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Joette Calabrese: Author, Lecturer and Consultant.
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  1. 1D AGO

    Podcast 169 — Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy®

    In this podcast, we cover: 01:00   Introduction: Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy® 01:41   Different kinds of headaches 04:12   Two personal examples: barometric pressure and dehydration headaches 06:12   Success Story: Barometric headache 09:31   Different homeopathic medicines for different headaches             JoetteCalabrese.com             Don’t Forget Sepia for Headaches             April Showers Bring Sinus Headaches             Make It Stop! Escape from the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain 11:05   The beautiful truth of our bodies and homeopathy Additional resources: Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives) Joette’s Learning Center The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends Joette’s Mighty Members FindAPracticalHomeopath.com Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 169, 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: Get Rid of Headaches With Practical Homeopathy® Kate: (01:00) Welcome back to the podcast. If this is your first time here, you’re in for a treat today. Or maybe a better way to say it is, you’re about to get out of a real pickle. We’re diving into headaches with Joette — from the extremely painful ones that knock you flat to that dull ache after a long day in the sun. But even more importantly, we’ll hear exactly what Joette did to finally relieve her headaches for good. Now, I know most of us listening have dealt with a headache at some point, even if it was just a mild one. But Joette, earlier, you were sharing how we can approach different types of headaches in a smarter way. So, can you start by explaining what you mean by different kinds of headaches? Different types of headaches Joette: (01:41) Oh, absolutely, Kate. Headaches come in all shapes and sizes: dull, throbbing, sharp, stabbing, tight-band-like pressure around the head, pain behind the eyes, or sometimes a heavy squeezing sensation. And then there are migraines, which are in a league of their own. So, let me clarify the difference between a regular headache — even a really painful sinus one — and a true migraine. Now, migraine is far more than just a bad headache. It often brings debilitating, throbbing pain, sometimes on one side, sometimes both sides, that can leave you in bed for days. Lights, sounds, movement, or certain triggers can worsen it, along with nausea, vision changes, even fatigue or irritability. So, whether it’s a headache or a migraine, the key is to investigate before reaching for the homeopathic medicine. We want to try to find the cause, if possible. If we can’t pinpoint it exactly, at least narrow it down to the specific symptoms, because sometimes the cause can give us very good information. Kate: So, you are saying that headaches don’t usually just appear out of nowhere. Joette: Well, sometimes it feels like that. But if you look a little closer, there’s often a trigger — not always — but often there can be. It can be a long day in the sun, sudden weather, pressure changes, too much screen time, dehydration, or even stress, or, let me also add, food intolerances that you hadn’t considered in the past. So, if the cause isn’t obvious, then, okay … then, focus on the symptoms instead. Where exactly is the pain? What does it feel like? Is it only at night or in the temples or dull pressure behind the eyes? We often slap the broad label headache on everything and stop there because most people are accustomed to just simply taking a drug for just pain regardless of where it is and how it presents. But these details that I’m listing really matter in homeopathy. Kate: So, I’m wondering if the cause and symptoms are the real clues to how we look at this. I think that’s really smart. Joette, why does the type of headache even matter? Isn’t it all just the same thing in the end? Joette: Not really. Once you understand the difference between migraines, certain common headaches, their causes, their unique symptoms, everything changes. Two personal examples: barometric pressure and dehydration headaches Joette: (04:12) So, let me share two personal stories that show the cause made all the difference in the pain I experienced. The first one was years of barometric pressure headaches back in Buffalo, New York, that I suffered over a long period of time — as I said, for years. Every time the barometric pressure changed — the weather shifted — I’d