Homeopathy with Sarah

Ever wondered what homeopathy actually involves and whether it really works? Join me for an honest conversation with Sarah Cooper, who shares her incredible 16-year journey from conventional "tablet for every symptom" thinking to embracing homeopathy as a cornerstone of her family's healthcare.

What You'll Discover:

• How a holistic lifestyle course during personal trainer certification opened Sarah's mind to alternative approaches
• Why pregnancy became the turning point that led her to discover homeopathy through hypnobirthing
• Real stories of using homeopathy for everything from children's teething to managing perimenopause
• Sarah's powerful mastitis experience that convinced her of homeopathy's effectiveness
• How to find the right practitioner through personal recommendations (not Google!)
• The difference between classical and integrative homeopathic approaches

Episode Highlights:

• Why Sarah initially became "gung-ho" about alternatives and how she found balance
• That crucial hospital visit with croup that taught her when conventional medicine is essential
• The "calming remedy" that helps with family stress and school anxiety
• How homeopathy looks at root causes, not just symptoms
• Sarah's 24-hour mastitis test that changed everything

Perfect for anyone curious about alternative medicine, frustrated with symptom-only healthcare, or wondering how to integrate holistic approaches safely with conventional medicine. Sarah's balanced perspective shows it's not about choosing one or the other.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction - What is homeopathy?
03:00 Sarah's conventional health background
04:00 The holistic lifestyle course that changed everything
07:00 Pregnancy and discovering homeopathy through hypnobirthing
09:00 Home birth experience and early family use
11:00 Being "gung-ho" about alternatives vs finding balance
12:00 Hospital visit with croup - when conventional medicine is essential
14:00 Cost considerations and learning which remedies to use
16:00 The "calming remedy" for family stress and anxiety
18:00 Finding practitioners through personal recommendations
20:00 Two different homeopaths and their varying approaches
22:00 Classical vs integrative homeopathy explained
25:00 Why 16 years of evidence convinced her it works
27:00 The mastitis story that changed everything
29:00 Sarah's current work and menopause program

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Transcript

Exploring homeopathy with Sarah

 [00:00:00] Have you ever wished your healthcare provider had more than 10 minutes to really understand what was going on with your health? Not just your symptoms, but your sleep , stress levels, emotions, and what might be causing your issues in the first place.

Welcome back to Exploring Ways To Wellness. I'm Sarah, and today I'm chatting with a longtime friend Sarah Cooper about her fascinating journey with homeopathy, a practice that takes exactly this kind of holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

For those new to homeopathy, it's a gentle system of medicine that uses highly diluted natural substances to stimulate the body's own healing response. Sarah's path from conventional tablet for every symptom thinking to [00:01:00] embracing homeopathy began with a holistic lifestyle course that deepened during pregnancy.

What started as curiosity became a 16 year family healthcare journey that supported everything from the children's teething troubles to managing perimenopause. You'll discover how homeopathy works differently from conventional medicine. Why finding the right practitioner is crucial, and here Sarah's compelling stories that truly convinced her of its power.

We'll also discover how she balances alternative approaches with conventional medicine when needed, because sometimes, as Sarah learned, it's not about choosing one or the other whether you are homeopathy curious, or wondering if there's more to healthcare than symptom management, this conversation offers genuine insights from someone who's been using it successfully [00:02:00] for over a decade and a half.

Sarah G: I am thrilled today to be joined by Sarah Cooper, who has been a friend of mine for longer, probably than we to admit to many years. I know

from the point that, she has also helped me through numerous life experiences from, I dunno if you remember this, climbing Kilimanjaro at one point. Yes, I do. Sarah, I do. Yeah. Having the kids. And she had some amazing live classes during lockdown. I enjoyed, yeah. Oh yeah. And more recently support with perimenopause.

But we've come onto that more at the end. Because Sarah's not here to talk about personal training today. She's here to talk about homeopathy. So welcome Sarah. 

Sarah C: Hi Sarah. Hi. Nice to be here. 

Sarah G: It's great that you were able to join us today. I'm sure [00:03:00] everyone's gonna find this really interesting. But if you wouldn't mind by starting with just giving me a little bit of, background into how you came across homeopathy, what even is it?

