Practices to drive to. A full workday. A to-do list that keeps growing. When your week fills up, are your healthy habits the first thing to go?

"I'll start that when things calm down." But a busy week doesn't pause the stress on your body. It adds to the load. Your thyroid and your immune system still need daily, consistent action, even when your plate is full.

You don't need a whole life overhaul. In episode 218, you'll find out how to manage Hashimoto's when life is busy, so your habits keep going in your hardest weeks.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Hit play and find the version of your habits that fits the week you're in right now.

Resources mentioned

Find all links on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER:

The Health with Hashimoto’s podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Someone asks how you are doing. You say fine. You both move on.

Fine is not an emotion. And most of the time, it is not the truth either.

This bonus episode is a little different. Instead of a book review, I am sharing a sermon from my church, because this message applies to everyone. It is the full meaning of "how are you doing?"

Pastor Jason Lang walks through the five questions hiding inside that one simple question. If you have gotten good at saying fine while you are running on empty, this one is worth your time.

How are you doing? (five questions in one)

This will be an ongoing series at Word of Life Church in southern Minnesota. Get the rest of the series on YouTube or Podcast or join us live in person.

You finished the list. You sorted everything into thyroid or immune. And somehow that made it worse, because now you are looking at two full buckets and every single thing in them looks like it should be the thing you do today.

So you did nothing. Or you picked five things, went hard, and lasted about eleven days.

That is not a discipline problem.

Sorting is triage, not treatment. It tells you what to work on first. But nobody ever explains the "first" part, and that gap is where most women get stuck. In this episode I walk through the three rules I use to decide what actually comes next, why the most important thing is almost never the right place to start, and what six winters of working on one single trigger taught me about doing less at a time.

10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor (free guide)

Episode 214, Sorting Hashimoto's labs into thyroid or immune buckets

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How serious is Hashimoto's disease? Nobody answered that at your appointment.

You got a prescription and a follow-up in six weeks. Or you got told your numbers are fine for now and we are just going to keep an eye on things. Either way, you walked out not knowing whether to brush this off or worry about it every day.

The answer sits in between those two. Hashimoto's is two things and not one. It is a thyroid that cannot keep up, and it is an immune system attacking that thyroid. Medication can help handle the first one. The second one is all yours to work on.

In episode 216, Esther gives you the facts without the fear, including what she reads in her own thyroid books about what happens when hypothyroidism goes unwatched, and why she gets most serious about this with women who are pregnant or trying to be.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Hit play and get the answer you did not get at your appointment.

Resources mentioned:

Esther's first episode, where she shares her own diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/

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You did the sorting. Thyroid on one side, immune on the other. So why does it feel like nothing has actually changed?

Here is the trap. Sorting feels like progress, and it is, but so far it is all in your head. The buckets are full and nothing in either one has moved. Sorting feels safe. Starting feels like a risk.

In this final episode of the summer sorting series, Esther walks you through what to do after sorting Hashimoto's into thyroid and immune. Not twelve things to do tomorrow. One thing, chosen on purpose, small enough that you will still be doing it next month.

Hit play and pick your one next thing.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune, inside the classroom in the Skool community

Jumpstart to Refreshing Sleep and Rest, also in the Skool classroom 

Single coaching sessions. You do not have to book the full six sessions of Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching. If you have sorted your two buckets and just need help with one thing, a single session is built for that. 

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You have the lab printout in front of you. You circled the flagged numbers, looked them up, and maybe compared them to somebody else's results in a group. So why do you still not know what they mean?

In episode 214, Esther walks through the full panel and sorts every lab into thyroid or immune, so you can do the same thing with your own results in about five minutes. Sorting Hashimoto's labs is simpler than it looks once you know which list each one belongs on.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Hit play, then pull out your most recent results and start sorting.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Episode 1, my diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/

Episode 3, What Do My Thyroid Labs Mean: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/thyroid-labs/

Episode 39, Beyond TSH: How to Get the Thyroid Labs You Actually Need Using an Independent Lab: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/039-labs/

Episode 78, Success at the Doctor's Office: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/thyroid-questions-for-your-doctor/

Episode 80, Labs: T4 vs Free T4: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t4-not-converting-to-t3/

Episode 94, Labs: T3, Free T3, Reverse T3: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t3/

Episode 103, Thyroid Labs to Check: [link needed, page not live yet]

Episode 190, Why Your TSH Looks Normal but You Still Feel Tired with Hashimoto's: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/190-tsh-normal-but-still-tired/

10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your Doctor (free guide): https://healthwithhashimotos.com/questions-for-your-doctor/

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Six common Hashimoto’s symptoms: fatigue, weight resistance, brain fog, hair loss, constipation, and feeling cold all the time.

You've been told they're all just your thyroid. Some of them are. And some of them were never going to be fully fixed by your thyroid.

In episode 213, Esther sorts the six most common Hashimoto's symptoms into thyroid or immune. Two landed in the thyroid bucket. Four landed in both. That isn't bad news. Two buckets is not two problems. It's two places to look instead of one dead end.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Hit play and start sorting.

Resources mentioned in this episode

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune ($27, about an hour, self-paced)

One-time coaching call with Esther 

Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching, six one-on-one sessions 

Episode 80, Labs: T4 vs free T4

Episode 94, Labs: T3, Free T3, Reverse T3

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You started the summer with a question. Now you have a longer list of root causes and the exact same question you had in May.

Which one am I supposed to do something about first?

That is not an information problem. It is a sorting problem.

In this episode, Esther goes back through the summer root cause series and sorts every topic covered into one of two buckets using the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework. Each one gets sorted out loud so you can see how the filter actually works when you apply it to real information, including the one topic that landed in both buckets and changed how she thinks about minerals.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Hit play and get a filter for everything you already know.

Resources mentioned

10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your Doctor

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune

Episode 204, the hair mineral test with Dee 

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You have all the information. So why are you still stuck?

If you have spent years reading, researching, and following every account you can find, you already know a lot about Hashimoto's. The problem is not information. The problem is knowing what to do with it.

In this episode, Esther walks through the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework and shows you exactly how she used it on herself, back when she was first diagnosed. She shares which bucket she focused on first, why she skipped over diet even though she knew it mattered, and how she figured out her very next step instead of trying to do everything at once.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Hit play to hear the whole story, including the moment her teenage son asked her a question that says everything about why she does this work.

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What if your thyroid is a victim, not the cause, of Hashimoto's

Your thyroid isn't broken. It's overwhelmed.

Esther talks with Dr. Jess Armine, a healthcare provider with almost 50 years of clinical experience. His take on Hashimoto's: the thyroid is a victim, not the cause. It's a downstream effect of something else happening in your body.

If your fatigue has ever been written off as laziness, this one will shift how you see it.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Guest bio:

Dr. Jess Armine has spent nearly 50 years in healthcare as an EMT, RN, and chiropractor. After his son's schizophrenia diagnosis, he dove into genetics, endocrinology, and mitochondrial function, developing what he calls bio-individualized medicine. He now specializes in complex illnesses that haven't found success elsewhere.

Make a free 30 min "Get Acquainted" consultation with Dr. Jess. Click here:  Get Acquainted

Resources mentioned:

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