My hormones are controlling me - I’m apathetic and I’m a witch-bitch all in one

Poor Sepia - she is exhausted, overrun, apathetic and if pushed too far is a real witch-bitch all in one. Thrown around by her hormones, the homeopathic remedy Sepia is a remedy needed any time in life where there has been a big shift in hormones. Puberty, Pregnancy, Postpartum, Hysterectomy, Hormone Replacement Therapy, birth control methods involving changing hormones, Peri-Menopause, Menopause, Post-Menopause.

Mostly in Sepia we don’t see the witch-bitch - this may be a side of her that only is expressed around those she loves most but in the clinic we often see the overrun, exhausted, indifferent and apathetic state. She is overrun by her hormones, by the demands of her family, by the newborn baby or by the hormonal shift happening in mid life and this causes her to shut down - to become dull.

Just like a Sepia photograph, life for her has no colour - no meaning - no pizazz and she suffers hugely from this.

Just by thinking about how a Sepia photograph looks - dull, lifeless with no colour you’ll start to get a feel for this brilliant remedy!

Sepia and the feminine sensitivity

Made from the ink of the cuttlefish, we find that the Homeopathic remedy Sepia is predominately a female remedy (not always). It is an excellent remedy for pelvic issues including prolapse. Often she will have the feeling that everything is going to drop out of her vagina and may want to cross her legs to help the pelvic organs stay firmly inside!

Sepia is a deeply sensitive person and when in balance is a very independent, well adjusted strong woman - with the masculine and feminine being in balance. However oftentimes there has been a shift in her hormones and this causes the Sepia state to appear and she becomes very worn out and indifferent.

All this femininity to begin with and then boom - the hormones shift and she starts to become static - now not the free moving, free flowing feminine principle, but more masculine. She may appear more masculine in her clothing, appearance and attitude and can often start growing hair on her face or other parts of her body more like a male.

The overall theme of the homeopathic remedy Sepia is stasis - mentally, emotionally & physically.

Hormones at the different stages of life

Whatever stage of life a woman may be at, Sepia may just be the remedy she needs. Every situation in life which requires a shift in the hormones, can send her into the Sepia state. It is a good remedy for young girls when they first start menstruating, a HUGE remedy for women after giving birth and equally when women are going through menopause.

Regardless of what age and stage in life she is at, if the remedy picture fits then this remedy will really help lift the heaviness, the stasis, the depression, the lethargy and the critical fault finding nature.

Exhaustion & the Physical Symptoms

There are SO many symptoms that Homeopathic Sepia covers, but let’s look at just a few of the key ones

• Everything feels draining and they are overwhelmed by their family, their partner, their household

• They have no feelings - they feel numb inside

• Dull, lethargic, depressed and hyper-critical

• Depression and rage

• Indifference to loved ones

• Varicose veins and poor circulation - cold hands and feet

• Recurrent miscarriages - especially around the 5th - 7th month

• Ailments from birth, miscarriage & abortion

• Ailments from hormonal treatments - either fertility treatments, birth control methods, hormone replacement therapy

• Poly cystic ovarian syndrome

• Hot flushes

• Continual menstrual bleeding

• Prolapse of the uterus and all matter of pelvic problems, especially when they feel a bearing down sensation and that everything will drop out of the vagina and they cross their legs to avoid this

• Craving sour things during pregnancy

• Gynaecological problems such as tumours, cysts, fibroids, herpes, vaginitis & breast problems

• Sensations of a lump in the body, in the throat, stomach, rectum , vagina

• Constipation (because of no bowel tone)

• Lack of tone - all of their muscles, arteries and tissues relaxEat without ever feeling full (think of it with Bulimia in teenage girls with hormonal shifts)

• Raynaud’s syndrome

Intimacy and libido - forget it!

There are so many demands on the poor Sepia woman - the children, the household, the partner, the job, the boss that she starts to shut down. She becomes indifferent - indifferent to those most loved.

Because deep down she is a soft feminine woman, the idea of opening herself up to the masculine - to the male - to allow a man into herself becomes a threat to her existence. The energy is too overpowering and she is too exhausted to deal with the demands of her partner. So she becomes AVERSE to sex. Her fragile, exhausted, worn out, overwhelmed state cannot handle intimacy at this level - she is doing all she can to just stay afloat.

Oftentimes there is no desire and no orgasm. It may be that there is a history of rape, sexual abuse or a denial of her sexuality..…she is repulsed by intimacy and what it represents. There may be feelings and thoughts that sex is bad, that she should be celibate and that she is afraid of loosing control with intimacy.

She can be challenged by the idea of sexual identity and motherhood and be unable to balance the demands of both. It is one of the main remedies we look to which helps restore desire after child birth or around menopause.

The Sepia Mother - watch out kids!

We see a conflict with the mothering aspect in this remedy. Once she has a baby it may just be too exhausting, too overwhelming and too tiring. The children wear her out, they take away her independence and are loud, messy and chaotic.

She may yell at the kids and become a nag to her partner. Fault finding, sarcastic, spiteful and striking her children. She is so exhausted that all of these relationships which demand of her energy become a hassle, an obstacle and she starts to shut down.

A person needing Sepia can get very very angry and very critical! They will criticise everyone and find fault with everyone and put them down. There aren’t a huge amount of emotions she may feel, but anger is certainly one of them. Sarcasm is one of their go to places - like a form of protection against their worn out state.

She may have longings to run away…if only she could muster the energy.

I often think that this is the remedy needed for women who abandon their children - who just walk out and leave. If only they had a good dose of Homeopathic Sepia it could have prevented so much suffering all round.

Feeling flat, overwhelmed & depressed

In Homeopathy we have many many remedies for depression and overwhelm and Sepia is right up there.

The context of how we see this overwhelm, greyness & depression appear in Sepia, is always around a shift in hormones - a shift in hormones which has had a big impact on her life. Such a hormonal shifts or the hormonal disruptions that we see are in things like; first menses, pregnancy, miscarriage, a termination, the oral contraceptive pill, pre & postpartum, peri & post menopause, HRT and menopause itself.

Everything starts to SLOW DOWN, she becomes STATIC and starts to feel dead inside - there are a few emotions, but she starts to feel no joy or happiness. Mentally she slows down, can’t concentrate and has no motivation. Emotionally she can’t feel as much as she did before and gets stuck. The house is a mess, the husband is too coarse, the noises are too loud and the children too chaotic.

She feels numb in her life and there’s no joy anymore….each day there are so many tasks that it becomes overwhelming, so many other demands on her….on her time, on her energy on her reserves.

Let her run, dance & swim!

It’s interesting that for the Sepia woman, who is so exhausted and who sees life through such a dull lens, that running, dancing and swimming can make her feel profoundly better. A release, an expression, a part of herself that is free - just like the cuttlefish swimming in the ocean, these activities that get her heart rate up make her feel so much better from being really active.

This is the compensation for the Homeopathic remedy Sepia - the way she instinctively tries to bring herself out of her shut down, grey, depressed state. She runs, dances, swims - she dances hard and long, runs for miles and swims and swims and swims. Why? Because it brings her out of her STASIS - it gets everything moving again and connects her with life again.

Sepia - Restoring hormonal health & love

It is SO beautiful to see the transformation that happens after taking this remedy. It brings the person back to themselves, back to the deep femininity within, back to their loved ones and back to the balanced state that is always available to all of us in any moment of time.

Not always is it a female remedy, but most of the cases I see in my clinic are female. However it can also be used for men when they have similar feelings and have had a big change in their life which may push them into a Sepia state.

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