In this podcast, we cover:

01:00   Introduction: If this were my last podcast, what would my message to you be?

02:11   What happened?

03:40   Conventional drugs suppress … until they later cause other issues

04:14   Do the opposite.

07:22   Bring healing back into the home with Practical Homeopathy®

09:20   Avoid unnecessary drugs and construct a timeline of the drugs you’ve already taken

11:11   If this were my last message to you:

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

Joette’s Learning Center

The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

PracticalHomeopathy.com

Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

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 166, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have 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: If this were my last podcast, what would I say?

Joette: (01:00)

Hi friends, Joette here. I had some ideas the other day that I wanted to pass on to you.

I asked myself, what is the one message I really want to leave with you, something that’s poignant for me in my life and perhaps might be for you. I was thinking, if this were my last podcast, what would I say?

What’s at the heart of everything I teach?

These are my thoughts. If you’re new here — new to my podcasts, my blog, my courses — you might think it’s just about fixing, you know, eczema or chronic fatigue or whatever acute mess your families might be suffering in now.

And yes, we deliver those Practical Protocols. I teach them because they work. Eczema? Well, here’s the protocol that helped time after time. Postpartum exhaustion? We know the medicines. We’ve got them all ready for you. They’re in my blogs; they’re in my courses.

Those will uproot the condition, and they’re the upfront answers. They’re what give you the interest and the excitement about being able to help yourself and your family because they get — pretty often — fast results.

What happened?

(02:11)

But once everything clears — the skin clears, the energy returns — something bigger often dawns on moms and grandmothers and men, too.

They look back and say, “Oh, my gosh. All these years, I’ve been slathering steroids on my children’s arms and legs, and it’s only gotten worse in the long run. Now there’s asthma. Now there are behavioral issues. Now there are food intolerances, dairy, wheat. Everything’s off the table. What has happened?”

Well, my friends, you’re not alone. I’ve been there too. What happened is we lost our freedom — our medical freedom. We handed it over to industries, pharmaceuticals, food giants, even governments, who told us, “This is the way. Take the pill. Smear the cream. Trust the experts.”

And we did.

That’s a collective “we” because I was there too. We believed that the quick fix was the fix. So, I started right where so many of you did.

Except for me, my health was wrecked in my 20s and 30s before I had children. I had eczema as an infant all the way into high school. I had allergies, chemical sensitivities — so many sensitivities — that by the time my kids came along, I had already been questioning and digging and trying to find answers. I learned.

Conventional drugs suppress … until they later cause other issues

(03:40)

And the big “ahas” were that conventional drugs don’t heal. They suppress, and they kick the can down the road, and that suppression shows up later without us realizing what the connection is. And I guarantee that the doctor who prescribed it will not make that connection as well.

The suppression shows up in gut issues, more allergies — more deepened allergies, more things to be allergic to, chronic fatigue. It’s the same story in tens of thousands of cases I’ve taken over the years. Nothing new under the sun.

Do the opposite.

(04:14)

Here’s what I’ve come up with. Here’s the easy rule I taught my kids, and it’s a little oversimplified, but you’ll get the idea, I think.

I taught my children from an early age that whatever everybody else is doing to do the opposite. That’s the shortcut to clarity. So, at least if nothing else, they’re questioning.

I can hand you the protocol for eczema. I can give you the protocols for fatigue, and it often works beautifully. But I hope what follows is an awakening, a little fire in the belly, a feeling of being duped, a feeling of being gaslit, thinking, “Why didn’t anyone tell me that suppressing the skin condition would drive the problem deeper into asthma, behavioral struggles, or gut dysbiosis?”

Now, this is not just moms and kids here, in this part of the world. It’s global. And too many doctors — good ones included — have been trained by Big Pharma. It makes them the retail arm of Big Pharma.

No, they’re taught, diet doesn’t matter. What you eat doesn’t count. Herbs? No, don’t be silly. Change your lifestyle? Nah.

Now, I have to say these doctors generally mean well, but they’ve been gaslit too. They’ve been gaslit through their education because their education is promulgated by an industry, an industry that teaches them to use drugs and only drugs.

So, the last few years have made it crystal clear. We’ve seen the forces at play, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

You know, it’s like buying a red Volkswagen. Suddenly, Volkswagens that are red are everywhere. It’s an old story. I don’t even know if people buy and sell red Volkswagens any longer, but that’s the idea.

You hear the same story from neighbors, from church friends, from homeschool co-ops, fellow moms. “We went to the doctor, got the drugs, and it got better for a short while. Now things are worse. Not right away, but months, years later, everything’s worse.”

And we need to sing the same song in unison. Bring control back to the family. And of course, who does that usually? Moms and grandmothers. Because we notice the little nuances, the niggly truths that we’d rather ignore. We’re thinking, “Oh, it’s just a mild antibiotic for ear infection.”

That’s often what pediatricians will call it. It’s no longer an antibiotic. It’s a “mild” antibiotic to assuage the mother’s fears.

No, my friends, an antibiotic is an antibiotic. It’s like dropping a napalm bomb on the gut. It kills the bad bugs, sure. But it wipes out the good ones, too. And I’m sorry, even though I do believe that food can make a difference, no amount of yogurt, kombucha or probiotics can fully repopulate what’s been bulldozed, unless there’s true intentional work using homeopathy and even more intense diet.

Bring healing back into the home with Practical Homeopathy®

(07:22)

So, the first step: I urge people to stop running to a professional for every little thing.

Now, I’ve tried many paradigms over my 70-plus years since I was a child watching my mother question things as well. Back in the 50s, my mother was questioning. There just wasn’t an awful lot of information.

The only way that’s truly powerful, reproducible and empowering is learning a handful — at least start with a handful — of homeopathic medicines and using them comfortably for your children, your husband, your elderly parents, your pets.

Now, are there other pieces? Absolutely.

Prayer goes a long way without saying, I suppose. Good nutrition, real nutrition. We put clean fuel in our cars. Why not in our bodies and in our children’s bodies?

But my friends, I see Practical Homeopathy® as the game changer because it gently stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal itself. I’ve seen it over and over.

A woman crippled with rheumatoid arthritis — even wheelchair-bound women — walking, living, a near-normal life with homeopathy and a few diet tweaks. Not cured to tennis-pro level, but free from pain and dependence.

Now, it’s not as complex as we’re told. It’s actually simple living. Getting back to nature. Save the synthetic drugs for a true emergency. Not a relative emergency, a true emergency, like when you’re hit by a Zamboni, and you’ve been flattened on the ice rink, and you need surgery, or you face life-threatening infections.

Not for a sniffle, not for cosmetic fixes, not for ear infections, not for convenience, birth control, not for managing cholesterol numbers. These are all things that we can do ourselves without the synthetic drugs.

Avoid unnecessary drugs and construct a timeline of the drugs you’ve already taken

(09:20)

I want you to start, my friends, by considering avoiding unnecessary drugs. And you might be surprised at how many drugs that you or your family members might be taking that are indeed superfluous.

Then we can talk about uprooting the iatrogenic conditions they’ve created. Iatrogenic: great word, very powerful word. And it’s used in modern medicine. It’s used to describe a disease or a condition that has been caused by a drug or a health professional … that the condition was caused by that.

Now, most people think they haven’t overused meds until they construct a timeline. And so, I urge you, get a long sheet of paper and a pencil with a good eraser because you’ll change a lot as you go along the way, and you’ll be filling it in … the blanks. And you’ll be going back maybe a couple days later, and another, “Oh my gosh, I forgot about this or that.”

And then list every antibiotic all through the years from the beginning of your life. Every antibiotic, steroid, reaction, painkiller, injections. And look at it with a good eraser because you’ll forget half of them.

I did this myself, and I was stunned. Now, I haven’t taken a pharmaceutical drug since the age of 32 — well, except for a local anesthetic for a tooth extraction and one unavoidable surgery years ago.

So, I’m now 74. My old conditions, eczema from infancy, allergies should be worse because these diseases are progressive. But they’ve reversed because I learned something, and then I focused on it.

I skilled up.

I used homeopathy, and I tightened up my diet. So, it isn’t luck or good genes, my friends, it’s possible for you too. 

Reclaim your freedom

(11:01)

So, what is the message? My message to you — from an older woman to everyone else — is reclaim your freedom.

Question. Period. Defy. Period.

Take back control with Practical Homeopathy® and good diet. Do this, my friends, and you’ll be unstoppable. Why? Because the body wants to heal. It’s in the mode of homeostasis. It just needs the right stimulus.

Homeopathy provides it gently, powerfully, and without side effects.

So, that’s the heart of it. That’s what I’d say if this were my last message.

You’ve got this. Your family’s health freedom is in your hands. It’s just a matter of learning.

So, my friends, thanks for listening. Share this with a mom who needs to hear it, and I’ll see you next time.

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:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

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

No matter how much we wish we could snap our fingers, and our chronic illness or injury would magically disappear, that’s not the way homeopathy works. However, the problem is not with homeopathy; it’s with unrealistic expectations.

Homeopathy gently nudges the body toward homeostasis. The keyword there is gently. We’re not bludgeoning our bodies into submission, nor are we suppressing the symptoms so that we immediately “appear” to be better as the condition sinks deeper into our systems.

Correctly chosen homeopathic medicines trigger a natural, polite process in the body. True healing doesn’t follow our arbitrary schedule.

I explained this last summer in a Memo to Mighty Members — a lesson in my Mighties’ continuing education. However, after receiving several comments on the blogs regarding unmet expectations, I decided that all my readers need this information.

Back in 2022, I wrote a blog post regarding sleep apnea. I recall being concerned that readers new to homeopathy might expect a seemingly “instant” resolution to their chronic conditions, as can sometimes (although not always) occur with acute conditions.

At the time, I wrote:

“He didn’t expect perfection because perfection doesn’t exist! If anyone expects a chronic condition to vanish entirely in a matter of days, then they’re reading the wrong blog!

“Undoubtedly, acute conditions and infections can be uprooted in relatively short order with homeopathy. But chronic conditions take more time — and may, in fact, just fade into the background rather than be completely eradicated.

“Indeed, that’s our goal — to diminish a chronic condition until it no longer detracts from our ability to live a full and productive life.”

We have to manage our expectations.

In these days of fast, well, everything, we mustn’t expect homeopathy to behave in the same manner as allopathic pharmaceuticals. Drugs of commerce are usually designed to suppress symptoms, which may make it feel as though they are working quickly.

However, my friends, symptom suppression is not a cure. It does not mean that someone’s cold is gone simply because a dose of commercial decongestant spray unstuffed their nose.

No.

It just means that a synthetic medicament dried out all the mucous membranes. The underlying cold still exists, and the drugs may even cause urinary retention. Why? This unnatural drying out of delicate mucous membranes can cause just the right setting for bacteria to grow in the bladder. Then, what do ya know, just when you’re naturally getting over a cold … BAM! A UTI follows.

Homeopathy does not merely suppress symptoms. Instead, homeopathy usually plucks the condition from the inside out. This brings comfort to the suffering while also shortening the duration of an acute condition or alleviating a chronic condition over time.

Again, we must manage our expectations.

Recently, I met with a client whom I began working with years ago. (We’ll call her Lucy to protect her privacy.) During our initial consultation, I had no idea how long I would be working with her, but I knew it wouldn’t be easy or quick.

Lucy was in her seventies and had had severe psoriasis for pretty much her entire adult life. She’d taken steroids. She’d done everything she was “supposed “to do according to dermatologists, yet it had not improved. In fact, her psoriasis had only worsened, spreading to other parts of her body, accompanied by often maddening itching.

Her scalp was covered, as well as behind her ears and even inside her ears. Her hands, torso, and the tops of her legs were affected. She could never wear anything that wasn’t covering her legs or her arms.

And the itching was horrible!

Plus, she had been on psychotropic drugs for deep, chronic depression and anxiety for the last 15 years of her life. When she came to me, Lucy saw her psoriasis as the biggest issue. However, I saw all the various drugs and the psychological problem as the biggest issue.

You see, when we suppress skin conditions in a very dramatic way, such as what the medical community had been directing Lucy to do for all these years, it’s not uncommon to see it later manifest as depression.

In fact, it’s so common, I expect to see it every time I take a case like this. When a sufferer gets so depressed that they have no hope, they’re most likely not going to do what’s best for themselves and spiral downward.

Was this a quickly resolved case? Absolutely not. And time and again, Lucy questioned whether she should stay with the program.

We had to manage our expectations.

However, within the first year of utilizing homeopathic medicines, Lucy got off the psychotropic drugs.

Why? Because she had no more depression and anxiety.

As the depression ended, the psoriasis started to back off a little bit. Because she had recently moved, Lucy assumed that the change in climate was responsible for the slight improvement in her skin. However, when Lucy moved back again to her original home, she observed that she was still improving.

Now, Lucy realizes it was not the environmental change at all. It was the homeopathic remedies, slowly but surely, returning her body to homeostasis, emotionally and then physically.

So, my friends, this case was not a failure. However, had Lucy or I expected homeopathy to work instantaneously (or even in very short order), we might have felt it was a failure.

This took years! But because we had managed our expectations, we allowed homeopathy its due time to unwind the years of suppression and damage done by drugs of commerce. In this case, patience paid off.

While homeopathy can be thunderstrikingly “miraculous” in some cases (and those are usually the cases we hear the most about), it may require more time in others. Managing our expectations makes us Mighty!

If you enjoy this content, please consider joining Joette’s Mighty Members. This is the kind of extra information they receive each week, along with extra time with me after Monday Night Lives, a semi-weekly video lesson and more.

Why miss out when it’s so easy to join in? I look forward to counting you among my Mighties soon.

Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

P.S. And remember — all my Mighties qualify for a 10% discount on course purchases. If you need assistance getting your discount, email [email protected] for more information.

These days, Western culture seems to place a higher value on beautiful, pearly-white teeth. So much so, some people’s smiles now look as “perfect” as a line of Chiclets gum.

Some of the measures folks use to achieve that magazine-cover smile can be very irritating to the teeth and gums, often causing sensitive teeth and even receding gums.

Now, as you would naturally assume, I’m personally more interested in having healthy teeth (which, oddly enough, often translates to beautiful teeth). However, sometimes, even healthy teeth can become a bit oversensitive.

Practical Homeopathy® can help ameliorate tooth sensitivity.

YIPES! Straight-up tooth PAIN

Before we get into this, let me remind you that I’ve written about tooth pain on several occasions and given various homeopathic medicines to consider when choosing the tightest-fitting remedy for your particular situation.

If experiencing true tooth pain, I encourage you to read my blogs, Dental Health: Tooth Pain and Exquisite Tooth Pain, as well as When Tooth Extraction is Unavoidable (in case you’ve already gone that far).

SENSITIVE teeth

More often than tooth pain, folks may find themselves experiencing tooth sensitivity.

This can stem from overusing whitening strips, overbrushing, or even eating acidic foods. (Attention, those who enjoy sucking on lemons.)

Certain chemical-laden toothpastes designed to whiten teeth to that near-Chiclet white can also be a culprit, even affecting the gums. (Perhaps consider the healthier toothpowder I make for my family at home in Your Own Homemade Toothpowder, although even overusing that can be abrasive to the dentin.)

In my clinical experience, sufferers have told me that their teeth ache without a particular condition. In other words, if they were to go to the dentist, the dentist wouldn’t find anything.

The teeth are just sensitive, not injured or decayed. They may speak up in response to the temperature of beverages or breathing in cold air through the mouth. Certain foods might trigger a reaction. The sensitivity might occur only when biting down on the teeth and perhaps even radiate to the temples. I’d call it a toothache, but not high enough on a scale of 1 to 10 to call it tooth pain. (Think anything below a 5.)

