| Healing
the Whole Woman
You Are Far More Than the Sum of Your Body Parts
Continued...
“I
didn’t belong anywhere. I was so withdrawn in high school . . .
almost catatonic. I started out with ten strikes against me and
I’ve spent my whole life pulling myself up. Two poor choices of
husbands, a son who was difficult from day one. My depression was
so bad. It felt as if someone put a black bag over my head. Suicide
seemed like the best option. Antidepressants helped for a while.
Now the fatigue and depression are back. I’m going downhill again.”
Edith noticed that when she bent forward, she felt as if her heart
was in a vise. She had a long history of transient ischemic attacks
(mini-strokes). Never rested, she awoke in the morning just as tired
as she was the night before. She also complained of urinary dribbling
and incontinence and had a lifelong aversion to eating. Although
she had two grown children and grandchildren, she had next to no
contact with any of them.
This is the kind of profound emptiness and disconnection that I
spoke about. It’s no accident that Edith suffered from transient
ischemic attacks. Her heart was broken—so shattered that life no
longer seemed worth living.
Edith’s health and happiness have improved significantly, with the
help of homeopathic Aurum metallicum (gold), over the past five
years. She felt dramatically better within five weeks of taking
the first dose and has needed ten or so doses in all. Edith reestablished
contact with her children, her heart condition has been stable,
and her outlook on life is much more positive. When I talked to
her quite recently, she estimated the overall improvement in her
health and emotional state to be 80 percent. Edith’s deep alienation
from and disappointment by life could have resulted in her suicide
or death due to heart failure. Instead, she has to a large extent
been healed. She still works on letting go of her smoking and, by
her admission, has a ways to go, but she recognizes where she was
five years ago and how far she’s come. Her recovery, which I believe
is more impressive than any she could have achieved with antidepressants,
is a tribute to the healing power of homeopathy. Edith’s heart is
now much healthier, inside and out.
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