Building the Best You

Understanding Homeopathy and the Body’s Healing Intelligence with Krista Rivet

• Jeanne Collins • Season 2 • Episode 89

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In this episode, Jeanne Collins sits down with homeopath Krista Rivet to explore a powerful yet often misunderstood approach to healing. 

Krista shares the personal story that led her into homeopathy after her son struggled with chronic ear infections and conventional treatments offered few answers. 

The conversation dives into what homeopathy really is, how energetic medicine works with the body’s natural intelligence, and why symptoms may actually be signals guiding us toward deeper healing. 

Jeanne and Krista also discuss chronic illness, emotional trauma, motherhood, and the transformative phase of perimenopause. The episode offers a refreshing perspective on health—one that encourages listeners to slow down, listen to their bodies, and reconnect with their inner wisdom.

Krista's book recommendation: Man’s Search for Meaning

More about Krista:

Krista is a classically trained homeopath that incorporates all areas and approaches of homeopathy. After becoming frustrated with chasing symptoms and never getting answers for her son’s chronic health issues, Krista discovered homeopathy and when she witnessed healing like never before she had to know more and went on to study and now has a successful practice

Krista now works primarily with women and children supporting mental, emotional and hormonal healing. She educates and empowers women to turn inward for their hormonal healing and is now more specialized in supporting women through the peri menopausal years.

She studied and graduated with the Canadian college of Homeopathic medicine (DCHM), is registered with the Ontario College of homeopaths (HOM), is a certified classical Homeopath (CCH) with the Council of Homeopathic Certification and is a member of North American Society of Homeopaths (RSHom(NA)).

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Introducing Krista Rivet

SPEAKER_00

Welcome to Building the Best You. A destination for you to reimagine what is possible in your life and then create it. Welcome to the show, everybody. I'm your host, Gene Collins, and today we're talking homopathy. Hopefully, I'm even saying that correctly. I'm not 100% sure, but we're gonna find out. Homeopathy! Thank you. Like, oh my goodness. I'm like, I kind of know what the word is, but kind of not. So everybody, today we have Krista on the show. Krista Rive. Rivier. I think I'm even pronouncing Rivet. Oh my goodness. Rive. Rive, right? Rivay. Okay. Today we have Krista Reve. Believe me, no one can say Jean correctly anyway, so I'm used to it. So we have Krista on the show. She is a homopath. She is going to help us understand what in the world that means. Because honestly, not only can I not pronounce it, I definitely would not be able to do a good job describing what it is. So, Krista, welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. And yeah, I appreciate so much you contacting me and reaching out and wanting to learn more. So I appreciate it. And I'm so happy to be here. Well, thank you for that.

Krista’s Journey Into Homeopathy

SPEAKER_00

And you are coming to us from Chili Buffalo, where you know, everybody up in Buffalo does not mind the snow. And I'm here in Connecticut complaining about the snow and the cold. And you're like, it's nothing. Yeah, it's pretty. I love that. So if we could start off, can you give us a little bit of background about yourself and kind of how you got into this field of work?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. So as a little girl, you know, always interested in health and uh the body and just something greater out there, you know, asking questions and just very deep thinking, you know. And so moving forward into life, always wanted to be a doctor or science, you know, something in science and research. And, you know, I moved, uh, I went to study my undergrad with in psychology. So that's also a big passion as well. So kind of the two, which is homeopathy that we'll get there. And then I took some time off because my husband played professional hockey, actually. And so I lived with, you know, supported him and his journey and always dabbled in self-teaching and took classes here and there. Uh, we got married, had children, and it was with my second, I have four children, and it was with my second born, my son, who's now 21, he was four at the time and had chronic ear infections and congestion and adenoid swollen, and you know, you name it, like that hole, which I see now often in help. You know, and I my mind was like, but what is going on in his body that's creating this? Because my daughter, who was about almost two years older, had nothing. So what is going on in him? You know, those that's my thought process. And I didn't know anything else but traditional allopathic care. And so, of course, going to ENT and, you know, had his adenoids removed and on medication and, you know, again, antibiotic after antibiotic, and kept reoccurring. And I'm like, but why? Why does he have fluid in his ear? And the answer I got was that's the million-dollar question from the ENT. So I'm like, uh, I am going to find the answer. I did. And so after all that, it led me to, and I don't actually, it's funny, I don't remember how or why, just, you know, Googling and all of that at the time, homeopathy. And so I found a local homeopath here and brought him in the midst of all of this. And I was shocked. I was like, what is this? So the process too, all the questions she asked, and you know, what ice cream does he like and how does he sleep and his mood? And I'm like, but what does this have to do with, you know, the fluid in his ears? And now I get it and we'll get into that. But it was in the middle of a big blow, like a uh flare, like an infection that was actually MRSA. So I was terrified and it was in his ears, and the doctor gave me, you know, eardrops and nasal antibiotic and antibiotic overall. And I didn't use that. And I had it on hand because of course, my own healing journey, which I'll probably get into as well, like very strong health anxiety and the fear. And as a mom, we just naturally are. So I held on to it, but I gave what my homeopath gave. And I could not believe the next day, no fluid, no discharge in his ear. Like visibly it was coming out. You know, I just kept with it. And it was little four light, four little white pellets. And I was like, this is magic. Like, what is this? I need to know more. So two weeks later, we go in and get the checkup at the ENT, and I'm terrified, like a little kid in trouble. Like, oh my God, I didn't do what he told me, but he's fine. And I was so scared. And he looked in his ear and he's like, wow, this cleared up beautifully. And that was my turning point. I'm like, okay, I am diving in. And so I enrolled into school and actually the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine in Toronto, did a distance, and yeah, we got did it more for my own, because I'm like, this makes sense. Like, you know, it made so much sense in the healing I saw. And he just kept healing, and you know, and now today it's, you know, it's just so much stronger and vibrant versus the road we would have gone down would have been like flonase and all these suppressants and more antibiotics. And it really doesn't get you anywhere. But if that's all you know, so again, there is a whole other world and which is homeopathy. And so yeah, I went on to study and treated my family for years. Um, went on to have two more children before I officially started practicing almost 10 years ago now to the public and as a practice. So yeah. And most homeopaths have that story. There's always something, you know, why? Because it's not like you set out to be, I'm gonna be a homeopath when I grow up. Like people don't know what it is. So it's usually from a personal experience of health and recurring illness.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, and we all know having little kids on antibiotics all the time, you know that's not good. However, you know, having an ear infection is also not good because you don't want to damage their hearing long term and have like, so it's sort of like you're almost you you don't even know what to do.

