1M: a Homeopath's Podcast

Primary and Secondary actions are classic homeopathic philosophy. That doesn't make them not controversial, or a hot topic of conversation among homeopaths past and present!

In this intercurrent episode, Kelly presents a view different views from the archives on primary and secondary action.

I talk today with Jerry Kantor, of Vital Force Health Care LLC about his rich book, Autism Reversal Toolbox.

The book covers a broad swath including:

1) The Workbench- influences and potential etiology of ASD, cultural and environmental influences including epigenetics, and the 'Sense Dimensional perspective,' which presents a relationship between the 5 sense and the 5 elements of Chinese Medicine.

2) Thorough discussion of the ASD intake.

3) The 10 elements of a successful approach.

4) Conceptual tools, such as miasms, the influence of digital media, reproductive technology, the toxic burden of our environment, and more.

5) Tools, including constitutional remedies, adjuncts such as Unda remedies, and 'soft focus' remedies that engage with meta issues in the case.

6) The Sine Wave approach (presented), discussion of other methods include CEASE, Banerji.

7) Illustrative cases and philosophical appendices.

Jerry and I dive right in and have a wide ranging, lively conversation exploring these issues and more.

Important links:

Jerry's website: https://vitalforcehealthcare.com/

Jerry's LINKS article on miasms

Rat Park- a critical analysis

Following Hering's directions for studying remedies, I share you with you my dive into the small remedy, Sambucus nigra, which I recently used for a young patient.

I love the Hering method, but have also found that it doesn't go far enough- for me. So I've added my insights and extensions.

Enjoy!

Karen Allen returns to the podcast! After having a transformative experience in her 'Start up to Stellar' class, Kelly wanted to dive into some of the issues that came up for her, and how they apply to all homeopaths in the professional realm.

Catch up on their first conversation from episode 37.

Karen shares the details of her new project, Trinity Health Hub, an amazing new community, training resource, and vehicle for homeopathic advocacy.

Finally, join Kelly and Americans for Homeopathy Choice in April at Homeopathy on the Hill. Let's build on the momentum of the 16,000+ signatures of the petition, and meet our legislatures face to face. Early registration ends Feb. 15th, and Joette Calabrese is offering a free gift to early registrants!

Hello and welcome to Episode 43 of 1M, I'm Kelly Callahan and today I'm talking with Joerg Wichmann for the first interview of 2019.

Joerg is the man behind the wonderful website provings.info, which is an essential resource for lovers of homeopathy, practicing or not.

If this is the first you're hearing of provings.info, it's a comprehensive database of remedies and their associated provings- I think it's the only resource of its kind, as a stand-alone database.

You can search for a remedy, see its abbreviation, family or group, and provings associated with it.

Each remedy entry has a short description of the substance, pharmacies where you can obtain it, provings including the type, where it can be found- in a book, in a downloadable pdf, etc., the language and year, taxonomy, and a bibliography that lists literature resources for the remedy. For example, under Abelmoschus, theres'a direct link to an article in interhomeopathy.com.

There are advanced search capabilities that allow you to search for a word within a proving, as well as groups and taxonomical family names.

Joerg maintains in interesting blog (https://www.provings.info/blog1_en/)- Homeopathy and the World- that covers a range of subjects from media and news to philosophy and spirituality…. lots of good stuff in there that will resonate with many homeopaths.

But that's not all-

Joerg has also started a new project, FreeWiki (https://www.freewiki.eu/en/index.php?title=Welcome_to_FreeWiki). It has the ambitious and important goal of supporting information about homeopathy and other subjects that are typically maligned and written about with a skewed skeptical bias in outlets such as Wikipedia.

We have a great discussion about this effort and his decision to expand Free Wiki beyond homeopathy, and why that's important.

I had a great time talking to Joerg, I love provings and am so grateful that he's taken on this work- it's a huge benefit to our community and our profession.

Before we transition to the interview, I'd love to give a quick update about the work of Americans for Homeopathy Choice… hopefully you had a chance to catch my interview with Paola Brown, Episode 36, back in October.

