Homeopathy At Home with Melissa

#11 Happy Hormones with Andrea Jones

January 25, 2021 Melissa Crenshaw Season 1 Episode 11
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
#11 Happy Hormones with Andrea Jones
Show Notes Transcript

Today's episode is a special one since I'm interviewing the very special Andrea Jones, who is a natural health practitioner who is also an RN, BSN. She has this Happy Hormones Program and I think sounds amazing AND she's a strong believer in Christ. You can find her on the platforms below - go check her out!

Instagram @abundantwellnesswithandrea
Facebook group Happy Hormones
Email at andrea@abundantwellnesswithandrea.com

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Melissa Crenshaw:

Hello and welcome to homeopathy at home with Melissa. If you're ready to be independent in helping your family with acute and chronic conditions in a more natural way. If you're interested in learning how to use homeopathy at home and if you enjoy positive, encouraging messages, then this is the podcast for you. Click subscribe, grab some coffee or tea, a pen and a notebook and get ready to learn how to use homeopathy at home in your family. The information in this podcast and its transcription is to be used for education only. The suggestions here should not replace the advice of your medical doctor. And you should never stop any prescription medications without the advice and direction of your doctor. I am not a physician, I am not prescribing and I am not making healthcare decisions for you. It is your choice to use the information provided here and in any future communications with me regarding homeopathy and natural health care. Today's episode is a bit different because I am interviewing this amazing woman who owns her own natural health care business so there won't be a baby step to glean from today, or a special remedy that we discuss other than what's discussed in the episode. So I hope that you enjoy it. Also, if you're interested in being a guest on my show, whether you're a business owner, or you're a mom who's had a wonderful experience with homeopathy that you would like to share with others, or you just love homeopathy and want to have a conversation about it. I would love to bring you on to the show and discuss all things homeopathy and natural health care. Send me an email at Melissa@MelissaCrenshaw.com and we'll get you scheduled. Have you ever wondered how food affects your hormones? You all know how much I believe in food as medicine along with fresh air, sunshine, homeopathy, and most importantly, Jesus. You also know how homeopathy regulated my hormones over 20 years ago without side effects or suppression, which is why Sepia is my favorite remedy. Well, my special guest today is the CEO of her company since 2017. She is also an RN, BSN, and loves all things natural. Her favorite homeopathic remedy is Pulsatilla because she says it's what brought her daughter back. I can't wait to hear more about that! Andrea Jones is a kind but tenacious woman who loves to help others. She has a ridiculous sense of humor that often gets her through tough days and her passion is total person wellness, which you all know I agree with 100%. We both know that spiritual health is most important and I'm excited to have this strong believer here with me today. Welcome, Andrea!

Andrea Jones:

Thank you, Melissa. I'm so excited to be here with you today and just get to chat with you. I know that we've been conversating for a couple of weeks now and it's just been really awesome to connect with somebody who's so like-minded about so many really core values. So thank you for having me on today.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Yes, I agree. It's so awesome the way God connects me with wonderful women who are business owners and out there doing the same kinds of things that I am. So it's just been so fun getting to know you.

Andrea Jones:

I agree. So when I was looking at your website, when we first started talking, one thing that really stood out to me on your website was that you do SOZO and I got super excited about that. If you remember, I was like WHAT? You do SOZO!? So can you just explain to our listeners what that means? Yeah, so I love that because I actually completely forgot that that was on my website mainly because I have not looked at my website in a while. I add things to it but I very rarely just go back and review what's already on there. SOZO is actually the Greek word for healed, saved, and delivered and it's used over 100 times in the New Testament to describe the finished work of Jesus. So the work of Jesus, how He ministered to those around

him:

mind, body, and spirit and so when you're reading the Bible and you look at the root word when it says that He laid his hands on them and healed them. A lot of times that root word is actually SOZO. So really fun to kind of explore how God delivers us. And I think that we can have this preconceived idea about what inner healing looks like, maybe it's a little bit weird or out of the box for some people but really, if you boil it down to that one root meaning it is the the goodness of God, the blood of Jesus, applied to your circumstances, that leads to mind, body, and spirit healing.

