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
Healing Rosacea with Homeopathy
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Acne rosacea can feel like an unsolvable puzzle, especially when you've struggled with it for years. Alicia's story brings hope to anyone battling persistent skin conditions. After a decade of dealing with angry, red, burning skin following the birth of her third child, she finally found relief through homeopathic treatment.
What makes Alicia's journey particularly compelling is her perspective on healing. Despite being self-conscious about her appearance—avoiding photos and cameras—she maintained unwavering faith that homeopathy would eventually provide answers. Her patience paid off when she began working with Melissa just six months ago and has already experienced dramatic improvements: no more burning, itching, or peeling, and significantly reduced redness that friends and family have noticed.
During our conversation, Alicia shares her fascinating life traveling America in a converted school bus with her husband and six children. This intentional lifestyle mirrors her approach to healing—thoughtful, patient, and focused on long-term wellbeing rather than quick fixes. While conventional treatments like Accutane had temporarily suppressed her teenage acne years ago, they never addressed the root causes that resurfaced later in life during a stressful period.
Listeners will appreciate Alicia's practical wisdom about natural skin care during healing. Rather than covering her rosacea with makeup, she opted for minimal, homemade products like olive oil, jojoba oil, and tallow cream. This allowed her skin to breathe while homeopathic remedies worked from the inside out.
Whether you're dealing with acne, rosacea, or other chronic skin conditions, this episode offers valuable insights about the homeopathic healing process. As Alicia beautifully puts it, success comes when you "get that vision back and know where true healing comes from." Her story reminds us that with patience and the right approach, even long-standing skin problems can significantly improve.
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Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Speaker 2:Hey Melissa, hey Brie, I'm super excited to be here tonight with you and Alicia. Alicia is going to tell us a cool story, but first Fan mail.
Speaker 1:We should get a little like jingle for fan mail we should.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be fun right, yeah, so we have a couple today. One just really sweet compliment, so just some nice encouragement I want to read, and then a question Um, so we have a couple today. One just really sweet compliment, so just some nice encouragement I want to read, and then a question. So I'm going to. I'll read both of those for us. Um, the first one is from Greensburg, pennsylvania. This was wonderful encouragement and I appreciate how you tied in together with my wandering walk with the Lord. Thank you.
Speaker 2:So that was from one of your, our encouragement series. Oh okay, so it doesn't tell me which podcast they're commenting on, but I'm I mean, I'm sure that one's right, yeah, yeah, so that's a really great series. That series is on YouTube. I have a playlist called encouragement series. So if you go to my YouTube channel you see my playlist. You can see all of the ones that we've already done and the ones that will come in the future.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's great. Thank you from Greensburg. Okay, here is the question from Colorado. Hi, melissa, I was wondering if you have any remedies or ideas that would help or cure eye floaters that seem to have come on and worsened with stress and age.
Speaker 2:thank you for your time eye floaters are becoming so common, aren't they?
Speaker 1:wow, even younger people, though. I feel like it has been common, maybe as with age, but I have met some people recently who they're in their twenties and their thirties with floaters. Do you know?
Speaker 2:I didn't even know what I floaters were until Paul. So Paul's had them for like 20 years. My husband, who's younger than like he's in his forties and he's had them for a long time. So, um, yeah, well, so eye floaters. I would start with the banner g, protocol and um. This is on page 130 in the original banner g protocol book, which is 200 C mixed with Arnica 3 C four times per day.
Speaker 1:I mean, who is going to do that?
Speaker 2:You have to.
Speaker 1:You have to, it has to be four, you're going to do it.
Speaker 2:If you're going to do it, you better do it right. And so it tells a little bit. So what they call it in the book is vitreous hemorrhage. And then there's a little paragraph under the title vitreous hemorrhage and it's eye floaters. And then there is a second line. But I would start with the first line and do it right. Do the right potency Hamamelis 200C mixed with. So take it at the same time as Arnica 3C and take it four times a day. So that means every three hours during your 12 hour awake time.
Speaker 1:Right, okay, now I have an additional question, maybe that goes along with this. Um, if it's worse with stress, would you consider something like ignatia or a support to maybe like why are they so stressed or is there anxiety involved?
Speaker 2:absolutely, absolutely, yeah, we want to. We always want to address the mental emotional picture. Yeah, and there's always a mental emotional. So people will come to me with physical things and and they're like, yep, that's. It'm like, well, we'll see about that Cause when I start going somewhere. Yeah, there's, everybody has mental emotional needs that they can, you know, just use help with.