AHC is leading the resistance against the FDA and their efforts to curb access to homeopathic remedies. Signatures are _still needed_ for the petition. Visit SignTheHomeopathyPetition.com As of this month there are near 4,000 signatures, and it's not enough. We need 10,000. We all know that there are way more than 10,000 people who support homeopathy and their right to choose. If you haven't signed yourself yet, please do, and then you can send the link on to your family and friends.

Even if you know people who only use arnica, that's a link in. So that's SignTheHomeopathyPetition.com

Consider joining the AHC Bear Pack with a recurring donation of $25/month. You get access to lots of exclusive information, a Facebook page and webinars with homeopaths such as Miranda Castro. To do that, visit HomeopathyCHoice.org and select reccuring donation.

The big news of AHC though is they are planning a big event in DC in April- Homeopathy on the Hill- April 8-10, over Hahnemann's Birthday, of course.

This event looks great, I'm hoping to attend myself. Goals are to

1. Persuade members of Congress about the importance of protecting our right to choose homeopathy by bringing them together with homeopathy supporters from all over the country.
2. Give homeopathy supporters a chance to network with one another to help advance the cause of homeopathy.
3. Raise public awareness of homeopathy.

This means meeting with your representatives (which you'll get coaching for), a Monday night dinner and chance to socialize with other supporters and homeopaths, Tuesday meetings with your rep and an informational lunch, and Tuesday night a special screening of Ananda More's film, Magic Pills.

There are lots of ways you can help make this event a success whether you can be in DC or not, so check out AHC or follow the links in the show notes.

Thanks again to all of you who have taken the time to rate and review the podcast. I love seeing the numbers go up. The greater homeopathy has a positive profile, be it a podcast or a journal or a post on social media, the greater the vibration for all of us.

I also invite you to join me for the 1M Read-A-Long of Jerry Kantor's

Autism Reversal Toolbox. Visit Emryss.com or Nature-reveals.com and use code: PC for 10% off. Then hop onto the 1M Facebook page and request to join the private group. It's easy, and it will be fun!

Enjoy this interview with Joerg and I'll see you next month!

Hey hey! Welcome to 1M: a Homeopath's Podcast,with episode 42.

I want to wish you a Happy New Year to you, wherever you are. I hope however you've spent the last month, whether celebrating holidays or not, you've gotten some of what you want, and more of what you need, with energy and inspiration for the year to come.

This year, 2019, will be the 4th year of the podcast. I mentioned in December that I was cooking up plans to make the podcast even better this year, and some of those plans are coming into focus.

The fall was particularly potent for me, as I know it has been for many of you who have been through the same experience I've in Karen Allen's Start up to Stellar class.

Karen was my guest in episode 37, and little did I know how potent that conversation would turn out to be. The class has been profound for my own practice and stepping into myself as a professional homepath in a more decisive and solid way, *AND* that energy trickled into other aspects of my homeopathic life, like teaching and the podcast.

We all know that when you give a remedy, the thing you intend to effect is often just the tip of the iceberg. That feeling when a patient returns and says- yeah, my stomach is better but that's not the 1/2 of it! and proceeds to tell you the other ways their life was impacted by taking the remedy.

That's kind of been the effect of the work I've done this past fall.

So what does that mean for the podcast? Well, for one thing, an extra episode per month.

As much as I love doing interviews and talking with homeopaths around the world on their projects, publications and practices, I miss doing some of the creative work that inspired me to do the podcast in the first place.

If you're a long time listener, or you've recently found the podcast and have caught up on old episodes from the first year, you'll know that- like most homeopaths- i'm fond of history and archival readings, the repertory, philosophy and exploring materia medica in a creative way.

Unfortunately, with an hour interview, those elements have been cut out. The thing is, those elements are how I play with homeopathy, with ideas and connections, and continue to learn.

I intended to bring those elements to the podcast because I feel like it's important to make learning and exploring visible, not to just share the results of the work, but to share the work itself- ideas not flushed out, kind of messy, a little bit of wondering and supposing.

So the extra episode each month I'm dubbing an 'intercurrent' episode, and it will be precisely that- a fun exploration into philosophy, materia medica repertory or history. Shorter- more like a 20-30 min. episode-

There will still be a long in depth interview each month as well, and who knows, maybe every now and then, a bonus episode.

