Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Jessie J

Jessie J "Mamma knows best" by Jizzy30, Flickr.com

British Hip-Hop singer Jessie J has been described as a manic persona with a monster voice, and full of confidence.   Her musical style has been as a personal identity crisis. Ailbhe Malone of the music magazine NME commented on her latest album: "This is an album of singles for other artists. There’s Rihanna Jessie (‘Do It Like a Dud’), Perry Jessie (‘Abracadabra’), Pixie Jessie (‘Mamma Knows Best’), Ellie Jessie ('Big White Room')." She is one of the coaches in the BBC program “The Voice UK”, and although she’s just starting, she’s already been tipped off for a long and successful career, both as a song writer and as a singer. Her personal life has been fraught with illness.  At 11 years she was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat which granted her a lot of invasive medical attention and frequent hospitalisations. At 18 years old she suffered a stroke.  She’s always suffered from panic attacks, and she had one recently while performing a gig in the dark. She has a peculiar body language both on stage and on her videos, with some ritualised hand movements, and a strange dance routine.  She appears to be disconnected from the reality at times. Last year she fell off the stage, breaking an ankle and causing severe tendon damage to her left foot.  Her recovery from this injury was a lot slower than expect and complicated by the onset of arthritis. Although tall and slim, Jessie J has a big appetite, and she commiserated about not being able to do exercise when she had her foot in plaster but still wanting to eat a kebab. She requires lots of sweets, salt and vinegar crisps, and spicy and takeaway foods while recording "The Voice UK". She tries to keep herself healthy, by staying off drugs and alcohol. Some of her quotes: Panic attack “I did a gig recently and had a panic attack on stage. The night was called 'Black Out' and I had to perform in the dark. I asked them to turn on the lights and they didn't. I was onstage in pitch black and, because I couldn't see anything, I started to panic. It was awful.” Illness “At 11 I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat. I had wires put in my shoulder, groin and heart to try and zap it to a normal rhythm, but it didn't really work. Then, at 18, I suffered a minor stroke. It was scary, but I'm fine now. Having bad health has made me realize I can't take anything for granted and I must look after my body.” "Keep making nervous jokes with the doctor and he keeps looking at me blankly. Which is making me laugh even more. It's getting serious. I just took my nose stud out." (on surgery to her recent foot injury.) (Tweeting after the surgery) "Can't keep tweeting. Still very dizzy and being sick. But I'm OK, I got through it.” Jessie J says the album's title track, "Who You Are", is one of her proudest creations, she said the song is a "positive role model for young people" and "I always say that I'm half-artist, half-therapist". Lifestyle “I'm a clean-living girl, I don't drink or smoke and would never do drugs. I used to get panic attacks really badly when I was younger. I don't like not being in control. I'm getting better though.” Sexuality “I've never denied it. Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it. It's not a secret, but it's the only thing they can grab onto - they're like, 'She never drinks and she comes out of the party looking like she did when she went in, damn her!' Success “I’m still in a daze, to be honest, because everything I look for I’m still looking in myself for.” Jessie J homeopathic remedy is Cannabis Indica: Cannabis, also known as Marijuana, has been used throughout the world for thousands of years. Firstly for spiritual and religious reasons to attain a connection to the lost world of spirituality and to commune with the gods. Its medicinal properties were also known, and there are reports of its use from China, Greece, Egypt, Assyria, and India, some dating from 8,500 years ago. Extensive medical research has been conducted on the active ingredients of this tropical plant: Tetrahydrocannabinols or THC’s. Studies have covered anorexia, arthritis, MS, glaucoma, anaesthesia and nausea. Cannabis has also been used extensively around the world for recreational purposes, or what some would consider “personal research”… it’s known for promoting bonding between users, inducing euphoria, easy and uncontrollable laughing, dream like state, and heightened sensorial awareness, triggering also confused thoughts and memories. After the initial “high” it causes extreme hunger, it can also cause dizziness and nausea. In homeopathy Cannabis Indica can be prescribed in potency in order to treat delusions and out of the body experiences, painful conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS), cramps, dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation), arthritis, panic attacks, phobia of the dark, food cravings: particularly craving of sweets associated with hypoglycaemia. Cannabis homeopathic remedy fits Jessie J very well both at the personality level with her easy bonding and friendly manner, disinhibited body language, and her openness towards her audience even in issues such as her sexuality.  Cannabis in potency is also one of the main remedies for some of Jessie’s physical symptoms such as the panic attacks, fear of the dark, arthritic pain and cramps in general, strokes, mental confusion and giggling, excessive appetite, uncontrollable speech, identity confusion, etc.    By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: PJ Harvey, the odd one out!

PJ Harvey is an English singer and artist from the West Country.

Her characteristic style comes through in everything she does: in her lyrics, her music, her voice, in her sculptures, even in her hobby of jam and chutney making.

She has a truly unique style and she refuses to follow anyone else‘s. She doesn’t conform to any pre-established models: not even her own.

She is also very versatile, forever changing her own style both in fashion and in music. Although she writes a lot she prefers to start a fresh when collecting material for her albums rather than recycling previous prose as she feels her views often change.

And she doesn’t like to be defined by what she produces either. She resents the media for trying to constraint her into a set, fixed model of herself, based on the lyrics she writes.

She is deeply introspective person, who doesn’t reveal much of herself, and who can easily clam up on interviews if asked about her personal life, her believes and thoughts.

