Episode Transcript
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to Lead with Heart. I'm your host, Dr. Jesse Hansen, and this is the show where strategy meets soul, purpose meets passion, and compassion builds connection. So we can all do our part
[00:00:22] Speaker B: to lead with heart.
Hello and welcome to Lead with Heart on NOW Media TV. I'm your host, Dr. Jesse Hansen, and this is the show where strategy meets soul. We explore compassion, passion, and the inner landscape of success.
So I'm delighted to be back with you all today. And my guest today is Fera Ganjigron. And I want to welcome you to the show. Thank you so much for being with us.
Feta began studying homeopathy in 1996 with internationally distinguished homeopathic Dr. Luc de Chapper. Continuing her studies with him for many years, she began Consulting in 2000 and 2009. Dr. Chappert selected her to continue the care of his clients following his retirement. That's a powerful reflection of the trust and depth of the training and her gifts.
She holds a BA from Brandeis University, completed advanced studies with Renaissance School of Classical Homeopathy, and is the only practitioner to have completed a two year internship with Dr. De Chappell.
What stands out about Farah's work is her commitment to honoring the whole person, not just symptoms, but the deeper vitality, emotional experience and inner strength of the individual. Her approach aligns beautifully with the heart of this show, healing through presence, awareness and compassion. And as we begin to dive deeper into this conversation, it's important to note that Fr. Ganjigron is not a licensed healthcare practitioner. She does not diagnose, treat, prevent, mitigate, cure or prescribe for any disease or condition. And she doesn't provide vaccination guidance, her work focuses on supporting general vitality and constitutional strength. While medical questions should always be discussed with a licensed medical doctor.
Thank you so much for being here today and joining us.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: Thank you. It's a pleasure and an honor to be with you.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: Excellent. Excellent. Well, as you know, this show is called Lead with Hearts. And part of my hope in hosting more conversations like this is that we realize that leaders are not just the corporate white collared executives, though they absolutely deserve those accolades and they lead beautifully and strong. I am a huge belief in healers as leaders. Parents are leaders, there's community leaders and looking at leadership not just as I am this title at my job, but how do I show up in a positive role model in my life and how do I share that with others? And so I'm excited to learn more about you and your story. And yet, before we get into Deepening on all of those accolades that I just read about. I'm hoping that we could go back in time a bit and learn more about how. How your whole journey started. Anything you're comfortable sharing from the early years.
And I'd also love for you to just take a moment.
I hope I pronounced your name well, but I'd love. I actually believe there's sacredness in our name. So even just starting with the meaning of your name and maybe from there taking us into those people that named you, your parents, and how it was being a child in your upbringing.
[00:03:36] Speaker C: Yes. Thank you. Well, I grew up in Tehran, Iran. My full name is Fah Naz, which means joy and grace.
And because of the 1979 revolution in Iran, my parents felt that that was not a safe place for me. And I was asked if I wanted to come to the United States. And I said yes. And two weeks later, I was on a plane.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:04:01] Speaker C: Down to Brooklyn, New York.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: So from Iran to Brooklyn.
[00:04:05] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: Wow. At. Sorry, what age?
[00:04:08] Speaker C: 17.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Wow. Okay. Okay.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: And I didn't really know if I was ever going to see my parents any again.
The times were very difficult with the change of. Change of regime and so forth.
So there were very challenging times for all of us.
And.
Let's see. So finally. Yeah, go ahead.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No, thank you so much. I wonder too, now here at 17, but I know for myself also, as a psychologist and healer, I want to go. If we can go younger than 17, just sort of, you know, growing up in that. In the house, we all take on roles, and oftentimes those of us that become doctors or helpers, sometimes that starts young, sometimes it doesn't. But I'm just curious to learn more of your human story.
What was it like? If you're comfortable sharing, what was it like back in the.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: I was the youngest of four and I basically raised myself in a way. Everybody was busy with themselves. I was low maintenance. I did well in school.
I always loved to have little chicks and other animals. Just had a lot of compassion for anything that I could help or protect.
So I was really pretty much under the radar, just going to school. And I had, you know, caring parents.
My older siblings were. Took up a lot more attention. And I just.
I felt like I was very independent.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Say more about that. What do you mean? Dependent in what ways? As though the youngest.
[00:05:52] Speaker C: Very independent. I did my own schoolwork. Nobody knew. My parents hardly knew what grade I was in.
So I managed quite well. I had very good friends.
It was difficult to be a young woman In Iran at that time, it was very open as far as hair showing and wearing Western clothes. I grew up with Western television and everybody loved America and they still do.