get these intense sinus headaches. The pain would start above my eyes and spread, feeling like — I don’t know — a vice grip, squeezing my sinuses in my whole face. It was miserable and predictable with the forecast, but only once I recognized that. I never realized that. And living on the Great Lakes, there was always a barometric pressure change. One was rolling in, or one was rolling out. But once they started up, once the headache started, it was practically unstoppable until the pressure changed in the weather. I’d be foggy, irritable, in lots of pain just trying to function. The second time, some 40 years later, was after I moved to Florida. The intense sun and heat led to dehydration headaches that became my new normal. Now, why would I be in the sun? Well, because I made a point of walking on the beach every day. And I also made a point of sitting in the sun every day, in addition to that walking, for, I don’t know, 15 minutes, an hour. But you can’t sit much longer at certain times of the year. And I would sit in the sun without sunscreen, I might add, my friends. I’d end up with that dull, however, exhausting ache, a heavy draining, and often hitting in the late afternoon or evening after having been outside in that draining sun. It felt like my whole head was worn out, and it kept coming back no matter what I did. Kate: Oh, that sounds miserable, Joette. I actually can’t imagine dealing with nagging headaches like that all the time. I don’t get headaches, which I’m thankful for. So, tell me, how did you make it through those periods, and what changed? You don’t still suffer from headaches today, right? Joette: No, I don’t. So, the first headache was before I knew enough about homeopathy. I thought the answer was over-the-counter pain relievers or even prescriptions. And now, I never got a prescription. I’d only lived on … I believe the medicine that I used on a regular basis was a cover-up. It was a band-aid. And it was “222s,” is what they were called. And I used to go to Canada to buy them because you couldn’t buy them over the counter in New York State. And they had codeine in them. So, I would take a codeine drug every time the barometric pressure came in. Now this, again, this was a good 40-some years — something like that. And it would dull the pain, and I would relieve the pain, actually, for hours or even a day if I was lucky. But the headaches always came roaring back once the next barometric pressure change came back in again. So, it was a haphazard cycle, not a real solution. But once I started to learn a little bit about homeopathy, I realized that there are specific medicines that matched the headaches perfectly, something that I hadn’t noticed up until that time. The first one — and I’ve talked about this so many times, perhaps this is old news to some of you — is the medicine Kali bichromicum. Sometimes people call it Kali bic, and that’s for those extreme sinus headaches triggered by barometric pressure changes. So, the second medicine that I used specifically for those dull, exhausting headaches caused by dehydration was China — C-H-I-N-A — which is also sometimes called Cinchona. (Both of those names are used for the same medicine.) So, China … and I used it specifically for when I got those headaches right as they happened. And it was often because I was dehydrated. I had not been drinking enough water and had not been adding anything to my water, such as salt. Kate: So, that was when you were out in heat and just …. Joette: Perspiring. Kate: Yeah. Right. Joette: And it didn’t take me long to figure this out once I realized, and Perry and I kind of watch each other about this because if we find that we’re exhausted throughout the day, we’re thinking: “Oh yeah, of course. We’re not rehydrating. We’re not drinking enough water with electrolytes or with salt in it after having walked on the beach in that hot weather or after having sat out in the sun for 15-20 minutes in the afternoon.” So, these beautiful medicines were the real game changers for me. They didn’t just mask the pain. They spurred my body to address the underlying issue, and then just relieved it once and for all. Now, as far as the Kali bichromicum is concerned and those extreme headaches triggered by barometric pressure changes, I simply have not had them again in many, many decades. But the China medicine and that medicine specific for dehydration and headaches that address that need for salt and water … I still have to remind myself every once in a while because I still insist on walking in the hot sun and sitting in the sun later in the afternoon. So, those can be brought on time and

