June 23, 2025 • 29 mins
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Facing uncomfortable symptoms is rarely enjoyable, but what if your discomfort is actually signaling positive change? This eye-opening conversation explores the fascinating parallel between how we approach physical discomfort in homeopathic healing and spiritual discomfort in our personal growth.
We've all experienced that moment of wanting to push away uncomfortable feelings or symptoms. Yet as we unpack in this episode, those very sensations we're eager to suppress often represent necessary healing in progress. Whether it's a fever breaking, emotions finally being processed after years of suppression, or hidden spiritual issues coming to light, discomfort frequently signals that important work is happening beneath the surface.
The Western approach to medicine has trained many of us to immediately squash any symptom the moment it appears. Similarly, in our spiritual lives, we may instinctively avoid confronting uncomfortable truths about ourselves. But as we discover, this avoidance strategy ultimately backfires—what we resist doesn't disappear but merely goes underground, often returning later with even greater intensity. "I don't think we ever avoid it," we reflect during the conversation. "It just comes back later, usually worse."
Most profoundly, this episode challenges the very notion that "healthy" means "symptom-free." Just as homeopathic healing focuses on strengthening the body's overall system rather than simply eliminating symptoms, spiritual growth requires working through discomfort rather than around it. We share practical examples from both realms, from handling physical illness to navigating emotional healing and relationship conflicts. Listen in as we explore why counting the reward rather than the cost helps us persevere through necessary discomfort on the path to genuine healing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Brie, Excited to talk with you tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, me too.
Tonight is number eight in ourencouragement series.
For you listening, it'sprobably well, I don't know, it
might be morning.
Usually they're released in themorning, whatever time of day.
Join us for number eight of ourencouragement series.
If you have not listened to theother seven, go back and do that
(00:28):
.
You don't have to do them inorder, but these were born out
of honestly.
God just showing me a lot ofthings in my own life and as I
was learning or beginning myjourney in the homeopathy world,
specifically specifically doingconsults, I think was when it
all started God started showingme these parallels between
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principles that I was seeing inhomeopathy and my spiritual walk
.
So we're not trying to linkthis to biblical truth, or well,
we are not homeopathy, I mean,we're not trying to elevate it,
excuse me, but we I mean, justlike anything else, I feel like
God very often uses a role inour life or some other thing to
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reveal some truth to us.
So these are just some of thosepoints.
This is number eight of 10 thatI shared at our retreat last
year, and so we're just goingthrough them slowly over this
year.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So at the end we will read some fan mail, so y'all
stick around for that.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, okay, these are fun.
So fan mail is questions peoplesend in.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yep, so when you're on the podcast there's a link
that says send me a message, Um,and then you can just click the
link and you type in yourmessage and I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's like a text.
Okay, so we're going to go overfan mail.
We've done a few of them, um,so we'll do that at the end.
This won't be super long, butnumber eight, let's do it.
Um.
Topic tonight is facinguncomfortable symptoms.
Homeopathy sometimes especiallywhen we're talking about
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chronic issues here brings outuncomfortable symptoms.
That does not mean bad orthey're not even always negative
.
I think very often we confuseand we'll probably get more into
this, we confuse discomfortwith bad or painful or
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negativity, and very often whatI've seen is, especially even in
emotional symptoms or physicalones, discomfort, uncomfortable
symptoms, are often really goodsigns of movement and healing.
These can be geneticallyinherited.
When we're talking physical,like homeopathy, these can be
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genetically inherited.
When we're talking physical,like homeopathy, and you're
talking about chronic conditions, they could be previously
suppressed symptoms, which iswhy it's uncomfortable for them
to surface.
They can be emotional orphysical, but they are a
necessary part of the healingprocess, not just a tolerated
part, but a necessary thing.
Not just a tolerated part, buta necessary thing.
And so when I've seen that inpractice, in the same way in my
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spiritual walk or in ours, veryoften God may bring to light
uncomfortable issues that weneed to address and those things
that are brought to the surfaceare not always pleasant, but
they are necessary for growthand for healing.
I think in my life they'vesometimes been sin that I've
been blind to, and so being kindof blindsided by something deep
in my heart is, you know,catches me off guard and I don't
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love that.
Maybe unforgiveness we haven'twalked through and are avoiding
also been there, or habits weneed to change.
I mean lots of stuff.
It could be so many things.
So our first response is veryoften to resist those coming to
light because they'reuncomfortable or because they're
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disruptive to the way thatwe're doing life.
We're very comfortable here andthey might be painful.
But leaning into thosedifficult areas and working
through them just like inhomeopathy, we say we're not
stopping the process, we aremoving all the way through the
process of healing and yourspiritual life and your spirit.
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It's necessary to work them out, work through them for your
growth Even if I mean knowingGod more deeply and looking more
like Christ requires thatprocess and we can face them
with courage, trusting in God'shealing power and stay the
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course, like we say that all thetime just stay the course,
trust in God Trust in hispromises for you, his care for
you.
The scripture here that Ithought went along with this
maybe, is Ephesians 5, verses 11through 13.
Do not participate in theunfruitful deeds of darkness,
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but instead even expose them,for it's disgraceful even to
speak of the things which aredone by them in secret, but all
things become visible when theyare exposed by the light, for
everything that becomes visibleis light.
