Joette Calabrese Podcast

Joette Calabrese: Author, Lecturer and Consultant.
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  1. 2D AGO

    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

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. JAN 30

    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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  7. JAN 16

    Podcast 161 — The ‘C’ Remedy for Colic, Cramps and Cysts

    In this podcast, we cover: 01:00   Introduction: The ‘C’ Remedy for Colic, Cramps and Cysts 01:59   What is Mighties Plus?             Mighties Plus 02:49   What are homeopathic medicine keynotes? 03:30   Keynotes of homeopathic Colocynthis             A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families by Joette Calabrese 08:02   Colocynthis for Colic 10:39   A clinical case study in Colocynthis for abdominal pain             Colocynthis 15:29   Can Colocynthis also be used for GI pain related to anxiety? 16:07   Closing thoughts             A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families by Joette Calabrese             Free online materia medica 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 Mighties Members FindAPracticalHomeopath.com Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 161, 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: The ‘C’ Remedy for Colic, Cramps and Cysts Kate: (01:00) Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast with Joette. I’m your co-host, Kate, and I’m looking forward to today’s topic because we’re diving into a homeopathic medicine that I believe every household should keep close at hand. And in just a moment, Joette, our Practical Homeopathy® founder and trusted expert, will explain exactly why. But before we jump in, I want to welcome all of you. You are in the right place today. If your goal is to become a confident, capable healer in your own family, this podcast is just one of the many resources Joette offers to do just that. So, let’s get started. Hi, Joette. Joette: Hi, Kate. This is so great. This is a very interesting topic today. Kate: It is! What sparked our topic of discussion today is a question from one of your Mighties Plus members. So, some of our listeners might be asking, what is Mighties Plus? And do you want to explain it to them just a bit, Joette? What is Mighties Plus? Joette: (01:59) Mighties Plus is a virtual group. We meet each month, where I’ll get your questions answered. And there’s much more because there’s also that community. And so, we also have a special lesson in Mighties Plus for each month, so that members can study. We have those who have been in Mighties Plus for a little while. We have them give us exciting success stories. And then, we have Remedy Riddles and all kinds of fun things that keep it alive and interesting. So, it’s not just me answering questions. Kate: So, one of those things in your Mighties Plus membership site is the flashcards that give keynotes for various homeopathic medicines. And it’s a great way — for whether it’s adults or even children — to learn the keynotes of the medicines. For those people who may not know what a keynote is, can you explain that, Joette? What are homeopathic medicine keynotes? Joette: (02:49) Well, each of our homeopathic medicines have sweeping, grand ability. They can touch on so many aspects of human suffering and human health. But there are specific aspects of each of them that rise to the top — certain abilities of these medicines — and we call them keynotes. It’s an appropriate name because these are the key aspects of this particular medicine. So, for those who only know a little bit about Arnica montana, you would understand that — Arnica montana — one of the keynotes, is elements from an injury. So, soft tissue or hard tissue injury would be met with Arnica. That’s a keynote of Arnica montana. Keynotes of homeopathic Colocynthis Kate: (3:30) So, in our last Mighties Plus live, one of the students — which is what sparked this episode, actually —asked you, “Does the homeopathic medicine Colocynthis work for just GI pain (because that’s what you were talking about) related to bullying? Or would it also help with GI pain related to anxiety?” So, can you take us through how to think about this question, and why it was a good question. Joette: Well, I discussed that moment in Mighties Plus. I was describing a case that I had taken years ago about an adolescent boy who had been bullied and had tremendous GI pain. He was practically unable to go to school most days because of this pain, and it was related to having been bullied. And those are two keynotes that are