Speaker 2:So, um, absolutely, if it, you know, I did notice that she said worse with stress, you know, over the years. So, yep, awesome, all right, well, let's jump into this episode. And so I'm going to introduce Alicia, who is one of my clients and we did a follow up a couple of weeks ago and I was super excited and encouraged about her progress and journey with acne rosacea because, bree, we know how hard acne and acne rosacea is to help people with. So Alicia probably remembers when she told me you know how very much better I have my notes in front of me how very much better she was, I was like, well, you have to come and encourage people, right? Because that encouragement is going to, I hope, help people stick with it longer. Now, it didn't take Alicia a very long time, but I want this to encourage you if you're dealing with anything. Skin. Hang in there, Hang in there, hang in there. So, alicia, I would love for you to just to introduce yourself.
Speaker 3:Tell us about you bus and it'll be one year this next month, so I think we're still fairly new to it, but, um, it's been. It's been really a cool adventure and um, yeah, I mean my husband is really blessed to work from home, um it stuff, and so we are, we're able to to travel and it's been great.
Speaker 2:That is the coolest thing ever. Ever. I've told my husband I don't know how many times I would absolutely do that. But like I need to be in a luxury RV just because I'm not, that is my husband. I'm not. I'm not too woodsy like you know what I?
Speaker 3:I grew up camping. I love it, but for like long term, especially when you have lots of kids, I would not say we are. We're not roughing it at all. We very much. That's why we chose the, the convert school bus, because we shopped around for RVs and to find, you know, an RV perfect for our situation was either way out of budget or just it's justs. And to find, you know, an RV perfect for our situation was either way out of budget or just it's just really hard to find. You know, six bunk beds like comfortably sized, and um, we were able to do all of that um with this. And something is is I don't know simple to to maybe other people, but important to me was just even using wool for insulation instead of fiberglass and more toxic materials. We were able to choose all of that, so we definitely went all out.
Speaker 2:Did you convert it yourself? Did you do all the work, you and your husband, wow.
Speaker 3:Well, my husband did for the first several years the first like three years, and then the last, the very last push, we unexpectedly got pregnant with our sixth child, and so we, we actually it's amazing how it all worked out. I think it was God's timing for sure. But this other family they have, they have lots of kids and they've been doing the school bus thing for many years, way before we have, and they've already converted to school buses and they happen to be in Arizona. At the time when we were and just available and we messaged, my husband had a dream of like connecting with this family and he did. He messaged them and said, hey, you know, I just have this crazy idea. Would you guys be interested in helping us finish our bus? And and they did. And so, yeah, we had them do that and it just worked out so beautifully, it really did.
Speaker 1:So is this indefinite? Like, are you just going to be doing this for a while or do you have a timeline?
Speaker 3:no-transcript and still being able to expose our children to adventures and traveling. So, uh yeah, our timeline I don't know. A few, a few more years, we're just, we're, we're, we're making the best of our situation and uh, till we get fully debt free, which will be a couple more years, I think fun.
Speaker 1:I we could do a whole podcast on this, so we really could.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, that's not what we're doing today, but you might be back, alicia, even just to talk to me, sure okay, um, alicia, so we started working together in August of 24 and um, we followed up in December of 24 and at that point there was no change in acne rosacea, but I stuck with the same remedies. Do you remember that? And like, how did that make you feel? Do you remember?
Speaker 3:I was very prepped for it, honestly, because I had listened to your podcasts, especially ones about acne, so I was emotionally prepped for that. But yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 2:Love it. I mean, you know, brie, because you know why I'm asking that question. I think a lot of people would be disappointed, like well, that's not working, so we have to do something different.
Speaker 1:I think that terminology I hear a lot and we have talked about this actually several times, but that this is not working or it stopped working. Or you know they want to make changes early, or they do, and then come back and say, well, it stopped working, so we stopped. And because of what? And truly I think it's just ignorance and what that looks like. And we have the benefit of seeing lots of people when I mean, you know, before this I just saw what I was going through. So what encouragement would I have? I'm just blindly trusting, like please tell me what to do and hope it's right. But yeah, yeah, that would I know why you're asking that. So, alicia, that's awesome that you were on board and prepped for it.
Speaker 2:I knew it. Do you want to share your just your rosacea story or history to help people understand or encourage?