So I was thrilled to be coming to the United States. My brother was already here going to college.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: Okay. Okay.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: So it was an exciting. It was mixed. It was incredibly amazing to be here and at the same time, the worries of what's happening with my family as
[00:06:46] Speaker B: well as I'm sure just missing them. Right.
[00:06:48] Speaker C: Not missing them.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: Drastic change. So. No, thank you. Yeah. Thank you for, for, you know, deepening on that. I.
I can. Can relate. You know, you said the youngest of four, and so, you know, that often is around. There's. When there's, you know, that many children, it's hard for the parents to track all that. And often the. The youngest one ends up, you know, gaining the. The superpower is independence. But sometimes the, you know, the.
The under underside of that can be.
Yeah, maybe just, you know, maybe like. And I'm not saying they didn't love you in any way, but it's a lot, you know, you. Everyone else had gotten the big attention and you had siblings raising you. And so I'm just not in the sense of, you know, I love to look at how light and shadows play together always and.
Right. And. And don't know if you remember any of this or if it resonates, but yeah, there may be. When you said my parents barely knew what grade I was in, I get it. It's partly a joke and maybe partly serious, but that, you know, the superpower of independence is countered by that place of. And it sort of got highlighted at 17 where all of a sudden you're fully independent. Right. And so that that level of, you know, how. How much attunement did little Tara get is, you know, just something that I think too it helps to fortify us as adults is to realize, oh, wow, this is some of what I went through as a child and how it's continued to flourish.
I also from my neuroscience teachings, I like the word source codes, which would be equivalent to polyvagal parasympathetic nervous system, AKA you know, peace and. And calm and connected. And I, I believe it. I felt it in my own self. I've seen it in many other humans. I've read the science of it. I'm pretty sure this is true that when we are more in our source codes or in that place, our natural way of being is to want to help and take care and protect. And so the fact that you were telling Me, even as a child, you, you were in tune with that and wanted to help the animals. And that's beautiful. And it also suggests that, yeah, overall there was a very nice strong safety and emotional containment in your younger years that set you up to become the doctor that you are today.
[00:09:06] Speaker C: Yes. And it was an excellent first lesson for me to be independent.
In a way. I was very self reliant, I was very calm. I see pictures of myself when I was younger and there was a.
Just this calm, sweet child, if I might say so, myself, which I wonder intellectually I think why was I so calm and content?
There was a lot of things that I wanted to have that I didn't have.
But there was this.
I had an inner peacefulness that I am surprised about.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And, and to be happy about that, it's beautiful. Like I said, I do think it's part of our original programming or how we were intended to be and yet most of us go through some kinds of traumas that often upset and offset that calm. And so I think it's beautiful that, that that was such a consistent for you.
And if I may, the, the potential and this is for you to know, not to me, but just to help us all think deeper sometimes that I often as a psychologist say there's a thin line between calm and numb.
Right.
And sometimes it's like, oh, there's so many things I want, I'm probably not going to get them. So I'm going to find a way to be content here. Which again, lights and shadows. It's a beautiful gift and perhaps there was things, you know, that, that weren't meet some needs that weren't getting met that, that also contributed to that. So we don't need to go into that deeply now. I just like to think deeper and help us all continue to create understanding.
[00:10:45] Speaker C: Good insight. Thank you.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, no, take what resonates. But it is cool when we look at that inner landscape of success because here you are now all these years later, holding a very successful life and practice and though I've only known you now for about 15 minutes, you are, you have a very calming presence. You have a very peaceful energy about you. And I, I would, I like to hear this story because it helps me feel how that has stayed with you and you've probably refined it and we're going to find out soon. When we come back from this break, we're going to move into a segment called the, the bud. This was the seed. Where did you come from? The bud, it sounds like maybe starts around 17, when all of a sudden you're thrown into New York and what do you do and how do you deal with not only the emotional piece of missing family, but also the professional piece of who am I becoming? And how do I carry this all forwards? And so thank you so much for opening us up beautifully, fella. And please, for all of our viewers, stay tuned. We will be right back to learn more about how her journey buds in New York City. This is Lead with Heart.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: We'll be right back on Lead with Heart for more deep conversations and heartfelt stories.
Welcome to Lead with Heart. I'm your host, Dr. Jesse Hansen, and this is the show where strategy meets soul.
I feel blessed to have been able to create this show because I have been wanting a platform to be able to host people, to showcase their superpowers, to help people realize that it's not just about singing about our successes on the top of the mountain that matters. It's about understanding the vulnerable, real truths and the shadows that we have come from in order to create the amazing growth that comes forth. So if you are a leader, a healer, an innovator, or a thought leader, please, I'd love to host you and learn more about your story so you can help all of us on the planet here. Lead with Heart.