related to Colocynthis: being bullied or, actually, maybe indignation. And then, following that indignation, the person has stomach pain. And so, the person wanted to know — that Mighties Plus member wanted to know — so is it only for bullying or would it also help with a stomach pain that’s related to anxiety? Now, I could actually say, “Sure.” But what I want to do is get my followers — and especially my students — to learn how to fish. I don’t want to give her the fish. I want her to learn how to fish. And so, the next step I encouraged her to do — and I’m going to encourage you listeners today to do — that is to find that answer out not by asking me (so that I can give a yes or no answer), but rather to go to our beloved materia medicas. Now, materia medica is a book that has the homeopathic medicines listed, and each medicine is described, the keynotes are included, and it gives a very good description. Sometimes, depending on which materia medica one chooses to read and then study, it can be three pages long of information on one particular medicine. Or you can go to, for example, my materia medica that simplifies it, makes it much easier for the beginner or for someone who needs kind of a quick reference. So, I want that person who’s asking can it be from another cause, such as anxiety … Can stomach pain, that is a result of anxiety that fits the picture of the remedy Colocynthis, be associated? And I say, “Please go to your materia medica and read up on it. Because indeed Colocynthis is ailments, such as stomach pain from anger, from indignation, from excitement. And anxiety could be certainly excitement, and the person can be also irritable. So, if I explain this to someone — and I am happy to do so — they will not know enough to go digging deeper. They will not know enough to go into a materia medica and start reading up on this medicine and all of its capabilities and how it’s related to many different kinds of emotional issues. Kate: Let’s widen our lens just a bit. Joette, for those who may not know much about the remedy Colocynthis, and it’s spelled C-O-L-O-C-Y-N-T-H-I-S. For those who don’t know much about this, can you give us a broader picture of what conditions or symptoms might be addressed with Colocynthis? Joette: Well, it’s for pain, but a certain kind of pain. It’s usually abdominal pain, or it can be ovarian pain — a cyst that’s in the ovary. It can be from dysmenorrhea from menstrual pain. But we were talking about how this was affecting a young teenage boy with gastrointestinal colic, basically. So, did we need to know whether it was the pancreas or the gallbladder or the stomach or the intestines? It would be useful, but, boy, I’ll tell you, the whole abdominal area is often difficult to fine-tune and determine exactly where it’s coming from … which organ it’s coming from. Sometimes we can, but many times we can’t. So, it is specific for a colicky pain, a pain that can be very severe. It forces the person to double over, to bend double, or to put their hands against their abdomen and then double over. It’s for muscles that are cramping. It’s for neuralgias — even sciatica with cramping or shooting pains. These are the gastrointestinal or the abdominal that include also (besides sciatica), it’s all in the abdominal region. For women, it can be in the ovaries or the uterus as well. Colocynthis for Colic Kate: (08:02) One of the things I think of with Colocynthis is when a baby has colic. Do we use it for that? Joette: It’s a wonderful remedy for colic. And the way that we notice that the colic is related to Colocynthis is that when I say that someone doubles over and presses against their abdomen, babies don’t do that. Maybe children who are a little older, but a baby … You might find that you can calm the baby down a little bit. It might not resolve the condition, but you can calm the baby down by putting pressure on the belly. And how would that occur? Well, you might be holding the baby up so that the baby’s facing behind you, and the baby’s belly is pressed against your shoulder. And that calms the baby down. Or if it’s much younger, if you put the baby on your arm and it hangs the way with arms and legs on one side and arm and leg on the other side — like a lion hanging from a branch of a tree over your arm, draped over — because there’s pressure that’s being put on the abdomen, that that’s somewhat comforting. That tells us that it’s not curing it, but we’re looking at what are the symptoms and how are they presenting? And what makes it a little better, what makes it a little worse? What makes it much better, much worse? And that gives us a clue that