This episode- 42- is one of those intercurrents. In 2 weeks, I have a great interview with Joerg Wichman, the creator of provings.info- if you arent' aware of it, check it out, it's one of the best resources out there for homeopaths with regards to provings.

So as I thought about what I wanted to bring on for today, I kept going back to the idea of it being January, the new year.

In anycase, I'm a sucker for new beginnings, intentions, thinking about things full circle.

You know those articles or bits in the newspaper that say- 'this day in history' and then give a report of what happened around the world on this very day 20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago.

I thought we can do that! There have been over 200 January's, over 200 New Years since Homeopathy's inception.

What was happening on any given January, 50 years ago? 75 years ago?

The Homeopathic Recorder in 1939, which was 80 years ago- and I counted decades on my fingers to get that. you know, turning over to the new millennium and starting back at 0 can be confusing- published a number of articles that jumped out at me, in both their similarity to our current state, and in their differences-

Boericke presented a paper titled- Homeopathy in the Spotlight of Today-

He proceeds to outline a set of philosophic points of homeopathy via Kent, in particular, and how modern medicine- that is of 1939- has either come into some agreement about it, or is still divergent. So in a sense he's doing what I'm doing, using Kent's observations and philosophy as his historical benchmark, as I'm using this article.

It's like a nesting doll of comparisons.

Kent asserts that there are NO principles in regular medicine, and that in their study of diseases by ultimates the gap between the two schools is made. The present day medical scientist is still studying ultimates although the trend toward the study of the sick individual is coming to the fore. Further, one notes that observations of perverted physiology in disease is assuming an importance hitherto unknown. But in general the lack of a law for the study of the cure of disease makes todays research still empirical experimentation.

What's interesting to me about this, is that homeopathy has not changed in this regard, and the 'old school' to keep the term, has changed, though not so much in a direction that brings them closer to homeopathy. Certainly diagnoses are made on the finding of ultimates, though genetic research has emerged since the time of this writing, and in my mind, it's still about ultimates, but looking for the evidence that will foretell a future ultimate.

Boericke goes on to say:

The "old school" yet allows no distinction between cure and recovery as done in Hahnemannian circles. Likewise, the relationship of suppression to later disease pictures has made little headway to date. The external treatment of eruptions, discharges and perspiration is still part and parcel of orthodox treatment. Unfortunately, outside of purely clinical assumptions we have no material proof to bear out our knowledge of the ill effect of suppression. We can hardly expect an "old school" man to take our word for it against what he has been taught.

Despite advances in research, I thought this observation still rings true. Doctors are still prescribing drugs and treatments that ultimately suppress, and the concept of suppression and the relationship of one set of symptoms to the next does not inform their treatment.

Another point:

Perusal of Kents chapter on what is curable in disease and medicine makes doubly clear to us that the values therein cannot be appreciated by science today since it has no standard whereby a differentiation between cure and recovery is possible. Undoubtedly, our finer prescribers can realize these delicate shadings which confront one in difficult cases. However, experience dictates that the majority of Hahnemannian homoeopaths, as a group, expect too much of homoeopathic remedies in fatal or incurable cases. At least, modern medicine has given as prognostic knowledge of great accuracy and it should help those confronted with this problem to distinguish those cases calling for symptomatic relief from those still within the curative realm

This I also found to be interesting- the observation that science has no distinction between recovery and cure. This is true- is an organ replacement a cure? Is remission from cancer via chemotherapy and radiation a cure? As homeopaths, we would not agree, and yet allopathy would herald these as major victories and cure. And his second point, that homeopaths expect too much fatal or incurable cases, I found to be astute. We can be prone to believing that anything is possible with similars. It's in our own realm, then, to look honestly at a case and see potential for palliation vs. cure. and a patients prognosis can be of great aid in these situations. This came up recently in a repertory lesson I was preparing for students, about how homeopaths can use diagnosis to our advantage, such as end-stage conditions.

A shift we might agree on from 1939 and now would be this observation:

An amusing note in this connection is given us by Kent. He predicates that no cure of chronic disease is possible in man or woman employing contraception. We wonder what modern homoeopaths would subscribe to this. It would be our thought that the cure of many women would be impossible so long as the fear of repeated pregnancies was not removed through adequate knowledge of this subject.