SPEAKER_01

And that's where I I work with a lot of, yeah, mothers because of that conflict, right? You're not, you're pulled, like you know it's not right, but what are you gonna do? You can't just leave your child. And so now when it's so empowering, it's the most empowering medicine there is. And yeah, it's beautiful to work with moms and their children.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so before we keep going, what is home homeopathy? Did I get it right? Homeopathy. Okay, homeopathy. I should know how to say that. There's just like an extra syllable in there. I don't know why. Homeopath, I go. Oh, I think totally understand that word. Okay, okay. I mean, I know how to say that word. So what is it at its most simplistic form?

SPEAKER_01

So, yeah, and really I share, like I teach a 101 class for this reason because people want it, but it's like, what is it? And it took me almost a year into my studies to still understand because I'm like, what is this? So, really, it's understanding the body, like how what we've been taught is really we've been led astray, and it's not how our body works. Like our body is wise and it's built to function together, like all the organs and systems. Like, we're intelligent beings. And symptoms are created from our body as a way of communicating to us and a way of trying to restore balance. So when something is out of balance at the deep, deep wisdom level, we get symptoms. And so homeopathy is a medicine that understands this and it comes in, you know, at this deep, deep level we call it like the vital force or life force, like the wisdom that flows through us. And so it comes in at this level to stimulate the body to heal, to start moving in the direction of healing. So we're matching the frequency of the person. And so, again, we're always treating the person as a whole, not a symptom directly. And again, it's so completely opposite of our mainstream. You know, we treat symptoms, and symptoms are the bad guys. And they're not. So it's reframing to really understand homeopathy. You really start to begin to understand your own wisdom. And it's very empowering, and we lose fear. And then when you understand your body, you can understand homeopathic medicine because it's working at this level of matching to the vibration of what caused the disturbance that created all the symptoms we have. It comes in and, you know, just it's like a little nudge to get the body going. So the body takes over. So it's an energetic medicine. So it's also not like herbs or natural, like naturopathy or naturopathy. Um, not the same thing. So a naturopath is not the same as a homeopath. So yeah, to go in a lot of what it's not, people almost often lump it, you know, together. And it's really, really its own, it's its own medicine. And it's been around for over 200 years, so it's nothing new. But yeah, it's working with our own innate intelligence. So, okay, that's very helpful because I was like, oh, herbs, supplements.

SPEAKER_00

All right. So you already answered that question. It's not that. Okay. Energy. Energy is something that people have a very difficult time wrapping their brains around because they can't see it. You can sometimes feel it, but most people can't see it and very often can't feel it. How do you explain to people what energy is?

How Homeopathic Consultations Identify Root Causes

SPEAKER_01

So, again, our physical bodies are that a physical, you know, the physical. And so just to go back quickly to like herbs and natural things, like even colour silver or oregano, like all these things that that is not homeopathic, it's still working on the physical body. So herbs and supplements are in your physical body, they can be measured. A remedy works at another level. So there's no interaction, and that's why you can take them with medications as well. It's coming in at the energetic level. So yeah, how, and I get that, but then it's kind of mind-blowing to me because we are energy. It's almost like, how do you not like you can't deny that, you know? Even when your heart starts beating when you see something, like that's just an impression from seeing something in your emotional state and your body responds. So there's nothing tangible. Um, like what's keeping your heart beating? Like that was my question as a little girl. I'm like, what is making our heart beat? You know, there's something flowing through us, and this is life. Like, that's life, and that's the life force. So that is energy. And then everything around us is energy. And yeah, it is, and even like light, you know, you turn it on a switch and it's like, where did the light go? Like, people don't stop to think the death in our universe of this magical stuff that so when you start to think like that, it it just makes so much sense. And it's really a progressive medicine, even though it's been like it's literally 230 years old, but it's way ahead of its time, and it's still kind of ahead of its time, even though it's not because we are energy and that's why it works. But yeah, it does get a bad rap when people throw that or use it loosely, or but when you really look at the science of it, there's so much science behind it and so many studies, and but people that just aren't aware of that. But yeah, it can be hard to measure because we're not seeing it and it's so individual. So again, that's you know, another kind of side topic of the individuality of it, because we're not choosing a remedy for a diagnosis. We're choosing it for the person who has it because their energy and their makeup and how they feel and how they express their symptoms is so very different. You know, like if you and I had the same, you know, uh diagnosis, we'd have very two different remedies because we're very, very different. So it's very individualized, um, according to again, you know, who we are.

