My Evolution as a Homeopath
When I first started practicing homeopathy, I really leaned in. Homeopathy could help people with debilitating lifelong conditions that didn’t respond to conventional meds. How amazing! Early success led me to believe that I had to perform miracles to consider myself a good practitioner. I leaned in even more.
Secretly, I wanted to be like my childhood hero, Superman, in an invisible cloak.
Yet, I kept writing in my practice journal: Help facilitate profound transformation.
From Superman to Clark Kent
Profound transformation changes a person from within. Operation rescues are amazing, but not transformational. There is a place and time for swooping in to eliminate someone’s suffering - in emergencies, and when the person can’t help themselves. At other times, there is room for the client to lean in.
Increasingly, I felt uneasy about my part in these “operation rescues”.
I started formal coach training and returned to my own roots - Chinese philosophy.
From Stephen Cowan, the founder of Tournesol Kids, I learnt how to work with the Five Elements in healing and coaching. From Dinesh Chauhan, who was starting his own “Right Brain approach” to homeopathic healing, I learnt how to sit with a client, listen deeply and use different tools to enable her individuality to emerge spontaneously. From Ton Jansen, I learnt how to channel the flow of deep healing with supporting and clearing remedies.
I am a conscientious student who can’t write within the lines. But I owe these teachers my heartfelt gratitude for showing me paths that I have merged in my own work.
Today, I still use remedies that can work little miracles. More importantly, I help the client to appreciate the power (s)he has in stepping through the portal of disease without disowning her symptoms. Our illness and our strengths are two faces of the same energy. Together, we weave light into the shadows.
I have a little secret sauce. When I meet a client for the first time, I usually have a sense of who the client can be. Let’s just call it his/her superpower. I keep this vision in my mind, throughout our healing journey together.
Becoming Superheroes, remaining Clark Kent
There is a famous 25-second scene in the 1978 movie where the actor Christopher Reeve transitions from Superman to Clark Kent and then, by the sheer genius of his acting, he embodies Superman without changing into a flashy leotard.
We are all capable of becoming our own Superheroes going about day to day lives. It just takes a little courage and guidance to connect with our innate power to embody our special gifts.