And how you use it. 

Sarah C: Cool. Okay. So basically my background obviously is in exercise and teaching classes, pt, that kind of thing. So I've pretty much done that, since I was a teenager. And I went full-time. So was doing it part-time along with my corporate per persona, which was yeah, obviously where we met at.

I did a sort of, did a few more courses and things and then decided to go full time with my personal training. So that was way back when in the sort of early 2000's. And as part of it, I did a course, which was holistic lifestyle. So it really, up until that point I'd been quite, very conventional with,

with regards to health, et cetera. It was very much had a headache, [00:04:00] took a headache tablet, that sort of thing. Yeah. And as a family we were quite, conventional, so there wasn't any sort of alternatives I was coming across with when I was growing up.

So I did this course and it really opened this much more holistic ideal about how we approach health. Obviously it looked to, how exercise was, could change and, support us, et cetera. And then it brought in these other areas of, things like, okay, we are what we eat, we are when we eat where.

We're only as healthy as our sleep, stress management and the idea that we go through all these stresses in our life and not necessarily just the stress where we're like, stressed at work and things how this all impacts on us.

So there was that element of, okay, we're we are these sort of human beings that are having to deal with all of this stuff on, in our everyday lives. And also this element that we're more than just our physical beings. Our emotions physical, mental, emotional it's all in the pot.

So all of a sudden I was moving [00:05:00] out of this kind of physical realm. I'd always been in the physical, and thinking about muscles and all kinds of things, and it was like, oh gosh. Okay. So actually I'm working with clients and what they're eating through the day, how that's energizing them.

Yes, I've done sort of basic nutrition, but again, it was more like, okay, different foods affecting different people and the timings that they're eating when obviously now, there's lots of information about intermittent fasting and all kinds of things. But yeah, just looking at, the timing about eating, and again, how the food that we eat during the day then might impact us on with our sleep. And then if we're not sleeping as well, that's gonna impact us physically and mentally. So it was yeah, I just really got a much more rounded view, of how we operate as human beings.

Sarah G: So I guess, so it sounds like it came from. Part of the sort of education you were doing Yeah. For your business and for the personal training side, but then it really connected with you and made sense with you to the point that it's this is not something I should just be [00:06:00] working with clients with, but it's actually something that personally I could benefit.

Yeah. Because that's not what I'm doing at the moment. 

Sarah C: Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. So then, there was lots of talk about, okay, actually what medications are doing. So literally. They're obviously, we'll go to the doctor or we'll obviously nowadays we'll Google something and there'll be something to help the symptom, but again, it was quite oh, okay.

So actually medications, et cetera, are treating symptoms, not necessarily underlying causes. So again, this was a bit of a mind shift for me. And then a couple years later after I did the course, I was pregnant. So up until that point I was just embracing the, the idea, if you like, of, this sort of holistic living hadn't really come across homeopathy or.

Even anything alternative, if you like. It was just more like you say, the education. So then when I became pregnant all of a sudden it was like, oh okay, how do I do holistic pregnancy now? Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So [00:07:00] it was, where does this come in so well, a couple of books.

There was one that sort of stood out Heal Our Children and it was yeah. Again, and this started to talk about. There was a lot of nutrition based elements to it and yeah, just and in there it was talking about homeopathy and things like that, more natural remedies and things.

Sarah G: It's interesting timing actually, because I can relate to that in that I suddenly became more aware of what I was putting in my body when I was pregnant. Yeah. Being responsible for myself, it was being responsible for another being as well.

Yeah. So I, I can Yeah. Totally see how that would be a time in your life that you start to consider these things. Yes. Start to more than you might have done before. 

Sarah C: Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. No, definitely. And I think, yeah, obviously, yes, we know, we should be eating healthily, but again, it was this sort of more rounded view of actually, just being more aware of, okay, if I'm, if I'm taking medication, what does that, what [00:08:00] does that mean? Or, I dunno. Yeah. Just this sort of more rounded view, so I then looked into, so one of the things I really wanted to do was have a home birth.

