Functional Wellness Empowerment

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Time is so precious. Make living well and truly taking care of yourself #1. ​​​​​​​​
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🌻🐞Studies show the link between being female, facing adversity in childhood, and later developing a serious autoimmune disease is so significant that it is comparable to the health risks linking smoking and lung cancer, drunk driving and car accidents, and unprotected s*x and pregnancy!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🐞Women carry a biological predisposition to increased cortisol response and greater disregulation of the inflammatory response increasing health risks. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🐞despite this knowledge, studies show women on average must see 5 doctors over 4.5 years before receiving a proper diagnosis- Nakazawa, 2015, "Childhood Disrupted"⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🐞When you feel something is not right with you it's important not to let yourself be dismissed as a chronic complainer, or negative thinker, you may be in the early stages of an illness. Its important to identify what's contributing to your symptoms so you know how to best cultivate self healing, and what support may work best for you. 💚💚💚💚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Have self-compassion in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. Empathy for self includes practicing self-kindness. Inner healing has to be a part of your wellness journey with thyroid disease. Stress can exacerbate your symptoms and undermine your physical healing efforts. Be patient with yourself as you move forward in choosing health and wellness.

🌻Talk to yourself Like you talk to your friends

🌻Practice mindfulness

🌻Forgive yourself

🌻Don't compare yourself to others

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And that’s ok…

Find a doc that knows the next steps for you— they are out there 💓

Just don’t accept it as truth that there is nothing more you can do

Because there is 🙏🏻

Drop a 🤍🤍🤍 if you agree 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🖤🖤🖤What are your self love rituals? I like setting up a warm drink like hot tea and having quiet time, might light a candle and read a book.

New adventures and abundance on the horizon: meditate, focus, and manifest💕

Certain supplements can impact absorption of thyroid medication and can impact TSH thyroid stimulating hormone levels in testing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤 Biotin can lower levels ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤green food supplements can cause goitrogenic reactions which inhibit synthesis of thyroid hormones, possibly resulting in enlargement of the gland (goiter). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Thyroid medication can also inhibit/deplete certain nutrients like calcium. It is important to take thyroid medications hours apart from eating, some find it helps to take this medication at night to avoid interuptions: ⬇️decrease chances of coffee and breakfast interfering with absorption⬇️decrease chances of supplements impacting absorption. Also bowel motility will slow at night, allowing better absorption which can help improve symptoms. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The following supplements can be beneficial for tackling symptoms of Hashimoto’s disease:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Selenium: decrease antibodies, assist mood balance⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Myo inositol: aids thyroid function ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Zinc: thyroid hormone production⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙B12: decrease deficiency⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙magnesium: helps with antibody levels and symptom management ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Iron: treat anemia often present in hashimotos, ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Curcumin: protect your thyroid against oxidative and may help reduce the size of thyroid nodules.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Vitamin D: avoid deficiency ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙Vitamin C: reduce thyroid antibodies⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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💕It's best to work with a practitioner to come up with a healthy and safe plan that’s based on your specific needs and health status.💕

A healthy lifestyle gives you freedom and increases your ability to manifest the life you want to live. Making better choices to empower wellness provides energy, clarity and resiliency to fully enjoy life, and to make more meaningful contributions in all that you do🦋🖤🦋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A large portion of the population is obese or in close risk for obesity, low energy and vitality, struggling with blood pressure , relying on prescriptions which lead to side effects, and facing medical bills. Many won't think about changes until the health problems are at a serious level. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Society that feeds on fear and division also makes being unhealthy seem easy, normalized, and convenient with all the processed foods, chronic stress, sedentary living, and an overreliance on prescription drugs. The tendency to go along and willingly abdicate responsibility for your health, and to let it be taken from us without nearly enough fight leaves you open to a host of risks. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Now more than ever its so vital to go against the norm, inform yourself ( not via news media alone) because pursuing a healthy lifestyle is a revolutionary act. It’s going to require: 🦋learning new information and skills 🦋confronting habits🦋going into unfamiliar territory 🦋 in many cases creating a whole new way of living. The foods you eat, the places you go, who is around you, and the way you manage your time. Revolution is ; a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤learning or relearning to cook (healthfully) at home⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤getting rest⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤establish active pastimes ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤meditate daily⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤connect with a professional who supports health not only treating disease.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🖤learn and honor your body

