IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

01:47    History with Homeopathy and hints

10:10    Homeopathy for night terrors and poisoning

14:55    Homeopathy for chemical sensitivities, animals and plants

25:52    Exploring healthy living

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

 

Terror in the Night

The Perils of Summer: Poison Ivy and Poison Oak

Cell Salts: The Easy Homeopathy

Cure Yourself and Your Family

Feminopathy course

The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

Sunburn and Dehydration? Homeopathy Offers the Cure

Ditch the Gatorade and Make My Son's Homeopathic Electrolyte Drink

Gateway to Homeopathy II:  Only available for purchase through your resource page, after having taken the prerequisite Gateway to Homeopathy I (referenced below)

My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

 

 

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 85.

 

Joette:  Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories.

 

With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.

 

 

Kate:  Welcome, everyone, to another Mom with Moxie podcast. Today, I'm excited for you all to get to know Jennifer. She's with me here today.

 

Welcome, Jennifer.

 

Jennifer:  Hi, Kate. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.

 

Kate:  Good, me, too. I'm really excited to get to know you a little bit more and to hear your story. Let's get started by hearing from you about your background, and maybe how you came into the natural healing modality.

 

History with homeopathy

 

Jennifer:  Well, I live in Central Texas. I'm on a life-learning journey with my son who's 12, and daughter, nine, and my husband. We live on Unruly Farm, which is a small farm. We have a dog, cats and chickens. My background is in the social sciences, and I love research. So, it's kind of translated into me into researching healthy and holistic living — which is my segue into learning and using homeopathy.

 

Kate:  You must have been passionate then about natural healing for a long time? Is that true?

 

Jennifer:  The last 20 years, yes.

 

Kate:  Oh, wow.

 

Jennifer:  Yes. About 20 years ago, I was exposed to a chemical that I had a severe reaction to. It started me on a journey with reclaiming my health and understanding chemical sensitivities. It just led itself into holistic living.

 

During that time, I discovered a lot of different things that people were using — diet and herbs. I really had not even heard of homeopathy. Now, when I look back, I think, “How could I not have heard of homeopathy in my whole life?” It’s stupefying to me!

 

I got a sunburn. I was using aloe vera gel and all of the herbal things, and it just wasn't doing the trick. I went to a little health food store that I frequented, and I asked the person, “What would you recommend for sunburn?”

 

She said, “Try this,” and she gave me some burn cream.

 

I put it on and within 15 minutes, I had about a 60% reduction in pain. I thought, “What is this stuff?” I didn't even read the label. I just purchased it. So, I looked, and it said, “Homeopathic Preparation of Cantharis.”

 

Kate:  So, that was the first time that you've ever heard of homeopathy.

 

Jennifer:  That's correct. It was the first time. It was about 20 years ago. So,

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

01:40    Importance of self-education

06:12    Finding time amid busyness

10:32    Repetition of remedies and provings  

21:21    Starting with the study groups

26:04    Tips on easy learning

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Stop It! How to Antidote a Bad Drug Reaction

A Salute to Ignatia Real Medicine for Post-Traumatic Stress and More

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

Allergic!? Escape Allergies, Sensitivities, and Intolerances, with Homeopathy. Practical Protocols to Get Your Life Back

Feminopathy: How You Can Correct Female Ailments Using Safe, Inexpensive and Effective Homeopathy

A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families

Dr. James Tyler Kent's Materia Medica

My free blog

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 84 with Joette Calabrese.

 

Joette:  Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.

Kate:  Hi, I'm Kate. I'm here with Joette today for another episode of the Practical Homeopathy® podcast. Today, Joette is feeling a little spunky, and we are going to have a conversation about self-education. So, Joette, let's talk about education. I know you're very passionate about it, and you have a lot to say. Let's jump right in.

 

Importance of Self-education

 

Joette:  Yes, I'm very opinionated, especially lately, regarding universities. My husband and I actually discouraged our sons from going to the universities because we didn't want to lose them. I think that's what happens in these universities. Certainly, there is a reason to go to college if you want to get a further degree such as medical doctor, engineer, astrophysicist. Okay, I get it. Now, that makes sense! You need to go to college, and then you need to do some post-grad degrees.