Melissa Crenshaw:

I love it so much. So we have we have people that I know, locally, that do SOZO so that's why I got so excited when I saw that on your website. I also pray with my clients and pray for them. I pray before every meeting with them, I pray before every class because He's in everything He is our healer. So I love how He just connects all these things for us.

Andrea Jones:

Totally.

Melissa Crenshaw:

So now I'd love to hear your story. What took you from being a nurse in a hospital to running your own natural wellness business?

Andrea Jones:

It's such a funny story. I feel like when I look back, I'm like, man, God just has such a sense of humor, how He changes direction. I knew from probably the time I was six years old that I was going to be a nurse. I've always had these, I guess you could call them prophetic unctions or knowing in my spirit, what my next move was. And I told my mom when I was six, that I'm going to be a nurse and I'm going to work with children. I was actually hospitalized at the hospital that I ended up getting a job at and I knew when I was seven that I was going to work there. I just knew, oh, I'm going to work here someday and I ended up landing my dream job there. I worked with families in the PICU and NICU with all diagnoses, all acuities and loved my job 10 years. I had the immense privilege of getting to do that but really, it was my dad dying of cancer. My dad was diagnosed with brain cancer 11 years ago, which man that feels like light years, you know, feels like forever and not at the same time. And realizing when they did the genetic testing that it was not a not a genetic cancer and something just kind of clicked in my brain like well, okay, if it's not genetic, then what causes cancer because as a nurse, we're trained to treat it one way. Chemotherapy, radiation, whether it's oral chemotherapy, or IV chemotherapy, and having treated children with chemo, and been alongside them and then watching my dad go through all of that, and how devastating it is. You either die from the illness or you die from the chemo, or you you lose a significant amount of your quality of life. And I just kind of began to wonder if maybe there was something that I was missing. So really, that's what opened my eyes to all the environmental factors. We're talking like epigenetics, so the things that flick that switch on, that would cause your body to move into a disease state, which cancer is a disease state, there are many disease states. And so that's really what got me to getting rid of toxins in my environment. Doing some personal cleanup, in the sense of my hormones were a hot mess. And I was like, I don't know why they're a hot mess and conventional medicine can't help me so I kind of began that journey of really realizing that there was this whole other world of medicine that I had not been exposed to. And so really, it was that experience with my dad's illness and death and then my hormone crash after my daughter was born that led me to working with a naturopath and finding mind, body, and spirit healing because he really did address all three of those components. That really just kind of began to really fuel this desire in me to help people in a different way than I had been.

Melissa Crenshaw:

I love that, you know, it was my son getting sick that took me from one side to the other. Oftentimes, it's not even ourselves, it's our loved ones getting sick, and we say, wait a minute, there's got to be a better way.

Andrea Jones:

Absolutely.

Melissa Crenshaw:

So I would love to know, Andrea, why Pulsatilla is your favorite remedy and what happened with her daughter?

Andrea Jones:

