The Language of Your Body
Hello, dear friends…
It’s been a little while.
I had visions of sending out a regular newsletter and updating this blog I call my “Notes” when I started practicing homeopathy in 2020. Instead, I did something very human — I started, and then I stopped, then re-started, and then I stopped again. Life happened. It has been some time since I wrote something about this beautiful healing art and the way I’ve felt it gently moves and deepens the incredible and dynamic experience of being human.
Some of you may already know that in addition to being a homeopathic practitioner, I am also an artist. I had the unique experience of getting both my homeopathic practice and my art business up and running at the exact same time. Yes, I decided that the same year I was starting my practice, that I would start selling my art. It’s been an experience that has expanded and stretched me in ways I could never have anticipated and I have learned so much about myself in the process.
Both journeys have taught me different things — while life as an artist has been dynamic, fast-growing, and expansive, my journey as a homeopath has been steady, consistent, and deep.
I have found myself this week, in the anticipation of the full moon and lunar eclipse, drawn to getting this little newsletter restarted again.
In particular, I’ve been reflecting much on my journey into homeopathy that began nearly 14 years ago…
I came to this healing art in a space of desperation.
I was 22. Living with weakened immunity, a recent diagnosis of stage III Endometriosis, I had chronic fatigue, and a mystery nerve pain that made it difficult to do basic things like go to class or work a part-time job. Although I was disheartened and frustrated, I couldn’t shake this underlying feeling that regardless of diagnosis (and lack thereof) that it was not the natural state of my body to feel this way and I absolutely refused to believe that this was it for me.
I had this internal sense that there was something else going on, something deeper. As if my body was trying to get a message to me but I didn’t know how to decode it.
When I started seeing a homeopath in 2012, I had no idea what it was or what to expect from it. At best, I was hopeful it would cure my symptoms so I could have some semblance of a normal twenty-something existence.
What I ended up experiencing was something much deeper. Yes, I noticed over time that my nerve pain flareups came less and less, slowly my endometriosis symptoms got a little better, I stopped getting so sick all the time, and when I did get sick, my immune system seemed to be much more vital.
But there was something else going on whenever I took these tiny pellets or administered these little drops under my tongue that captivated me. I would take my remedy and then I would notice these little nuances in my perspective. As if my way of thinking was shifting in the gentlest ways and my awareness of myself was slowly unfolding before me.
I had also become more honest with myself. As if I could no longer push aside or ignore my true feelings. And although some of these feelings were uncomfortable — like grief or anger or loss of control — I found I felt so much better now that I was actually fully feeling them.
It was as if a great relief washed over me. I started to make connections between my thought patterns, my emotional experience and my bodily sensations and symptoms.
Most importantly, I realized that this connection has always been there. That the way I was feeling wasn’t actually a mystery at all. My body speaks a language that my mind had learned to override but my spirit knew it all along.
One of the most common things I hear from patients when we meet for their first appointment is “I feel like my body is trying to tell me something, but I don’t know what it is.”
Sometimes it takes some time to understand this language, but the one thing I have found and that I want you to know is that deep down, your spirit knows. Your intuition knows. I believe it is possible for all of us to follow the thread between our spiritual and mental-emotional experience to the experience of our physical bodies. Homeopathy has helped me do that, and it has helped my patients too.
I feel so honored to have found and studied this healing art and to witness so many beautiful souls experience the depth of their own healing. It truly is a gift to behold.
If you’re interested in embarking on this journey yourself, I’d like to invite you to book a free discovery call with me!