I share in this podcast the harrowing experience I had with my firstborn child and how that changed the way I raised all of my children. 

     I explain that Homeopathy is more than home remedies, herbs, and vitamins; how it used to be prevalent in the US and is still widely used in Europe, South America, and India.

     Homeopathy is a simple – yet intelligent and elegant – way to physically help your family.  

 

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Narrator:          You're listening to The Mom Prepares podcast, a feature of momprepares.com, which is a modern guide to self-sufficiency, and a place to learn how to keep your family safe, fed and healthy.

Jendy:              Hello, this is Jendy, and I am here with Joette Calabrese from JoetteCalabrese.com, and she is an expert on homeopathy and has several courses coming out that I believe our listeners would be very interested in. So hello, Joette. How are you?

Joette:              Hi, I'm very well. Thanks for inviting me, Jendy.

Jendy:              Would you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Joette:              Yes, certainly. I'm an American homeopath. I'm a public speaker and an author, and I've studied and practiced homeopathy for about 27 years. But I was not always a homeopath. I raised my children and homeschooled them for 15 years while studying to become a professional homeopath. And I also made all my family's foods from scratch and raised chickens and ducks, and we have bees, and we have a pond.

And so, my children are all grown now. They're adults and away from the home, but I raised my children solely with homeopathy. They just never got an antibiotic, never had a Tylenol, not even an aspirin. My oldest is 27, and we have two others just under his age, and they've never had any drugs at all because I counted 100% on homeopathy and homemade foods and some botanicals as well.

I have been very involved with Weston Price Foundation. I'm on the honorary board of the Western A. Price Foundation, and I'm a professional speaker and present at many of their international and regional conferences. I've spoken internationally and have authored not only my own blog where I try to give mostly women … I skew towards moms because I feel very strongly about what I was capable of doing with my education, and I want to be able to share that with others.

Jendy:              I think for me, when I became a mom is when I became much more interested in what I was putting in the body. Before that I didn't think about it, for me personally. And I love what you said about that, about antibiotics. One time I took my child to the doctor, I think for an earache, and they gave him antibiotic. And they said, "Well, that's not really going to take it away. You're going to have to come back and get something else." And I was kind of like, "Well, then why do I want this?"

Joette:              Right. Good question. What I want to do with moms is I want them to question the authorities and not just ... once you homeschool your children, for example, you can't help but start questioning other traditional methods of raising children. Once you step outside of one box, you can't help but note that, “Boy, that's not right either, and maybe I should check this out; maybe I should look into this instead of that.” And it just snowballs into a lifestyle that is pure and noble, as far as I'm concerned.

Jendy:              So how did you first get interested in homeopathy?

Joette:              Well, I went to a lecture offered by a doctor, an M.D., about 27 years ago. He was traveling through my hometown of Buffalo,