That’s when we consider Mezereum 200, twice daily, until very much better. Keep in mind, we wouldn’t use it for a long period of time. Just a short period of time usually takes care of it, perhaps a few days or a week to determine that it’s acting. If there’s no improvement after that period of time, then stop and consider pivoting to another medicine. And obviously, if the condition worsens during that period, one would also halt the medicine and reconsider next steps (perhaps including a professional diagnosis).

My Academy of Practical Homeopathy® students attend an entire module dedicated to dental issues, so don’t think that this medicine is the only choice. Blog posts are too short to give a full, in-depth lesson, but they are a great place to get started and realize the possibilities.

Watching suffering turn to serenity is one of the best parts of my job. Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

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Warmly,

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And remember, all my Mighties qualify for a 10% discount on course purchases.

I look forward to seeing you there.

In this podcast, we cover:

01:00   Introduction: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This: Inspirational Homeopathic Success Stories From My Mastermind Group

03:00   Prerequisites for Practical Homeopathy’s Mastermind

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

04:03   Meet Sandy: A teaching moment featuring Aconite the Chicken

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® II

08:22   Meet Charis: Carrying a bunch of peers in her pocket paid off

13:44   Meet Breta: A CATastrophic pet illness remedied with homeopathy

17:57   Meet Noreen: Astonished the doctors by healing her husband’s kidney dysfunction

21:23   Meet Sheena: Amazes the veterinarian and neurologist by healing a seriously ill pup without conventional medicine

29:24   Meet Kirsten: A homeopath and teacher whose husband is now joining her practice

            Podcast 126: Moms with Moxie: From a Mom Just Like You to a Successful Practical Homeopath®!

34:23   Meet Ingrid: Sharing a Banerji Protocol that has helped so many

36:25   Meet Christy: Creating generational health with her son

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 165, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have 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: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This: Inspirational Homeopathic Success

Joette: (01:00)

Hi!

Kate:

Hi, Joette. It is very exciting to be with you this week because we are actually in person, which doesn’t happen too often — a couple times a year — but tell us where we are and what’s happening.

Joette:

Well, we’re in Florida, and a number of our Mastermind members joined us here for a great weekend.

This is fashioned after Masterminds that were started back in the turn of the last century when Napoleon Hill was charged with the job of gathering up the heads of industry, getting them together and having them meet and share information on what made them successful, asking each other to help. And it was basically a secret group.

So now, we’re not industrialists, but we’re going to learn from them. And instead, we’ve gathered together … we’ve been doing this, now, we’re going on our third year, where we gather together.

There are 12 of us in one unit, and we have gotten to know each other because we’re all asking each other for help with whatever it is we’re looking to accomplish in our lives. That help could be from “How to build my practice,” “How to teach Gateways more frequently,” “How to incorporate my family into my work,” “How to study better.”

Some of the members in the group have no interest in ever practicing or even teaching. What they want to do is to just keep in touch with those people that they have a great deal of regard for and get feedback.

And that’s really what it is. It’s melding of the minds. It’s concinnity at its best because it’s bringing all the minds together, and everyone is parlaying off of each other.

It sounds a little bit like a cacophony, but it isn’t. It really is very organized. Each person has their specific time at which they present, and then those around the round table (of the other 11) offer their suggestions, ideas and plans to help them build their year.

We’re meeting now, and then we’re going to meet every other week for an entire year. It’s really a spectacular opportunity for all of us.

Prerequisites for Practical Homeopathy’s Mastermind

Kate: (03:00)

So, in order to be in your Mastermind group, what do students need to have accomplished in order to join the group?

And I know there’s a wait list. Actually, right now we have a number of people who wanted to join, but weren’t able to necessarily get in this year, but we’re hoping in the coming years.

But tell me, what do these students have to have done to get in group?

Joette:

They have to have gone through The Academy, which is one full year, and the Mastery, which is 11 months. So, it’s quite a commitment. And they have to be interested in growing; growing themselves intellectually, emotionally, spiritual. Whatever it is that they’re looking to accomplish, that’s what they bring to the table and ask for help and then offer their help to others.

Kate:

So today, your listeners are going to get a rare look into your Mastermind group. And we’ve asked them to share some of their stories, right? It could be a story about their experience with homeopathy, a success story with homeopathy. It could be about how they’ve grown.

So, we’re going to take a peek now into what some of the conversations are in the Mastermind group.

Meet Sandy: A teaching moment featuring Aconite the Chicken

Joette: (04:03)

Let’s do that. Let’s go.

Hi, Sandy.

Sandy:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, Sandy, we’ve been together now a number of years through The Academy and then Mastery, now Mastermind. I’ve gotten to know you and appreciate your involvement in our Mastermind groups. So, I want to hear about your chicken story. I understand it’s got some humor to it.

Sandy:

It does. It was really an interesting experience. I was teaching Gateway, here in my office at this very desk, and heard a commotion from the garage, which is just down the hall. And ran down the hall. I excused myself from my Gatewayers because this was quite an alarming turn of events. There was a lot of yelling going on.

So, I ran in the garage, and I have had chickens, little chicks growing in there. They can’t be outside at that age. So, they’re about half grown until they get bigger, and they can go outside to the coop.

So, they’re in there doing their little thing, but my husband is in there with a shovel yelling uncontrollably. I ran over to him, “What is wrong?”

He said, “Look in the coop.”

And one of the chickens was completely wrapped up with a garden snake. Now the snake was about six feet long and about, probably, I don’t know, six inches in circumference — a big, mighty snake. And had my poor chicken wrapped up to the point where it couldn’t breathe.

So, we were just frantic. I was yelling … I’m sure my Gatewayers were back here, hearing all this going on. He’s trying to chop at the snake without hurting the chicken. And I’m like, “He’s going to kill it. He’s going to kill it.”

And finally, he separated them. My chicken was just like limp. I mean, I thought it had been asphyxiated. It was about on its way out.

So, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, my Gatewayers are waiting.” So, I ran in with my limp chicken, in this very desk, and they’re all like bug-eyed looking at me with this appeared-to-be a dead chicken.

And I laid it on my desk, and I’m like, “Oh, I’m so sorry, you guys.” I told them what happened. Then I thought to myself, “What a great teaching moment.”

So, I got my Aconite, put a little tiny bit in the chicken’s beak (just cracked it open).

And it wasn’t, I don’t know, 10 seconds before the chicken went “bwuck, bwuck.” It started walking all over the desk, landed on my shoulder. It was just like back to normal. And I thought, “Man, this is just the greatest teaching moment.”

They were all aghast.

And I told them, I said, “I know homeopathy seems a little esoteric and hard to grasp, but when you see it in action, what it can do …” It’s just so encouraging to them.

So luckily, the chicken’s okay to this day and laying eggs and doing fine.

Joette:

They’ll never forget it, Sandy. They’ll never forget that story.

They must be telling their friends and their neighbors and their relatives, “She saved the chicken. It was dead. She saved the chicken right before our very eyes!”

Oh, what a great story.

Sandy:

It was really fun. And some of them have gone on to be in my Gateway II. The new ones that have come in, they’ll say, “You won’t believe it. She brought a chicken back to life.”

Joette:

“Right in front of us. Right before our eyes!”

Now, does this chicken have a name?

Sandy:

Yes, it is now called Aconite.

Joette:

Of course! I knew it had to be something like that. Aconite the Chicken.

Oh, Sandy, what a great story. So, tell us, what else are you doing?

Sandy:

Oh, I’m just trying to learn more about homeopathy every day because it’s such an important medicine that people don’t know about. It’s kind of made it my life’s mission to kind of explain homeopathy to as many people as I can and get them on board and teach them about it. And then I do a lot of reading; I do a lot of gardening and listen to you … listen to you every week on Monday.

Joette:

I heard your goals today, and you said 10 books per month you plan to read. You’ve been an avid reader, and now you’re going to carry on with that and read 10 books a month. That is spectacular.

Sandy:

Yeah. I’m really enjoying that process and kind of making that competition with myself and wanting to exceed my goal this year. So, we’ll see. And I’ll report back to the group when we meet in a couple of weeks.

Joette:

And you can see why, friends, this is so inspirational because I’m surrounded by women who excel, who really find a way — regardless of what else they’re doing in their lives — to carry on and keep their intellect sharp and rapid.

So, thank you so much, Sandy. What a great little story. I love the story about Aconite the Chicken.

Sandy:

Thank you. I’m so happy to share it. I think it’s a funny story.

Joette:

It’s great. It’s great.

Meet Charis: Carrying “a bunch of peers in her pocket” paid off

Joette: (08:22)

Hi, Charis.

Charis:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

It’s so nice to see you. Let’s do this. Tell us your story.

Charis:

Well, so my story was that my husband came home from a business trip. He had been flying, and he was saying, “I have this tickle in my throat.” And then that tickle moved down to something was gurgling around in his chest, and he was complaining about it.

But he was also starting to stress because his job means he’s traveling every single week, but he’s also talking all the time. Like he’s always doing Zooms; he’s always talking. So, he was getting concerned because as the tickle was moving into his chest, it was making him so he couldn’t cough. And the way he was describing it, it made me think that it was sounding like pneumonia or something in that category.

So, I started thinking, “Okay, I have to treat him for pneumonia.” So, I got Kali carb, Antimonium tart. I also got Ipecac 30 because it was getting to be a nagging cough.

I started pulling out the things that I know to give him when it starts going that way. Then …

Joette:

Why? Has he had this experience before, Charis? Is this something that happens to him?

Charis:

He’s had a nagging cough. He always has had chest issues. He’s always had bronchial issues. He has asthma, and he’s always stressed that it’s immediately going to go into his chest. Like, it’s going to become a huge chest ordeal.

Then he’s always like, “I have to go to the doctor to get it figured out,” — that whole thing. But at the same time, he didn’t have time to go to the doctor because he had a huge meeting the following week.

So, essentially, I got it so the tickle moved out of his chest, and then it went to his head, and then his head exploded. So, then he started having all of this congestion in his nose, and his head felt like he could barely function or think, and it was clouded. And this was over the weekend.

So then, I was like, I have to treat him for a sinus infection, like the beginning of a sinus issue.

So, then I started treating him for a sinus issue. So, then it was Sanguinaria, Belladonna, Kali bichromicum. I’m sorry, I’m talking really fast, but you start going into the next round of stuff.

Then it moved all the way down to his chest again.

Joette:

And that’s that ability to pivot and know where you are: what the case is presenting, what to do next, not give the medicine and consider it done. You have to keep moving with it. It’s up to you to do that little pas de deux.

Charis:

I felt like I was chasing it down, like whatever was the next thing.

But then it started, the mucus did start changing to a yellower mucus, just to be precise. And so, I was in that panicking moment of, “I’m on a timeline, I have to figure out exactly what remedy to give.”

And I immediately started sending a message of my Signal — my bat signal — the Signal group.

Joette:

Which is this group: the Mastermind group. We’re all friends, and everybody is very tight and always willing to help each other. Yeah.

Charis:

Well, I feel like it’s carrying a bunch of peers in my pocket. I always have them available, which is awesome.

Joette:

Yes. Yes.

Charis:

Somebody said, “Have you thought of Mercurius solubilis,” which I actually hadn’t considered.

I thought of other ones, but I was like, “Oh, let me try that one.”

And I did some research. I looked up in my materia medica, and I was like, “Oh, this perfectly fits. It actually fits many elements of him. “

So, I started adding that into the protocol that I was giving him. I did up his potency on Ipecac as well. And so, I essentially got him from a tickle in his throat on Friday to pretty much better by Monday, but still tired. So, then I added in Gelsemium.

And then by Tuesday, he was at his board meeting, able to talk the entire day and not having any coughing, anything going on.

Joette:

You bet. That’s fast.

Charis:

Yeah.

Joette:

That’s fast. Most people don’t realize that if you’re using conventional medicine, it goes on weeks, not four days.

Charis:

Well, he had somebody who was supposed to be meeting with him who had been sick for three weeks.

Joette:

Yes. He knew what was going on around him. Yes.

So, I just have to ask you, did he say, “Thank you, Charis?”

Yes, of course he did. Because he understands. He knows. You’ve been using homeopathy with him for a long time.

Charis:

The other thing was, he was supposed to get his blood pressure read because he was doing a health test type thing for insurance. And he was panicking a bit because he always panics whenever he has those readings done.

So, I just gave him Aconite because I was like, “He’s in panic mode. He’s stressed about a bunch of things. I’m giving him Aconite.”

And he came in, and he was like, “That was the best reading I’ve had in three years.”

Joette:

Blood pressure. Blood pressure reading.

Charis:

Blood pressure reading. Yes. He said it was actually normal. He said it’s the first time somebody said to him, “It’s normal,” because usually he’s always in this anxiety/panic. So, it worked perfect.

Joette:

Nice job, Charis. So, now, we have a chicken named Aconitum, and we have a husband who loves Aconitum because it helped him with his test for insurance. That’s great.

Oh, my gosh. See, these are the kind of stories that give us the kind of comfort that we all need to have these medicines at our fingertips because who needs them more than anyone else is our families.

This is where we all start is with our families. There’s no doubt about it.

Thank you, Charis. Great story. Love it. Another Aconitum story. Thanks a lot.

Meet Breta: A CATastrophic pet illness remedied with homeopathy

Joette: (13:44)

Hi, Breta.

Breta:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So, you’re one of our members of the Mastermind group. We’re going into our third year, just like the three of you, Sandy, Charis and you. And we love to hear your stories. Are you going to talk about your cat maybe?

Breta:

Yes, I am.

Joette:

Oh, good. Okay. An animal. It’s fun when we hear about animals. Go ahead. I’d love to hear your share.

Breta:

So, my cat … we’re not entirely sure, but she’s probably about 13 years old or so. And she was starting to have frequent and very copious urination. So, probably about every few hours, it was a substantial amount of urine. There was no way a cat should have been producing that much urine every couple hours.

And she wanted to eat a lot of the time.

The thing that was also noteworthy is that she wanted to be held and comforted a lot. And it was kind of a huge time sink on my part because she would pester me if I did not comfort her.

So, I started the kidney failure protocol on Good Friday actually of 2025. And she immediately improved. She basically fell asleep, a very deep sleep, but she was a little reticent to be roused. Let’s leave it at that. She would wake to eat, and then she’d go back to this deep sleep.

And she did that for probably the better part of a week.

Joette:

Wow.

Breta:

She just slept and slept and slept. Before this time, she had always had a little bit of a tendency to have urinary troubles. And I fed her wet food and raw food and things to make sure that she didn’t have a urinary issue. But like I said, it got to the point where even with these measures —  with feeding her food that was not kibble, that was not dry food — she was still having these urinary troubles.

So, this was a longstanding issue; that’s maybe why she slept so long.

Joette:

Well, cats are prone to these urinary tract and kidney issues. That’s often what comes up for them. Yeah, especially older ones.

Breta:

Yeah. But when she was younger, she had issues as well. So, I think this was a slowly developing kidney issue, probably her whole life.

But anyway, that was probably why the medicine acted so profoundly because it hit on an issue that she had had for a very long time, and the medicine was desperately needed. As we know, a lot of times when the medicines desperately needed, it acts very quickly.

Joette:

And very deeply.

Breta:

Yes. So, basically, she’s doing very well. At this point, she’s using the cat box probably three to four times daily. If she uses it on the more frequent side of things, the amounts are less of urine. If she uses it less frequently, then obviously she does more urine, but that’s within the range of normal.

She wants to eat maybe three to four times a day now. And she basically spends a lot of time alone and contented. Although, obviously, she still loves to be held. She still loves for us to spend time with her, but she’s a totally different cat.

