My journey learning homeopathy

Basically, my journey learning homeopathy began with carrots.

My oldest child was a sickly kid.  However, I couldn’t understand why.  Was it that I drank a Route 44 vanilla Dr. Pepper from Sonic daily, with the permission of my OB?  Could it have been the antibiotics I took during my pregnancy?  I delivered her in the safest place on earth, the hospital.  Once born, my precious baby had the recommended silver nitrate put in her eyes and was given her first set of recommended jabs.  Surely it wasn’t because I took her to every recommended well-child visit?  She had more of the recommended jabs.  We sleep-trained her to the minute so she and I would be well-rested.  All of a sudden I had a total loss of breast milk and I gave her the recommended powdered formula.

But she was always sick.  Numerous respiratory infections…each with its accessory antibiotic.  Projectile vomiting for months.  RSV at 8 months…with its own antibiotics, steroids, and breathing treatments.  Multiple ear infections…with, you guessed it, more antibiotics.

By the time she outgrew all the infections, she was diagnosed with multiple allergies which resulted in allergy shots.  She had yearly strep infections and the obligatory annual antibiotic.

As the allergy shots continued, so did her anxiety over having to have them.  One day she literally clung to the car, the door, the pillar, and me to avoid having to get them.  I had had enough.  So had she. I was done with the medical circus.

Learning what didn’t work

I was at a loss of what to do.  How could I help my sweet girl?  I typed, “How to strengthen the immune system.”  Then from there, I typed, “What foods strengthen the immune system?”  That was a very long rabbit hole.  I learned that carrots are very good for fighting strep.  So, I fed us a lot of carrots.  After about a week, she refused to eat them.  We were back at square one. 

I learned whole foods would help her.  So, I started cooking and doing everything in the kitchen I could to help heal my girl.  It helped, but not enough.

I have always been fascinated by herbs.  The idea of being able to grow my own medicine and to treat my family myself was so lovely.  That started the rabbit hole of herbal research.  I took a class by Shonda Parker.  She was amazing!  And if you want to learn more about herbs, please check out her books.  But herbal medicine has warnings; you need to know how to measure and dose carefully. That frightened me.  Numbers are not my thing. 

Enter homeopathy

Afterward, I learned about homeopathy.  And I. Fell. In. Love. 

Homeopathy is what I had been searching for all that time.  It is safe and non-toxic.  Homeopathy works immediately in acute situations.  There are zero side effects.  It’s been around for hundreds of years with no recalls.

This is it, I thought.  I could help my family without getting back onto the medical carnival.

And I have.  I have helped my family and many more with these little white pellets. All in all, I have been learning about homeopathy for 17 years. And in those years, I have only given my children antibiotics 3 times.  And I have 9 children.  That’s not 3 times per kid. Three times total. My 10-year-old daughter has never been to the doctor.  Not that she hasn’t had illnesses.  She has.  But homeopathy handled it. 

I absolutely, positively love homeopathy. I love to use it….to study it….to teach it….to talk about it.

So, I am here to share that love and knowledge.  I teach a beginner’s class for those who are learning homeopathy and how to use it for their family.  Also, I have a monthly study group where we can help each other grow and learn.  I also see a limited number of clients.

And to think….carrots.