 

But to get a degree in music, really? I'll tell you about music.

 

My father, who never went to college, was a very successful man. He was a finished musician. He played in symphonies. He played flute, classical flute. He also played jazz in big bands. He was in a lot of the big bands in Buffalo when big bands were hot back in the 30s and 40s and 50s. He played trumpet. He did not go to college for that. I'm not telling you that there aren't good teachers in colleges for trumpet or flute, but he sought it out.

 

He worked in the dry cleaners establishment, delivered dry cleaning, and had all kinds of little jobs, so that he could make enough money when he was a young man, so as to take lessons from the teachers that he sought out regionally — all around Buffalo, New York.

 

But he was also a businessman. He had small businesses. He bought and sold real estate. He had a small construction business when he was a very young man, and Buffalo was a very hot town at the time. Actually, Buffalo has come around quite a bit, but it went through a difficult time in the last 40, 50 years. But at this time, it was a very exciting city.

 

He went to New York City and bought hundreds — maybe even more than that —of ties (men's neckties) and brought them back to Buffalo. He got a big, long dowel,

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

05:55 Roadblocks to Learning

13:11    Gateway I and II Classes

17:28    “Careful, I might bite.”

19:54    Headaches, Feeling Overwhelmed, and Earaches

25:00    A Badly Broken Nose

27:10    Words of Encouragement

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

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

Gateway to Homeopathy I and Gateway to Homeopathy II study groups

Podcast 57: My Dirty Little Secret

“No Joy: Postpartum Depression”

 

 

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 83.

 

Joette:  Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.

 

 

Kate:  Hi. This is Kate. I am here with a wonderful Mom with Moxie who I am really enjoying getting to know. Her name is Emily. Emily, I want to welcome you to the podcast. Thank you for being here.

 

Emily:  Oh, thank you for having me. I’m very excited.

 

Kate:  Emily, tell us a little bit about yourself.

 

Emily:  Well, my husband and I have been married for 25 years. We have nine children ages 23 to almost 2. I homeschool them all. I’ve graduated two, and I have a senior this year.

 

Kate:  Wow! You are a busy mom. I just want to pick your brain how you’ve done this.

 

Emily:  Not well. There you go.

 

Kate:  I’m sure you’ve done a great job.

 

Emily:  My kids are amazing. But I am pretty sure that it had very little to do with me. They’re just great kids.

 

Kate:  Oh, no. You seem like a great mom already since I’ve known you only 15 minutes.

 

Emily:  There you go. That’s the limit! After that, it’s downhill!

 

Kate:  Downhill? No. You were telling us about yourself. You homeschool?

 

Emily:  Yes. We’ve homeschooled since the beginning, and I’ve graduated two. I always say that that gives me street cred — that I’ve got them all the way from beginning to end. Then my 17-year old is a senior this year. So, I have a senior, a freshman, a fifth grader, a second grader, a first grader, and then I have a first grader (but she has Down syndrome, so she has special needs), and then the baby.

 

Kate:  I feel like you should be given the title, “Supermom.”

 

Emily:  That’s not true.

 

Kate:  Emily, I loved what you wrote when we were going to record this podcast. You wrote down that you’re truly, madly in love with this medicine. It sounds like you are really excited about homeopathy. You have been using it for a while. Tell us about that.

 

Emily:  Well, I’ve been using it consistently for 15 years. But my first experience was Hyland’s Teething Tablets when my oldest was a baby. I was a very young mom. I was at the mercy of the doctors we could afford, and they used a lot of fear tactics to manipulate me into doing what they felt was best for my kid — not what I felt was best. But I knew I shouldn’t be giving her Tylenol every time her mouth hurt, every time she had a shot. It just seemed like a lot. So, I went into the health food store and asked. They gave me teething tablets, and they worked like a dream. Right? Because they’re good things.

 

Kate:  Yes, they are.

 

Emily:  I still actually have a bottle of the old teething tablets, and I hoard them.

 

Kate:  Yeah. Right.