    14 min

  2. APR 24

    Podcast 168 — Don’t Worry

    In this podcast, we cover: 01:00   Introduction: Don’t Worry 02:00   Women are expert worriers 03:18   When worry becomes a pathology, think homeopathy             “Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy 05:26   Ailments from worry 07:59   When worry turns to paranoia or anxiety 10:40   Closing advice             Mindful Homeopathy: Practical Protocols for Mental and Emotional Conditions            JoettesLearningCenter.com             Free blogs             Podcasts             Monday Night Lives            JoetteCalabrese.com Additional resources: The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends Joette’s Mighty Members FindAPracticalHomeopath.com Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 168, 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: Don’t Worry Kate: (01:00) Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, and our subject today is worry. Now, we all talk about anxiety. I think that’s very common in society today, but what about worry? Maybe you’re not plagued with the deep anxiety day and night, but you are a mom, like me, that worries. Or maybe you’re not a mom, but you worry about your pets, your family, your friends, your career, your finances. What about if you’re a teenager and you worry about being bullied, or a grandparent who worries about their new grandbabies and how much time they’ll get to spend with them? Well, regardless of who you are, worry shouldn’t be on the forefront of your mind, especially if you can’t let it go. Long-term stresses on the body can lead to many other issues, but in this podcast, Joette is going to cover some important homeopathic medicines that can help when worry becomes an everyday occurrence and when worry turns into something greater. So, let’s get started, Joette. Women are expert worriers Joette: (02:00) Yeah, let’s get started, Kate. First, I want to say that some of the best worriers on earth are women. We’re experts at it. Once we become a mother, then, I would say worry is our middle name. Kate: Right. Joette: So, yeah, it can be mild. It can go on and on, but it can also be within the range of normal. So, we don’t want to treat just every little thing that comes along because, as we know, everyone worries now and then. But when it starts to affect our daily life, then we consider trying a homeopathic medicine to calm that thinking pattern. And we don’t use it every day. We would use it maybe for a day or two and see how it affects us — and use it only as needed. That would be our goal. So, I know there can be moments of fleeting worry when your child learns how to ride a bike, or when you’re going to take a test, or about your family going on a trip overseas, or if you’ll make it someplace on time. That’s within the range of normal. But if you find yourself in a constant state of worry, or it becomes something that you find affects your day-to-day living because you’re spending your time checking up on your adult kids constantly (or even your younger children), or not going to places because of worry (like not getting on a plane or not being comfortable enough to take the thruway) … you get the picture. When worry becomes a pathology, think Arsenicum album or Calc carb Joette: (03:18) Homeopathy can often help. So, I want to talk about a few top remedies that we could consider when we repertorize them in our “Meta Repertory” by Robin Murphy. And we look up on page, for example, 277. (For those of you who have a repertory, it’s kind of fun to do this. But if you don’t, you can just follow along.) There’s “worries, tendency to,” (tendency to worry). And the top medicines are Arsenicum album and Calc carb (or Calcarea carbonica). There are other medicines, too, but I want to just touch on these two main medicines. Let’s go with Arsenicum first. It’s a person who is full of worries about trifles. They’re nervous; they’re anxious; they can be indecisive. They have anxiety, especially about health, about fear of germs, viruses, being poisoned. They’re restless, and basically, they turn into a hypochondriac. If it’s a child that worries, they don’t want to be alone, and they can cling to their parents. And I have to say that this is the kind of medicine that we want to take. You know when they say put the mask on your face before you put it on your child’s — the plane is going down? Well, mothers often worry because they don’t trust that the medicine that they’re going to be using is going to act, whether it’s conventional drugs or homeopathic, and they’re worried about taking this job on themselves. And so, this is one of those medicines that can be very useful to a mother that’s always freaking about her child’s illnesses or conditions. So, let’s go to Calc carb, too, because Calc carb is an interesting one. Calc carb covers rumination, where it’s that constant, low-level thinking and overthinking, overworking it, and then they become overworked and exhausted. And the person might sit and think about little affairs that really amount to nothing, worries about all their responsibilities, especially, and their duties. And this person who might need Calc carb is apprehensive, and they might have anxiety, even with palpitations. And they can be forgetful. Ailments from worry Joette: (05:26) But let’s drill down a little farther. There can be different kinds of worry, such as domestic affairs, or during a fever, or with nervous trembling, or someone who’s overly careful, or sleeplessness that turns into insomnia, or even waking in the night. Those all can be considered when we’re trying to choose a homeopathic medicine, besides, let’s say, Arsenicum album or Calc carb. So, if you’ve heard the phrase, “I’m worried sick,” think about worry can actually cause physical ailments. And the most obvious conditions are considerations like high blood pressure, emotional eating. Someone is nervous or worried? They might find their way to the refrigerator. There can be, of course, insomnia or fatigue or irritability. Of course, there’s much more, but those are some common conditions that we see associated with worry. So, worry is under the category of stress, and we all know that stress can be an underlying cause of these diseases. So, of course, it makes sense that we want to eliminate this chronic or even extreme worry as soon as we can, because that could potentially cause long-term stress, hence other diseases. Kate: Joette, I know there’s what we call a rubric in the repertory under worry, and it’s called “ailments from worry.” So maybe you find yourself not being able to sleep from worry, or maybe you find yourself sick all the time, and you’re just worried all the time, and one cold after another. What remedies might be found in that rubric? Joette: Well, Argentum nitricum is certainly very valuable for this. And I always think of Ignatia, too. I’ve written and talked about Ignatia a number of times. Lycopodium is another one, especially if there’s gut issues, bloating, et cetera. And then Phosphorus. And Phosphorus can be someone who has kind of a spaciness to them in that they are so worried that they come up with these elongated, elaborate scenarios of what could go wrong. They have a huge imagination. So, these are other medicines we could consider. And there are many others, but those are some of the main … plus, of course, Cal carb, that I mentioned earlier, and Arsenicum. Kate: So, this is a good exercise. If you have been studying homeopathy, go online and look up, just Google “materia medica,” and then the names of these remedies. And you’ll be able to read more about them and find out if this might be a fit for something that you or someone that you know is struggling with. When worry turns to paranoia or anxiety Kate: (7:59) So, Joette, but what if our worries turn into something more? How do we know when we’ve crossed that line now, and it’s turning into a paranoia or anxiety or a panic? How would we know the difference? Joette: Well, let’s address some of the key differences between worry, anxiety and paranoia. Generally, worry can be rational. It focuses on possibilities. Maybe it overfocuses, but it focuses on possibilities, slight anxiety about future uncertainties, and usually solely resides in the mind. So, what that means is that it hasn’t gone into the body on any level. And some people just see life as a glass that’s half empty. It’s just who they are in many ways, and they expect the worst. It may not be in all situations, maybe just certain situations. They have no fear of poverty, but they have a fear of their child getting sick, or they won’t get on a plane for fear it might come down. Again, we aren’t talking about taking a homeopathic remedy for every little concern or worry, but if your family might describe you as the family chronic worrier, it could be useful to address this with a homeopathic medicine because it’s kind of a chronic state of mind. Well, now let’s talk about paranoia. And this involves irrational, fixed and delusional b