But she concedes that she is homely, she is the happiest around her family, and that one day she would like to have children too, if she finds the right partner.

She needs to make an impact in her environment, in order to make it her own. She sees her music and her sculpture as the means to re-shape her surroundings and to create a long lasting influence.

Her desire to influence and to create a deeply personable space extends also to gardening, and to the use of aromatherapy in order to recreate an environment where she can be comfortable and at home whilst on an recording studio or on tour.



PJ Harvey is extremely defensive when it comes to being associated with the lyrics she writes: she denies that they have anything to do with who she is, and yet she promotes them as a deep raw reality that she immerses herself and from which she resurfaces out of breath from the depths of her own subconscious bringing to the surface sinister and strange characters, deep emotions and confronting us with phantoms, and taboos that are part of the collective subconscious.

That’s why she provokes such strong feelings in some people. As she unleashes the worst and ugliest side of collective imaginary through her lyrics, bringing out a witches’ brew of sinister and tragic figures, and forcing us to confront our own shadows whether we like it or not.

PJ Harvey claims to sleep very little, about 4 hours a day, and to have very vivid dreams and she keeps a dreams journal.



Some of her quotes:

Dreams and Imagination:

“I have massive dreams, dream extravaganzas every night," announces Polly Jean Harvey. "It's very enjoyable. Sometimes they seem so real that I'm not really sure which is my real life. Is this my day life or my night life? I don't always know."

"I always think it's so sad that when we get older we tend to stop playing with our imagination like we do when we're young," she says. "When you're a child, you can make anything happen. You can make people happen, just conjure them out of thin air if you want someone to play with. I love dreaming because that's my child side just running rampant every night. It might be my subconscious trying to tell me something about myself or about other people. I think of the most incredulous things in my dreams and that's a very healthy thing to do if you're in a creative mode like I am. It's all part of keeping your imagination going."

Infancy and teenage years:

"I was more interested in working as hard as possible than in dating," she avers. "Other reasons were to do with where I lived, there really weren't that many people around. I looked like a boy until I was fourteen. I was a real tomboy. I was extremely shy. I still am. I thought of myself as very ugly and didn't have a lot of confidence at that kind of level. I didn't think anybody would want to date me. Having said that, I was extremely confident in other areas like the work I was doing because of the sheer amount of work I was putting into it."

Music, art and perfectionism:

"Music was a release," she recalls. "It was everything to me. It was both the physical and emotional side that I was lacking in other areas, and still is.

"Music is so much more moving, physically moving. I find that artwork involves too much intellectualising. I'd rather if it just affected me in a way that I don't really have control over than rationalising a painting or a piece of work. That's why I chose to do sculpture. It's more of a physical thing. It affects the space around you. It's a little bit closer to what music does."

"It's very confusing for me, this perfectionism of mine. Why is anybody like that? Why is anybody driven to choose a very hard way of expressing themselves? There are much easier ways. You're trying to make something that's perfect and that is impossible. You're trying to achieve the impossible the whole time which is not an easy way to go."

Sixth Sense:

"I physically hate recording studios," she states "When I get to the studio, I immediately have to try and make it better in terms of lighting and making different smells and filling it with personal bits and materials. Different aromatherapy smells and oils, candles. Turning the lighting down. Recording studios are so anonymous and have had so much music made in them, different music, which I don't want in there when I'm in there. Rooms and old houses, they carry a certain sort of vibration with them. It's the same in studios. The music that has been made in them during the last ten or twenty years is still around in there. You want to clear the room if you want to get it ready to make your music.”



Synesthesia:



Synesthesia is the cross of over of two or more senses, it is a fairly rare ability and it is thought to occur when there are more nervous connections than usual in person‘s brain. The most common expression of this is synesthetes to see sounds as colours. In PJ’s case there seems to be an association between smell and colours, and smells as sounds which is more rare.

"Very often when I'm writing a song, I'll start off with nothing but a picture in my head. Smells are also important to me. A smell will evoke a feeling which I want to create or a colour. It's very much based on visual things and on my senses, sensations. I carry a lot of stuff with me wherever I go. Photographs, pictures, personal objects that I like, and smells. I take my smells everywhere with me. They're really important to me."

Running out of time:

"I want to be happy and I want to feel that I'm using my time here as well as I possibly can. That means working hard and playing hard and loving hard. Doing everything I can to the full. I'm very conscious of not wasting time. There just seems like so little time and so many things I'd love to do with my time here. I might get run over tomorrow. I'm a very impatient person."

Her appearance:

"it's that combination of being quite elegant and funny and revolting, all at the same time, that appeals to me. I actually find wearing make-up like that, sort of smeared around, as extremely beautiful. Maybe that's just my twisted sense of beauty."

"that was kind of a mask. It was much more of a mask than I've ever had. I was very lost as a person, at that point. I had no sense of self left at all" about her image for the “To Bring You My Love” tour.

PJ Harvey Homeopathic remedy is Hyoscyamus Niger:

It is popularly known as Henbane, part of the Nightshade family, with narcotic and hallucinogenic properties, the active ingredients being atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine.

It combines muscle relaxant and anti-spasmodic properties, but it can produce both great excitement as well as profound relaxation and apathy.

It has been used as a “Truth Serum”, for “brainwashing”, sleeping draughts, and until more recently in sleeping pills, anti-allergy tablets, and in patches for motion sickness. It has also known to induce priaprism, and it has been used to treat passive forms of psychosis.