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

04:16    Arnica for bruising

09:17    A family study group

13:32    Aconite and the surgical protocols — for a dog

17:41    Lyme remedy

21:03    Bioplasma on plants

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

Homeopathic remedy kits

Chronic Lyme Disease: Are You Sure About That? (blog post)

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Students of Joette Calabrese Facebook group

Buster, the Bad Office Dog’s blogs

From Tendon, Bone and Cartilage Problems to Healing with Homeopathy (blog post)

My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 82.

 

Joette:  Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.

 

 

Kate:  Hi! This is Kate. I’d like to welcome you to another Mom with Moxie podcast. I get to meet some pretty fabulous women on these podcasts, and today is no exception. I have a super Mom with Moxie who has used homeopathy in many different ways, even on plants! So, I’m pretty excited to get to learn from her and for you all to meet her. So, Janet, welcome to the podcast.

 

Janet:  Thank you. Good to be here.

 

Kate:  Janet, let’s get to know you a little bit. Can you tell us about yourself?

 

Janet:  Sure. I live in Virginia just outside of Washington DC. I’ve been married for 33 years, have two adult sons who both found wonderful women who I love.

 

Kate:  Oh! That’s a blessing.

 

Janet:  It is a huge blessing. I have a four-month-old grandson, two dogs, and two granddogs who visit often. Every one of them mentioned above has used homeopathy. Each household has kits so they can call me if they have issues.

 

Kate:  Oh, that’s great! They use the homeopathy and like to learn about it.

 

Janet:  Absolutely. Well, they have me, so they’re not so much on learning too much about it. But they know the Nux vomica remedy for hangovers — all the important ones.

 

Kate:  That’s funny.

 

Janet:  Yeah. My daughter-in-law, actually, she asked me to be in the delivery room when she delivered my first grandson.

 

Kate:  Oh, that’s so special.

 

Janet:  It was very special. So, we made good use of the pregnancy and childbirth section of Joette’s Survivalist Guide. She actually was the first one to use Nux vomica for something other than hangovers when she had nausea during pregnancy.

 

Kate:  Okay, so that helped her during her pregnancy?

 

Janet:  It absolutely did. My son actually called me a couple of times during her pregnancy when she was in Texas, and I think had a cold or something. He said, “Mom, is there something that Shelby can use for her cold symptoms?” (since she couldn’t take over-the-counter meds like Advil or Tylenol because she was pregnant). So, I sent a picture of Boiron’s ColdCalm. She was in Texas at the time. She could just go to that pharmacy and find that in a store. And it worked!

 

Kate:  Yay! That’s great. I guess I haven’t thought about that much because I’m not having babies at this time. But that is one advantage of homeopathy is it’s safe for the most part. There are a few remedies that you want to be careful of using when you’re pregnant. But it’s a much better alternative than using allopathic medications whe...

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

01:16    Infections

08:48    When the remedy is acting; use of observational skills

14:59    Uprooting the condition

18:08    UTI and honeymoon cystitis

20:53    Feminopathy relaunch

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 81 with Joette Calabrese.

 

Joette:  This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.

 

Kate:  Hi. I’m Kate, and I’m here with Joette again today for another podcast. Today, we’re talking about female issues. So, all you ladies, listen up. This is going to be an important podcast for you. We’re going to talk about a common condition that a lot of women experience. Get your pens and papers ready to take some notes.

 

All right, Joette, let’s get down to business and talk about these feminine issues. What do you want to discuss today?

 

Infections

 

Joette:  Well, one of the most common female conditions is infections: bladder, kidney, urethra, ureter, et cetera. I do want to cover that. Particularly for those who have chronic UTIs, I’m speaking to you because everyone believes that they have to take antibiotics. In my experience — not my personal experience, although I’ve certainly had a few UTIs many years ago — but in my experience in listening to my students and clients and taking cases for the last 25-30 years, I have noted that the history — because I take the history and I take the history of a person’s health quite seriously — that the history is often, “Got a UTI, used an antibiotic. Got another UTI, used an antibiotic; another UTI, antibiotic; UTI, antibiotic; UTI, antibiotic.” It gets faster and faster and tighter and tighter.

 

Now, they’re using that more and more frequently until after many rounds of antibiotics, we often see women left with interstitial cystitis that feels like a urinary tract infection, but they don’t find the microorganisms in the urine.

 

So, it’s declared, “Nope, you don’t have an infection!”

