Using Homeopathy in your Doula Practice with Sapna, The Wild Homeopath
Are you ready to help your doula clients stop blindly relying on pharmaceuticals and instead, get to the root cause of their pregnancy and birth symptoms?
In this episode of the Birthworker Podcast, I'm joined by Sapna Matharu from The Wild Homeopath, who is sharing her insight and experience from supporting her clients through their fertility, pregnancy, and birth journeys.
In this podcast interview with Sapna, we discuss:
The generational effects of birth trauma in the body…
How homeopathy might help heal chronic conditions…
Ways that birth doulas can use homeopathy in their doula practices…
How everything you know about “unexplained infertility” might be wrong…
… and a whole lot more!
Kyleigh Banks: Hello everybody, this is Sapna. She is a homeopath and an educator. She is at thewildhomeopath.com and she specializes in fertility, pregnancy and birth, especially fertility, I believe.
Sapna Matharu: Yeah, totally. It's because I wanted to... I really wanted to specialize in birth and I love birth and I've got into birth because of my own birth. I'm that person, every time someone has a baby, the first thing I ask is, "How was the birth?" Every single time. But then I realized in order to understand how useful homeopathy is in a birth setting, you actually need to start using it way before then. So then I thought, we've got to start educating pregnant women to understand how amazing it can be for them. And a lot of women are hesitant to use conventional drugs because of side effects and homeopathy doesn't have any side effects, so it's brilliant during pregnancy.
But then I started to think... there's a lot of women, and being in the same birth space as you, and a lot of other birth workers, you deal with a lot of birth trauma. And then I started thinking, okay, what's going on here? If you go through birth trauma and you experience it, then often what happens, or what I find in my experience, is that women find it really difficult to become pregnant after that. Because that is held in the fabric of your cells, it is held in every single cell of your body. And a lot of the time there isn't a platform to be able to release that. And I know there's loads of good work going on at the moment, but there isn't for the wider society, a platform to be able to release that.
So I thought, okay, something else has got to happen. And then it fell into fertility because I thought this is basically secondary infertility. And then I got thinking, well actually, you've got to start at the beginning, don't you? You really have to start at the beginning, because if you consider the conception of your child, then you are more likely to consider your health options and look for different health options as you go forward. And I think that if you consider the way that you conceive a child, because of the spark of curiosity that ignites, you are more likely to have a better birth outcome because then you start going down that rabbit hole of becoming educated. So I thought, right, I've got to start there. But I couldn't let go of birth. So I just do the full spectrum.
Kyleigh Banks: That's brilliant. It's really is brilliant. And I fall into that group of people who don't really use conventional medicine, but I haven't gotten into homeopathy yet. So I'm just like, let me just not use anything. But it's really cool that like, "Wait, there is something that I can use that doesn't have the side effects, that potentially is even more helpful and works quicker than conventional medicine."
Sapna Matharu: And you know what? You totally see that in a birth setting, because birth is such a high intensity and it can be really quickly changing... When you have that remedy match, it is almost immediate. And this happened in my own birth, the last birth that I had. Well, when I birthed my last child. How do you say that? My husband couldn't be bothered to read the instructions for the kit. So there was a moment in the middle of the birth where I started trembling. My daughter was born in August, so it was absolutely heaving with heat. And I thought, right, there's only one remedy that I can think of that has trembling in it right now, and I said, "Pass me the gelsemium." I took that pill, and within seconds stopped trembling, and then just got on with the birth.
It can be that quick. I've been on the phone to Kemi a couple of times where she offered advice with the women that she's caring for. And literally two, three minutes later after saying, "Okay, here's a suggestion," she'll say, "All sorted. The surges are back again." So, super fast. And I just think that when there is a risk of a cascade of interventions, homeopathy can be just amazing at stopping that from happening, or halting that, because it's not just a physical thing, people get really emotional as well. And then there's anxiety and fear because as a society, we're taught to fear birth. So, yeah.
Kyleigh Banks: Yeah.
Sapna Matharu: But even in pregnancy there's still that thing, because it's not a vulnerable time, but it is a delicate time. And a lot of women don't want to be taking drugs that are going to have potential side effects, might have potential harms to themselves and the baby. So use homeopathy instead. It's amazing.