Joette:

Really? So, in that period of time, she was sick, and you started to administer the medicine and over a week … it took about a week to complete this, is what you’re saying, right?

Breta:

Not to complete the healing, but to radically change things.

And then we often talk about how you might get, I don’t know, maybe 50% of the cure accomplished in a rapid space of time. Well, now the next 50% took a lot longer, if that makes sense.

Joette:

Yes, it does. So, what would you say … all told?

Breta:

So, I took her off of most of the medicines, but I’m still giving her Medorrhinum.

When I attempted to withdraw Bryonia and Lycopodium, she seemed like she still needed them. So, I’ve actually left her on them, and I will probably test again at some point and see if she needs them soon.

But she keeps improving. So, I’m like, “Well, okay. We’re not done yet.” But …

Joette:

That’s the way we know we’re not done yet. As long as there’s still improvement remaining, then we’re likely not done yet.

Beautiful story. Thank you. But I love to hear about animals because they don’t know what homeopathy is. They just get sick, and they just need us, and there we are.

Thank you, Breta. Great story. Appreciate it very much. Thanks. And I’ll see you in a couple weeks at our next meeting.

Breta:

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of Mastermind.

Joette:

It’s our joy to have you.

Meet Noreen: Astonished the doctors by healing her husband’s kidney dysfunction

Joette: (17:57)

Hi, Noreen.

Noreen:

Hi, Joette. It’s good to see you.

Joette:

Yeah, it’s good to see you too. We’ve spent a whole weekend together, haven’t we? It’s been really nice.

So, you’ve got a great story because you come to Mastermind, not necessarily looking to go into practice. You like teaching; you teach the Gateways. But really, you came into it probably more than anything to help your family. And boy, did you really need it recently!

So, tell us your story.

Noreen:

So, in early October, my husband, Mike … what we knew was he had a blood sugar problem, and he was dehydrated. So we went to the ER, but what we found out was … he got admitted to the hospital, and they were telling us he had kidney failure.

And in very short order, they put him on dialysis. It was very serious, and they wanted to put him on insulin, medications, all kinds of stuff, plus the dialysis.

Joette:

Blood pressure drugs. Yes.

Noreen:

Yeah. They were trying to convince him that he had high blood pressure.

So, what happened, make a long story short, he did have to go on dialysis from October to December.

Joette:

Not bad.

Noreen:

End of December.

So, like a three-month period, approximately 30-33 dialysis sessions in total. And by the end of December — because we used homeopathy, we changed his diet completely …

Joette:

Yes, ma’am. Yes, ma’am.

Noreen:

We were able to get off all medications, so he’s no longer on any diabetes medications or anything. No medications.

Joette:

Wow.

Noreen:

Plus, he is off dialysis.

Joette:

You’re not just taking him off willy-nilly. You’re not breaking the rules. There’s no need to have him on is what you’re saying.

The doctors are saying, “You’re clear. Go home. You’re clear. You don’t need that med. You’re clear you don’t need to take this or that.”

Noreen:

Yeah. So, the conventional doctors, I mean, from my point of view, they don’t understand homeopathy. We didn’t really tell them about what we were doing, but their point of view was, “Oh, let’s get you on this medication. Let’s get you on this treatment. Oh, let’s do this surgery.” That’s their …

Joette:

Paradigm.

Noreen:

Yeah, that’s their paradigm. And then when someone gets off dialysis, when their numbers start improving, they’re kind of scratching their heads and going, “Um …”

Joette:

Huh?

Noreen:

Yeah, but they’re not asking any questions. They’re just puzzled that somehow somebody improved.

They don’t see people getting off dialysis. They see people getting on the meds for that, and they’re talking … that’s the way they talk … “for the rest of your life.” “You’re going to need dialysis for the rest of your life. Oh, you might even need a kidney transplant.” You know? So that’s their …

Joette:

Well, the best part is not only that Mike no longer needs this. It’s not based on your assessment necessarily. It’s based on their assessment. They’ve agreed to this. They think, “Yeah, you’re doing fine. We don’t know why. We don’t understand. But somehow, he’s doing well, and he doesn’t need our care anymore.”

And they always throw in, “Well, we think he can get off dialysis right now, but it might come back.”

Noreen:

Right. So, he’s still going back. He’s still going back to his doctors to be tested, and checked, and making sure that everything is still moving in the right direction. We’re not going to eliminate it altogether.

Noreen:

But at some point, we’re hoping the doctors will say, “You know what? It’s been a year, and your numbers are normal. Maybe you don’t need to come back and see us.”

Joette:

Yeah, that’s what we look for. We’ll see. Nice job. Great job, Noreen.

Noreen:

Thank you, Joette, for everything you do for us.

Joette:

Oh yeah. Thank you for being here with us, too, Noreen. Your involvement has been really valuable. It always is.

Meet Sheena: Amazes the veterinarian and neurologist by healing a seriously ill pup without conventional medicine

Joette: (21:23)

Hi, Sheena.

Sheena:

Hi.

Joette:

I’m so glad to have you with me. This is year three now that you’ve been with us with Mastermind. You’ve been through The Academy, Mastery, and now it’s the third year in Mastermind, and you always give us such great information. And you’re very busy. You’re in practice. So, tell us what you want to share with us today.

Sheena:

I want to share a story about my dog, which is kind of the reason I started learning homeopathy because …

Joette:

How far back? When was that?

Sheena:

Just a couple months ago.

Joette:

Oh, okay. No, no, no.

Sheena:

When I started originally?

Joette:

Yes.

Sheena:

About a decade ago. Started learning with you and did The Academy and everything.

And I learned homeopathy so I could take care of my family primarily. And then it just kind of snowballed into something I was spending all my time doing. So, I opened …

Joette:

Why not?

Sheena:

… my practice, and now, I have about 100 clients, and it’s amazing.

Joette:

Yeah, it’s blossomed for you.

Sheena:

Yeah. So, a couple months ago, my little six-and-a-half-pound dog …

Joette:

Is this Moki?

Sheena:

This is Katie.

Joette:

Oh, Katie. Okay.

Sheena:

Who, I thought, everything was great with Katie. And then suddenly she started slipping.

So, she’d be eating her food at her bowl, and her legs would slip out from under her. And then she started not wanting to eat, and then her tail wasn’t wagging. It was just drooped. And that kind of was like on a Tuesday, and then Wednesday, it was a bit worse.

I called the vet and they said, “Well, we can get her in next week.” And I said, “This is pretty serious.” They said, “Well, call 7:30 tomorrow morning.”

Joette:

You need a diagnosis. You wanted to know what was going on.

Sheena:

Yeah. So, I’ve been giving her Arnica and different remedies, too. See, I thought maybe she hurt herself, maybe she jumped off the couch or something, but it was happening fast. It was definitely out of my comfort zone to know what was going on.

So, I took her into the vet who I trust very much. He knows I do homeopathy. He normally will give me a diagnosis and the information I need to help my dogs. This time was different.

I went in, he said, “This is serious. This is a neurological issue. She needs to go to get an MRI and go to the dog neurologist,” which I didn’t know was a thing, but it’s a thing.

So, a couple hours later, we’re at the dog neurologist. They said, “Yes, this is either a disc issue in her cervical spine and her lumbar spine, or it’s a serious inflammation issue. Either way, we need to do an MRI and a spinal tap.”

Joette:

Now, how old is she?

Sheena:

She’s four.

Joette:

Oh, she’s young,

Sheena:

Right? She’s young. She’s young.

So, they did those things. I said, “Okay.”

And they said, “We need to do it now because it’s pretty serious.”

So, I went home, and then they called me, and they said she has — and I’m going to just read the diagnosis — she has myelitis along with suspected meningitis, and they call it meningomyelitis.

Joette:

Meningitis!

Sheena:

Of unknown etiology. Meaning they don’t know what it is. They don’t think it’s contagious.

In addition, they said, unrelated: They scanned her brain. She has a Chiari-like malformation, hydrocephalus and spinal fluid.

Joette:

Does she have a big head?

Sheena:

So, the problem is her head is actually too small, and the brain, which was inflamed, was putting pressure on it.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

And then the inflammation in her spinal cord was so severe that the messages weren’t getting to her legs.

Joette:

Okay.

Sheena:

And that’s why she couldn’t make them do what she wanted to do — them to do, including her tail — because the messages couldn’t get …

Joette:

… that far in the back of her body.

Joette:

… get way back.

Sheena:

Yeah. And so, the neurologist said, “We need to start her right away on steroids and this chemotherapy immunosuppressant.” And with that treatment, a third of the dogs generally do okay after about a year. Another third have to stay on the medicine pretty much their whole life. And a third don’t respond and have to be put down.

Joette:

Oh, boy.

Sheena:

So, this was pretty intense. I said, “Okay, I’m going to come pick up my dog, and I’m going to try to use homeopathy. I will take the medicine with me. I don’t want her to suffer, but I’m going to …

Joette:

Give it a try.

Sheena:

“I’m going to give homeopathy a try, and then, let’s see.”

So, I went home. I had a friend who’s a homeopath come over, and we worked out a plan for her, and I started treating her immediately.

I was very regimented. We made a list of the conditions. We made a list of the remedies. I set a timer for every 30 minutes, and I dosed her remedies …

Joette:

To get started

Sheena:

To get her going — because this was very severe.

Joette:

Serious.

Sheena:

So, I matched the frequency with the severity.

Joette:

Severity. Uh-huh.

Sheena:

And by the next day, she was a little better. By the next evening, a little better, and she continued to get better and better.

The vets kept calling. I said, “Yep, think she’s getting better and better.”

Joette:

Her tail started to pick up a little?

Sheena:

Tail started to pick up; she started to eat. She was more able to walk on the carpets, staying away from the wood floors. I thought she was, I would say 60% better.

Took her in one week later to the neurologist. They took her back. The nurse came back and said, “So, you didn’t give her the medications?”

I said, “No, I didn’t.”

And then the neurologist came back, and she said, “She’s fine. She’s 100% fine.”

Joette:

Oh, my! Turned it completely.

Sheena:

She said the slipping she’s doing now is because she’s probably strained her back leg, and it’s not quite stable. And they said she’s completely fine.

Joette:

Oh, my gosh!

Sheena:

And she’s like, “What did you do?

Joette:

What did you do? “

Sheena:

And I said, “Homeopathy.”

She’s like, “But what exactly did you do? “

And I said, “Do you want me to tell you the remedies?”

And she’s like, “Okay, well, never mind.”

Joette:

You mean I have to learn something brand new and big?

Sheena:

And I’m so thankful for her for the correct diagnosis because I needed that. But I knew inflammation; I knew I could handle that.

Joette:

Yes, neurological weakness.

Sheena:

And I’ve continued to treat her. I feel like, then, a week later, I took her back to the veterinarian — her normal veterinarian who sees her regularly — he was just amazed. He again said, “Yep, she’s totally fine.”

Joette:

So now at this point — or even at that point — you’re not using it every few minutes, of course. You’re opening it up and using it much less frequently.

Sheena:

Yes. I backed it way off. And by two weeks out, I would say, even though they said that she was completely fine, I would say she was probably 80% better.

I would say, now, she’s pretty much 95% better. I am still giving her the remedies about once a day.

Joette:

Oh, good. So, you’re opening it up.

Sheena:

And then I’m working chronically on her malformations because she does have the …

Joette:

Her little brain.

Sheena:

… the congenital …

Joette:

Her little head.

Sheena:

Her defect.

Joette:

And she’s a little dog.

Sheena:

And she’s a tiny dog.

Joette:

What is she? What’s her breed?

Sheena:

She’s a Shih Pom.

Joette:

So, that’s a Pomeranian and a Shih Tzu. Okay.

Sheena:

Yeah, she’s tiny.

Joette:

Yeah. So, everything was tiny.

Sheena:

Everything is tiny.

Joette:

Yes.

Sheena:

Yeah. And I was sitting there when the doctor was giving me all this diagnosis, and I thought, “Oh, my gosh, what if I didn’t know homeopathy?”

Joette:

What would you do? You would have to just go on steroids?

Sheena:

I knew what they were going to tell me to do. And those options were terrible.

Joette:

Right.

Sheena:

So, I was just really thankful.

Joette:

Such a good story, Sheena. That’s a good one, especially because we know this little dog. I’ve actually met her. Yeah. And she doesn’t splay any longer. She can stand up for me.

Sheena:

She runs …

Joette:

She runs, oh, with her tail …

Sheena:

Oh yeah. She chases the other dog around now with a bit of a bully.

The interesting thing is I’ve moved houses. In my house, she still wouldn’t go on the floors because I think she thought it was the floors and not her.

But as soon as I moved into a different house that also had the same flooring, she’s zipping around, chasing everybody.

Joette:

Back to normal.

Sheena:

It’s like, “Okay, these are fine floors.”

Joette:

“It was the floors, Mom. It was the floors!”

That’s such a great story. Thank you, Sheena.

Sheena:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thank you for sharing. Thank you so much.

Meet Kirsten: A homeopath and teacher whose husband is now joining her practice

Joette: (29:24)

Hi, Kirsten.

Kirsten:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

So glad you’re with me.

Kirsten:

It’s good to be here.

Joette:

But it’s not only good for us to talk now. It’s good because we’ve gone through The Academy. You’ve gone through Mastery, now Mastermind … three years ago. Two years ago. And then now this year again, we’re starting our brand new 2026.

Kirsten:

Well, who can stop? You can’t stop.

Joette:

I know you can’t stop. It’s really deliciously intellectual.

Kirsten:

It’s wonderful.

Joette:

Yeah, it is a beautiful thing. So, you’ve got stories. I love to hear about them. You’re in practice, but I also want to hear about whatever story you want to share with folks.

Kirsten:

Oh, there’s so many. But I would say lately, one of the things that I really love is working with men. And that all came out of working with my female clients. But they would come, and we would take their case, and they would have whatever issue. But then they would go, at the end, “Do you have something for my husband?”

And I would say, “Well, tell me a little bit more.”

And so, it seemed like many of these men had very similar issues. They’re on similar drugs. They have similar experiences because of where they’re at in life, their age, their responsibilities, that type of thing.

So, I kind of started working more with these male clients who were these women’s husbands. And we worked on things like frequent urination, prostatitis, anxiety, depression, lack of motivation, other men’s issues.

Joette:

Super common, especially middle-aged men.

Kirsten:

Yes. Yes. And it was so great because I think it’s hard for men to open up a lot of times. But once we got in there and started working on these issues, they were so grateful when they would come back for their follow-up and say, “Hey, I wasn’t sleeping, but it really wasn’t that I wasn’t sleeping. I was getting up …

Joette:

… to go to the bathroom

Kirsten:

Three or four times a night to urinate. Now I’m only getting up one to two times a night, and I’m being able to get so much more sleep.”

And just that was affecting their lives in a positive way.

And then there were some medications that were adversely affecting them, and we could help them maybe look at things differently. And they were eating better, eliminating seed oils, getting more exercise. So, we just saw a lot of progress in that area.

And my husband is currently in The Academy.

Joette:

In The Academy, which is amazing! It’s a family affair now.

Kirsten:

It is! And so, I’m hoping that sometime, we can team up on those issues. He’s retired Air Force, was in special operations, and that creates its own unique pathologies with those men who have gone through those type of situations, been away from their homes, been in war.

There’s a lot of mental health issues, PTSD, as well as all the things they’re exposed to down range, all of the chemicals they’re given throughout their military career. So, we’ve talked about, maybe at some point, really being able to work with the veteran community …

Joette:

Oh, you bet!

Kirsten:

… to offer those types of services because they really, really need it.

