In this episode, we speak with Elizabeth Balcar, a practitioner of HFA from the United States, about her journey into homeopathy and how HFA has reshaped her practice. Elizabeth shares how she came to homeopathy later in life after working extensively with PTSD, and how discovering Burnett’s work and later Grant’s books opened new perspectives. She explains how HFA’s focus on colour groups and miasms as forces gave her the structure she had been missing, allowing her to prescribe with greater clarity and confidence. We also explore the importance of Aphorism 27, the philosophy behind Soul & Survival, and how understanding miasms through HFA not only changes clinical outcomes but also enriches how we see relationships and human behaviour.

1. Elizabeth’s Journey into Homeopathy: Elizabeth shares her background working with PTSD and how this eventually led her into homeopathy later in life. She describes her early influences, including Burnett and combination remedies, and reflects on the limitations she encountered before discovering HFA.
2. Discovering HFA and Soul & Survival: We explore how Elizabeth found Grant’s books and later the online HFA course, which provided the structure she had been seeking. She explains how HFA transformed her prescribing, making it more consistent and giving her confidence in identifying dominant miasms.
3. Miasms, Colours, and Forces in Practice: The conversation turns to the philosophical foundations of HFA, including miasms as forces of motion rather than diseases, and the role of colour groups as neutral descriptors. Elizabeth reflects on how this perspective not only enhances clinical practice but also deepens understanding of human behaviour and relationships.
4. Practical Application and Aphorism 27: Elizabeth discusses how she applies HFA in her work with clients, particularly those dealing with trauma and PTSD. We also reflect on the importance of Aphorism 27 for guiding modern homeopathic practice, and how Soul & Survival has helped integrate these principles into accessible tools for practitioners.
5. Teaching, Learning, and Reflection: The episode closes with a discussion about the complementary teaching styles of Louise and Grant, the ongoing value of HFA for both students and experienced practitioners, and Elizabeth’s gratitude for how the system has transformed her work and outlook.

Is this really the way life is now—built around scrolling and phones? Not just social media as a distraction, or the private little worlds we create in our heads, but something deeper. How we use our phone reshapes how memory works. And when memory turns into fragments, personality loses its depth. Who you today come from the memories of yesterday. Without that thread, life risks becoming one-dimensional, disconnected. If you can’t create a memory of self, you can’t create a sense of self.

In this episode, we explore the complex role that trauma plays in a person’s development and the subtle, often overlooked ways it expresses in behavior, posture, and belief systems. We talk about how early coping mechanisms - especially those formed around traumatic events - can solidify into unconscious strategies that shape our health and life patterns. We also reflect on the difficulty of unearthing these buried stories, and how they often manifest symbolically in the body or through patterns in a case. Throughout the conversation, we circle around the importance of noticing the fine details in a patient’s story - their posture, their energetic withdrawal, their emotional fixations - and how these can all be clues pointing toward unresolved experiences of helplessness or fear. It’s not about applying a fixed formula but allowing the person’s unique presentation to lead us to what needs to be addressed for healing to begin.

1. Coping Mechanisms and the Trauma Response: We explore how protective behaviors often become rigid patterns that obscure a person’s true self, particularly when those behaviors were born out of trauma.
2. The Energetic Signature of Withdrawal: We discuss the quality of energetic withdrawal in patients - how they shrink, retreat, or subtly disappear - and how this can signal deeper emotional or developmental wounds.
3. Reading the Body’s Symbolic Language: We talk about the way the body expresses unresolved stories through posture, movement, and structure, often in symbolic language that requires careful attention to decode.
4. Subtle Clues in Case Observation: We reflect on the importance of fine detail in observation - particularly those micro-expressions or patterns that can reveal internalized trauma or belief systems.
5. The Role of Helplessness and Fixation: We examine how helplessness can form the root of stuck patterns, and how fixation on a certain worldview, emotion, or identity is often a signpost pointing to past trauma.
6. Allowing the Case to Reveal Itself: We emphasize the need for patience and listening in case-taking, letting the case unfold instead of imposing our interpretation too early.