So I love that I was connectingthere that when you leave
something deep and dark, when wehave sin that is hidden, it
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becomes isolating, destructive,shameful.
It does not bring healing themto the surface, however
uncomfortable, takes away thatpower and gives us the
opportunity to move it into thelight.
So and replace it.
What are your thoughts on that,melissa?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I love it, so, um.
So one thing that you just saidis that discomfort essentially
what you said is discomfortequals growth.
That's not what you said, butthat's what you know essentially
, when you, when we get intouncomfortable things, so yes, in
homeopathy or in your spiritualwalk, or just in maturing in in
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this life, you we have.
You know, you've heard the termgrowing pains, right, do you
think?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
that, like you know, when we're taught in the Western
medicine world, like a symptom,we, we feel it and we want to
squash it.
We want it to go away and thesymptom goes away, we think
we're good.
Um, I do feel like we, we wantto do that with um, with our
sorry I don't know if you canhear all that craziness out
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there Okay, great, so we want todo the same thing.
I think in our spiritual lifethat.
But I think the discomfort canbe an opportunity for growth.
But I don't think we alwaystake them.
It's very easy to do thebandaid Like I'm going to deal
with that later or yeah,something else will keep
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bringing it up and keeptriggering that opportunity and
we resist because it'suncomfortable, yeah, or shameful
, or I mean yeah, it's, I thinkit's.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's just natural to want to um, avoid discomfort,
that that's natural.
But when we run from the growth, whether you know, in all the
aspects of life, and so let'sjust say, um, in homeopathy
right now, when you okay, firstof all, please don't hear us say
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that you have to get worsebefore you get better or that
you have to um, that's not.
You know, that's not alwaystrue, but let's, if you're
thinking about a flu, we're notgiving the homeopathic remedy to
shut down the symptoms.
You're still going to movethrough that condition easier
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and faster than if you didn'thave homeopathy and um, than if
you didn't use it, than if youdidn't have homeopathy and then
if you didn't use it.
And it also, in the process,does not suppress any conditions
.
It strengthens your immunesystem, sets you up for better
future health.
So, in the same way, when weare on our spiritual walk, if we
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don't, if we're neveruncomfortable, you're probably
not growing.
Not getting deep in there, youknow Well think about the really
uncomfortable conversation thatyou have to have with someone.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The conflict.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
If we never have conflict and we never have to
have hard conversations withpeople, then we get to stay in
our nice little, simple, easybox, but then you don't grow.
If I had these hardconversations I would have never
grown.
How?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
do you learn to do it ?
Yeah, it reminds me of the ironsharpens iron verse.
Just that analogy, the analogyof you have to experience
friction to sharpen somethingLike when you think about
sharpening anything, you can usethat friction to dull it right,
like the friction itself is notthe fixer.
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But what do you do with that?
Are you using it in a way thatsharpens?
Sorry, I'm so itchy today, andthat also there was something
else.
I didn't lose it.
Sorry, I'm so itchy today, andthat also there was something
else.
I didn't lose it.
Oh, okay, an example.
This was one that came to mindactually very frequently when I
think about discomfort.
I had a client who has a lot ofsuppressed emotions in the past
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and a follow-up.
She was discussing how anxietywas good, she felt very even,
but she had noticed like acommercial came on and she cried
and she was very caught offguard.
She's like I don't cry, I don't, I never have a problem with
that.
So she was really uncomfortable, feeling emotion.
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She wasn't bawling her eyes out, depressed, I mean, this was
not anything crazy.
She was just feeling thatemotion and wanting to.
And there was a couple otherinstances that she mentioned
where there was, you know thosetypes of things and we talked
about that.
You know those types of thingsand we talked about that.
Well, years of this suppressedemotion.
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You are uncomfortable, crying,but that is not a bad thing.
Crying is not a bad thing.
It doesn't even mean you're sad.
You might just be needing torelease anything right, and we
just have such a distorted viewof comfort, which you mentioned
earlier before, like seekingsomething about seeking comfort.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, so when we so seeking comfort is really just
running from um, from reality.
So God doesn't God doesn'tpromise us ease, right?
He promises us that we're goingto have, we're going to go
through trials and tribulations,and but that he's going to be.
He also promises that he'll bethere with us, so he walks
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through it with us and, um, youknow, in homeopathy, if you just
like the, the example of theflu, flu, okay, so you might
start coughing more, your fevermight go up, you might start
producing more mucus.
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These are all good signs thatthe things are coming out.
We got to get it out, to getrid of it right, so that we're
not suppressing it and it'suncomfortable, but we're
thinking future.
I say this all the time.
Our goal is we're looking atfuture, long-term health, not
short-term gratification, notwhat can I do to feel better
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right now, because I have abaseball game tomorrow.
I'm sorry, you need to rest.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right, it is really hard.
It's really hard.
So I mean we say this all thetime but we know I mean both of
us have lived the realities ofthat, of the homeopathy version
and the life version, thespiritual version we're talking
about.
So I said last I think if youlistened to the last one that,
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knowing I wrote this like a yearago, is really ministering to
me again and got the same stuff.
I mean, it's just life.
You just recycle through thesesame things.
