They say that having kids can change your life. That statement is more true for me than I could have ever imagined. I was 26 years old when I became pregnant with my first daughter. At that time, I had graduated from the College of St. Benedict with a BA in Biology and Economics. It was 1999 and tech companies were hiring left and right, adding to teams who would help solve the impending Y2K problem.
I began my career at CSC, Computer Sciences Corporation as a traveling consultant. Although I had no background in computer science, I quickly learned to code and test. Over the course of my tech career, I had gigs all over the US finally landing in St. Paul as the director of technology at a small non-profit management firm. At 26 years old, I assumed that I was on track to climb the corporate ladder.
It wasn’t until a few months into my pregnancy that something came into my awareness and I couldn’t shake it. A woman who was teaching a personal development course I was in kept talking about her own challenges as she went through her homeopathic training. Now, I’d never heard of homeopathy before but from age five, I had wanted to be a medical doctor. Life had taken me in a different direction up to that point, but the flame was still there. After class one day, I asked her to tell me a bit more about what she meant by “homeopathy”. What was it? And most importantly, could I use it for my child instead of antibiotics?
As a child, I was quite sick. Developing asthma and allergies at a young age, I was in and out of the ER and various doctor’s offices. For many years I was misdiagnosed as having colds and repeatedly given antibiotics when I was actually just really allergic to things around me. So I wanted something else for my child. I didn’t want her to grow up with regular hospital visits like I did. While I’d heard about homeopathy from my teacher in the early months of my pregnancy, it just stayed in the back of my mind and I continued on with my life.
It wasn’t until my husband and I had made the decision that I would stay home with our daughter, at least in the beginning, that my interest in homeopathy piqued again. Infant in tow, I attended an info session for a local homeopathy school and after that, I was sold. I felt as if I’d come home and found what I was called to do. Homeopathy was a medicine that offered a deep ability to heal through the gifts of the natural world and I fell in love.
So yes, motherhood upended our lives in so many ways but finding a new career through becoming a mom was totally unexpected. For that I’m completely grateful.
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