It has a long folkloric tradition, we known it was used in Neolithic rituals; the Vikings buried the seeds with their dead; it was associated with the rituals of passage between life and death in classic Greece, and old German tribes used to spike their beer giving it extra power.

During the Medieval period the plant was associated with witches rituals such as “intercourse with the devil“ when they used as an ointment to rub on their genitals.

It was also used in childbirth to inducing “twilight sleep” relieving the pain and inducing amnesia of the birthing experience, although the church strongly opposed to this claiming that women were supposed to suffer pain in order to give birth.

The homeopathic version of this drug, is used to treat insomnia, wild and vivid dreams and hallucinations, alternate states of rage and apathy, nervous tics, certain types of epilepsy, eye disturbances with by pupil dilation, sexual problems, and passive forms of psychosis.

Psychologically individuals who do well on Hyoscyamus have a jealous personality, have either extreme aversion to sex and to their own body if repressed, or in advance states of psychosis who have an excessive preoccupation with sex and a tendency to exposing their genitals, and even masturbate in public. They are suspicious people, who mistrust strangers, but require the constant company of their close circle of friends and family.

We can see that PJ Harvey lives in the psychological sphere of this remedy if just through her dreams and her creative process.

She has a clear awareness of the collective unconscious, and she can easily access parallel realities that she enters during sleep: light becomes darkness and fantastic creatures part ghosts part devils exist in a world of dreams.

Her comment about not knowing what is more real: her dreams or her awake phase is typical of Henbane’s induced “Twilight Sleep”. And so it is the feeling of wearing a mask, and that’s how Polly describes her transformational process when she worked on her “Love Is” tour.

The Hyoscyamus patient has a very pale face and dilated pupils and so has Harvey.

Some individuals can be extremely controlled censoring themselves and not allowing their subconscious to invade their daily lives. Being extremely sensitive to extra-sensorial energies around them that they can travel in between alternate and parallel realities, lose touch with their physical reality and blurring the line between madness and sanity.

Polly has found the right balance by allowing the controlled release of subconscious through her art rather than repressing these aspects of her psyche.

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Madonna, the two way mirror

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Madonna by choupigloupi Flickr.com

Madonna is the queen of pop music. She is a master at re-inventing herself, lending herself to so many different female personalities that it is sometimes hard to understand who she really is.

We’ve seen the virgin and the whore in her. Her style has always been revealing and sexually provocative whether wearing a white wedding dress and writhing on the floor in ecstasy or dressed in bondage gear, or having a three some.

One thing never changes - her desire to shock us by breaking the conventional imagine of the sexually submissive female persona.

Madonna’s voice has developed and matured over the years, initially it was a child like voice, she was once dubbed Minnie Mouse on Helium.

Her sexuality didn’t go through a progressive development, it just exploded in our faces explicit and unrepressed - we’ve seen her simulating sex with an angel, kissing other women, romping with several men at once, involved in sad-masochism scenes, and masturbating.

Madonna thrives on controversy, she has built her success on eroding sexual taboos: mixing them with religious imagery such as crucifixes, the stigmata, the Virgin, and so on. She has incurred the wrath of Vatican and of religious groups on several occasions.

Her latest album MDNA is already causing controversy both from its title: a clear reference to the drug also known as Ecstasy, and the sexually provocative video-clips - “girl gone wild” has been rated 18 certificate and banned from You Tube.

What inspired Madonna into a career merging music and sex in a way at times close to pornography?

Madonna lost her mother to cancer at the age of five. She has often spoken of the pain of not only losing her mum at such a young age but also of having to be a mother to her own siblings. Her father re-married but she never accepted her step-mother.

At school she was considered a wild child. Although possessed of a bright intellect and having good marks, she broke all boundaries and conventions - She used to do cartwheels and handstands during the breaks, hanged from monkey bars by her knees, and raised her skirt in class so that the boys could see her underwear - Forty years on and not much has changed - if you have watched Madonna’s Super Bowl 2012 half-time show you’ll know what I mean…

But she is extremely dedicated to her art: a perfectionist with the tenacity of a control freak, she makes sure that everything she does has her own imprint, and she doesn’t rest until the final product is perfect.

Throughout her life, pressure has made her stronger. Criticism has given her the driving edge to surpass even herself and to press on to greater success.

Despite the sexually promiscuous attitude she’s regal in all she does, arrogant and haughty in the way she relates the general public and the media, particularly to those who dare to cross her.

Her appearance, her poise, the way she has used her multiple talents as a singer, a film director, a writer, and an entrepreneur have all been designed meticulously with flawless perfection.

Although her critics have now started to use ageist comments in an attempt to put her down, they’ve only succeeded in highlighting her youthful looks and well toned body by any age standards.

Some of her most revealing quotes:

About losing her mother to cancer as a child:

“I remember feeling stronger than she was,”

“I was so little and yet I felt like she was the child.”

“There was so much left unsaid, so many untangled and unresolved emotions, of remorse, guilt, loss, anger, confusion. ... I saw my mother, looking very beautiful and lying as if she were asleep in an open casket. Then I noticed that my mother's mouth looked funny. It took me some time to realize that it had been sewn up. In that awful moment, I began to understand what I had lost forever. The final image of my mother, at once peaceful yet grotesque, haunts me today also.”

Teenage rebellion:

"lonely girl who was searching for something. I wasn't rebellious in a certain way. I cared about being good at something. I didn't shave my underarms and I didn't wear make-up like normal girls do. But I studied and I got good grades.... I wanted to be somebody."