So I have needed to hear theseand it's true, uncomfortable
things are good opportunitiesfor growth.
I want to move through them.
I don't want to push it in oravoid it, or truly I don't think
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we ever avoid it.
It just comes back later,usually worse, right, and then
physically and spiritually, witha deeper root or, you know,
built on it, resentment added in, throw in a bunch of other
things.
So, just like physical symptoms, they don't go away.
You feel better for a littlebit and then they just pile up
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and then you have 10 instead ofone that you just don't want.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The bad when you suppress Yep, yeah Right, feel
really strongly about um seekingcomfort in life and um, it's,
it's because that's what I'vedone.
So those, uh, those of you,those of us that do everything
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in our power to make ourselvescomfortable, to make our
families comfortable, um, Idon't mean good hospitality, I
mean like, um, I don't know,avoid hard things.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Say that again, do you mean maybe to avoid hardship
?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah To to avoid, yeah, maybe to avoid hardship,
but also just to um, so thatyou're never.
You're never suffering right oryou're never, so that you're
never suffering right or you'renever uncomfortable.
So, even just simple thingslike, well, I don't like to ride
in a car, I always need todrive.
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So you better believe I makesure I always drive right.
But how can that hinder mygrowth?
How can it hinder what ifthere's a group of people
leaving church one day and say,come on, you know, jump in the
car.
Oh no, I have to control thatright.
So, just, even if it seemslittle like you need to be in
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control so that you can becomfortable.
We need to think long-term inthe future, because, as things
get uncomfortable in life andyou can't control it now, you've
never been okay.
Here's an almost like thepeople who stayed home during
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COVID, who actually did stayhome.
You didn't help your immunesystem at all, right, so you
were staying home avoiding germsand you actually hurt your
immune system because then youhad to go back out and then you
had to be exposed to all thesethings, and now you know immune
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systems are taxed.
So just, I think avoidingdiscomfort is not ever a good
idea.
I'm not saying that we shouldwalk around seeking discomfort,
but don't avoid it at all costs.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I mean, I don't think we have to try very hard to
find it and most of the time itfinds you and it really is,
finds you and it really is.
Those are really good examplesbecause what I see, what I hear
there is it's like a daily smallpractice.
So, yeah, driving is not a hugedeal, right, but at some point
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there's going to be a biggerdeal, whether it's a result of
that specific thing or justyou're out of practice, of
surrendering your comfort.
So you know, I am thinking ofthankful.
I'm.
It's just really bringing somany things to mind in my
current life being okay, like,instead of annoyed by certain
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things, being thankful that I amin a place of discomfort so I
never have a chance to get toocomfortable.
I mean, no, I feel like I don'treally.
Maybe that's a good thing.
I thank God all the time thatwe're in ministry because I
think in my own decision-makingI would be apathetic and lazy
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and I would not seek thosethings out.
And I feel like God knows thatabout me and has purposely put
me in a position where that isimpossible.
And I'm thankful that Wednesdaynight too, at church, we're
studying through some lots ofthings.
We're in the marriage group,but one of the things we talked
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about last week was counting thereward instead of the cost and
living a missional life.
This is kind of getting alittle off topic, but talking
about discomfort too, I think alot of we spent a lot of time
counting the cost of something,what costs us, what it, whether
that's discomfort or in otherways, instead of counting the
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reward that is to come ineternity or it could be a reward
here on earth.
But even if all that reward isin eternity knowing we've lived
a life of obedience and all thediscomfort and all the things
that come up as a part of that-yeah, we're running for the goal
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, for the end result, for thewhere we're going somewhere.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And so I just thought of another thing in in health
and homeopathy.
I knew I should have written itdown, I lost it.
I knew I should have written itdown, I lost it.
Yeah, I knew I should havewritten it down, I was just
about to write it down.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But then I was like no, she's always finished.
And then it didn't stop.
Oh I remember.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Okay, so just thinking about comfort and how
we like to a lot of people notwe, because I think you and I
don't do this, but a lot ofpeople like to take a remedy for
every single symptom ordiscomfort.
And what I want people tounderstand and start to go
towards is is that really?
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I want to say life disruptive?
But yeah, I mean, I'm just notgoing to take a remedy unless
it's disrupting life in some way.
Right, I can't function becauseof this.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I can't sleep because of the symptom, I can't
whatever I think that's trying,that is going along with the
trying to avoid any discomfort,and I really I've said this
recently, I feel like it's likea mantra and I'm just keep
saying it that healthy does notmean never symptomatic, yeah,
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like it is going to be a part ofyour life sometimes and it can
go.
It might just go away.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Right, Let your body work Right, right, let your body
do its, do its job, yeah, so soif you're taking a remedy for
every single symptom, um, I meanyou just might.
You might even be just doingyour body a disservice.
It's like here's anotherexample that people have said um
, when you take a vitamin, let'sjust say you have a vitamin D
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deficiency and you take vitaminD, and this might not be true
for this vitamin, but there'ssome, there's some supplement,
oh, melatonin, I think, is one.
When you take melatonin, yourbody's like, oh, I don't have to
make melatonin anymore, causeyou know it doesn't have to work
.
It's like, it's like eyeglasses.
When I wear the eyeglasses, myeyes don't have to work so hard.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So they get weaker.
