Support through Seasons
Ahhh, August. The time of year when change is in the air. The mornings seem a bit cooler than they were a month ago, the days a little shorter as we make our way to the autumnal equinox. As most of us wrap up our summer routines, we have our minds on a shift in our daily schedule. For many, kids are going back to school, you might even be sending your young-adult daughters and sons off to college, maybe you’re squeezing your last warm vacation in before the end of the season. For me, I’m wrapping up a summer of art fairs and exhibits where I spent nearly every other weekend in a 10x10 ft. tent, selling my watercolor paintings. Summer also happens to be a bit less busy in my practice. Everyone is outside, getting lots of sunshine and plenty of movement, stress-levels run a bit lower, and all that vitamin D has our spirits a bit brighter. That’s summer — abundant, buzzing, active, long days, short nights, full and present. While on the other hand, autumn asks us to wind down a bit, to start turning our gaze inward. As the seasons shift, many of us notice a change in our state of being…
This is what makes the space in between seasons interesting… For many, anticipating change can be triggering because we’re left with a looming feeling. What will happen when the kids go back to school? What is it going to be like for me spending more time inside as the days grow colder? What will I do with myself this winter? Or maybe you’re happiest when you’re busy and the idea of things becoming less busy feels a bit daunting.
Whichever way you’re feeling, looming change can leave us feeling uneasy. For many of us — myself included — not knowing what’s coming down the pike can stir up anxiety. A difficult part of being human, we don’t get to know the outcomes. Sometimes the concept of change can make us feel paralyzed or frozen, or it can stir up difficult emotions that become hard to move through. Many of us notice a change in our physical health as well. Acute illnesses crop up, or maybe an old symptom emerges…
This is when constitutional homeopathy can be so incredibly helpful in supporting us through transition periods. In fact, I find that for myself and my clients, transition periods are often when we need the most support. The beautiful thing is, because the homeopathic process addresses these mental-emotional or physical responses to change at their root and supports us as we move through them naturally, the next time we encounter a trigger like change, it feels a bit easier to move through it again. This is what happens when we strengthen our vitality from the inside out.
And if I could provide some comfort… You may not have all the information about the exact situation you find yourself in tomorrow, or a few weeks or a few months down the road, but what you do know is that each season comes and goes. You know that the sun will rise tomorrow. You know that the leaves will fall, and ground will freeze, just as you know the trees will birth new buds in the spring.
Just as water in a river tumbles over stones, you will transition past any obstacles you may encounter. As you always have.
Does homeopathy cure the discomfort of not knowing, no. But it does support us in our humanness. It offers new facets of perspective, a different way to look at change, and helps us build our resilience from the inside out.
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Homeopathy is a whole-person approach to health. It doesn’t diagnose, it doesn’t treat one symptom at a time, a remedy for this, a remedy for that. It is holistic, operating under the belief that you are more than the sum of your parts. In homeopathy, we take your physical sensations and symptoms, mental and emotional experience, and energetic state to address what is happening on the deepest level of your being. Homeopathic remedies stimulate your body’s natural ability to heal itself so that you feel better on every level.
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