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🖤🖤🖤Loving my beautiful mudcloth made in Senegal transported to Ghana which I got from just in time for my new space. It was like a big hug arriving,  I love it so much! Clearing out stuck energy, starting fresh,  and making room for what's meaningful and brings joy has been an integral part of my self love and healing journey. I have gained so many valuable tools in taking care of me, building my healing energy, and facing fears. Healing Inner Child has been so transformative! Staying well is a continual path of learning what works for you, looking inward, and taking care of mind, body, and spirit. Remind yourself you are amazing! no matter what you have gone through, you can start to build on the fact it happened for you, not only to you. You can change how you think, what you tell yourself about events/mistakes/disappointments etc, and move forward confidently.  Never stop getting better💕 

 

Too much stress impacts your body, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Chronic Stress can increase risks of high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes, suppression of immune system, and impact thyroid function and symptoms to name a few. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Some favorite ways to combat chronic stress⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤Studies show constantly warning against the negative effects of stress can reinforce an unhelpful mindset that stress is debilitating. Seeing stress as a facilitator of growth, planning a response that allows yourself grace and self care, seeing yourself as able to thrive despite inevitable stressors and work through them is actually beneficial to your health. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤Emphasis on only the health properties of eating vegetables and whole foods can lead to a counterproductive mindset that healthy eating is depriving.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤Thinking of exercise as a dreaded task, too difficult, or anticipating feeling too ( weak/tired/busy) can be self defeating. Thinking of what small steps you can take, how to modify a task to what you can do in the now, how empowered and energized you can feel by working within your tolerance at the time, acknowledging yourself and seeing yourself as capable of smaller steps in the short term can really help you start somewhere. So many times when we begin from an empowered mind we surpass our own expectations and feel so much better having done so. Don't let your thoughts limit you!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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💜sugar is a major contributer to leaky gut, which has been linked as a precursor to autoimmune disease. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💙sugar inflames the endocrine system and insulin spikes disrupt the thyroid gland. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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-Adrenal hormones, thyroid hormones and hormones of the pancreas (insulin and glucagon), work together to regulate metabolism.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-When insulin, thyroid hormones, or the steroid hormones of the adrenal gland are off-balance, the others often increase or decrease as a means of compensating for the metabolic dysfunction. This interaction leads to the correlation between thyroid disease and diabetes.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Heart: inflames the arterial lining increasing risk for stroke and heart attack ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Brain: sugar can adversely rewire pathways and even increase risk of depression ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Kidneys: damage to filtration system may lead to kidney failure ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Joints: increase risk and severity of arthritis ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Skin: contributes to aging and wrinkles ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Strawberry love❤🍓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍓 loaded with vitamins, fiber, antioxidants such as polyphenols, strawberries contain little or no fat, zero cholesterol, and is free of sodium. Also a good source of potassium and manganese. Eight strawberries have more vitamin C than one orange!🙂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍓 a cup of strawberries meets the daily requirement of Vitamin C, which in return boosts your immunity, and works as an amazing antioxidant⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍓Ellagic acid, found in strawberries, is known to control the growth of cancer cells. They also contain the antioxidants lutein and zeathancins that fight free radicals and reduce their ill effects on your system.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍓anti-inflammatory: the antioxidants and phytochemical in this berry fruit helps in the reduction of inflammation of the joints⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍓Potassium found in strawberries is known to reduce blood pressure, by balancing the effects of sodium in our system. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🍓fruits like strawberries, that are high in anti-oxidants besides their disease-preventing qualities, are great for keeping your thyroid running smoothly.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤Thyroid disorders may prevent ovulation from occurring and ovaries are at an increased risk for cyst development if the woman has an underactive thyroid. Severe hypothyroidism can actually cause milk production in the breast, while preventing ovulation.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤Thyroid disorders during pregnancy can cause risk to the baby and may lead to thyroid problems postpartum thyroiditis. A deficiency of thyroid hormone is can be linked to miscarriages, preterm delivery, stillbirth, and postpartum hemorrhage. Women with overactive thyroid during pregnancy are at risk of having more severe morning sickness. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤Thyroid disorders may cause the early onset of menopause (before age 40 or in the early 40s). Also the relationship between estrogen and thyroid is an essential element of your endocrine system. During perimenopause, when progesterone levels are significantly decreased but estrogen is still present, estrogen dominance can impact thyroid health by stopping the conversion of T4 into T3 thyroid hormone which leads to low T3 levels. This means even if there is not a direct issue with the thyroid, symptoms of hypothyroidism will be experienced. Too much estrogen can also block the uptake of thyroid hormones.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There are many benefits to journaling for your physical and mental well being. This is how I remind myself of gratitude, goals, and celebrate wins. 💕