In 1939, the Pill was not a thing. Hormonal birth control was not rampant as it is today. Enough of us have seen the sequelae of hormonal birth control to throw in our hat with Kent, that cure of a chronic condition may be impossible so long as such methods are being used. However, Kent's assertion of more philosophical, and like Boericke, I would be curious of any modern homeopaths a'la 2019 would agree that chronic disease cannot be cured if a non-drug, hormonal, or implant devise is being used for contraception- such as a condom.

Progressive thinkers, those homeopaths of 1939!

I'll wrap up the commentary on this article, which of course has so many more observations, with the comments from the esteemed colleagues- Dr. Grimmer, and Dr. Dixon. Comments which indeed could have been made in our own time:

DR. GRIMMER: The paper was a very fine presentation of the facts, but if the Doctor can only tell us how we can put this thing over to the "old school" we might get a little farther along. The methods of reasoning and the concepts of the old school minds are such that they can hardly take up with our finer concepts of things. The "old school" refuses to believe anything that their crude fingers can't touch or their ultramicroscopic eyes can't see, and homoeopathy begins only beyond the ken of those things.

DR. DIXON: It seems to me that the way to convert the allopaths is to show them the difference between homoeopathy and allopathy. It seems to me that the aim of the allied and kindred societies is to try always to correlate homoeopathy with allopathy. It is entirely different, and I think we miss the biggest selling point we have trying to correlate our treatments with so-called modern medicine. If we would emphasize the difference and make it outstanding, as it was fifty years ago, we would get somewhere. We are different; we have to admit it.

DR. BOERICKE: In answer to Dr. Grimmer, I don't know how to answer his question because I dont know how to put it over. It is a great problem. We only hope that something will come up gradually that will enable general medicine as a whole to appreciate homoeopathy. It does seem time when we had something such as we have got that is not universally practiced, but how to accomplish that I dont know any more than Dr. Grimmer or the rest of us.

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Finally, I invite you to be a part of an upcoming interview and join me in the first 1M podcast community Read-a-Long!

When Emryss sponsored the episode with Viktoria Bodrogi, Olivier asked me if I was interested in any of their other books. I chose Jerry Kantor's Autism Reversal Toolbox

Jerry agreed to come on the show for an interview, and I thought rather than just read the book myself and do the interview, I would open it up to the community, we can read it together in a group and I can take your comments and questions about the book to the interview. The effect will be more of a community dialogue, rather than a solo interview.

You can order the book through Emryss or Nature-Reveals using the discount code: PC at checkout for 10% off.

Join the private Facebook group that I'll be setting up for the Read-a-long discussion. Participate with your questions and comments, which I'll bring to my interview with Jerry.

I hope you join me!

Hey everyone!

Welcome, Welcome to 1M: A Homeopath's Podcast. This is episode 41, the last episode of 2018, and wraps up my 3rd year of podcasting.

Today's guest is symbolic for me in that way, as it was in Jeremy Sherr's Dynamis class that I conceived of this idea to do a podcast. So to have him back on the show for the 2nd time- the first time I did the recording at our final weekend in Sweden, I think- is really cool for me.

Jeremy Sherr, if you are not familiar with him, is an Israeli homeopath who has been practicing and teaching for over 30 years. He's taught the longest running post-graduate program, the Dynamis School for Advanced Homeopathy, for most of those years. He's completed dozens of full Hahnemannian provings, is the author of a provings methodology book, a book on Syphilis, and just this year, released his third book in his noble gas series- Argon. OH- and he and his wife Camilla's organization, Homeopathy for Health in Africa- celebrated its 10th anniversary in November. And this is not a comprehensive list- by far.

Jeremy Sherr's teaching and work have had a profound impact on me, as a homeopath. I'm drawn to how he thinks, and the depth of the work that he does. This comes up on our conversation quite a bit, as we talk about the landscape of homeopathy today. Jeremy's approach doesn't appeal to everyone. Though he's highly respected, his methodology of going focused and deep into one remedy, or one project, is a style and approach that has many benefits, but again- it isn't for everyone.