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  8. JAN 2

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

    In this podcast, we cover: 00:58   Introduction: Real-World Integration of Practical Homeopathy® and Conventional Care 01:56   Health care professionals seeking to incorporate both allopathy and homeopathy             Boiron 04:40   Is homeopathy the same as “home remedies?”             The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® 06:07   A day in the life of a “combination” practice 11:28   Attention, health care workers: Stay at your post! 13:24   Homeopathy and/or pharmaceuticals 17:02   Success Story: Osteoporosis             Watch Out for Dem’ Bones 18:07   Success Story: Depression             Homeopathy Can Spoil a Girl             JoetteCalabrese.com Additional resources: Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives) Joette’s Learning Center 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 160. 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®. Real-World Integration of Practical Homeopathy® and Conventional Care Kate: (00:58) Welcome back to the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast. I’m Kate, and today’s guest is going to talk about how she integrates homeopathy into her existing health practice without abandoning the credentials, training and experience as a medical professional. I’m thrilled to be joined by someone who embodies this balance beautifully. Michelle is a nurse and a homeopath who works alongside her physician-husband. She’s also gone through The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® and is now finishing the second year, which is the Mastery program. So today, she’s here to talk about how to introduce homeopathy to people steeped in the allopathic world. Michelle, welcome to the podcast. Michelle: Thank you, Kate. It’s good to be with you today. Kate: I’m so glad you’re here. You have a very unique and exciting perspective, and I’m thrilled for you to be able to share with the listeners. Michelle: Thank you. I’m glad to be here as well. Health care professionals seeking to incorporate both allopathy and homeopathy Kate: (01:56) So, tell me about what you’ve noticed. When we talked earlier, you said some things about nurses who are giving up their positions and their licenses because they’re wanting to go into homeopathy, and they’re not really sure how to incorporate both of those paradigms. Can you talk to us about that? Michelle: Yeah, especially through the last several months and getting to meet everyone, and there’s so many RNs. And I would say other health care professionals, too, that I’ve met along the way in my study groups, as well as the broader sense of the school, that so many of them seem to feel like they have to give up their nursing license or their doctor or physical therapy license in order to practice homeopathy because of the scope of practice. And I don’t know the laws in every state. However, I’m in Florida. Florida’s pretty friendly with combining those. And I just find that for us in our private practice, I find it very beneficial to have one foot in the allopathic world, as I call it, and one foot in the homeopathic world — in the sense that there’s so many things, especially that you can teach patients or clients, that they can take something homeopathically and not have side effects. Oftentimes, when they’ll come into our office, I have lots of remedies right in our office. And they can see those, and they will ask me questions about them. And we usually start with simple things like heartburn, or if they’re having issues with sleep, or as a woman with menopausal symptoms. And Boiron does a beautiful job of making remedies sort of “shelf attractive” to people that are used to more Big Pharma over-the-counter type things. And so, I educate them on some of their choices so that they don’t have to be on more Big Pharma medicines. And the reason not to be is that there’s so many side effects with the synthetic drugs in our world today. So, I feel like I can win more people over to homeopathy, and ultimately, it’s better for the person. A lot of people just don’t know. They’ve never heard of homeopathy, or that they misunderstand it. They think that it is natural or herbal, and they aren’t sure. Functional medicine, I think, has come into play and confused waters even more. So, it does take some explaining. Once they see that something works for them and we have a small win, they’re ready to hear more. Is homeopathy the same as “home remedies?” Kate: (04:40) When you said earlier, they think it’s natural. I want to just clear that up for a bit. It is natural. However, I think what you were trying to say was they just think it’s a broad category of natural medicine, like herbs, and essential oils and all of that. Michelle: Home remedy. Kate: Yeah, home remedy. That’s what they think. Michelle: Right. Yeah. That’s what I meant by “natural” is, like, they think home remedy and homeopathy are the same thing. Kate: I think most people don’t really know that homeopathic medicines are regulated by the FDA. There’s the homeopathic pharmacopoeia that the pharmacies go by. So, these medicines are manufactured in pharmacies, according to strict standards. It’s very regulated. So, I just think that’s a fact that people don’t usually know. Michelle: And through The Academy, we’ve had the opportunity to see many interviews with the different pharmaceutical companies. In The Academy, I was blown away by the homeopathic pharmacies that Joette actually interviewed, but we listened. And the regulations that they have to go through was unbelievable scrutiny. I’ve never interviewed another pharmacy, but it just seemed to me like it was over the top — how much that they go through and how particular they are, and making certain that the medicines that we use homeopathically are exactly what they say they are. A day in the life of a “combination” practice Kate: (06:07) Michelle, can you explain to me what happens in your private practice? So, a patient is scheduled; they come into your office. How does that usually work as far as the balance between your husband and yourself, and the allopathic world and homeopathic? Michelle: Of course. We’ve been in practice for 30 years-plus now, and a lot of our patients are very well known to us. We still do have new patients, but most of them have been with us for quite some time. And my husband has always been a minimalist as far as drugs and things. But as a physician in this world, his tools have always been pharmaceuticals from drug companies. And since learning homeopathy, we now feel so blessed because we have more tools to use. And so, a patient comes into our office, they first come to my station — which is the nursing station — and I do the typical intake of what is currently going on with them, along with their vital signs and what they currently are taking for vitamin supplements and medications, et cetera. They sit in the chair and right in front of them, up on my wall, I have several homeopathic remedies, specifically combination remedies for acute illnesses and things like that that we can use. And so that oftentimes brings up lots of questions from them of something like, for example, the Acidil®, if they’re having heartburn. “Oh, is that what that’s for?” And then we have a conversation and then go through some things, and it just puts some ideas into their mind of some things that they can take that don’t have side effects. So, that starts a discussion. They go back to see Dr. D. He and I have an exchange of what’s going on with the patient. He goes in, sits down with the patient. He always says the patient will tell you what exactly is wrong with them if you listen. I think this is an important lesson — as simple as it may seem to anyone working in health care, whether you’re a homeopath, a nurse or a doctor — that the symptoms that the person is describing leads us to the right remedies. So, he will make his assessment. And as I said before, he’s a minimalist as far as drugs are concerned and tries to take people off of things that they don’t need to be on. He will come out to me and discuss if there’s something that he thinks that we can do for them homeopathically. If so, many of those that are common that he has become very familiar with, he will go ahead and send them back to me for a homeopathic consult. And at that point, then we continue with that. It’s not to say that we don’t believe there is not a place for allopathic medicine, especially in the diagnostics. That is especially where my husband shines, and he is very much a diagnostician, and we need him for those skills that he was well-trained and has great experience in … as well as Western medicine. We believe it’s great for a trauma situation. Clearly, we need hospitals, and we need emergency trauma care. But other than that — and surgery — we believe that real health comes from diet and exercise, discipline, sunshine, homeopathy. So, there is a place for both. And I think that that’s where we’re a little bit unique in that we don’t want to abandon w

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