Yeah, so maybe I'll answer the second question first and kind of give some history there and then that will explain why I fell in love with this remedy. So, my daughter was actually diagnosed with PANDAS, which is pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcus. She got a strep infection when she was about seven and those normal antibodies that we have that our body develops to strep, which is to kill it, you know, for a kiddo with PANDAS, it actually begins to attack their basal ganglia, and it affects their behavior. So she went from really kind of a happy disposition kid, there's more to the backstory on that, but to raging sensory meltdowns and not being able to handle lights, sounds, food textures, smells. Our life pretty much became a nightmare pretty instantly. Within two weeks, I noticed like, okay, she's healed from the infection but her body, you know, she no longer has a sore throat and a fever, which we attribute as that's cured, right? But for a kid with PANDAS, their behavior does not return to baseline. And I was pretty well-versed with PANDAS just because of my pediatric background. I knew that there was something wrong. I knew the trajectory and I was pretty scared. I knew that this was going to be a mountain to climb and I didn't know how to climb that mountain. I just knew that I had to find a practitioner as soon as possible that understood PANDAS and was willing to look at holistic treatment, not just psychiatric medication, and not just antibiotics, because I knew long term that could potentially cause more harm for her. I'm not judging those methods of treatment, because for a lot of families, that's where they have to start. So I just want to be very clear that there is no one right path to healing our children. I just knew for me, at that point where she was, I had to look into some other measures before going there. So we found an amazing practitioner who did all the lab work, got us on some good supplements, but really, the progress was really slow, if any, and I landed in a group that was all about healing kids with PANDAS with homeopathy, and I had used homeopathy for myself and I've used it for my kids, but I did not know that it could be applied to something so acute. I call it acute and chronic because it's kind of both; acute meaning intense and chronic meaning this isn't going to go away with like a remedy, like maybe a cough will. So I was watching these kids recover month after month in the group. These kids regained their function and I finally decided to take the leap to work with a practitioner. The reason I fell in love with Pulsatilla is because it halted her rage, like the first week that we started using it, so she had been having rage, meltdowns, which is like a tantrum on steroids. If you've never seen rage, it's hard to explain, but it's like they're screaming, they're sweating, they're wanting to rip their hair out, sometimes they're physically violent. Thankfully, Alexis was not typically physically violent, but very, very emotionally intense. Of course to have that happen multiple times a day for hours at a time is traumatic to the whole family so we started her on Pulsatilla. That was the remedy that her homeopath felt best described her symptoms, which interestingly, can be used for meningeal inflammation, which I think is so fascinating. It was also the remedy that she always responded to the best when she was an infant that was teething. So, I wasn't surprised at all that she needed this because we used it with great success just as an infant. I was not expecting that quick of a response, especially because rage was probably our most long standing biggest issue.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Wow. How long did it take for her to get better?

Andrea Jones:

This was something I really had to work with my homeopath on as far as learning how to track symptoms because from a nursing standpoint we are used to giving a pharmaceutical drug and watching those symptoms go within an hour, right? Homeopathy is not really that way. You kind of

Melissa Crenshaw:

Yep. have to think of it as bringing the core issue to the surface and out so sometimes it can get worse before it gets better, which thankfully, with some adjusting of potency, and even dilution made a huge... we ended up doing a lot of water dosing for her because she couldn't handle just the straight potency, even a 6c, she couldn't handle that, which is pretty common for kids with PANDAS or autism. They're so sensitive that having that strong of a dose can end up causing a lot more aggravation than you need to so for her, I would say it was kind of like watching the intensity, if you're on a scale from 10 to 1, going from 10 to 9 to 8 to 7 to 6. So we were seeing that her rage is only lasting 10 minutes instead of 20. Or maybe she only had three episodes today instead of 7. So it wasn't completely gone instantaneously but we were starting to see this track record and I felt like I can breathe a little bit more. Now I'm not constantly holding my breath and now it's really interesting, because when she gets in a flare, she definitely can still have days where she's super irritable, but now I find that she gets really mad and then she'll actually start laughing at herself like, "Why did I get so mad?" And then move on, which is something I think when you're in the midst of like such a traumatic crisis of health, you don't think you're ever going to see that again. So, for us, it was definitely learning to watch those subtle improvements that really started to give us hope for her long term trajectory. Yes, that's what I love about homeopathy that you can adjust the potency to minimize the aggravations. So we don't have to be totally aggravated. We don't have to have big huge aggravations. We can adjust it and just minimize that a little bit and go a little bit slower, which makes it comfortable.

Andrea Jones:

Yeah, exactly. I didn't know that. The previous homeopath, we had worked with a homeopath previously, and their method was a little bit different in the sense of go big or go home and a PANDAS kid can't really do that because the aggravations would last for weeks. We're talking like weeks of raging Yeah, instead of just being a little bit more gentle and patient with the body. Admittedly, as a parent, when you're watching your kids suffer is really hard.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Yeah, I can't imagine.

Andrea Jones:

Yeah. Oh, it's hard. being patient is hard but it's like learning how to trust the process and trust your homeopath and giving the body some time to kind of get back to homeostasis, which it has not been in for a long time.

