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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:00Introduction: The Body Can Repair Itself, Given the Correct Stimulus 03:09 Diving Right In and Going to Classical Homeopathy School 04:02 The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® 05:26 Going into Practice 07:22 Taking Academics into Practice 08:38 A Tincture of Time 11:47 Success Story: Severe Abdominal Pain 16:30 Success Story: Torn Meniscus Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for Good 19:00 Success Story: Bee Stings and Hives 22:04 A Homeopath is a Detective 22:27 Closing Advice A Materia Medica: Practical Homeopathy® for Busy Families Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum Joette’s Learning Center The Antibiotic Alternative: Balance Your Bugs Without the Drugs Skin, the Ugly Truth: Safe, Effective Treatment of Skin Ailments, Chronic or Acute, with Homeopathy Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends Joette’s Mighty Members Joette Calabrese on YouTube Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 128. Joette: Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have re-taken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®. So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all. This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, PRACTICAL Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION: THE BODY CAN REPAIR ITSELF, GIVEN THE CORRECT STIMULUS Kate: (01:00) Hi! I am Kate, and welcome back to the podcast. I’m so glad that you’re here joining us today to learn more about homeopathy. I can’t wait for you to meet our special guest today. Actually, for those of you who have listened to some of Joette’s podcasts, you may have already heard our next guest on Podcast 60, but she is going to share so much information. Really, if you are at a desk or somewhere where you can take notes, you want to do that. And if not, you can always catch up later with the podcast on JoetteCalabrese.com where the transcript is also available. So, don’t worry if you’re driving; you can take notes later or read the transcript. So, with that, I want to get started … dive right in. Lisa, welcome to the podcast. Lisa: Thanks, Kate. Lovely to be here once again. Kate: Yes. I can’t wait for you to tell us what’s been going on since the last time that we talked. So, tell us a little bit again for those students who may not have heard Podcast 60, who you are, and a little bit about your story. Lisa: Love to. My name is Lisa Heinrichs. I am a Practical Homeopath®. I am a wife; I am a mother; and I solely use homeopathy for my family. I am located in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada. And so, my journey began actually with Joette when I was reading in a Weston A. Price magazine years ago. And she had said, “We need to be the healers in our family. We need to be able to take care of them.” And that resonated with me very deeply because I had always been interested in health and wellness. I did not have a family at the time, which was … I do have an advantage over some people because I was able to start fresh with my kids and know that I didn’t want to raise them using medications … unnecessarily, of course. Because there’s a time and a place. I always say that. Okay? So, I listened to Joette. I got all of her recordings and her little books and just dove right in. Got myself a Top 100 homeopathic kit and just was practicing on anybody who would let me. DIVING RIGHT IN AND GOING TO CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY SCHOOL Lisa: (03:09) So, fast forward a couple of years, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. Loved it. And so I started to research schools. I wanted to go to a Canadian school. I wanted to go to a reputable school, obviously, and found one in Ontario that I went to. So, I went to this school. It was the only option. Joette did not have her school then. And most of the time I was simply just doing my best to get through it, as we call it. And some of us have mentioned in The Academy, classical school is kind of like busy work. It’s like, why are we doing this? But we have to do it, and I’m sure we’ll get to the meat of it soon. So, I just plowed through, and I did actually very well because I like school. I like learning. But it was also very slow going, and it was lonely. I had a tutor, sort of, that I can call on if I needed to, but I was essentially by myself. THE ACADEMY OF PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY® Lisa: (04:02) So, when The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® came out, I put a pause on my classical school, and I went immediately into The Academy to the pioneer year, I think. Hey, is that we’re calling it? The “pioneer year”? Kate: I think so, yes. Lisa: So, I went into APH. And we were essentially forced — in a very good way — to be in study groups with other students so we could study together and work together, which is great. And so, a lot of these ladies that I met in the first year, I followed into Mastery™ and then, now, into Mastermind. And these people are my friends and it’s just … I cannot tell you how important it is to stay linked together. And I’m so grateful for Joette