Homeopathy is my passion. It has been ever since I could speak and pronounce the names of the remedies my parents gave me for ear infections: Pulsatilla and Chamomilla. These names sounded so magical and beautiful to me that I decided that when I grew up I should have twins with those names. Don’t call child services just yet, I have not traumatized any children with these names so far!
As a teenager I became chronically ill and could not apply for medical school as a result and so I gave up my long cherished dream of being a homeopathic doctor. There were no homeopathic schools that accepted high school graduates as students at the time and I figured it were for the better because I had more faith in the combination of conventional and homeopathic medicine anyway. And so I went on to study Public Administration and worked in Brussels for Dutch regional representatives.
After receiving my Masters degree in European Studies, the global economy had suffered a lot under the economic crisis and the job market was very tight, not to mention that my illness had developed to the point that I really could not work anymore anyway.
That is when my long lost dream started to whisper in my ear again. Was there really not a way to study medicine after all and become a homeopathic family practitioner? It kept occupying my mind but there was no way for me to study medicine anywhere in Europe.
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Then one day the website of the Center of Homeopathic Education (CHE) caught my eye which had a Bachelors accredited course in homeopathy through Middlesex University and included a decent basis in anatomy and physiology. Within a couple of months I moved to London and started the course.
Thanks to being back under homeopathic treatment myself, my health improved a lot during my studies as well. I arrived in London with a zimmerframe and on strong painkillers and lots of other drugs. When I graduated, I had several patients and worked at a homeopathic pharmacy meaning I was standing on my feet 3 days a week!
Because I have always loved children, I now specialize in helping couples conceive healthy babies. I get to lose myself in homeopathy daily and empowering women to take their fertility back into their own hands.
Fifteen years ago, I could have never imagined being able to work every day in the field that I am deeply passionate about, getting married to a lovely man and enjoying my doggy Dee Delight (who is a true delight!). Not to mention.. I couldn’t have imagined becoming a mother of two healthy children as I had been told that due to my auto immune disease I would likely never conceive or always miscarry.
I am a living example of how homeopathy can change people’s lives and I want to pass that on to others.
Ingefleur
Articles published with Hpathy.com:
- An unjustified prescription justified – December 2014
- Womb with room for a baby – July 2015
- The Thuja that was truly a Phosphorus – April 2017