Hello,

I recently worked with a creative entrepreneur, designing things that sell in high-end outlets. Facing life changes, she was drinking more and sleeping less, worsening quality of life all around. She had pains that moved around, unpredictably and distractingly.

Persistent issues sometimes form a self-reinforcing loop. It is actually common in the clients I work with, the equivalent of an athlete spraining their ankle. I find it shows up in people who build from imagination, in boardrooms or studios. People who chart their own paths are often susceptible to constellations of inscrutable symptoms, mental and physical manifestations of energy getting stuck, and stuck hard, particularly during transitions.

In our initial conversation, I listened deeply to her past, present, and histories of injuries. It told the story of a specific remedy, in homeopathic parlance. This is the work of the homeopath: grasping a core of suffering and matching it to an element in nature that reflects it, like cures like. That is something no AI will ever do because machines can never know what it feels like to be human.

A few weeks in, she started sleeping longer and deeper, while having a lot of strange, vivid dreams (a common occurrence in my experience when homeopathy acts at a deep level). In the coming months, the sleep continued to improve with fewer dreams and then she noticed the depression diminished, negative thought patterns nearly fully resolved, and she was drinking less. This was a new, positive loop, reinforcing health on multiple levels simultaneously. To top it off, those wandering pains were gone as well. In fact, she had forgotten about them by our next check-in.

We may do more work together later on, tackling deeper-seated issues. But for the time being, I’d say success. We hit pause once she got better, what a novel idea! Far different from unending prescriptions that suppress symptoms.

It is a remarkable thing to witness a client beginning the process of untangling knots, clearing paths to energy and creative flow. And for those who live and work from their imagination, energy and creative flow may be a good working definition of health.

Until next time,

Roddy