Speaker 3:well, growing up, I, I struggled with acne severely on my face not so much rosacea, but the acne and it was on my chest, it was on my back, um, and then in eighth grade, uh, we, I, I was just desperate. My, my mom didn't really know what to do and so, um, we tried. We went to the doctors, the pediatrician, and they recommended accutane at the time it was very new and just got done, you know, being tested and so that's what I did. I did that for about a year. Um, that was not a pleasant experience, by the way, at all. That was a very intense experience to go through at that young age, but I will say it did get rid of the acne, and I'm very specifically saying get rid of, because it didn't cure anything. So that was my journey. And then I got married and after my third baby, I had my first three kids in three years, one right after the other. And after my third baby was born in 2014, I experienced we had some kind of a lot of things just kind of happened all at once in our marriage and just in life. You know, two students who just graduated college and newly married, lots of student debt, all those things and I would say for me it was. It was a traumatic experience for me and I feel like my body just kind of, literally it broke out. It just, it, just it just was at its end and I and I had um, it just all of a sudden it was like I just had this rash on my face. It just got red. It was like my skin was angry, it it just is hot. It was itchy, flaky, very, very, very red. I mean, I would always get comments, you know, of people saying, oh, are you okay, like you look really flush or really red, or you know, or you're, is it really hot outside? Or just you know, just comments like that, cause I knew it was very obvious, um, and so I went for um, well, almost 10 years before I finally decided to to address the acne itself, um, I will say that I have been using.
Speaker 3:I was exposed to homeopathy shortly after my third baby was born, about 10 years ago. Um, I started working with a naturopath, um, for my depression. I was going through depression, um, after having my third baby, and I knew I wanted to do it. Naturally, I'd never heard of homeopathy and I just she just so happened to be a classical homeopath, and so she introduced me in homeopathy and it.
Speaker 3:At first I was not skeptical, just just not sure. I just didn't know how, how powerful it could be. I didn't I wanted at the time I was experimenting with and just learning about herbs and just natural remedies myself. My oldest son was experiencing really bad eczema and so we took him to see her too and right away she got him on some you know remedies. I was on remedies and I didn't see any differences with myself at the time. Um, for, like my hormones and menstrual cycle and things like that, I didn't see much of a difference. But for my son, uh, who was like a few years old at the time, I did see I saw homeopathy work right away and that was just a huge blessing. I'm really blessed because I know what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 3:A lot of people say, oh, it didn't work, and I understand now why. And it's been many years, like over a decade, since I've used suppressive drugs, so, and I've only used homeopathy as far as I knew how to use it, and so I feel like my body was prepped to. I was ready to start working with Melissa, like I was ready and I knew. I knew that homeopathy was the answer. It was the only thing that was going to truly uproot. I knew I could do natural creams and things to soothe my skin and help heal the skin, but truly from the inside out. I knew that homeopathy was it and so I was ready for that.
Speaker 2:Love it. Do you have any anything Brie?
Speaker 1:you want to just comment on. Well, I mean, that is really encouraging in general. Some of the things you said that we say, I think, all the time is um, the more you use remedies, you are setting yourself up for long-term health, and so that is a real thing. Where you are, your body is used to using, to responding to remedies and, honestly, to just like getting better when you're doing that. You're, I do think and Melissa is a great example, because you're so far into it that I look ahead all the time and I'm like man, I can't wait till I'm, my kids are grown and I'm'm gonna take a remedy once and it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1:I see a big change though, just in the years we've used it, like you said, alicia, so that's a really good point that you made. I am surprised too, that you saw a naturopath who was a classical homeopath. I don't know that I've ever heard that and that is not. I mean, usually they have limited homeopathy knowledge, so to see them combine, I would love to pick her brain, especially doing eczema. I want to like what did you do? What other things did you do with your son? Well, which we can always talk about that later, but if she's still practicing, I would be curious about connecting with her.
Speaker 3:She is still practicing. Um I so uh, when I first started working with her, by the way, did she freeze for you, brie?
Speaker 2:yeah, okay, you're frozen, alicia, that's okay. Oh, oh, there you go. We heard you say, by the way, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3:Uh, we, I went on google. We were in arizona. I went on google and typed in natural doctor, arizona and I got this list and I just looked at the list and I literally just said a prayer and said help me pick one. And she was the first one I picked. She was the first one I reached out to and she responded and it's just, I all believe it was all not coincidence and definitely God's hand and um, I love working with her. I still I introduced her to my mom and my mom still works with her to this day.
