It sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? That statement: “Is this as good as it gets”? But is it a question you have found yourself asking? If you have, you are certainly not alone. I have found myself after serious illness, in a place where the NHS and all that it has to offer could not improve my health any further or indeed find anything wrong with me in any test they carried out. All my blood work was ‘normal’, all the investigations I underwent were unremarkable, x-rays and scans were clear. And yet, here I was, left in a state of health that could only be described as ‘just getting through the day’. I was in incredible pain, suffering crushing fatigue, panic attacks that were manifesting as palpitations, and all manner of symptoms that had rendered my life not much more than an existence. Endless visits to the GP or out of hours all went the same way; explaining my symptoms; how ill I felt; the same routine tests; nothing found – back to square one. I reached the point where I felt as though I had nowhere left to go to find help to regain the level of health I once had and wanted to get back to, but which was becoming a distant memory. I was also so despondent by this point that the thought of trying to explain it all to someone new filled me with dread. Any suggestion of alternative healthcare gave rise to the same thought “I just can’t go through it all again when it probably won’t help anyway”. Does that sound familiar? Are you in a place where your level of health is almost unrecognisable from one you remember? And does the journey back to it seem impossible? It did for me too. But I turned to homeopathy and somehow summoned the strength to begin going through it all again one more time. And that was the turning point.

At the time, I had almost nothing left and we only scratched the surface of where I was in my health journey during that first consultation. But my homeopath was patient and persistent and didn’t ask more of me than I had to give in the beginning. She simply promised me that it wouldn’t be this bad again, and that it would start to get easier as my health began to improve. And she was true to her word, although I will not pretend it was an easy or a linear recovery. I had days when the symptoms that the homeopathic remedies were pushing out were tough to cope with (known as aggravations) and occasionally I had to pause my treatment to allow my body to catch up in its’ healing. There were days when it felt like an uphill struggle, but gradually through the endless fog of chronic ill health, I began to notice tiny improvements. Week by week my symptoms lessened and fell gently away. My energy levels began to recover and every day tasks no longer felt as insurmountable. I began to pay more attention to my diet and nutrition and made a return to exercising, finally having the energy to do so again. After just a few months, I regained my full vitality and began enjoying the feeling of robust health again. In doing so, homeopathy went from being my passion to being my purpose. I wanted to make homeopathy available to other people suffering with chronic ill health and create a pathway back to better health.

So I set out to achieve my long-term ambition, I trained as a classical homeopath and Wirral Homeopathy was born. I live and run my practice on the beautiful Wirral peninsula surrounded by beautiful countryside, coasts and rivers. If you would like to find out more about homeopathy and how it could help you, check out my website or contact me for further information or an informal chat and begin your journey back to better health today.