and the team who came up with “You need to have study buddies,” right? What a great concept! Kate: Yes. Study buddies! Lisa: No, as I was doing — I just got to say this funny thing — because as I was doing my passport renewal, it was like, “Oh, you have to give a couple of references who you’ve known at least two years.” And I’m like, “Oh, these people could be my references!” Kate: Awwww. Lisa: So, I cannot imagine not having these people in my life because I think no matter how much you think you know, you could always learn more. And these women are in it, right? And are sharing, and it’s … I love it. GOING INTO PRACTICE Kate: (05:26) What is going on in your life now, Lisa? What does it look like? How are you applying all this knowledge that you gained in school? Lisa: Well, as soon as I graduated from The Academy, I opened up a practice. And so before, when I was in classical school, you weren’t allowed to see people. You were not allowed to treat people … nothing. But at the same time, I was taking all these courses from Joette. So, I would secretly be helping people and be learning as I went with taking classical at the same time. So, when I was ready to go into practice, I already had a network of people who knew me, who knew about me, and so it was quite easy to start up. So, I see clients Monday to Friday. Also, I’m very active on my social media, so I take a page out of Joette’s book when she just shares the information. She freely gives it away. So, every other day I am sharing a reel. I’m sharing tips. I do a free blog to all my subscribers every other week. And so, I really stay active. I really try and stay on top of everything. And I really am so passionate about promoting homeopathy, and how you can use it, and how you can exchange it for your OTCs (your over-the-counters). Right? That’s kind of my focus right now, which I love. It’s like my stress relief. Go check me out. Kate: Well, a little tidbit that people probably don’t know about you is that you have a passion for acting, and you’ve done some acting. And so, really, you’re very animated and creative in the social media things that you share. So, I know we enjoy them. Lisa: Right. Yes. That was my first love … was theater. So, yeah, I get to be on the stage writing my own scripts. It’s lovely. Okay. And using it for good! So, yes, that’s what I am doing right now. I’m in practice and balance between home life and work life. TAKING ACADEMICS INTO PRACTICE Kate: (07:22) What are you seeing from what you learned … now, taking that to practice? I know we were talking a little earlier about some things that you’re noticing that Joette taught, and now, you’re seeing it. So, what are those things? Lisa: Because I have been with Joette for so long — I would say, like, gosh … 13, 14 years now … something like that — everything that she has said, now, I see in practice with everybody. Things people say; the things people do. It’s like, “Oh, oh, okay, this is just … I’ve “arrived” because … So, lemme just say, lemme just really stress this because it’s so important to be … you know, we’re all starting out. We’re all learning. But never stop taking classes, taking courses, stay with the people who have taught you. Read! Read, read, read, read, read. Because you need that confidence moving forward because it’s so easy to get knocked off balance. I would not be the confident prescriber I am if I didn’t have Mastery™, if I didn’t have Mastermind. Right? And learning from my colleagues now is so important. Because when people say to me — and what Joette had always said — people say to me, “I don’t see change.” A TINCTURE OF TIME Lisa: (08:38) “I don’t see change. Really, Lisa. I don’t really see anything.” It’s water off the duck’s back. “Okay, well, let’s just look.” And 99% of the time, there is change, but it’s so subtle. It’s so gentle; they don’t even notice it. And human suffering, like Joette says, we forget it. We forget our sufferings as we get better, which is a beautiful thing. But the homeopath has to be completely in control because they took good notes, took a good case, used the correct remedies because of what we’ve learned. And generally, we see lovely changes just giving it time. Lemme also say this too, about the time thing … because I will say at the beginning of every case (if it’s a fungal case or if it’s a skin case) I will say, “Give me a year.” Now, it won’t take a year to see change, but I need a year so that it takes the pressure off of the client; it takes the pressure off of me; and it takes the pressure off of homeopathy. We have to give it time. What is it? A tincture of time. Kate: Yes, that’s what Joette says. Lisa: Yes. And I was actually learning about that phrase, too. It’s an old English phrase. (I think so. Somebody’s going to correct me, I think probably. But that’s okay. So, that means they’re listening.) One of the biggest things that I will always remember in my mind is when I was working with a fellow who had toenail fungus. I always make sure to get my clients to take pictures. Okay? You need pictures for skin cases, fungal cases, warts. Anything that you can see, take a picture of so we can measure change. Okay? It might be subtle, but it’s there. So, I always say, “Take