When we don't have to work, weget weaker, right, yep?
Well, yeah.
And then you the principles ofhomeopathy being the lowest dose
at the lowest frequency,whatever, and whether we do it
exactly that way now inpractical homeopathy meshed in
with classical, may not be, wedo one dose and wait forever,
but the idea is you give justenough stimulation to get your
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body moving and then when youget to a certain point, you
should back off, like let yourbody practice to fill in the
gaps.
But when you said the we getweak, that reminded me earlier.
I was was thinking and,spiritually speaking, the Bible
talks so much about running arace and you think of man.
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I ran that half marathon lastyear and I'm not saying that to
brag on here.
I hated it, I liked thetraining, I hated that race, and
so just hear me say that.
But it's a rate like thediscomfort of physically working
out.
We're okay with that because weknow it produces results and we
can see them.
Well, some people are okay withit if you like to do that kind
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of thing, and but we're not inalmost any other area because
you can't.
I think you just can't see it.
The same it's not as quick.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So exactly, yeah, so if homeopathy is not working
fast, then people give up tooquickly and too easily.
And then I think that's sounfortunate when people give up
too soon.
Give up too soon so unfortunatebecause it works.
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It works at different speedsfor different people.
Some people can respondextremely quickly and some
people just take longer.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, and different layers, I feel like take longer.
At least, I'm just saying that.
I see that I don't know ifthat's totally accurate in every
case, but this is going to getinto next time.
We're going to talk about like.
This is not easy to do, sothere are things and we
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mentioned it some last time, butnext week, next week, next time
we're talking about commitmentand community and how that
having community helps you besuccessful in this journey.
So so important yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Thanks guys, that was a good one, that was so
encouraging to me again.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you for talking about that with me.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Love it, I love it, so let's do the fan mail, okay.
Okay, so I have fan mail.
Um, this person is from BatonRouge, louisiana.
She says.
She says hi, melissa, anyexperience or recommendations
for persistent low ferritin?
I take beef organs and livercapsules with vitamin c and
magnesium glycine, eat mostlywhole and organic foods, have
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done a pretty extensive detoxand still my ferritin levels are
so low.
Thankfully the iron level isnormal now.
I'm sorry if you have discussedthis and I missed it.
Please point me to the podcast.
If so, thank you.
So ferritin levels and she'staken all the things.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Bree.
Okay, so this is going to be amix of homeopathy and something
else that I've been learningabout.
My mom has a very similarsituation and I've been walking
through this with her.
So to me I see there is anassimilation problem somewhere,
like you're not absorbing that.
So I think a gut problem.
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Yeah, it's not just low iron,so it's not like there's
necessarily one protocol.
And also my mom found out she'slate onset menopause, like she
has still not gone throughmenopause and she has very, very
heavy periods and those.
It's a cycle that can cause.
Sorry, mom, if hopefully you'refine with your business out
there, I just think she alreadyknows um there that can feed
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into low ferritin and then viceversa, the low ferritin feeds
the heavy period and yourhormones may be off.
So that's something I wouldwant to know.
I would want to know hormonesand cycles.
What are those those like?
But what do you think?
Do you agree there with thedate?
Like the assimilation of the,the iron in the useful iron?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, exactly, um, you know we can, yeah, we need
to support, we need to do guthealth, gut healing and um and
so you know, liver remedies, youknow, as always.
So, liver, liver, supportingthe liver with homeopathic
remedies and good diet, you know, and really digging into the
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gut health, what is it?
Why are you not assimilatingthis?
You know these nutrients orthese minerals or whatever it is
that you're struggling with.
So, yeah, gut health, hormonehealth and that's the.
The bulk of what we do withpeople is gut and hormone health
and mental, emotional.
It seems like that tree.
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They really just go together.
It's the bulk of what we do andthose you know.
The gut health affectseverything.
It's like the tree that goesout and affects everything.
So, definitely, gut healing.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yep, and that is an area where I think you could add
things that we like we were nothuge supplement people, but
like your meat stock colostrumthose are things that can I
don't want to use the term speedup the process, but can help
physically heal your gutalongside remedies that are
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working to heal your gut on adeeper level.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I hope that helps yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I love it, so tune in .
You know, every time we do apodcast, we're going to try to
remember to read fan mail.
We do a podcast, we're going totry to read, to remember to
read fan mail.
And if you want to submit aquestion and have it read on the
show, then just go to um, thewebsite which is on Buzzsprout.
I really should I said I wasgoing to do this last time Um,
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so if you just go to yourregular podcast player, let's
see, like, if you go to iTunes Iknow not everybody uses iTunes,
(27:00):
but I just want to see if Iwant to see if it's on iTunes.
Library has to update, so I'vebeen in here forever, okay.
So if I click on my podcast andI go to the most recent one
embracing alternative paths towellbeing, um, oh, right there,
so in, okay, so in, no, I don'tmean iTunes, I mean what's the
(27:22):
podcast?
What's the Apple podcasts?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh well, I think it's just called podcast iTunes.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Is it iTunes?
Well, in your podcast playerright there at the top, text to
Melissa and she'll answer it onthe next episode.
So it just says it right thereDing oh and I click it.
Oops, oh, look, and then itactually pulls up.