So I looked into obviously how to best go forward with that, should we say. And came across a hypnobirthing. So there was a lady. In the area who ran this hypno birthing course. So we signed up and she was also a homeopath. So as part of her, obviously she was doing the h the hypno birthing, but then she was also supporting, mums and dads, with homeopathy.

So that's my, that was my very first experience was within pregnancy. I can't even think, I can't even think back now to maybe what she, what I, she would've prescribed on. I think most probably just, I think, yeah the emotional side of things and, that sort of the fear element that comes into, being pregnant and then thinking about the birth.

So I felt like I had, I was really convicted that I wanted a home birth. I felt like I'd done, as much as I could to facilitate that. [00:09:00] And then obviously yeah, armed with homeopathy. As well. So then I had my first, so yeah, I had this home birth, which was, yeah, a bit of a roller coaster, but it was all, it all went to plan.

And then, yeah so I started to, we went to see the cranial osteopathy. We obviously continue to use the homeopathy for healing. All sorts of things as he was a baby, there was his teething and things like that. So it really became part of, how I was now raising, my son, how I was dealing with, myself and my health, et cetera.

So yeah, that was the first. Yeah. Proper kind of experience, I would say. That was where I first started using homeopathy. So yeah, he's now he's turning about to turn 16, so that was, yeah, 16 years ago. In fact, that's probably about this time of year actually, because he was born in November.

So yeah, I think it must have been about this time I was doing the the hypnobirthing classes. 

Sarah G: Oh my gosh, that's amazing to think. It's mad, isn't it? Because I also did hypnobirthing for both my [00:10:00] children. So did you? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It definitely gives you a whole new perspective on childbirth and how, like this other options, it really opens your mind, doesn't it?

It how you can control the environment and the experience that you have. Yes. You connecting that mind and body together. Oh, absolutely. That you're just not taught. 

Sarah C: Yeah. Yeah, totally. No, it was hugely powerful for us. Yeah, massively. We did a lot of the visualisation. Gary, he just had to say like literally a couple of words.

And I do remember, I know we're a bit off track of the homeopathy now, but I do remember. I remember him saying something. I was like no. You've got it wrong. You've got it wrong. Because he was trying to remember, he was in the moment trying to remember this visualisation that we'd come up with together.

And I was like no. I'm on. I'm, whatever this. Oh, okay. So we had to change it. It was talking. It was so funny. Brilliant. But yeah, so that was really powerful. 

Sarah G: Oh, so it sounds like it went from something that you were [00:11:00] interested in and looking at when you were pregnant to then bringing in to actually.

The way that your family looks after themselves. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So your children would probably take that forward as well, do you think? Or do you find them reaching for something? 

Sarah C: It's a bit of both, I think. As we talked through the rest of my journey with it, there was, at that time I was, I would say

I was quite gung ho about, natural, natural alternative homeopathic. I was really in that camp and, to the point that I was, almost dismissing the, the medical sort of side of things. No, don't mean medical as in doctors and nurses, but, I was like not taking any paracetamol not doing this, not doing that, so I was really on this alternative path. Yeah. 

Sarah G: So rather than it complimenting what you were doing, it was. 

Sarah C: And as I say, as I talk more, it did provide that alternative [00:12:00] care with regards to ailments and things and going on.

Not to say, we still had, Zach had he was about a year, just under a year, and he he got croup. So we did have to go into hospital with that. But what happened was, because again, as I say, I was quite, although I. Obviously we wanted to be safe first and foremost, and we did, I think at that time we did call 1 1 1 or whatever.

They sent an ambulance because he was having trouble breathing, so we said okay, let's gonna hospital. But what it did was we said, look. We, we have a little bit of this ethos. Is there anything, they were saying we wanna do this, and this. And we said, look, is there anything that we can do with regards to just monitoring?

And they said yes, we're happy to do that. So again, it just gave me just a bit of a dialogue just to say, really don't want to give him the medication, obviously. Absolutely. We will do if we need, if it's needed. And actually what happened was we, they just monitored us. During the night.

And then, yeah, just it all it's subsided and he was able to breathe and, [00:13:00] so it just yeah, just created that little bit of space, a bit of a pause just to say, okay, what's necessary? And if they were happy to monitor and that kind of thing. There were situations like that where.