"I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother, for example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations."

About being forced by two men to perform oral sex at knife point:

"the episode was a taste of my weakness, it showed me that I still could not save myself in spite of all the strong-girl show. I could never forget it."

Breaking taboos:

"I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this." Madonna means “my lady” in Italian, and it has religious connections with the Virgin Mary often referred to as madonna.

"I was surprised by how people reacted to "Like a Virgin" because when I did that song, to me, I was singing about how something made me feel a certain way—brand-new and fresh—and everyone interpreted it as 'I don't want to be a virgin anymore. F**k my brains out!' That's not what I sang at all. 'Like a Virgin' was always absolutely ambiguous."

"I know that I'm not the best singer and I know that I'm not the best dancer. But, I can f*****g push people's buttons and be as provocative as I want. The tour's goal is to break useless taboos."

"I love to work with the weirdos that no one knows about—the people who have raw talent and who are making music unlike anyone else out there. Music is the future of sound."

"I realised that I could go from being unmoulded clay, and over time and with the help of people, I could turn myself into something else. This tour is the reflection of that belief and it's as if saying to me 'Who are you girl?' Hence the name, its the new me."

"Why is it that people are willing to go and watch a movie about someone getting blown to bits for no reason at all, and nobody wants to see two girls kissing and two men snuggling?”

On playing “Evita“:

"This is the role I was born to play. I put everything of me into this because it was much more than a role in a movie. It was exhilarating and intimidating at the same time. And it was the farthest I've ever had to push myself creatively. At every level, I had a great education. And I am prouder of Evita than anything else I have done."

"The intensity of the scenes we have been shooting and the amount of emotional work and concentration needed to get through the day are so mentally and physically exhausting that I'm sure I will need to be institutionalized when its over."

Pain:

“I had to be beaten up so many times by these little black girls before they would accept me and finally one day they whipped me with a rubber hose till I was like, lying on the ground crying. And then they just stopped doing it all of a sudden and let me be their friend, part of their group."

"I sing about shattering an image that you have of somebody, but I also sing about loving someone that wish you didn’t love. Because you know that you’re doomed, but you can’t stop yourself."

"We were all wounded in one way or another by [her mother’s death], and then we spent the rest of our lives reacting to it or dealing with it or trying to turn into something else. The anguish of losing my mom left me with a certain kind of loneliness and an incredible longing for something. If I hadn't had that emptiness, I wouldn't have been so driven. Her death had a lot to do with me saying—after I got over my heartache—I'm going to be really strong if I can't have my mother. I'm going to take care of myself."

She’s known to work through physical pain. Recently while suffering from a hamstring injury she went through a tight schedule of rehearsals for the Super Bowl half-time show, pressing on with a choreography of deep squats and cartwheels whilst singing a medley of some of her songs.

About being in charge:

"I may be dressing the typical bimbo, whatever, but I’m in charge. You know. I’m in charge of my fantasies. I put myself in these situations with men, you know, and people don’t think of me as a person who’s not in charge of my career or my life, okay. And isn’t that what feminism is all about, you know, equality for men and women? And aren’t I in charge of my life, doing the things I want to do? Making my own decisions?"

"I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella," Madonna comments on what was like living with her step-mother and her dad "I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that."

Madonna homeopathic remedy is Platina:

Platina is a precious metal, more valuable and rarer than gold. It was first discover in 1735 in South America by the Spanish. Initially deemed as worthless and used to make counterfeit coins, it soon became indispensable to modern technology as well as in the production of jewellery items.

It has a capacity to absorb and then realise both Oxygen and Hydrogen with explosive reactions. It can only be dissolved by Aqua-regia: a combination of Hydrochloric and Nitric Acids. It is used in exhaust pipe filters for ecologically friendly engines, in two radio-therapy compounds to combat cancer, and to produce two way mirrors: where it is possible for someone to observe others through a glass window that appears like a mirror.

What are the homeopathic characteristics of this remedy?

People who have a Platina emotional / psychological profile have an over-inflated ego. They are narcissists either with a high perception of themselves, believing they are more important than any one else, or through their sexual overdrive.

They have ailments from feeling neglected by others, and from sexual disappointment. They masturbate often several times a day, and they are in general sexually promiscuous in a way to pursue self-gratification and to try to release a sexual tension that they can never fully release: although they are able to multi-orgasm they don’t achieve the complete orgasm they crave for.

Their appearance is very important to them, they take great care on choosing their clothes, they tend to wear revealing and sexually appealing outfits.

Getting old is a very difficult experience for them, and Platina subjects tend to appear younger than they really are.

Their demeanour is haughty and arrogant - they are the type of people who consider themselves in a position of power - others should treat them as kings and queens, emperors and empresses. In order to maintain this status quo they become perfectionists, high achievers who feel at their best whilst under pressure. Their world revolves around them and no one else.

They can have the delusion that they are taller than anyone else, and that they are observing others from above - therefore they tend to look others down.

Female subjects can have the delusion that there is something crawling in their genitals.

It is possible that Madonna was pushed into the Platina psychological state due to having lost her mother at such an early age, but it is also possible that those were already characteristics of her personality.

She has an haughty queen like attitude, she is obsessed with perfection, she works better under pressure, and her imagine cannot be dissociated from the raunchy videos and her sexually explicit videos. She has used her sexual excesses to make herself a sex-symbol fully in control of her own life and her career whilst remaining aloof to the public.