SPEAKER_00

So how? I'm so fascinated. Okay. How do you help people determine? I'm guessing, where their energy is and where they want or need their energy to go for their body to start healing itself. And that might not even be phrased correctly. So if not, help me out.

Understanding Homeopathic Remedies

SPEAKER_01

No, no, I I understand, and that's a great question. So again, we're looking at the symptoms. So we're not treating the symptoms directly, but we use them and they're clues. So your body creates symptoms, and that makes a diagnosis or an illness. And so, but if you look at the person and their experience of when they started, a lot of times there's always a mental emotional piece too that we look at with the physical body. So we're combining all the parts of our of ourselves. And so when we assess the person, it's usually a 90-minute consultation, give or take, you know, sometimes longer, sometimes less, to really understand like you and the person from birth, even in utero, you know, if it's from uh younger children, from birth up until now and all the traumas and all the all the things. So literally it's everything. And so that's how we assess. So it's not like we need like there's no testing involved. We don't need blood work. We don't, you know, it can be helpful to see what is shifting, but we go from uh what you are providing, you know, the client leads the way, and usually the words that are used, or you know, any anger or trauma and with the physical things, we go, and then I do all the work after and assess and come up with a remedy. So a remedy is what we call the medicine, and it has its own picture and state and it and it it matches. So we find the best matching to match the person as a whole. And when introduced into the body at the energetic level, the body will take over. And so it's not like I have to know. We match by the remedy and like what the person's giving me and the remedy pictures from studying in Materia Medica and all the years of training. And it's not just that, it's not like a one-time here you go. So it's the response to that and what might fall away, what might come up, what old things might resurface from 10 years ago. It's it's incredible. Like I love what I do because it's just profound to see these aha moments, or allowing the client to see like connections, like, oh, I didn't even see that. Like when my skin started, it was at when I divorced, or I lost a child, or you know, like all these connections, it's beautiful. And then they start to heal. And so emotional trauma can be released, and then the physical body might show another symptom, and then we follow up and I reassess. And so the body is so smart and keeps guiding us where to go until things are harmonized. You know, it's truly a medicine of inner harmony, and the physical body has no choice but to respond, and symptoms stop or change and keep guiding us where to go. Wow.

SPEAKER_00

So I hope it does help. It helps. Okay. So you mention a remedy. Can you describe what a remedy might be like for somebody?

SPEAKER_01

So remedies are from again, our earth. So our world, our earth is just full of wisdom. And, you know, again, plants, uh, animals, minerals are the top three, you know, groups. But again, they can be derived from healthy tissue like thyroid or disease tissue like tuberculosis or cancer, and but they're diluted. So this is where, again, people get a misunderstanding, or if you Google something, or the medical community just can't understand it because it's not actually that substance. So a lot of the most poisonous things are the most beautiful healing remedies in homeopathy. So when you remove, like you take, say, arsenicum is made from arsenic. So of course, if you were to ingest that, or you know, you would not be living. But it's treated, um, it's used to treat a lot of burning colds, sore throats. Like again, what you might think of someone that had an arsenic poisoning or would experience, when you take that same substance and you dilute it so many times, there's nothing material left in it. So nothing crude in it, only the healing properties. So what's left in it is the diluted form of that. And when you introduce it into the body of someone matching, like similar like treats like is what homeopathy means. So when you treat that into the body that has similar symptoms, the body gets nudged and it starts to balance and those symptoms disappear. So it stimulates healing by matching the same, you know, substance of what the person is experiencing. But because it's diluted, they're extremely there's no side effects, they're not toxic. So that's where people are like, well, then how does it work? So that's where people question it. There's nothing in it.

SPEAKER_00

But yeah, there is something in it, clearly.

SPEAKER_01

Because it's energetic. So the higher you dilute it, the more potent it becomes, actually, because the vibrational frequency is at a different level and it can come in at a deeper level in our being. Because again, we're not physical beings, it's bypassing.

SPEAKER_00

So, and this question might not make any sense. But as you're saying this, I'm sort of having a visualization of water has a vibration. There's an energetic feel to water. And whether water is liquid or water is frozen, its energetic field changes whether it's a liquid or a solid. Is it kind of something like that? Where we're probably not aware of the energetic field of water, but yeah, it does exist. We all know there's energy.

SPEAKER_01

Well, and we are like what, 7, 8% water?

