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093 // Hashimoto's is Not Your Fault · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hashimoto's is not your fault. I want you to hear me loud and clear.
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  If you turn off this podcast in the next 10 seconds, I want you to know Hashimoto's is not your fault.
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  Getting sick, having an autoimmune condition is not your fault.
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  Are there things that you might have done that increased your susceptibility?
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  Are there things that you have done or been exposed to that could have been
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  triggers and root causes? Yes.
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  But is it your fault? No. I want you to know that it is not your fault.
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  Today's episode is brought to you by a combination of different things.
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  Karma, manifesting, faith healing, and Job's friends.
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  All of those things have come up within the last little while.
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  And I just, my heart was so heavy to bring you this message that Hashimoto's is not your fault.
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  Before I tell you all of the backstory and what you can do and what you need
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  to know, I want to welcome you to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  My name is Esther. I am a registered nurse. I have Hashimoto's and it was through
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  my struggles, my struggles to figure out what was going on and then to understand
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  Hashimoto's, which is so confusing.
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  That is why I started this podcast so that you do not have to struggle so much.
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  I started the podcast and then I launched an app.
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  In the app, you will find a community of people who are all supporting you where
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  you can find answers and people who have been there, who they know what you're going through.
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  And then also in the app, I have a couple courses.
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  I have Hashimoto's Decoded in that free mini course, which will take you about an hour to binge.
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  It is all about what causes Hashimoto's and then it helps you figure out why
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  you might have Hashimoto's.
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  The second course I have for you is the holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  And that takes you by the hand to really figure out what your next steps are
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  so that you can address what's going on in your life.
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  And nowhere in any of my things do I ever want you to feel shame or guilt or like this is your fault.
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  So like I said, there was like four different things, maybe more,
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  that all came together to make me realize I needed to do this episode.
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  One of them is one of my favorite podcasts.
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  It is called 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. And two scholars go through every
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  single word in the Old Testament and help you understand it.
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  Well, they've been going through the book of Job.
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  And if you know anything about the book of Job, you know that the person.
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  Job, was very godly. He had not done anything wrong.
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  And he had a ton of bad things happen to him.
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  He lost his family, he lost his possessions, he lost his health,
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  he lost just about everything.
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  The only thing he had was his life, and also his wife, who was like...
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  Not good for him. She told him to curse God and die, in fact.
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  So he was like this godly character, this godly person, and his friends come
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  alongside him and start accusing him of bringing this illness on himself.
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  They made it his fault. They wanted to figure out what did he do to bring on
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  this illness, this suffering?
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  And the answer was nothing. He did not do anything to, quote, deserve it.
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  He did not do anything to bring it on himself.
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  It was not his fault. So I've been listening to that podcast.
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  And then I was reading a book. I'm always reading books. In this book, there was a sister.
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  There's a lot of cancer in this book. In fact, it is about how they discovered
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  the genetic component of cancer.
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  And one of the sisters in this book presented her best face.
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  She was always positive.
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  She was never negative.
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  She always wanted everybody to know that she believed that she was going to
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  get better, that she was believing so hard that she was doing all the things that she could.
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  And yet in her journal after she died, they found out that she was scared and
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  that she thought that she might die.
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  And I got so both sad and angry for her.
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  She was deluded by a whole group of people who say that you have to manifest,
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  that you have to believe a certain way.
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  And if you let any negative thoughts come in, then you're going to sabotage
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  your success or your healing.
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  There's an entire, like, I don't know, philosophy that you have to do the work.
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  And if you don't do the right work, or if you don't do it well enough that your
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  health will suffer, that it will be your fault if you die, or it'll be your fault if you got sick.
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  Now, a lot of times they're not like blatant. They don't come out and say it's your fault.
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  But what they do imply is that you're not manifesting hard enough,
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  or you're not believing hard enough, or you have too much negativity,
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  or you're not doing X, Y, and Z.
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  They make it your fault.
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  It is not your fault that you have cancer. It is not your fault that you have
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  Hashimoto's. It is it's not your fault that you are sick.
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  Well, okay, so if your kid coughs in, you know, I don't know,
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  in their hand, and then you walk up to your kid's hand and you lick it,
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  all right, it's your fault that you got sick.
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  But that's like really dramatic, right? Most of us are not doing things that
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  would actively make us sick.
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  It's just part of being human on this earth where there is sin, disease, and death.
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  Those are part of our human experience. Not a good part, but they are a part.
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  And it is not your fault that you have Hashimoto's.
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  By the way, the name of that book is called Fatal Inheritance.
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  It is an interesting book. It's by Lawrence Ingrassia.
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  I listened to the audio and yeah, check it out. I think it's out now.
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  I listened to it on a preview, but it's an interesting book all about,
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  like I said, the genetic component of cancer and how they discover that.
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  So I talked about Job and I talked about manifesting.