While this kaleidoscopic display goes on, we learn that Madonna is also profoundly religious and even spiritual.

Initially a Roman Catholic she has used Christian iconography throughout her career. She has since the birth of her daughter Lourdes (a religious name) been dedicated to the Kabala in her attempts to understand the greater mysteries of life and creation, and she’s adopted the name Esther which means star.

Her manic sexual behaviour is only one side of the mirror - the side that Madge allows us to see in order to further her career; on the other side of the two way mirror there’s a teasing Madonna enjoying her own show and our reaction to her manipulative game of hide and seek.

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Whitney Houston, the devil under the skin

Whitney Houston on a concert in 2011, by vainstyle, Flickr.com 

Whitney Houston has been the soul of pop music for over two decades. She died tragically on February 11^th 2012, drowned in the bath in her hotel suite, her system was filled with several recreational drugs such as cocaine and marijuana as well as pharmaceutical drugs.

The coroner’s inquests deliberated that she died by accidental drowning, due to cocaine intake and heart disease.

Whitney had a long history of drug and alcohol addiction and as with many stars fame and addictions seem to go hand in hand.

Without going through her life history and her emotional ups and downs, we can still draw a broad sketch of her personality in order to try to understand the degenerative process that eventually led her demise.

It is somewhat ironic that as a seven years old child she used to hold “secret concerts” in the family’s empty swimming pool and she ended up drowning. 

Whitney Houston homeopathic remedy is Coca:

It was a sacred plant for the Incas but nicknamed by the Spanish priests who evangelized them as a “Devil’s illusion”, it is therefore interesting to note how Houston when asked on an interview by Diane Sawyers to pick "the devil"  from a list of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and prescription drugs, replied: “the devil is me”!

Coca, the plant from which Cocaine is extracted was widely used in South America to enable workers to climb up the Andes without feeling the characteristic weakness, dizziness that altitude sickness can bring.  While masking Coca leaves their performance improved, and they were able to go on for days with very little water, no food, and impervious to physical pain.

Just as Coca has a tradition of being used by climbers in the physical sense, it is also known for being used by high achievers in our society: the so called high flyers – people who go through an enormous amount of psychological pressure in their professional lives and who are expected to endure long hours of work with very little rest or sleep.    

In homeopathy Coca remedy is used to treat ailments such as weak vocal cords: a tired voice from overuse – which was a recurrent problem in Houston’s career probably due to her cocaine abuse. 

Dizziness, fainting, desire for isolation, insomnia, heart failure, blood clots, and a characteristic skin itch where the suffer has a feeling that there is something crawling under their skin are also well known ailments for this homeopathic remedy.  

It can also include loss of libido and kidney weakness, a prickly sensation in the mouth, and a desire for alcohol.  

We know that Whitney Houston suffered from stage fright to some extent – she talks briefly about it on her interview with Diane Sawyers – there is a link to the video at the end of this post.

The coroner’s inquest also mentions heart illness possibly due to the use of Cocaine: although this might have been the physical trigger, her death was probably due to a destructive lifestyle that led Whitney to abuse herself in many different ways.

 

Incidentally Cannabis Indica is the homeopathic remedy used to treat the phobia of drowning: Houston was a frequent Marijuana smoker but she surely didn’t have this phobia or she might have been more cautions of drowning.  

Link to 2002 interview with Diane Sawyers where Whitney admits to a drug addiction, and talks about where she imagined herself to be in 2012 The biggest devil is me...

By the Undercover Homeopath

 

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Sinead O'Connor, the Venus trap

The wolf is getting married, from the new album: What about me being me (and you being you)

Sinead O’Connor has been angry for most of her life.

She had a traumatic early childhood witnessing her parents' acrimonious separation and forced to live with her mother who suffered from depression and drug addiction. 

O’Connor also went through a stage of self-abuse through drugs and depression: she has seldom been happy. 

She has spoken candidly about her dark times: at the hands of her mother who allegedly abused her physically and mentally. Darker times at a Catholic institution where she was sent at the age of 15 to curb her school truancy and shoplifting. 

Dark, sad and confused times when she found herself raising a child on her own. 

Further dark times when gripped by depression and quite possibly bipolar disorder unable to shake her inner demons.

She has issued very public cries for help, even threatening suicide. 

O’Connor’s presence in the Media over 25 years of her career span has been riddled with scandal mostly from her own actions. 

She tore a photo of the Pope on live TV in protest for the Church’s silence about child sexual abuse in Ireland.

She spoke of being lesbian in very graphic and un-complementary terms when an admission of homosexuality, especially of female homosexuality could end careers, bring on public disapproval, and condemn people to ostracism. 

She has spoken of her private life, and even her sexual preferences in vivid detail - She has caught controversy. 

     Recently she confessed:  "I'm three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay. I lean a bit more         towards the hairy blokes" 

     She also mentioned a “hot-date with a banana” on Twitter. 

But she has also revealed her human side, her anxieties, her fears, her loneliness, and her vulnerabilities in a way that not many public figures have dared to. 

And throughout the last 25 years or so she has kept many of her fans under the spell of a beautiful if somewhat hoarse voice, a voice that can reach high notes even when chocked with tears, a voice that sometimes is so full of anger that sounds more like a bark than a human voice.  

It is also the voice who sang “Nothing Compares 2 U”, the song that talked about the immense void after a break-up, something that most of us understand and can relate to.

