1m: A Homeopath's Podcast

Yesterday was Halloween, but the scary story that we've been grappling with- and will continue to- is the quiet action of the FDA, chipping away our access to homeopathic remedies.    This is episode 39 of the 1M podcast. Today I’ve brought you not just a great interview, but one of extreme importance to the health and future of homeopathy here in the United States, though I’m sure it will be of interest and enlightening to those out of the US as well.   Around the world there are waves of resistance and attacks against homeopathy in one form or another, so even if this isn’t happening where you live, you may face a different threat to the health and longevity of homeopathy, and I think whats’ happening here is applicable to everywhere in some ways, and vice versa.   So my guest today is someone who has become a familiar face to those of us who love homeopathy. Paola Brown, of the state of Texas here in the US, is an avid supporter of homeopathy, not only with her own family but as you’ll hear in her story, s

Hello Friends… I’m so happy that you’ve joined me!  We’re going to dive into discovery together with my awesome, fun guests today- Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray   I often start the top of the show with a quote that I particularly like from the interview- and it typically isn’t me -BUT-  in this case, it seemed really apropos because some really cool connections followed my interview with Denise and Alastair that kind of illustrated what I was sharing in the quote about how I build my content organically.   Regular listeners may have listed to my interview in August with Karen Allen, episode 37,- which was so fabulous and please take a listen if you haven’t yet- and in the interview Karen spoke about her Start up to Stellar class for homeopaths to create an outrageously successful practice.   She was gracious and generous and offered my listeners 25% off the class enrollment fee- such a beautiful gift which I did take advantage of, as I have been wanting to take that class for years.   So- I signed up for

Today's episode is an hour and some change of unparalleled value - an interview with Karen Allen, senior practitioner and so much more…. I pulled the quote out there at the top of the show because I felt like Karen put into words what so many of us feel at some point in our lives as we become deeper and deeper embedded in homeopathy. But it’s not only Karen’s words that are engaging here, it’s how she says it. Karen speaks like a story teller… and I was rapt with attention as she shared her experiences. You will be engaged and drawn in, I promise. But you also might want to pull out a piece of paper and a pen, to take notes. After this interview, I felt like i left with as many chunks to chew on and additional resources to follow up on, and solid tips for practice, as if I had been at an all day seminar. There are a number of ways that you may have heard of Karen Allen, or crossed paths with her, including here, because I brought up Karen Allen in my episodes on doing a practice inventory. (Episode 28) I quot

As promised from Episode 32,  I have an audio recording for you of me reading Constantine Hering's essay- On the Study of Homeopathic Materia Medica.  In this recording, I allow the essay to stand alone, with no commentary.    I also recommend reading it yourself here:  http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopathy_pro/hering_1.html Several times.    In the next episode, I will share my reflections on the essay, as well as my experience putting the method to the test.  I invite you, my dear listener, to put it to the test as well and tell me and your fellow colleagues about it! Shoot me an email at concentrichealing@gmail.com, OR write it up on a Facebook post.  Many thanks! 

Today I have a conversation with Spero Latchis, a senior homeopath now living in Portland, Maine, though as you will hear in our conversation, he has had a unique and wide ranging career that’s taken him from Vermont, to India, and now here to Portland.   I’m late getting this podcast out and for that I apologize…. summer comes a bit fast and furious here to Maine after a slow spring and I got a bit swept up in the seasonal change- it’s hard to sit behind the desk and microphone when its barefoot season and the garden is growing.   So many great things came up in my conversation with Spero, in particular I was very intrigued by his suggestion to read Constatine Herrings’ article about how to study a remedy. I read it pretty quickly after I talked to Spero- and then I set about putting it to the test.   Because I’m an audiophile, and I think we often absorb information differently when we hear it, I’m publishing a second part to this interview, which is me reading the Herring article. I’ll put out one more epi

