I found this book in Audible and am so happy I did! A friend of mine has been wondering if homeopathy could help with autism. The answer is an emphatic yes! Amy Lansky, PhD, the author of Impossible Cure, pictured above, tells the whole story of how her son was cured of autism by homeopathy. Read it in scribd.com. (Go here to learn about scribd.com.)
Amy is an academic so if you are all into credentials and research, you will appreciate her background. She was a computer scientist and researcher for NASA. Her website is here. It is chock full of treasures: curing autism stories, referrals to practitioners, and recommended treatments, plus Amy’s blog.
Amy’s son Max got autism from a conventional vaccine as a toddler. He rarely talked. He exhibited many self-soothing behaviors and seemed “spaced out” in his preschool, hardly connecting with the teachers and other children, with no eye contact. Homeopathy cured the autism and today he is a fully-functioning, working adult with a degree in film from USC.
This book is fascinating! Not only do you learn about the Lansky family’s experience with autism and homeopathy, but you get a great primer on HP. The book has stories of HP curing all sorts of things besides autism, including Alzheimer’s and a cute little dog who overdosed on a box of chocolates. Amazing!
Here are podcasts featuring Amy:
This one is an excerpt from her book above, from the Naturally Recovering from Autism with Karen Thomas podcast.
This one is an interview with Amy and her husband Charles.
A friend of mine taking the Teach me Health and Homeopathy Class by Paola Brown that I’m facilitating asked a question in behalf of her friend, “Have you learned about the homeopathic remedies for childhood vaccinations?”
Here’s my answer, “Yes!”
Cilla Whatcott is the “go-to girl” about this. She wrote a whole book about the answer, pictured above. According to Sarah Pope at thehealthyhomeeconomist.com, “Cilla PhD, HD RHom, CCH is a classical homeopath, instructor at Normandale Community College, mother of several adopted children from around the world and advocate for safer healthcare. She is the founder of the website Real Immunity. Cilla holds a B.A. degree from Arizona State University and a PhD from Kingdom College of Natural Health. She is also a graduate of Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy, Minneapolis, MN.”
I highly encourage you to to Cilla’s site, Real Immunity and get her DVDs and watch them to learn about real immunity. Read her book above about alternatives to childhood vaccinations. Listen to her interviews below. She has another book here, pictured below.
I love that blossoms are a sign of spring. I took a walk on Saturday and this tree was in full bloom.
This past week for the Come, Follow Me study guide I read Doctrine and Covenants section 45. In Sunday School class in Zoom yesterday the teachers asked us what we are supposed to do with those truths given in section 45. I had never thought about that before. Section 45 is all about the signs of Christ’s Second Coming, some of it quite frightening at surface level understanding, like the moon turning to blood and the stars falling from heaven. We, meaning people I know in my circle of friends in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talk about the signs of the times all the time. But what’s the point? Why does God give them and why should we know about them? The teachers sent us into different breakout rooms to discuss the answer. So I started looking in the section to find the answer. Here’s what I came up with:
So that we know that God is so incredibly amazing, because He fulfills his Word. He tells us these signs and as we watch them come true we can increase our reverence for Him. He controls all things with His power, which is all power. So seeing His prophecies come true increases our wonder and awe of Him. (Again, verse 35 relates to this as well.)
So that we will look forward to the Second Coming of Jesus with great anticipation. Think of waiting for Christmas, or the anticipation of having a new baby born into your family or you or a family member getting married, and times that by infinity. That’s how exciting the coming of Jesus Christ is. We can increase our testimony that He is coming. If we are following Him, then this is exciting! It is not a dreadful thing! It is a wonderful thing to share with our neighbors so we can all prepare. We can each repent every day and help our neighbors repent. Repent just means to turn to Jesus and think, act, and feel like He does.
“And it shall come to pass that he that feareth me shall be looking forth for the great day of the Lord to come, even for the signs of the coming of the Son of Man.” D&C 45:39
Jesus is coming again! As it says in The Living Christ proclamation, “We testify that He will someday return to earth. ‘And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together’ (Isaiah 40:5). He will rule as King of Kings and reign as Lord of Lords, and every knee shall bend and every tongue shall speak in worship before Him. Each of us will stand to be judged of Him according to our works and the desires of our hearts.”
More blossoms from my neighborhood walk. So beautiful!
The Family of Anson Perry Winsor II and Sarah Alydia Terry (more about them here)
I attended a recent event about family history over Zoom for my ward (church congregation). The event involved three or four people who each presented in a different breakout room. One of the presentations was about adding memories to Familysearch.org. By attending that class, I learned an idea that I’m going to put into full force for the rest of my life. What is that idea? It’s that familysearch.org, particularly the “memories” section, is God’s Scrapbook!
