Homeopathy At Home with Melissa

WHY would you want to learn Homeopathy?

August 23, 2021 Melissa Crenshaw Season 2 Episode 2
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
WHY would you want to learn Homeopathy?
Show Notes Transcript

Learning homeopathy is so much deeper than just learning the medicines and what to do for which condition. Be encouraged in this episode to go deeper in your knowledge. 

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Bri Hurlburt, Melissa Crenshaw

 

Bri Hurlburt  00:00

Hey everybody, welcome to homeopathy at home with Melissa. Today's episode is about why you would want to learn homeopathy. We're going to cover a lot of different things, ranging from a biblical perspective in parenting, and how that relates to why you'd want to learn homeopathy and then lots of other practical things. How are you doing today, Melissa? 

 

Melissa Crenshaw  00:56

Awesome! It's good to see you. I really feel like the Lord laid it on my heart to talk about why you would want to learn homeopathy. I feel that I post on social media about my classes, and people who maybe don't know what homeopathy is or think they know what it is wonder why they'd need to learn about using vitamins or supplements. Homeopathy is so much deeper than just learning a system of medicine so that you can treat a cold or cough; it's way deeper than that. What I didn't realize when I got into homeopathy is what a better mom it was making me because I had to pay so much closer attention. Not that I didn't pay attention before, because I've always been a really detailed mom who always watched and paid attention to everything and researched things, but it just took that deeper for me. It's this relationship with my family that I feel is deeper because I'm paying this very close attention to their health and their behavior. And now they come to me with everything and think I'm a doctor. They literally think I know everything medical! Haha.

 

Bri Hurlburt  02:39

Well, we're really jumping right in! I feel like that's a really big point to unpack. Every mom pays attention. We're all looking at the details, trying to figure out what's wrong or what to do when we're worried about something or not sure how to handle a situation. I think I would agree with you that starting down this rabbit hole of natural living and then into homeopathy has made me a much better mom. Even as a Christian, I feel like the biggest thing I've learned to walk in is learning to trust the Holy Spirit's leading and my intuition as a mom. Maybe that's partly what you mean, and we've talked about that a billion times. Practicing homeopathy has made me lean into that and take responsibility for my family instead of just not knowing what to do, panicking, or out of fear, running to somebody who can give me something to do, whether or not I trust what they have to say or feel good about it. At least they would tell me something to do!

 

Melissa Crenshaw  03:50

Yes, so good. That's mistake number one - to feel like you have to do something and run to somebody to give you something to do. I want to back up, though. I love your point of taking responsibility. Homeopathy makes you take more responsibility. "Make" might be a strong word because most of us want to! God didn't give us these children for somebody else to care for and raise. He gave you your children, he gave me my children, to fully care for and raise. I always say I never, ever want to condemn anybody who's doing something different, but for me and my family, it has worked well that we homeschool. We are in control of our own health care. We don't pay into a system that we don't use. We don't go to other professionals unless we have to, but I have spent years researching and educating myself so that I can be confident. It's not about control, it's about fully taking responsibility for the care of my family.

 

Bri Hurlburt  05:17

Well, I think that can even translate into sometimes using allopathic medicine. I even think of my two different experiences in my births at the hospital. I had home birth, but then the two in the hospitals and how different they were. A lot of the same things happened during my third birth as my first, but I was fully responsible for every step that we took with my third. With my first, I just let them make all the decisions and tell me everything to do, and I left feeling very bad about that. I wouldn't say traumatized, but I didn't feel good. I didn't feel confident. I worried a lot about, "should I have said something? Should I have not done that?" I think a lot of moms live in that, too. "Should I have done this?" Or, "Was that the right thing?" So even if your child gets sick, and you decide, pray through it, and feel confident that now is the time to go bring them in or go get another opinion, at least you know that you are responsible for that decision rather than fear or the anxiety of needing to do something.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  06:32

Relying fully on somebody else to tell you what to do and how to care for your family takes away your intuition. It takes away the need to listen to Holy Spirit. It takes away that ability because it's something that you cultivate. Intuition doesn't just come to you when you get pregnant or when you have a baby, it's something you cultivate. When you fully rely on and give all of that responsibility to a professional or somebody else, then you quiet that. Man, I see it so often. I saw it all the time in the hospital, and I was constantly encouraging moms listen to their instincts. I told them, "You know this baby better than I do. You know, this baby better than your doctor or your nurse does. Yes, we have special things that we know about medical stuff, but if you think there's something wrong, listen to that."

