Year Compass

A tool to observe with gratitude the year gone and set intentions for the year ahead. Also some tips on parenting.

My desk 1st January 2024

A different focus for this week’s post as I have run out of scheduled posts to share with you. This is more personal and will give you a sneak peak into me.

I’ve known about the Year Compass for a few years now. It is a beautiful tool to use to look back on the year that was and look forward to the year to come. It is a bit more useful than new years resolutions. You may download a free copy here

https://yearcompass.com/#download

For the past 2 years I have not been able to fill it out. I have felt too traumatized by the events going on in the world. I am happy to say that I am feeling better now. Turning my focus to homeopathy and beginning to share my knowledge with the world has been and is a very healing thing for me to do. People of the world really need to know about the alternatives to the chemical medicine model that is increasingly ruling our lives to the detriment of ourselves and the world around us.

As I filled in my little booklet I noticed that most of the year was taken up with the achievements of my wonderful son. He has just finished high school where, as well as being the school captain, he topped all his class subjects, was awarded Senior Dux and a couple of thousand dollars in bursaries. This year he reached the state finals in Lions Youth of the Year public speaking which rewarded us both with many dinners out and a weekend in Brisbane, a city we are both unfamiliar with. Watching his confidence on graduation night was such a beautiful thing.

So MY achievement for the past year was bringing him to this point in his life. We have been a sole parent family since he was 4 years old. So how did I do it?

I have been interested in natural health for a very long time. I knew years before getting pregnant that I would not vaccinate my child. It took me 4 years to get pregnant and birth my son (due to my history of endometriosis). Any risk, of any medication, was just too great a risk for me to bear in relation to something so precious. I learnt about whole food and used the book “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon almost as a scripture book to feed my child the best food I possibly could. We were homesteading, so grew our own meat, eggs, dairy and many vegetables. After my husband left, I persevered on my own with the goat herd for another 8 years in order to raise my child on raw goats milk as I felt this was so important for his early development. Raw milk is an illegal product here in Australia so it cannot be bought. We got around the fussy eating stage by fostering a relationship with foods in the garden and encouraging him to help with cooking

Although my son has had the odd medical prescription from mainstream medicine, I kept this to a minimum, usually resorting to this when my own confidence failed me. He has had antibiotics about 3 times and none since he was 5 years old. Otherwise, I treated his childhood fevers and conditions with homeopathy where I have written about some of these experience here, here and here. I shudder to think how often he would have had antibiotics if he did not have access to my knowledge.

Motherhood is often spiced with many fears about the welfare of her children. Sometimes in a state of panic, you rush to the doctor hoping for a pill to put things to right. With homoeopathy there is such a pill and it does not have the adverse side effects of chemical drugs. It doesn’t derange the microflora of the gut. It doesn’t leave you more susceptible to the next nosological agent to turn up. Instead it strengthens the body, increasing resilience. My son always had a growth spurt after a bout of fever. He grew from being the clingiest, insecure child to being the MC on graduation night and loving the microphone!

I hope to continue my journey here on Substack, sharing with you my knowledge gathered over 30 years. If you have something you would like me to present, let me know in the comments and I will endeavor to create something for you.

Looking forward to the tide turning.