This is a major shift in my thinking. I had been thinking that familysearch is just for adding photos and audio clips of deceased people, like the one at the very top of this post, of my great-grandmother, Ethel Windsor, who is the little girl in the photo. I watched the video above a few years ago. It presents the idea that familysearch.org is like a museum of your ancestors. So I started thinking of it as a place for pictures of ancestors. But the presenter pointed out that we can be adding photos and audio clips into the “memories” section for those who are living, including our children. She showed us how to do it and called it “God’s Scrapbook.”
Ahh! This is is so ground-breaking! I’ve been into preserving memories for years. My life, however, happens faster than I can preserve it. Because I am an idealist, and want my memories preserved in perfect scrapbook pages that capture the theme and intensity of the event with colorfully coordinated specialty acid-free scrapbook paper and embellishments, alongside words to document each photo, I can’t keep up. That all takes a lot of time and money. Henceforth, out of my seven children, the progress I have made on documenting their lives in a scrapbook is ridiculously, painfully, pathetically slow.
I dutifully made a scrapbook album of my firstborn, a boy, covering the first two years of his life, with acid free paper and glue, and lots of borders and stickers. More children came along and what with homeschooling and the other duties of keeping them alive and fed, I am still stuck on my oldest daughter’s baby album. She’s 25! I haven’t gotten past the second month of her life!
Actually I had added a few memories of my two older boys, from their mission, into familysearch.org. So my thinking had progressed from viewing familysearch.org as a repository for dead people’s photos to a place to put living people’s memories. But I had only thought that “super important” memories go there. I had only put in some missionary letters from my two older boys’ missions.
But this presenter showed us how she has been adding tons of miscellany memories of her children and grandchildren, all living. She had audio clips of her grandchildren giving talks in Primary, pictures of their recent Easter family picnic, and ball games of her grandson. She said she loves scrapbooking this way because she knows it’s going to last forever. She doesn’t have to deal with paper and glue. It goes super fast and it’s super safe.
I agree! This can go so much faster. You can do it from your phone using the familytree app. You can use photos from your Facebook, Google photos, and Instagram accounts. You don’t have, however, the “hold a book in your hand” factor that you do with scrapbooks. That’s the only drawback. We might not always be able to have access to electronic devices. So I’ll continue to do Chatbooks. I have been making photo books using Chatbooks, but you can’t add audio clips to Chatbooks. So now I’m going to do both. I’ll preserve memories of living people, especially audio clips, in both familysearch and chatbooks. I’ve made Chatbooks on and off for Christmas the past few years. I like to make a Chatbook for each child for their “meaningful” gift on some years. See my post on Three Gifts for Christmas Tradition here.
Happy scrapbooking in God’s way! Go over to familysearch.org and get started today! I’ve included a bunch of videos here in this post to help you learn how to capture and organize your photos and audio clips in familysearch. You can even do this on your phone, using the familytree app and photos from your camera roll. God indeed does think of everything! He is providing painless ways for harried moms like me to do a little bit of “family history work” everyday. It’s so important and healing to have family stories and pictures prominent in our brains.
The video below shows some new features of familysearch.org, as of Feb. 27, 2021. I love the new “Discovery Pages” of each person. It takes the features of Family History Discovery Centers to each person’s page. Amazing!
Pickleball! (That plus bowling. We did both on the same day! Fun!)
I’ve been wanting to learn how to play it so I was happy to oblige! We had a great time! This is a great activity for ages 6 and up. It’s so much easier than tennis! I’m hooked! The learning curve is much less steep than tennis. You have all the fun of tennis without the stress. I’ll be playing this again for family time!
If you want to play it without an official court do what we did. Buy a pickleball set on amazon, then go to your nearest public school playground that has asphalt. Bring duct tape with you and use the duct tape to mark the boundaries after searching online for dimensions. Just be approximate. This is not tournament play. If you have to conserve your tape, play on the playground’s basketball court and use those lines for outer boundaries, and use the duct tape to make the kitchen line. (If we had a flat driveway we would play on that but since it’s sloped that won’t work. We’d always be chasing the ball into the street, since we’re not that good at playing yet and miss a lot of shots, LOL!)
I’m still basking in the glow of the amazing Homeopathy on the Hill event I participated in on Thursday 4/22/21. Basically, 700 homeopathy advocates, both consumers and practitioners of homeopathic drugs, joined forces to have phone and online meetings with Congressional staffers. We communicated to these staffers our reasons that homeopathic drugs should be protected by the FDA and not outlawed. We asked the staffers to tell the Congress people they work with to collaborate to restore a 1979 bill to keep homeopathic drugs legal. Already, some homeopathic drugs are being blocked by the FDA, and we want to stop any more from being blocked. This is just the beginning of the campaign!
