Last week, during a discovery call, a potential client asked me about my religious beliefs. In all of my years, I don’t think anyone has ever asked and it proved to be a wonderful opportunity for me to put some things into words. I wanted to share those thoughts with you.
I was raised in the Catholic faith. Mass and ritual played a big role in my life and our family traditions growing up. Church holidays and Sunday services were the punctuations in our week that also provided the opportunity to gather as a family. These were also intertwined with my education from Kindergarten through college.
As I entered the workforce and started traveling regularly, my faith took a back seat. It wasn’t until my first daughter was born that I felt ready to find a new church community. At that time, we found our home in the Unitarian Church which is where we raised our children and put down roots. The activism, work toward social change and welcoming of all different faiths and cultures are what really drew me to Unitarianism.
While our Unitarian home was a place of important community for us, it was actually in my homeopathic practice that I truly found my spiritual home.
What I’ve come to learn over the years and to put it in simple terms, love is my spiritual practice. It’s what connects us and is what we all crave. Homeopathic healing, in it’s simplest form, is about bringing people back to love. Through the work that I do with people, we restore your ability to be loved; to receive and give it freely. Most people, at their core, don’t believe that they are loveable. So we either cut off the potential for being loved or we keep trying to do things that we think people will love us for. Thus, living a life that we think someone else wants us to live. Our bodies hold all of this in and then we experience pain or disease.
I absolutely love homeopathy. I am so grateful to be doing work that connects me deeply both to other people and to the Universal Energy that connects and binds all of us. Practicing homeopathy is a continual invitation for me to love more deeply - both myself and others.
Be loved,
Desirée
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