    14 min

  3. APR 10

    Podcast 167 — Practical Professionals: Aconite for Shock, Fear, Anxiety and Panic

    In this podcast, we cover: 01:00   Introduction: Aconite for shock, fear, anxiety and panic 02:21  Meet Elizabeth, who utilized Aconitum napellus for her husband’s shock after bad news and with other conditions 04:59   Meet Jennifer, who used Aconite for her child’s delayed panic after a close call in a swimming pool 06:39   Different kinds of shock 07:47   Meet Laurie, who employed Aconite for stage fright and her young son’s fear of storms 10:05   Meet Nealy, whose dog-clients use Aconite for anxiety and fear of car rides 12:59   Other uses of Aconitum napellus: the Arnica of the eye, fear of death, labor 18:45   Closing Advice 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 167, 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: Aconite for shock, fear, anxiety and panic Joette: (01:00) Have you ever had a shocking experience, after which you felt sudden surges of adrenaline through the body? Now, you might’ve been shaky and felt fearful and panicked. How about an anxiety attack or panic attack? Well, you’re not alone. A national health statistic I saw states that during 2022, about one in five adults, age 18 and older, experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past two weeks. But we don’t have to fear because on this podcast, I’m going to share about one of my favorite homeopathic medicines, which has the ability to address these conditions and much more. I’ll bet you can guess which medicine it is. If you guessed Aconitum napellus — Aconite — you were right. Some of you may already know that Aconite has been known to address conditions such as colds or flu (especially if they come on quickly), coughs, croup, fever, cardiac events, otitis media, sleeplessness and much more. But in this podcast, we’re going to focus on its ability to address anxiety, shock and fear. So, I’ve invited some of my students to join us on this podcast because they have their own stories about Aconite. Meet Elizabeth, who utilized Aconitum napellus for her husband’s shock after bad news and with other conditions Joette: (2:21) So, I’d like to welcome Elizabeth. She is a Mastermind member, an Ambassador, has finished the two years — The Academy and Mastery — and has her own business. Go ahead, Elizabeth. We’d love to hear your story. Elizabeth: Hi, Joette. Thanks for having me. One moment that really stands out to me was during my husband’s serious chronic illness. He had just received some very discouraging news, and it triggered a full-blown panic attack. His heart was racing; he felt helpless. You could just tell his body didn’t know how to process the news he had just received. And I remember thinking, “This isn’t just everyday worry and anxiety. He’s in shock.” So, without making a big deal about it, I gave him a dose of Aconite, which is a remedy we use a lot in homeopathy for sudden fear and panic. And within minutes — and I mean minutes — I watched the panic melt away. And he looked at me, and he said, “What did you just give me? I feel so much better.” And that was one of those moments where I realized how powerful the right homeopathic remedy can be because his body was finally able to just calm down and reset. And that’s just one of countless stories where I have had horrific nightmares and had panic and anxiety and shock, and Aconite worked every time. My daughter has also had the same. I’ve had a friend who was in hospice, and I was able to see her benefit from Aconite as well. Client: pregnancy — horrific pregnancy — labor and delivery, ultimately PTSD. And that was one of the really big things that we worked on was preparing her mind and her body to prepare for the upcoming new baby with the labor and delivery, hypertension, lots of different things. But even just everyday things, like being exposed to cold winds. Like at one of my children’s soccer games or something: the onset of a cold or a cough. Aconite is just so beautiful. So, I take it everywhere with me because I have seen it be so powerfully effective with a number of health issues. Joette: Well, what’s great about it is that it’s not a vitamin or a supplement or a mineral. It’s a homeopathic medicine, so we use it only as needed. So, in each of those events that you were just discussing, that’s exactly when we would use Aconitum. Thank you so much, Elizabeth. Those are lovely stories, especially the first one with