In This Podcast, We Cover:

00:58    Introduction: From Hopeless to Hopeful, Homeopathy Addresses Serious Conditions.

03:27    It All Began With a Diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis           

04:45    A Slightly Overwhelming Introduction to Classical Homeopathy

07:06    Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®

            Gateway I and Gateway II courses

08:56    The Brain Surgeries

            Surgical Protocols

12:48    A Horrible Accident

15:32    Aconitum for Shock

16:30    The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

            Good Gut, Bad Gut: A Homeopathic Strategy to Uproot Seemingly Unrelated Illness in Body and Mind

            The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

18:24    Success Story: Epstein-Barr, Chronic Lyme and Mold Toxicity

            Rethinking Detox with Practical Homeopathy®: How to Stop Stressing About Toxins and Fearlessly Achieve Health the Simple Way

            What To Expect When Using Homeopathy: Part 1

21:00    Success Story: Elevated PSA

22:30    Closing Thoughts

Additional Resources:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
Joette’s Learning Center
PracticalHomeopathy.com
Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends
Joette’s Mighty Members
FindAPracticalHomeopath.com

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 154.

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 retaken 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: From Hopeless to Hopeful, Homeopathy Addresses Serious Conditions.

Kate: (00:58 )

Welcome to the Practical Homeopathy® podcast, where we dive into the transformative world of Practical Homeopathy® and how it empowers families to take charge of their health.

I’m your host, Kate. And today I’m thrilled to introduce our guest, Shannon, a remarkable woman whose journey with homeopathy is nothing short of inspiring.

Shannon is a dedicated stay-at-home homeschooling mom of three on a small farm near the Amish community in southeastern Pennsylvania. Shannon and her family embrace a holistic lifestyle, where they raise chickens, goats, and even pigs to ensure they know exactly what’s in their food.

Her passion for natural living began 20 years ago when she started exploring the impact of food and lifestyle on health, leading her to embrace organic eating, fermented foods, and traditional practices, inspired by the Weston A. Price Foundation.

From crafting bone broth to sourdough bread with freshly milled flour, Shannon’s commitment to a chemical-free life is truly inspiring, but it’s her journey with homeopathy that we’re here to talk about today. Shannon’s introduction to homeopathy began with her son’s diagnosis and a classical homeopath’s suggestion to explore homeopathy. This eventually led her to Joette’s teachings.

Homeopathy was also instrumental to help her husband who suffered a devastating accident. We’ll hear more about these incredible stories in just a few minutes, and you won’t believe what this family has been through.

Now, on a lighter note, Shannon is a soon-to-be graduate of Joette’s Mastery program. She’s taken her knowledge to new heights, helping others with complex health issues, from supporting a woman with chronic Lyme, Epstein-Barr, and mold toxicity to helping a man lower his PSA levels naturally.

Shannon’s success stories highlight the power of homeopathy. Her message is clear. There is another way, and there is hope.

So, let’s get started. Shannon, welcome to the podcast.

Shannon:

Thank you, Kate. It’s wonderful to see you again.

Kate:

It’s great to see you. We’ve known each other for a little while now. It’s been about four years, I think you said, since you joined our Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group. And so, that was fun getting to know you then.

And since that time, you’ve really taken your knowledge of homeopathy to a new level. And I would love to just hear a little bit more about the story of what happened, how you got into homeopathy and where it’s led you.

It All Began With a Diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis

Shannon: (03:27 )

Sure, Kate, thank you. I love sharing my story. So, it began with my oldest son, who is 16. (We do have three children. So, I have another son who’s 14, and our daughter is 12.) And he was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1.

Kate:

What is neurofibromatosis? Did I say that right?

Shannon:

You did. What that is … it’s a rare genetic disease, and it causes tumors to grow on the outside jacket of your nerve, and they can grow anywhere in your body.

Now, 20% of these cases have what’s called a plexi neurofibromas. And what that is is you have a cluster of these tumors that are somewhere in your body close together, and my son happens to have that as well. It is rare, and I didn’t really know much about it because my husband and I do not have it. No one in our past has it either. It’s kind of like a snip in his gene that he has.

We went to a doctor — we have some hospitals around here, conventional doctors that specialize in children that have NF1 — and we went to them. And we decided to get some imaging done — MRIs. He would get them every year just to kind of keep an eye on things to make sure that nothing is growing and that things are okay.

A Slightly Overwhelming Introduction to Classical Homeopathy

Shannon: (04:45 )

We ended up going, Kate, to his doctor around here in the past — we don’t go there anymore — was a classical homeopath; he was also an M.D. And we went there to have him check on Aidan just for wellness checkups. And he was the first person to obviously introduce me to homeopathy. I really didn’t know much about it, and he actually said, “I think there’s something that we could do to help him.” And of course I was ecstatic, Kate, because I did the one thing a lot of people do. I googled what this was, and it was really scary.

Kate:

There was nothing that you could do medically that you hadn’t tried.

Shannon:

Correct, as of right now, because his tumors weren’t causing an issue at this point. And there really wasn’t anything even in the conventional world at this time, and that was 10 years ago. It was still so rare that there really wasn’t any other options. So, that was exciting for us to hear.

And he was a wonderful doctor. He did not teach homeopathy, obviously, the way I’m learning now. He would give him the remedies, and then I kind of would ask what they were. And he was very vague about it, which probably was a good thing at the time, Kate, because I was so overwhelmed with information on things that I probably honestly wouldn’t have really understood what was going on.

And he also encouraged me to buy a kit — homeopathy kit — and I bought the 50-remedy kit from Washington at the time with the 30th potencies. And I was like, “Okay, this is great!” But I had no idea how to use it.

So, he encouraged me to purchase Dana Ullman’s book of “E