What is a Family Healer?

I often use the term “Family Healer” when I teach or when I encourage moms (and a few dads) in their pursuit of learning homeopathy. What does it mean to be a family healer?

What a Family Healer is NOT

I’ll start with what it is not. A family healer is not someone who can heal using their thoughts or their hands. A family healer is not someone supernaturally gifted with healing powers. There’s no new-age ideology here.

What a Family Healer IS

I think of a healer like those found in dystopian novels or the ones in the Wild West. Both are places where there is no “modern medicine” to rely on. While we have medicine at our fingertips, we have been gaslighted by the modern medicine religion. And we are starting to wake up. We’re realizing we’re kind of on our own out here. However, unlike the healers of the Wild West, we do have things like surgery or emergency rooms. A family healer knows the safest way to use them. We don’t run to the doctor for every cold or fever. But we are so very thankful when we do need them that they are there.

A family healer studies the medicine that will work to heal her family. She educates herself. He invests in books, supplies, and time to treat most ailments at home. They trust that the Lord who made the body also made it to heal.

How I Became a Family Healer

When I started studying homeopathy, I attended a small monthly study group. It didn’t meet for very long, maybe six months or so. I loved those nights. It was so amazing to sit and listen to these much more experienced moms talk about how they had taken their family’s health seriously and what they were doing to improve it. When the group stopped meeting, I don’t even remember why now, I was sort of left on my own. There weren’t any blogs out there in those days and not many websites that featured homeopathy. I couldn’t afford to go to school for homeopathy, so I was left to navigate it on my own.

It was not easy in those days. I honestly had no idea what I was doing. I limped along for a long while. But now! Man, oh, man. We have it so much easier these days! Blogs are available. Instagram is now a tool for learning. Thankfully, we still have books! But we have communities that we can be a part of and share, ask questions, learn from each other.

Being a family healer can be hard. When you’re up all night with a coughing baby, it can feel lonely. When all the voices around you are telling you to “just give that baby some ibuprofen.” Stand strong! Find different voices. Get educated. You. Can. Do. Hard. Things.

When It Gets Hard

What about when it gets hard? My two favorite remedies for this are Cocculus and Sepia. I love these two little guys.

Cocculus is a great remedy for night-time caregiving. When you’ve been up all night with a coughing baby or vomiting kid and the next day has you worn out and feeling like a used dish rag, reach for the Cocculus. I wrote about my experience with this remedy HERE.

Sepia. (insert lovely sigh) If I wrote poetry (and if I did it would be more like Shel Silverstein or Dr. Suess than Robert Louis Stevenson) I would write a poem about Sepia. I. Love. Sepia. It is made from the ink of a cuttlefish and is very useful for women. Sepia is a wonderful hormone balancer. It’s great during pregnancy and afterward! Bladder, uterine, and even rectal prolapses are healed using this remedy.

Beyond the physical, Sepia is great for when you feel like you’ve lost your will to fight. When motherhood is too overwhelming and you start to shut down parts of your brain. Mama, I see you. I’ve been there. Sepia is good for when, as mothers, we get overstimulated and it comes out as anger. When I had a lot of little children underfoot and had teenagers on top of that my husband would ask why I was so angry. I didn’t feel angry. I just felt overwhelmed, overstimulated, overworked, over-ed everything! Sepia would have helped. And it did when I remembered to take it.

Talk to someone. And take some Sepia.

How to Become One Yourself

Becoming a family healer isn’t for the fainthearted. But you wouldn’t be here if you were fainthearted. You can heal your family because you love your family more than anyone else.

Read books. I recommend Asa Hershoff’s Homeopathic Remedies and Sue Meyer’s Homeopathy for Mommies as two great places to start.

Read blogs. You’re here. Good job! Follow me on Instagram for other tidbits and information. Follow other homeopaths, too!

Take a class. My next online Legacy of Healing class is in September. It’s 4 weeks long and we meet via Zoom. If you would like more information or to join the class, email me and we’ll talk.

Join a community. Are you already familiar with the basics of homeopathy and would like a more in-depth study? Consider joining my Pride of Healing Community. We study all sorts of topics and have a lovely time every month.

I know you love your family and you want the very best for them. You are what’s best for them. And you’re becoming a family healer.