your husband. Bad news, yes. Meet Jennifer, who used Aconite for her child’s delayed panic after a close call in a swimming pool Joette: (04:59) All right, let’s go to Jennifer. Jennifer’s in our Mastery program now, and she’s also an Ambassador. And I’d love to hear your story, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thank you for having me, Joette. The story I remember the most for Aconite is when I was at a backyard pool party, and several of the children were playing in the pool. One of my sons slipped under the water for a moment. His brother pulled him back up so quickly, there wasn’t any commotion at the time. And you would’ve thought it would be forgotten because it was such a non-issue. But later that day, he started to whimper and cry. Because it wasn’t immediately after the fact, I was like, “What’s going on? What’s wrong with you? “ And finally, I deduced that he was panicking from having slipped under the water, and he was sort of reliving the incident in his mind. You could sort of see in his face that his mind was elsewhere. He was going through that fear again. So, once I realized that, I gave him a dose of Aconite, and it helped to calm him down, and he was able to go off and play. I did have to give it again a couple more times as that panic started to resurface. Each time was a little bit further apart, and he was a little less panicky. The last time, he actually just came up to me and asked me for a dose because he started to feel it come back. And then he walked away and played, and that was that. Joette: That is so observant of you, Jennifer, because that is something that only the watchful eye of a mother would notice … something like that. That it must be related, and it’s a little bit delayed. It’s a great medicine, and it’s useful for … even if it were a week later and you saw that reaction, you might not even put the two together and associate it with the flipping underwater, but you know how they’re reacting. It’s that panic. Yeah. Great story. Wow. Especially, even for going underwater for a little one. Thank you, Jennifer. Different kinds of shock Joette: (06:39) I’d like to take a moment and point out that there are several kinds of shock. There’s often medically diagnosed shock where the blood pressure drops, and there’s maybe a rapid or weak pulse, and there can be disorientation. And then there’s the other, when you feel shocked from a seemingly shocking event. And the first is more extreme, of course, but both types can be addressed with Aconitum. So, I had a client once. She would grasp her chest and put the palm of her hand hard against her chest, and she would say — no matter what happened, anything that was happening in her life that was a little interesting or heavy — she would say, “Oh, my gosh, it was the shock of my life. I’m shocked by this! It’s the shock!” And she would always use that word, “shock.” And when I think back about this woman, this is someone who, when I was first starting out in homeopathy, the event that started all of this is that she had suffered a good amount of mental shock when she was a young woman. And from that time forward, I think she was still experiencing that shock, even though it was not the shock of her life each time, but there was an event that was the shock of her life, and it brought it all back. Meet Laurie, who employed Aconite for stage fright and her young son’s fear of storms Joette: (07:47) So, let’s go to you, Laurie. Laurie is a graduate of The Academy, and she’s a Mastery grad, study group advisor. She’s an Ambassador, and she also sees clients. So, Laurie, please let’s hear your story. I’m always looking forward to the stories that you give us. Laurie: Oh, thank you, Joette. Thank you for inviting me here. I love that I get to talk about Aconite because it’s one of my favorite remedies. In fact, one of the reasons it’s my favorite remedy is because I wouldn’t be here today if I hadn’t taken Aconite. I had such a fear of stage fright and just talking to people. Even if I was in a group of people that I knew, I would still struggle with it. And I know most people use Gelsemium, and I love Gelsemium, but I never felt the panic ease up like I did when I used Aconite. And now I’m talking to hundreds of people on a regular basis. Aconite totally transformed my life. I love that it’s the remedy that not only helps with serious conditions, but it’s also the remedy for living in everyday life. What do I mean by that? I