 

Bri Hurlburt  07:35

Right! Maybe that's a good baby step. We haven't done a baby step a little while. The more you make those intuitive decisions, the more you trust them and the more easily you are able to make them in the future. But you have to start somewhere, so maybe this week, follow one gut instinct that you have from God. Make your first decision and take that baby step!

 

Melissa Crenshaw  08:01

You know, the problem, I think, is that people are so afraid to fail. A lot of people are afraid to fail, but then when you're talking about your children, you feel like you cannot fail. These are human beings. That fear is a lie, though. That's a straight lie from the devil. You're gonna fail, you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna wish you didn't do certain things - it's inevitable. Walking as a believer in Christ, we're not promised ease. We're not promised flower fields of daisies and sunshine all the time, but in that, we have peace when trouble comes in. When hard times come, we have the peace that surpasses all understanding because of him. You're going to make mistakes, but you can have peace through that and learn from it and keep going and get better. You're going to get better and better.

 

Bri Hurlburt  09:01

Maybe that's a little bit of pride in us, too. Pride in the sense that we believe our decisions will lead to a particular outcome. If I make all the right decisions, my kid will be healthy and happy and never fail and never mess up. If I mess up, then my kid's going to have all these problems. We have the trust in the sovereignty of God! If he's sovereign, my decisions are to be obedient and leave the outcome to him. It's very humbling to say, "I'm gonna do what God has asked me to do, and the outcome may go in whatever direction."

 

Melissa Crenshaw  09:48

Oh, that's so good. You just really spoke to who I used to be. When I had Chandler, I had purposed in my heart that I was going to do everything perfectly. This child was not going to suffer. This child was not going to do all the terrible things that I did. God was like, "Oh, daughter, hold on." I had to walk through this whole big, hard thing to learn to give my children to him and to surrender all of that story and plan I had for them. Imagine if he allowed me to do everything perfectly and them turn out to be amazing, perfect children and people. Who's getting the glory in that?

 

Bri Hurlburt  10:40

Yes, I was just talking about that. We were talking about the story of Gideon, and how all those armies were going to go fight. God had them trim it down to 300 men. He was like, "If all of those men went to battle and won, they'd think it's because of them. I want to be the only one who gets the glory." 

 

Melissa Crenshaw  11:00

So good!

 

Bri Hurlburt  11:03

We're getting deep here! You're getting a little Bible lesson today. Haha.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  11:09

Yes! What I really want is for people to understand how much more learning homeopathy is than just giving a remedy when you're sick. What else is there?

 

Bri Hurlburt  11:33

You mentioned earlier about clarifying what homeopathy is. For people who have listened, they're going to know. For new listeners, though, can you give a short explanation of what homeopathy is?

 

Melissa Crenshaw  11:49

Yeah. Homeopathy is not vitamins, herbs, supplements, essential oils. It is a system of medicine made from the things that God gave us in the beginning to use for our health and enjoyment in life. It takes the things that God made and turns them into a medicine. Synthetic medicines that are made in a lab are made with chemicals and harmful things. Homeopathy is not harmful. There are no side effects when using homeopathy. There's no overdose.

 

Bri Hurlburt  12:32

There's no suppression.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  12:35

Right?! Which is huge. When I say people who think that they know what homeopathy is, a lot of people still think that homeopathy is vitamins, herbs, supplements, essential oils. They think if they're using all these natural things and living a natural lifestyle that they're practicing homeopathy. That's not what it is.

 

Bri Hurlburt  13:01

I thought that. People would mention homeopathy and I was sure I knew what it was and that I "did" it. 

 

Melissa Crenshaw  13:12

I never even heard the word when I was introduced to it. Learning homeopathy pushes us to be educated. There's this whole education that comes along with it which empowers you as a parent to use your brain more and keep growing. I think sometimes moms can get bogged down and think, "I'm only a mom. I'm only a mom, and that's all I can do right now." You might feel that that's all you can do right now, but I can't tell you how many young mamas I have in my classes who are holding crying babies, who are breastfeeding babies in class, who are running back and forth to crying babies or telling children to eat or whatever, or cooking dinner while they're in class. Using your mind and continuing to educate yourself is so empowering. It's going to help you, your family, your children, your grandchildren for years and years to come. It's a blessing for generations. 