I've been thinking a lot about this idea that everything isn't for everyone. Not surprising, right? As homeopaths, our goal is to individualize. But sometimes, that idea doesn't leak out of the consulting room. We can get allopathic in our ideas sometimes, about things we think are good for all. But I'm not really sure there's anything that is universally good for everyone, except for love. And adequate food, water, and shelter, of course. But that's another conversation!

Right now, I'm thinking about it in terms of messaging about homeopathy to the public. While homeopathy can work for *most people*, it ISN'T for everyone, as a choice. It's a hard truth to swallow, but it's true.

I've been reading - or rather listening- to a great new book by a man named Seth Godin, who's kind of the Jeremy Sherr of the marketing world. Seth's new book is called 'This is Marketing' and he makes the claim that any of us who are trying to spread any idea- whether it's a product, or an idea, a brand or a charity- are trying to create change. That's all any of us are doing. And to do so, we need to have empathy and understanding of our audience. Part of that is recognizing that our thing isn't for everyone. It's perfect for a very specific audience, right now. And with time and education and yes, appropriate marketing, more people join the target audience. But to claim that it IS for everyone, is actually disrespectful of people's individuality, and also- our message gets lost in the void.

Jeremy's work is a major asset to the homeopathic community. But- it's not for everyone. His way of doing things is his way. Other people will go a different way. Our task is to respect all the ways, and see how different approaches, styles, and methodologies contribute to the whole. NOT to homogenize. Conversations about the different styles are more fruitful when focusing on how they are different, not better. Better is a shouting match.

So that's where my mind made some connections today, when I was re-listening to the episode to edit, and it mixed in with other big ideas and things I'm pondering.

To close, I want to again acknowledge the amazing community that has formed and continues to form around the podcast. Recently, as I receive more and more emails and Facebook messages, the community aspect has become more visible, and evident. And I am so thrilled about it. I invite you all to connect with me, via email at [email protected], or through the Facebook page, and share with me your thoughts, what you'd like to see on the podcast, or suggestions for improvements.

I'd like to close this introduction by reading a contribution that came through a listener, Maraísa Schoenmaker. Marisa contacted me with a question, and then we started corresponding about potential guests for the show, from Brazil. Maraisa had some great suggestions, though the language piece remains a block for having a more diverse audience. In any case, she reached out to one homeopath who she recommended, Eliete Fagundes.

Of Eliete, she says She has several books on homeopathy, one I myself find great is "The energetic symptoms in Homeopathy". She has also a Masters degree in the use of homeopathy in soils , water and plants. She was born in a small town and in 85 she would start studying homeopathy by herself with books in Spanish she could get from Buenos Aires. 86 she uses homeopathy in her family's farm. And she is always trying to break barriers so non doctors can still work as homeopaths in Brazil.

If you go to the website, Google will translate it for you and you can read an extensive time line of her biography, work, and accomplishments in Homeopathy. It's amazing! AND it's different than anything else I have ever seen! It gets back to that idea, that we are all individuals contributing to the whole. Her work may not resonate for everyone, though it's a beautiful and incredible contribution.

My lack of Portuguese prohibits her form being on the show, but Maraisa shared a short piece that Eliete, wrote for me to share. I"ll read it now, and then we'll move into my interview with Jeremy Sherr.

Interview for 1M:A Homeopath´s Podcast

Health consists of an integral process, because in order to maintain our mental, emotional and physical hygiene, we need to be in contact with a balanced environment. This unpublished work that I develop with the use of Homeopathy in the various types of soils, fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables, cereals production, rivers, lakes, springs, etc. aims to exemplify that we can live in a more integrated way with the environment.

In Brazil, where today we are world champions in the use and consumption of fertilizers and agrochemicals in crops, chemical medicines and cosmetics, we observe the extremely sick population. At each meal, secondarily, these poisons influence our organisms, generating the awakening of the individual degree of the miasms and their consequent disharmonies silently filed in our DNA.

