Judith Anne Schriebman, Environmental Activist and Homeopath Succumbs to Breast Cancer at the Age of 67

Judith Anne Schriebman (Photo courtesy: Gallinas Watershed Council)

Judith ‘Judy’ Anne Schriebman was born on 3 April 1955, in San Francisco. The family moved to Marin (Marin is a county immediately to the north of San Francisco) when she was two. She attended the University of California-Berkeley where she graduated with a degree in Zoology. She met her husband at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco where she was exhibiting her pet turtles. Jeff had two turtles of his own and they bonded over their pets!

Judy who, at the time of her passing, held the CCH and RSHom (NA) designations, became fascinated with homeopathy in 1983, when it cured her young son's chronic asthma. Ten years later, she graduated from the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy. She continued to study under many homeopathic teachers from around the world. Judith crossed the threshold on the 20th of November 2022 at the age of 67. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Judy also trained as a clinical hypnotherapist, and thus practiced both homeopathy and hypnotherapy. Along the way, she raised two children, lived 4 years in Tokyo, Japan, been a political and community activist, a soccer coach, the editor of numerous newsletters, an avid gardener and served locally as an elected governmental official. She was a community activist par excellence and helped establish the Gallinas Watershed Council in 2004 and, in 2013, helped to found the Watershed Alliance of Marin. She chaired the Marin Group-Sierra Club executive committee and spearheaded Gallinas Creek clean-up events during her tenure.

“We walked neighborhoods for campaigns, we brainstormed how to save our planet and most importantly I was witness to her utmost passion to never give up’, Meigs said. ‘Deep in her work I found Judy to be a joy, her enthusiasm, her humor, her anger about injustice and her vision to keep-on keeping-on to save our fragile planet”.–Pamela Meigs, Marin Independent Journal (3 December 2022).

With an unparalleled passion, she and Anneke Hogeland helped Jonathan Shore, MD write Birds: Homeopathic Remedies from the Avian Realm (2004). Then, 5 years later with Anneke, the two wrote The Trituration Handbook, into the heart of homeopathy (2009).[1]

“Judy was my closest friend. Our adventures in homeopathy included many and, together with Jonathan Shore, we wrote Birds: Remedies from the Avian Realm. We organised many seminars together and, in turn, attended many. We devotedly participated in the trituration movement since the year 2000. We met Jonathan during a seminar with Alize Timmerman of Holland and the friendship between the three of us stood the test of time. Later, Judy and I co-wrote The Trituration Handbook, a clear and concise description of that remedy preparation process. Together we managed HomeopathyWest, an organization and website for planning and executing seminars, which had been started by Diana Kehlmann and myself in the late 1990's. We attended conferences, sold books”.

“Judy was a force of nature - she received her homeopathy training at the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy in Richmond, California and was an early participant in local study groups, where she brought her clarity of thinking and sense of humor and curiosity to bear. Besides being a great friend, Judy was an avid game player, she loved swimming in the ocean, sea turtles, chickens and gardening. She will be sorely missed by our northern California ‘SRP group’ of homeopaths who met monthly for potluck suppers as well as homeopathic case and practice support. The website HomeopathyWest hosts many write-ups of various triturations which we have participated in. Please feel free to connect with some of our writings on that site”.–Anneke Hogeland (email communication, 2 March 2023).

Some might call this resonant homeopathy or C-4 homeopathy. Trituration cannot only be a way of remedy preparation but a proving, a test, a trial, an experiment. The person doing the triturating develops an increased sensitivity and an enhanced ability to resonate with nature. While we have reliable and solid information about many of our remedies, when these same remedies are hand triturated, other pertinent informational aspects arise, which help to clarify that remedy to a degree beyond the intellect. The homeopath who has this experiential knowledge of a remedy could be more likely to recognise a corresponding state in the patient and be helped in prescribing, as one has acquired resonant knowledge of that remedy.

Publication History

Article published online:
30 June 2023