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193 // Feeling Overwhelmed by Hashimoto's? Where to Start When More Info Isn't Helping · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  There is no lack of information these days.
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  We do not have an information problem. You probably have an overwhelm problem.
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  And overwhelm is one of the most unrecognized barriers to getting better with Hashimoto's.
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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. This is where you will find
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  clarity and simple, sustainable strategies to feel better.
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  I wanna help you figure out your root causes.
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  My name is Esther Yunkin. I am a registered nurse. I know how exhausting it
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  is to live with fatigue, brain fog, and the ups and downs of Hashimoto's. And that is why I'm here.
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  I'm here to cut through the confusion and to give you practical steps that support
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  your body, calm your immune system, so that you can regain your energy and feel like yourself again.
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  If you have Hashimoto's, or if you're here listening because somebody you love
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  has Hashimoto's, you probably know what it feels like to try everything.
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  You've tried the gluten-free diet. you've tried various supplements,
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  you've tried different protocols that you probably found, you know, at 11 p.m. on Pinterest.
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  The thing is, you're not lazy and you're not undisciplined, but you're just
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  exhausted from doing too much of the wrong things all at the same time.
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  And maybe those things are actually the right things.
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  You're just trying to do them all at the same time. So you become overwhelmed
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  and increase that stress.
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  And of course, as a regular listener of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast,
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  you know that stress is one of
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  the biggest root causes of Hashimoto's and autoimmune problems in general.
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  Stress is huge. And when we learn, learn, learn, implement, implement,
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  implement, it can lead to overwhelm and stress. And that is the trap that nobody talks about.
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  The search for answers itself can become its own barrier.
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  Because every new piece of information that you learn adds another decision.
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  Every new protocol that you see and that you want to try adds another layer of stress.
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  And stress is one of the biggest root cause triggers for Hashimoto's.
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  So the plan itself can become part of the problem.
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  So today, in today's episode, we're not adding anything. We're just settling
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  in, resetting, because the answer to Hashimoto's overwhelm is not more information.
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  The answer is structure. As I have said over and over, the answer is simple
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  and sustainable, finding simple things to do in a sustainable fashion.
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  In case we haven't met yet, I am Esther. I am a registered nurse.
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  I spent about 17 years in the ER, and got sick and tired of putting band-aids
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  on chronic things because chronic things are not an emergency, right?
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  They might come up with some emergent situations, but most chronic things are
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  not emergencies. And we just saw so much of it that in the ER, they still do.
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  I'm so happy to be out of that environment because it's stressful, so stressful.
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  So I went back to school for holistic health education. And then later on,
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  I realized that I have Hashimoto's and I did the same thing that I've been talking about.
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  I went on this search for answers and I consumed so much information because
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  at the time, there wasn't a simple thing to do. I had to put it all together.
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  This was, I don't know, four or five years ago.
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  And really, the information has come a long way, I feel like, in that time.
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  I didn't have the Health with Hashimoto's podcast at that time to listen to.
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  I didn't have somebody to say, here are the root causes.
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  Here is what to focus on. I had to put all of that together for myself.
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  And I did have, you know, I did have people saying, here are root causes,
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  but I didn't have like one framework to look at.
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  I had to read books and listen to podcasts and watch webinars to get that framework,
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  which I have put together for you.
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  If you're not in our school community, it's Health with Hashimoto's.
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  It's the community and the platform is not Facebook. It is school, S-K-O-O-L.
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  Go over there. And in our classroom tab, I have your root causes revealed in one hour.
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  It is literally like less than one hour of your time.
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  I have a PDF that you can print to keep yourself on track. And then you have
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  your notes to know exactly what your root causes are.
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  Now, obviously, in one hour, you're not going to do any testing.
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  So when I talk about vitamin D, you're going to be able to say,
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  oh, I grew up in, you know, the northern hemisphere, far away from the equator.
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  I spend a lot of time indoors. I probably have low vitamin D,
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  but you're not going to know that for sure.
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  This one hour root cause revealed is common sense based.
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  So at the end, you're going to leave with your worksheet filled out and you're
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  going to know exactly what to focus on.
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  I did not have that back when I was diagnosed.
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  And over the years, I have watched women do everything right on paper and they're
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  still not moving forward. because for a lot of them, they're accumulating instead of strategizing.
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  They're accumulating more and more things.
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  And sure, they're trying different things, but maybe they try it for a short
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  time until the next shiny object comes across their Instagram feed.
