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Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
I am a Registered Homeopath and Lactation Consultant who loves Jesus and believes in the power of prayer in healing and restoration. God designed our bodies to heal themselves. We interfere with the body’s abilities by introducing medications which stop the action our bodies were made to do - heal! Homeopathy comes in and stimulates the immune system to help the body remember how to heal itself. ALL people are welcomed here, no matter your beliefs! I discuss mostly homeopathy here, but also I bring an encouraging word from the Lord and touch on the topics of parenting, homeschooling, marriage, and nutrition. Welcome to my world! It’s a beautiful, healthy life!
Homeopathy At Home with Melissa
Embracing Growth: The Intersection of Homeopathy and Patience
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Unlock the secrets to personal and spiritual growth by exploring the enlightening intersection of homeopathy and patience. Discover how the art of making thoughtful decisions can be a transformative journey, offering you peace and wisdom in both your spiritual life and homeopathic practice. Together, we'll reflect on the empowering lessons from our encouragement series, uncovering how small victories and internal changes can lead to profound growth. We promise insights into utilizing divine wisdom and available resources to navigate life's complexities with confidence and serenity.
Join us as we explore the delicate balance of guiding young individuals through pivotal life decisions with patience, wisdom, and community support. Witness the inspiring link between chronic condition management and perseverance in homeopathy, showcasing how shared experiences and continuous learning foster resilience. This episode invites you to engage deeply, embrace ongoing education, and look forward to more enriching retreats. As always, we're committed to nurturing your personal journey, promising further exploration of these timeless themes.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey Melissa, hey Bree, it's great to see you. Always good to be here. It's been a little bit since we recorded, yeah, so this is fun. Yeah, tonight we are following up with our we were calling it summer encouragement series. I think we were Summer or just encouragement. Maybe we threw out calling it summer because we started in the summer, but it's not summer anymore, so this is just the encouragement series. We're working through some points that I had gone over at the retreat, which we've been talking about and planning for for next year. So if you're listening to this, I think it'll be January, february. There's still plenty of time. Yeah, um, may 2025, it was such a good time last year. I can't wait. Um, and this is some stuff we talked about. So do you want to say anything before I just go ahead?
Speaker 2:You're going to. Are you going to recap the first, just okay. Perfect. Nope, that's good, go for it, okay.
Speaker 1:So I will recap just basic outline of what we touched on the first five, but they are. You can go back and listen or watch on YouTube or however you prefer the other five points and they don't really build on each other, so you could listen in any order you want. But I want to preface with saying this is not at all to equate homeopathy with biblical standards or truth or the Lord or anything. This series to me was how God has used homeopathy, just like anything else in my life, to show me himself and show me some spiritual truth or just remind me of some of these. So for me these have been very encouraging as I'm using remedies for my family and remembering what true healing looks like. All of these points came to mind and I was just jotting them down, so hopefully they're encouraging to you guys. Number one was healing comes from the inside out and in the same way our spiritual growth is about internal heart change, not just external. Number two stimulating the body's healing takes time and the way homeopathy stimulates the body to do that doesn't always look linear, and so in the same way our spiritual lives can feel that same way where you don't maybe feel like you're making a lot of linear forward motion or growth. Number three was everyone has their unique healing journey and homeopathy and in the same way, our spiritual journeys are unique. Number four it's really important to celebrate the small victories and recognize those along the way and in the same way that we can see that in our spiritual walk and how important it is to have those, you know, stones of remembrance to remind us of how God has been faithful and that it's going to just keep going. Five was that we are investing in our future, our future physical health with homeopathy, but also investing now. Like when you think of investment, you're doing something now, you're paying now for something that will come to fruition later. And that's exactly what happens when we are disciplined in our spiritual life and Bible study, prayer, being with other believers.