  Desiree Brazelton approached me about sharing her work addressing parenting within her practice of consulting with children, and indicated that she had been thinking about the remedy states of certain parenting styles.   I loved this idea, as in my own life as a homeschooling parent and a practitioner who has a lot of families and children in my practice, I feel like I observe first hand how different parenting styles can both enrich and support the homeopathic process, and how they can also be a huge barrier and obstacle to cure- as you heard in the introductory quote.   So today I’m going to share with you our conversation which ranges far and wide, as we touched on so many of the elements of parenting and homeopathy that intersect when working with children. The ability to work with children and infants and even pregnant mothers is such a cornerstone of homeopathy, and I have always felt,  a unique aspect to it because with many other modalities, the options are limited. Acupuncture, for example, may be

Today I’m bringing you an interview I did with Lauren Fox and Holly Manoogian, of Homeopaths Without Borders. HWB is a volunteer run organization that was founded in 1996. Their mission-from the website-  is to introduce or advance the understanding and use of homeopathy in areas where it does not yet exist or is minimally available, as well as to promote and provide homeopathic care and healing in emergency situations.   To date they have provided service in Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Haiti.   There is much more to the history and evolution of the organization at their website, hwbna.org. You can visit there and read all about the visionary individuals who have been a part of its beginnings and subsequent success.   Please especially check out the information about their clinical curriculum-Essential Curriculum for Learning Homeopathy-  which is available to purchase in English, or French.  It’s a thorough, compact training thats’ making its way around the world,

  Today's guest is Laurel Chiten, filmmaker of Just One Drop, one of two documentaries about homeopathy that is screening around the globe as I speak.   If you are a long-time listener, or you’ve checked out some back episodes, you may remember that I interviewed Laurel right about this time 2 years ago, before Just One Drop was released, before she even knew when it would be released.   In fact, I believe it premiered in the UK last year during Homeopathy Awareness Week, which is coming right up, April 7th-the 15th.   If you are a homeopath, it is very likely that you are aware of this film and perhaps you have even had the opportunity to see it. But in case you have *not*, Just One Drop was conceived of and created by Laurel Chiten and her amazing crew to tackle the question- has homeopathy been given a fair trial?   The film circles the globe and time, focusing closely in on one family’s experience with homeopathy and their autistic son, Lucas, and then zooming out and uncovering the truth behind the famed

Today I am pleased to bring you my conversation with Carla Marcelis, of the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy in Canada, about her work in the clinics of Honduras bringing homeopathy to remote areas where the need is great.   Homeopathy as a first line defense, as a first response to crisis and natural disaster, as the best option for bringing a high standard of care to areas of need around the world… these thoughts have been at the forefront of many of my homeopathic musings lately.   I’m someone who has always been drawn to working where the need is great; I did so when I was a teacher, and naturally when i began studying homeopathy I was thrilled to learn that there were organizations like Homeopaths without Borders and HHA, and now, HTSF http://terresansfrontieres.ca/en/sending-volunteers/professionals-without-borders/homeopathes-de-terre-sans-frontieres/   This type of work has always called to me, but I think now, more than ever, the call for this work within homeopathy is loud.   In my news f

Links for this episode:  http://www.wholehealthnow.com   I encountered my guest for today, Kim Elia, when I took my first Whole Health Now course with Will Taylor, Acute Prescribing, several years ago.   I remember Kim’s voice and speaking style being so distinctive and memorable, not to mention how he would rattle off Aphorisms of the Organon from memory without missing a beat.   I thought- who IS this guy? And is he for real? Does someone REALLY possess that kind of knowledge and reference and acuity?   The answer is, yes, yes he really does, and he is real because not only did I get to talk to him in person for over an hour in the conversation that I share with you today, but he is also one of the individuals I met at the Homeopathy-One Conference. That is why I am calling this episode ‘everything and more with Kim Elia’ because he IS everything you think he might be and he knows everything you think he might know… AND more.   And though he is as busy as you would expect for a top international homeopathy