And we're back on Lead with Heart for more purpose. Meeting passion, strategy, meeting soul. Let's dive in.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Hello and welcome back to the next segment here on Lead with Heart. This segment is called the Bud. And where we left off was Farah getting a little bit of insight around maybe some of the deeper elements of her childhood and getting to this part of her journey where she comes to New York City and your brother is there. But, but that's it. And so, yeah, if you don't mind just opening from that place of what you remember from that those days.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: Well, I remember, I remember missing my parents and my family quite a bit and feeling grateful that I was having this incredible opportunity. So I was really quite aware of both and a bit of sense, a bit of a survival, survivor guilt that here I am and they're having a very hard time because right after I left, the war with Iraq started and that was an eight year brutal war in on the cities like Tehran was getting bombed pretty much every night.
So.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: And this is where your family, like
[00:14:10] Speaker C: you're literally where my family live. Yeah.
So staying in touch. And sometimes they would have to leave the city to go into the mountains or elsewhere to hide or to be out of the city.
So we were, we didn't have cell phones, we didn't know how to. There was no WhatsApp. So there were days and days we could, we were not hear from that.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:14:36] Speaker B: Wow.
Yeah, let's just take a breath with that. That's huge as 17, you know, and okay, so sending empathy to 17 year old and how does, how does she navigate this tough emotional landscape? And to the first segment you mentioned the calmness. I wonder, is this a time when it was harder to stay calm or were you able to access that?
[00:14:58] Speaker C: I was definitely in touch with my feelings of fear and grief.
So my brother found a boarding school for me soon after I got there and I spent the year there. And then I applied to colleges and I went to Brandeis.
And I really always wanted to be a healer, to do some healing work, to go into psychotherapy, psychology, social work.
But the circumstances were such that I had to be able to support myself financially when I graduated college.
So I went into computer science, which is something not my, it was not my. I was good in math, but it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life and it wasn't where my gifts lay. I just, that wasn't my gift, that was the truth.
But I was very persistent and I was very hard working and I graduated and I got a job soon after and I supported myself pretty much until 2009 when I took over Dr. Luke's practice. I worked in high tech.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Okay, wow. Okay, so, yeah, I'm going to slow us down now for a moment. Just again, I'm always listening for the inner landscape. We've got the young girl you mentioned, though. It was overall great.
There was the mention of sort of like the things you wanted, realize I couldn't get them. And yet you were still calm. And now here you are in your late teens, early 20s, blossoming into a young woman.
And even you, you had, you more or less had to take computer science, even though your heart and soul was calling you to the healer. Path psychology, doctor, whatever. So yeah, I just want to acknowledge that, you know, that, that, that to me, that is an example of a lead with heart. Even though you chose the headier path. It was like, I know what I have to do for survival right now, so I just want to. Yeah, see that, notice that, that theme where it's like, but I knows what she wants and yet can't quite touch it yet.
[00:17:06] Speaker C: Exactly what it was. I just wanted to, to be in service. I just wanted to have a path.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Help others. Right. Help others. Right.
So. So yeah, so help me Understand then, okay, so now you're, you're, you're almost there. You're one step closer to getting to what you really want, which is to step into a professional role and financial, sustaining yourself financially through the role of helping others. But you have to take computer science to make sure you can pay the bills, right?
[00:17:36] Speaker C: Exactly. And I didn't even know what I wanted other than. So I only know about sociology and psychotherapy.
I didn't even know about homeopathy or helping others with that, which is. Homeopathy is a lot like psychology. You have to be a psychologist first. My teacher always said if you're a psychologist, you're already halfway a great homeopath because that's where how we can reach people and help them is if we know what makes them tick, if we understand their psyche, what traumas affected them, how do they see the world, through what lens they see the world. And that is the key to finding the right homeopathic remedy to bring people to their best level of health possible by helping them neutralize traumatic events and then allowing their immune system to do what it knows how to do best, which is heal the body naturally.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Right, so no, I'm with you on that. I know you know all that now. I want to keep us in sequence of understanding you. So tell us how you got from the computer science major to you know what? Yeah, whatever you're comfortable sharing.
[00:18:59] Speaker C: Oh, absolutely. It's, it's actually a story in faith and knowing that what is supposed to happen for you will happen. You just have to be patient.
And I was very patient. I didn't like what I was doing, but I had to do it.
I took a few years off to have my two children and then I went back to the work of high tech as an engineer, as a software quality assurance engineer.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: So this is the majority of your 20s to say where you birth your children and you continue teching along.
[00:19:38] Speaker C: Checking along is a new word we're going to make up. I explored becoming a school psychologist.