Kyleigh Banks: Absolutely. And start with conception. So by the time you get to your birth and by the time you have a child you're well versed in your options and the different remedies.
Sapna Matharu: Totally. And I think the other important thing to mention is, homeopathy isn't about management of symptoms. It's not. Loads of people say to me, "What is it?" And I say, it's really simple. All it does is trigger your body to heal itself. So rather than working against your body, so being an antihistamine or antipruritic, or anti whatever it is, it's not working against your body, it's working with it.
So it's got the flow, and you need that flow. With that flow, you don't get any side effects because it's just your body doing the healing. And we do become stuck because there's so much noise that we are accustomed to, and that we're impacted by. We get stuck in a state and our bodies can heal themselves. They're totally capable of doing that. But I just think that there's so much going on in society right now that it's really difficult to get over that and start that process within ourselves. And so it's just like a little trigger, a little push.
Kyleigh Banks: Yeah. And sometimes it works fantastic and sometimes it doesn't. And then you can try something else.
Sapna Matharu: Absolutely. The key to it is getting the right remedy. We're not used to working in that way. We're not used to considering the whole of people, or everything about them. So when we have a headache, we don't think, "Oh, why am I having this headache?" The first thing is, "Let's just get rid of the pain." But if you consider the whole of everyone in terms of their mental, emotional, as well as physical health, then you get this picture that will match your remedy. And that's when you know the remedy is going to be right and it's going to do the work, and you'll start to heal. But once we switch our thinking to treat ourselves as a whole being, rather than a series of separate parts, then we can just really get underneath what's causing us to become unwell, and using homeopathy is a really effective tool.
Kyleigh Banks: Mm-hmm. And the way it works is that the remedies are attached to a set of symptoms, and it's not just like headache, right? It's like a more holistic symptom.
Sapna Matharu: Totally. So when you've got a headache, think about when you've got a headache. You have a pain in a certain area of your head, it's not always going to be on your forehead. A headache might be because of dehydration. It might be hormonal, or might be vascular, those are the different types of headaches. How are you emotionally feeling with a headache? Are you really irritable with it? Or are you sad?
There are so many different scenarios or sections that make up the whole. So there's not a remedy for headache. There are never remedies for named conditions. So because we're so unique in the way that we manifest different states, the remedies actually match your state rather than the name condition. So when we're talking about nausea in pregnancy, there's about 20 different remedies that are applicable to that depending on all the different manifestations that your body throws out.
Kyleigh Banks: What are different ways that, let's say, nausea can manifest itself? Because a lot of people would just say, "Oh, it's just nausea." What else would it do?
Sapna Matharu: So sometimes you can feel sick and have that feeling of sickness without vomiting. Sometimes you can vomit. Some people feel better if they eat, and some people can't even hold water down. Some people need small sips of warm water, and some people crave cold water. Some people say that if they go outside, it makes them feel better than if they're in a warm stuffy room. Some people say that, "Actually, I've got a headache with my nausea." So there's so many different iterations of it. We are just taught to say, "I've got a headache," and not taught to think about what exactly is going on with that headache.
And that's why it's so unique. It's like a truly bespoke form of medicine because it's totally individualized. There's not like three options and then we match someone to the closest option. It's literally, you start from just this flat ground of nothing, and then you've got to think about all the different symptoms and how they make up that whole manifestation of the condition. And that's why it works so well because it's bespoke just for you in that moment.
Kyleigh Banks: And it makes it seem ridiculous that modern medicine, mainstream medicine has just "headache." "Take this one pill for this headache". It makes that seem really ridiculous, because now that you say that, it's not just a headache. It never is just a headache, and there's so much more underneath it.
Sapna Matharu: Absolutely. And I think the important thing to also understand is, what's going on beneath that headache? Because if you have a headache once, and you can use homeopathy to treat it, and that's fine. But if you are continuing to have the headaches over and over again, then there's some underlying imbalance with you, and that needs to be addressed. And homeopathy can also be used to address that. So it's not just about that acute episode of illness, it's also massively useful for chronic conditions.