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  And then, oh, you know, I haven't tried that. I should try that.
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  And then they ditch what they were doing because they don't have the bandwidth
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  to add one more thing without dropping something.
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  So they drop this other thing that they had been trying to add to this new thing.
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  But meanwhile, that thing that they just dropped, if they would have given it
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  another month or two, they would have seen results from that.
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  And now they're like, oh, well, yeah, that didn't work. Well,
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  no, it didn't, because you only tried it for a very short amount of time,
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  and that one needed a bit more time. And please hear me very loud and clear. This is not shaming you.
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  Not at all. No shame, no guilt.
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  We are all doing the best we can at the current time with the information we have.
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  It's just we only have so many hands and we're going to drop some balls.
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  So overwhelm and all of this information, it is a detriment to our progress with Hashimoto's.
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  Overwhelm is not a personality flaw. Overwhelm is a predictable response to
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  a broken information environment.
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  An environment where things are coming at us so frequently that we get overwhelmed.
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  It is not you. It is the system.
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  The information environment that we are navigating is not designed to help us.
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  It is designed to sell us on things.
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  Every search returns a new opinion or a protocol or a new fear.
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  The algorithm rewards engagement, not resolution.
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  The algorithm on TikTok and Instagram and Facebook, it wants to keep you there.
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  It doesn't want to say, here is a simple thing.
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  Try this for a couple months and then let's look at something else.
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  No, the algorithm says, let me keep telling you more and more and more and more
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  because I know you're going to look at that.
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  This is not a you problem. This is a systems problem.
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  But that means that accumulation is the enemy of progress with Hashimoto's.
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  That our natural response to not getting better is to add more.
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  Well, if I'm not feeling better, if I'm not seeing my solutions or my symptoms resolve,
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  if I'm not having the brain fog go down, if I'm not seeing my weight drop off,
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  if I'm not seeing an increase in energy, if my hair is not coming back,
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  if my skin and my nails are not looking better,
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  then clearly I need to add more.
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  Have you ever fallen into that trap? The trap of wanting and feeling like you
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  need to add more supplements or more restrictions or more tracking or more protocols.
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  And every addition feels like progress, but it increases your psychological and your mental load.
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  And then, of course, that increases your stress, which is one of the most significant
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  root cause triggers for Hashimoto's.
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  And so we just go in this circle.
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  An overwhelming health plan, adding more and more and more, is a source of stress.
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  The plan itself, that plan to keep learning and adding, it can become part of the problem.
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  Adding more is not a strategy. More is just more.
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  And this was partially just teeny tiny inspired by a client who made one Hashimoto's
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  Health Session appointment with me.
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  And we talked, she's doing fantastic.
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  She is learning so much and she's implementing. She is doing a phenomenal job.
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  And she's seeing huge results, like ginormous. Her labs have gotten so much better.
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  Her health has gotten so much better. Her hair is improving.
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  Her weight is improving. Her energy is improving. Her pain is improving.
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  She's seen fantastic results.
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  And she wanted to talk about the holistic root cause reset.
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  And I told her something that probably I haven't even honestly told my business
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  people because they would yell at me.
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  I told her, don't hire me for this yet.
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  Settle in. I don't want to add more. And honestly, in the Hashimoto's root cause
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  reset, we're not adding a ton, but we are doing work.
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  Every two weeks, we're getting together or, you know, whatever works for your calendar.
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  We're getting together to look at the whole picture.
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  You know, how are you doing? What did you just implement?
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  What simple and sustainable thing can you do next? But this particular person has done so much.
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  My instructions for her is just to settle in and let all of that get to be a routine.
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  And then let's chat. Let's chat. Let's do the Hashimoto's root cause reset together.
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  But let's wait a month or two.
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  Just settle into the changes that you've made.
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  Because overwhelm and the accumulation of more and more things that you're trying, it is a stressor.
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  Even if you don't feel stressed, even if you feel like things are working,
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  which they are, we still want to keep overwhelmed to a minimum.
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  So for that particular person who is, like I said, doing phenomenal.
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  I just want her to settle in for just a couple of months.
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  And then we will work together on the Hashimoto's Rokas Reset.
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  Work together, you know, every other week-ish for about six times to really
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  get into the nitty gritty. Like, what can we do next?
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  The thing is, when you are feeling overwhelmed, when you are seeing all of these
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  different strategies, our solution is structure.
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  And that word for some people are like, you know, I don't want structure.
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  I don't want walls. I don't want rules.