 

"Nothing Compares 2 U"

Some quotes: 

'Everyone thinks I’m mad,” 

“But I still believe you should only make a record for one reason, and that’s because you are going to go crazy if you don’t.”

Her anger as a young artist: 

“I was a very unhappy person. Young and angry. I couldn’t understand why people liked my music because for me the only reason I was making it was because I was mad and I had to.”

“went straight from hell into the music business”. 

“The greatest thing about it was money, ’cause it meant I could send my kids to a good school and I could have a nanny. I was terrified I would be a really bad parent. The money made a difference.”

O'Connor has said she's been consistently misunderstood by the media, and "nasty people" generally.

"Since my first record, all that has happened is I get treated like a crazy person, in a world where crazy is used as a stick with which to beat someone. It's very nasty … And loads of people than in our life think its ok to treat u like shit and dismiss u as 'mad'. It's very sore." 

“When I was younger, I was making music because I was fuckin’ mental,” she says. “And it was the only outlet for me. That’s why I love Bob Dylan because when he came along he changed what you could say in songs. Up until then, it was all ‘baby, baby, I love you’, but with Idiot Wind, he showed that you could say stuff in songs that you wouldn’t be able to say anywhere else."

“For me, starting out in songwriting, I did it because I lived in a society where I couldn’t actually discuss these issues. Now that I’m older, and I’ve worked through a lot of that, I have different reasons for writing songs... .I don’t have this enormous pain, which I would have felt before – and which was very healthy then. Now, I’m driven more by the need to make music or the enjoyment of singing the songs live.”

Music as healing:

“My records are diaries to me. They started out in anger and recovery, and there is a journey and I’m pleased that it has reached a place of happiness.” 

from her new album, she says “to regain some of my dignity would be nice”. 

“When I sing, it’s the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It’s not about notes or scales, it’s all about emotion. You must be in the song, see the picture and tell the story. If this room burst into flames, you could sing 'fire!’ at the highest octave of your voice, you’d go to a place you can’t reach any other time."

“I’m on fire when I’m singing, I’m completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It’s a very special thing."

“Nobody gets between me and my microphone.” 

She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and for a while thought this would be the end of her career, but soon after she made a come back by experimenting with other musical styles.

Child abuse: 

“When you are a very tiny female living in a situation as violent as the one I was in, the only way you’re gonna survive is to be very tough,” 

“You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act.” 

“People who experience child-abuse situations can be terribly angry, partly from fear,”

Early years: 

“I think anger is really a fist made out of tears. I would definitely be dead if not for music. I prayed very fervently as a small child that God would give me a way out. And I remember distinctly walking home down this laneway, I can’t have been more than five or six, and with the rhythm of my feet I began to hear music, and within that second I made the association with the Holy Spirit, and I said thanks to it. I felt it was the answer to the prayers. I get to stand there and scream and I have a right to, ’cause what else am I gonna do? You’ve got to stand up for yourself somehow. That’s what singers are, people who have to get everything out.” 

Relationships: 

“I don’t think about these things rationally. I just go impulsively with feeling. It doesn’t matter how strong a woman you are, the feminists will hate this, but we all want some big, hairy bloke to snuggle us and tell us everything’s going to be grand.” 

“growing up the way I did, you have this terrible longing for the normal family. You’re trying to get something through a man that no man can actually give you, all the hugs and holding you didn’t get, you’re almost trying to heal a wound.” 

“my husband is a very gentle and delicate and private kind of person, so the last six months have been really kind of awful and I’ve learnt some very hard lessons, and one of them is I am never going to talk in public about anyone I love.”

Coping with fame: 

"They're like sunglasses – they put a bit of distance between me and the audience. I'm very shy when I sing." On wearing rimmed glasses to go on stage. 

"A lot of people say, 'You destroyed your career by tearing up a picture of the pope'" – on US TV in 1992 – "but I define success differently in this spiritually bereft business. To me, it's 'Can I be myself?' I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars. That was why I tore up the pope's picture – I knew I had enough money that I didn't have to marry a man with a very small penis to get the bills paid. I don't want any man to have control over me. And that is success." 

"The reaction I had from people … the usual, 'She's mental,' and that it was the culmination of my lack of self-esteem. 'Send social services round!' It made me depressed about being me." 

Her home:

It’s currently in Ireland by the seaside, with a rather bare front garden and a big warning to hackers and snappers. 

“Home, for me, means my kids, a place of safety, a place where I know who I am,” she says. “When I’m away working, I find it hard to know who I am or what I am. I don’t have the things around me that normally make me know what my role is.”

About her new album “What about me being me ( and you being you)”:

“I think also artistically, it’s about returning to doing my own thing, after a circuitous journey. I’ve made quite a few themed albums, and this one is really all about coming home.”

On drug addiction:  

“Well, obviously if someone is taking Class A drugs, they’re trying to cover up something,” she explains. “Only an enormous amount of pain would require heroin. But I don’t think it just applies to drugs. We all use different means of keeping people away from us. I used to be a terrible weed head. There was this smoky mist all around me, which I could see afterwards, was my way of creating this haze because I was afraid to love someone or let anyone in. And that was because I was afraid I’d lose them. In my case, I was smoking like a fuckin’ maniac, but it would have been because I was a crazy bitch rather than because of anything else.”