 

Bri Hurlburt  14:41

I am one of those moms who always has that stuff going on. That is really good, though, because you can lose any kind of individual development sometimes in just doing the tasks of motherhood. In a way I feel like God has used the role now to further develop and grow me, like you had said, in ways that I'll carry beyond motherhood. In the circle of people that I'm around, my family, my extended family, not just my husband and my kids. It has been really refreshing and really empowering.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  15:18

Yes! You might know the scripture reference where He told us to go into the world and heal. It's through him! But if you want to be the, the healer in your home, this is the way - by using these things that God has given us. In our home, prayer is number one. When, as moms, we take that responsibility to provide this lifestyle to our kids, then it teaches them how to pay attention to their own bodies. Even if you don't homeschool, it's almost like your home curriculum. You're asking questions, you're learning observation, you're teaching them observation. If we don't pay attention to our bodies, how can how wrong can things get and how far can that go?

 

Bri Hurlburt  16:45

That's a big thing to unpack! That can be physical, but it also is mental and spiritual, knowing and being able to recognize when things aren't working the right way. I even think introducing a lot of other allopathic medicine can do significant damage, especially antibiotics and long-term medication. Probably almost every person in my life is living on some kind of medication for anxiety, ADHD, high blood pressure, etc. I've sat in on consults with you where we have to first try to get off of the medication to even identify what are side effects and what's actually happening in your body. Then, mental things can come from that, too, that are really hard to identify. Just listening to you say that is encouraging to me. I'm raising my boys to know and understand how a healthy body and mind functions and feels so that they can identify when it's not.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  18:00

I never ever want to make it sound like my parents were awful because they were amazing parents and they were doing what they knew to do, but I was raised to go to the doctor or call the doctor for everything. Everything! Therefore, I was fully reliant on somebody else and didn't even know what was happening in my body. In my mind, that piece was not my business. That was the business of my doctor, and if I had a problem, I went to him.

 

Bri Hurlburt  18:34

That's a great way to put it! It does feel like your own body's not your business like you thought it was. Think about how young this stuff starts now. like Kids start ADHD medication at seven or eight years old. During puberty, if a young girl has a lot of heavy cramping or is in pain from her periods, she's immediately recommended birth control to "regulate" that for years. I have friends now who are in their 30s being like, "I don't even know what would happen if I stopped taking this. I've literally been taking birth control for 15 years." They just keep taking it without reevaluating. It's just so funny how we're so easily like, "Yeah, my body's not my business." 

 

Melissa Crenshaw  19:26

Yeah, that's good. Let's talk about what we do, Bri, to educate families. If you have been encouraged right here today and we've lit a fire, come and join one of our classes to get started. These classes are easy and fun. The first one is Gateway to Homeopathy I. It's a curriculum by Joette Calabrese that Bri and I teach together. We come together weekly for five weeks, and you get the basics. You start learning about all kinds of things like fevers, why fevers are good, observation skills, how to use the remedies, the rules around remedies, protocols, you get specifics on cold/cough/flu, etc.

 

Bri Hurlburt  20:36

It's very simplified and not overwhelming like Google can be. We cover the vocabulary and terms used in homeopathy like potency, dilution, succussion, protocols. It just gives so clearly some action steps for you to start and build confidence.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  21:07

I love that. Confidence is exactly what it starts to provide. Gateway I helps create some confidence, and then Gateway to Homeopathy II builds on that and takes you a little bit further, giving you more confidence. Then I'll have my Homeopathy Crash Course that can follow that. I'll also have Crash Course Plus, and I'll have a mentorship program.

 

Bri Hurlburt  21:38

There are a lot of people who are waiting for that and we're all excited!

 

Melissa Crenshaw  21:47

It's coming very soon! To find classes and how you can start learning homeopathy, go to melissacrenshaw.com under the "Learn tab" and look at Gateway I. That's where you should start. You can read all of the information there and then click the link to register and buy the curriculum. You'll get a welcome email and a weekly follow-up email from Bri that's very detailed and informative. The evaluations that we get at the end of each class are so encouraging and bless my heart. These women are highly encouraged in class.

 

Bri Hurlburt  22:50

We also have great discussion! I honestly think a lot of the richness does come from the discussions that we have. We share and talk about practical examples. With you being a homeopath and practicing yourself, it is also very helpful because you have a vast wealth of knowledge. That is one of the huge perks of being in your classes! It was for me and I know for a lot of other people.

 

Melissa Crenshaw  23:41

One thing that I meant to start with, is to read a review for this podcast from iTunes. This is from "unconformed mama." I can't see the whole title, but obviously she's happy. It says, "Our family has gotten such help from Melissa in a short amount of time. She is so knowledgeable!. Do yourself a favor - use the free resources, but then pay for her amazing classes."

 

Bri Hurlburt  24:28

Yeah, she's right!

 

Melissa Crenshaw  24:29

I don't even plan that. I just literally pulled this up on my phone and read the first one that was there. I love it. Thanks, Bri, for being here with me. I'll see you next time!

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