SPEAKER_00

Like we are water. We know, right. We know that that's factual. That's there's no debate about that, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, exactly. And actually, water dosing I use often in that. So I'll put a remedy, have the client or put in a little bit of water, and you shake, you succuss it and tap it. And so it changes the frequency each time. So every time they take an acute case, for example, if someone had a flu or fever and you want to dose every 15 minutes, I would have them put it in water and gently shake it. And that changes it. So then it's stimulating you a little bit different and gets your body healing even faster. So that is used in homeopathy. And Veda, I don't know if you're aware of Veda Austin. Oh, you should, yeah, she has wonderful work studying water and that exact what you just said. And she's used homeopathy in water and she freezes it and gets crystal images, and it's so amazing the wisdom and that's in the water. Yeah. No, that's it's all connected and um yeah, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00

So when people come to you, obviously you don't have to see them in person. This you just said you don't have to, there's no like blood work, there's no exam, there's no nothing. So people don't have to see you in person. And the remedy, is it something that you're providing that they buy online? Is it something that they're creating at home based on products in their house? How does that work?

Who Homeopathy Helps and Common Conditions

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, definitely not at home with products in your house. So they're made in pharmacies. No, it's a great question because again, people think home and they are home and they think home remedies, right? And no, I'm not concocking stuff in my kitchen and shipping it out. No, not at all. They're made in pharmacies. So there's homeopathic pharmacies around the world. Yeah. Again, people don't realize the history of like used to be over a hundred pharmacies in the US alone and before. Yeah. And I think a thousand colleges at one point. So it's incredible. Yeah, the history. So to start again, that's a whole other people can kind of study that on their own. But the history of how it got kind of pushed out is very interesting too. But yeah, no, it's a real medicine. And a lot of the doctors back then were homeopaths. But no, so there are pharmacies that make these, but it's very regulated in that way, like strict rule. Like it's not just here, let me grab this into my garden and send it to you. No, not at all. And here, try a little arsenic and dilute it in water. No, no, no, no, no. No. No, no, no. It's highly like there's big pharmacies in in the UK. That's one of the big ones, boron. You've probably seen in the grocery store the blue vials. So that's a big, that's probably the most popular one that people see. So yeah, and they're made in pharmacies. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_00

So the people who come to you, what is a common reason why someone would come to you?

SPEAKER_01

So anything. So again, I know it's not like because homeopathy is. Next time I have a cold, I'm calling you. Yeah. So again, that kind of goes. So first of all, homeopathy treats anything because it treats the person. So whatever you have, you know, we when we assess you as a whole, we're treating that. So if someone comes for a skin issue or, you know, I'm more niching, I'd work with a lot of moms and children, because that connection between mom and child is like nothing else. So a lot of moms come with, you know, behavioral issues or chronic illness, or and first, it's so important to get the mom regulated and balanced because when the mom's in a good place, that energy, again, the energetic connection, that's undeniable too. Like as a mom, seeing our mood, or even in life, like, you know, you're around somebody that's in a you feel energy from people, you know, their mood, if they're a good person or not, or their intentions, or if someone's in a bad mood, you know, if you're susceptible or impressionable, or you know, as a mom coming into my home, if I'm not in a good place, it's almost like the whole house is not in a good place. So the power that is, um, and then perimenopause phase, hormones, is massive. And being in that phase myself. And so that's kind of, again, I think what I'm feeling and putting out. I'm attracting these women, and it's amazing to work with them. So, really anything like hormones, cra anything chronic, like chronic illness, where the allopathic model is completely missing the mark. Like we're sicker than ever. And they just and now, you know, we're treating side effects from medications with more medications. And that there's no, that makes zero sense. And so if you take off that medication, take like, can you function? No. So that's the whole point. Homeopathy comes in to rebalance the body so it's working the way it should. Like our thyroids are designed to function. So it's not a thyroid issue, even though we think we're getting to the root of maybe our hair loss and our fatigue and oh, it's your thyroid. Okay, well, let's go one step deeper. Why is the thyroid off? Like, what is fueling that? And so that's homeopathy. So it's deeper than functional, deeper than naturopathic. Yeah. So really anything we treat because we're treating the person who has that thing. So any chronic illness and, you know, especially things that have been told, oh, we can't cure that or we can't heal that, you're stuck with it forever. I have seen and I've worked with people that no longer have those things. So it's it's so empowering.

SPEAKER_00

And I'm a huge proponent of functional medicine. So you explaining that it's even a deeper level than that, that actually for me personally, like that clicks. I'm like, okay, I know it. I now fully understand.

Perimenopause, Hormones, and Women’s Health

SPEAKER_01

Because again, think about breaking up the body into parts still, even in the natural space. Like, oh, take this for your sleep, take melatonin, or take this to help you poop, take this to like you're still not addressed because it's all connected. So homeopathy is the only modality out there, like the only. And obviously, I chose this because I've done the functional, you know, and all of that. And again, it has its space. It's just this is how it's different. And it's just there's nothing that gets the depth of connecting the sleep, the poop, the skin, the anxiety, the depression, the mental emotional is huge. You know, I have people with on medications that are now no longer, you know, weaning off gradually. And they're just it's it's just so amazing because you're connecting everything together. So it is a process, you know, it is follow-ups, and you know, you can't expect, oh, one time. And you know, you think of 40 years of something, you got to give it some time. But it's a beautiful process if you're committed and understanding the process. So, okay.