 

“But it feels like it. I have the urgency. I have the frequency. I have the pain, pain afterwards. Sometimes the pain radiates down the legs. I have aching in my kidneys. What is going on? You don’t find anything?”

 

That is often interstitial cystitis.

 

Kate:  What is “interstitial cystitis?” That’s a tongue twister.

 

Joette:  Yes, it is. Well, interstitial cystitis is what they often call bladder pain syndrome. It is a feeling as though you have a bladder infection and those other areas: lower urinary tract, upper urinary tract, in the back, et cetera. Often if it lasts more than about six weeks, that is frequently what is then pronounced as, “Well, it’s a syndrome instead of an acute infection.”

 

Not nice! Because what it is — a syndrome, especially in this particular case — means what was originally an acute condition is now a chronic condition.

 

What’s the difference? An acute comes and goes, and it’s over with. If treated properly, it comes and goes and is often over with for many months or years or perhaps even forever. If treated incorrectly, in a sloppy manner such as just throwing drugs at it that only kill microorganisms, then we often end up with a chronic condition — which means that the person, the woman is suffering (it’s usually a woman) … suffers from this chronic pain and discomfort and urgency and frequency. But more often, it’s really awful pain.

 

One person described it to me once as, “It felt like someone set my uterus on fire, and then stomped on it with combat boots.” The pain was horrible! So, it felt like she had been kicked.

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

02:30    How the books define homeopathy

11:08    A nurse’s comment

16:45    I have a mission

22:05    Kate’s Study group

23:51    Ignatia amara

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Gateway to Homeopathy II:  Only available for purchase through your resource page, after having taken the prerequisite Gateway to Homeopathy I (referenced above)

Joette’s Blog, podcasts, Facebook Live, and articles in Wise Traditions

 

Free Resources (articles, research papers, studies)

 

Find a study group: Joette’s Study Group: Find your New Study Group Friends

Ignatia amara

 

 

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 80 with Joette Calabrese.

 

Joette:  This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.

 

 

Kate:  Joette, we’re here to talk again about, “What is homeopathy?” We’re going to answer that question and expound upon that a little bit more today in this podcast.

 

Joette:  Yes, that’s right, Kate. The reason that I wanted to expound on this a little bit more is because last time when we discussed, “What Is Homeopathy?” I gave more of a history of homeopathy so that people can understand what’s behind the story and also what to say to folks.  

 

This time, I would not urge people to get too involved in explaining this, but sometimes we want to have a better understanding ourselves. Should we come across someone who wants a little more explanation, that’s what I wanted to offer today — just to get a little bit clearer about what homeopathy is.

 

Kate:  So, in the Gateway II, we talk about this very question, “What is homeopathy?” I know the reason that you put that in there is because you wanted to give people tools that they could use when they’re asked that question. So, I know that you wanted to talk about what you’ve written in your Gateway II study guide.

 

Joette:  Now, Gateway II is the second group that follows after taking Gateway I, which is a study group. These are all virtual study groups for those of you who don’t know what is available for learning experiences.

 

Kate:  So, it can be virtual, or it can be some ladies or men. We’ve had a group of men getting together in their home and going through these study guides. It’s a really great resource for people who want to learn more about homeopathy. So, I know you wanted to dive into that book just a little bit.

 

How the books define homeopathy

 

Joette:  Yes, yes. So, this is what I’ve written. I’m going to read directly from the book, page 35:

 

“Homeopathy is a system of medicine that’s fundamentally different from conventional allopathic medicine. Whereas allopathic medicine focuses on suppression of symptoms, generally, homeopathy seeks to correct the underlying imbalance that cause the symptoms in the first place. Homeopathy achieves this by strengthening the body’s own defenses, thereby allowing the body to heal itself.

 

Another way to explain homeopathy is that it works on the principle that “like cures like.” This principle says that any substance that can cause illness in a healthy person can cure that illness if manipulated in such a way as to minimize the toxic properties and leave only the curative ability. That’s done, of course, through homeopathic medicines. This is accomplished through a manufacturing process where each medicine is prepared using a series of repeated dilutions and succussions.”

 

By the way, this is very mathematical and pharmacological.