Melissa Crenshaw:

That's right. So back to the strep infection. You went and had a diagnosis of strep? And then how long after that, did she start with her symptoms?

Andrea Jones:

It was pretty much I want to say within three days. Previous to that when she was five, she got her five year shots and pretty much right after that point, she stopped making eye contact and started to have some really, I would say soft sensory signs of something's not right with her nervous system. Increase in hyperactivity was starting. To see our kid was super happy and now she's irritable a lot more, which now I can look back and hindsight is 2020, right? I can see all of those things, but when you're in it, and it's like a slow to boil, you don't always recognize it. Oh, I wish I would have been more attuned to that. Now, I was attuned to it, but I didn't know how to fix it and our pediatrician is like, "Oh, she's fine. She's meeting all of her benchmarks and all the things and she's doing fine in school and her vision's fine and she doesn't have anything on her panel that's concerning so she's fine." But that inner mommy knowing that's like, yeah, but this isn't who she was before so we had that going on. We had eliminated a lot of food allergies. We were in the process of looking into some evaluations for the sensory stuff but she's still young, you know, so we're like, "I don't know, she's our first kid. Maybe some of this is normal." Even though inside, I knew that wasn't true, but you're trying to rationalize around a problem and I just hadn't figured it out yet. So we were in the process of all of this trying to figure out a solution. And then she gets strep. And so all of those symptoms that we had seen progress in, through eliminating food triggers, and some behavioral stuff that we'd been doing at home, just got flipped upside down and thrown out the window. So she cleared the infection. Like I said, no longer positive for strep, no longer having a sore throat, responded really well to the antibiotics, but she never once got a fever. And to me, that is not normal especially since I could see it on her throat. It was a raging strep infection. This is not just a mild infection. And so that's really odd that she doesn't have a fever. I kind of tucked it away in the back of my mind but I noticed after she cleared all of those symptoms that her pupils were hugely dilated. They were never not dilated. From that point on, she was having a significant increase in all of the behaviors that we saw before but now times 100. So now it's happening all the time, not just some of the time and then those symptoms, even when we had a diagnosis, even after her physician had diagnosed her with PANDAS continued to regress. So social anxiety, separation anxiety, I couldn't go from upstairs to downstairs without her following me, I couldn't go to the bathroom alone. Leaving for work was like a nightmare, dropping her off for school was a nightmare. She could no longer sleep by herself. So all of these normal functions, you know, her executive functions were gone within a matter of weeks and it just continued to get worse until, like I said, we found a really good homeopath that was able to really help us come up with a plan for her

Melissa Crenshaw:

Praise God.

Andrea Jones:

Absolutely. Total divine intervention and I look back and see God's hand so closely on us. I mean, nobody wants to go through anything like that, right? Nobody. None of us would wish it on ourselves or our worst enemy. But I can see that God was there and I know that we would agree on this, that's what we want for other people to step into that too and know that just because there's this horrible thing happening, doesn't mean that it has to define your story and it definitely doesn't limit God's hand to providing for you.

Melissa Crenshaw:

That's right. Oh, I love it. So, I love what you said about trust your homeopath, but right after that you said you had the feelings inside of you. You knew when the doctor was saying this and then when that first homeopath treated too high, you had these feelings, and I always encourage especially moms, but all parents, because moms have this special intuition for their children. I always encourage parents to listen to that and what you're feeling and what the Lord is revealing to you about your children and about your spouse and about your loved ones is higher and better than any professional, even me. So if I'm helping someone homeopathically and they're feeling like, "I don't know, Melissa, this just isn't right. I feel like it's really this." I'll say, "Let's look into that. Let's look at that because you really do know better than I do what's going on."