SPEAKER_00

All right. I understand so much more now. No, it's so cool. So, but I don't want to not talk about perimenopause and hormones, because you brought it up and it's I'm in menopause, so it's a subject that's super near and dear to my heart here. So does the work you do replace hormone replacement therapy or it sort of adds on to hormone replacement therapy? Where does like where do traditional medicines fall within your practice? If that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01

You yeah, no, and HRT is, I mean, it is such a big thing right now. And it's being, you know, it's such and yes, homeopathy can replace. And because again, when you understand the depth of what's happening, it's a beautiful time of, it's a portal, I see. Like parametapause, menopause is like a portal of expansion. And it's not easy, but again, you look at the individuality of this. Like your experience is completely different than mine, or someone like our neighbors and our friends, like I know people that are like dizzy and having vertigo or hot flashes or no hot flashes. So it's like, it's not the hormones, like it is, but again, what is not why are the hormones not where they should be? So you, if you come in and put in hormones, yeah, you're gonna feel better and let's just keep on trucking. But that's kind of how you got to that place. Cause a lot of times women in today's world, like it's not the way it used to be. And we're burnt out before we even get to perimenopause or menopause. And our adrenals have a big role to play in menopause. And if they're already texts, then you're gonna have a hard time in menopause. So that's what what we look at. You know, it's not just like here, quick fix, put the hormones in. And maybe that's needed. And same with antidepressants, and maybe that's needed for a short time. But when you understand, like, what are you gonna be on forever? And there's side effects, or is it good for you? And, you know, there's just so much again. But understanding there is another way to address, you know, we're not meant to have the same levels of estrogen, you know, in our 50s, but yet we're being told, oh, we're deficient. You need to put it in. But we don't. I don't agree with that because we're we're so w wise that we're not, we stop ovulating. We're not meant to have children anymore. So why would we have the same levels when I'm 30? But in our today's world, we want to keep on going and get up early and push, and we're not listening to our bodies, you know, to slow down and maybe honor old things. Like I see menopause and pre-menopause as a portal again of old stuff. For me, it's been a lot of mental emotional of the past and things and coming up to kind of set free, like old stuff. I've been stuck. And that could be physical for a lot of people, like past illnesses, even, or if there's been past issues with their period prior to this and they're on birth control or on um other medications, and then they get to menopause, they're probably gonna have a hard time because of that past. So, not no one's looking at the way before time, you know, to get balanced first, and then you should have an easy transition, right? So, again, the depth of going deeper than just the hormones for you, like for individually. So, yes, homeopathy, to put it short, is a beautiful, beautiful support. And even with, so again, it can be used side by side if someone's like needing something to gradually wean off or to help balance, you know, to get you where your body is naturally supposed to be.

SPEAKER_00

So, yeah, it's a beautiful, you know, you can use it together without, but if people aren't aware that it's an option, which is a really powerful option because there are a lot of people that don't want to take medication. And there definitely is a huge desire for people to be living more cleanly, to be living what they feel healthier, however they want to define that, and getting off of medications because there is a push to put everybody on medicine for everything, getting off medications is definitely, you know, on trend, shall we say? And so now's a good time. And the belief, I think more and more people are starting to truly believe and embrace the concept that your body is capable of healing in many ways. If you position yourself and get your body in a state that it can heal, there's so much evidence that people can heal and that your body can heal. And so I think that is not such a strange concept anymore.

SPEAKER_01

No, and if you stop to think, it created the symptom. Like your body created that. Like that's kind of like empowering, even though it's like, oh, it's not broken. It's actually created it to communicate to you. So if you start to think of it that way, it's like, wow, it's trying to speak to me, but we don't listen in today's world. Like we just take stuff, medication to suppress and keep on going and go to the gym and do this. And so that's a lot of the problem too, is it's honoring the wisdom and slowing down and, you know, looking at outside obstacles to cure, we call them, you know, of a job or relationship, just running ragged, which I just see so many women, which I I do too, you know, as a momaphore and running my practice. And but I am so aware, you know, that I can slow down or we get sick. And then it's like, oh, what's my body trying to tell me versus getting mad at it? And we want to support. So homeopathy supports the body with what it's doing, whether it's hormones, whether it's a chronic illness, whether it's an acute cold that's putting you in bed. Like you perhaps needed that, rest to slow down. But people, if they don't connect that, they just take, you know, the day quill and keep on going. And sometimes, yes, life we have to. I'm not saying everyone has the luxury, but the same time, the bigger picture, you need to look at, you know, where you're burning it at both ends, kind of thing, and make some changes. And that's for homeopathy too. It's so amazing that can come in at the deep energetic level to shift to have like I have clients that just see the same thing so differently and quit a job. Whereas they've been thinking about it for so long, but after a remedy, they're like, I just went in and I quit my job and I'm doing this. And they followed what their soul was speaking to them, but their mind gets in the way. And so, yeah, that's it's just so beautiful. And even you can you hear all the time, I'm sure. And I get it all the time. I eat all the things, I'm exercising, I'm doing the red light, I'm doing the, and it's such a toxic place, the not like it's fear-based. And, but yet I still can't do this, or I'm still sick. And that's homeopathy. It's getting to the level below any food, you know, even if there's a suppressed uh trauma or a shock that was never allowed to move through properly, it's in there and it can affect our hormones and our, you know, just the way we operate.