I’m grateful for Paola Brown as president of Americans for Homeopathy Choice for leading the fight. Paola accomplished a Herculean task. Kudos to her and her team!
Anyway, for the capstone of the event, we got to hear from Lindsay Wagner, the Bionic Woman. She appeared on Zoom for all of the participants to see and hear her story of using homeopathy. Wow! Can you believe she’s 71? Someone in the Zoom room showed us all her Bionic Woman lunch box. That’s the photo at the top. Lindsay looks the same on the lunch box from decades ago as she does today!
Book Cover Image Credit: thriftbooks.com
It must be her use of homeopathy that keeps her so young! She told her story of discovering homeopathy in the early 1980s. She first used it for some emotional issues and then turned to it for her delivery of her first baby and then for her children’s health issues. She said that when her children were little, they knew if they had aches or pains to bring “the yellow book” to Lindsay to ask her for help. It’s the book above, by Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman. It was so fun to see that Dana was in the zoom room so he could see/hear this acknowledgement from Lindsay that she relied on his book to be a Dr. Mom.
If you are curious about becoming a Dr. Mom yourself with homeopathy (HP), I encourage you to sign up for Paola Brown’s Homeopathy for Moms Book Club. I’m starting it on Tuesday May 11 so don’t delay! Go here to get all the details!
I also just discovered this wonderful resource about homeopathy here, a collection of HP videos from wholehealthnow.com. Paola has a video in the collection, and so does Joette Calabrese.
Did you see the online class for moms and kids using Paola Brown’s Teach Me Health and Homeopathy curriculum over here? It’s so amazing! I’m having so much fun teaching it, learning about health, terrain theory, and how healing really works. Maybe it interests you, but you decided it’s not for you because you don’t have children.
Or maybe you’re interested in learning all these truths yourself without involving your kids in a formal class. Or you have kids, but they are too young to take the class with you.
Great news! I’m launching Paola’s Homeopathy Book Club just for moms, to study health and homeopathy, sans the kiddos, using a book club culture!
It’s Paola’s Homeopathy Book Club for Moms!
You use the same book as the kids use in the kids class, Evie and the Secret of Small Things, which Paola wrote, but you study it in a book club culture. Fun and learning at the same time without managing the kiddos!
-it’s for newbies to homeopathy, laying a sound foundation to learn about this completely reliable and amazing system of medicine
-it’s also for not so newbies, who want to clarify understanding of things like the law of similars, provings, using a materia medica, how to take a case, and how to use a repertory
-you learn what potency and dosing can look like for an acute case
-you learn how we need to avoid bias when taking a case
-you learn about the history of homeopathy with Samuel Hahnemann and you delve deeper into the dangers of suppressing disease.
–you also learn to think about various treatments found in conventional medicine
-you learn what sources are used for homeopathy remedies
-you get to watch an interview Paola did with the director of pharmacy at Boiron
-you will learn how to find a homeopath for your family and best practices to use
-dive into terrain theory, and learn who was right? Bechamp or Pasteur?
-you learn how to make a health and illness timeline for each member of your family
-you get to practice taking lots of cases to boost your confidence for doing it in real life
-you learn the key notes for 19 remedies each used for acute cases: Allium cepa, Nat mur, Arnica montana, Rhus tox, Bryonia alba, and Silicea, Symphytum, Ledum, Apis, Arsenicum, and Nux vomica, Cantharis, Causticum, and Urtica urens, Hypericum, Staphysagria, Belladonna, Carbo veg, Aconitum napellus
-the Online Book Club Area includes over 45 custom made or curated videos tailored to the Book Club to help you and your friends make the most of the material.
-you get a fabulous, fun Graduation Gift! (digital, included with Handbook)
For all your dedication and hard work in completing this 8-week Book Club Program, and to support your journey of growing homeopathy knowledge, Paola is so pleased to provide you with an amazing, special digital gift. It provides you access to digital copies of several forgotten (yet truly wonderful) homeopathy books, a coupon book for homeopathy related products from several of the best homeopathy stores, access to continuing education resources from some of Paola’s favorite homeopaths, and additional printables and infographics. This is indeed a small treasure chest of value that Paola and I know you will enjoy!
Logisticsof Class:
-8 weeks
-Tuesday nights, starts 5/25 and ends 7/6, 7:00 to 9:00 MDT, online
-over Zoom, so no need to pay a babysitter… put the kids in front of a screen and come in your PJs with some treats!
-tuition fee is $100, $50 early bird price if you register by Wednesday May 12, midnight. Pay by Venmo to @Celestia-Shumway. Register after May 12 and pay $100
-at least $79 materials fee, which you order here. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and order the following pictured below (these prices are the discount prices which occurs when you buy at least 2 items):
Those materials are required for the class. If you want to invest in something extra, but so lovely and infinitely handy for your family’s health life, I suggest you get the beautiful hardcover Family Homeopathy Journal. It’s $55 but It won’t ship out until after April 30th.