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

04:21    Gut Issues, bronchitis, hormonal issues

09:24    A supportive family

13:20    All about dogs

21:00    Spreading homeopathy with Arnica, Ipecac, Aconite-Bryonia

24:20    Arsenicum album 200 & Antimonium crud 200 for bed bugs

28:08    “Catastrophilia”

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

The Weston A. Price Foundation

My articles in Weston A. Price’s quarterly journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts 

A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families

My blog, podcasts and Facebook Live events

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

 

 

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 79.

 

 

Joette:  Joette Calabrese here, folks. I’m happy that you’ve joined me for my podcast today. You’re in for a treat. From my virtual classroom, I’m privileged to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe. Their successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep their triumphs a secret. I want you to hear the excitement my students experience, too. So, you can be inspired by their unique stories. With the help from Kate, my reporter, I bring you a podcast series I call, “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity” or “Teens with Tenacity.” See how regular mothers and others — average folks who love healing those around them — have gone from freaking to fabulous by simply applying what they’ve learned using what I call Practical Homeopathy®.

 

 

Kate:  Hi! Welcome again to another Mom with Moxie podcast. Today, I am here with Sharon.

 

Sharon, welcome to the podcast!

 

Sharon:  Thank you. I really appreciate the opportunity of talking with you.

 

Kate:  Well, I’m excited to learn more about what you’re doing with homeopathy. I know you have a unique family situation, and that you have a lot of pets that you use homeopathy with.

 

Sharon:  That’s true.

 

Kate:  So, you have a lot of stories about taking care of those pets and using homeopathy. So, I’m excited to hear about that.

 

Sharon:  Well, we live in a country situation. We have lots of strays — cats, dogs, we’ve had a goat or two, a horse. I’m not treating any of those, but we have taken in quite a few stray dogs and stray cats. And we have chickens! My husband was adamant about having chickens so that we could have eggs. I made him promise that we wouldn’t have to eat them.

 

The chickens have been very healthy overall. But when there has been a problem, it’s very easy to put a pellet in water for them to take. I know that they’re going to get an appropriate dose of what their needing to have for that particular thing that’s going on. So, I’ve given the chickens remedies.

 

Kate:  That’s awesome. Let’s start by getting to know you a little bit better. Tell us a little bit more about yourself.

 

Sharon:  I was born here in California. I am the oldest of five children. My dad, he went to medical school. We moved to Oregon, and he started a general practice. Then we moved several places after that because he wanted to do more education and ended up being a psychiatrist. So, we moved all over the place.

 

One of the things that I remember that relates to how I ended up becoming interested in homeopathy is that my mom and my sisters and I went to Germany to meet my dad who was already there. Before we went to Germany, we had to have … I don’t know how many … 15 different vaccines because of all the things that we might encounter as far as diseases were concerned.

 

We also had to use a military dentist. I remember I had so many cavities in my mouth. I don’t know if that was nutrition going on before we were there, but I had all these cavities in my mouth. I ended up with a lot of gut issues that I was having a hard time finding ways to deal with. I believe that it all went back to that period of time where I had so many vaccines in my body and so much mercury in...

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

04:37    Allopathy versus homeopathy

10:00    Joette’s elevator speech on homeopathy

15:20    How to get started

20:58    Conventional medicine as needed

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

My blog

Weston A. Price, the Wise Traditions (my articles)

Quick Start Guide (decide what steps to take next as you learn homeopathy)

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

My Free Community (links to research and articles about homeopathy)

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 78 with Joette Calabrese.

 

Joette:  This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.

 

 

Kate:  Joette, a few minutes ago, we were talking about what we did this weekend and last week. We both had occasions where we had to answer the question, “What is homeopathy?” I think this is a really good question that gets asked a lot by the people that I talk to and I’m sure your students, right?

 

Joette:  That’s right, all the time.

 

Kate:  So, you had an interesting conversation with someone. I want to hear how you answered that question with this person. So, tell us a little bit about what happened, and who you met, and how you answered that question.

 

Joette:  Well, the person that was asking me the question is a very seasoned businessman, very successful. I had to do a presentation in front of a group, and I was being critiqued on what it is we do in my work. So, it was very important to me that I made it super-clear what it was but without carrying on and on.