Speaker 1:So number six is about patience and making wise decisions. So my thinking here was how in class, melissa, you're always reminding us to be patient with remedies. Give them time in acute situations at least 24 hours, and pick a like, be wise in your remedy choice so that you are giving it a good opportunity to work. So then you wait your 24 hours, see how you do and chronic conditions, as long that phone call you have with clients before is a lot about that, like just being prepared for I mean, this is not a quick fix and in a world where, especially in Western culture, we are used to quick things all around, I mean so when it comes to physical healing, pharmaceuticals, I mean they don't really, but we feel better for a little while quickly. I mean they don't really, but we feel better for a little while, quickly.
Speaker 1:And so, similarly, in our spiritual lives, decisions that we make in haste or decisions we make in anxiety are often not wise. And it makes me think of the times I have been the mom like my kids are sick and I'm picking a different remedy every 30 minutes Cause I'm first of all anxious and I'm just moving quickly. I don't feel like I have time and I'm jumping around to every remedy and then I go to Melissa and I'm like I've used these 12. What should I do now? And so there was just not, not, there wasn't a time that I would sit and take a second. I now have learned, like I asked God, like give me wisdom in choosing to care, whatever remedies, to care for my family, so that I can make a better choice and, spiritually speaking, taking the time to seek God's wisdom and guidance from the Lord and wise counsel leads to not only peace in our spirit but more fruitful outcomes.
Speaker 1:We have really great mentors in our marriage, in our life, who are also in ministry, so that's been really encouraging. They told us one time when we were just had a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety. Their counsel to us was you're going to have to wait either way. Wait for whatever is next, wait for this outcome. So you can either choose to wait patiently and make that decision in wisdom or you can just make a decision to get rid of your anxiety. And that has sat with me since then. Because how many decisions do we make to just not be anxious? We're not making a decision to be wise, we're just making a decision to not feel anxiety about not doing anything. But they're not well thought out all the time.
Speaker 1:So with homeopathy, we have resources to do that Well, we have protocols. Somebody's already done the work for us. You just do the protocol. Um, we have other homeopaths who are more seasoned. Melissa, in my life I literally I mean, why don't I? Now? I do, but for some time I would try to just spin my wheels and my anxiety, and not just text her and say will you tell me what to do or help me? We have books, the repertory, the Materia Medica. We even have, like Google these days Might be a little censored, but you can find something to work with. And these are things, melissa, that you do. I mean, you spend hours teaching your students how to do this, well, well, and we also, spiritually speaking, we have resources for our spiritual growth in the same way. So we just need to use them.
Speaker 1:Ask God for wisdom, seek wise counsel, be patient, don't be hasty. You may end up with the same decision, but you will have made it well and in wisdom and in peace. So, to wrap all that up, I have a few scripture references. And then, melissa, I'd love to hear any thoughts you have. I know you have to have some. James 1.5 says if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all, without finding faults, and it will be given to you. Proverbs 14, 15, the simple believe anything but the prudent give thought to their steps. And then Proverbs 12, 25, anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad. So I'm sure we can unpack that a lot, but that's what I got.
Speaker 2:Thank you for that. I love it. You know what Patience is such oh, it sounds so whatever, but it really is a virtue. I mean, it really is something that we, you cultivate. We're not born patient, no right. And then we live in a microwave society that has taught us that everything needs to be right now. Right now, right now I can get gratification, right now I can go to my phone and order whatever I want, and it can be here tomorrow, um, and so we really, as a society, have to learn how to be patient again. But also we, you know, as as people I don't think we're just naturally good at being patient. I mean, I know we're not.
Speaker 2:There's so much in the Bible about patience, so much, and not just patience. You know, and you know, like the scriptures that you quoted and other scriptures that are telling you to be patient. But also you know what I thought of is do not despise small beginnings, and Zechariah I believe it's Zechariah 4.10. So I mean, that's true in all kinds of things, but that requires patience in your life, and including in homeopathy, right.
Speaker 1:I wonder. I see it even in more of the natural realm. We even do that right, Like we think we're better. I don't like to say it, that was bad terminology but we feel better about our decisions because they're not pharmaceuticals't like to say it, that was bad terminology but we feel better about our decisions because they're not pharmaceuticals, which is not untrue.