Ding oh and I click it.
Oops, oh, look, and then itactually pulls up like you're
really going to text me.
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So it doesn't come to my phone.
Oh that's so fun, Not fun.
So wherever you listen to thispodcast, you can click on the um
.
It'll send that to me.
It doesn't actually come to myphone, it goes to the app and
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then I get a notification and Iread it, but so we can read
those.
So if you have a question, goahead and submit that.
We'll read it on the, on thenext one or or in a future one.
And thanks for listening.
Have a great day.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Brie, Excited to talk with you tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, me too.
Tonight is number eight in ourencouragement series.
For you listening, it'sprobably well, I don't know, it
might be morning.
Usually they're released in themorning, whatever time of day.
Join us for number eight of ourencouragement series.
If you have not listened to theother seven, go back and do that
(00:28):
.
You don't have to do them inorder, but these were born out
of honestly.
God just showing me a lot ofthings in my own life and as I
was learning or beginning myjourney in the homeopathy world,
specifically specifically doingconsults, I think was when it
all started God started showingme these parallels between
(00:50):
principles that I was seeing inhomeopathy and my spiritual walk
.
So we're not trying to linkthis to biblical truth, or well,
we are not homeopathy, I mean,we're not trying to elevate it,
excuse me, but we I mean, justlike anything else, I feel like
God very often uses a role inour life or some other thing to
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reveal some truth to us.
So these are just some of thosepoints.
This is number eight of 10 thatI shared at our retreat last
year, and so we're just goingthrough them slowly over this
year.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So at the end we will read some fan mail, so y'all
stick around for that.
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Okay, so we're going to go overfan mail.
We've done a few of them, um,so we'll do that at the end.
This won't be super long, butnumber eight, let's do it.
Um.
Topic tonight is facinguncomfortable symptoms.
Homeopathy sometimes especiallywhen we're talking about
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chronic issues here brings outuncomfortable symptoms.
That does not mean bad orthey're not even always negative
.
I think very often we confuseand we'll probably get more into
this, we confuse discomfortwith bad or painful or
(02:42):
negativity, and very often whatI've seen is, especially even in
emotional symptoms or physicalones, discomfort, uncomfortable
symptoms, are often really goodsigns of movement and healing.
These can be geneticallyinherited.
When we're talking physical,like homeopathy, these can be
(03:06):
genetically inherited.
When we're talking physical,like homeopathy, and you're
talking about chronic conditions, they could be previously
suppressed symptoms, which iswhy it's uncomfortable for them
to surface.
They can be emotional orphysical, but they are a
necessary part of the healingprocess, not just a tolerated
part, but a necessary thing.
Not just a tolerated part, buta necessary thing.
And so when I've seen that inpractice, in the same way in my
(03:38):
spiritual walk or in ours, veryoften God may bring to light
uncomfortable issues that weneed to address and those things
that are brought to the surfaceare not always pleasant, but
they are necessary for growthand for healing.
I think in my life they'vesometimes been sin that I've
been blind to, and so being kindof blindsided by something deep
in my heart is, you know,catches me off guard and I don't
(04:00):
love that.
Maybe unforgiveness we haven'twalked through and are avoiding
also been there, or habits weneed to change.
I mean lots of stuff.
It could be so many things.
So our first response is veryoften to resist those coming to
light because they'reuncomfortable or because they're
(04:23):
disruptive to the way thatwe're doing life.
We're very comfortable here andthey might be painful.
But leaning into thosedifficult areas and working
through them just like inhomeopathy, we say we're not
stopping the process, we aremoving all the way through the
process of healing and yourspiritual life and your spirit.
(04:44):
It's necessary to work them out, work through them for your
growth Even if I mean knowingGod more deeply and looking more
like Christ requires thatprocess and we can face them
with courage, trusting in God'shealing power and stay the
(05:07):
course, like we say that all thetime just stay the course,
trust in God Trust in hispromises for you, his care for
you.
The scripture here that Ithought went along with this
maybe, is Ephesians 5, verses 11through 13.
Do not participate in theunfruitful deeds of darkness,
(05:29):
but instead even expose them,for it's disgraceful even to
speak of the things which aredone by them in secret, but all
things become visible when theyare exposed by the light, for
everything that becomes visibleis light.
So I love that I was connectingthere that when you leave
something deep and dark, when wehave sin that is hidden, it
(05:51):
becomes isolating, destructive,shameful.
It does not bring healing themto the surface, however
uncomfortable, takes away thatpower and gives us the
opportunity to move it into thelight.
So and replace it.
What are your thoughts on that,melissa?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I love it, so, um.
So one thing that you just saidis that discomfort essentially
what you said is discomfortequals growth.
That's not what you said, butthat's what you know essentially
, when you, when we get intouncomfortable things, so yes, in
homeopathy or in your spiritualwalk, or just in maturing in in
(06:39):
this life, you we have.
You know, you've heard the termgrowing pains, right, do you
think?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
that, like you know, when we're taught in the Western
medicine world, like a symptom,we, we feel it and we want to
squash it.
We want it to go away and thesymptom goes away, we think
we're good.
Um, I do feel like we, we wantto do that with um, with our
sorry I don't know if you canhear all that craziness out
(07:09):
there Okay, great, so we want todo the same thing.