Welcome to Season 3!  I crossed paths Ananda at the Homeopathy-One Conference, and being the blatant opportunist I have become around my podcast, wasted no time in introducing myself and asking her if she would come on the podcast to talk about her film and experience creating it.   Being the gracious, and now *necessarily* opportunist she must be in promoting her film, she agreed.   In addition to now being a filmmaker, Ananda is a homeopath and CEASE practitioner, as well as a doula and reiki master, a business owner as co-owner of Riverdale Homeopathy in Toronto, as well as a mother.   Magic Pills was an 8 year journey in the making, and you will hear all about that in our interview. She traveled from Toronto to Cuba, India and Tanzania to document some of the biggest and most impressive large-scale efforts in homeopathy, covering homeoprophylaxis, the Banerji clinics, and Homeopathy for Health in Africa. Her travels took her to many other places as well, many that didn't make the film, but are slated for

Year in Review Mash-UP with Case Inventory Part 2: Five Ways to Learn from Your Results (this is a lightly edited version of the podcast transcript)    It IS the time of year for reflection, review, and resolution, is it not?   Perhaps you engage in your own personal reflection this time of year, maybe guided by a spiritual practice or desire for change, new habits, you know.. the standard lines of resolution.   Why not bring your homeopathic Practice- with a capital P- into consideration?   To start, let’s dig a bit deeper into the word ‘Resolution’   late Middle English: from Latin resolutio(n-), from resolvere ‘loosen, release’   I love that idea- to loosen, or release in the origin of the word, because the first definition of  resolution according to Webster is:   1) a firm decision to do or not to do something:   2) the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter   3) the process of reducing or separating something into its components   and   the smallest interval measurable by a scientif

The Homeopathy One Conference in Bruges, Belgium, October 13-15 was a bold experiment, envisioned and created by Rajan Sankaran and Frederick Schroyens and their Homeopathy-One team.  Join me as I share the sounds of Bruges and my experience at the conference: -interviews with participating homeopaths who traveled from America, the UK, India, and more -key take-aways from presentations by master homeopaths Frederick Schroyens, Massimo Mangialavore, Jeremy Sherr, Marcelo Candegabe, Michal Yakir, Jan Scholten, Jonathan Hardy, and Rajan Sankaran.  - what happens when the above masters all hear and analyze the same case... with surprising results.  Two hundred and eighty people attended the conference... let's share it with thousands!  This episode covers Day Three. Be sure to check out the previous episode, covering Days One and Two, as they set the stage. This final installment covers Day Three, the live case. Listen to excerpts of each homeopath's unique approach and perspective.  Plus a review ofthe pre-conf

The Homeopathy One Conference in Bruges, Belgium, October 13-15 was a bold experiment, envisioned and created by Rajan Sankaran and Frederick Schroyens and their Homeopathy-One team.  Join me as I share the sounds of Bruges and my experience at the conference: -interviews with participating homeopaths who traveled from America, the UK, India, and more -key take-aways from presentations by master homeopaths Frederick Schroyens, Massimo Mangialavore, Jeremy Sherr, Marcelo Candegabe, Michal Yakir, Jan Scholten, Jonathan Hardy, and Rajan Sankaran.  - what happens when the above masters all hear and analyze the same case... with surprising results.  Two hundred and eighty people attended the conference... let's share it with thousands!  This episode covers Day Two. Be sure to check out the previous episode, covering Day One as it sets the stage. The final installment will cover day Three, the live case plus reviewing the pre-conference interview with Rajan Sankaran and Frederick Schroyens back in April.

The Homeopathy One Conference in Bruges, Belgium, October 13-15 was a bold experiment, envisioned and created by Rajan Sankaran and Frederick Schroyens and their Homeopathy-One team.  Join me as I share the sounds of Bruges and my experience at the conference: -interviews with participating homeopaths who traveled from America, the UK, India, and more -key take-aways from presentations by master homeopaths Frederick Schroyens, Massimo Mangialavore, Jeremy Sherr, Marcelo Candegabe, Michal Yakir, Jan Scholten, Jonathan Hardy, and Rajan Sankaran.  - what happens when the above masters all hear and analyze the same case... with surprising results.  Two hundred and eighty people attended the conference... let's share it with thousands!  This episode covers Day One, upcoming episodes will cover Day Two, and Day Three. Listen to them all, share, and consider attending next time! 