SPEAKER_00

So uh, which I can totally relate to that. And I also think, especially as women, as we get older and we get into perimenopause and menopause, we've spent decades running so fast. And all along the way, while many of us are raising children and building these careers, we run so fast that we don't actually take the time during the years before perimenopause to stop and to resolve some of those issues that might be emotional, might be physical, might be all kinds of things, energetic balance, all those things. And so I do think there's a compounding effect that it's added up, it's added up, it's added up until all of a sudden there's like some breakthrough moment of hello, your body is screaming at you, that it is just unhealthy. And you can be eating healthy, you can be doing all the things, but it's still just not enough because so much is compounded over such a long period of time that you know, your body is still just screaming, it's just not enough.

SPEAKER_01

And that is exactly what I feel primenopause is like that time of an awakening to be set free, literally. You know, you're free from you know, having a monthly cycle. Your children are older, you're, you know, you're in a different, like you always hear I don't give uh, you know, and the you know, the zero given at this eight. And it's so true. You're coming up to freedom to live your soul, like your soul is screaming to be heard. And so it is a beautiful time. But and so homeopathy just supports all of that. It's always supporting the body with where it's at, not fighting, not coming in, not stopping and telling it to be quiet. It's just moving it through. And so it's it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_00

So do your kids follow this or do they think mom's a little wacky? Or no? No, no, no, not at all.

SPEAKER_01

Not at all. It's it's so no, because they get it. Like even my boys. Like, so my daughter is 23 and she's seeing she has her own homeopath. And it's beautiful. They call me, they ask me, you know, all the time, like, mom, you know, my friend has this. What do I give? Or they set them with kits for school, and they my sons, who's 21 and 18, no, totally get it. Because especially I think that age through TikTok, all these they're seeing the depth and the truth of what you know, it's really they're all like they get it, because it makes sense when you think of the body and what it's doing, like it just makes sense, you know. So, and then my my 13-year-old daughter is she's she's even said she wants to be a homie. Because they see they're like, Mom, give me and they're even laugh because even for hangover and acute things, they're like, Mom, my friend loves your hangover pills. And so they use it for acute things. Next mama goes, uh what they have. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That makes you kind of cool.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and you're meeting them where they are, also, which I think is also important in any type of care, trying to meet your patients, your clients, whatever, where they exactly where they are and with help.

SPEAKER_01

And that's that's so important. You said that because that is where a client comes. I'm not, I never tell them what to eat, how to do like where they are and who they are. There's zero judgment. So in the space of a consult, it's all it's like a therapy session. A lot of people say it's not like I'm not a trained, you know, even though my psychology background, but that, but it is because you're going so deep and you're you're allowing them to share. And there's no judgment. I'm I'm like, I don't care what you eat, even though I ask about the foods. I could tell some clients are like, oh, well, and I'm like, no, just tell me what you what you love. Like, do you eat ice cream for breakfast? I don't care. Don't lie. It just tells me a little bit. Don't lie about the number of drinks you have on the floor. And I'm like, just it's okay. Yeah. I'm yeah, just keep eating it if that's what you want. But it just tells me about them. And so the remedy picture would have like a craving for certain foods. Or so that's why I ask. And and they just feel very heard. And yeah, there's zero judgment, and it's meeting them where they are exactly. So if they're still on medication or like I'm not, I can't work with you, or no, like homeopathy is just welcoming and and working where you are. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

So I have a couple other questions. So you mentioned that it's a very old medicinal art form. So are there things that you have to stay on top of or keep learning, or is it really all just so rooted in such an ancient philosophy that no, that doesn't exist?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, I mean, I'm always learning. So again, as the world changes, like back Hahnemann is the founder of homeopathy and who was a medical doctor back then, and he was not happy with what he was seeing in the old ways of like bloodletting and all these stuff. And so he, you know, discovered homeopathy. And so yeah, it's built on the same foundation of classical understanding the person and understanding that disease is not the problem. It's the disturbance in the life force and the vital force that is the issue, not the symptoms themselves. So, really, that's the core understanding. And then taking a case, you know, we were taught, you know, there's certain areas and how to assess a case and how to, you know, go to your Materia Medica, which is the book of all the remedies and match it. And so it isn't much of an it is an art form, you know, it's such a science, it's an art and science. But I'm always studying with, you know, new remedies that are maybe being, you know, proven or coming up with or different ones that you just go with, you evolve like any practitioner, maybe or anything in life. You know, you just keep growing and growing with maybe new ways of prescribing or just from clinical experience. And so I'm always studying from like India, it's very big there. So I have a lot of Indian mentors that I study under and so many amazing homeopaths and books. So, and again, adapting like the chronic illness and the toxins didn't exist a hundred years ago, right? So you kind of have to adapt with that layer that's being involved in the person. And again, the stress, like you said, the burnout and all the stuff and our way of life is not the way it used to be. So, again, perimenopause, to kind of go back to that, why it's such a big thing and people are having a hard time is we're just not living in a way that's conducive and supportive for our home hormones in the first place. But yeah, it's it's it's never-ending learning, really.