 

It is difficult when someone has been using homeopathy — even if it’s just for a short period of time or even a longer period of time — it’s easy to get caught up on how homeopathic medicines are made because they are made so differently from conventional medicines. Conventional medicines are just … they get a substance, they mimic it synthetically, and they manufacture it in a manufacturing pharmacy.

 

Homeopathy, of course, is much different than that. So, because of that, many of us — especially in the beginning when we first learn about homeopathy — get caught on that rung of the ladder. When instead, what people are looking for is, “What is this and how can it help me?” Or, “How did it help you, and then I can decide whether or not it could help me.”

 

Kate:  It’s almost like — when I’m listening to you talk — that it’s what we learn in sales. Right? I mean, we’re not trying to sell this person on something, but we can overcompensate.

 

Joette:  Oh, yes, we are! I’m trying to sell the world on homeopathy! I want this medicine out there. I think that humanity will be much improved if we can get rid of the dependency that we so deeply have on synthetic drugs. I believe homeopathy can do wonders for the structure of the family. I think it can do wonders for the elderly and for — here’s one of my big things — for independence, because we tend to get depressed. Excuse me for going off on this tangent, but I believe that we, as humans, get depressed when we’re dependent.

 

My mother is dependent on me. (I don’t think it depresses her. She has late stage Alzheimer’s.) But when she was going into it, it was her greatest concern. It was my father’s greatest concern: “I don’t want to be dependent on you.” That’s why I think it’s so bad for adult children to stay at home too long. I think it’s so bad for people to go on welfare for long periods of time. I understand if it’s needed, in a time of need for a short period of time,

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

04:19    Plantar Fasciitis

07:51    Symphytum 200 and Rhus tox 30

15:28    Celiac disease and Crohn's disease

20:43    Detached retina

22:02    Blood poisoning

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

The Weston A. Price Foundation

A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

The Survivalist Guide to Homeopathy

Mindful Homeopathy:  Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions 

Joette’s blog posts

Joette’s podcasts

Joette's Facebook Live archive

Homeopathic Remedy Kits

 

 

 

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 77.

Joette:  Each day from my office, I get to see how homeopathy is transforming lives all over the globe, and I want to share them with you. Some of my students have really caught my eye. Some of you have done all you can to learn how to cure those around you using homeopathic medicines, and your successes inspire me. They’re glorious and powerful, and I can’t keep these successes a secret any longer. So, with help from my roving reporters, we bring you a mini-podcast series that I call “Moms with Moxie.” Sometimes we even interview “Dads with Audacity.” See how regular mothers and others, average people who want to cure those around them, have gone from freaking to fabulous with homeopathy.

 

 

Kate:  Hi! This is Kate. I am here with another Mom with Moxie today. Her name is Holly. We’re getting to know each other a little bit, and she’s fantastic. I think you guys will love to hear from Holly and the things that she’s doing with homeopathy. So, Holly, welcome!

 

Holly:  Hi, Kate.

 

Kate:  Thank you for being here, taking time out of a busy family weekend to do this. So, thank you.

 

Holly:  Thank you so much for having me. This is exciting!

 

Kate:  I’m super-excited to get to know you. So, tell us a little bit about yourself, Holly.

 

Holly:  Well, I am a somewhat stay-at-home mom. I home school my 13-year old son. I do marketing and communications for our family business. I have been working with homeopathy off and on for about ten years but really only seriously the last few years — maybe three years.

 

Kate:  But you’ve known about homeopathy and used it for actually a very long time. You started to use it anyway, right?

 

Holly:  Yes. Yes, I did. Actually, I came across it … we had a tragedy in our family. We lost my stepdaughter to cancer when she was ten years old.

 

Kate:  Oh, my goodness!

 

Holly:  It led me on this discovery of alternative medicine, therapies, diet, nutrition. Jordan Rubin, his book, “The Maker’s Diet” … I read … mentioned the Weston A. Price organization, so, I started reading a lot of their information. That’s actually how I found Joette and some of her early information that she had. Again, this was about 12 years ago, I guess.