Joette:

Absolutely.

We’ve interviewed you before. You’re on one other podcast — on Podcast 126 — right? So, for those of you who are interested in hearing more of these great stories, go to Podcast 126 and listen to Kirsten’s other stories.

So, I just have to say, for those who are listening, we see that when, usually, the mother or the wife starts into The Academy and gets such great knowledge and such useful information for her family, that we often see either the husband is interested or the son or the daughter. And we’ve seen that a number of times, but actually, I have to say, I think this is the first time it’s been a wife and her husband following in her footsteps.

Kirsten:

Yeah, it’s great.

Joette:

It is really great.

Kirsten:

We work really well together, and I’m so excited about what the future will hold for us.

Joette:

Well, you have a whole new subject. Your pillow talk is now different.

Kirsten:

Right! Yeah. We’re talking about the repertory and the materia medica over dinner.

Joette:

“Yeah. What page was that on, honey? In the clinical section?”

Kirsten:

“What protocol is that?” It’s great. We love it.

Joette:

It is great. Yeah. It adds a whole ‘nother dimension to a marriage.

Kirsten:

It does. And then to be able to get that knowledge and then teach others, hopefully, we’ll be able to do couples Gateways and Protocol Courses, so that we can draw not only the wife (who’s typical) but also bring the husband when there’s that male presence. So, we’re really excited to see what …

Joette:

Well, it’s even more than that. It becomes a family affair, not just husband and wife, but you have five children.

Kirsten:

We have six children.

Joette:

Oh, excuse me. You have six children.

Kirsten:

Right, right.

Joette:

Yes. And so now these children, even though they’re older — some are older, some are younger — this becomes a family affair. Now it becomes a part of the legacy of the family. And now, instead of automatically running to get a drug for this or that …

Kirsten:

That’s right …

Joette:

… they can at least start with this kind of thinking. If needed … if conventional medicine is needed, okay, we understand. But we can start with this possibility first. It’s a beautiful legacy.

Kirsten:

Yeah.

And I get texts all the time from my kids, “Mom, is it Nux?” “Do I give him Belladonna?” “What do I give him? Is it this?”

So, yeah, it’s great.

In fact, my eight-year-old, when he doesn’t feel well, he’d go, “Mom, where’s the Nux?”

Joette:

I know.

Kirsten:

And now he has his own little stash. He’s got his own.

Joette:

I understand. I know. My sons did the same thing. I know.

Kirsten:

Yeah, it’s great.

Joette:

Yeah, Kirsten, thank you so much.

Kirsten:

Thank you. And thank you for all that you’ve done to just build this community. It’s so great.

So, if you’re out there listening, come join us, take a Gateway class, take a Protocol Course, and maybe even join The Academy, and then one day you’ll be doing this.

Joette:

Well, and that’s what you do too. You teach these classes as well.

Kirsten:

I do. I love to teach. Love to teach.

Joette:

Yeah. One of the best teachers we’ve got.

Kirsten:

Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Joette:

Yes. Thank you, sweetie.

Kirsten:

Thank you.

Meet Ingrid: Sharing a Banerji Protocol that has helped so many

Joette: (34:23)

Hi, Ingrid.

Ingrid:

Hi, Joette.

Joette:

I’m so glad you’re here with me.

Ingrid:

I’m so glad to be with you.

Joette:

Well, and I also love that you’ve been with me through The Academy. That’s one year. And then Mastery, which was 11 months; Mastermind two years ago and now this year, 2026. So, we’ve really gotten to know each other, and it’s a privilege to get to know you.

Ingrid:

It’s a privilege to know you. It’s been an amazing ride.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah, for me too.

So, let’s talk. Tell me what you want to share with folks.

Ingrid:

There’s so many amazing things that Practical Homeopathy® does, but something that comes across so often and is so quick — relatively — for many people, and it’s just so far-reaching and can really nip things in the bud when people might move on to something that’s just so much more advanced and invasive.

It’s Symphytum and Calc phos.

Joette:

Oh, combination! That’s that Banerji combination. I love it.

Ingrid:

It’s so good. It works for so many things when people have bad backs, when they have bursitis, when they hurt their knee.

Joette:

Arthritis.

Ingrid:

Everything. Their back, it’s like they have a bulging disc.

Joette:

Yes.

Ingrid:

I’ve worked with students and clients, my dad, my dogs, I mean, my friends, just everyone has benefited.

Joette:

Osteomyelitis, osteoporosis, osteopenia. Yeah, it’s a wonder.

Ingrid:

The list goes on.

Joette:

I know.

Ingrid:

I wanted to just mention the huge success that that has provided so many people and animals and myself. Even if somebody just has … they hurt their back and they can’t do work, they want to get back into life. Or if they’ve torn their meniscus, it’s just something that can help them get back in action without …

When I see people going in for surgery …

Joette:

It’s heartbreaking because you know there’s another opportunity to get this done with so much more ease.

Ingrid:

Exactly. And cost. Emotional and …

Joette:

Emotional and financial. That’s absolutely so. Thank you, sweetie. Thank you so much. It’s wonderful.

Meet Christy: Creating generational health with her son

Joette: (36:25)

Hey, Christy.

Christy:

Hello, Joette.

Joette:

So nice to have you with me here.

Christy:

Thank you.

Joette:

But it’s nice because this is a continuation. We’re just doing a little interview here, right? So, that’s for you to tell some stories about yourself. And you’ve been in Mastermind, now, this is the third year.

It’s the first year was two years, three years ago; then, last year, two years ago; and now it’s this year, 2026. And we’re going to be together for the next year, every other week, with our little 12-numbered group. So, thank you for doing this.

So, what do you have to share with us today?

Christy:

Well, I would like to share just a story about one of my kids.

Joette:

Oh, love it.

Christy:

Because everything that I’m learning, when it all comes down to it, is for my family.

Joette:

You bet.

Christy:

And so, I want to share something that blessed us so much. So last spring, it was my son’s senior year. He’s an athlete. Two days before track season, he sprained his ankle in a soccer game really badly.

Joette:

Sprains can take a long time, too.

Christy:

Yes, absolutely. He got an X-ray, went to urgent care. When nothing was broken, but they said he sprained everything. So, he was pretty crushed because his goal was to make it to States.

So, we figured out together what remedies he needed to take. It was his second sprain. We had one previously, so we learned from the first one. And homeopathy was able to heal his sprain in less than three weeks.

Joette:

Oh, my!

Christy:

He not only went back to track, but the first day back, he ran six miles.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness.

Christy:

And he ended up making it to Districts, qualifying for four races. He medaled in three.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness!

Christy:

So, he did not make it to States, but he conquered that sprain. It blessed him. That was the best graduation gift that he could have gotten.

And we worked together doing it. And just being able to have that knowledge to care for my son in that way is priceless.

Joette:

Yes, it is.

Christy:

This medicine is amazing. And it’s such a gift …

Joette:

I know.

Christy:

… to us, especially as mothers to be able to care for our family.

Joette:

Oh yeah. Yeah. It gives us such faith in why we’re even here that we can carry on our duties, our responsibilities to our families. This is the son that … tell that story, Christy. It’s such an adorable story.

Christy:

I mean, he’s had to use homeopathy so much, and he’s so impressed by it that he signed up for The Academy. He didn’t even tell us!

Previously, he had mentioned that he was interested, and then we just kind of let it go because you don’t know what your 18-year-old son is going to do.

And one day, he was like, “Mom, I got accepted.”

Joette:

“I didn’t even know you applied, honey.”

Christy:

It’s amazing. Yeah. So, that was so cool. And now he’s loving it. He works with adaptive sports and things up in Vermont, and he just has a heart for that. And this medicine is going to be of such value to him.

Joette:

He’s going to fly with it. He’s going to fly.

What’s so interesting is that the students in The Academy are not 18-year-old men.

Christy:

Yeah, he’s a brave soul.

Joette:

I know he is a brave soul because there are men here and there, but that’s a little unusual, especially for 18. We’ve had a few of them, but this is …

For him to just do it, and his mom has already graduated.

What a testament to your mothering, your ability to mother and bring this into your family. It’s a beautiful thing, Christy.

Christy:

Thank you. Yeah, it’s beautiful.

Joette:

Thank you.

Okay, folks, there you have it. Now you’ve gotten a taste of the caliber of people who are working with this Practical Homeopathy®, going through The Academy, Mastery, Mastermind, and the kind of commitment that they’ve had in their gaining knowledge and learning how to apply this information for their family members and to bringing it out into the public.

So, I hope you enjoyed listening to these wonderful people.

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:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

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

 

Some conditions cause us pain or suffering. Other conditions cause suffering all around us, frankly, while we get off almost Scot-free. Such, perhaps, is the case with flatulence.

How did I land on such an uncomfortable topic for this week’s blog?

Bowel Incontinence

A Mighty Member recently requested more education on bowel incontinence. However, I’ve written about that condition before. Perhaps it didn’t stand out because the example I used was my family’s dog.

That leads us to an excellent teaching moment. Remember: Homeopathy is not species-specific. Practical Homeopathy®, in which conditions are matched with the most clinically proven medicines, applies equally to all: young, old and in-between, human, pup or even an emu.

If bowel incontinence is an issue, read more about how homeopathy can help in Buster and the Bow-Wow-Wowel Urgency.

Flatulence

However, if flatulence is a concern, stay right here. You’re in the right place.

Almost nothing is more embarrassing than an inopportune passage of gas — or flatus, as it is medically termed. Indeed, nothing can ruin your yoga class more quickly. Nothing can make a car ride seem quite so endless. And nothing can inspire kids’ giggles and finger-pointing more than an awkward accident.

When we look up rectal flatus in a comprehensive repertory (such as Robin Murphy’s “MetaRepertory, Fourth Edition,” which is what my Academy students use), we find roughly 400 or so remedies from which to choose. Goodness! That doesn’t help us narrow it down quickly in an emergency.

So, let’s break it down to one of the most common times when flatulence can be a problem: that is, after eating.

Aloe 30 for flatus that occurs after eating

This is not a protocol, however, a historically proven homeopathic medicine for flatulence after eating — and the most emphasized medicine in the repertory for this specific rubric — is homeopathic Aloe 30, twice daily.

Oh. What is a “rubric,” you ask? A rubric in a homeopathic repertory is simply a symptom that includes more details, such as triggers, timing, and different facets of the symptom. Rubrics in a homeopathic repertory can be quite specific.

For instance, if the flatus is loud, it confirms that Aloe would be the first medicine to consider. If it’s offensive, then Aloe is even more likely the correct choice.

However, if after a few days Aloe hasn’t resulted in any improvement whatsoever, it would be prudent to halt its use and return to the repertory to pivot to a different remedy. (After all, there are about 399 others to consider.)

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Do certain foods aggravate the condition?

Perhaps eating only certain foods causes flatus? If so, you might want to incorporate that information into your decision.

In the repertory, under rectal flatus, I don’t see many specific foods listed. But that would not deter those of us who study homeopathy. We wouldn’t stop there.

For instance, if passing gas occurs only after ingesting wheat, we would look up ailments from wheat in the repertory and then consolidate the two rubrics to find the tightest-fitting medicine.

Indeed, using the repertory confidently is what my students in The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery learn — in depth — for situations in which we don’t have a proven protocol.

Armed with this information, I’m hopeful the only thing you’ll “pass” is the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

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Tattoos abound these days. You’d think they’d have run out of ink by now … or run out of blank skin to work with.

But before you think that tattoos are a relatively new phenomenon, History.com tells us, “Ötzi the Iceman, preserved in an Alps glacier for over 5,000 years prior to being found by hikers, had 61 tattoos on his wrist, legs, back and torso.”¹

Yipes! Mr. Ötzi’s tattoos have lasted 5,000 years? That’s what I would call permanent!

However, unlike millennia ago, one can change one’s mind about permanent ink these days. In fact, I recently received a question regarding tattoo removal from a Mighty Member.² As this particular student said, “The new year and the Lenten season bring resolutions to better one’s health.”

So, what better time to discuss homeopathic medicines that can assist in the body’s recovery during tattoo removal aftercare than now, during Lent.

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How are tattoos removed?

My understanding is that tattoos may be removed using lasers that break up the ink, allowing it to be absorbed by the body and excreted as other waste products are.

As you know, though, lasers burn.

So, just as with any burn, the affected skin may blister, bleed, and be quite painful as it heals. And apparently, several sessions are typically required to remove the ink completely.

The disintegrated ink is then carried by white blood cells into the lymphatic system and processed out of the body by the liver, kidneys and sweat glands.

That’s quite an assault on the body — both to the skin (our bodies’ largest organ) and to the liver and kidneys. But don’t let that stop you from choosing to eliminate unwanted ink.

Homeopathy, as always, to the rescue

Not to worry. Practical Homeopathy® can assist the body in recovery by utilizing the time-tested medicines the symptoms call for.

Tattoo removal aftercare for burns

It’s pretty much a no-brainer to consider addressing the laser burns in the same way we would address any burn: with Cantharis 30C, twice daily, until very much better.

I’ve written about Cantharis for burns from a fire in Ready, Aim … Oh, No! Fire! I covered sunburn in Independence Day and the Summer Sun. I’ve broached chemical burns, poisonous plant-induced burns, and even fire ants in Cantharis for Burns. And don’t forget Cantharis is also a capital idea for burning Urinary Tract Infections, as I detailed in Practical Homeopathy® for UTIs.

So, naturally, if the symptom is burning — as it would likely be in laser-treated skin — Cantharis would be our first consideration.

Tattoo removal aftercare for the elimination of disintegrated ink

Now, I don’t have any clinical experience with tattoos or tattoo removal. However, it seems to me that IF there is any indication of liver issues, as it eliminates the ink from the body, we might consider the generally accepted go-to medicine for the liver: Chelidonium 6C, twice daily, until very much better.

However, the use of this medicine would need to be well justified. We would not simply employ it “just because” we know the liver is working on this task. If it’s functioning properly, there is no need for a homeopathic. However, we want to see a clear need for a liver that’s suffering —symptoms of a liver that’s limping along — before employing a homeopathic medicine.

Remember, we use homeopathy when there is a pathology — something that needs correction. We halt the use of a medicine when it has done its work, and we’re very much better. We also halt the use of a medicine if, after giving it its due time to act, we observe no improvement. Then we pivot to another medicine.

That’s why more education than a short blog post is often needed to understand how to use homeopathy successfully. Consider walking through the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® by joining a study group. It’s a decision you’ll never regret — unlike some tattoos.

Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

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In this podcast, we cover:

01:00   Introduction: Meet 7 Unique, Accomplished, Inspiring Women from the Practical Homeopathy® Mastermind Group

01:52   What’s a Mastermind group?

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:33   Meet Heather, a health coach

06:39   Meet Cindi, from treating her own allergies to opening a homeopathy business

09:46   Meet Sandra, adoptive mom of two who wants to help other adoptive parents

            Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

            Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions

            FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

20:05   Meet Stephanie, who wants to know everything she can about homeopathy    

            Allergic?! Escape Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities, Food Intolerances, and More with Homeopathy: Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back

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

22:38   Meet Elizabeth, from hopeless and helpless to an abundant life helping others

28:23   Meet Michelle, a nurse who brought homeopathy into her husband’s medical practice

            Podcast 160 — Practical Professionals: Real-World Integration of Practical Homeopathy® and Conventional Care

33:11   Meet Aarika, an ophthalmologist turned homesteader using homeopathy

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

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 164, with Joette Calabrese.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have 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: Meet 7 Unique, Accomplished, Inspiring Women from the Practical Homeopathy® Mastermind Group

Kate: (01:00)

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m thrilled you’re joining us today.

