When I was in my late twenties, I met a homeopath and began to work with her. For ten years she gave me many different remedies, and I felt a response with each one. What was this medicine that gave me insight into my soul? After taking rhododendron, I recognized a rhododendron bush as if she were my mother. After taking very high doses of aurum metallicum, I landed in a state of night terrors and depression that alarmed me. I decided at 28 years old that I would become a homeopath when I turned 50.
One decade later I drove from Rockland County, New York, into New York City with my six-month-old baby to meet a classical homeopath who came highly recommended. I drove over two bridges, and several highways, with my son, the stroller, milk, and toys. I remember parking in a garage and walking into a room in an office building to meet Aniela.
At the time I was pumping day and night believing that I had to feed my son breast milk exclusively. He decided that he did not want to nurse early on. My little boy preferred the bottle. I was exhausted from months of sleepless nights with a colicky baby who cried for hours and operating from my belief about breast milk. When the homeopath gave me my first constitutional remedy, I realized that my son would be fine with some formula. I got healthier and healthier emotionally, as my anxiety decreased. She began to reorganize my entire being.
Aniela Costello, the woman I call the Holy Homeopath, supported me through my second pregnancy where I found out at week 21 that my daughter would likely die of trisomy 18 very early in her life. I wept and wept, not wanting to birth my daughter only to lose her in death. She lived one hour, and I survived with the love around me, my faith in God, and homeopathic remedies.
We landed in the Denver area of Colorado soon after that experience, and in 2020 I was living in the reality of the Covid 19 pandemic. (How I wish that our children could have had a different experience through this crisis.) One night I walked outside under the maple tree. The moon was full. I had the realization that I would not be able to support myself with any book that I published. I didn’t want to teach college composition anymore, as I had before I became a mother. I remembered the promise I made to become a homeopath when I was 50 years old.
I called Aniela who had once told me that I would make a good homeopath. I asked where I should study. She directed me to study with Dr. Paul Herscu and his wife Dr. Amy Rothenberg at New England School of Homeopathy (NESH). I was enrolled in school the following week. It was the first time in the history of the longest, continuously operating homeopathy school in the US that the courses were offered online. Dr. Herscu believed that classes would go back to being in person that year, but it did not happen that way.
I took the full homeopathy course twice. I felt that there were some gaps in that first course as it had pivoted online quickly. The second time I took the course it felt better framed for the scientific study of Dr. Herscu’s method of Cycles and Segments. I have been enrolled in classes at NESH ever since then.
Why homeopathy in a world with many healing modalities? Having homeopathic support in my years as a mother has been invaluable. From teething pain, to growing pains, infections, fevers, trauma, grief, and many other things, homeopathy has reorganized my son’s being. I am strong after my daughter’s death, and two miscarriages, as well as hormonal shifts. Some things have even been easy with homeopathy.
Homeopathy is not the answer to every ailment. My practice is built on working with clients wherever they are: with pharmaceuticals or without. I have sent clients for tests and scans with medical doctors. I would not treat cancer but have supported clients in treatment to overcome side effects. We can decrease symptoms of long covid, chronic fatigue, autoimmune disorders and multiple chronic illnesses including MS, autism, blood clots, depression and mental illness. A constitutional remedy can improve immunity. It can change children’s behaviors. It can make a weeping mother, whose daughter has died, find joy again.
I deliberately created a family practice where homeopathy is an addition to medical treatment for many clients. This safe and gentle modality can be the central key that opens a newfound peace and wellbeing for people who have sought many modalities. Homeopathy does not use supplements, but a medicine called a remedy prepared in a homeopathic pharmacy.
One client said, “My soul is back.” I have the great joy of supporting my clients’ journey to improved immunity, health, and quality of life.
In constitutional homeopathy, we do not give clients many different remedies. Instead we assess which state each client is in at the time of the intake. Has the client been in this state for years? Or is there something new going on? What came before the symptoms that we are addressing? We take a meandering walk through their lives and physical and emotional symptoms as I ask question after question, as I listen to what the client is telling me. There is one remedy that works for each client, and I am tasked with studying and analyzing to find that one remedy. I know now that when my first homeopathy gave me aurum metallicum, I developed the symptoms of the remedy as a response to taking the wrong remedy. There is no healing crisis in my practice. I offer gentle and consistent homeopathic support.
I have so much to say, and so I begin this blog in the hopes that I can answer questions and be a support for people searching for answers on how homeopathy works.
I wish you good health, and great joy.
Dianna is not a medical doctor. She does not diagnose, nor treat illness.