Speaker 1:But I do think a lot of our decisions can still be. We come to them similarly or we approach it the same way, when I even, you know, I'm just observing and as I go to the store more over the past few years. On one hand, it's beautiful thing that we're seeing all these great homeopathic combinations and remedies, like they're all coming up for stuff. But I also do think there is some of that perpetuation of if we combine a bunch of stuff, we're going to see things work faster or better, or we're going to do a bunch of different things at once because we're going to speed up the process. That I mean, I even do this, so I'm not trying to give our time, but we we like slow.
Speaker 1:As much as we try we slowly fall back into. It's not gonna hurt, we can just go a little faster yeah, well, I've done it too, especially with pain.
Speaker 2:So I would say I'm probably the biggest baby on earth with when it comes to pain. I will not tolerate it, I won't. I mean, pain is like the absolute big fat. No and um. And so you know I have done that combined four or five different remedies too, because I was like, no, I cannot do this pain. But I will say I am very patient. In a cold call flu, I'll take one remedy and I'll wait.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, let me ask you this because I wonder like we can still end up at the same place with two different hearts. So, let's say, are you throwing five remedies at it Cause you're like I am desperate, which may be like I'm desperate for this pain to go away, and these are all the pain ones I can think of. Or I know there are times I've thought through pain or something and thought, okay, some vitamin does this, hypericum does this, where you might still have five, but they're on purpose, not because you're throwing a cocktail at it out of anxiety.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean, just think about my most recent experience, right, it wasn't out of anxiety that I, that I took five for probably, I think it was like five it, um, it was literally because they were on you. They were all really good for the different. I mean, it was an ankle, so it was bone tendon joint, right, you know all the things that um, and and, and I was a little bit desperate because it was 10 out of 10 pain. Um, you know, I was like this is worse than labor because there was no break, it didn't stop, you know. So, um, I, I see what you're saying. So, you know, but with cold cough, flu, I get that a lot with acute consultations where they'll say, um, you know, we're, we're taking, or I'll tell them, take HEP or Sulf and they're like that's it, yep, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's hard if they feel like they're not doing enough.
Speaker 1:I get it. Yeah, yeah, it's just so, it's. It's very, I mean, I can get really philosophical thinking. Why do we make the decisions we make?
Speaker 1:And even counseling like I remember counseling young girls in high school and or in college um, as they're navigating like dating, and of course I'm on the outside, like no break up with him, like what are you even thinking? But also my heart was for it to walk them through godly decision-making and wisdom. And here's how you can present that and here's how you can work through a decision using the word of God and what God has already said. And then what wise people in your life are saying and um, because that's what's going to stay as they move forward. So what if they break up with the boyfriend but to have no conviction behind it or no growth, or they haven't learned how to have come to that?
Speaker 1:So I see that and I feel like I have seen that transformation in myself with remedies from repetition I mean just sitting in classes for five years like becoming more and more confident in how to do that. It's second nature now to think through it in a more clear-minded way to come to a good decision, and it brings a lot of peace Like I don't have that anxiety like Like I used to sometimes with headaches. Headaches are mine, yeah, like I. I haven't probably cause I don't get. I didn't get them until recently.
Speaker 2:I have a big baby? I didn't either. I never had headaches until in my thirties ever. I remember my mom, my grandmother, and I was like what's?
Speaker 1:wrong with y'all? I don't do it.
Speaker 2:And then in my thirties I started getting headaches and yeah, I mean that's big fat, I mean it's pain, you know, but also you can't think.