And this is where it works so well with fertility, because people go through years and years of trying to become pregnant. And everyone's different in terms of how they've got to that state. And earlier, when I was talking about experiencing birth trauma, and how every cell in your body will hold that. And until it's processed and released, your body's going to say, "No, I can't become pregnant," because there isn't a feeling of safety when you've gone through trauma. And I think you need to feel safe in order to have a baby.
But often I find that people come to see me and they say, "All my tests are fine. I've been diagnosed with unexplained infertility." And in my experience, there's no such thing as unexplained infertility. I can always explain what's going on.
And that's rooted in things like gut inflammation, people's diets. It's rooted in stress, it's rooted in emotional trauma, and toxic overload. And we hear a lot about detoxing and toxic overload, and it's almost as if it's background noise now because we hear it all the time. But I think I said this before, our bodies are so intelligent at healing themselves, doing the things that they're meant to do and designed to do, like giving birth, growing a baby, all of that. But we are exposed to so much in modern society that I think we end up having this overload of toxins, and then our body just doesn't know what to deal with first. And when it comes to fertility, your body is always going to prioritize that at the bottom of the list. It's going to try and deal with stress first. It's going to try and deal with processing feelings and emotions and traumas first. It's going to deal with your gut inflammation first.
So I think that it's really important to understand the root cause. And when you see a homeopath and you speak to them about your fertility, that's what those consultations are about. It's about unearthing that root cause, because if you don't know what the root cause of someone's disease is, how on earth are you meant to treat them effectively? But there's a lot of work going on from brilliant people talking about processing trauma, loads of information out there about eating right. Although, I find that very confusing, to be honest.
So, there's a lot going on and homeopathy can help you really support that as well. We talk about being exposed indirectly to toxins. So pollution, walk out your front door where I live and there's about 50 cars in your face, and the cleaning products and the makeup and all of that. But then there's also conventional drugs, which can cause real problems. They all have side effects. There isn't one single drug out there on the market that doesn't. And I believe that they can be extremely disruptive, especially if they're based on synthetic hormones to our endocrine system, because our hormones don't work in isolation. We don't just have estrogen sitting there in the left and progesterone sitting there on the right, and oxytocin hanging out on the wall over there. It's a really complex, but delicate dance. And as a birth worker, you probably see this all the time. You see it played out physically in front of you during a birth. And it's so easy for that oxytocin to be disrupted by outside agencies.
And the reason for that is because our endocrine system is so delicate. And if you are adding in synthetic hormones, you're not just plugging a gap for example, if you've got low progesterone. What you're doing is impacting every other hormone that is part of that beautiful dance. And I think people, and women, especially spend years and years and years going through normalized heavy, irregular, horrible periods, and just think they've got to live with it. And often, it's as a result of hormonal contraceptives, which by the way, do not regulate your periods. And I encourage everyone to watch "The Business of Birth Control" because it will really open your eyes to how those contraceptives work, because they can cause real havoc. And even though your liver filters out all of those hormones, the residual effect of adding those in remains for years.
Kyleigh Banks: Are young woman prescribed hormones over in the UK? In the US, it's like, "Everybody, as soon as you turn 13, here's your birth control."
Sapna Matharu: That's insane. What they've done now is, there was always access to birth control for anyone if you went to a clinic. But now what they're trying to do is put it in into schools, so have children being able to access it in schools. And I find that a terrifying concept because if you think about it, we send our children to school to educate them, but they're not getting both sides of the story. And I've worked with a lot of women who were prescribed the birth control pill for reasons that aren't to do with contraception for acne, for example, for PCOS. And they're not making informed decisions about this because they're not given the whole picture. But the good news is when you have that, we can detox these hormones with homeopathy. And I've had some amazing results with women who are trying to conceive. Sometimes all it takes is homeopathically detoxing, synthetic hormones for them to become pregnant.
Kyleigh Banks: Mm-hmm. Is it a personal regimen you put them through, like these remedies on these days for this amount of time?