Okay. Yes. I wouldn't have been at home saying, oh, here, just take a tablet or whatever. There was obviously a need for more, a bigger, a greater level of care. Yeah. But it still meant we could have a more informed sort of discussion with the doctors and, see actually what we could do.

Situations like that. And then, yeah, we just then obviously, use the homeopath for recovery after that, 

Sarah G: wow. Yeah, that sounds really powerful. The fact that it gave everybody in that situation a chance to just step back and say actually yeah, before we just rush in and immediately medicate, can we just check what is next?

Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And then, whatever decisions were made obviously worked out really well, so that's great. Yeah. Yeah. So do you find that you tend to use homeopathy as for preventative [00:14:00] measures as well instead of treatment. 

Sarah C: Yeah. Again, that sort of changed over time.

Pretty much every alternative care is that there is an element of cost involved. So occasionally we would have to weigh up to say, okay, are we going to, so I'm, yeah, trying to think back to that sort of when he was poorly at that time, it may have been that we, we weren't able to access.

That sort of care. So yeah, so it's a bit of both really. It's just to say, okay. Is this something that we can, treat and have a consultation with the homeopath? Or sometimes we have treated with a remedy that, so again, as we went along, we learned a lot more about different remedies and what to use in which situations, and again, that was just through the education of the homeopath.

So it might be that we could then say, okay, for X, Y, Z symptoms, we could then try X remedy kind of thing. 'cause we learned a little bit more about what to use when. So yeah. So it's a bit of a mix really. So yeah, ideally. We would use it all the time, as in [00:15:00] Okay. If there's, things going on.

But then it might just be that we needed to use it to, just at certain circumstances in that way. Yeah. 

Sarah G: So is there anything that you as a family would take on a regular basis to not? No, not really. Or it tends to be, there's no issue and then you contact your homeopath and then they give you a remedy.

Sarah C: Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. The only one that I use more regularly, as in, in that way. So yeah, basically, pretty much 90% of the time it's like an acute use if you like. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's okay, this is happening. Yeah. We would ask the homeopath, and okay, we, we'd have a consultation, she would prescribe and then we'd go from there.

But the only one yeah. That we've used is she made us it's called a calming remedy. So it's basically a bit of a mix. I dunno what's in it. It's just called calming. Okay. And it's basically to calm your nervous system. So that's a great one that we either use if Yeah. Things are a little bit stressful if we've got sort [00:16:00] of school anxiety going on, if we've got Yeah.

Any kind of, extra level of stress or anxiety or. I don't know. Worries, not being able to drop off to sleep, just little, some, sometimes little signs and symptoms with the kids where yeah, they're obviously a little bit more heightened. There's stuff going on and they just need that.

Sort of, yeah, it's just basically a sort of a nervous system calmer. Yeah. Sounds amazing. That's the only one I know. That's it. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, that would be the one that we would reach for as a, just a general thing that we can, we can use.

The other one may be like would be hay fever remedies as well. So again. We wouldn't necessarily, if somebody says. I've got itchy eyes or something. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Then we just go, okay, let's let you know, let's do a little bit of remedy. So yeah. So things like that you would use?

Yeah, I would use them. There's another one it's called A, B, C, so it's got three different remedies in. And again, that's one for sort of an acute. Yeah, if you've got a bit of a headache, if you've got a bit of a, something that's come on [00:17:00] quite suddenly you can use it for like period pains and yeah.

Things like that. Yeah, so there's a couple that I would use just generally, but so say for instance, like right now, none of us are taking any remedies at all. Unless something comes up 

Sarah G: yeah, that's really useful because you do find if you mention to people

these days, whether it's online or offline, if you say, oh, I've got a bad cold at the moment, or a sore throat or something, suddenly you'll get quite a lot of people say, oh, you should take this, or you should take that, or you should take the other. Yeah. And and so it's that kind of if everybody's got a different idea of what you should take, like which, which one works sort of thing.