Andrea Jones:

And I think with that, it shows how good of a practitioner you are that you can be confident enough to say that because I think so many of us, myself included, have come from feeling like the mom/doctor relationship is the doctor's the boss and I just show up to work. I just show up to prove that things are okay and when they're not, then I'm not really getting that feedback nor am I feeling listened to and so that blew my mind to find such teamwork in this relationship and even now with the homeopath, he's asking me specific questions but then at the end, he's like, "What is your gut feeling about her progress? Is it positive or negative?" September was awful because we had all of the wildfires so that was a new flare trigger for us. We had no idea that that was going to cause regression again and so he and I were in contact several times a week with, "I don't know what to do." Air filters are now impossible to find because everybody's trying to get them. It almost creates a safety net for you to build trust again because when you have not had that or you've been disregarded by your medical practitioner your sense of trust is eroded and I didn't even know that I had been feeling that way until I found somebody who listened to me and I just felt like I could lean in instead of being in a defensive posture.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Absolutely, yes. So I really love all the things that you're saying about how this is still a journey and you're still in this journey but it's much better than it was before. Thankful that you found an amazing practitioner and that you're able to contact him often. That's part of what I want to do too, with my clients, is just be there to encourage them that, "Hey, this thing is okay, this is normal, this is not normal. Oh you're feeling this? Okay, let's talk about it." I want them to know what's okay and what's not so I like to keep a touch with them often. I also noticed on your website, the Happy Hormones program and I'm highly interested in that because I mostly work with women. And pretty much all the women that I work with have hormonal issues. We are treating homeopathically to balance those hormones. The symptoms of hormone imbalances are so many and homeopathy really seems to work extremely well for all of us. Also I truly believe that the right foods could expedite the healing. So we can eat McDonald's all day, every day and take homeopathy and we might have some benefit but if we eat the right foods, then it's going to totally expedite that healing process. So I would love to hear all about that program.

Andrea Jones:

Thank you. Yeah, and I totally agree with you. We don't necessarily have to be 100% on everything, but definitely, it's kind of like your car, you know, you don't go to get an oil change to get used oil. You go to get new, fresh oil to get you those next 3000 miles. So we can take homeopathy, like you said, and experience some benefit but if you're getting toxins, then you're basically increasing the burden load that now homeopathy is trying to correct, right. So it's like increasing the work that homeopathy has to do. So if we can pair that, with targeted nutrition, or even just cleaning up toxins in our environment or in our food supply, you're lessening the work that homeopathy has to do. So they definitely can work hand in hand. I don't use homeopathy in that program. I'm not a trained homeopath. So I don't feel like that's my role currently but we do have a step-by-step process. So in this program, we focus on really the root causes of why women experience hormone imbalance. So typically, that's liver metabolism. So your liver not functioning optimally to actually metabolize estrogen, progesterone and get them out of the body. So when that happens, your liver is kind of like a dirty sponge, which I don't know if you've ever cleaned with a dirty sponge before. You stick the dirty sponge in water, wipe your counter, and it's dirty and smelly and gross. That's what happens with our livers. So now all those toxins and hormones have to go somewhere and they typically, for women, affect the reproductive system so that's where we will start to experience things like menstrual migraines, cramping, heavy periods, spotty periods, because your estrogen and your progesterone are like a seesaw. So if your estrogen is high, your progesterone is going to be low. And so then what happens with a lot of women and practitioners is they're trying to shoot a moving target with supplementation. It's like, Okay, well, we're going to add progesterone to see if we can correct the progesterone and really, it has nothing to do with the progesterone. If we can get your detox pathways open, get your liver metabolizing estrogen it's going to naturally lower your progesterone and it's going to naturally balance itself out. So we do this in phases. We work on the liver for about three weeks and we use targeted nutrition, adequate hydration, as well as addressing lifestyle factors that do influence your liver like sleep and stress and then we move into healing that gut-brain connection, again, focusing on some target foods that help to facilitate reducing inflammation in the gut. So that your gut can actually tell your brain to make the right hormones at the right time of the month. How many clients do we see that have SIBO, or leaky gut, or any number of bacterial infections, epstein barr even can have a really negative effect on the gut. So getting that healed up, even just working on the gut, like so many women, by that point, are noticing, "Oh, my gosh, I have an improvement in mood and energy and, and even my libido is improving," and all of those things are connected. So we work in phases to heal those root causes and then, once we've got the liver and the gut-brain connection working properly, then we work on building on that foundation by adding foods that really nourish your hormones. So they're specifically kind of retraining the body how to make estrogen and progesterone in adequate amounts at the right time of the month. So it's a very specific, foundational process.