That meant I had to go to school. I explored becoming a physician's assistant. And it seemed like years of schooling and it just wasn't something I was able to do at that time as a full time work of going to school.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: And it sounds like at this point, yeah, again, I'm going to keep with that emotional underlying theme. I know what I want, but I can't quite touch it yet.
Now though, by almost a decade of teching along, just building yourself, sustaining yourself, now you're at a place where you feel Grounded enough to actually go for what you want.
[00:20:23] Speaker C: So I didn't. So, yes, I'm going to continue with what you're saying.
I was working at my tech job and a friend of mine said, said this doctor, Belgian physician, is coming to Cambridge, giving a free talk on homeopathy.
Would you like to go for the talk?
And I went and Dr. Luke spoke for about an hour and a half.
And something clicked in my heart. It was like I now my work life and my soul is like, found what I'm supposed to do. And that was it. I signed up for the school right then and there. And that was 1996.
Wow.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: So almost 30 years ago. Wow.
Okay. Wow.
[00:21:09] Speaker C: And it was like, wow, this does exist, what I've been looking for, actually exist. And I didn't even know what it was.
Although I had an experience with a homeopath who helped me with allergies. So I knew that. And when. When I. I heard about the science of it and how I could be doing it.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: So when you say helped you with allergies, does that mean you got over an allergy that you had?
[00:21:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Right. So before I knew about Dr. Luke or the school or anything, I had random allergies of sneezing nonstop.
No one could figure it out. I tried medications, I tried inhalers.
So a friend of ours who had migraines, terrible migraines, told me, oh, you should go to this homeopath. She's helping me with my migraines. So I went. She gave me two dry pills. I went home and I kept sneezing. The next morning I woke up and it was. Someone had shut off the faucet.
There was nothing.
I couldn't believe it.
[00:22:11] Speaker B: And so I'm sorry I missed it. What was the intervention? What was the.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: The homeopathic remedy she gave me was
[00:22:18] Speaker B: a herbal, like, plant based.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: It was like. It was like two dry pellets of some. Some white pellets.
But what.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that was it.
[00:22:28] Speaker C: Just like that. Well, she. She had. We had a long interview of an hour and a half. She got my history.
She understood that very specifically, when there's a cold draft, that's when my sneezing comes. And she matched that with a remedy that you knew about, which happens to be called Heparsol.
This remedy helps people who have extreme sensitivity to cold drafts. And that's what she gave me, and that's what worked. And I was still dependent on that remedy to keep my allergies at bay. But once I started real homeopathy work to address emotional issues.
That's when it stopped and I was no longer needing that acute remedy to help me.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: Okay, thank you so much for that personal share that that lights me up. I, first of all, I love homeopathy. I'm so excited for the then after this break, coming up soon, we're going to go deeper into now you're blossoming and, and learning that. But just to name quickly that I was introduced to the concept, I was raised, as most North Americans are, to say, you have allergies, you have allergies. That's just what it is. And, and I was introduced to homeopathic and traditional Chinese medical doctors and other somatic healers that were saying, actually, no, that's not fully true. Some, maybe sometimes. But there are a lot of things and I have now since seen a lot of other people shift their relationships with whatever they had believed they were allergic to. From exactly what you said, a mixture of some levels of plant or homeopathic remedies, like actual physical tinctures or white, white pills or whatever, but also doing the deeper work to listen to the emotional attunement, the emotional patterns, the emotional reasons. And this, to me, I love it. It taps back into ancient wisdom, which was all about interconnectedness of everything. And most Native in Native American or indigenous would say ahomatakasan, which is to say for all our relations. And that's where that ancient wisdom is to say, well, if you're allergic to cats, what happened? Like, what's up with you and that cat energy? Is there something about, you know, or did something happen with a cat when you were young, you know, you'd never know. You go into these things that seem silly or crazy to a lot of us, and yet when you really do dig deeper, it actually starts to make sense. So I'm so glad you chose to share that seemingly little detail. But I think it's a big one and we're going to dive deeper into that and more when we get back from this break to continue here with Farah. So thank you so much. Please stay tuned.
We'll be back.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: We'll be right back on Lead With Heart for more deep conversations and heartfelt stories.
Welcome to Lead with Heart. I'm your host, Dr. Jesse Hansen, and this is the show where strategy meets soul.
I feel blessed to have been able to create this show because I have been wanting a platform to be able to host people, to showcase their superpowers, to help people realize that it's not just about singing about our successes on the top of the mountain that matters. It's about understanding the vulnerable real truths and the shadows that we have come from in order to create the amazing growth that comes forth. So if you are a leader, a healer, an innovator or a thought leader, please, I'd love to host you and learn more about your story so you can help all of us on the planet here. Lead with Heart.
