Treat the person, not the illness
In homeopathy we treat the person, not the illness.
YOU matter, not the separate parts of you. You are so much more than the sum of all the parts that “need fixing”. You’re not a robot or a machine. You’re a complex living being made out of intricate systems that always strive to keep you in homeostasis, in balance.
Yet, we’re not bullet-proof. This delicate balance can be disturbed, and the imbalance will create symptoms. It’s a clever alerting system when something is not right, calling us to take action.
When you visit a homeopath, we’ll ask you many questions. We want to understand you. Your past, your family history, any big events that left an impact, your medical history, your likes and dislikes, how you react to your environment and much more.
This can be a validating experience for many who have not been heard or seen by their health practitioner previously. Especially women’s pain and experiences can easily be dismissed in a medical setting. This is often highly frustrating because women are naturally intuitive. We can feel when something isn’t right in the body. And often we get a sense of what the trigger(s) and contributing factors to our illness are.
Your feelings, insights and experiences are welcomed because this information is valuable to us. We treat you as a whole person, offering highly individualised treatment. And it works beautifully.
There is no magic bullet
The wellness space these days is overwhelming and confusing, as every influencer claims to know the real cause of our health problems. But the information we’re fed in social media is often overly simplistic, contradictory, and even ill-informed.
There is an ongoing trend of black-and-white thinking, wanting to reduce our complex biology into one simple problem and solution. It feels tempting to buy into these quick fixes because inherently we don’t want to take the more challenging path of being patient with ourselves, applying consistent effort and making changes to heal.
I don’t blame anyone for wanting to try different healing methods as that’s how you learn what works for you and what doesn’t.
What I do stand against is the “quick fix” mentality. In chronic illness, there are no short cuts. It’s unlikely you will heal overnight by taking a magic pill because your illness also didn’t develop suddenly. It was a long process. And it takes time to heal. If you get a paper cut, it’ll take a few days to heal. If you break a leg, it’ll take weeks or even months to heal. And chronic illness healing will also take months. But the good news is that the healing doesn’t have to take as long as it took for the illness to develop!
I’m always amazed how quickly the body (and the mind) will shift, change, regenerate and heal when given the opportunity to do so.
Individualised healthcare is the future
Homeopaths often get asked, “What’s the remedy for headache / painful periods / arthritis etc.?” And while we can give general remedy suggestions, the real answer is that there are hundreds of remedies for those conditions!
The remedy is chosen based on YOU, who you are, how you’re expressing the illness, what you’ve been through, what the trigger was. There are so many things to take into consideration.
This is why homeopathy heals deeply and more permanently than modern medicine. Because our medicine goes deep into your core, where the body and mind can heal the root cause. Correcting the imbalance that caused the illness in the first place.
Individualised medicine is the future, in my opinion. I feel this is also reflected in the way the world is changing. We’re seeing more and more diversity, expression of individuality and acceptance of differences in each other (the old guard may be fighting this right now, but it’s futile). We’re moving towards a multi-faceted society where we recognise that each person requires a different approach in healthcare, medicine, diet, supplements and lifestyle habits.
Homeopathy is the ultimate form of individualised medicine. We ask more questions than any practitioner out there, and we connect things and events in ways that most doctors would never think of doing. We’re trained to dig deeper to understand the cause of the dis-ease in you and how to help you.