Sapna Matharu: Yeah. So usually a detox will last two months. And the way that it works, it's not just remedies for detoxing, but you have remedies to support that, which again, are really individualized based on what's going on with you. Because if you think about what happens, if you are affecting your hormones, that's going to inevitably have effect on your mood. And PMS is something that is widely normalized. We've got this whole thing about the male population going, "Oh, she's on our period. Again, she's getting a bit ragy. I better go and go away for the weekend," et cetera. And it's almost turned into a joke, but that shouldn't even be the case. You should never have PMS. But it's because we are exposed to so many things that disrupt our hormones, that's the upshot of it, because our hormones affect our mood. Serotonin, the happy hormone. Oxytocin, the love hormone.
It is all about that. And part of what I do is get people back to themselves. And I've just done a post on Instagram, actually, about filters, because it occurred to me how mad filters are on Instagram. But it's like seeing the world through a filter when you're stuck in a state like that. A filter of rage or a filter of grief, or a filter of jealousy or disappointment, or a filter where you feel inferior. And it's like a layer or a lens that's being put on top of you. And that's how you view the world. But it's not really you. Something's happened. You've experienced this physical or emotional trauma along the way that alters the way that you view the world. And I'm not saying homeopathy changes your personality, because then I'd have a cue outside my door all time. But what is done, is bring you back to you and who you truly meant to be.
And some people spend a really large part of their lives being angry. And what you do is you unwind it when you speak to them, because it's truly about holding a space for people to be able to trust you and tell you what the experience has been. And when you unwind it to that first moment, that first trauma that occurred to get them into that state, it's really humbling, but it's also magic when you give them a remedy or a set of remedies or a series of remedies and then they say, "I just don't feel like that anymore." Or, "A weight has been lifted." It's just a really beautiful thing. And you can tell that I'm really into it.
Kyleigh Banks: And I feel it. You are giving it to me across the world. I have a question. Now that person who you've given this remedy or set of remedies to, especially if it was a chronic issue with them, is that something that they're going to have to take for years to come? Or is that something they stop taking as soon as they feel well?
Sapna Matharu: That's a really, really good question. So you don't get dependent on homeopathy. Because it's triggering your body to heal itself, and it's just that trigger. Once your body starts healing, you don't need to take that remedy anymore. You don't need to take it for the rest of your life. But with longstanding chronic conditions, you often find that remedy pictures change. And the reason they change is, as you build up layers of disease, those layers are being stripped away, one by one. And it's not as linear as this. It's really up and down and really wonky because healing journey is never a linear. But if you imagine like you've got this onion and you give a remedy to the onion and the first layer falls off, and then you give another remedy and the second layer falls off.
So you're never, ever going to have the same remedy for a really long time. And you don't have to see a homeopath for a really long time, because your state of health depends on when you are feeling right. Not when a homeopath tells you. I don't say, "You're okay now, so off you go." Or I don't say, "Oh no, you need to have eight more years of treatment." It's never like that. Once someone gets to a state where they feel good within themselves, they don't need to see homeopath anymore. You go on about your life in the way that you want to go about your life. And it's in six months time, you think, "Actually I'd like to go back and come back." Because I think the really important thing to say about this is the balance of power is equal.
I don't do anything to you. All I do is help you to realize some things about yourself for yourself. And I just provide a trigger. The healing is done by you, by the client, by the patient. It's not me dictating what people should and shouldn't do. This is very much a form of treatment where people work together. And I've had patients say to me, "I didn't feel right about taking that remedy. I didn't want to take it." And that's absolutely fine, because one thing that is more important than anything else is someone's own intuition. And you need to listen to those messages that your body is giving you. Your symptoms are messages. It's just the communication. It's telling you something's wrong. It's not telling you what's wrong. Your intuition is a message, it's saying to you, "Maybe you shouldn't do that." And that wisdom, it resides deep in you somewhere. It might be from your past, maybe from your ancestral past.
But I think we need to go back and start trusting that. And even if I've said to somebody, "Okay, this is the remedy that I've prescribed you." And their gut is saying, "Mm-mm. I'm not having that." Then I feel drawn to respecting that decision. And then I go back and think, right, okay, let's try and then prescribe something else.
