Calling Homeopathy lovers, facebook users and tweeters

10/30/2013

Homeopathy in the UK. It's been a funny old time recently, and yet I feel increasingly positive the tide is turning. We needed a wake up call, we needed to work together as an organisation and we needed to grow together as a profession. Which has been one of the gifts that the skeptic movement has given us.

Many of us practice homeopathy slightly differently to each other, indeed just as many General Practitioners practice slightly differently to each other. We are working towards the same goal (both homeopaths and GPs too I guess albeit from even more different angles) - that of an increased level of health. For the Homeopaths amongst us that may include a lower dependence on medication, a greater feeling of wellness, as well as a concrete reduction in symptoms for the patient. Sometimes it's an education about living well as well as the remedy prescribed. It's an individual thing - and I believe it has to be. Afterall, my needs are very different from yours. It's the memory of the same goal, the same healing potential that we're aware of with this very incredible medicine that for me means it's essential to work as a coherent whole. We work with holistic medicine, so surely being holistic in our approach to each other is the way forwards?

It is for me anyway - and to be honest in all areas. I want to see integrated healthcare where the medics and complementary practitioners work to each others' strengths. I feel we have much to give. Working with food choices, homeopathy and other complementary medicines can make significant changes and improvements in health. Working together, both parties can provide better care for the individual. However I digress. Tangents I am good at.

Working together as a profession, as professional homeopaths is what 4 Homeopathy have created. A partnership between the leading registering bodies for homeopathic practitioners, patients groups, charities and other stakeholder organisations. And this is what I'm calling homeopathy lovers, facebook users and tweeters for. There is lots to do, much to be involved in and with and much we on the ground can help with.

Have you benefitted from Homeopathic treatment? The Find a Homeopath website is collecting testimonials from patients who've found homeopathy and helped their complaints using it. It would be brilliant if you could take 2 minutes to share your story.

Do you tweet? Follow @HomeopathyWFM - there's a fabulous, fresh new awareness campaign coming very soon.

Facebook more your thing? Homeopathy Worked for Me is where it's at on facebook. You can like the page and follow updates as they evolve.

YouTube? I love to listen to videos whilst I'm cooking - whether it be homeopathy, food or... well usually it's homeopathy or food. FindaHomeopath on YouTube enables you to listen to brilliant, world famous homeopaths in the comfort of your home.

So check out the links, follow for brilliant information, and watch out for the really, really exciting awareness campaign that's coming very soon!

With gratitude and love,
Em x

4 Comments

Audrey Ellis

10/30/2013 10:14:52 pm

Great to know you are trying to break the mode - hard work trying to convince people it works?? - I do my little bit! Keep up the good work.. Audrey.

Emma Colley link

10/31/2013 07:48:39 am

Thanks for your message Audrey. It's more about sharing the positives than convincing people for me now...

People do seem to find it at the right time for them often - which was definitely the case for me - and without a doubt the case for my horse who were were wondering whether she'd have to have her eye removed when we stumbled upon this alternative therapy called homeopathy! How lucky she was not to have 6 weekly steroid injections into her eyelid (and continued that way with total relief from her recurrent eye disease up until her death 2 years ago... no more eye issues at all!)

Best wishes,

Em

Carolyn Graham link

1/27/2014 08:12:46 pm

Hi Em, homoeopathy has been under huge attack in Australia as well, as I believe it has around the world, largely riding on the back of what occurred in the UK a few years ago with the House of Commons enquiry etc. About a year to 18 months ago, I was feeling really down about it all. In Australia we have really united and have some amazing organisations to support homoeopaths such as the Australian Homoeopathic Association, the Australian Association of Professional Homoeopaths, and the Australian Register of Homoeopaths which liaises and talks to government departments, and other medical research bodies, who seem bent on the demise of homoeopathy.

However, despite all this so called negative press we have received, I think it has actually been the best thing to happen to Homoeopathy in a long time. There are several reasons. Firstly, it has made us all get really serious about what we do, and get our collective act together, which in some areas, we really needed to do. Secondly, it has sorted out the 'wood from the chaff', so to speak. So those of us who are really committed and dedicated and not easily tipped off the path have become even more so, and those who were flailing around and not really sure have left and gone to other modalities or occupations, and that's good too. As we know, Homoeopathy is not for the faint-hearted or less than committed. It requires courage, perseverance, belief, commitment and outright strength to stay practicing against all the odds. It has also given us a lot of media coverage, and caused the public to want to know more about this amazing healing art. I think I am now busier than I have ever been, as the public questions how to best bring about their health goals and aspirations. It may have also deepened the disbelief of the hardcore sceptics, but I'm not concerned with that at all. Such is life.

And yes, I am wholeheartedly in agreement with you - we need to take an integrated approach to healing. Integrated medicine is indeed the medicine of the future, where both medics and naturopaths, homoeopaths, herbalists, acupuncturists, chinese medicine practitioners, and all other kinds of insightful and skilled practitioners work together to create the ultimate outcome for their patients. This is what it is all about to me. I think we are slowly but surely heading in this direction. I have absolutely no doubt that homoeopathy will come through with flying colours, despite the oftentimes apparent negative setbacks. It just makes us work harder, and produce best practice. Isn't that wonderful? ! I think it is.

Thank you for your post and keep on keeping on. Your comments are great. All the best and many good wishes to you and all the dedicated and wonderful homoeopaths in the UK.

Carolyn Graham
Homoeopath
Australia.

Emma Colley

1/28/2014 08:47:32 pm

Carolyn - it's great to hear how things are in Australia and the effects that the negativity has had on the positive growth of homeopathy!

It would be wonderful if you've a story or two that you could share on the Find a Homeopath website. We've testimonials from individuals around the world and as a collection of information I think it could benefit us globally. It's: www.findahomeopath.org.uk/HaveYourSay

Thanks so much for taking the time out to respond to my post - I really enjoyed reading everything you shared.

Wishing you well too - it's great to see people looking for alternatives and improving their health more than they could have imagined, and great as you say to see the dedication of everyone involved.

Best wishes,

Em

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