Sarah C: Yeah. That's it. Yeah. You've got a homeopath who you trust who can actually. Tell you from an expert point of view Oh yeah, definitely. Exactly what you should take rather than it being this kind of inundated Yeah, that's it. Like taking hundreds of supplements and hoping for the best.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I think that's it. Yeah, definitely. And I think, yeah, as I say, we've used it now for the, [00:18:00] past however many years. So yeah, there's a little bit of knowledge. But yeah, as I say, generally speaking, I would go to the. The homeopath with a, if there was a if there was a situation.

Yeah, so again, we've spoken about perimenopause and menopause, so that would be a situation where. The homeopath would support me through different sort of stages with that. Do you know what I mean? So it might be that we would have a consultation.

She would maybe, would there might be one particular thing. So say for instance if it was sort of hot flashes or something, it might just be that I would, consult her on that element. And and we would Yeah. Would be supported in that way.

Sarah G: And how did you discover her? Did, was it just a matter of Googling or is there a particular site you would recommend going on 

Sarah C: so we've used two homeopaths. So the first one she was just through the h Hypnobirth thing. And then the hilarious thing was the more, when I obviously was chatting with people, they were like, oh yes, [00:19:00] oh, I know her.

Oh, I know her. So she was very prolific in St. Alban's where we were at the time. She was. Very knowledgeable. She had a midwifery background. She was, it was, yeah, she was amazing. Very supportive. And sometimes the sessions were, quite therapeutic themselves because you would be, you'd be offloading about, oh, there's this and there's that, and that's going on, and.

And again, it was a lot like, even the consultations are holistic, okay, what's going on? And, talking about feelings and emotions, not just physical symptoms. Yeah, very in that way. So I used her for quite a few years then again, I, as I talk through, but then so my eldest then did become quite poorly.

And around that same time she moved. She moved and then also I moved. So it although we did sometimes the odd telephone consultation, it was yeah, it was not quite the same. And then also, yeah, as I say, [00:20:00] Zach was poorly in, in hospital and things. Yeah, we then and we'd moved areas, so then I had a recommendation from somebody else.

I think it was my sister had used somebody. So my sister was living in Watford and she was, she'd used this lady as well. So we went to her and she worked quite differently. So as we then came out of the whole sort of hospital experience, I then started to use her. So that was just, yeah, a personal recommendation.

And I think majority are through that sort of personal recommendation I don't, I dunno, of any online, I'm sure there must be, somewhere that you can find someone online, but I. If I was to say to somebody to, if they wanted to find a homeopath, I think you literally just you know who's in your local area or who can you recommend.

A lot of them do the, would do an online consultation anyway, so it doesn't necessarily have to be in your area, you just want somebody that people are using and have been using and would recommend. 

Sarah G: Yeah, it feels like you'd need to have that real kind of deep level of trust. Yes.

That [00:21:00] you build up between, yeah, between you and them, and I guess that helps you move to that second level quicker, doesn't it? If you know somebody else who's used them and, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Works well. And I guess they spend then some time to get to know you, to get to know your family and Yeah.

From a medical perspective, understand where, so that they could establish what would be right and not. Yeah, because it does, again, it does feel like, you could go on Amazon and just the Google supplements Oh. And have all sorts of, oh gosh. Potential things sent to you. Yeah.

You could end up doing more harm than good, if you're taking the wrong things. 

Sarah C: Yeah. Yeah. I think yeah. I think with, yeah, things like that, you could be spending a lot of money. Something isn't needed or doesn't work, with like you say with the supplements. So yeah, it's definitely worth doing a bit of a research as to, with regards to people having, used somebody and that kind of thing.

So with regards to homeopathy, I would yeah, I would definitely, I would always recommend, the person that I'm [00:22:00] using with regards to say like my work, et cetera.

It's just that it's a much more holistic. Approach if you like. Yeah, not necessarily, I would talk about homeopathy do you know what I mean? But I wouldn't necess, and if somebody was interested, then I would say and also because the homeopath that we're using now that we started using she's also a kinesiologist, so she does, which I dunno if you've come across, which is.

Basically a way of allergy testing. And so she brings this in as well, and she does then advise on or prescribe on supplements as well. So the so as I learned as I went along, so there is classical training with regards to homeopathy, which is basically where.

Their particular type of training, you go along and you say, oh, I've got, I don't know, I've got I've got hay fever or something, so they go, all right, here's a remedy. So this is hay fever, this is the remedy that linked in with hay fever. And off [00:23:00] you go. And then they do a little bit of a kind of a test out.