Homeopathy isn’t just a gentle, time-tested system of medicine. It’s a powerful tool that empowers families to take charge of their health naturally, safely and effectively. Joette has spent decades teaching others how to employ Practical Homeopathy® with their family, friends and beyond.

So, on this podcast, you’re going to hear from some passionate students of Practical Homeopathy®, who are now helping others experience what’s truly possible with Practical Homeopathy®.

Joette, we’ve just spent three wonderfully intense days together with your Mastermind students. Some of them are joining in on this podcast today. So, I’d love it if you could start by explaining to those listening what your Mastermind group is all about.

What’s a Mastermind group?

Joette: (01:52)

Okay. So, a Mastermind group is a dedicated group of graduates of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and Mastery — so, that’s been two full years — who have taken their knowledge to the next level.

These women — brilliant women, I have to say — have seen remarkable results in their own lives and families. And now they’ve moved beyond that, and they want to join with a small group of other like-minded students who all want to push each other to fulfill their goals, and their clients experience the life-changing power of homeopathy.

So, let’s get started.

Meet Heather, a health coach

Joette: (02:33)

Hi, Heather.

Heather:

Hello, Joette.

Joette:

I’m so glad you’re with me today … well, also that you’ve been with me this weekend, too.

Heather:

Yes, it’s been amazing.

Joette:

It’s amazing to be amongst these women, hasn’t it?

Heather:

Absolutely, yes.

Joette:

Tell us a little bit about your story. What is a little bit of your background; what brought you here?

Heather:

I have been a health coach for about 10 years and have been working with clients for that long, helping people recover their health and just to support them in any way that I could.

But I always felt a little bit of a limitation. I couldn’t always quite get to the end of that process.

And so, when I found homeopathy, one of the first things that I did for myself was to work on getting rid of my chronic headaches that were debilitating and took up way too many days of the month that I couldn’t really function or do things. And so, when I was able to do that with homeopathy, I knew that I had found that missing piece.

And the fact that I can now help clients and family members alike with not just acute things that pop up in everyone’s life, but to be able to help them with some very serious chronic illnesses, chronic conditions, things like that, has been not only so life-changing for me, but for them, of course.

I’m so thankful for the group that you have put together, for all of the people here this weekend and really all of the students that we have been able to impact with this — like you said — life-changing medicine.

Joette:

So, you’ve released yourself of those headaches …

Heather:

Yes.

Joette:

… by using the homeopathic medicine?

Heather:

Yeah, I have a date in my phone.

Joette:

Have you?

Heather:

It says “headache,” and that was last February. It was February of 2024 … was the last headache that I had.

Joette:

Wow. Oh, that’s excellent, after having suffered them for years.

Heather:

I was also a Great Lakes headacher. Those Great Lakes — the shifts in the atmosphere, pressure and stuff — and I would get. But they weren’t a classic migraine, but they basically should have been.

Joette:

Because the pain was so grand.

Heather:

Yes, very bad.

Joette:

Right, exactly.

Heather:

Just in bed.

Joette:

You were a health coach.

Heather:

Yes.

Joette:

You did that for years. You have a practice, and then you learned about homeopathy in order to help your own situation. And then you said, “Okay, this is the missing piece. Let’s go further.” And then you decided to join The Academy?

Heather:

Yes, I did The Academy, and then this past year, we just finished up Mastery (that second year), and now so blessed to be in this Mastermind with all of these excellent, excellent women.

Joette:

Yeah, and that’s a big part of this because The Academy is a large number of students, and the Mastery is a little bit smaller, but this is only 13 people. And that makes it really tight. And we actually meet in person, and that’s what we’re doing right now. Everybody’s about to say goodbye after a really great weekend, and we’ve gotten to know each other very well.

Yeah, it’s a tight group of people and that’s wonderful. We ask everyone in these Mastermind groups to give us their “ask:” what they want help from these other 12 other women. (It could be men, but it’s always been women so far.) Then, we ask them to give something back to the group.

So, you can imagine with the caliber of people who’ve gone through The Academy and Mastery. Many of them are in practice. Some of them are doctors; some of them are homesteaders; some of them are grandmas. It’s the whole gamut of all different kinds of people that you’re going to get answers to the questions that you have regarding your life, your goals, your …

Heather:

Yeah, just to have access to the diversity that we have in all of us and all of our life experiences. We’re all at different places. Some still have little, some — our grandmas like you said — but just everyone has so much to offer, and it’s all a little bit different. There’s overlap, but there’s also so much that everyone just brings to the table.

And to have all of … the name “Mastermind” is such a fitting name because it is like a meeting of the minds. We’re all putting our brains together to help build each other up to solve any issues or problems or struggles that people are dealing with. It’s beautiful.

Joette:

And then we get to meet for the next year.

Heather:

Yes. This is just the beginning.

Joette:

This is just the kickoff that we’ve actually met in person in Florida, but now we’re going to be meeting every couple of weeks, which is really great. We really get to know each other well.

I so enjoyed having you in the group.

Heather:

I love being here, and I can’t wait for the rest of this year.

Joette:

Yeah, me too, Heather. Thanks a lot. Thank, thanks for sharing.

Heather:

Absolutely.

Joette:

Alright, bye now.

Meet Cindi, from treating her own allergies to opening a homeopathy business

Joette: (06:39)

So, I am here with Cindi, and Cindi’s part of our group this weekend in Mastermind. And I love to be able to talk to people who have come a long way in homeopathy.

So, Cindi, tell me your story. What was going on in your life that brought you to homeopathy?

Cindi:

My health.

Joette:

That’s a good place to start.

Cindi:

Yes. I had severe allergies, and I went looking for a homeopath, and I found you. So, I started with you, and I began to heal. You encouraged me — very lovingly — to start teaching and start going into APH [The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®].

And so, I decided to go ahead and join APH and then onto Mastery. And now I teach, and I have a few clients, and now, I’m starting my own homeopathy business so that I can help people the way in which you helped me and how homeopathy helped me. Because there are a lot of other people out there who are going through what I’ve gone through.

Joette:

Which is … just tell us a little bit about … You had allergies, but can you just describe a little bit about that?

Cindi:

As I’ve always been sick as a child and a young adult. So, as I went into menopause, things got worse. I got to the point where all I could eat was meat, two kinds of vegetables and drink water. That was it.

And I knew I couldn’t keep that up. I knew that I was losing weight fast, and so I knew I needed help, and the doctors couldn’t help me. I went to see some specialists, and they couldn’t help me, or whatever they gave me wasn’t helping.

So, I knew that because I had used homeopathy in the past with my son …

Joette:

Oh, there you go.

Cindi:

I knew that that was the answer for me. So, that’s when I went and searched for you.

Joette:

So, it was all about food intolerances.

Cindi:

Definitely, yes.

And I also had allergies, seasonal allergies. I had asthma. I was getting colds about twice a month or every …

Joette:

It was a lot. I remember.

Constant. And asthma, bronchitis. You name it, I was getting it, and I had lived with it for a long time. And also, I was menopausal.

Joette:

Oh boy. Right on top. The cherry on top.

Cindi:

Yeah, exactly. So, as we worked on the food allergies, other illnesses, conditions started to melt away.

Joette:

Those little satellite conditions that you didn’t even think were associated but eventually really are.

Cindi:

I can go into a house now with five cats … not even a sniffle.

Joette:

Yeah.

Cindi:

That’s amazing!

Joette:

Yeah. That’s the medicine that we know now. And so, this is the way it works. You get fixed, you fix your family, you fix yourself, you work with … now you want to learn so that you can do the same for others.

Cindi:

Exactly.

Joette:

Keeps snowballing. And that’s the way this should be: the good news.

Cindi:

Exactly. There are a lot of people out there who, like me, are suffering from allergies, skin conditions, asthma, seasonal allergies, and it can all be helped with homeopathy.

Joette:

Yes. And you know, Cindi, what’s really fascinating is this is exactly where I started: allergies and food intolerances. So, it felt very natural for me to work with you.

So, thank you so much.

Cindi:

I’m so grateful.

Joette:

Oh, I’m grateful for you, too. Thank you.

Meet Sandra, adoptive mom of two who wants to help other adoptive parents

Joette: (09:46)

Hi, Sandra.

Sandra:

Hi, how are you?

Joette:

I’m doing well. How about you?

Sandra:

I’m wonderful. I’m here with you.

Joette:

Yeah, and I’m here with you. You have an interesting story, and I would love for others to hear your story. Give us a little background.

Sandra:

All right. We had secondary infertility, and so we adopted two older children from foster care. When I say older, I mean like five and six.

In the interview, they told us that they would be institutionalized by the time they were 13.

Joette:

Oh.

Sandra:

They came to us with some labels like reactive attachment disorder, ODD — lots of letters behind their name — and they were on a lot of psychotropic drugs.

Joette:

Oh, my.

Sandra:

And so, they were only five and six. They were already on Abilify and clonidine. Between the two of them, they had about 10 violent tantrums every day. And I was a homeschooling mom, and it was really difficult.

We ended up helping them with a lot of natural approaches, like supplementation and food that heals.

But when I learned about homeopathy, when they had already overcome — we’d already helped them overcome a lot of that stuff — I just realized how much faster our progress would’ve been had I known about this modality.

Joette:

Isn’t that the truth for all of us? If only we had known long ago.

Sandra:

Exactly. And so, the stuff that we used was fine. It was great. It was natural, and it did help them, but it took us a really long time to get there.

I was pretty much isolated from the world for almost three years. I didn’t do anything. I think if we’d had homeopathy, we would’ve shaved at least a year off of that just because it actually can help with the really big things. It’s not just a bumps-and-bruises sort of thing. So much more.

Joette:

Behavior, psychological issues.

Sandra:

Yes. So, it is something that I have a passion about to bring that message to parents. It’s not easy to deal with any of this, regardless of homeopathy, but I want to take a little bit of the exhaustion away from moms.

You’re in survival mode when you’re in that position, and I want to help those kinds of families. That was a huge motivator for me jumping in.

Joette:

So, are you saying that your children are no longer on these psychotropic drugs?

Sandra:

Oh, no. They haven’t been on them for years. They’re 24 and 25, and they have completely overcome everything that anyone ever said.

Joette:

And they’re not institutionalized.

Sandra:

They were never institutionalized.

They never were even on drugs or alcohol or anything like that. That’s a huge problem with kids coming out of foster care. I mean, life isn’t perfect. They’ve got their issues like everybody else, but they’re, you know, normal people. So, that was the goal. Create some functioning members of society.

Joette:

Listen, I couldn’t wrap this up right now, but I have to ask you, why did you choose children who were that age to foster? Tell me what your thinking was. It is different than most moms and dads would do.

Sandra:

Well, we had two babies, two different times, lined up to adopt. And I actually had kind of floated the idea of doing older kids with my husband, and we prayed about it and decided that we were open to that.

We went to an interview for a 2-year-old little girl whose parents had died in a car accident.

Joette:

Oh my.

Sandra:

She had never had any trauma.

But prior to that, about six months before, I had been on the special needs adoption website, and there were these two kids that caught my eye that were four and five at the time. And I don’t know. I said, “Could we put our home study in for these kids?”

And he said, “Yes.” But it was kind of like, “I don’t know.”

And so, we put them on my bulletin board, and we decided that we were going to pray for them. And the next day, we went back to the site. They were gone, and we assumed that they had been adopted.

And so fast forward six months, we went to this appointment. I walked into the room, and for reasons I won’t go into, I realized that we would probably not be the people that would be chosen for this child.

And when I went into … we went into the adoption interview, the lady started asking us questions like, “How do you feel about children who’ve been exposed to meth? How do you feel about children who may not ever love you? How do you feel about children …?” Like, all these questions that didn’t pertain to this little girl.

And that night, we got a call, and she said, I’m sorry you were not chosen for the 2-year-old that didn’t have trauma except for what had happened to her with her parents. But there’s another couple of kids that we would really love to interview you for. And she told us their names, and it was the kids on my bulletin board.

Joette:

Wow.

Sandra:

We were like, “Okay.”

And so, they had gotten lost in the system. There had been a failed adoption with them, and they had just kind of been languishing in the foster care system, as often happens. We just felt like there were a lot of things that happened that brought them to us that were unusual, and we have a very strong faith. And so, we had always prayed that God would lead us to the right children that needed us the most.

And I don’t know, I guess we don’t do easy things very often, the two of us. And so, we felt like that was what we were supposed to do. And we felt like even though we actually knew we weren’t equipped, we knew that …

Joette:

You could equip.

Sandra:

… we could be equipped, and that God would be with us and walk through that with us.

Joette:

So, you raised these children using homeopathy?

Sandra:

No, I did not.

Joette:

Oh, interesting.

Sandra:

No, I didn’t. Well, kind of. I did in some areas without knowing it, the things that actually helped the most were combo remedies that I didn’t know were homeopathy.

Joette:

Ok.

Sandra:

In fact, we got my son off of clonidine using a homeopathic combo remedy.

Joette:

Get out!

Sandra:

And we didn’t realize it. But he had horrible night terrors that would last for two or three hours every night. In fact, it was so intense that for 10 months, we slept outside his room on an air mattress because we were afraid he would fall down our stairway.

He had no idea who we were, what we were doing. You know how it is.

Joette:

Yeah, night terror, they’re in a different world.

Sandra:

And it was very, very scary, and he … It was awful.

And he was also having so many tantrums every day. He got kicked out of first grade in public school. And so, he was struggling majorly.

And the sleep was one of the biggest issues we had. And I found this combo remedy that I didn’t know was homeopathy. I tried it. And within three weeks, not only was he not having night terrors, he was going to sleep without us laying next to him for an hour and a half. And he was off the clonidine within 60 days.

Joette:

My goodness.

Sandra:

Yeah. And so those kinds of things, later, came back to me as we were realizing, I was realizing, oh my goodness. The things that helped us more than anything during that time, were homeopathic, and I didn’t even know it! Because I didn’t know what Hyland’s was selling. I didn’t know what Boiron was selling. I just knew it was in the health food section.

Joette:

And it had a word on it.

Sandra:

It was neat, and he would take it. He was so sick of taking pills. He’d been pushed pills his whole life.

And so, those were the things that did actually help. But I didn’t know I was using something.

Joette:

That’s fascinating. But when you did realize, that’s when you decided, “Okay, I’m going to learn this stuff.”

Sandra:

Actually, it was a completely different situation at that point. It was my husband’s stroke at 46 that brought me to homeopathy.

But once I learned it, I started using it with my youngest, who’s my daughter, because she has struggled with hormonal stuff since she was a teenager. And holy cow, has that made a huge difference.

We’ve been tackling things like PCOS with her. Her pain levels … she would faint every time she would have her cycle.

Joette:

The pain was so extreme.

Sandra:

The pain was so extreme, she’d just go pale, and then she’d go down.

We found that Veratrum album was amazing for that, and that was early on. I wasn’t even an APH yet. I had just taken a couple of your protocol classes.

Every single thing in our life, it seemed like, that we had ever struggled with or were struggling with, somehow could be touched in a positive way and supported by homeopathy. It was one of those things that once I found it, you could not have stopped me from learning it. I would’ve learned it if you wanted to arrest me. There is nothing that would’ve kept from it.

Joette:

Compelled. That’s what happens.

Sandra:

It was so compelling.

And I had been praying for answers because of my husband’s stroke and getting all these meds, and it was really causing a lot of side effects for him. And it was just … somebody just shared your website with me, that I hardly ever see. She had gone through a Gateway class.

It was just like game on. I bought my first protocol class a couple of days later. I watched it three times in two weeks.