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  The next thing that came up, it was a huge red flag, was when one of my kids,
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  wanted to go with one of his friends to their youth group.
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  So I looked up that church. It's not a church that I was familiar with.
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  I wanted to know what they believed.
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  Well, I found on their website that they have like a faith healing ministry.
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  I did not find any credentials. I did not find that they are certified therapists.
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  They have the actual training.
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  Maybe they do. They just don't have it on their site. But I did find a lot of
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  that, the insinuation that if you are right spiritually, then you will be right physically.
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  And that is not true.
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  Is there a connection? Yes, there is.
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  And I did a whole episode on spiritual stress a while ago, and I talked about that.
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  But the thing is, you are a whole person, body, mind, spirit, diet, environment.
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  If you think of a flower, look at the logo on the cover art of this episode.
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  If you think of a flower, the spiritual component is one petal.
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  It is not the whole thing.
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  The The physical component is one petal. It is not the whole thing.
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  Your emotional or your mental health is one petal. It is not the whole thing. You are a whole person.
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  So can you have fantastic spiritual health? You are at peace. You are living in love.
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  You know where you are destined eternally. You are in relationship with Jesus.
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  You have repented for your sins. Like you're resisting temptation.
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  You're doing all the things, which, side note, all you have to do is confess and believe.
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  If you want to have eternal life, if you want to have life with Jesus,
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  confess your sins and believe that he is Lord and you'll be forgiven and you will have life.
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  But if you're doing all the things, it does not guarantee physical health.
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  It does not guarantee mental health. If you, quote, get right with Jesus,
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  it does not mean that your anxiety and your depression are going to just magically
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  go away. Is there a connection between them?
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  Yes. Yes, there is. But is it do X, Y, Z and get A, B, C? No, it's not.
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  You are a whole person and each petal or each thing is its own thing.
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  And yet it interacts with the others.
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  So when I was looking at this church and looking at the things,
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  it was just a, there were a couple big red flags.
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  Do they believe in Jesus, that he is God, that he is absolutely God?
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  He is also the son of God. Like.
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  The Trinity, it's really confusing. But if you don't believe in those two things,
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  then your church needs to go back to the basics and you need to figure out what
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  your church is actually teaching.
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  Are they teaching something that is biblical? Because if they're not teaching
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  that Jesus is fully God and fully man, he is God and the son of God.
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  They're not teaching that. They are not teaching you directly from the Bible.
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  Okay, there's my little soapbox.
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  So anyway, way, this church, it did have some red flags, but they were like
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  presenting Jesus correctly.
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  So of course, I let my son go to the youth group. But at the same time,
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  like I noticed the red flags, that red flag of we are going to help you get
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  rights physically or sorry, spiritually, because then you will be right physically.
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  And the corollary is implied. If there's something wrong with you physically,
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  then there must be something wrong with you spiritually.
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  And that is not accurate. Look back to Job.
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  So all three of those things happened, and it like came very front and center
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  of my attention within a week's time.
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  And then there was also another thing, which is private to one of my friends,
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  so I'm not going to talk about it here on the podcast,
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  but it really made me realize that there's so much pressure,
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  whether you are in the church, or
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  whether you are in a new age religion or whether you are something else.
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  There is so much pressure to make you think and believe that you are responsible for getting sick.
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  And I want you to know that you are not responsible.
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  It is not your fault that you have Hashimoto's.
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  Now, does your mindset matter? Absolutely it does.
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  It absolutely matters. When you are living in hope, hope, you have different
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  physical reactions even at a cellular level than when you are living in despair.
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  Your mindset does matter. Does that mean that you have to like fake it until
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  you make it or that you have to push yourself to believe something like that
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  woman who believed or was trying to believe or at least make everybody believe
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  that she believed that she was going to get better from cancer,
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  you can be honest. You can be honest with yourself.
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  You can be honest with those around you because actually being in community
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  and having support helps you with your health.
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  It helps every aspect of your health. It helps you have better physical health.
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  It helps you have better mental health. It helps you have better spiritual health.
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  Like we are built for community. And even eating, that dietary component of
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  the whole you and environment, like those things do better in community as well.
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  Community is crucial. So don't
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  hide what's going on, even though you might rather hide what's going on.
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  Maybe, you know, reach out to a couple of friends. You don't have to tell the
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  entire world what's going on.
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  You don't have to blast it on Facebook every single time you're having a bad
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  day, but you can do the things that you need to get support because we want to be supported.
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  So your mindset does matter. Another thing is God can heal your body and your mind. God is God.
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  You can be healed. Miracles happen. And also God works through others.
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  He works through doctors. He works through medicine. He works through other practitioners.
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  You can be healed. But it doesn't mean that if you do X, Y, Z,
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  that God is going to say, oh, she just did everything she needs to. So now she earned this.
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  It's not really how it works. Are there instances where God says you need to
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  do the work because you have unhealthy lifestyle habits.
