Someone recently asked me “what is the life path?” This is a beautiful question as it can be so simple or so complex. It’s also a question about unfolding or starting to consider the world differently. It’s often the first question we ask as we ponder that age old question “is this it?” There are…
What the term ‘parasite’ means to naturopaths is that the gut health is poor and the immune system is under par. What this means homeopathically is that the patient has gut problems as a symptom of a bigger issue and the whole person needs a tune up if the symptoms are ongoing. In practice this…
Many of us will experience periods of deep sadness or depression in our lives, maybe around the ending of a marriage, a death or a job loss. A Dark Night of the Soul is an altogether different experience and while it may arise from one of the events above, it actually relates to our life…
When I did my training in the UK in the early 90’s I actually didn’t realise that remedies came in anything other than a dry dose! They came in a huge range of sizes and forms: what we call pilules in Australia (little sugar balls), poppy seeds (even smaller sugar balls), tablets and powders. Pilules…
While taking remedies orally is generally the accepted and best way of using homeopathics, I thought I’d share some ideas for other ways you might consider using your remedies. This actually came about more than 25 years ago when I was just starting out with using homeopathy. I didn’t have children but I had a…
Many users of homeopathy forget about or aren’t even aware of the Tissue Salts. The basic twelve salts are remedies I use frequently in daily practice, and you’ll understand why as you read this article, but the time I find them most useful is when I get the following phone call or text: Caller: I’ve…
While 25% of the population may be at risk of copper deficiency, by far the biggest issue with copper is toxicity. I have written about copper toxicity in the past, but as time goes on and I see a wider and wider range of presentations in the clinic and understand more it becomes evident that…
We shouldn’t ask “What does a person need to be able to do in order to fit into the existing social order today?” Instead we should ask “what lives in each human being and what can be developed in him or her?” – Rudolf Steiner Over the last five to ten years the number of…
Attachment parenting is now a common way to raise children and has been shown in studies of indigenous populations to produce well-adjusted children with lower levels of depression and better self-esteem. Many of the traditional societies on which this philosophy is based share a leisurely childhood where infants are constantly held by their mothers or…
In this day and age we have so much information at our finger tips. Anything we want to know is available on the internet whenever we choose to access it. Sometimes the quality of the information or the reliability of a source can be a problem, but basically it’s all there. Everyone knows everything or…