Homeopathy for Mommies

Homeopathy for Mommies runs like a small radio station that happens to be about remedies. Every episode opens the same way, with an announcer introducing Sue Meyer as a Catholic wife and homeschool mom of eleven, and a plain statement that nothing here is meant to diagnose or name a disease. Then Sue takes over, and the register shifts to something closer to a kitchen table. She is a certified classical homeopath, but the teaching is domestic before it is technical. A typical episode picks one problem and stays with it. Coughs and respiration, and why a child's cough behaves the way it does. Cold and flu season arriving after a summer that felt too short. The endocrine system, which she introduces reluctantly, telling listeners up front that she does not have all the answers. Stress gets a long stretch, and she is blunt about it: high stress is what is wearing people down, much of it because they feel trapped in jobs and lives they did not choose. Practical instruction is the backbone. Choosing a remedy, how dosage and potency work, how to tell whether something is working, what interferes, the difference between an aggravation and a proving. Arnica surfaces as the household staple, the one a listener named Carrie calls her go-to for little kids and living life. Listener episodes turn the microphone around entirely. During World Homeopathy Week, callers phone in with the story of how they first found homeopathy, including one woman who came to a two-day workshop in Victoria, Texas at her daughter Joy's urging, then surprised Joy by calling the show unannounced. Guests Marisa and Elisa Joulfaian, a mother and daughter, talk about a client who kept coming back for the last twenty percent of his improvement, and about asking to pray with clients at the end of a first meeting. The show does not hide its positions. Sue points listeners to a century-old book on vaccinosis, tells them to do their own research on flu shots, and returns often to her decades-old fight with pesticide companies and to glyphosate. Sponsors are read warmly and sound like neighbours: an online math program for homeschoolers, a family-run mercantile. There are live online basics classes with a question-and-answer session at the end, a members area with recorded audios, free printables tied to episodes. Everything closes with a blessing, asking the Lord for good health, vitality, strength, and wisdom. Anyone expecting clinical detachment will not find it. What is here instead is a long-running conversation among mothers who have decided to treat their own families and want company doing it.