 

Then I purchased a homeopathy kit after reading some of Joette’s blog posts and articles that she had published with the Weston Price organization. I didn’t really know how to use it. At that time in my life, I was so busy and absorbed with a toddler. I would just read a little here and there, and I didn’t educate myself enough. So, I didn’t really know what I was doing, and so, I would just use it here and there.

 

Thankfully, my son was really healthy. We didn’t have a lot of occasion, I guess to use it. So, it kind of went off on a shelf, got dusty, and I forgot about it for a long time.

 

Kate:  You seriously forgot about it?

 

Holly:  Well, I knew it was there, but it almost overwhelmed me, I’ll be honest. Because he would get the flu or a couple of little things like that, but I would try it. And I really only understood the classical approach at that time — even that, I barely understood. So, when you see a list of 15 possible remedies, and you’re supposed to analyze your 2-year-old’s emotional state and all of these different things,

I wanted you to have this podcast as quickly as possible the transcript is below.

Warmly,

P.S. If you want to jump ahead, download Skinderella, my infographic and read more about Skin the Ugly Truth Course: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy –Click here and simply follow the prompts

 

IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

01:02     Swimming and blepharitis

06:44     Skin allergy remedies

14: 25    The need for Sulphur

16:42     Suppression

23:20     Skin, The Ugly Truth

24:05     Getting sick is inevitable

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

Facebook Live (referred to in this podcast regarding my eye)

Sulphur 200

Antimonium crud 6 and Arsenicum 200 (Banerji Protocol)

Skin, The Ugly Truth

 

Kate:  This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast Episode Number 76 with Joette Calabrese.

 

Joette:  This is Joette Calabrese, and I’d like to welcome you to the Practical Homeopathy Podcast. Women and men worldwide are taking back control of their families’ health and learning how to heal their bodies naturally, safely and effectively. So, if you’re hungry to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Stay tuned as we give you the tools — and the inspiration you need — as I share my decades of experience and knowledge using this powerful medicine we call homeopathy.

 

 

 

Kate:  It is summertime right now, and we are enjoying the weather outside. I know I am. I’m here with Joette.

 

Joette, you have a new hobby that you’ve been doing this summer. Tell us a little bit about what you’ve got going on.

 

Swimming and blepharitis

 

Joette:  Well, I’m now in Southeast Florida, and so it’s summer all the time here. Since I’ve moved here, I have found swimming again in my life because there is this pool right at my patio. I mean, literally, I open my gate from my patio out into the little common area, and I could dive into the pool right from there. There are only six units in our complex, and I’m the only one who uses this pool.

 

Kate:  It’s like your private pool.

 

Joette:  Oh, my gosh! It’s fantastic. Then I see my neighbors once in a while, and it’s really nice. I’ve been swimming in this pool 45 minutes a day, and it has really limbered me up, and I’m sleeping better, and everything is really great … but then something started to happen.

 

I started to break out, and my left eye got swollen. I had blepharitis. First, I thought it might have been conjunctivitis, you know, infection. But no, no, it didn’t feel like an infection. It was just, as I said in my Facebook Live, my eye looked like a puffer fish that was pregnant with octuplets and had just finished a meal that was highly inflammatory.

 

Kate:  Oh, my gosh!

 

Joette:  I mean, my eye, around my eye was so edematous and so swollen that it turned inside out. The lid turned inside out! I was looking at the inside of my lid as I looked in the mirror. It was so gross.

 

Kate:  I was trying to picture that, Joette, as I was listening to you on the Facebook Live. I mean, I don’t even know how that’s possible.

 

Joette:  I mean, I’m laughing now because I’m better. But it got so “fluffy” below and above, and the bridge of my nose widened. I mean I looked, really … I didn’t even look human anymore. Then it got so full and edematous that it just — “poop” — just popped open. Plus, it was cracking. Oh, my gosh, it was a mess! I was obviously in allergic reaction now.

 

I had an allergic reaction similar to this in seventh grade when my parents got a new car, and we drove down to Florida from Buffalo in this brand-new car. I remember feeling really sick and soporific (is the best way to describe it). I just couldn’t stay awake. I slept the whole time. I felt out of it, drugged even.

 

We realized later that it must have been the brand-new car. But when we got to Florida two-and-a-half days or three days later, this is exactly what happened to both my eyes. They got very swollen and puffy.