Oh, okay. Is that sort of strong enough? Is it working, bit backwards and forwards maybe. So you know. And you obviously feed back into them as how are you feeling and everything. So you it's a little bit of a sometimes, two-way sort of street if you like.

Yeah. Whereas this lady would go she would bring in a little bit of a mix. So it might be, so say for instance, hay fever. Can be linked in with your liver being overloaded. So then she would bring in, not just treating symptoms of hay fever, but she would then be looking at your liver and then she would be looking at what nutritional support you might need for that.

Do you need a bit more, do detoxification, do you need, so she would bring in, a little bit more all encompassing rather than just on the remedy. So I can't remember what her training is, but it's slightly different. And then again, she might, that's a real skill to it.

Yeah, I know. I'm just like, I'm always like blown away by how much information she knows about the human body. And she would bring in, okay, what might [00:24:00] be, is there an allergy that's exacerbating this is it? Do you know what I mean? So it's okay. You might think, oh, okay, I've got hay fever, but is there something else in the picture as well?

And then she would, she would bring that in. Because obviously the way that sort of, the sort of whole thing about homeopathy is that you are treating, not just physical symptoms, but this emotional sort of mental load as well.

That's the idea. So yeah, so she would bring in the supplements and things as well to support the body. And then the idea is then the homeopathy element works, even better because you are supporting the body as well. 

Sarah G: Yeah. Yeah, it's really fascinating. It's really interesting to hear. I know.

It's amazing. 

Sarah C: I really dunno much about the whole technicalities behind it yeah. 

Sarah G: But the fact that as you say, there's 15 years plus of you trying these things out and seeing the evidence of it working. Yeah. That's really powerful. It's not just something you've tried once and thought, oh yeah maybe it worked, maybe it didn't work.

Yeah. Don't quite know. But yeah, to have [00:25:00] that trusted support there as well, to know that kind of, if something comes up, yeah, you've got somebody that you can contact and you know that they can help you rather than sometimes you can feel a little bit, or I certainly do, but I sometimes feel that the doctor's kind of.

They're just happy to send you away with a prescription and yeah. Haven't necessarily spent that time, as you say, to understand the cause, as opposed to the symptom. 

Sarah C: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, and I think I remember when, as I say, way back when I did that first course. And it went into all these things and as part of it, you filled out all these, these questionnaires about, your sleep and food and stress levels, digestion, and it said that, when we go to the gp.

We literally just talk about our symptoms. We say we've, we've got this and that and the other going on. And there's this whole other realm of information that isn't necessarily discussed. Obviously, some gps are a little bit, more interested in that sort of side of things than others.

Sarah G: But, so stuck on [00:26:00] time though, aren't they? Yeah. That's given these five minute appointment, so Yeah. Even if they do want to understand that. Deeper. Yeah, and I'm sure the gps themselves, they want to have that. Yeah, ability to delve a little bit more, but they're just not given that time, are they?

No. 

Sarah C: Yeah, it's very stretched. Yeah. Yeah. So they're just getting a little 10% snapshot of what's going on for you. Whereas there's all this other information it's a bit like, yeah when you have a headache, you can obviously, yes, you can take some paracetamol or whatever, but.

What's the underlying cause of your headache? Are you just dehydrated or are are you do you need to take some oil because, you're not just dehydrated, but your membranes are Yeah. Need of support. Is it hormonal? Is it to do with your cycle?

Is it, do you know what I mean? So again, you can take the paracetamol to cure the headache that will. That will help in some cases, but then it's, you haven't actually addressed that sort of underlying cause of the headache. So I think that's where, yeah, [00:27:00] that's that's why I looked for some something alternative in that first instance.

Yeah. When I first started it was definitely, I was a bit I I can see it working, I'd use things with the kids like like teething and it definitely seemed to help. I was a bit like, oh would it just have gone away on its own anyway?

Do you know what I mean? I did have that sort of I feel it is supporting us and I trusted our, I trusted our homeopath and things, and then I think when I was, I had Grace little, so it was my second and. I got mastitis and it was obviously just, yeah, incredibly painful. It was, yeah, it was really hard for anyone out.