SPEAKER_00

Which is good. Honestly, I find most entrepreneurs love to learn, especially people in the personal wellness space or anybody who deals with the body. It's just that there's always so much to learn, and it's just so fascinating. Oh, yeah. Which is really interesting.

SPEAKER_01

So are you ever sick? Yeah, it's funny. You said that. Yeah. And that's sick. So that's another hall of conversation. I'm actually just getting over a cold now, and it's been a long haul because pushing and, you know, again, doing certain I'm doing extra projects in my practice and getting kits and all this stuff and Christmas and my four kids. And I and You are human. I crashed. And yeah, and I'm human and I and I'm just getting over another cold. And I'm like, what is happening? But I have that awareness, and yeah, it could be frustrating, but I'm like, you know what? And so I go inward, and uh homeopathy is helping me support and then clearing it out. And sickness is not a bad thing either. So I'd actually be more concerned if I never had a fever or never got sick. Because then the body's in a suppressed state, really. So it's always good. You think of discharges, it's your body's getting rid of something. So I actually welcomed this in a way because it slowed me down. So yeah, no, I just am getting over a tail end of a cold. Okay. All right. But that's a good way to look at it.

SPEAKER_00

That it's it's show it's a sign, it's showing you something, it's a way of clearing out. And very often sickness is a way of slowing down.

SPEAKER_01

And that's how you kind of have to look at symptoms in order to be empowered. And so that it's working for you. Like my body is doing this for me to teach me, you know, or to my body needed it, or you know, again, and it's just if, you know, versus it's something's wrong and it's being attacked or broken. Well, yes.

Self-Care, Rest, and Listening to the Body

SPEAKER_00

And I know personally, for a long time when I was struggling, especially moving into menopause, I really felt like I was at war with my body. And being a mindset coach, I was like, I know that's the wrong way to be thinking about this. Like I rationally know that that is not helping me get better by continually feeling verbalizing and saying I'm at war with my body because that is not gonna help me heal. But very often it's hard not to feel that way when you feel like your body is not performing the way you would like. Um, and so it's a very common feeling to feel like you're at odds with your body. Um, but it's great to know there are things out there and remedies and modalities out there that can try to help people, especially women, with that journey. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So a couple more questions. What does a day in a life look like for you? What do you do for yourself to take care of yourself?

SPEAKER_01

Sleep. I try. It's been hard because as my kids get older, I'm like, they're louder, they're up later, and I'm like, I want to go to bed at 9 30. So sleep for sure. Yeah, I just feel as we get older, I'm just like, I want sleep. I yeah, get up and I try to get up earlier lately again, honoring and not trying to be hard on myself at getting up at 5:45 or 6 to have that hour and read. I'm like, I'm sleeping until 7:30. Like, I need it right now. And letting that shame go of like, oh, I should have gotten up and done this and this and this. You know, that's again the healing, you know, of honoring and and loving yourself. So yeah, right now I'm more sleeping in, but I do like to get up and make a tea or a coffee and just kind of read and get organized. Send my daughter off and usually clients and casework all day because I love it so much. I do do Pilates, which I am loving and a lot of walking. Um, again, not so much lately with the cold, but yeah, and really again, the those physical things, but rest, more rest right now and not pushing and not, you know, I canceled my Pilates this morning because I was like, I am just, I would have in my mind. I'm like, no, I could take this and just push and go. And I'm like, no, I'm not. So I was so proud of myself that I canceled and stayed home and rest. So resting a lot right now, especially in the winter season. Like again, the wisdom we're meant to be hibernating like the animals around us. That's true. And slowing down and not getting up at six and going to push a hit workout or something.

SPEAKER_00

Well, and you said something so important that I don't want to just skim over, which is shame, releasing the shame of listening to your body and doing what your body might need at that time. And you're not saying I'm never going to Pilates, you're just saying, you know what, maybe not today. And I think women learning to give themselves that break, even just saying it's a break and not having any shame for listening to your body when it might need a rest is really powerful. And it's a great place. It's like if people were to find one place to start, it's like start there. Start there by not being shameful and not resenting yourself or being angry at yourself because you listen to your body and you do something that is good for your body, even if it's something as simple as just sleeping half an hour more one day. That's important.

SPEAKER_01

And that's really encompasses so much too, because again, that's why the noise all around us to do all these things, and then we feel shame if we're taking an hour just to read a book or something, and that's unfortunate. So trying to shift that back to it's okay to take that time and shame. Shame makes us more sick than what we're eating. And so again, homeopathy gets that and it gets to the level. Because if you're eating all the things, but you're doing it out of restriction and you don't want to gain weight or how you look, like you're not that's not healthy, you know? So that shame, it's not what you're doing, it's the intention and the energy of why. So a lot of fear, fear makes you a lot more sick than the actual thing you're fearing. And shame is can really lower your vibration. And then you're more susceptible to illness. So it's also connected. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Yeah. Okay. Is there anything before we go? I have two questions, but is there anything that I didn't ask you that you want to make sure you cover or communicate that I missed?

