopathy in the home. That’s Practical Homeopathy®.

Indeed, learning homeopathy is the anti-anxiety remedy for moms. Instead of falling into, “My baby’s sick! I don’t know what to do. What should I do? I need somebody to help me!” educated moms can handle a childhood illness on their own. Instead of running to the ER or taking a synthetic drug of commerce, Mom knows what to do.

And for the record, Dads can know what to do, too! In 2022, we had our first all-male Gateway study group. Since then, even more men have joined our movement.

The educational confidence that Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® provides is soothing to any parent who’s freaking over family illnesses, while also checking the box of much-needed community. Associating with like-minded people in a study group allows students to grow together by sharing the ups, downs, successes and victories.

Plus, having a trusted study group partner to text in the middle of the night can be a true lifeline when baby’s crying, and mom and dad’s minds aren’t functioning in top form.

Joette Calabrese, Gateway to Practical Homepathy® II

As time marched on, a companion study guide was born: Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

To add to the foundational education in the Gateway curriculum in 2019, I wrote a companion volume: Gateway to Homeopathy II. This continuing education covers topics such as the manufacturing processes of homeopathic remedies, liquid dosing, Mother Tinctures, cell salts and the use of higher potencies. Plus, you’ll learn how to address colds and flu, headaches, allergies, and homeopathy for emergencies.

Joette Calabrese, Gateway to Practical Homepathy® I

And a new revision of Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I

As you probably know, homeopathy is not capricious. It’s not a flavor of the month that changes with the wind. Indeed, homeopathic medicines have been studied and employed for 230 years. The Cinchona officinalis Hahnemann used in the late 1700s is the same Cinchona officinalis we use today.

However, through the decades I’ve been in professional practice, I synthesized my clinical observations, my work with the Banerji doctors in India, the French protocols, Joe De Livera’s “Joepathy,” and a full measure of repertorization into a fully realized system — Practical Homeopathy®. I believe this simplified method is not only practical but also essential for the future of homeopathy.

So, in 2023, I revised the original Gateway to Homeopathy I to include my honed methodology, updated teaching techniques, and more protocols. The Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I, Second Edition, has been even more popular than the first. So much so, in fact, that we have translated the Gateway study guide into Spanish and, coming soon, into German.

The word on the street about Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® is …

But don’t take it from me. Here are some emails my office has received from real students over the past decade:

“I can’t tell you how happy I am to have taken Joette’s Gateway to Homeopathy 1, Second Edition course. There is no way I could have learned the foundational principles of homeopathy and more in such a short time on my own. The classes gave me a clear understanding and a firm stepping stone to further my education in homeopathy. Joette made what seemed so hard for me to learn on my own easy, enjoyable, and fun. Thank you, Joette! You are a gift to me and have changed my life and that of my family, giving me the confidence, with your help, to learn more about homeopathy.” — Diane S.

“In the last year and a half, I have taken Gateways 1 & 2 and also completed the allergies class. First of all, I can’t even express how thankful I am that God led me to homeopathy at just the right time. As a busy mom of two young kids, I am beyond grateful for the time, care and dedication that Joette and the team have taken to make this accessible and understandable to regular people like me. I have successfully been able to treat my family and friends for a myriad of acute and chronic issues. Anyway, thanks again for all the knowledge that you share. Homeopathy has given my family so much freedom in such an unstable world, medically speaking. We have a thankfulness tree that the kids and I add leaves to each year, and you guys even made it on the tree.” Abbie D.

“The Live Q & A [an optional component of Gateway study groups] with Joette was a positive experience. Joette is a great teacher and speaker. She is very enthusiastic about homeopathy and answered everyone’s questions in a way that we could understand. The experience motivated me to continue to learn more. It was nice to be surrounded with so many like-minded people (students) who want to use homeopathy to improve their health and the health of their families and communities.” Sharon S.

“I enjoyed GW1 so much that I decided to take it again from a different leader to meet more like-minded people.” — Deborah G.

“I can say, without a doubt, that the contents of this study group have dramatically altered the course of my family’s future health. I am absolutely astounded with homeopathy (what it is and what it does), and my paradigm of health has been permanently shifted. I literally see every aspect of health from a refreshingly new angle. My mind is blown! I feel as though anvils have been lifted off my shoulders. I now feel a new confidence in myself, my motherly instincts, my ability to have greater control not only in prevention but in the outcomes of accident and illness.” — Charissa S.

Won’t you join us?

Today, over 20,000 people have walked through the Gateway. Many have since continued their education through Protocol Courses and The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

However, Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® I remains our cornerstone. We certainly didn’t realize that’s what it would become when we printed off our first copy ten years ago. But in the ensuing decade, we’ve built a strong, supportive community of healers, and their numbers increase every day.

I hope you will join us in our celebration: 10 years of sparking curiosity, illuminating the pathway to health independence, strengthening families and forging leaders. Find experienced leaders, Discovery Ambassadors, to lead you through the study guide curriculum at FindAPracticalHomeopath.com.

Alternatively, Advocates for Homeopathy and other leaders can be found on the Joette’s Study Group: Find your new Study Group Friends’ Facebook page.

Or, once you’ve already purchased the study guide, you can find a study group 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 along with when their classes are starting.

Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®! Let’s make the next ten years just as impactful as the last.

Warmly,

Joette Calabrese, Practical Homeopathy®