And we're back on Lead With Heart for more purpose. Meeting passion, strategy meeting soul. Let's dive in.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: Hello and welcome back to lead with heart. Dr. Jesse Hansen here. And I just wanted to remind all the viewers that if you'd like to stay tuned to Lead With Heart and all of your other NOW Media TV favorites, you can find us on Apple TV Roku. We're on all major podcast platforms such as Spotify and Apple as well as iheartradio. So please stay tuned. We've got you covered for all sorts of great conscious media. Thank you.
And Farah, welcome back again. Thank you. Third segment, the lotus or the blossoming process. So you're, you're budding now. The flowers are really starting to grow. I would love to continue the story and just. Yeah, tell me what starts to happen. You mentioned the allergies piece as one example.
Anything else that comes to you in terms of, you know, sort of an awakening or that the way you said I just knew it, it just clicked. What else do you remember of the early stages of stepping into this path that you just started to feel resonance with?
And also if it's appropriate in this time that I can't help but notice and love and respect Babaji with us in the background there.
So I want to invite him into this. Permissions to bring that part of your life in as to how you really allow. I'm a huge advocate of saying our spiritual or faith based practices have a lot to do with our professional practices, if you ask me and if we're in alignment. So I'm curious to learn how that starts to weave together for you and your. Sounds like we're in your 30s ish. Now. The mid-30s or something.
[00:27:41] Speaker C: My youngest child.
90. 93. Yes. I was 31.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:46] Speaker C: Around 31 years old. My husband found out about Babaji first and he did the initiation or the.
Yes, first.
But when.
But I was actually invited by him to join.
I had an intuition that he's asking me to go and go to the ashram and become initiated and he's been with me since.
He's energetically. I feel that I feel his love and support at all times.
That I'm aware that I'm conscious it's there.
So that has been a huge support and that.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: And does that happen in the story? Does that sort of get woven in as you are stepping on to the.
[00:28:40] Speaker C: That was before. That was before I even found out about homeopathy.
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Okay, okay.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: So I found out, yes, in some
[00:28:48] Speaker B: ways that is the work and the, the practice with Babaji was a perfect bridge that probably helped even open you to be ready to step in as, as the full healer.
[00:28:59] Speaker C: Absolutely. Absolutely.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: Beautiful. Again, I kept working at my, my job and I was going to school part time with. At Dr. Luke's school.
So after finishing the first mandatory several years, I then went back and studied with him a fellowship program and I did a post fellowship thesis with him.
All along I'm trying to think how do I get myself started with a practice? And I did start a part time practice while I was still working.
My husband and I couldn't figure out how I could leave my job and just grow a practice from the beginning by itself. So January of 2009, I got a call from Dr. Luke.
He'd been keeping in touch with me and he said, I'm not doing well, I need to retire and would you take care of my patients?
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Wow, what an honor.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: That was an honor. And that was one of the most important decisions of my life.
On one hand, I have no choice but to say yes because this is an incredible opportunity. Honor.
And yet he was a physician and an acupuncturist. He had patients from all over the world coming to him.
And how would I ever attempt to put my feet in his shoes?
[00:30:29] Speaker B: Not Phil, but in even just get in there.
[00:30:35] Speaker C: So there was a lot of coaching, spiritual coaching that went on. And I was told that you will not be the same person that you are now. When you start, you will have help, you will be guided that you will have. Everything will work out for you.
And I went to see him in California and I had a young. My daughter was still in high school and I did not want to move to California. I lived in Massachusetts. I couldn't leave my child. And that was the only thing that was going to break the deal is if I had to move to California to take over the practice. But we worked out a system that over six months, we gradually moved the practice to Boston.
I went there to sit with Dr. Luke one week at a time for six months.
And I also had supervision with him for 20 months because I was seeing his patients.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: Wow. So that really was that phone call from him saying, hey, I trust you and respect you enough to take over my practice or a large part of it, or whatever it was that.
[00:31:41] Speaker C: All of it.
All of it.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:31:45] Speaker C: June of 2009, he packed his personal items in his car and drove to where his wife and him continued living.
And I moved to practice back to Boston. Boxed all the folders, shipped them over here, rented an office here.
So I worked at least six days a week.
And I think my.
My immigrant mentality was really helpful because I don't want to box it in as many, you know, immigrant mentality. But having been 17 and kind of having to new things, displaced, going through a difficult time.
I was used to applying all of myself to what was in front of me.
