Four Reasons To Check In With Your Homeopath

Life is busy, especially if you have children. You’re managing other lives at the same time as your own.

When you go and see your homeopath, you get to hit pause and look at what is going on for you and your loved ones. It’s a breath out of the momentum of every day life and a chance to share about what is really going on.

However, when you leave the clinic, it’s very easy to get swept back up into the day to day and forget to come back to your homeopath.

Let me tell you why you need to make sure you do - whether you set an alarm to remind yourself or make a booking before you leave your appointment.

1. Your homeopath is thinking about you.
   At the back of a homeopath’s mind is the people they have come to know through the personal stories they have shared in the consultation. Every so often, someone will flick into their mind and they’ll wonder how they are going. Did the remedy help? Are they ok? Do they need anything else? Homeopaths get into homeopathy to help people, so they want to know you’re doing ok, and if you’re not, then they want to help with that too. It’s likely they don’t have the time to chase you around to see how things have progressed either, so it’s up to you to get back to them.

2. You need to know how your remedy is doing
   Often, client’s come to their follow up thinking the remedy hasn’t done anything only to realise that a bunch of symptoms have disappeared. They just didn’t notice them leaving. Or, you may feel like you haven’t made a large shift but your symptoms are far less intense and less frequent. It’s important to get back to your homeopath so that you know you’re progressing. Not all remedies feel like a big shift, in fact many times the shift is very gentle. We humans like to forget discomfort and pain as soon as we are out of it. It is positive for both you and your homeopath to know you have made progress in your health and wellbeing.

3. It’s important for homeopathy
   What happens after a remedy is given is very important for the experience and knowledge of the homeopath. Remedies are like people - there are many facets and layers to them. For example, Pulsatilla has about 33,000 symptoms. It’s a complicated and vast subject, and so finding out what happened with a remedy adds to the knowledge about that remedy. We also train homeopaths based on the knowledge we glean from provings and cases, and as a body are constantly improving our data about remedies.
   It is also important for homeopathy if you feel nothing has happened, to find out if that is actually the case or if you need longer/a different potency/a different prescription/another remedy. If you feel nothing has happened, and don’t check back in, and then tell people it hasn’t worked, that is a) potentially untrue and b) damaging for homeopathy as a whole. Health is not a race and it can take a while to get someone who has spent years getting into an unhealthy state back out of it. There are often layers to be addressed, organs to be supported, processes of the body that need to come into line before the underlying condition can even be reached. Letting your homeopath guide you through this process helps with your understanding and gives homeopathy the space it needs to improve your life.

4. It’s part of what you paid for
   If you pay for a consult, checking back in with your homeopath - even if it’s a quick email or call - is usually part of that consultation fee. If you’ve paid for it, why not take advantage of that qualified, professional’s time? You’re not bothering a homeopath by letting them know what happened, we love hearing how things are going even if it’s not positive.

With that in mind, have you contacted your homeopath lately?