    21 min

  4. MAR 27

    Podcast 166 — If This Were My Last Podcast, What Would My Message to You Be?

    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. A

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  5. MAR 13

    Podcast 165 — Practical Professionals: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This! Inspirational Homeopathic Success Stories From My Mastermind Group

    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, t

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  6. FEB 27

    Podcast 164 — Meet 7 Unique, Accomplished, Inspiring Women from the Practical Homeopathy® Mastermind Group

    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. Be

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  7. FEB 13

    Podcast 163 — Moms with Moxie: When Health Fears Fade: Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary Results

    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

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    Podcast 162 — Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica

    In this podcast, we cover: 01:00   Introduction: Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica 01:55   The way most people remember their remedies 02:55   The story of the injured bird 04:46   Arnica for longevity, vascular issues and trauma             Joe De Livera (Joepathy) 05:52   More applications for Arnica 09:17   Remembering the homeopathic medicines through impactful stories 11:30   Closing Advice 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 162, 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: Never Forget Remedies With Stories: A Closer Look at Arnica Kate: (01:00) Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast with Joette Calabrese. I’m your co-host, Kate. If you are looking for ways to remember which homeopathic medicines address specific conditions, today’s podcast is for you. Joette, our Practical Homeopathy® founder and trusted expert, will share her insights to do just that. But before we jump in, I want to welcome you. You, our listeners. You’re in the right place today if your goal is to become a confident, capable healer in your own family. Or maybe you’re just learning about homeopathy, and you wonder if this could help you or maybe someone that you know. This is the place for you, too. And this podcast is just one of the many resources Joette offers to help you — wherever you are on your journey. But let’s get started with today’s podcast. Joette, give us an overview of the topic of our discussion today. It’s a good one. The way most people remember their remedies Joette: (01:55) Okay. So, let’s start with homeopathy being an academic pursuit, but it’s much more than that. And I’m going to give you some insight into that today. The way most people remember remedies — learning the materia medica — is by taking cases and observing their successes by using homeopathy. I guarantee — pretty much — you’ll likely never forget when you helped that little girl down the street with hives by using, say, Urtica urens and seeing a big shift. You’ll never forget the remedy you used when it helped your husband with that horrible pain after that fall. You might forget the medicine that helped you with your cough. But when it’s touching you on an emotional level — like when you’re helping a family member or a friend or a pet or even an animal from the wild — it’s more likely you’ll not forget it. So, let me give you an example. The story of the injured bird Joette: (02:55) Let’s say a bird flew into your window. And this has happened to me a couple of times, and I’ll never forget the combination of the medicines that I used. The first one I thought of, of course, was Arnica because the bird — being that it flew into the window — hit its head. Arnica is one of our best medicines for a head injury. Now, I did not know whether or not the bird was in pain, and you might not know this either, but we do know that there was a head injury. And one time, when we had a bird that flew into our window, I gave it Symphytum with Calc phos as a combination. And I did that because the bird’s head was cocked to one side. And I assumed that there may have been an injury to the spine or to the neck or et cetera. So, I made that connection. Not sure of it, of course, but certainly, we knew Arnica, and then I added Symphytum plus Calc phos. Arnica: a sweeping medicine But did you know that Arnica has so many other uses? It is one of our most sweeping homeopathic medicines. And there are many medicines like this in our materia medica, but Arnica, because it is such a well-known medicine, ought to strongly be considered for many other conditions as well. For example, Arnica’s a great remedy for insomnia, for sleeplessness. I learned that from my own mother, who started to use it. She knew only the name of the medicine, Arnica, when I first started learning homeopathy myself. And she just remembered