Kyleigh Banks: Now for something that's more fast-paced and acute, let's take birth for instance. Someone's not going to call you during their birth and work up this big plan. This is going to be more intuitive, I assume, and more quick decisions. Is that right?"
Sapna Matharu: Yeah, absolutely. So I run a birth preparation course solely for this reason. Because a lot of women give birth in the night, and I can't be there at three o'clock in the morning, unfortunately. I run this birth preparation course. And the purpose of the course is to go through the symptoms or the most common symptoms associated, or the common picture associated with remedy. And it's about that preparation. And you get that into your head. So for example, there's a remedy called Kali Carb, and that remedy is required when you are having all the pain during labor in your back. Might be because there's a back to back presentation, but all the pains in your back. There are other indications of that remedy, but the key thing is the pain's in the back. And that's all you need to remember for your birth, back pain.
Someone's squashing their thumbs into the dimples in my back, and it's making me feel better. Kali Carb. So it's about getting people to understand those quick signals because of the intensity of the situation, and because it's so acute and so intense. You're not going to get loads of signs and symptoms from your body. You'll get a few, which are short and sharp. And that course is designed to help people to get back into their head. So when it is time to birth your baby, then these quick little triggers are what you remember, or what your birth partner should remember, rather than you, because you need to be getting on with birthing your baby, rather than thinking of remedies.
Kyleigh Banks: Is that class for just birth workers too, without coming with the birthing person, just for the birth worker?
Sapna Matharu: Absolutely. Absolutely, because it's another skill that you've got to support women during birth. And the reason I do a one-to-one, and I might actually just do a group one for birth workers. The reason I do a one-to-one for birthing women is because what I also do for them is give them specific remedies for them, because as we go through, it's not like me sitting there blabbering on. We have a really organic conversation. And then they'll say things like, "Oh, I've got a bit of hip pain or SBD." Like, "Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll just send you this after we've finished." Or, "Have you got anything for... I feel like I'm really swollen." "Okay. How about we try this? And I'll send you this.
So I like to do that as well. The reason why I make the mothers one-on-one is so I can individualize a few remedies I can send them as well to help them. But I definitely think birth workers should do this. And like I said before, Kimi's called me a couple of times and said, "I'm at a birth, the surges have slowed down." And then I'd ask a couple of questions about what's going on, and then reccomend a remedy, and that helps to reestablish the surges again. So yeah, I think it could be a brilliant tool to carry around in your kit, a little quick guide. But yeah, you've just given me an idea, Kyleigh.
Kyleigh Banks: It's so important, because the women I've talked to, the birth workers I've talked to that do incorporate homeopathy, they're blown away by how quick it works and how well it works. To change where the pain is, or to give the woman energy to keep going, or to calm her and bring her back to her body. So yeah, I'm fascinated. That's why I reached out to you. It's really fascinating.
Sapna Matharu: But also, it doesn't stop when the baby's earth side. There's remedies for after pains. If you end up hemorrhaging, there's remedies to help with that. For retained placenta, there's remedies to help with that. The only thing that I would say, and I think this is really important point to make is induction. And I always talk about this because what I notice quite a lot is people don't want to be induced. They don't want to go on the drip. They don't want to go in to get induced. But there is this obsession with a due date, and you hit 40 weeks or whatever the "limit" is, and I say that in quotation marks, where you live in the world. And then all of a sudden, you need to get the baby out. And we haven't got this patience anymore. We're not allowing that growth to reach its full potential because we've just been brainwashed by the due date.
And people often say to me, "What can help me homeopathically get this baby out?" And my reply is usually, pregnancy isn't a symptom. It's not a symptom. The remedy for birthing your baby is patience above everything else.
But the only time that I believe that a remedy is needed is when there's something emotional going on. Because when we were talking about hormones before, we need that hormonal waterfall to start in order to go into labor and birth our baby. And if something happens that makes us unhappy or causes us anger or any emotion that's viewed as negative, that's what stops you from going into labor. And this is exactly what happened to me with my daughter, my third baby, third birth. I had two home births. The first one, I advocated really well for myself with the help of Kimi. But I was an experienced birther. And because I was 42 when she was born, I had to have a call with the consultant midwife, who completely disregarded my knowledge, my experience with birth. Even though I was throwing studies back at her and stats back at her, disregarded all of that and spent half an hour talking to me about stillbirth and dead babies.