a picture. Show me these pictures.” And they have it in their files. He messaged me at two months when we had our follow-up. “I don’t see any changes.” I’m like, “Okay, well, it does take time. It does take time.” Now, this is a guy who had been on medications for 20-odd years … trying to deal with this. TWENTY years. He gave conventional medication 20 years. Now it’s been two months with me. Two months! And I was a student then, too, right? Everything was very cost-efficient. And yet he said, “Okay, I’ll give it another two months.” Okay. Gave it another two months, messaged me back before our next follow-up and said, “I don’t see change. I’m going to cancel our appointment.” And I said, “Okay, I’m sorry that it did not meet your expectations. Would you mind just sending me one picture of your foot now?” I use this as an example all the time, Kate, because there was drastic change. Drastic. Kate: Really? Lisa: “Okay,” I said. “I understand, and I’m not trying to get you back, but do you see that there’s a change?” “Yes.” And yet, not enough — not fast enough. He left. He stopped. Kate: I wonder how much change there was in that 20 years. You know? Lisa: Right? They were bad. Anyway, so that’s the kind of things. It’s just like for me, it’s like … and like Joette said — here’s another thing — “You are going to lose people. You’re going to lose people, and you just got to move on. It’s just how it is.” Right? Thick skin … rhino skin, right? That’s what you sort of have to have doing this, right? Yeah. SUCCESS STORY: SEVERE ABDOMINAL PAINS Kate: (11:47) So, share some more with us, Lisa. I’m sure you have a lot of stories. Can you share a few more with us? Lisa: Oh, yes. I would love to. Okay. The first story I want to share with you is about a client, and we’ll call him Bill. Now, I was actually supposed to see Bill’s son first, but his situation was so intense that he asked if I could see him first. Now, with Bill, he had been suffering with extreme abdominal pain to the point where he had to take time off of work, and he had a very important job. Not only was it an important job, but he’s also providing for his family. So, it’s a big deal if he can’t go to work. His pain was at a 10 out of 10 every single night, and he had been to every specialist and tried everything. He had been through the wringer to try to bring himself — get himself — some relief. The last specialist he told me about, he said that this specialist … when they were trying, these doctors, they’re trying to help him and going through every single test. And the last test was about … he told him that we want to do a, oh, gosh, it was an MRI on his stomach, and we want to see if there’s sufficient blood flow to the abdominal area. I’m like, “It sounds a little desperate like they’re grasping at some straws there.” And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, he totally is, right? But at least they’re trying. I got to give them that, right?” So, he comes to me, and so you can imagine there’s a lot of pressure on me. Right? It was Thursday. This is a Thursday I talked with him, okay? And I had his schedule, and I knew exactly what he needed to do. But again, this is a lot of pressure because he’s in excruciating pain; this is his first time using homeopathy; and it’s a Thursday; and he needs it immediately because he is in so much pain. So, he’s paying for drop-ship like the airplane — which is very expensive from the pharmacy — because he can’t have pellets. He has to have it in liquid, too, right, because he has such an extreme sensitivity to dairy. So, I called the pharmacy. I make sure — like, if anybody knows me, they know I’m thorough. After the case, I order these right away because — and thank God — I had been studying for so long, it didn’t take me long to figure out this case and what he needed. I immediately wrote it up, immediately made the order, called the pharmacy: “Will it get delivered tomorrow?” Because after tomorrow, we’ve got the weekend, and he’s just, like, he’s in so much pain. This is insane, right? “Yes, it will be delivered tomorrow, overnight, drop-shipped.” Awesome. And so, then he gets them the next day. “I got them.” Great. I don’t hear from him over the weekend, and it’s like … Kate: You can’t see her right now, but she’s making a face like thinking, “Oh my goodness, what’s going to happen? What’s going to happen?” Lisa: Right? He messages me … ‘cause he is so polite. He messages me over the weekend … after the weekend … Monday, and said, “As soon as I started taking them, I felt immediate relief.” I was like, “Oh, thank God.” Like, I was so grateful. And I’ve worked with him since, now, because it was a long way back. It was a long way back because of the drugs … because of the drugs that he had to be subjected to for years and years and years and years and years. And we can talk about that ad infinitum … how it’s the drugs that is causing this. But anyway, I digress at this moment. And he wrote me a testimonial, and I was just telling you, Kate, that I’ve yet to read it. But when people write test… I only ask for testimonials when it’s been kind of an extreme case. And the people who give me the test…
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