Problems like hypertension, diabetes, cancer, degenerative diseases of the nervous system, autoimmune complications, depression, suicidal tendency, etc. are common. The homeopathic treatment is fantastic, but if we are immersed in this whirlwind of information, maintaining health becomes very difficult. Our well-being is formed by the integral relationship of living beings with their natural habitats, the contaminations from this unhealthy environment generate genetic mutations, the main polymorphism observed in epigenetics, and which Hahnemann had already called them pathogenesis.

For over 30 years I have taught the use of Homeopathy to all beings existing beyond the ecosystems in general so that we can live without so many diseases. I have even done research on machines, motors, and some industries to reduce certain environmental pollutants. But it needs a lot of research because it is pioneering work worldwide, besides partners interested in the various branches. I follow Hahnemann to the maximum, I aim to preserve his work in the purest form, without fads that distort his legacy that is now being surpassed by Kent in the prescription in almost all countries.

The only difference in my work is that I have broadened the view of the laws of Homeopathy to all living beings, diverse ecosystems, and machines in general, including the perspective for artificial intelligences. I classify miasms as natural universal laws and amplify their action to even the formation of the planets, stars and the universe. The rest of the pathogenic -epigenetic similimum are also miasmas, but secondary, because depending on the degree of pathogenesis, all are passed on to the next generations.

In a few thousand years we will have serious mutations in the mitochondrial DNA that will greatly affect the great majority of the human species, which I already observe the beginning of the occurrence in specific clusters. Each nation, each region, each city, neighborhoods, each family nucleus has its miasmatic peculiarities that distinguish them from others.

Homeopathy is the science of the future, I disclose it as the most advanced technology, far beyond nanotechnology and, if well used, is in favor of maintaining the life and balance of all species.

Eliete M.M. Fagundes.

Thank you all for listening! I look forward to bringing you another year of shows, but until then, Happy New Year to you and your family!

Hey folks! This is a new, different, and slightly challenging episode- but ultimately, an awesome one!

The challenging part is that my computer is in the shop, so I'm working off my son's computer and my back up drive, which makes finding files a bit of a challenge. As such, there's some new atmospheric music- 'Deep Ocean' provided by Purple Planet Music.

The new and different part is this is my first book review- yay! and also my first episode with sponsorship! Publisher Emyrss out of the Netherlands, sponsored this show by both providing me with a copy of the book, and YOU, the listeners, a 10% off code if you choose to purchase Viktoria's book from them!

Check out their website, where they have many, many fine, quality titles from authors who not only they have published, like Frans Vermeulen and Isaac Golden, but they have also been guests on the show! You'll also find titles by Nuala Eising, Jo Evans, and Philip Bailey.

The code is: PC, and as I mentioned, it's good for 10% off when you pop over to the website to purchase your copy of Viktoria Bodrogi's new book: Waterworld, Fish in Homeopathy. Go get your copy today!

Viktoria and I have a great time talking about her process of writing and the book, and then I follow it up with my review of her work, as well as some reflections on a fish case of my own.

Next month I have Jeremy Sherr back again to discuss another great materia medica book- Argon, his 3rd in the noble gas series- as well as the nobles in general, the Dynamis program, and 10 years with Homeopathy for Health in Africa.

Thanks again for listening, please share with your friends and colleagues, and I'll see you next time!

Yesterday was Halloween, but the scary story that we've been grappling with- and will continue to- is the quiet action of the FDA, chipping away our access to homeopathic remedies.

This is episode 39 of the 1M podcast. Today I've brought you not just a great interview, but one of extreme importance to the health and future of homeopathy here in the United States, though I'm sure it will be of interest and enlightening to those out of the US as well.

Around the world there are waves of resistance and attacks against homeopathy in one form or another, so even if this isn't happening where you live, you may face a different threat to the health and longevity of homeopathy, and I think whats' happening here is applicable to everywhere in some ways, and vice versa.

So my guest today is someone who has become a familiar face to those of us who love homeopathy. Paola Brown, of the state of Texas here in the US, is an avid supporter of homeopathy, not only with her own family but as you'll hear in her story, she's also taken on the role of teaching and promoting homeopathy to other mothers and families, which has put her in a uniquely qualified position to lead the consumer-based, newly formed organization Americans For Homeopathy Choice.