Speaker 1:No, it's. I don't know how people live with these. For you, like I, have so much more compassion on people who have chronic Yep, yeah, so that's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 2:Next was when you're dealing with the chronic, you know. So, really, talking about patients, man, talk about patients. So if you look, you know, if I look back over my hormone health and gut health journey, it has been a slow back and forth. I got really good and because I had avoided gluten for so long, I went a little bit crazy and I ate all the things I had missed and it was just a bad idea. I mean, obviously, if you go back to eating the junky stuff, you're going to get back in the same situation that you were in before. Right, hopefully I didn't get that bad again. I mean, it didn't go all the way back.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I started having symptoms again. I was like, okay, rein it in. We need to have, you know, homemade or locally made sourdough with some real butter and it's going to be good and I'm not going to have trouble with some healthy choices. But you know, healing any part of your body that's a chronic condition absolutely takes patience and everybody comes into this saying, oh, yeah, yeah, I've got patience and I've had this for a long time so I can be patient. But then once they get into it not right away. Most people are patient, but some people really they think they're patient but they're really not and they let go and they quit or they change too fast.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, yeah, it's not easy, but I mean I guess that kind of does go back to some of the other points the investment pays off. Celebrate the little stuff, like all that whole process is worth it and so many things in life. I really think, like homeopathy has just done so many wonderful things, like this journey into this world has helped my perspective on life so much more and I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful that that challenge is always there. But then I see it also work and that's what I mean it keeps me going. Like I see it do crazy stuff that I mean a lot of people are expecting to never heal from and it's amazing. So I mean that can even be a whole spiritual thing, right, like these things we think we carry and we live with for years and years and years and you can walk free of those. So I mean maybe that's another point. I don't know, maybe I get there later, but that's a whole other one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um so every time I do a free 15 minute phone call, I talk about patients and um, so it's again, it's something to to cultivate. And so how do you do that? How do you if right now you would say I'm not a patient person at all, how do you become patient? What does that even look like? I mean, I had to walk into patients. I wasn't always patient.
Speaker 1:I okay, One. This probably connects to another point too. I would say before it is a practice in your life, you absolutely need a community of some type to hold you accountable to that, to remind you, because I don't believe that you can do that well as well completely on your own. And also like set up I don't know the right term like set up markers for yourself, like I think of committing to.
Speaker 1:I'm just as far as homeopathy goes, let's not even talk spiritual sitting in class over and over and over and over, like it's not that I'm just going to the class, but the terminology, the learning things, when I feel like it's you think you know enough already or I never am going to understand this. I remember feeling that way, like I just never going to feel totally confident. I would just do the thing you just commit to. I would just do the thing you just commit to continuing to put yourself in positions where you're learning, where you're hearing the things again, and then have people, if one or two, I mean I had you, you were literally the only one who was regularly in my life using homeopathy, who would just remind me all the time the same words and, like you know, feel with me you can relate to. Yeah, this is not easy, and still be patient, do it.
Speaker 2:So that's a really good point, that to be gentle with yourself, Okay. So think about if your friend or your family member, um, or somebody at church or you know, uh, um, a neighbor, were to be trying to learn something and they messed up or they made a mistake or they went backwards or you know, they just didn't. They didn't do it well while they were learning. And so if you, you think about what you would say to them. You would encourage them oh, it's okay, Keep going, you can. You know what it's, you know, whatever, whatever you, the way you encourage people, encourage yourself that way too. Don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's really good. And I, I think of you. I look at just what I know of your life. Um, you are really good at the choice. Like I'm going to choose patience, that's true. I'm going to choose joy, I'm going to choose whatever. And I, I mean, I sit here like I hope one day. I'm good at choosing, like like maybe it just comes with time and wisdom, but I it does encourage me, so thank you for that. Maybe you have other people in your life who are better at it than you, who you can you know be encouraged by that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, um, I think I just learned the hard way that not choosing or choosing the opposite was getting me nowhere.
Speaker 1:It doesn't make you go faster or better. You just can do it really impatiently or do it patiently and end up in the same place, right?
Speaker 2:You get tired of feeling the way you feel and you do something about it. Yeah, love it. Great conversation, yeah, this is so good. Patience is just high on on my encouragement list that I like to encourage people in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, you are very good at it, so it's impacted me. Um, and I know you. You do talk about that a lot in different courses that you teach. Just that reminder in life and in homeopathy. We have three or four more points that we'll cover over time. So stick around, we'll keep going. We might get a little. No, I don't think they're going to get too repetitive, we'll just keep building on those things. Thank you for letting me share these.
Speaker 2:Thank you for sharing and you guys, I hope you'll come to the next retreat. Have a great night.