Speaker 3:Um, incredible um story there with my mom. Um, because she has been on steroids and antibiotics every year. She has COPD and after working with um, her name is Dr Rice. Uh, we're working with her for many years. She's finally off of um having to do all those drugs and she's using homeopathy and it's it's healing her after all these years of struggling. It's been incredible and so, yeah, I'm still in connection with her.
Speaker 3:We're actually going back to Arizona um shortly here and um, I'm going to be reconnecting with her and for other family members and other things. And um, I love, I love to, as I've learned homeopathy, I've been able to help my mom. And then my mom goes and reports back to her and she's just very like, um, impressed that you know that. She's like well, that's a really good runway, that's working really well. I'm really, you know, impressed, so I I love picking her brain too. I, that's working really well. I'm really, you know, impressed, so I love picking her brain too. I love being able to learn from her too. It's been such a huge blessing.
Speaker 2:Love it. You know I also love Bree that you pulled out the point that she's been using homeopathy for 10 years. I think 10 years, right. So maybe you know that's why she had we just started in August. You had had some homeopathic treatment in the past for that, and you've been using homeopathy for other things like acute things and stuff, so maybe that's why it was a faster progression. So for those of you that are listening or watching and you've just started using homeopathy, um, don't be discouraged, it just it yeah I mean it might take a little bit longer than you know, than what we saw.
Speaker 2:What is that? Eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, one, two. So like six months, eight, nine, I didn't even count it One, two.
Speaker 1:It's like six months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Six or seven months, so that is. You know, that is kind of fast and we don't usually see it that fast, but maybe because you've been using homeopathy. Um yeah, Okay. So I wanted to know, um, Alicia, what did it it? Um, I had a question, Bree, do you have a question? While I'm trying to, I should have written it down.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean I could. It may be off topic, but what have you been using topically on your skin this whole time and what do you use? Did you make changes in there? Do you wear makeup? What kind of soap? You know all the things people ask and are trying to navigate with skin.
Speaker 3:I'm so glad you asked that, because I was very intentional all these years to not even wear makeup. I only put very natural things I make myself at home, like an oil with olive oil, jojoba, and I just only put things like that. I make a tallow cream that I put on my face, um, very basic, that's it, and I only wear. The only makeup I wear is just a little bit of eye makeup, um, for special occasions. But I I deep down, I wanted to heal my skin first before I decided I wanted makeup. Um, I never wanted to put makeup on to try and hide it, because I just felt like that would only exasperate and maybe make it worse. I didn't want to mess around with it, um, and I just truly wanted my skin to look healthy and glowing naturally. I didn't. I don't like that feeling of covering something up. I just I just wanted it to be natural. So, yeah, simple.
Speaker 1:How did you work through some of the um, the self-conscious part of it? And maybe you weren't. I know some people naturally are just this is what I look like and it's fine. And then we, which is great. And then there are some people who really struggle with that, with looking whether it's how they look or just the fact that people will comment on it, whether it's how they look or just the fact that people will comment on it. So what would you, what encouragement would you give?
Speaker 3:maybe, or I don't know even if you're empathizing with what other people are dealing with. Well, I will be very honest and say that is something I do struggle with very, very much, and so that has not been an easy journey for me. We don't really do family photos. I don't like this is very, very much out of my comfort zone. Being on camera right now Um, my husband would definitely attest to that. I don't, I don't like people taking pictures of me or anything like that.
Speaker 3:And so it has been a struggle, but my encouragement is just to and so it has been a struggle, but my encouragement is just to is to know that there there's always, there's always hope, and I I don't I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I just always knew that homeopathy would be the answer, and I was just waiting for it when it would be the right time, the right season for me to be able to do this, and it finally was. And so I just I hung on to that for me to be able to do this, and it finally was. And so I, just I hung on to that and, um, I guess I just I just kept.
Speaker 2:I was just patient. I guess that's it. Yeah, love it. Yeah, my thank you for that. Um and um.
Speaker 2:I think that is encouraging because you know we want to. It's easy for me to sit over here and tell people encouraging because you know we want to. It's easy for me to sit over here and tell people try not to put anything, you know, on your face and and um. But you know, if we really think long-term health instead of short-term gratification I'm always talking about that Then there's a reward to that.
Speaker 2:There's a reward to the think long-term, don't think right now, because nobody walks away from an encounter with you and and thinks about oh, I mean how, you know, nobody thinks about it more than we do ourselves, right? So we're the ones that that continue to think about it, knowing nobody else is. They're not even remembering any of that, especially when you um, you just have such an amazing spirit and personality, like you do, alicia, it's just that shines through more than you know any. Look the way you look. So I remembered my question, the process that you went through just with me. Do you remember if it was like up and down or back and forth, or was it just straight, got good?