I don't want to give away the plot in the introduction, as obviously my interview with Paola here today is specifically to help spread the story and the action plan that goes with it- HOWEVER- the upshot is that the FDA has been quietly mounting an effort to undermine the current guidelines in place that protect our right to choose homeopathic treatment and to access remedies here in the United States.

Americans for Homeopathy Choice is a proactive effort to head off any further negative impact to homeopathy at the pass. Paola is the heroine we need in our corner right now, and i am so thrilled to have talked to her and to learn truly about what's happening and what needs to be done.

And heres' the thing- and i'm outing myself here, but I hadn't really engaged with this issue much. Homeopathy is my happy place, and there's already a lot of painful and challenging things happening in my own state and in the US as a whole, without piling on the attacks of homeopathy. There was a part of me that really didn't want to face it, can't learn about ANOTHER vein of political action that I need to attend to, and was quietly hoping that if I didn't look too closely at it, it would also just quietly goes away. Thats' kind of the law of similars, right?

Yes- complacent, delusional- guilty I am of both of those things.

But only up until now.

Talking with Paola and hearing it from her, directly, has helped to snap me into shape. and it also brought me some relief, too, because the thing is, we need people like Paola- the consumers, the patients- to put the muscle to this effort. Though we as practitioners _absolutely_ have a place here and NEED to step up and help, it IS in the hands of the consumers to rise up as well and thankfully, we have women like Paola. You don't need to see her or meet her when you listen to this woman- she is one who can and will get this job done. But she can't do it alone.

BE SURE that if you are listening to this as you run or drive or ride on the train that you go to homeopathychoice.org as soon as you are back at your computer. Do what she says at the end of our interview- SIGN the petition, CONTACT your representatives and email call or write and you can use the handle templates they've provided- it's all there for you.

COMMENT on the FDA's actions. Right now there are less than 1000 commments. This is a poor showing people and you do NOT have to be a US citizen to comment! So just pop on there and make a comment. And of course, DONATE.

It's a .org, people, and you know what that means. It's not for profit, and the only way these folks are running the website and hiring the lawyers and meeting in DC is because we help them do so and not bankrupt their families. That's bad karma- so donate.

Listen- all the meat or tofu or whatever your protein of choice is- is in the interview, so I want to get right to it.

But quickly, - some house matters- THANK YOU to all of you who have emailed me and reached out about how the podcast is helping you, entertaining you, keeping you company on your runs and commutes and what have you. It really gives everyday a sparkle when I hear from a listener and it helps me to know who YOU are= who is my audience listening? and then i can think about content that YOU want.

I have so many plans and dreams for the podcast and for little baby projects that might spin off the podcast, and its all about leveraging what Im' good at, to serve you- the homeopathy lovers and students and practitioners. aNd I HOPE that what i'm doing is a little inspiration for you and the secret project YOU might have lurking in your own dreams and heart. There's room for everyone- homeopathy is big, we couldn't possibly cover it all. So- yeah- join me in indulging your passion for homeopathy in any way, shape or form.

But start with supporting homepathychoice.org

AND

Subscribing, rating and reviewing the podcast on iTunes or wherever you listen, if you can, because it helps raise the profile of homeopathy and efforts like mine when people who are searching around see that this is valued by others.

I've got 3 awesome shows lined up between now and the end of the year. Because of the holidays and whatnot, the schedule will be a little wonky, so pop on the Facebook page or again, subscribe, so you don't miss an episode, and with that- Paola brown!

Hello Friends…

I'm so happy that you've joined me! We're going to dive into discovery together with my awesome, fun guests today- Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray

I often start the top of the show with a quote that I particularly like from the interview- and it typically isn't me -BUT- in this case, it seemed really apropos because some really cool connections followed my interview with Denise and Alastair that kind of illustrated what I was sharing in the quote about how I build my content organically.

Regular listeners may have listed to my interview in August with Karen Allen, episode 37,- which was so fabulous and please take a listen if you haven't yet- and in the interview Karen spoke about her Start up to Stellar class for homeopaths to create an outrageously successful practice.

She was gracious and generous and offered my listeners 25% off the class enrollment fee- such a beautiful gift which I did take advantage of, as I have been wanting to take that class for years.