the name, and a couple of nights she had some insomnia and took Arnica, and it worked! And that was news to me. (This was back in the 80s.) But it can also be used for jet lag. Kate: Joette, that’s very interesting. I know that you have talked about some of the surprising uses of Arnica. It is a very sweeping homeopathic medicine. But give us some examples of those surprising uses that people may not think about. Arnica for longevity, vascular issues and trauma Joette: (04:46) Yeah. Arnica’s been used for Joepathy’s case (Joe De Livera). He believed it brought him longevity. Well into his 90s, he lived, and he took Arnica daily. Now, he has a specific way of doing it. He put it in water, et cetera, et cetera. And there’s a whole method in the way that he used it. And he took a dose of it daily. He believed it was the longevity remedy. But it’s also used for vascular issues, which perhaps could be what contributed to his longevity. Because that is an issue — vascular issues and cardiological issues. But it is one of our best medicines for vascular issues, such as spider veins and even varicose veins that are more prominent. And of course, do I need to go into trauma? We already did that. That is very important, not only just head injuries, but also soft tissue injuries, such as an injury to the thigh or to the arms or a broken bone. It’s one of our best medicines for that, either recent or remote. And it can also be useful including tumors formed in an area after trauma. Kate: I find that so fascinating, isn’t it? More applications for Arnica Joette: (05:52) Isn’t it? Yes. So, in Robin Murphy’s “Nature’s Materia Medica” and his tome on the use of homeopathic medicines for so many conditions, this is a quote. He says, “Tumors in many parts following injury have been cured by Arnica, including serous tumors of the breast.” So, it can be used as a medicine, for example, after a mammogram that caused an injury to the breast. So, how do we know there’s an injury to the breast? Because there’s pain, or there’s swelling, or something like that that leads us to believe that there’s been injury to the breast. Arnica’s also a great remedy for hemorrhoids. It’s also a great remedy during labor and postpartum, and before and after an athletic event. I know skiers — professional skiers — who have used Arnica montana. And when I’ve worked with professional hockey players, we’ve used Arnica montana after their injuries from their athletic pursuits. And we’ve used it for football players, and those who are injured, even if it’s only a minor injury. And instead, all that remains is — after a rigorous game — is just the feeling of being beaten up because essentially that’s what athletic events often include. But how about for just someone who’s overusing their muscles or joints? Someone maybe who is elderly and has overused their muscles by going to the gym with too much zeal their first week. And they’re feeling achy and overuse of their muscles and joints and bones, et cetera, and feeling that sense of being beat up. How about for gout? It’s one of our great remedies for gout. But let’s not forget Arnica montana for bed sores or even whooping cough. This keeps going. I’m going to name some more because this is so extensive. This medicine is so valuable on so many different levels, that’s also used for blood sugar issues. Joe De Livera, Joepathy, often used Arnica montana in his very special Joepathy way (in water) for diabetes. And then, we’ve also considered it for ailments from stroke or during a stroke. And then there are also taste disorders. And these are some more interesting, unusual issues that could come up that could verify the use of — or shore up the argument for the use of — Arnica. And also, Joe De Livera, Joepathy, used Arnica for hair growth. Ussher, who by the way, was a referenced homeopathic practitioner of the 19th and early 20th century. He actually contributed to the clinical information on certain homeopathic remedies in his practice. He noted that “the local use of Arnica [meaning local directly on the skin, on the scalp, produced an extraordinary growth of hair on the area that’s in question] produced an extraordinary growth of hair on a limb.” And this suggested the use of perhaps “an oil mixed with Arnica 1X in a case of baldness, which was followed with marked success.” Rather interesting. And so, let’s also consider Joepathy’s method of using Arnica locally on the scalp in liquid form. Now, I’m not giving the exact formula, but I want to give you these ideas of how Arnica can be used in so many different ways. Remembering the homeopathic medicines through impactful stories Kate: (09:17) Great. Those are very interesting and things that you wouldn’t normally think of, but maybe it’s something you want to look into as you have time. I want to get back, Joette, to learning how to use homeopathic medicines and how we can

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