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  Well, yeah, there are times that he does that. And so it's up to you to figure out what is next.
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  But I want you to know that you're doing your best.
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  You're constantly trying to learn and do different things to improve your health.
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  And it is not your fault that you have Hashimoto's.
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  So then I might wonder, you know, are you going to listen to this and think,
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  well, if it's not my fault, then I can do whatever I want. Well, that's not true either.
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  You're still responsible for doing the best you can.
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  But I want to release you of any shame or guilt that you didn't like manifest
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  hard enough, or you didn't believe hard enough, or you didn't pray hard enough.
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  It's not your fault that you have Hashimoto's.
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  Like I said earlier, I have a course for you. It is the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  And I help you so that you can know what to do for your particular situation.
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  There is no shame. I'm not going to blame you for where you are.
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  What we're going to do is we're going to look at where you are and figure out what's next.
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  A long while back, I heard a phrase that has always stuck with me,
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  and it is this, when you know better, you can do better.
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  We're not blaming or shaming anybody for what they did before they knew better.
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  Now, when my oldest was a preschooler, he was like short enough that he could,
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  he's probably a toddler, he would reach reach up.
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  And when he reached as high as he could, he could touch the top of the stove,
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  but he couldn't see it yet.
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  And we told him, don't touch it. Of course we told him, right?
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  That's our job as parents.
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  We told him, he knew, and we told him over and over and he would still try to reach.
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  And one time he reached and we didn't like whisk him away fast enough or something.
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  And I remember that he got burned.
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  It was like, I don't even think his fingers blistered, but he felt the heat.
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  Now, was that his fault? Yes, it was. Had we taught him and did he know better?
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  Yes, he did. Did he decide to do it anyway?
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  Yep. And did he get consequences for it?
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  Yes. Like from us? No, but from the stove? Yes.
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  It hurt because he did what he knew he was not supposed to do.
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  And that is life too. That is health.
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  There are things that we know that we should do and shouldn't do.
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  And I try not to should on you in this podcast, because I don't want to heap
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  more guilt and burden on you.
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  But there are things that we know that when we do this, we feel better.
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  And yet sometimes we don't do that. For example, I know that when I get good
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  sleep, that I feel better, that I have more energy, that I think better.
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  And did I have some kombucha yesterday afternoon, even knowing that it has a
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  caffeine in it because it's made from tea.
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  And even knowing that I am super sensitive to caffeine.
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  Why? Yes. Yes, I did. And did I pay for it last night by laying in bed wondering why I couldn't sleep?
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  And then I was like, oh yeah, I had kombucha.
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  I had it like at three o'clock. And did I have the whole bottle?
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  No, I had like a quarter of the bottle, but it still affects me because I'm
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  so sensitive to caffeine.
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  I knew matter, and yet I chose to do the wrong thing anyway.
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  And did I have consequences for it? Yes. Yes, I did. And today,
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  do I regret that kombucha?
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  Yes, I do. I wish that I had a little bit more energy because I have a really
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  busy day today and I need to be functioning at 100%. So sometimes,
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  yep, we have the consequences for the choices that we make.
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  And sometimes we do things and they're the wrong choices, and yet we don't know it.
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  And you don't have to carry the shame and the guilt for that.
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  If it was a sin, if you went against what God says, then you can confess and God forgives you.
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  I guess what I'm trying to say is Hashimoto's is not your fault.
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  I said it a whole bunch of times because it's so important that you know that.
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  You are a whole person, body, mind, spirit, diet, environment,
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  and they all come together to create the whole you.
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  There are things that you do in each one of those little petals of the of flour,
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  and they do impact the others.
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  But it does not mean that you are responsible, that if you are physically sick,
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  it's because you are not spiritually well.
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  There are always things that you can do to improve your health.
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  We can't go back in time and change other things that we have done in the past.
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  We can only do better going forward.
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  And you are doing something just by listening to this podcast.
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  You're learning and you're trying to figure out how to take simple steps going
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  forward to impact your health.
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  So I want you to know Hashimoto's is not your fault.
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  You are a whole person and you can make progress in any of those areas,
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  in any of the five petals, and it will impact the whole.
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  But it doesn't mean that if one of those petals is damaged, it's your fault.
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  Obviously, there's a lot of nuance in all of this, but I just want you to know
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  it is not your fault that you have Hashimoto's.
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  All right, now I'm going to end. I want you to come over and download the app.
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  If you have an iPhone, download the Health with Hashimoto's app.
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  If you have an Android, click on the link in the show notes and it will take
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  you to the back door way to get to the app because it is not a standalone app
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  in the Google Play Store yet.
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  And join the number one, the Hashimoto's Decoded free mini course,
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  and then hop into the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  Well, I will take you by the hand and help you figure out exactly what to do
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  next so that you can have better health with Hashimoto's.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  If you found this episode helpful, would you please share it with a friend? I will see you next.
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  Music.