Joette:

Go on. That’s not you, is it?

Sandra:

No, not at all. I’m not determined like that.

Joette:

Focused.

Sandra:

I was so focused, and it happened to be the Mindful one. That was what I started with.

I never had taken a Gateway. I knew nothing about homeopathy, and I started with Mindful, but that’s what I needed. That was the class I needed at the time.

Really, it’s helped every single member of my family since then. I still listen to it.

Joette:

It’s helped with your hands delivering, with your mind figuring out exactly what your family members need. So yes, there are those tools, but they’re of no use unless you have the gumption, the desire, the guts, spunk and moxie, and then the total dedication to learn how to use this.

Sandra:

And I know adoptive families that are dealing with kids like this, they have that kind of spunk and moxie. Because you don’t live in that situation for more than about a week without realizing that you need support … that you’ve got to learn how to help these kids.

And those are the families that I want to help because I know already. I know who they are. I was them.

Joette:

Yes. Yes. Oh, Sandra, what a great mission. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

Sandra:

Yeah! You’re welcome. This is great. Thank you.

Joette:

Yes, thank you. So, if you’re looking for a homeopath such as Sandra and these others who we’re interviewing today, the best place to find them — because you’ve gone through The Academy and Mastery, right, Sandra?

Sandra:

Yes.

Joette:

And now Mastermind — is to go directly to FindA PracticalHomeopath.com, and then you’ll see Sandra’s profile and others.

Meet Stephanie, who wants to know everything she can about homeopathy

Joette: (20:05)

So, now I’m with Stephanie. And I want to talk to you, Stephanie, because you’re with us this weekend for the Mastermind program that we put together. You’ve come from, where did you come from?

Stephanie:

Dixon, Tennessee.

Joette:

Dixon, Tennessee. And we’re in Florida now.

So, you’ve been through my Academy and the Mastery program and now Mastermind. I know you as a very good student. I see the questions that you ask and the nods that you give in the classes.

So, I want to hear your story, not just because I like to hear it again, but for others to understand what your story is, and what brought you to homeopathy in the first place.

Stephanie:

Thank you, Joette. It’s such a pleasure to be here with you.

So, my firstborn, he was born with allergies, and I did several different modalities, and nothing was uprooting the condition. So, I found your Allergic?! course online, and I took it. And I was like, “I can do this. I can do this myself and help my son.”

Joette:

That’s the best part. I love to hear that. And you’ve said that before: “I can do this.” Yes.

Stephanie:

So, it happened actually just a couple of months before The Academy was opening for that year. And so, I took the course, and then I took Good Gut, Bad Gut, and then The Academy became available.

And I was like, “You know what? I want to know all of it. I want to learn all of it.”

So, that is what really jump-started me into The Academy. And it was such a mind-blowing amount of information — in a good way — that I continued to help other people, family members, friends, plants, my farm animals.

It was so uplifting and empowering that as soon as I knew about Mastery, I was like, “I have to do it. I have to continue. I have to fine-tune my skills and move on.”

And then Mastermind was available. It was a little out of my comfort zone. It’s a smaller group of people, but I’m blown away by this weekend. I really am. Because you come with one idea, and then you’re in this group of amazing people, and you change your ideas. And you change your priorities, and you change the way you want to do things. And it’s really a beautiful thing. And I can’t thank you enough for putting this together.

Joette:

Well, thank you for trusting in this. I also have to say, but someone like you has a voracious appetite for knowledge. And that’s so clear with you. Every time you’ve spoken this weekend, that’s the biggest message. You are hungry for information, and then you go ahead, and you just do it. So, I love having you here with us. So, thank you for joining us this weekend, Stephanie.

Stephanie:

Thank you so much. It’s a pleasure.

Joette:

The influence of these great people. It’s amazing.

Meet Elizabeth, from hopeless and helpless to an abundant life helping others

Joette: (22:38)

Hi, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth:

Hi Joette.

Joette:

So glad to be here with you.

Elizabeth:

It’s always a blessing to be with you.

Joette:

That’s the way I feel, too.

So, here we are, and I know your story. But every time you speak, I hear a little bit more stuff that really adds a little more information that builds my knowledge of who you really are.

But no one else on the other side of this microphone knows about you. So, please tell us your story — and just in a little nutshell — that could be of use to others.

Elizabeth:

Yeah. I have been chronically ill for decades, really started when I was 11 weeks old and just all through childhood.

Then, in college, after I got married, we struggled with infertility for a number of years and all that comes with that. And then just really blessed to have four children. But with that, your health tanks again.

And so then, was diagnosed with two more autoimmune diseases, illnesses, genetic mutation. I just really struggled as a mom, right, because I wanted to be there for my kids. I wanted to be there for my husband, but I didn’t feel like I was living the abundant life that Christ had called me to because I was so sick. But the saddest part was when everybody looked at me, they said, “But you look so healthy.”

Joette:

You do.

Elizabeth:

But on the inside, there was just so much going on. And I searched and searched, high and low, and was constantly disappointed because everything that I was promised failed to deliver. And so, in that, I really got to a place where I was just helpless. I didn’t think that there was anything out there. And I thought, “Okay, this is my thorn. This is my cross to bear. Right? And I’m just going to do the best I can.”

And then there were some sweet friends, who were in a study group and said, “You need to know about homeopathy.”

“Home-what? I don’t even know what that word is, and I’m a former English teacher!”

And so anyway, just the biggest skeptic in me was like, “Okay, whatever. Another modality that’s going to fail me.” But the researcher in me caused me to start leaning in and to listening to some podcasts and reading some blogs.

And the Lord just provided an amazing opportunity: a very first aid, acute emergency situation for my husband. And I simply just said, “Do you trust me?”

And he said, “Yes.”

And I ran to the store, and I grabbed some Latin words.

Joette:

Yeah, Latin words! Yes.

Elizabeth:

I didn’t even know how to pronounce. And I came back, and I was like, “I don’t even know how to open these, but I believe that it’s going to work.”

And it did!

And my husband never had to go to the emergency room.

Joette:

What was it? What was …

Elizabeth:

He was actually fixing a toy for one of our children and had stabbed himself in the fleshy part of his hand …

Joette:

I remember the story. You’ve told me this before.

Elizabeth:

Yes.

Joette:

So, what happened to your husband was that he was fixing a toy …

Elizabeth:

Yes! For one of my children, and the screwdriver slipped and stabbed deeply into the fleshy part of his hand. And there was a gaping hole …

Joette:

Oh my.

Elizabeth:

… in his hand. So, I didn’t even know how to open the homeopathy vials. And so, I had read a blog that you’d written about puncture wounds, went to the store, got the remedies, and lo and behold, he never had to see a medical professional.

He never lost nerve damage, muscle, tendon, ligament, nothing. It was beautiful. And that was my first experience with homeopathy. And it was transformational in such a way that I was like, “Wow, there probably is something to this. I want to dig deeper into it.”

Joette:

Hard to believe. Really? These little pills? Come on, really?

Elizabeth:

Absolutely!

Joette:

That can’t be. But it is.

Elizabeth:

But it was beautiful.

Then the Lord, the next month provided another opportunity with one of our children — acute first aid emergency — where we did not have to go to the hospital.

Wait, what? Two in a month? This is crazy. What is this stuff?

And so, I started studying, and lo and behold, started working with the homeopath where I started to uproot my own chronic illness that I had had for decades. Right?

And then, lo and behold, the Lord provided an opportunity for me to join The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®. Graduated from that. Then, yeah, Mastery. All with my husband’s support.

But he, too, was suffering with chronic illness. And he said, “I need you to go to school. I need you to do this for me. I need your help.”

And he really was the impetus for why I wanted to study more and more.

And so here I am today and I’m in Mastermind surrounded by an amazing community of small, trusted people who are my colleagues and my friends, and just my support network — not just for myself and my children and my family and my friends, but also for my clients, for my students, and even my pets … which is so fun to use homeopathy with your dogs, right?

Joette:

Yes, I’ve done it. I’ve done it.

Elizabeth:

It’s so beautiful. Because they don’t know what to do.

Joette:

They don’t know; they don’t know.

Elizabeth:

They don’t.

Joette:

But then they do.

Elizabeth:

They do. They want it!

Joette:

And they come around. “Hey, Mom!”

Elizabeth:

“Yes, thank you.” It’s so sweet.

And so, I think my story is one where I felt truly hopeless and helpless, that everything that had been promised to me had fallen short. I felt like there was nothing out there. And homeopathy has restored my faith, has given me back my joy, has restored my body back to homeostasis, and uprooted these things that have been suppressed for decades in my body.

And I am now living a more abundant, fruitful life that the Lord has called me to for my children, for my future. And I’m so grateful. So grateful for all that God has done and leading me to you.

Joette:

Elizabeth, it’s a blessing. Thank you. You’re a blessing to us, too. We’re going to be together for a whole year now.

I know. It’s good. It’s good. Thank you.

Elizabeth:

You’re welcome.

Meet Michelle, a nurse who brought homeopathy into her husband’s medical practice and started her own

Joette: (28:23)

Alright, folks, I have Michelle with me. And you may have heard her on our podcast, number 160. And I’m so glad to have you with me this time. Last time you were talking with Kate, now it’s just you and me.

So, let’s talk Michelle. Tell me a little bit about yourself because you have a very interesting background.

Michelle:

So, I’ve been a nurse for over 30 years.

Joette:

Practicing?

Michelle:

Practicing, yep. Practicing with my husband, who’s an internal medicine physician in private practice. Over the years of seeing so many patients have a hard time with regular allopathic medicine and a lot of the side effects, had never really explored homeopathy at all.

Joette:

Had you heard of it?

Michelle:

I really hadn’t. I mean a little bit. In nursing school and medical school, they teach a little bit that it’s kind of “woo-woo.”

Joette:

Oh, of course, yes. Right.

Michelle:

And “It doesn’t really work, those little sugar pills.”

So, we were always taught to fear that. And as our eyes began to open up over the course of the years, and patients weren’t necessarily getting healed by medicines that we were giving them that thought they were healing them, they would be on them for life.

So, rather than curing them, they just became dependent upon …

Joette:

Blood pressure meds and …

Michelle:

Yes. My husband actually kind of nudged me into looking for … I fell into an original Gateway class from a student who was in APH. And I took the class through a Catholic homeschool group that I belong to.

I took the first class; I didn’t have a book yet. Then about three weeks into it, I got the book, and I have not looked back since.

So, I taught my children to be lifelong learners. And my husband and I are both lifelong learners. And that’s where we’ve tried to teach our children that.

From that, I did APH. My husband supported me along the whole way. He loves history. So, of course, he was right there listening to all of Kim Elia’s history courses with me. I would fill him in, and slowly, we started incorporating homeopathy into our practice.

So thankful that we found an option in order to heal our patients, rather than place a band-aid on their sufferings.

So, from that, my husband was like, “Well, you’re not going to stop now.”

So, I went from this, as you call it, “a flood of information — fire hose information” in APH and then on into Mastery, where, for me, it was like APH was nursing school and Mastery was clinicals.

Like, it was just case after case after case where we got to learn from each other. I mean, I brought my own cases, but everybody else’s cases was like we were getting more and more clients.

At that point, I had started practicing on the side. So, I do sort of two practices: one in our office alongside my husband, and then I also have my own consulting practice.

And then, I was sad to see Mastery end, so I decided to join Mastermind.

Joette:

After a year; it was a great year.

Michelle:

Yes, along after the influence of many friends that I made. I didn’t know anyone going into APH. And we’ve had such beautiful study groups, who we still meet together. And it’s just such a great community because I now have people I can go to at the touch of my phone and ask them for either help on a case, help on a personal situation, just for some support. And there’s nothing that can match the community that you’ve built, honestly.

Joette:

Well, and what’s particularly useful in this community is that homeopathy is not very well known in North America. It’s used in South America and Europe and India, but not so much in North America. And so, when you’re studying this and using it, you often can feel isolated.

So, this fleshes that out so that you’ve got friends regardless of where they’re from. We have people from all over the world, but most often it’s North America and you can contact them.

That’s really one of the great benefits, isn’t it?

Michelle:

Yep. And I think with Mastermind — it’s very interesting — I had no idea what to expect delving into each of our personal situations in order to develop our own self better.

So, it’s such a beautiful three-year layout, really. You know, getting all the information in the beginning and then practicing it in Mastery, and then really kind of honing in on yourself and where you want to take it. And hopefully, we’ll all branch out and take it to our communities.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah. That’s my hope. I know that’s what you’re doing, too. It’s really great.

Thank you so much for being with us today, Michelle.

Michelle:

Of course.

Joette:

Remember, Podcast 160. You’ll learn even more about Michelle.

Michelle:

Thank you.

Joette:

Thank you.

Meet Aarika, an ophthalmologist turned homesteader using homeopathy

Joette: (33:11)

I’m so glad you’re with me here right now, Aarika, because I really didn’t know you that well.

You’ve been through The Academy and Mastery, and there you are, nodding. I see your face nodding. I see you smiling, and it’s lovely.

And now you’re … here you are with us in Mastermind, and now I get your story.

But your story is spectacular, and I love to hear about what you’re doing on your homestead, et cetera, and a little bit about your background. So, would you mind sharing that with our listeners today?

Aarika:

Yes, Joette, I’d love to share with you. I came into homeopathy through a friend. I have past medical training and my

Joette:

Means you’re a medical doctor.

Aarika:

Yes. And so, I hadn’t heard anything about homeopathy. And she just showed me one of the little sugar pills and said, “If you need anything for your children, just take this name, ‘Joette Calabrese,’ and type it into Google. And you’ll have whatever you need to help take care of your children and to help them get healthy and to help them just move forward in life.”

And so, I did that. I Googled your name, and my son, who has a history of cognitive delays. through following your online presence, I was able to help him overcome those. And now he’s ahead.

Joette:

Oh my. That’s beautiful.

You are an ophthalmologist. You were performing cataract surgery on a regular basis. So that’s a big shift in paradigms, isn’t it?

Aarika:

Yes.

Joette:

And we talked about that for a few minutes the other day, that cataract surgery is really something that can be quite useful for many people, especially at a certain age.

But that still is a huge shift. You’re thinking much differently now.

So now, you have your children, you’re homeschooling. You’re homesteading, right? How many acres do you have?

Aarika:

Over 80 acres, we take care of. And lots of animals that have all benefited from the homeopathy.

Joette:

So, you have chickens …

Aarika:

Chickens, ducks,

Joette:

Ducks.

Aarika:

Guineas, horses, donkeys.

Joette:

Oh, my gosh. I didn’t know you had large mammals, too. Oh, for goodness sakes.

Why — I have to ask you — would an ophthalmologist, who has turned to homeopathy and is raising a family, would you ever buy a donkey? I’ve never understood the donkey picture.

Aarika:

They’re to protect the horses from the predators that come into the field. They’re the guardians of the …

Joette:

Oh!. So, it’s not a dog that does it? It’s the donkey. And it kicks, and it makes sounds. Oh, for goodness’ sake,

Aarika:

It’ll stamp anything that comes into the field.

Joette:

Learn something new every day. That’s great. And so, you’ve treated the animals.

Aarika:

Yes.

Joette:

Yeah. Yeah.

Aarika:

Saved many, many lives.

Joette:

Yes.

Aarika:

Just through simple homeopathics.

Joette:

Like what? Give us an example if you don’t mind.

Aarika:

For example, my daughter’s pony was colicking, and there was no one. It was the middle of the night. So, to try to get ahold of a vet, there’s no one that can help you.

But through the use of the remedies, that pony that would’ve otherwise passed that night was there when she woke up.

Joette:

Is that called bloat?