Speaker 3:Well, with the rosacea, specifically the redness and the itchiness, the skin part, that was very straightforward. It was very slow effort and, as you can see, it's still. There's still redness. I still have a way to go, but very much improvement to the point where, like my own, family and and friends were starting to comment and say, wow, you're like, you just look so good, you look so healthy and, and you know, your face is looking less red, especially for the ones who knew that I was, you know, conscious of it and working on it. They were specific to say it. But, yeah, the redness I would say was very linear. The acne itself is still, um, very much like what you say sometimes with homeopathy it's like two steps back, one step forward. Um, so that's still.
Speaker 2:That still is progressing for sure, Um yeah, thank you for that, brie, can you do you have anything else, bree, can you do you?
Speaker 1:have anything else. Well, I, I guess I would like to know too, with your hormones now, are you guys doing hormone stuff too? Okay, so, both together, um, because I I think that can also make a difference. There's always a gut element to things to skin, but I do think in women there's a big hormone element. So that's. I was curious about that.
Speaker 1:And then you even have the history of the suppression, which may take some time, but it's also been a long time and you've used a lot of remedies. So I mean six, I know for you, you were ready for that. But there are a lot of people who when I tell them this is really great improvement and it's quicker, like this, they're shocked because to them it still feels long. They're like this is six months of my life that I'm still not even all the way better either. So I actually like that we're doing this interview now where you're it's not like you're on the complete other side of this yet, but to celebrate a huge I mean a huge, um improvement, huge movement forward, I think is really good for people in the middle of it Like this is still worth celebrating and recognizing. Like keep going, you can do it.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. That's why, yeah, I was so excited and encouraged at the last follow-up when she told me that there can I share some of the stuff that you said. Is that sure? Okay, she said. She said there's up and down.
Speaker 2:There are days when redness is not as red and it used to get fiery red, used to burn and itch and does not burn or itch anymore. No longer peeling. I know that feels and looks better. Itchy and hot is gone, used to be the whole face, but no longer dry. It's smooth. That's wonderful. Acne on back, chest, neck and scalp is also much better. It used to be a bunch of red bumps, but now it's random and then um, so we're also looking. So skin in general, we're also working on um hands that are worse in the winter and that comes and goes, and so as we work on the gut and hormone health, you know we're looking for those things to get to get better also. But also remember everyone that you, with homeopathy, you heal from the top down. So you know face and things that are clear before, maybe before hands get better. But do you have anything else, bree? Do you have anything else for Alicia?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did have other questions. I think one other one Did you very often will tell people you might see improvement in other things that we were not necessarily even focusing on before you see improvement in the symptoms, especially skin. Did you see any of that like? Were there any other changes that you were surprised by or that you didn't expect before you saw the skin change?
Speaker 3:um, I'm trying to you know what they're? No, nothing, nothing that surprises me, and and I've I if I, probably, if I look at my notes, I might see something there, but nothing, nothing really surprised me. Like I said, I'm very familiar with homeopathy um, yeah, I guess, but I will say that I do have some things I'm still working on that. I have much hope for that. I'm still like I know homeopathy is going to be answered and I'm just looking forward to when those do get resolved For sure.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Thank you so much, yeah.
Speaker 2:Alicia, is there anything else, any other encouragement that you want to share with people? Because that really is the point. This is not. You know, we're not doing this to toot our horn and say look at us and come work with us because we're so wonderful, but really it is. You know. We want you to be encouraged that homeopathy does correct issues on a deep level and it can be slow. So do you have anything else you want to say to people?
Speaker 3:I don't want to put you on the spot, but just in case you do, I will say I feel like sometimes I'm a missionary for God first, but second is homeopathy. I really feel like that and I'm very passionate about it and I love to encourage other people about it. And I think the thing I like to to focus on is not so much fear of the alternative, it's hope for um to not lose your vision, to just get that vision back and know where true healing comes from. Because when you have that, that understanding and appreciation for that, then you can better grasp um what the process is. The process is and why you're doing, why you're doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Love it. That's part of I teach that often also know your why, write down your why, and so then when you get discouraged, you go back and look at your why. I love it. Yeah, Love it. All right. Thank you so much for being here and we will see you guys next time. Thanks for being here.