Yeah.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Well said. I like that. See, as the psychologist, I love that in the sense. And you are. Homeopathy is. Is very psychological, but it's a c. Yeah. There's where you were able to resource a younger version of you to help you pull this whole thing off and move. Move through that difficult yet amazing blessing. And yet also challenging. Right?
[00:33:02] Speaker C: Very challenging. Very humbling, I bet.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I think humility is a powerful teacher. That is for sure.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: I hung in there through all of it.
There was no other way. I couldn't have it any other way because I had reached my dream.
And yet it came in a package that was challenging. So the first few years were really.
I don't want to keep using the word challenging, but it took everything.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: It took everything.
[00:33:36] Speaker C: And at the same time, I was writing my thesis, so my family made a lot of sacrifices. They made do without me being around all the time. And I'm grateful to them for that.
But it was like getting thrown in the deep end of the ocean to swim. You know, I got thrown into the deep end of the ocean, not even the pool. It was for me, it was the ocean with.
[00:34:03] Speaker B: With big waves and all sorts of unknowns. Right.
[00:34:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Wow. Well, again, weaving together the segments, that theme of knowing, having a sense for knowledge, knowing what I want, and yet not. Not a childhood, it sounds like, you know, just was almost a given, not going to happen. As you got to New York, it was like, I know what I want. I want to be a healer. I want to do this, but I need to do the tech path to make sure I can pay the bills. You did all that. And so it was this theme of reaching for what you want. And then when it finally came, it was as if the. The dam burst. It was as if all that. Those years of knowing It. And waiting and waiting and waiting. All of a sudden it was like. Like you say an ocean wave.
[00:34:47] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Wow. I. I don't know. Yeah, I just. I like that. I like reflecting on it that way to see how you know, you. I believe that you must have kept that. That dream must have been very strong in your heart to. To keep it alive all those years of knowing it. I. I do think there are other humans perhaps I would have. Would have just surrendered to. Well, whatever. I'm just gonna. I'm good at this tech stuff. I'll just do it. So I. I love that you kept it alive, and I love that that Dr. Luke ended up choosing you because it. It was the perfect. Even though it was overwhelming in the moment, it was the perfect counter remedy for all those years of kind of knowing what you want but not being able to taste it.
[00:35:25] Speaker C: Right.
[00:35:27] Speaker B: Oh, shoot. I just lost lighting.
Good old Costa Rica.
So we're still gonna just keep rolling.
So with this piece, Ferrari, what I want to ask you is, what else?
If you had just a word of wisdom here to drop before we take our next break, what do you feel like wisdom for you at this point? When you look back on that younger version of you who took over the practice and you rode. Rode the ocean waves, what would be a message back to her from your current self?
[00:36:04] Speaker C: Oh, I was overly compassionate. I wouldn't say overly, but it took me a long time to be able to be compassionate and feel someone else's pain and not have it affect me as much so that I'm actually able to continue the way at the beginning, the way I empathize with every family. You know, my specialty is working with families with autism.
And I have seen so much grief, so much disappointment, and yet these beautiful souls that needed help and what the families go through. I was losing sleep. I could not. It was not sustainable for me. And what I learned was I had to be present for them, and I learned how to do that and not let it completely take over my. My. The rest of my life.
And this is my. My wisdom. That's the wisdom I gained that allowed me to continue.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: Beautiful. Beautiful.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: 17 years that I've been doing that,
[00:37:16] Speaker B: talking about it, reflecting on it. Do you feel proud of yourself, proud of that younger feta?
[00:37:22] Speaker C: I'm. I'm proud of her for taking this on.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: Saying yes.
[00:37:28] Speaker C: So saying yes. Saying yes. Even though everything I wanted to say was yes, but also how difficult it was, and I still said yes.
Wow.
[00:37:40] Speaker B: Wow. What strength. What strength. Leading with heart right there. Leading with Heart. Because it was your dream.
Wow. Well, we are going to have to take a quick break here. When we get back, we are going to dive into the harvest and learn where Farah is now in her path and what you're up to and where you're heading. So please, everyone stay tuned. We'll be back soon to bring this story to a completion.
[00:38:07] Speaker A: We'll be right back on Lead with Heart for more deep conversations and heartfelt stories.
Welcome to Lead with Heart. I'm your host, Dr. Jesse Hansen, and this is the show where strategy meets soul.
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[00:39:14] Speaker B: Hello and welcome back to this final segment of Lead with Heart. The harvest. We've heard the seed, the bud, the lotus blossom. And now we're going to find out where Farah is today, how she's living her life, why I keep losing lighting.
If that happens again, I apologize so far. It is up to you to bring us home here and tell me. Yeah, just tell me. And I think actually a great way to start this segment would be just to, you know, to give a clear definition of homeopathy, help us understand even what. What that is. I think people know the word, but they don't really know what it means.