Breaking taboos:

“There’s a whole load of obvious stuff in the world that nobody ever talks about, like pooing, pissing, wanking, dying,” she says. “I have a great T-shirt that says ‘Death ... bit of a worry isn’t it?’ I’m sure death is something that nearly everybody thinks about at least once a day – but no one ever talks about it.”

"It is sickening to have it suggested by anyone that I am 'insane' for talking openly about sex. The researcher said to me that since I suffer from depression do I not think it's insane behaviour to be talking publicly about sex. I will never as long as I live, consider appearing on The Late Late Show again.” Well... she was, just a couple of days ago.

Love is…

When I’m an Old Lady has O’Connor singing a poignant line that ends with “that’s my girl”, which echoes her 1992 album, Am I Not Your Girl? Rainforests have been felled in the name of O’Connor’s (admittedly eventful) love life. Does this song reflect a primal need within her to belong in a relationship? “It’s actually a song about being in love with your boyfriend’s best friend. And that did happen a number of years ago, that a guy said those words to me, ‘That’s my girl’ – and even though you’re middle-aged, you still act like a 16-year-old and get carried away.

“Up until recently, I probably would have been the kind of woman who feels like I have to have a fella in order to be alright or to feel secure. But I actually don’t feel that anymore now. I think it’s just me growing older. Now, I’ve got used to doing my own thing ...I feel better now, in terms of feeling a sense of belonging in the world. Sometimes being with people in the past, I felt more lonely than being on my own.”

“Not minding whether I'm in a relationship or not does not mean that I don't want to shag the arse off every man I could possibly get my hands on, she says. In fact, while I may be happy enough without a partner, I would wilt away and be depressed if I wasn't having sex. With nice people.”

And after the whirlwind on/off/on again latest marriage whose emotional ups and downs led to her latest suicide attempts, she tweeted: 

“Guess who had a mad love making affair with her husband last night?” 

“I’m been spoiled rotten by my hubby”.

About her song “I Had A Baby“ and on being a single mother:

“It’s a subject not really written about,” she declares, referring to the challenges of rearing a child whose father is absent. “The only other song that’s tackled it, at least that I could think of, was Papa Was a Rolling Stone. I read so many books, but no one talked about what to do when the father isn’t around. My main objective was to tackle it without being accused, and if it blames anyone, it’s me. It says quite clearly in the song that a child shouldn’t suffer over things that I’ve done. It’s more about what do I tell the kid ... What would the father want me to tell him?

“It’s not just fathers who bugger off. Mothers do it too, and they don’t ever have to look back and watch the damage that it can cause. I mean, it can really ruin a kid’s life. It became a terrible stress for myself and my kid for a while, and it was a real source of sadness in my life.

“It’s all sorted now, and I certainly had no desire to cause any hurt in the song to the child or to his father. Anyway, anger is a temporary emotion. There will come a time, years from now, when we [the child’s father and O’Connor] won’t be angry with each other, so I didn’t want to put something down that would be permanent, and which just wouldn’t be true at some time in the future.”

Child abuse in Ireland:

 “I spent some time after the Murphy report came out trying to encourage various Irish and other artists to get involved,” she says, “and they were completely indifferent. They did not want to know, and I was very wounded and very angry about that. At the same time, I’m aware that I have no right to tell people how they should or shouldn’t act. And that raised the question in my mind: what is a real VIP?

“In music, we all think we’re great, yet the real VIPs are these children. The song talks about ‘a face that never was, nor will be kissed’. Well, that’s about these children who never felt a mother’s kiss on their face. I think it’s easy for a lot of us to lose the sense of what’s important.”

“One hundred years from now, Irish kids are going to be learning about this, which is to me the most important event in Irish history. And they’ll be asking: ‘Well, what were the artists doing?’ This is what I would call real Catholic emancipation: the loosening of our psyches from the Catholic church."

“Enda Kenny’s speech is the most important speech ever made by an Irish politician. He nailed it with his ‘gimlet eye of the canon lawyer’. So I feel there are a cowardice and a hypocrisy about the silence that’s come from Irish artists – and artists in general. And there are times when deafening silence from artists is really criminal. Don’t they say ‘All that it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing’?”

Religion:

“We don’t necessarily need religions but we like rituals, and as far as I’m concerned, it’s basically a charity and we could run it ourselves. The only real use for priests is for bereavement or dying. In the 21st century, we don’t need anyone dictating to us what we should think. It’s fuckin’ stupid.”

Her physical appearance: 

Masculine: shaved head, masculine clothes, spectacles and a heavy set tattooed body displaying many religious symbols, often wears a top with a picture of Jesus on the upper chest.

She says: "I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it."

Her spirituality: 

"I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we're all going home... I don't think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally". She also expressed a belief in Pantheism, viewing the physical universe as a body with divine "energy". 

You can also watch an interview where she talks at length about her Christian believes and what was like to grow up in a profoundly religious country, by clicking on the link at the end of this blog.

One of her most remarkable quotes from that interview is when she describes how as a 7yrs old child she perceived the Holy Spirit as a bird, but a bird that couldn’t breathe and how this made her feel suffocated too. 

She also talks about Catholicism being deeply imprinted on her DNA, and of children being criticized and chastised by their parents and by priests if they told that they had seen ghosts. 

"It felt like I was living in a coffin," She said about her latest marriage and the reasons for the breakup "It was going to be a coffin for both of us, and I saw him crushed. The whole reason I ended it was out of respect and love for the man."

Her ideal man: 

Recently she advertised for a boyfriend. She didn’t want any unemployed men or those who use hair gel, aftershave, hair dye and hair dryers. 