Melissa Crenshaw:

I love that. That sounds amazing. So do you do any testing? How do you know when the hormones are balanced?

Andrea Jones:

So typically, I do read lab testing, and if we hit a stuck point where we're like, okay, we're doing all these foundational root causes and we're not seeing progress, then that's typically when I will recommend a comprehensive urine, saliva, and blood panel, because it captures everything. So although I will have to say in the three years that I have been working with women, I've only had to do that once. So when we work on those root causes, it usually eliminates having to pay the $300 or $400 bucks to do that thing. I find that women would rather feel better with that $300 or $400 than waste it on a lab test. So it can provide useful information. You actually asked a really good question, which was how do you know? How do you know if they're out of balance and how do you know if they're in balance? So one of the things I think is really important to understand is that this is specialized training. This wasn't taught to me in nursing school, I didn't just learn it from a book. Not that learning from books is bad. I'm just saying there's specific training that you do to actually learn this comprehensive lab testing and then how do they correlate with the body? So what does this mean about the physiology in your body? It's just years of putting that into practice to where now I know when I look at symptoms. I don't have to look at your lab tests, I can tell by looking at your symptomology exactly what's wrong with you. I know that for a lot of women that I talk to, and probably for some of your listeners and myself included 10 years ago, it's hard to move away from that concrete model of lab testing, because it's almost like we want proof and we want proof because we've been discounted. So you go to your doctor, and you talk to them about your hormones and they say, well, that's just part of being a woman, or your lab tests are fine so I don't know what's wrong with you. Go see a therapist. Therapists are great, don't get me wrong, but if it's your physiology, that's the problem. Going to a therapist is only going to help you three weeks out of the month not the fourth week when you've lost all your coping skills, right? So I think it goes back to what we were talking about earlier about learning how to trust your body again and learning how to trust yourself. If you feel that something is off, something is off and it's okay to keep looking until you find a practitioner who gets it, who knows how to help you, and has a plan to get you out of the symptoms that you're currently in.

Melissa Crenshaw:

I love that and that's exactly what what we do in homeopathy. So yeah, all of the years of training, and I'm continuously learning. Just even by watching people and their demeanor, watching how they're talking to me and some of the things that they're doing, that's why I like to meet face-to-face like this on Zoom with my clients, because I can tell a lot outside of their words. Their symptoms is how we know whether to change the plan or to keep going or to keep it the same. I don't need testing. Ever. I don't need you to go get any tests and I agree, people want a label. People want that.

Andrea Jones:

Yeah, exactly. And I do get that so I'm not discounting the feeling. It's almost like I need to feel validated because again, we've been discounted. And so understanding that it doesn't have to be either or but it's really learning to trust your body. And it's really interesting, because a lot of the women who when they graduate the program when I asked for their feedback, and what was the biggest win for you? Rarely, is it that they're totally free of their symptoms. That is part of it. It always surprises me, though. Most of the time I feel like I trust my body again and I can actually pay attention to my symptoms. And instead of going down that road of, "Oh my gosh, there's something wrong with me," or, "Oh, no, what are we going to do now? I've hit this roadblock." They feel empowered to say, "Oh, my body's telling me I need more sleep," or, "Oh, I totally forgot to eat my greens last week and that's why I'm crabby." You know, things like that. So that's a huge win in my book just to have people get to experience trusting themselves. Yeah, that's a gift. You can't buy that.

Melissa Crenshaw:

That's right. And it sounds like in your program, and in what I do, we teach people or they learn along the way how to listen to their bodies because in mine you have to fill out this long form in the beginning, and then in follow-up, we talk about each of those things. So they're having to pay attention from head to toe, what's going on in their bodies, and it's so beneficial, especially for moms, we're so busy, and we usually are not paying attention to ourselves. But these programs, like what you and I do, require it, and then it becomes second nature. Then you don't have to work at it so hard.