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  I don't want somebody to tell me what to do. But at the same time,
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  if you are adding tons and tons and tons of things, that might be exactly what you need.
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  Somebody to work with you and say, let's not add another thing.
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  Let's figure out a framework that helps you identify what actually applies to you.
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  I read a book a while back. It's called The Common Rule.
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  And at first I was like, rule, I don't know.
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  But the picture on the front is just beautiful. It is a beautiful image of what that book is about.
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  It is a calendar, like just the grid of a calendar turned into like a rose trellis.
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  And he says in the introduction that a rule of life, like things you do every
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  day, things that rules that you have created to help guide your habits.
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  They help your life grow and bloom like a rose.
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  Instead of going all crazy and being scattered and tangled and not knowing,
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  you know, where the next bud is going to go, if you grow on a trellis, you're healthier.
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  And the whole plant, you know, gets more air, gets more light. It is structured.
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  So when I say the word structure, like I don't want to hear,
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  I don't want you to hear like restriction and, you know, shame or guilt.
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  It's not that type of rules that I'm talking about.
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  I'm talking about things that help guide our decisions so that we can have healthier
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  everything and less stress.
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  The solution is not to just keep adding more and more things.
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  The solution is to develop a framework that helps you identify what actually
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  applies to you. Because root cause work is very personal.
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  Root causes, while there are some universals, you know, genetic factor,
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  gut factor, one or more triggers, those are universal.
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  But your triggers and your specific genetics, your specific gut health, that's all personal.
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  That is individual to you. so what you see on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok
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  what the algorithm is feeding you for ads and for just to keep you engaged on
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  their platform that is not necessarily for your good it is for the algorithm's good.
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  One sustainable layer at a time based on what you actually need on your identified root causes,
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  that one sustainable layer at a time far beats 10 unsustainable changes all at once.
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  The changes that you implement need to be sustainable. They need to be simple
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  enough that you can sustain them, and then they need to be sustainable so that
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  they have time to work. So structure reduces decision fatigue.
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  Structure lowers your stress load.
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  Structure creates forward momentum.
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  And this is what the Hashimoto's root cause reset is built to do.
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  I don't ever want you lost in overwhelm. I don't want you paralyzed. What is it?
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  Analysis paralysis? I have totally been there.
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  Analysis paralysis is an easy place to drop into because there's so many things.
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  Overwhelm leads to that. And both the mini course that's in the Health with
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  Hashimoto's community and the Hashimoto's root cause reset, they're both designed to help you,
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  to help you figure out simple and sustainable strategies going forward so that
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  you're not overwhelmed, you're not increasing your stress,
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  you're actually making progress.
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  Because overwhelm is not the starting point. Overwhelm is the barrier.
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  Structure is the way through. So the Hashimoto's root cause reset,
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  I love to invite you in there if you're ready to stop accumulating more and
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  more and more strategies that may or may not work, that may be just fed to you
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  by an algorithm, or, you know,
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  it might be something that even maybe something that you heard on this podcast.
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  What I want you to do is figure out what is going to actually work for you.
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  You, as an individual person. What is going to work for you?
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  What is going to be simple? What is going to be sustainable?
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  How can you move forward?
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  That is the goal. The goal is so that you can feel like yourself again,
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  so that you can recognize yourself in the mirror, so you have more good days,
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  so that you have more consistent, sustainable energy throughout the day,
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  better mood stability, less digestive discomfort and bloating.
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  Like all of these things, reduced joint and muscle pain, improved sleep quality,
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  healthier skin, fewer flare-ups.
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  All of these are things that you want for you, I want for you,
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  and in the Hashimoto's Rikaz Reset, we are going to work to get you there.
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  All right, the link of course is down in the show notes so that you can schedule
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  your Hashimoto's Rikaz Reset right now.
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  And after you book that, would you do me a favor and would you leave a podcast
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  Spotify, Apple, Audible, whatever you use, they all value ratings and reviews.
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  So some of them just allow for stars. Some of them allow for a written thing.
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  Whatever you have time and bandwidth for today, would you take a couple seconds
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  and rate and review? It really does help this show get pushed out to more people.
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  And of course, I want you to feel like yourself again.
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  And I also want this message to reach more and more and more people because
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  there are millions with Hashimoto's and they all need this message of hope.
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  You can feel like yourself again.
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  And there is a non-overwhelming way to do that.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  To take your next step, join our school community and explore the courses available there.
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  You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  So that is school, S-K-O-O-L dot com, and it is the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's.