I think in our spiritual lifethat.
But I think the discomfort canbe an opportunity for growth.
But I don't think we alwaystake them.
It's very easy to do thebandaid Like I'm going to deal
with that later or yeah,something else will keep
(07:30):
bringing it up and keeptriggering that opportunity and
we resist because it'suncomfortable, yeah, or shameful
, or I mean yeah, it's, I thinkit's.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's just natural to want to um, avoid discomfort,
that that's natural.
But when we run from the growth, whether you know, in all the
aspects of life, and so let'sjust say, um, in homeopathy
right now, when you okay, firstof all, please don't hear us say
(08:03):
that you have to get worsebefore you get better or that
you have to um, that's not.
You know, that's not alwaystrue, but let's, if you're
thinking about a flu, we're notgiving the homeopathic remedy to
shut down the symptoms.
You're still going to movethrough that condition easier
(08:24):
and faster than if you didn'thave homeopathy and um, than if
you didn't use it, than if youdidn't have homeopathy and then
if you didn't use it.
And it also, in the process,does not suppress any conditions
.
It strengthens your immunesystem, sets you up for better
future health.
So, in the same way, when weare on our spiritual walk, if we
(08:46):
don't, if we're neveruncomfortable, you're probably
not growing.
Not getting deep in there, youknow Well think about the really
uncomfortable conversation thatyou have to have with someone.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The conflict.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
If we never have conflict and we never have to
have hard conversations withpeople, then we get to stay in
our nice little, simple, easybox, but then you don't grow.
If I had these hardconversations I would have never
grown.
How?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
do you learn to do it ?
Yeah, it reminds me of the ironsharpens iron verse.
Just that analogy, the analogyof you have to experience
friction to sharpen somethingLike when you think about
sharpening anything, you can usethat friction to dull it right,
like the friction itself is notthe fixer.
(09:42):
But what do you do with that?
Are you using it in a way thatsharpens?
Sorry, I'm so itchy today, andthat also there was something
else.
I didn't lose it.
Sorry, I'm so itchy today, andthat also there was something
else.
I didn't lose it.
Oh, okay, an example.
This was one that came to mindactually very frequently when I
think about discomfort.
I had a client who has a lot ofsuppressed emotions in the past
(10:04):
and a follow-up.
She was discussing how anxietywas good, she felt very even,
but she had noticed like acommercial came on and she cried
and she was very caught offguard.
She's like I don't cry, I don't, I never have a problem with
that.
So she was really uncomfortable, feeling emotion.
(10:29):
She wasn't bawling her eyes out, depressed, I mean, this was
not anything crazy.
She was just feeling thatemotion and wanting to.
And there was a couple otherinstances that she mentioned
where there was, you know thosetypes of things and we talked
about that.
You know those types of thingsand we talked about that.
Well, years of this suppressedemotion.
(10:51):
You are uncomfortable, crying,but that is not a bad thing.
Crying is not a bad thing.
It doesn't even mean you're sad.
You might just be needing torelease anything right, and we
just have such a distorted viewof comfort, which you mentioned
earlier before, like seekingsomething about seeking comfort.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, so when we so seeking comfort is really just
running from um, from reality.
So God doesn't God doesn'tpromise us ease, right?
He promises us that we're goingto have, we're going to go
through trials and tribulations,and but that he's going to be.
He also promises that he'll bethere with us, so he walks
(11:37):
through it with us and, um, youknow, in homeopathy, if you just
like the, the example of theflu, flu, okay, so you might
start coughing more, your fevermight go up, you might start
producing more mucus.
(11:57):
These are all good signs thatthe things are coming out.
We got to get it out, to getrid of it right, so that we're
not suppressing it and it'suncomfortable, but we're
thinking future.
I say this all the time.
Our goal is we're looking atfuture, long-term health, not
short-term gratification, notwhat can I do to feel better
(12:18):
right now, because I have abaseball game tomorrow.
I'm sorry, you need to rest.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Right, it is really hard.
It's really hard.
So I mean we say this all thetime but we know I mean both of
us have lived the realities ofthat, of the homeopathy version
and the life version, thespiritual version we're talking
about.
So I said last I think if youlistened to the last one that,
(12:47):
knowing I wrote this like a yearago, is really ministering to
me again and got the same stuff.
I mean, it's just life.
You just recycle through thesesame things.
So I have needed to hear theseand it's true, uncomfortable
things are good opportunitiesfor growth.
I want to move through them.
I don't want to push it in oravoid it, or truly I don't think
(13:12):
we ever avoid it.
It just comes back later,usually worse, right, and then
physically and spiritually, witha deeper root or, you know,
built on it, resentment added in, throw in a bunch of other
things.
So, just like physical symptoms, they don't go away.
You feel better for a littlebit and then they just pile up
(13:35):
and then you have 10 instead ofone that you just don't want.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The bad when you suppress Yep, yeah Right, feel
really strongly about um seekingcomfort in life and um, it's,
it's because that's what I'vedone.
So those, uh, those of you,those of us that do everything
(14:04):
in our power to make ourselvescomfortable, to make our
families comfortable, um, Idon't mean good hospitality, I
mean like, um, I don't know,avoid hard things.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Say that again, do you mean maybe to avoid hardship
?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah To to avoid, yeah, maybe to avoid hardship,
but also just to um, so thatyou're never.