Book Recommendations Including Man’s Search for Meaning

SPEAKER_01

Oh gosh. Well, that's what I was saying. There's so much, as you can see once we got talking, you know, even acutes versus chronic, I guess would be an important thing because um, like when to see a homeopath versus you can learn acutes at home, like an acute, like what is that? So that would be like a cold, a fever, an injury, a beasting, a burn, like something short-lived, you know, that comes in and out. You can learn that at home and, you know, take classes and if and you understand the body and help support the body, not suppress a fever, like ever. The body's so smart, it's heating up. So we want to choose the correct remedy. And again, there's multiple. So that's home prescribing. But when something is chronic, like, you know, a cancer, an autoimmune disease, thyroid, anything chronic that you're living with a long time, like constipation would be chronic, acne, like anything like that, hormones. Uh, you need to see a homeopath because again, it's what we've just all talked about. You know, assessing and understanding and connecting all the things. If you're choosing and Googling a remedy for constipation and sleep, you're not using it homeopathically, you know, in the homeopathic way. You're just still trying to treat the symptom. So that's a big thing to understand of, you know, people get well, they try to treat themselves at home for, you know, anxiety or and again, short term and acute anxiety. Yeah, there's remedies. But if it's something you're struggling with at long term, you need to work with a homeopath. And so two different ways of prescribing, I guess.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What's the best way for people to find you? And I'll put it in the show notes too, but I always like it's nice to have you say it too.

SPEAKER_01

So I do have my website, Kristareve.com, and on Instagram is kristareve.homeopathy.

SPEAKER_00

All right. One last question. I love to have my guests recommend a book that has impacted you personally or professionally that you suggest people read. So what book would you like to recommend? Yeah, that's so hard. I was, I'm like, oh, there's like I have like five. You could recommend more than one. It's okay. You could recommend a couple. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Well, the first one that I always comes to, because it really did shape my future, I think, was Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel. Yeah, it was in a psychology class. I think I was like 19 or 20 in in university, and it just stuck with me. And I just actually have gifted it to my kids and they want to read it and once in psychology. So it's great. But yeah, that really propelled things for me, you know, just shifting about, you know, choosing your reaction to things and, you know, the meaning of things versus it's not your situation, but how you choose to see it. And again, it's so connected to homeopathy because you can, you know, surrender to life and flow to life versus fight and resist, like all those words we used and with our body. So it's just that essence of that book really can be helped so much in your body and in life. And so that really struck me and and kind of I think propelled me. But yeah, and then there's other, I mean, um, another one I was thinking of, I guess, is dying to be me. It's I like the title. I've never heard of that one. Yeah. So it's great because it's a quick read, it's easy. You know, man's first man's search for meaning is a little, you know, it's not as it might, some people might find it more dry or something. I mean, I loved it. But yeah, dying to be me, it's written, you know, as a story form, but it's based Anita Morjani. I hope I'm saying her name correctly. Um, it's her account of basically dying, like dying to be me. You can kind of get, you know, again, when we're not living our truth. And it's so connected to kind of the homeopathic modality because when you're not living and you're clouding and you're not speaking your truth and you're living for everybody else, you can get sick. And she was diagnosed with a leukemia, I believe, and was basically died, left her body, saw that, and came back. Yeah, you know, her story you'll have to read, and it's well documented. And she's so she's healthy now, and she's you can look her up and follow her on Instagram. But her story is amazing, and it just helps you connect back to yourself and you know, if you're living, connecting your heart and your mind and not overriding again what like the rest and this and people pleasing and makes it sure, of course. So those two I think are great. I love that.

SPEAKER_00

That's so great. Thank you so much. I love that. And I read, I try to read a lot of the books that my guests recommend because it just opens my eyes to things that I might not know about. So um, and we include it in the show notes too.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, that's a nice story. And yeah. And then one last one I just want to absolutely is power um power versus force. I love David Hawk. Yeah, that's a good one. I got it.

SPEAKER_00

But a good reminder on that one. So thank you.

Closing Thoughts on Healing and Body Wisdom

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So again, the energetic and you know, it's connected, it's not homeopathic, but it's connected to understanding, perhaps. So I like that one.

SPEAKER_00

All right, thank you so much, Krista, for coming on the show. I learned so much, so much I did not know. I really was thinking we are talking herbs, supplements. I had no idea we were talking about energy. And I can definitely even think of things for myself where going to see someone like you could actually be really, really helpful. So I'm hoping that our listeners really learned a lot. And then if anybody's interested, follow Krista, reach out if she can help you. There really are so many other ways to heal the body, and your body is amazing, and you should treat. It's like it is the greatest gift. Um, so thank you for coming on. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's so well said. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for having me. And you're welcome, and we'll stay in touch.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you for joining us for this week's episode of Building the Best You. If you are ready to take a deeper dive into transforming your life, check out my Empowerment Fundamentals course on my website, houseofgermar.com. Thank you, and I will see you next week with another inspiring guest.