Aarika:

There’s bloat; they call it colic. They just kind of get a whole bunch of gas in their abdomen, essentially. They just have to relieve that. We just didn’t know what had caused it. And he had all of his gastric contents actually, by the end, coming out of his nose.

And so, we thought that he was completely blocked by the end of it.

Joette:

Oh my.

Aarika:

He was there ready to play with my daughter the next morning, thanks to homeopathy.

Joette:

Oh, my goodness. And now your children are learning this.

Aarika:

Yes. My children, the first thing they go to whenever they need anything is they look for their little — we call them the sugar pills …

Joette:

Of course.

Aarika:

… because they’re “candies” for the kids, since they don’t get candies. So, they’re very excited to get their …

Joette:

It’s so great. You’re raising them in precisely the right way. It’s so good.

Thank you, Aarika. This is a beautiful story, and I know others will really appreciate it.

Aarika:

Thank you, Joette, for your time.

Joette:

Yeah. Thank you. Yes.

Okay, folks. So, now you’ve just heard from a few of my Mastermind students, and now you know why I stay so excited about staying in this field and working with people like this. Because, are they not special?

So, these are the folks that take homeopathy and Practical Homeopathy® not only to the next level, but they take it to such a high level that it’s being brought out into the world — their world and our world at large.

And so, thanks for listening today and see you next time.

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Joe De Livera, a well-respected homeopath and my friend, believed that homeopathic Arnica montana could be a key to longevity.

Is it the elusive Fountain of Youth? Well, I’m not willing to go that far. However, when we examine the number of serious conditions that Arnica addresses, it’s not hard to see why Arnica’s specific use in his signature “Joepathy” may have been integral to his long life.

Joe appears to be a subject-matter expert in homeopathy and longevity, given that he passed away in 2025 at age 96 and had used Arnica daily.

I mentioned his unmitigated belief in the power of Arnica briefly in a recent podcast. After a few questions from readers, I thought it needed a little follow-up.

Arnica is the Swiss Army Knife of homeopathy

Even newcomers to homeopathy are often familiar with Arnica. It’s very important for use after trauma, not only head injuries but also soft tissue injuries, such as an injury to the thigh or to the arms or a broken bone.

It is also a primary homeopathic medicine for cardiovascular issues, which may have contributed to Joe De Livera’s longevity.

Rather than repeat all the uses for Arnica that I’ve already elaborated on, I urge you to listen to Podcast 162 — Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica, and also read When in Doubt: Arnica for a list of conditions Arnica addresses.

The Joepathy water dose method

The Joepathy method for employing Arnica is a bit different from what many of us are used to. In fact, Joe was the first homeopath to convince me to try this method, and, as I have mentioned before, I’ve seen a marked improvement in efficacy for some individuals in my practice.

It uses a readily available commercial water bottle with a standard 16.9-ounce capacity. Poor about an inch or so out, so that it contains, say, roughly 15 ounces of water. (That gives room to combine and succuss the homeopathic medicine.)

The method is to place a dose of Arnica 30 into the water bottle. (A dose should be determined according to the manufacturer’s instructions on the tube.) Allow the pillules or tablets to dissolve by stirring or shaking (if a water bottle was used). When it’s time to administer a dose, Joepathy recommended one capful (about one tablespoon), making sure to shake the bottle ten times before each dose. (Shaking it is the succussion step.)

If the major maladies are controlled, is longevity the result?

In addition to being a good remedy for injuries and related ailments, blood conditions, vascular issues, and heart conditions, Arnica is also effective for insomnia. It’s great for stress. It’s just, if you look it up in a materia medica, you’ll be gobsmacked by all its abilities. Joe even used it for diabetes and insulin resistance.

It’s fairly common knowledge that maintaining optimal heart, vascular system, and blood sugar levels, while keeping injury recovery, insomnia, and stress under control, leads to a healthier life. So, it isn’t much of a stretch to think that these “instruments” could be the orchestra of longevity, right?

Joe De Livera believed this and utilized his Arnica montana 30 water dose twice daily … every day.

One IMPORTANT caveat

That said, this does not mean we apply this methodology to all remedies. As you well know if you’ve followed me for any time at all, I insist homeopathic medicines are NOT supplements. They are medicines, not intended for use every day “just because.”

For example, one should not use Rhus tox in the same manner. One should not take a dose of it every day so that the joints remain supple for the rest of one’s life. No, no, no.

However, Arnica is a unique remedy. It’s an outlier. It is separate; it is special. I’ve been convinced not just because one man used it himself, but because he recommended it to his followers for 50 years. He consistently saw their successful results, and, in my opinion, clinical observation is gold.

Common water dose questions

I received a few questions on water doses, so let me answer the top ones:

First, this is not a method I use with other protocols. If we want the protocols to work exactly as they have in clinical practice, we must follow those directions precisely. (Please read The Best Method for Utilizing Homeopathic Medicines — Liquid or Pills? for important information.) So, “stretching” remedies by making a water dose is not necessarily recommended unless you simply don’t have enough of a medicine to get you through the next few days as you wait for an order to arrive.

Distilled water is not necessary. Using quality bottled water is fine (especially since the commercial bottles make for such handy storage of the prepared solution).

Manufacturers designate the number of pills or tablets in a dose. Listen to the experts. They know how many of their product it takes to receive a reliable dose. Don’t tinker with the “recipe.”

One can sip from the bottle or out of the cap.

All in all, use your best judgment. This shouldn’t be too complicated. If you find that the way you’ve been doing it isn’t effective, then reexamine your method or pivot to a different remedy. Homeopathy is all about observation and intelligent reaction to what is observed. Read, read, and then read some more.

Consider joining a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group to develop a circle of like-minded friends to call on when the going gets tough. Or join my Mighty Members, where you’ll have more opportunities to enhance your education.

Who knows? One day, we may discover the Fountain of Youth, but for now, homeopathy will keep us healthy, happy, and living our best lives.

Pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!

Warmly,

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Ahhhh, the human memory. Some things are easy to remember; others are downright impossible without a little tip, trick or hint.

Recently, in Podcast 162 — Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica, we discussed my favorite method for remembering which homeopathic remedy best addresses which condition.

In my follow-up blog, Homeopathy Hacks: 5 Ways to Remember to Take the Remedies, I covered several ways to remember to take the remedies on schedule.

After spending so much time commenting on memorization tools, I was feeling pretty confident about the efficacy of my own memory.

So, imagine my surprise when I ran across an old newsletter that I didn’t even remember writing. It included a useful mnemonic for addressing croup homeopathically. (According to Oxford Dictionary¹, a mnemonic is “a word, sentence, poem, etc. that helps you to remember something.”)

If you’re not familiar with croup, congratulations. I’m glad you haven’t experienced it.

Croup is an illness that typically affects children between the ages of 1 and 4, as a result of a minor respiratory infection followed by laryngitis. What often results is a distinct, horrible cough that develops at night that sounds exactly like a seal barking.

A croupy cough is an alarming sound that can frighten both the parents and the child experiencing it. Indeed, it can be one of the scariest sounds a parent can hear. However, the results of choosing the correct homeopathic medicine are so striking that an informed parent can approach the condition with calm.

Enter my mnemonic, or what I call a “crash” course in croup.

CR is for croup

A is for Aconitum napellus

The first remedy to consider is Aconitum napellus because Aconite (for short) is a remedy for respiratory conditions with a quick onset. It is most effective when used within the first 12 to 24 hours of affliction. 

Often, another indicator for the use of Aconite is that the child is frightened and restless with anxiety. This is the very picture of Aconitum napellus.

Generally, Aconitum 30 would be utilized as needed, according to severity. Consider it every 30 minutes if the cough is severe, up to every three hours if it’s a milder version. As improvement ensues, the frequency may be decreased. When very much better, stop. 

Don’t forget that sleep is considered to be a good indicator of improvement in such a situation. So, if your little one falls asleep, go right back to sleep with him. The event may likely be over.

S is for Spongia tosta

If the cough persists, sounding like a saw grinding through wood, consider pivoting to Spongia tosta 30, utilized in the same manner as mentioned for Aconitum: as needed, every 30 minutes to three hours. Again, continue utilizing it until the child either falls asleep or the cough resolves.

H is for Hepar sulph

If the croupy cough continues until the wee hours of the morning, and your babe is still coughing, or their breath doesn’t have the velvety quality it should, then it’s time to pivot again. Consider Hepar sulph 30, every 30 minutes to three hours, according to severity, until very much better.

And there you have it. That’s my CRASH course in dealing with croup homeopathically.

Mom, when your child is fine in the afternoon and then crashes at night with respiratory distress, or when you’re ready to crash with panic at the sound of your tiny one’s cough, or you’re ready to crash from the exhaustion of caring for an ill child, I bet you’ll remember what homeopathics to consider … even in the middle of the night.

Here are some other blog posts to refer to for more information:

• https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/awakening-from-croupy-cough-spongia/
• https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/croup-bronchitis-arthritis-herbs-helped-but-homeopathy-healed/
• https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/homeopathy-cures-croup-as-easy-as-1-2-3/
• https://joettecalabrese.com/blog/heres-the-scoop-on-croup/

It may sound strange, but croup is my favorite kind of cough. Why? Time and again, the relief is dramatic when croup is addressed with homeopathic remedies. Believe me, there’s no better feeling than watching suffering melt away.

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1. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/mnemonic_2

P.S. My course, “The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs,” covers not only croup, but also a multitude of other respiratory conditions (as well as non-respiratory conditions for which antibiotics are often recklessly prescribed).

The information in this course has preserved the gut flora of my family and many of my students’ families from the ravages of antibiotics. Using homeopathy has helped them avoid years of subsequent illnesses and sensitivities that the unnecessary use of antibiotics can trigger. Perhaps it is the right course for your family as well.

And remember, all my Mighties (Joette’s Mighty Members) qualify for a 10% discount on course purchases. If you need assistance getting your discount, email [email protected] for more information.

In this podcast, we cover:

00:58   Introduction: When Health Fears Fade: Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary Results

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

02:34   It all started with tooth pain

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

            Gateway to Homeopathy II

04:39   Piqued curiosity: What else can homeopathy do?

            Joette’s blogs

07:22   Success Story: Hives

11:02   Success Story: Food allergies

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

12:33   Success Story: Exhaustion

14:57   Success Story: A dog swallowed a bee

16:48   Success Story: A dog with tummy troubles

17:48   Success Story: Ducky, the chicken, was sick

18:45   Success Story: Plants

20:15   Success Story: Mom’s stroke

22:36   Success Story: Sepsis from an infected toe

            Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning!

            JoetteCalabrese.com

25:10   Success Stories: Chronic food intolerances and allergies, seasonal allergies, skin conditions, migraines, menopause backaches, sciatica

            Blogs

            Podcasts

            Courses

28:51   Closing advice

Additional resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)

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 163.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have 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: When health fears fade: Ordinary mom, extraordinary results

Kate: (00:58)

Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and I’m so excited today because we’re diving into the heart of why so many of us love homeopathic medicine.

We’re going to hear real stories from real people living busy, full lives, who have seen homeopathy work wonders.

So, today our guest is Tina. She’s a wife, a homeschooling mom of three, a student of Practical Homeopathy®. Actually, she’s going through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®.

And she’s a leader of the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups and also the protocol study courses.

So, Tina, thank you so much for joining us. I’m excited to hear your stories.

Tina:

Oh, I’m so thankful to be here, Kate. It’s an honor.

I’m just a mom, an observer. I’ve seen this medicine change things, and in the most ordinary, everyday moments

Kate:

And extraordinary from what you’ve told me, too. Very exciting. So, that’s why we love hearing these stories, Tina, and especially what you’re going to bring to the podcast today. You have such a rich background, and I think people would want to know because it’s so interesting.

Microbiology, business, homeschooling, church music ministry, volleyball coaching, graphic design, short-term rentals and more, as we talked earlier. Yet, homeopathy has woven into all of it.

So, I want to ask you, Tina, what first drew you to Practical Homeopathy®, and how did those early experiences hook you into using homeopathy as your medicine?

It all started with tooth pain

Tina: (02:34)

I am so thankful to live a varied life and, within all of those moments, get to use homeopathy and see homeopathy shine.

But it all started with my youngest daughter during the time when we were all sitting at home, and we weren’t able to get into many practices or dental practices or doctors. And her tooth started turning pretty decayed, in which we were told before that it was just a little stain on her tooth.

So, I had a sister-in-law who had just taken Gateway I and Gateway II, and she had tried to convince me to get in the class. And I kick myself now because that was when I could have started. But it was in the middle of a move, and we just didn’t have time.

And so, I remember getting on the phone, calling her up and saying, “Is there anything homeopathy could do? Because we need help.”

At that point, my poor little youngest was in pain and waking up in the middle of the night. And we were doing all we could allopathically, and it just was not good enough. And your mom-heart just breaks to see them in pain and crying.

And so, I was introduced to a protocol for infection. And it was my first real introduction, and it was a beautiful start because not only did things change within the hour, but homeopathy just gently and ever so intelligently came and not only took the pain away — my daughter was able to sleep — but when we were able to get into a dentist, the abscess was gone that they had seen before. And we were able to do what we needed to do — pull the tooth.

Everyone was healthy and happy, and we were able to go forward.

Kate:

And from there, things just kept unfolding as far as you helping more things with your family and friends and animals and even plants.

Piqued curiosity: What else can homeopathy do?

Tina: (04:39)

And so, when something shows itself that dramatic in your life, when it shines the way homeopathy did for us, it was just a matter of “Hmmm, I wonder what homeopathy could do for this?” and “I wonder how it could help this?”

And I still didn’t, at that point, take a course, but I delved into Joette’s blogs. I delved into just voraciously feeding on all of the free information that she put out. And so, for every moment that came up, whether it be friends that would ask, “What are you doing?” and “What can I do for this?” and I would send blog posts.

Or my children, who suffered from whatever it was daily, or my husband, snoring or whatever it was, we would pull the blog post and just see what homeopathy could do.

It began to pique people’s interest around us, you know? And homeopathy just in every moment showed itself so gracious and intelligent, and the amount of healing that I began seeing around me just kind of blew me away.

Kate:

So, tell me what happened next? When did you really start studying homeopathy?

Tina:

Around me, as I started to really practice homeopathy, apply it — not just to my family, but like I said, friends that started asking, “What are you doing?” I was approached by one friend, and she said, “Tina, you know enough. Could you just lead the group, and then you can study with us?”

I accepted, and my first Gateway that I led ended up with nine people sitting in my living room. And not only did we enjoy the course, but we enjoyed the stories, and we enjoyed the camaraderie that came with it.

Kate:

That’s one of the things I love most about the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups is hearing, week-to-week, study group members share their stories of how homeopathy has helped them and their families and those around them. I think it is so powerful.

And that’s why I love these podcasts, because I love that the listeners get to hear from so many people, and how you’ve used it. And it gives them ideas about how homeopathy can help them. Many things they didn’t even realize that homeopathy could touch.

So, let’s dig into some of the many success stories that you’ve had using homeopathy. So, let’s start with your children’s acute issues and bumps and bruises and flus and all of that. Tell us some things that you’ve used homeopathy for.

Success Story: Hives

Tina: (07:22)

I joke around often with my study group students — that when I say I have a story for this, I joke with them — because I say, “I’m pretty sure that God allows all this stuff to happen to me just for the stories.”

We have used homeopathy in many acutes. And we recently moved about five years ago from the desert of Arizona to the marshlands — and I’m sure they’re not marshlands, but whatever they are —- in Michigan.

With that came lots of bugs, lots of bites, lots of playing outside, lots of just new health issues, allergies and different things that we had never really been presented with.

