What My Dog's Wet Nose Taught Me About Healing

I’m getting back to running after pulling my hamstring earlier this month and was out on a three mile route this morning with my favorite running partner, Luna.  I would be a liar if I let you think that’s her real name, however.  Tony Baloney, Tuna Roo, Looney, Tooney, Toots, Tootie, these are all possibilities and are used interchangeably.

One of my favorite things about running with her is that she constantly needs physical connection so I’m regularly feeling her wet nose on the back of my leg.  She brushes her whiskers on my leg or jams her jowels into my calf.  Sometimes it happens every few seconds if she’s feeling anxious or has a lot of wiggles.  On some runs, it happens just once or twice. Today there were a lot of people and dogs on the path so we were feeling a bit more anxious and my leg was even a little bit wet in between nudges.  

It got me thinking - this is the perfect metaphor for homeopathic practice.  It’s weird that I’m comparing my practice to my dog but let me explain!

This past week while leading a retreat in Greece with the Prometheus Homeopathic Institute, we asked the following question throughout the week,

what does your divinity look like?

It was so moving to wrestle with this question throughout the week in such powerful places as the Temple of Asklepios or the Oracle of Delphi, but it’s also encapsulates the work that I do with my clients in sessions every day.  

Throughout our lives, we forget that we are divine, energetic beings.  We lose touch with our divine nature and our inner knowing.  Who we are uniquely in the world gets clouded by the messages of who we were told to be, our traumas and difficult life experiences.

In my work, this is what we are on about - connecting you back to your divinity, your intuition and your wholeness.  This happens both through each session and when you take your homeopathic remedy.

And how does this relate to Luna?  Well, we all need grounding.  We need nudges along the way to be reassured that we are on the right track, that we can do it and that we are safe.  This connection happens when we process together in your session and when you take your remedy.  

Thankfully, you don’t always need a cold nose on your leg in order to feel grounded.  

Be loved,

Desirée