Hello- welcome to 1M: A Homeopath’s Podcast.  I’m Kelly Callahan and this is Episode 24. Repertory with Roger: A case of Hitting the Wall   Roger Van Zandvoort and I have connected several times over the course of the year to talk repertory strategies in the form of a tutoring session for me, utilizing cases from his Clinical Case Project. They have been invaluable sessions, even though the cases are over 1/2 a century old, best practices for repertorization don’t change.   What has changed to some extent are our cases between now and then- what we talk about with patients, the issues they come to us with, and to some extent the types of complaints and treatment they have already had.   I asked Roger if he would be up for doing one of our sessions with a case from my own practice, so we could put the techniques he has to share to a modern case, and see what - if any- different issues arose and pointers that may be unique to a case of the 21st century.    The case I’m going to share is a new one to me- I wante

There are a lot great homeopaths who have contributed greatly to our Materia Medica in a variety of ways, but when I realized that I wanted to start bringing more MM into the podcast- I thought about calling the person who wrote the book I reach for the most- Frans Vermeulen, the creator and author of Prisma….   Frans graciously agreed to talk with me, shortly after he and his wife Dr. Linda Johnston, moved to Texas.   Now, before I make some short remarks about our conversation, I want to make sure we’re all on the same page about who Frans Vermeulen is, and what he has contributed to our Materia Medica. I’ll save the biographical details for him, as he shares them in our conversation.   Publication wise, he has published   Prisma- as I mentioned- and the The Concordant Reference, first and expanded Second Edition   I’d like to share a review by Will Taylor, commenting on these two references:   Franz Vermeulen's Prisma is - first of all - a beautiful book. Care in creation is what we've all come to expect f

  Hi Folks!   Repertory with Roger is back, with case #311 from his Clinical Case Comparison Project.   I open the episode with a snippet of the conversation with Roger where he responds to  my comment that there seems to be a bit of magic in this whole process.   Doesn’t homeopathy reek of magic? Especially when you see a Master at work. Like becoming musician or a martial artist, there are years that go into learning fundamentals before you begin to click into another gear and all of your fundamentals fuel a kind of intuitive ease and knowing that you simply cannot access without having put in that time.   The case we’re going to go over is: Homoeopathic Recorder 1939, vol. 9., p. 32. Julia M. Green: Cases helped by unusual remedies   A slender, graceful woman of 35 years, unmarried, skin soft and smooth, has extremely poor inheritance. She seems to have both venereal miasms and psora mixed; never strong, always ailing. Some of the marked, recurrent symptoms: Swelling of eyelids, upper and lower. Itching ed

Hey everyone! It’s great to be back, recording a new episode of 1M: a Homeopath’s Podcast. It was great to have a reprieve from the monthly episodes- summer was full of great stuff both homeopathy oriented and just life here in Maine ,which is just about perfect this time of year. Some fun serendipity is that we adopted a new puppy into our family and we actually went out to Chicago to pick her up. We went in June, just after I launched the summer bookclub reading Kent’s Lectures, and there we were in Chicago, which is Kent country…. And my summer was filled with Kent! About 25 homeopaths, students, and even a couple of parents who are super dedicated to using homeopathy in their families, read together and discussed Kent’s Lectures within a private Facebook group, and then a handful of us connected online every couple weeks to talk in person and have a more traditional discussion.   For some of us it was reading Kent for the first time, for others of us, it was a first time reading cover to cover, for others

When I began the podcast in January of 2016, I had a list of homeopaths who I knew I wanted to reach out to. Today’s guest, Shilpa Bhouraskar, was one of the first on my list. I had been following Shilpa’s blog and trainings through Homeoquest for a couple of years, and was impressed with the range of trainings she offered from teachers around the world, as well as her own writing and video tutorials.   I reached out to Shilpa and she graciously made time in her busy schedule and we recorded this interview over a year ago, actually, in March of 2016. I didn’t have a specific episode plan for it, so set it aside, and then I actually thought that I lost it in the depths of my digital files.   But as things happen, I wanted to offer another interview for this months’ regular episode, and I remembered my conversation with Shilpa and thought it was more perfect for this years’ theme of failure, than if I had published it last year. I don’t think the word ‘failure’ ever comes up in our talk, but Shilpa embodies the