You're never suffering right oryou're never, so that you're
never suffering right or you'renever uncomfortable.
So, even just simple thingslike, well, I don't like to ride
in a car, I always need todrive.
(14:42):
So you better believe I makesure I always drive right.
But how can that hinder mygrowth?
How can it hinder what ifthere's a group of people
leaving church one day and say,come on, you know, jump in the
car.
Oh no, I have to control thatright.
So, just, even if it seemslittle like you need to be in
(15:04):
control so that you can becomfortable.
We need to think long-term inthe future, because, as things
get uncomfortable in life andyou can't control it now, you've
never been okay.
Here's an almost like thepeople who stayed home during
(15:25):
COVID, who actually did stayhome.
You didn't help your immunesystem at all, right, so you
were staying home avoiding germsand you actually hurt your
immune system because then youhad to go back out and then you
had to be exposed to all thesethings, and now you know immune
(15:46):
systems are taxed.
So just, I think avoidingdiscomfort is not ever a good
idea.
I'm not saying that we shouldwalk around seeking discomfort,
but don't avoid it at all costs.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I mean, I don't think we have to try very hard to
find it and most of the time itfinds you and it really is,
finds you and it really is.
Those are really good examplesbecause what I see, what I hear
there is it's like a daily smallpractice.
So, yeah, driving is not a hugedeal, right, but at some point
(16:18):
there's going to be a biggerdeal, whether it's a result of
that specific thing or justyou're out of practice, of
surrendering your comfort.
So you know, I am thinking ofthankful.
I'm.
It's just really bringing somany things to mind in my
current life being okay, like,instead of annoyed by certain
(16:42):
things, being thankful that I amin a place of discomfort so I
never have a chance to get toocomfortable.
I mean, no, I feel like I don'treally.
Maybe that's a good thing.
I thank God all the time thatwe're in ministry because I
think in my own decision-makingI would be apathetic and lazy
(17:05):
and I would not seek thosethings out.
And I feel like God knows thatabout me and has purposely put
me in a position where that isimpossible.
And I'm thankful that Wednesdaynight too, at church, we're
studying through some lots ofthings.
We're in the marriage group,but one of the things we talked
(17:27):
about last week was counting thereward instead of the cost and
living a missional life.
This is kind of getting alittle off topic, but talking
about discomfort too, I think alot of we spent a lot of time
counting the cost of something,what costs us, what it, whether
that's discomfort or in otherways, instead of counting the
(17:49):
reward that is to come ineternity or it could be a reward
here on earth.
But even if all that reward isin eternity knowing we've lived
a life of obedience and all thediscomfort and all the things
that come up as a part of that-yeah, we're running for the goal
(18:10):
, for the end result, for thewhere we're going somewhere.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And so I just thought of another thing in in health
and homeopathy.
I knew I should have written itdown, I lost it.
I knew I should have written itdown, I lost it.
Yeah, I knew I should havewritten it down, I was just
about to write it down.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But then I was like no, she's always finished.
And then it didn't stop.
Oh I remember.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Okay, so just thinking about comfort and how
we like to a lot of people notwe, because I think you and I
don't do this, but a lot ofpeople like to take a remedy for
every single symptom ordiscomfort.
And what I want people tounderstand and start to go
towards is is that really?
(19:03):
I want to say life disruptive?
But yeah, I mean, I'm just notgoing to take a remedy unless
it's disrupting life in some way.
Right, I can't function becauseof this.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I can't sleep because of the symptom, I can't
whatever I think that's trying,that is going along with the
trying to avoid any discomfort,and I really I've said this
recently, I feel like it's likea mantra and I'm just keep
saying it that healthy does notmean never symptomatic, yeah,
(19:35):
like it is going to be a part ofyour life sometimes and it can
go.
It might just go away.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Right, Let your body work Right, right, let your body
do its, do its job, yeah, so soif you're taking a remedy for
every single symptom, um, I meanyou just might.
You might even be just doingyour body a disservice.
It's like here's anotherexample that people have said um
, when you take a vitamin, let'sjust say you have a vitamin D
(20:03):
deficiency and you take vitaminD, and this might not be true
for this vitamin, but there'ssome, there's some supplement,
oh, melatonin, I think, is one.
When you take melatonin, yourbody's like, oh, I don't have to
make melatonin anymore, causeyou know it doesn't have to work
.
It's like, it's like eyeglasses.
When I wear the eyeglasses, myeyes don't have to work so hard.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So they get weaker.
When we don't have to work, weget weaker, right, yep?
Well, yeah.
And then you the principles ofhomeopathy being the lowest dose
at the lowest frequency,whatever, and whether we do it
exactly that way now inpractical homeopathy meshed in
with classical, may not be, wedo one dose and wait forever,
but the idea is you give justenough stimulation to get your
(20:51):
body moving and then when youget to a certain point, you
should back off, like let yourbody practice to fill in the
gaps.
But when you said the we getweak, that reminded me earlier.
I was was thinking and,spiritually speaking, the Bible
talks so much about running arace and you think of man.
