665.16.08 Cornus rugosa, Case
Woman, 50, burn-out.
She is burned out. She feels weak, sick and nauseous. Every stress is too much for her, her job, people visiting her, her household. Her tiredness is worse because she sleeps very badly.
When she does things, she wants to do them very energetically, she goes for it. She is very perfectionistic and she wants her work to be fantastic. It’s connected to an image that she wants to convey, that of a nice, spontaneous and dynamic woman. She is like that, but also has to push herself often to make herself active and cheerful. She wants to be seen as a woman with esprit, with a refined intelligence. In contacts she frequently wants to be at the centre of attention and often goes directly into a fantastic conversation, one that is very valuable.
She has had many cares and worries about her children. She had to raise her three boys mostly on her own. She divorced her husband because he was maltreating her children, neglecting them enormously. This initiated guilt feelings in her beacuase she was not able to stop him. She also had feelings of guilt towards her children because she did not always have time to listen to them.
She has worked in the peace movement. She has strong feelings against war, nuclear arms and domination. She is interested in spirituality and has done a lot of meditation.
General
Weather: -> sunny weather, <- rain.
Time: > morning.
Analysis
Her guilt feelings are connected with her children that were neglected by her husband.
We see here the theme of neglect in the children, Phase 6. Together we find these themes in the family of the Cornaceae.
We also see the theme of the Lanthanides in her independent attitude, spirituality, meditation, her work for the peace movement and her aversion to domination.
Stage 8: persevering, pushing herself to be cheerful.
Together this leads to Cornus circinata.
Follow up
After Cornus circinata MK she is immediately sleeping much better. She has changed her attitude towards her guilt feelings. She has discussed with her children the situation in their youth which helped all of them very much. She also decided that guilt feelings were not beneficial, neither for herself nor for her children. She came to the conclusion that it was not very good to stay attached to them and since then the guilt feelings have diminished very much.
In the course of three years she has changed her attitude of being the centre of attention. She discovered that it was very tiring to push herself all the time and is more relaxed and in the background.
Every time she takes the remedy the first thing she notices is that her sleeping gets better immediately. For her, homeopathy feels like a basic support in her life, it has made life lighter, it gives her a push. Her quality of life rose from 45 to 75.