You will find the family journal so convenient as a place to keep all your case taking notes for your family, as well as your notes for what remedies you gave your family.
I hope to see you in class on May 25! If you have any questions, please email me at info (at) treeoflifemothering (dot) com.
“What problems are restrictions and mask mandates causing? What are the side effects of the COVID-19 ‘vaccine’? What might happen to our children if we choose to have them get the shot? Senator Dick Black, a Marine and a grandfather of 16 who served in Virginia’s House of Delegates and Senate for 16 years, today draws on his experience and knowledge to shed light on how current events may impact our tomorrow. He offers insights on pharmaceutical companies’ promotion of vaccinations. He discusses the ramifications of the mask mandates and of the injection rollout on daily life. He also provides encouragement and motivation to reclaim our health rights.”
I love listening to Hank Smith and John Bytheway in their Come, Follow Him podcast and YouTube series, called “Follow Him.” They do one, sometimes two videos a week featuring a guest presenter to discuss the Come, Follow Me scripture reading assignment. When they do two it’s because they break up the discussion/presentation into two parts. Last week they featured Susan Easton Black Durrant, one of my favorite female scholars. You can read about her here and here. I love the connections they all make to help me understand the gospel better. This past week’s reading involved the story of a man named James Covel. He was a Methodist minister and a contemporary of Joseph Smith. In Doctrine and Covenants 40, he was told by the Lord Jesus Christ in a revelation to Joseph Smith to get baptized into the church that Joseph restored and move to Ohio from New York with the church members, to establish Zion.
Spoiler alert: Susan said that he didn’t. As a Methodist minister, he probably knew the Bible backwards and forwards. He had the potential for great leadership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He, however, turned it down because of the “cares of the world,” no doubt his desire to stay in his current position of social esteem and church leadership. Hank compared him to Len Bias.”Hey,” I thought, “I remember hearing the story of Len when I was in high school.” Hank said that Len had better college basketball stats than Michael Jordan. He was a top pick in the NFL draft. The night after the draft he tragically died of a drug overdose. Oh, this is such a sad story! Can you imagine Len’s future? He probably could have been greater than Michael Jordan, based on his stats. To drive the point home, Hank asked, “Do you want to be like James Covel and Len Bias, someone who ‘could have been’ great?” It’s definitely something for us to each ponder, and decide what we want to change so we aren’t a “could-have,” a “would-have,” or a “has-been.”
We played this game recently as part of our Easter holiday with my firstborn in town to visit. He asked for it at Christmas so I obliged. We played it on New Year’s Day right after he got it. Then he packed it for this recent trip so we could play again. Yay! It’s a perfect game to play for Easter and springtime. Maybe this is a new Easter tradition!
This is my prize-winning scorecard for the game! I eventually maxed out all of the nest capacities for the birds’ eggs. It was my points for eggs laid that allowed me to win the game!
I love this game so much I’m going to get my own and play it whenever I want and not just when firstborn comes to visit!
Here’s why:
-it teaches strategy and executive function. In order to win you have to constantly ask yourself, “What is the goal? What is my next best move?” It reminds me a bit of chess in that way but you don’t have to do so much defensive thinking, asking yourself, “Where am I being threatened?” It’s all offensive playing, at least as far as I can tell, after playing it twice now.
-it teaches facts about birds in a non-lecture-y way. When it’s not your turn you can read the facts and not be bored. 🙂 It has so many interesting facts to learn: a bird’s habitat, what it eats, the type of nest it lays (or not), the typical amount of eggs it lays in one nest, its wingspan, and some unique fact about the bird.
-the illustrations are just so lovely
-the quality of the pieces is high, as the cardboard pieces and cards are thick and the little pastel eggs are solid
-although it seems complicated at first, the game is simple to learn as it comes with a quick start guide where each player has an instruction sheet that tells each one exactly how to take his or her first four turns, which makes it easy-peasy to learn
-it is fun, as you feel success as you move backwards on the row, doing each step in order, activating the bird’s powers, laying eggs, etc., so for that reason it teaches one to think methodically, and in the process you learn to enjoy thinking step-by-step
-it’s also fun because of the bird feeder dice tower, I mean you could just roll the dice, but the bird feeder just makes it so much more fun
I give this game 5 out of 5 stars! I’d say it’s for ages 10 and up or 8 and up for fluent readers. It’s great for bird lovers, but you don’t have to be a bird lover to enjoy it. I plan on getting it for my bird-loving dad for Father’s Day. I can’t wait to play it with him!
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