(21:11):
I ran that half marathon lastyear and I'm not saying that to
brag on here.
I hated it, I liked thetraining, I hated that race, and
so just hear me say that.
But it's a rate like thediscomfort of physically working
out.
We're okay with that because weknow it produces results and we
can see them.
Well, some people are okay withit if you like to do that kind
(21:35):
of thing, and but we're not inalmost any other area because
you can't.
I think you just can't see it.
The same it's not as quick.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So exactly, yeah, so if homeopathy is not working
fast, then people give up tooquickly and too easily.
And then I think that's sounfortunate when people give up
too soon.
Give up too soon so unfortunatebecause it works.
(22:07):
It works at different speedsfor different people.
Some people can respondextremely quickly and some
people just take longer.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, and different layers, I feel like take longer.
At least, I'm just saying that.
I see that I don't know ifthat's totally accurate in every
case, but this is going to getinto next time.
We're going to talk about like.
This is not easy to do, sothere are things and we
(22:39):
mentioned it some last time, butnext week, next week, next time
we're talking about commitmentand community and how that
having community helps you besuccessful in this journey.
So so important yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Thanks guys, that was a good one, that was so
encouraging to me again.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you for talking about that with me.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Love it, I love it, so let's do the fan mail, okay.
Okay, so I have fan mail.
Um, this person is from BatonRouge, louisiana.
She says.
She says hi, melissa, anyexperience or recommendations
for persistent low ferritin?
I take beef organs and livercapsules with vitamin c and
magnesium glycine, eat mostlywhole and organic foods, have
(23:20):
done a pretty extensive detoxand still my ferritin levels are
so low.
Thankfully the iron level isnormal now.
I'm sorry if you have discussedthis and I missed it.
Please point me to the podcast.
If so, thank you.
So ferritin levels and she'staken all the things.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Bree.
Okay, so this is going to be amix of homeopathy and something
else that I've been learningabout.
My mom has a very similarsituation and I've been walking
through this with her.
So to me I see there is anassimilation problem somewhere,
like you're not absorbing that.
So I think a gut problem.
(24:04):
Yeah, it's not just low iron,so it's not like there's
necessarily one protocol.
And also my mom found out she'slate onset menopause, like she
has still not gone throughmenopause and she has very, very
heavy periods and those.
It's a cycle that can cause.
Sorry, mom, if hopefully you'refine with your business out
there, I just think she alreadyknows um there that can feed
(24:30):
into low ferritin and then viceversa, the low ferritin feeds
the heavy period and yourhormones may be off.
So that's something I wouldwant to know.
I would want to know hormonesand cycles.
What are those those like?
But what do you think?
Do you agree there with thedate?
Like the assimilation of the,the iron in the useful iron?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, exactly, um, you know we can, yeah, we need
to support, we need to do guthealth, gut healing and um and
so you know, liver remedies, youknow, as always.
So, liver, liver, supportingthe liver with homeopathic
remedies and good diet, you know, and really digging into the
(25:16):
gut health, what is it?
Why are you not assimilatingthis?
You know these nutrients orthese minerals or whatever it is
that you're struggling with.
So, yeah, gut health, hormonehealth and that's the.
The bulk of what we do withpeople is gut and hormone health
and mental, emotional.
It seems like that tree.
(25:37):
They really just go together.
It's the bulk of what we do andthose you know.
The gut health affectseverything.
It's like the tree that goesout and affects everything.
So, definitely, gut healing.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yep, and that is an area where I think you could add
things that we like we were nothuge supplement people, but
like your meat stock colostrumthose are things that can I
don't want to use the term speedup the process, but can help
physically heal your gutalongside remedies that are
(26:10):
working to heal your gut on adeeper level.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I hope that helps yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I love it, so tune in .
You know, every time we do apodcast, we're going to try to
remember to read fan mail.
We do a podcast, we're going totry to read, to remember to
read fan mail.
And if you want to submit aquestion and have it read on the
show, then just go to um, thewebsite which is on Buzzsprout.
I really should I said I wasgoing to do this last time Um,
(26:40):
so if you just go to yourregular podcast player, let's
see, like, if you go to iTunes Iknow not everybody uses iTunes,
(27:00):
but I just want to see if Iwant to see if it's on iTunes.
Library has to update, so I'vebeen in here forever, okay.
So if I click on my podcast andI go to the most recent one
embracing alternative paths towellbeing, um, oh, right there,
so in, okay, so in, no, I don'tmean iTunes, I mean what's the
(27:22):
podcast?
What's the Apple podcasts?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh well, I think it's just called podcast iTunes.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Is it iTunes?
Well, in your podcast playerright there at the top, text to
Melissa and she'll answer it onthe next episode.
So it just says it right thereDing oh and I click it.
Oops, oh, look, and then itactually pulls up.
Ding oh and I click it.
Oops, oh, look, and then itactually pulls up like you're
really going to text me.
(27:50):
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Oh that's so fun, Not fun.
So wherever you listen to thispodcast, you can click on the um
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It'll send that to me.
It doesn't actually come to myphone, it goes to the app and
(28:10):
then I get a notification and Iread it, but so we can read
those.
So if you have a question, goahead and submit that.
We'll read it on the, on thenext one or or in a future one.
And thanks for listening.
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