And got off that phone call and I thought she's an idiot. I'm just going to carry on and no baby will come. I don't need to give her any time. And the day before that, I'd spoken to her, my husband, me and the midwife who was going to attend the birth, all sitting together in the living room saying, "Yeah, I think this baby's going to come in the next two or three days. We're ready. We're ready." That baby did not come because two days after I had that phone call, I burst into tears spontaneously into my kitchen. And I said to my husband, "I am so angry. Why did she do that? Why did she do that to me? That's just a horrible, unprofessional, completely inappropriate, just really shitty thing to do. Why did she do that?" And I took a remedy called Staphysagria, which is really well-indicated for feelings of rage and injustice, where your rage is suppressed. So you haven't got an outlet. So I couldn't shout at her. I couldn't do anything, the phone was over.
Shouting at my husband wasn't going to be quite the same. So I took this remedy, Staphysagria, and I took it at night, I think about maybe 10:30. At 11:00, my water went. And at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, my daughter was born.
Kyleigh Banks: Wow.
Sapna Matharu: It was immediate. And all feelings of rage and that midwife just melted away and it meant nothing anymore. But that's what I mean. It wasn't anything to do with due dates. I felt ready. The bond between my daughter and me felt ready. We both felt ready for birth to start. But something emotional had happened to me, which meant I didn't feel safe. And I didn't feel like I could give birth because I was so angry, and that was not the emotion you need when you are going into labor, when you're bringing your baby earthside. So it's not induction. It's actually removing that layer of trauma. Because it is trauma. You think about trauma as something huge, but it can be things that are considered little, but are huge to that individual.
Kyleigh Banks: Just from the births I've attended and even my own birth, I can see how helpful something like that would be, just to bring you back, to ground you right before your birth experience.
Sapna Matharu: Yeah. I think about eight months before that I spoke to my friend, and we'd just locked down in this country. So we were walking around the park together, and she was giving birth imminently, and she'd had a really traumatic first and she was really determined not to have that again. And there is a protocol that some homeopaths use of T-remedies, which are called caulophyllum and cimicifuga. And I think herbalists or some birth workers might know them as black and blue cohosh, because they also used herbaly but some homeopaths alternate those two remedies to bring on labor, just as a protocol. And in the back of my mind, that's the first thing I thought for her. But then I realized, no, this is not about natural induction. She's scared and she is panicking because the healthcare professionals, or the healthcare unprofessionals at that point, were forcing her into induction. And she was scared. She'd started to have surges, but they dwindled because of the fear.
So that's a different remedy. For her, she needed a remedy called aconite because she was panicking, she had anxiety and she was scared of giving birth. But in the same way, it was an emotional thing because physically, we are capable of birthing our children without intervention. The majority of women are capable of that. And I think we often find in states that prevent us from doing that, because of what I call the noise.
Kyleigh Banks: I can understand why you chose to start at fertility, because I feel like this isn't something that you just need to start when you're 39 weeks pregnant and you shouldn't be in your logical brain, but if you can start learning and create a connection with someone like you, Sapna, in fertility, wow. The bond and just the knowledge that you'll have by the time you give birth is phenomenal, I imagine.
Sapna Matharu: Absolutely. And that's why I took those steps back, because I had fertility issues as well. My first child was conceived through IVF. And when I look back on it now, I know exactly what was wrong with me. I was stressed. I had the worst job in the world. Incidentally, it was for a pharmaceutical advertising agency, so very different.
But I was so stressed, and just everything about my life was really stressful. And if I'd known than what I know now, I would've changed that. And then I'd believe in the core of me that I would've become pregnant without any assistance. My body knew, and I knew, that that intuition and that instinct within me, I knew that I didn't ever want to have an IVF conception ever again, because something inside me said, "You don't need to do that." And then I didn't my other two. And my other two children are natural conceptions. My husband and I literally looked at each other, so for the first one we're struggling for three years, and the other two, we just give each other a wink and then bam, I'm pregnant.