[00:39:47] Speaker C: Often it's. It's a system of alternative health that helps is holistic, which means that we address the emotional state and we see a person as a whole, not as a diagnosis.
So 100 people with the same condition or issue may go to a homeopath. They will have many different remedies given to them because we do not address or try to help the diagnosis. We try to help the person, who they are, where they have been, what's happened to them and how to heal them emotionally.
And the body knows. I have no clue why someone's issues fall away. They just get better.
And that is because some sort of loss, grief, abuse, anything that is haunting them.
It could be a physical thing, like an accident that left them a certain way, that they were never the same before.
It could be a divorce. It could be something they did that they regret, that is not leaving them. They go to therapy. Therapy can be very helpful, but especially if trauma happens. As you know, as a psychologist, it's not easy to talk yourself out of something.
But homeopathy has the reach.
And the way we choose remedies is basically based on the resonance, the resonance idea of quantum physics.
So we choose a remedy that resonates with a person's emotional, mental and physical state. And the homeopathic remedies have been diluted so much. They may be made from flowers, plants, elements on the periodic table, many different things. But by the time they get to a 13C potency, there's not even one molecule of the substance left in there. The dilutions have passed the avogadro's number. So we're just working with nanoparticles.
So it's very safe for pregnant women, children, adults, at every stage of life.
It can be helpful and safe, especially with an experienced homeopath who was very concerned about making sure that everything is done very gently.
[00:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah, beautiful. And homeo. Remind me that the root of that
[00:42:27] Speaker C: word, homeo is same. Empathy is illness or issue, physical problem.
So homeopathy is same.
The same thing that can cause a problem and in a healthy person can help someone suffering from that problem with that same remedy.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Wow.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: It's a remedy made from that same substance, as you can see, but it's not the crude material. It is diluted. So it's nanoparticles. So it communicates with what we call the vital force or the immune system of the person. And if we are right and we have chosen the right remedy, the resonance, we remind the body how to remember to be healthy. So we're matching the resonance and reminding. Okay, you can follow this pattern of health and the body will come to balance. The mind will come to balance first, but then the body will follow.
[00:43:29] Speaker B: Wow. Wow. Yeah. There's so much in there I want to unpack. I'm going to choose a couple key things. In the. In the window. We have here, Faraz, that you mentioned quantum physics. Thank you so much for acknowledging that. It's not still not quite common language yet. And I think more people are getting curious about what that really is. So in a quick nutshell, how I understand is, you know, we all, most of us are familiar with regular physics. If the pencil's sitting straight up. It'll stay up. If it loses that, it falls. Quantum physics is the field of electromagnetic energy and nanoparticles and everything else. And when I was trained about these elements integrated with neuropsychology at the same time, I, I was so delighted because I had already been in a point in my life of having many different spiritual experiences. Summit Babaji Shrine in la, which I know is different, but still, like, there, there. And many experiences. And all of a sudden there was a science that could actually explain these spiritual phenomena.
[00:44:20] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: And it's just. That's just nice for the understanding of the mind and, and the belief and the faith grows. So I love that, that. And I remember as I learned, I by no means am any expert in homeopathy. However, a lot of. I did do a holistic health degree and in California, and that's where I was really most deeply steeped into homeopathy. However, you know, again, I just remember feeling such a resonance with it because of a lot of things you just said. Also the fact of realizing that homeopathy also honors not just all of the nanoparticles and those elements of the biochemistry and electromagnetic field, but also of the emotions which our emotions are. Our electromagnetic field.
[00:45:01] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: So we shift the emotional patterns, we shift our electromagnetic field, we shift the nanoparticles sooner than later. This, the cellular existence that we think often, that's all who I am is cellular, but I'm way more than just cellular.
So. Yeah, yeah. What comes up for you as you hear all this?
[00:45:20] Speaker C: Well, this is a fantastic point that you brought up is because homeopathy has gotten dismissed over, over the years, for the past 200 years. When Dr. Samuel Hanman in Germany came up, formulated homeopathy, he. He was always challenged that. Okay, if you're saying that there's nothing. They said there's nothing in here. You're saying there's no crude material. So there's nothing.
So we cannot accept that any healing can happen from nothing.
So quantum physics, when it came in, it was able. We were able to explain and verbalize why it's working. Until then, we could not explain it. They could not explain it. And it was dismissed as bogus and not, not real.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: You have thanks for quantum physics.
[00:46:09] Speaker A: Right?