Instead, she requested stubble as a must, and any potential men to be "snuggly". 

"Must be living in Ireland but I don't care if he is from the planet Zog." 

"Must be blind enough to think I'm gorgeous." 

"Stubble is a non-negotiable must. Any removal of stubble would be upsetting for me." 

"a very sweet sex-starved man".  

Depression:

"I am tired of all this 'Sinead is crazy' crap. It's a disgrace. It has caused me enormous pain in my life as an artist and has many times led me to consider ending my life.

"Thankfully I have four beautiful reasons not to. Those are my precious children. But no woman should have to walk around feeling like someone has driven a tree through her heart. I can honestly say that is how I felt since my conversation with the Late Late researcher."

"Had to go to the psychiatrist for routine renew prescription etc. She says I'm a bad mum and mental for talking so openly about sex in public. All this shit we’re not allowed to say. Including suicidal feelings, sex etc. You just get treated like a crazy person."

I want to go to heaven SO bad. Have for years. But I don’t wanna abandon my kids. But if I cud die without them knowing I did it myself I would.

"Anyway.. If any1 knows how I can kill myself. Now I f****g wish suicide wud kill me."

Sinead O’Connor Homeopathic remedy is Drosera:

About Drosera:

Drosera is a carnivore plant part of the Sundew family closely related to the Venus Flytrap.  The plant grows in the wetland in peat or sandy soil with very poor mineralisation. Its leaves are permanently moist, their filaments resemble hairs and are covered by Mucilage: a natural glue designed to trap and decompose the insects the plant preys on. 

An average size Drosera consumes about 2000 insects per season, they supply the nutrients the plant needs to thrive and which cannot be absorbed from the soil. In fact too much lime in the soil and the plant can easily die, the poor the soil the better. 

In homoeopathy, this remedy is used for whooping cough, malnourished children, lung problems, asthma, skin growths such as moles, weak bones particularly the ankles, visual disturbances – where there is a flickering and difficulty adapting to artificial light, as well as long sight. 

Patients who benefit from this remedy can have many pains: sharp and sudden, prickling sensations, and a bruised feeling on the bones. 

Their voice, as well as their cough, can be like a high pitch barking sound, they also tend to have a hoarse voice.

They are angry people: angry about social injustice, about an injustice done to others, particularly children. They distrust their own friends and have a short temper. 

They are idealistic but feel easily disappointed, cannot focus their attention unto anything or anyone for too long. They can be paranoid and feel prosecuted by others. 

The plant also treats urinary infections particularly when the patient can only urinate a drop at the time, and the ailment is related to excessive sexual activity. The plant also has aphrodisiac qualities.    

Patients who benefit from Drosera as a homoeopathic remedy feel very lonely especially at night, and can have delusions/dreams of ghosts.  They always feel better when accompanied. They suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts, with a particular tendency to commit suicide by drowning.

Drosera is well suited to O’Connor for her need to be in a relationship and yet not being able to maintain a long-lasting commitment – she has four children from four different fathers.

Her strong libido is also addressed by the remedy. The need for sex comes from a constant feeling of emptiness: the feeling is typical of the carnivorous plants' mental picture - they need to "fill themselves with their prey in order to survive". 

The pain that she has suffered for most of her life, first emotionally and later physically when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia: a condition that causes a lot of pain, can also be addressed by this remedy.

Her depression and suicidal tendencies as a cry for help – even her choice of email for the event was a cry for help: imwonderful@me.com wonderful is hardly the word someone would describe themselves with if about to commit suicide.

Her very intriguing video-clip of “The wolf is getting married” suggests keynotes for the Drosera plant energy: the trap is set, the “bride” is covered in elastic white lace that peels off every time a string is pulled.

Her interview about her album Theology a few years ago is also revealing of this same Drosera energy:

Check at 2.15 as she speaks of a feeling of suffocation as a child growing up in a Catholic environment where the Holy Spirit was a bird locked up in a cupboard…

Check at 17.28 when she plays with the large mole on her chin while she is thinking: Drosera is also a remedy for moles and other skin growths.

She broke an ankle recently: Drosera is a remedy with an affinity for treating weak bones particularly ankles.

Drosera thrives on wet ground boggy or sandy soil: O’Connor lives by the sea.

Plant remedies that grow on soggy conditions tend to treat patients who are emotionally needy, who need to be in an emotional/sexual relationship in order to feel complete. A well known homoeopathic remedy for this is Pulsatilla which is, however, a more feminine, timid female type.

Drosera is just as needy but with a more aggressive and predatory mental disposition: after all is a carnivorous plant – it sets up a trap in order to attract its prey which will eat once decomposed. 

O’Connor has an interesting choice of words after she was reconciled with her fourth husband: she tweeted several that she was being “spoiled rotten” and “sickly happy”.  The way she talks about loving someone as losing them in one of her songs also points to this same Drosera theme: where possessing the insect means killing it! She even mentioned that the reason why she was breaking up with her fourth husband was to release him…

And then there are other minor but no less important signs: she wears glasses, Drosera being also a remedy for eyesight problems.  She wears her hair shaven, and she also likes her men with stubble: they also match the plant’s appearance with its hairy/spiky appearance.


By the Undercover Homeopath

Further link:

The Theology video where Sinead O'Connor discusses spirituality, religion and her music. Interview by Dr Rachael Turkienicz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zISrjcxAiXg&feature=related