So, homeopathy … I was so grateful to be introduced to it about the time of that move because not only were we able to take care of bug bites with Apis, after we got hives, or Ledum, but we were also able to heal to the point where now these issues don’t affect us.

My daughter: I remember we went to the fair, which was such a new and great thing for us moving out here. She had been walking down by the animal stalls and picking up straw and just throwing it everywhere. It wasn’t probably about 10 or 15 minutes later, her entire body was covered in hives.

And so, it was frightening, and it was frustrating. But by then, I was so grateful to have been using homeopathy.

And there’s something beautiful that happened at some point. I can’t tell you exactly when, but a lot of the fear of dreadful occurrences in our life — health issues that come — that fear is kind of taken away because I knew what to do when hives came. And I knew what to do when bites came. Or I knew what to do when my daughter comes in the room crying at two in the morning with a stomachache.

So, that fear was removed, and I was so grateful to just use the correct remedies for the hives: Urtica urens and Nat mur (or Natrum muriaticum) and all of these things in Joette’s blog that I could just go into and find the potency, find the frequency, and just administer to my children and watch it work … watch the hives go from all over the body to within five minutes the redness going down.

And then within an hour, disappearing from the trunk of the body. And then within two hours, disappearing from the arms and legs, and just a little bit resting on the neck. And then eventually, within four, everything gone.

But the best is, within 10 minutes, the itching’s gone, and my daughter’s happy running around. Even though the body has to complete the healing, she was happy and fine to go on about her life.

So, these little stories really stirred the continual use of homeopathy and then, also, the spreading to many others around.

Kate:

I love what you said about homeopathy calming our fear of whether it’s accidents or acute illnesses because we have tools at our disposal that we can use. They’re easily accessible, and they’re gentle, and I love that.

I hear that over and over again from students and those who listen to the podcast, that it really does help calm your fears because you have a solution.

Success Story: Food allergies

Kate: (11:02)

So, let’s jump into, now, some specific health challenges. Tell us more of the specific things that you’ve dealt with and used homeopathy to find relief.

Tina:

Well, we’ve been able to target many issues. I have two daughters, and with that comes female issues. And so, we’ve able to get rid of a lot of chronic menses pain with the blog and with the medicines that are given in there.

My son had struggled for many years after antibiotics with a tooth. He struggled with whey allergies and just really nasty reactions in his stomach. And from when I began to take courses — the Good Gut, Bad Gut course was one of the first ones I took after the Gateways — I employed the medicines that were given and protocols that were given.

And to this day, he can have a whey protein shake or enjoy ice cream or yogurt or whatever it is that has that kind of a dairy in it.

But it was so great to kind of ride that journey with him to watch the body slowly heal and to watch him be able to reintroduce foods that he loved but couldn’t eat, to just experience and to see over and over what homeopathy can do.

These are things that happen in my everyday life that I know happen to so many of your listeners and so many people that have started using homeopathy.

Success Story: Exhaustion

Tina: (12:33)

But I can think of another one early on that this one hits home because as a mother, you’re so intense on being there for your children and — or intent on being there for your children — and your husband and to do the motherly duties. And so often, we forget about ourselves. And much of the time, I didn’t even treat myself because I was so busy treating everybody else.

But I remember having hosted … and we do that often … we host, and we enjoy people, and we love just life. I had just finished hosting, and I was just emotionally, physically spent.

And my daughter, who at that time was about 16 … your children become a shadow of you. They watch what you do, they listen to what you say. And so, I was so grateful that she was able to go get the book off of my bookcase and repertorized for me.

Here I am, laid out on the bed. I laughed because it reminds me of that movie, The Princess Bride, where the main character’s been captured, and he’s down in the enemy’s lair, and they’re sucking the life out of him, and he’s just laying on this table like in agony, barely having any strength left.

And I laugh because I tell people that was me. I was just done … like, just done for.

And my daughter came home. She said, “Here, Mom” — I am pretty sure she said this — “Here, Mom, open your mouth.”

And she gave me Lachesis 200. And what happened after is my story and her story. It’s our testimony because people can say, “Well, homeopathy doesn’t work.” But they can’t say that to me because I’ve seen it work!

And so, in 10 minutes, I was sitting up talking to her completely coherent. And within 20 minutes, I was out in the garden, and I was gardening, and I was enjoying the sun, and I completely forgot that 30 minutes before, life was very bleak.

So, these type of just really dramatic turnarounds I have seen over and over with homeopathy.

Kate:

Yes, me too. And how great that your children are learning this along with you. You think that they’re not necessarily learning as much as they are. But then when they step up like that, it’s just beautiful. How great. What a gift to your family.

Let’s turn now to animals and plants. What have you seen homeopathy do with that?

Success Story: A dog swallowed a bee

Tina: (14:57)

Well, I think it’s the normal transition for many people that begin with homeopathy, that they see it working in humans, and then you soon hear, “Oh, it works on animals, and it works in plants.”

Well, here I am, just moved to Michigan, and I’m surrounded by lots of plants. And we moved out to the country from living in the city, and so here I’ve got my own chickens, and our dogs are getting to run free in the yard. The parakeets are happy in the house, and so we’re surrounded by opportunities (is what I see them as).

And so, with these different gifts — blessings given around us — there’s always moments for chaos and for healthful things that call on us.

So, we had just recently got a puppy. Her name was Ahava, and she’s a little Rat Terrier mixed with a Mountain Feist — and she is feisty. She’s more of a hunting dog, a treeing dog.

She loves to chase bees. She loved to chase bees as a puppy, and she still loves to chase bees.

One day, she had an allergic reaction after she ate one, naturally. Her poor little body got little hives on it. And she started what sounded like kind of coughing, and it was probably having some type of an anaphylactic response.

So, we took the opportunity to grab the remedies and give her what we knew would help: an Apis for anaphylaxis and also, an Aconite for that shock that was happening to all of us around.

I laugh, because anytime we have these scenarios, it seems like everybody around me gets Aconite, including myself. And then you can think … to be able to treat.

Within just five minutes, Ahava was normal. The hives eventually faded and went away, and so we were able to see homeopathy work for us.

Success Story: A dog with tummy troubles

Tina (16:48)

Along with that, we have a beagle, Beau. Beau the Beagle. He likes to sit around. He’s not your normal beagle. He loves … this guy loves food. He’s very, very much drawn to do anything if he’s given food.

So, I’m not sure if he ate something or what exactly happened, but one day we noticed that Beau was kind of sitting around a little more than he normally does. And he seemed a little overheated, and he just wasn’t himself.

After being able to observe him and see that what he was doing wasn’t normal, we were able to give remedies like Aconite and Bovista for his food allergy.

But my favorite is always Bioplasma®, especially for an overheated moment. It was summer during that time. So, Bioplasma has always turned a lot of scenarios around, and we saw Beau change within a matter of a couple hours, and he was back to himself by the next day.

Success Story: Ducky, the chicken, was sick

Tina: (17:48)

So, seen it in our dogs. We saw it in our chickens. Bioplasma and Aconite brought …

Well, my daughter has affectionately named all of our chickens names, and one of them was Ducky (which she just has this affinity to do this).

And so Ducky was very sick, and she was laying around in the yard exhausted, not doing what the rest of the flock was doing. And we were able to put some Bioplasma and Aconite in a little spray bottle with some water. Shook it up and just went outside and sprayed Ducky in the parts that we knew that the homeopathy would take.

She turned around very quickly. Within maybe an hour, we looked outside, and we actually couldn’t find her because she had just acclimated right back into the flock. She was well. Completely revived her.

We’ve seen that happen a number of times with our chickens.

Success Story: Plants

Tina: (18:45)

You mentioned plants.

Kate:

Yes.

Tina:

So naturally, here I am coming from the desert to not growing plants. And so, everything around me is a plant.

I took the opportunity to start growing my own herbs for loose-leaf teas and just enjoying the plants and flowers around me. Being a desert dweller, my green thumb needed to grow a bit, so I was able to use homeopathy for any transplanting.

I’ve had a number of near-death experiences with plants and Carbo veg. Carbo vegetabilis is my go-to for when one of my plants is just about to give on me.

Heat stress? I use Bioplasma. When I garden, when I transplant, I do a lot of Aconite in the beginning. I like to use Cina and Sulphur for any pests.

I just kind of like to watch the plants around me really thrive because homeopathy does exactly what they need, and it’s really for all creation.

Kate:

Some people may not know that there are actually books — homeopathic books — that just talk about using homeopathy with plants and for gardening. So, there is a lot of information out there on that. If you’re curious, you can just do a Google search.

Alright, let’s shift to some pretty serious situations where you’ve had some emergencies or pretty dire acute situations. Can you tell us about those?

Success Story: Mom’s stroke

Tina: (20:15)

My parents visit often. I enjoy having them annually come out. And during one of their visits, my mom began to mimic what looked like a stroke, and this would’ve been her third stroke. So, there was a history of this in her life.

My father came upstairs. (They were staying in our basement. We’ve got an apartment down there.) And so, when they come to visit, I love to treat them with remedies. I love to take any diagnosis they have and treat with protocols.

But specifically, on one visit, they came. And my dad came upstairs, and he looked very worried. He said, “Tina, I need you to come downstairs.”

And so, when I went down, what I saw was my mother sitting on the couch. The position and mindset that she was in was very familiar to me because I had happened upon her another time when she was having a stroke, when I was back in Arizona. So, I was very familiar with what it looked like and knew the emergent situation that we were facing.

My mother was in need of emergent care. We did what we could do to make the right calls. But while we were waiting, I went ahead and did what I knew homeopathy could help with. Gave Aconite for that situation.

Within four hours of remedies — looking at a few other symptoms that she was showing and administering what we could — within four hours, she was normal.

She was confirmed by the emergency technicians — the emergency care — that all of her vitals were stable. She was confirmed that she was well.

And so, within four hours, she was napping, and she was completely whole. And within six hours, she was upstairs doing dishes and playing with my children.

So, we were able to see again in another very dramatic situation. Where before it seemed hopeless, homeopathy just really came in and took care of a situation where something was completely normal, to completely not normal. And it was able to take it right back to balance.

Kate:

That is an incredible story. What a gift. Let’s shift to a case of possibly early sepsis with an infected toe. Can you tell me more about that?

Success Story: Sepsis from an infected toe

Tina: (22:36)

As we began to see homeopathy do more and more things — not just in our home, but within the students that would take Gateway courses — everybody starts treating their families and starts treating those that they love around them.

So, I had a friend that took the course come to the house in desperate need. And her husband did not want to go to the emergency room while she was trying to get him to go. She said, “Tina, here’s pictures. It looks sepsis: the redness, the red streak line going up from his toe up the leg.”

And it was a desperate situation. He wasn’t really convinced that he wanted to go to the emergency room because, for him, it was just an infected toe. But for her, she could see that it was something a lot more serious.

So, we were able to look at it together, and she went away knowing what she needed to do, applied some of the information from the blogs for the toe.

Within about four hours, she sent me a message that said, “Everything’s turned around. The redness is going down.”

And she kept a really nice picture log of as it went on throughout the next day. And by about hour 10, she said, “The line is fading.”

By about hour … I believe it was about 12, she said, “He’s comfortable. There’s no pain.”

And by about, I feel like it was hour 18, she’s like, “Tina, all of the redness is gone, and everything is looking really good.”

So, within 24 hours, she said it didn’t even look like it was there. The toe was really healing well. And within three days, he was back walking around, and everything was normal.

Kate:

I bet that made her a believer in homeopathy if she hadn’t been before, right?

Tina:

Yeah. You know, it’s like when you get to experience what homeopathy can do in these kind of crazy situations, it really solidifies to you that this is a medicine that works.

Kate:

And I just want to mention, there’s the blog that you most likely looked at was called Holy Cow! Blood Poisoning!

So, if you’re interested in that information, you can look at the top on JoetteCalabrese.com. In the right-hand corner, there’s a search bar, and you can just put in “blood poisoning” or “holy cow blood poisoning,” and that blog will come up.

Success Stories: Chronic food intolerances and allergies, seasonal allergies, skin conditions, migraines, menopause, backaches, sciatica

Kate: (25:10)

So, I want to ask you now about your personal journey. I know there have been things that you have needed help with, and I would like to hear your personal story and how homeopathy has helped you.

Tina:

I am so grateful for homeopathy. I am so grateful for how it gently comes in and does a job that I’ve seen no allopathic medicine do for me.

I have dealt for many years with chronic food intolerances, allergies (not just food allergies, seasonal allergies), skin conditions, migraines. And as each season in life presents itself, you are given new gifts — new gifts of symptoms.

Kate: New gifts!

Tina:

Yes, we’ll call them blessings. Yes.

So, I’ve been able to — with the education that I have gained from not just using remedies and watching cases, but the blogs, the podcasts, the courses that Joette has — I’ve been able to treat myself for all of these conditions.

Now I’m able to go to Chicago with my family and enjoy a nice Chicago piece of pizza — we did that a couple of weeks ago — without any reactions, without any intolerant actions from it that I would normally get.

I’ve been able to hives not just go away, but cured, to not return.

I’ve dealt with migraines and seen, within a few doses, migraines not just go away, but the frequency lessen, and to the point where I don’t have migraines anymore.

And with these seasons, come menopause and perimenopause, these different things. And I’ve just seen homeopathy shine in every moment of my life the last five years now that I’ve been a student of homeopathy.

When I was younger, I was in a few car accidents, and that kind of left the impression on your body. Whereas you get older, you have different issues in your back and joints. So, I really struggled with a lot of backache and sciatic issues.

Eventually got on protocols to where I just went in about a month ago to my chiropractor and naturopath, and they took X-rays. Bulging disc, degenerative disc, scoliosis (the start of it)? It’s all gone.

And it is incredible that I am living without pain. There’s no back pain; there’s no joint aches. And should they return, I employ the remedies that I’ve been given within the courses that I’ve studied.

Kate:

That is life-changing because it can be so debilitating.

So, what a gift that you’ve been given — and we all have — with this medicine.

There is so much more we could talk about. I know that you’ve mentioned to me personally, infertility, COPD, high blood pressure, glaucoma, gout, hypothyroid, diabetes, IBS, eczema. I mean so much more. So, we could go on and on. We’ll have to have you back for another podcast.

But I want to ask you now to share something with our listeners who may be just starting homeopathy or feeling overwhelmed. What would you say to those who are listening?

Closing advice

Tina: (28:51)

Experience matters, and confidence comes with time.

As you begin to use the remedies, as you begin to experience these different gifts, these stories that come into your life — we might call them chaos; we might call them trials — but my new outlook is they’re really gifts. Symptoms are gifts. And as you continue to learn and study, then you begin to grow.

You observe more, and you apply what you’ve learned. I’ve learned now, we don’t need to defend homeopathy. It has stood the test of time, but we carry a responsibility to care for it and to keep it alive. This is about preserving a gift rooted in creation, passing it on with clarity, integrity and courage. Not just to our inheritants, not just to our children, but to those around us.

I’m not an expert. I’m just a mother. I’m a wife, a friend, a daughter. I’ve seen it work with my own eyes in family and people around me, in animals. And I am so in love, and I am so deeply grateful.

If you’re beginning, stay curious, stay humble, pay attention to your stories. Let experience teach you.

Homeopathy works, and it’s worth stewarding well.

Kate:

Wow. Beautifully said, Tina.

I want to thank you for sharing your heart and these inspirational stories. What a gift it has been to us.

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:

You just listened to a podcast from internationally acclaimed homeopath, public speaker and author, the founder of The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®, Joette Calabrese. Joette’s podcasts are available on all your favorite podcast apps.

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