So- I signed up for this cohort which just started this past weekend

(totally mind blowing first session- if you didn't hop in this time, I'm sorry for you- honestly!- but join her mailing list for when the class opens again because its amazing and i'm only 2 hours in).

and I had recorded the interview with Denise and Alastair this past week. And as it goes- Karen referenced some of Alastair's work he did on his Masters' degree about what makes homeopaths successful, and in the class, with me, are some of his students *and* 1M podcast listeners-

it was such a neat cross section of the homeopathy community, and I know we're a small one, all things considered, and so it's not a HUGE coincidence, but I thought it was cool and wanted to share how these threads braided together over these 2 episodes for me.

I also wanted give share a little of that behind the scenes chat and how I do this, which, now you know, is very haphazard in an inspired kind of way :)

So- YES! Denise and Alastair. Listen- do yourselves a favor and follow their Facebook page if you are not already- at the Academy of Homeopathic Education, NY- World. They post all manner of fun and inspiring and educational bits. They are truly a dynamic duo- a very complimentary pair- you'll hear in our interview how in sync they are with each other, and that harmonizing they do together obviously potentizes their work because WOW, so much is happening with them, for homeopathy, and for the benefit of the world, really, because of their heart and passion and smarts and experience.

You can learn more about them individually at their Whole Health Now bios:

http://www.wholehealthnow.com/bios/denise-straiges.html

http://www.wholehealthnow.com/bios/alastair-gray.html

Denise's practice site

Alastair's practice site

I love what they're doing, and you'll hear a bit in the interview that I'm pretty gung-ho to discuss educational philosophy- as I have many times here on the podcast- because it is also where my heart is, next to actually practicing.

Alastair shared his thoughts about the technology of education now, and it's so relevant.

I've mentioned before, I think, on the show that my husband is a consultant. And he was at a meeting this last week at a University. We talk a lot about our work and he was telling me that the University is being challenged because a majority of their students fill out their application forms -to college- on their mobile devices. And, they are writing papers on mobile devices! And here, so many institutions have invested millions of dollars in their platforms and what have you, but they have to be optimized for mobile- at least, that was my take-away. How do they make this shift from having put so much energy and resources into the desktop and online experience, into mobile? I think its more complex than that, but that was one point.

Now- some people may think this is weird, or not understand this. Why would people be using phones, if they can use a computer? And I started thinking- you know, I am of the generation that got the first computers as kids. We grew up with the Apple2cs (bear with me- i'm going somewhere with this, its relevant I promise!) and Commodore 64s. Smart phones didn't come around until I already had kids.

But MY kids, have had smart phones in their lives for as long as they can remember. As far as they are concerned, a computer is a tablet, is a phone. They don't have this investment in a computer base. Why would you be tethered to a machine plugged into a wall, if you can do the same thing with something in your pocket the size of a wallet?

THIS is our world. THESE are our future homeopaths.

Not to mention the fact that in low income families, if there is access to the internet at all, its likely though a mobile device. Computers are still expensive. Mobile devices are not.

Think about the effort of Jeremy Sherr in Tanzania and HWB in Haiti- places where we often hear that people don't have access to adequate food often, or medicine, but there are mobile phones. Just think about that. What that means for education, and access. YES, people need food and water- no question. But if we as homeopaths understand how these devices and technology can assist us in providing homeopathic education and tools and services-I know the Tanzania project uses Firefly, a mobile repertory app that I also recently downloaded and am trying to find my way around— it's essential that some of us are working the field in this way.

I believe that homeopathy is the medicine of the past present and future, and the present and future are indisputably, integrated with technology.

Listen, sometimes a scoffing of technology, or a wistfulness of the good old days of pre-smart phone and computers is heavy in the mix with alternative and natural trends, and I understand the concerns there, but if we can leverage technology to bring homeopathy through the 21st and into the 22nd century stronger than ever before, I bet that all of you listening, are behind that.

So- that is just ONE REASON why I am so excited to bring you this conversation with Alastair and Denise because they are on the leading edge of this *and* holding onto the heart of homeopathy and our history while they do it.

And finally- I have a queue of awesome shows coming up. In fact, I might end up putting out some extra mid-month shows because I don't want to hold on to them for too long