Kyleigh Banks: Isn't that amazing? Yeah.
Sapna Matharu: Yeah. It just goes to show you how looking after your health and building that really strong, fertile ground in order to conceive can just make all the difference. And when I think of those three years of struggle that we went through and then think, well, actually people go through rounds and rounds and rounds and rounds of assisted fertility. And that must be so battering for the mind and the body and soul as well. What I think is, people should try homeopathy first because you don't have to inject yourself with anything. You elevate it. Because homeopathy for fertility isn't about, "Oh, let's just look at your reproductive system and fix that." It's about elevating the level of your health. So reproduction raises to the top of your body's priority list, because your body's not dealing with anything else. The energy isn't focused on trying to fight the inflammation, or trying to overcome trauma, or trying to battle the toxic overload that you're exposed to all time. Or trying to sort your liver out, or your heart, or whatever's going on with you. The energy not focused there anymore.
The energy is free to conceive and grow that child. That's what homeopathy does. It elevates your health to a point where all your energy is available to become pregnant.
So that's why it's always about looking at the whole of a person. And when people come in for fertility, I'll ask them all these random questions about their poo, their sleep, what they like to eat, their favorite foods. Do they have any dreams? And all of that seems really irrelevant. Some people come in and I can see their faces going, "Why is asking me about my poo? Why is this relevant?" But it all is. Because for example, if you're constipated, that's a sign you're holding something back you. You are able to release waste. And often there is an emotional element with that as well. So your whole body is unable to release something. So your whole body is not to process something properly. And you see these themes running through emotional and physical aspects of a client.
Kyleigh Banks: We've never been asked these things by a health provider ever before.
Sapna Matharu: No, you don't. Imagine walking into like an Obstetrician's office and, say, him asking or her asking you, "So what do you dream about?" You think they were absolutely bonkers.
Kyleigh Banks: But it's so true. Yeah. It's so important that holistic health, and how are you doing emotionally? It might even be more important through pregnancy and birth than in other parts of your life.
Sapna Matharu: Absolutely. And this is the other thing that's just so wonderful about homeopathy because it can go back in the past. It can go back in the past and fix stuff. And if you think about when you were a little egg, you were first a little egg in your mother's womb, in your grandmother's body. So whatever's going on with your grandmother is going to impact you as that little egg.
You have the echos or shadows of her life almost imprinted upon you. And that's why it's so important for me to educate people about how important that moment of conception is, and how important it is to have just a really healthy, vital, joyful environment. For example, I spoke to a woman whose grandmother, while pregnant, was doing an air raid in this country. She actually gave birth, I think, during an air raid, is what this woman said to me. And I thought, imagine the fear. Imagine the fear that she was going through, birthing her baby when she could at any moment, be blown up by a bomb. And that fear, I believe, is part of this person, in this woman's case, was held in her cellular structure because she was there at that time.
Kyleigh Banks: Absolutely. Wow. I know you have to run. But before you run, can you just tell everyone about some of the workshops you run, where they can find you, if they're interested in more?
Sapna Matharu: So you can find me on Instagram. I do lots of bits and pieces on Instagram, and I'm @the_wild_homeopath. My website is thewildhomeopath.com, and I do the one-to-one birth preparation workshops, but I'm also going to do a group one now, I think, for birthworkers because I think that be really helpful. I'm running a course actually on the 13th of March called Mama and Baby Homie. So it's to empower women to prescribe at home for themselves and their babies for really common conditions, like all babies seem to get tummy troubles, colic, reflux. Fevers is a really big one that people want to know about… Conjunctivitis, and they get the sticky eyes, etc. So things like that. But all of that information's available on my website.
But if you want to work with me for fertility or long-term, because homeopathy is an energetic medicine, I think it's really important that the energy's right. So I always say to people book me for a free call to meet me, "You might not like me, and that's okay. But if you don't like me, you're not going to trust me. You're not going to be open with me. And that's really important. So I can't hold space for you properly."
So I think the free calls are a great way to just get to know who I am and how I work and see if that's right for you. So yeah, and you can book in for those on the website as well.
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