Keeping a daily journal:

🖤help establish and reach goals.
🖤 help you clear your mind, make important connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
🖤helps control your symptoms and improve your mood
🖤 prioritize tasks, sort fears and concerns.
🖤 tracking symptoms to help recognize triggers and learn ways to better control them.
🖤establish a habit for positive self-talk and identifying negative thoughts (lies)

A mindset that empowers health involves finding ways to grow from your thoughts, not letting them control your life. If we dwell on negative, self defeating, or fear driven thoughts it will likely manifest as physical symptoms in your body and limits your potential and overall wellbeing being. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🖤get clear on your goals⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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💖💖💖My name is Danielle. I have 10+ years experience as a nationally board certified NYS Occupational Therapist. I am also a Kemetic Reiki level II practitioner. I am a wife and blended family mom of teens💕. I have a love for practicing and promoting holistic health and wellness and goal of empowering women to take control of their health while managing Hashimoto's thyroid and other autoimmune conditions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I believe true overall health includes finding root causes of your physical symptoms, making changes to help your body heal, the energy within and around you, emotional wellbeing, spiritual practices, and family and community supports. I provide 1 on 1 individualized functional wellness coaching plans and holistic health and wellness education. I believe busy moms and working women regardless of age, should not have to be limited by adverse symptoms impacting the many roles of everyday life. 💖💖💖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Looking ahead to a purposeful and masterful 2021 🌠🌌✨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Discipline and consistency⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Releasing negative attitudes⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Getting inspiration and being an inspiration⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Taking action⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Building confidence⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Applying knowledge⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆Bet on yourself⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
☆ Break up with fear⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Most of all Self Love! which involves taking care of your Health: Mind, Body, and Spirit💕. Bet on your freedom from adverse autoimmune symptoms. Message me or see link in bio to learn about 1 on 1 support and accountability on your wellness journey.

》Acknowledges the body’s processes and systems operate as a whole vs the view of treating your body with separate, isolated parts and systems⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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》Connection between spiritual, mental and physical health⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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》Incorporates non-physical systems such as energetic and magnetic fields🌌🌌🖤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
》Empowers you to take control of your own health and make lifestyle changes.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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All cells require energy to survive.
To boost your immune system, immerse yourself in good energy spiritually and physically. 🌞 ❤️

Some therapeutic qualities of daily meditation 💕⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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-Stress-reduction⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-Decrease migraines/headaches, and hypertensive conditions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-Decrease anxiety and depression⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-Immune boosting⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-Reduce age related memory loss⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-Increase focus⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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-Increase overall wellbeing⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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