Andrea Jones:

Yes, exactly. I've been doing this for 10 years and I don't think about what I eat during the day anymore. I just know what my body needs. It's not me having to fill out a checklist anymore. So it's giving people the freedom and the skills even if your your doctor isn't listening to you. You can learn and you can be empowered to be an advocate for your health and make that progress.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Yes! On my logo, the top thing says Empowering families since 2000. That's what I want. I want them to have the power. I don't want them to need me. I want to teach you so well that you go on and let me know every once in a while how you're doing.

Andrea Jones:

Yes, I love that because that's actually what my naturopath said to me at my very first appointment. He said, "I want to get you to the point where you don't need me anymore," and I was almost offended. Like, you don't want to see me again? Am I not delightful? But he's like, "No, I want to get you to such a state that you know how to take care of yourself," and that was such a foreign concept to me because that's not really how our healthcare system is set up and it really challenged even some nursing practices or not even nursing practices, but beliefs that I had as a practicing nurse. Am I really empowering people or am I enabling them? I think as health practitioners, we really have to allow ourselves to be challenged on that and make sure that we are being ethical and that we are being integris and that we are showing up as a practitioner that truly wants to free people from their cage, not just keep them in the cage so that we can make money.

Melissa Crenshaw:

That's right.

Andrea Jones:

That is absolutely not what it's about.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Right. I could make tons of money if I just keep them needing me. That's not what it's about.

Andrea Jones:

You want to see them walking down the street with smiles on their faces and that's all the gratitude we need. Right?

Melissa Crenshaw:

I want to see people free and that's why my big thing is fear. I focus on freedom from fear in a lot of the things that I do. Andrea, I've enjoyed this conversation so much.

Andrea Jones:

I have too!

Melissa Crenshaw:

I've already told several people to contact you and I would love for you to share how my listeners can get in touch with you or find you.

Andrea Jones:

Yeah, first of all, thank you. And I've actually sent two people your information as well. Because I think that's the beautiful thing about not feeling like you have to be for everybody and knowing that there's so much freedom in that and knowing that if I have a mom who comes to me, that's totally not a good fit for my practice, I can say I am not your person, but I have the best connection for you. And so I love getting to refer people that way. So the best way to find me on Instagram would just be @abundantwellnesswithAndrea. Or you can email me Andrea@abundantwellnesswithandrea.com or Facebook, you can find my business Facebook page, which is Abundant Wellness with Andrea.

Melissa Crenshaw:

Yes, and I'll link all of that in the show notes. So thank you so much for just joining me today and sharing your knowledge and your wisdom. And I'm really excited.

Andrea Jones:

Thank you so much for having me. It's been a privilege.

Melissa Crenshaw:

There you have it, friends. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. If you did, please share it, rate it and comment because I would really love to hear your thoughts. Remember, all of Andrea's information is linked in the show notes and I think she's going to be a great resource to us. I would also really love to hear what conditions or topics you would like to learn more about so send me a message at Melissa@MelissaCrenshaw.com or go to my website, MelissaCrenshaw.com and contact me that way. While you're there, check out the classes that are offer, the YouTube videos that I have for you, and all of the free resources including downloadable and printable items to help you organize yourself in this healing journey. Also, if you're interested in digging a little bit deeper into homeopathy, I have my mentorship program to be released this year. And if you go to Homeopathycrashcourse.com you can enter your email address to be the first to know when registration opens. I'm limiting each group to 12 participants so that I can spend quality time with you and really mentor you in becoming the homeopath of your family. So go check it out. Also, if you're interested in being a guest on my show, send me an email at Melissa@melissacrenshaw.com. Whether you're a business owner, a mom who cares for her family with homeopathy, a dad who's had great success with homeopathy, or anything in between. If you just want to discuss homeopathy because you love it so much, I would love to have you on my show. So send me an email and I look forward to hearing from you. I would also really love to hear what kind of things you want to hear about. Be blessed, be whole, be healthy, and be love.

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