There's had mast. It's just not the nicest thing and you cabbage leaves and all the things you need to do. So obviously I did consult the homeopath and she said okay, so let's, let's try this. And I said, just to let you know, I have also rung the GP and I've now got a prescription for antibiotics.

[00:28:00] And again, it was a bit like that. It was if you've got, if you've got mastitis, you need antibiotics, right? There's no question about it. So again, it was a bit like, okay, I might have to take these antibiotics. Fair enough. So anyway, got the prescription. And and then again, in my mind I was like I'm gonna give the homeopathy 24 hours.

I was it was obviously, I think even maybe 12 hours I thought okay, if it's not better, by the next morning, then I'll take the antibiotics. And there was part of me that was just like, what's gonna happen? Maybe it's just gonna clear up.

But literally, honestly, like I started taking remedies and yeah, within. Within less than a day, it had started to clear up. I was like, and going from like really quite full on, gunky, horrible mastitis to literally being cleared up. I was like okay. That really set my mind that it was, that it worked.

And I didn't need to take the antibiotics. So yeah, it was 

Okay. 

Sarah G: Fantastic. Yeah. Well, thanks so much for talking to [00:29:00] us, take taking us through your experiences with the homeopathy and then you mentioned you've got some group programs from your personal training point of view. 

Sarah C: Yeah, I do lots and lots of things.

I've got online classes that I teach. I do personal training both in person and online. I do coaching as well, so I have some people that don't necessarily need the input with regards to what to do, but, just that sort of coaching, mentoring, side of things. I am pulling together an online program.

It's a menopause weight loss solution. So that is, i'm gonna do a beta launch in come September, so if people are interested, then just either I'll put a link in to sign up to my newsletter, so I do a sort of monthly newsletter or my social, they can join on my Facebook. So I'll be giving details out as we go through, as to how that's gonna work.

Sarah G: Fantastic. I'll make sure that all of those are in the show notes. Thanks Sarah. Yeah. Yeah. Great. [00:30:00] Cool. It might be something that interests,

I just love that whole kind of holistic approach that you're taking to this. So you're bringing in all your skills and all your experience to bring all of this in. Fantastic. Thanks again, Sarah, for being with us today and okay. You all about your experiences with homeopathy.

I'm sure I won't be the only one googling homeopaths after this. Oh good. Yeah. Checking out what other solutions there are to help look at the causes as well as the symptoms for some of the issues that come up in life. So thanks again, Sarah. 

Sarah C: Thanks Sarah. Thanks having me.

 I have to say, talking with Sarah always reminds me why I value friends who've walked different wellness paths and can share their honest experiences. Her 16 year journey with homeopathy offers such valuable insights for anyone considering this approach. Key takeaways I [00:31:00] found from today. Homeopathy takes a holistic approach, looking at not just symptoms, but emotions, stress levels, sleep patterns, and root causes.

Also, finding the right practitioner ideally through personal recommendations seems to be crucial. It's about building a trusting relationship with someone who takes time to understand your whole health picture and that of your family. Remember, homeopathy isn't about Googling symptoms, relying on AI to diagnose issues or just buying random supplements online.

I also found it interesting that it's perfectly possible to use homeopathy alongside conventional medicine when needed. So it doesn't actually have to be either or when you have the right support in place as Sarah's own experience shows. From that hospital visit with croup to keeping [00:32:00] antibiotics on standby during mastitis, it's always important to work with both qualified homeopaths and your medical team, especially for serious conditions.

This isn't about replacing medical care, but about expanding your options with proper professional advice and guidance. If you're interested in Sarah's work as a personal trainer and coach, particularly her upcoming menopause weight loss program that's launching in September. You can find all her details in the show notes.

She offers online classes and one-to-one support from monthly coaching sessions to bespoke personal training, either online or face-to-face, and she includes that lovely holistic coaching approach we heard about today. Combining personal training experience with a broader wellness knowledge. So until next time, [00:33:00] take care of yourselves.

And remember, there's many paths to wellness and sometimes they start with asking, what's really causing this? Rather than, how do I make it stop? I.