What to Expect

The Myth of Painless Healing

Many people arrive to homeopathic care after years — sometimes decades — of suppressing symptoms. When the body finally has enough support to begin unwinding old patterns, it may not do so quietly.

Symptoms can resurface. Fatigue can deepen. Emotions can become more volatile. Old issues, be they physical or psychological, may briefly reappear.

This can be frightening if you’ve been told that healing should never hurt.

But across traditional healing systems, mythology, and ecology, there is a shared understanding: true restoration often requires a period of disruption.

Aggravation Is Not the Same as Harm

It’s important to name this clearly.

Not all worsening is healthy, and not all discomfort should be pushed through. Ethical care always involves pacing, consent, monitoring, and responsiveness.

There is a meaningful difference between:

• violent aggravation (overwhelming the system, bypassing capacity, ignoring warning signs), and

• necessary activation (the body bringing unresolved material to the surface so it can be processed and released).

In this practice, we are not trying to bulldoze the system into change. We are working to restore communication, circulation, and responsiveness. When that happens, what has been dormant often becomes visible.

Healing does not always begin with relief. Sometimes, the body needs permission, and support, to go through a temporary intensification so that deeper resolution can occur.

What “Getting Worse Before Better” Often Looks Like

While every person’s process is unique, some common and expected experiences during genuine healing phases can include:

• transient symptom flares

• increased fatigue or need for rest

• changes in digestion, elimination, or skin

• emotional surfacing or mood shifts

• heightened sensitivity

• a brief return of old symptoms that had gone quiet

These phases are usually time-limited, responsive to pacing adjustments, and followed by greater stability, resilience, or clarity.

The key is not to panic, or suppress, but to interpret these signals correctly.

A Different Promise

Rather than promising “no aggravations,” I offer something more honest and, I believe, more humane:

I promise to work thoughtfully and collaboratively.

I promise to listen closely to your responses.

I promise to slow down when things become too much.

And I promise to treat moments of difficulty not as failures, but as information.

Healing is not the absence of discomfort.

Healing is movement — sometimes quiet, sometimes messy — toward greater wholeness.

Our work is to pace and support these phases, so that short-term discomfort serves long-term restoration.

And I’m here to support you at every step of the way: to equip you with tools and information to give you some control over your own process; to provide a meaningful interpretation of the patterns that I see; to provide context for whatever aspect of the healing cycle is surfacing.