[00:46:10] Speaker B: Thanks for quantum physics because, yeah, I feel like we're. And you know, science is continually evolving and there's going to be another thing, you know, hopefully before our. We. We both passed. But is that.
I just also, as you said that I was just reminded how I really am a huge advocate of ancient wisdom and ancient practices. And like, there was so much in that and how I've been seeing it and saying it is.
[00:46:31] Speaker C: We're.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: We're just slowly but surely getting more caught up in science to finally be able to talk about and explain what our ancestors have known for so long. And without needing so much proof. They just trusted faith, right?
[00:46:46] Speaker C: Exactly. Exactly.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:46:49] Speaker C: Fortunate that we have language to prove it.
And I just wanted to emphasize that it is safe for all ages and helpful.
[00:47:02] Speaker B: Tell me, where are you now and what does your life look like? We've gotten to hear the beautiful story of the little girl to the 17 to 30. What? Babaji, everything. So where are you now? What is your practice? And ultimately, people want to get in touch with you. What's the best way to find you?
[00:47:18] Speaker C: Very good. So the name of my company is New Life Homeopathy.
So it's a new life. You're going to have a new life if you're open to a new life.
And the word homeopathy, calm. That's my practice, how you can get in touch with me.
But I wanted to say what I'm doing now started back many years ago. I was sitting in my office, home office, and all of a sudden I had this idea that I want to work with children on the spectrum.
That was probably about some 26 years ago when I was doing further studies and postgraduate studies with Dr. Luke. That's what I focused on, was working with children with autism.
That has continued, intensified. And I would say probably 70% of my practice is now working with these families.
[00:48:16] Speaker B: And I love that you said children and then you changed it to families because obviously, legally we need the permissions of the parents. However, on the emotional level, it's all interconnected. And to work with the children is to work with the parents, right?
[00:48:29] Speaker C: That's right. And I also try to make eye contact with them to get their permission to the children, anyone, they're in there. And this is part of my mission now is to spread the word that they're fully aware there are 25% of them that have severe autism.
But we can help all of them. All of them can be helped with holistic modalities, such as homeopathy, but not exclusively. We need to bring in many holistic modalities to bring them out because they're here for a reason and they're here to help us and move us forward toward full brain integration, which is a state of enlightenment.
But they were sensitive and they got sidetracked and we're trying to help them become who they were meant to be. Not like the other children who are neurotypical, but really who they are, bring them out to be who they are.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: So far, this would be my last question to you before we close this show today is. Yeah. Just wondering as you now shifted your practice with autistic children, their families, either any, anything, just sort of, I would say almost a cooler, inspiring short case example and, or just anything, you know, else that you have in terms of sort of a general understanding of what you're seeing as, as a homeopathic doctor working with autistic children. What are you noticing? Any themes, anything intriguing?
[00:50:01] Speaker C: Absolutely.
Okay. So I did a study of my 24 children in my practice and measured their progress from where they started to a set date, March of 2025.
And I found that they had an improvement of 48.5% on average for each child. And this is really huge because any improvement, even one point means a child goes from not being potty trained to being potty trained. Can you imagine an 8 year old, 9 year old, 12 year old who's still not able to take care of that function and how much it means to the families to see their children make eye contact or show affection?
So it's an incredibly humbling and thrilling way that I engage with people, with them every step of the way and I celebrate every success that they have.
And I'm also writing a book called Luminous Souls. Bringing in together all these holistic modalities and in depth way that I practice homeopathy so that others can benefit and become aware that these children are trapped, that they cannot speak and we need to help them.
[00:51:23] Speaker B: Wow. Yeah, I, yeah, I would love, I'm, I'm sad we have to pause here. I would love to go deeper into. I have a fascination with autism from the psychosomatic element as well. And I've seen some pretty miraculous things just like you said, from the level of eye contact and human respect and the acknowledgment of there is a beautiful soul in there. So thank you. Bless you for the work you're doing. Bless you for your whole path. Thank you for sharing today. Thank you for opening your heart.
Thank you for leading with heart.
And I just keep doing what you're doing and I'm excited to learn more about your book when it's ready to come out. So thank you, Farah.
[00:51:56] Speaker C: Thank you. Thank you, Jesse for this opportunity to talk to you and be present with you.
[00:52:01] Speaker B: Absolutely. And thank you to all the viewers. Thank you so much for staying tuned here on Lead With Heart. We will be back with more shows, more episodes with more heartfelt shares and deep stories to understand what's inside the hearts and souls of these wonderful healers and leaders that that are on the planet with us now that we also desperately need to be connected more to the healing process. So thank you everyone for watching. Stay tuned. And as we like to say down here in Costa Rica, Pura Vira. May we all live the pure life. Take good care.
