Live & Lead With Heart

Is it my thyroid?!? 1:8 women will have a thyroid problem at some point in their lives. After menopause, it’s 1:3. But sadly conventional medicine doesn’t typically offer more than lifelong medication once you’re so far past “fine” that it’s hard to get back. Today’s episode is a deep dive into all things thyroid with the Thyroid Fixer-Dr. Amie Hornaman.

Dr. Amie Hornaman DCN, MsN, CFMP, a.k.a The Thyroid-Fixer, a woman on a mission to optimize thyroid patients around the world and give them their lives back using her

transformational program: The COMPLETE Thyroid Fix Method (CTFM).

After her own experience of insufferable symptoms, misdiagnoses, and improper treatment, Amie set out to help others who she KNEW were going through the same set

of frustrations and who were on the same medical roller coaster.

She grabs your hand, gives you answers about your health that no one has told you, and gives you the actual tools and treatment to fix you. That’s the transformational journey.

With a focus on optimizing thyroid function and thus optimizing her patients, Amie looks at each person as a unique individual and not JUST a lab value. She examines all factors that tie into thyroid dysfunction and thyroid symptoms and treats the person from top to bottom to give them their lives back.

Are you looking for the next step on your health journey and want to get some one-to-one support? As a thank you for listening to the show and being proactive with your health I’d like to offer you a $200 discount on an initial consultation with me. On this visit, we do a deep dive into your current state of health and the goals you have and together craft a plan to help you move forward confidently. To learn more visit https://www.emergentwomenih.com/initial-consult. The link is also in the show notes. I would love to connect with you and partner with you on your health journey.

Thank you for tuning in to rejuvenated women- impeccable health for high-performing women, where we provide you with the tools, information, and inspiration you need to transform from overwhelmed, overworked, and overweight to vibrant, energetic, and on fire. If you enjoyed the show, please head over to iTunes to subscribe and leave us a review. Each month I will select one lucky reviewer to receive a special impeccable health sample kit from me. Also, I don't want to be working with you on your health, only once or twice a week. I want to be in this conversation, and in the trenches with you every single day. I invite you to join me at www.emergentwomenih.com for even more information, inspiration, and motivation to transform your health and become vibrant, energetic, and on fire. Until next time, remember to keep putting yourself first so that you can better serve the ones you love. And the things you are passionate about.

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How strong is your support network of close friends that you can be open and real with? Personally, this is an area I've struggled with a lot as a career driven woman. Community is also something that plays a huge role in our over all health and hormone balance.

This episode unpacks why community is so important to our hormones and gives you some things to think about to strengthen your own community. I also share some new things I'm working on and am really excited about because they focus on community at the core of our healing journey.

Links mentioned in this episode:

The Emergent Women Circle-www.emergentwomencircle.com

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Episode Transcript:

[00:00] So I don't know about you, but I have struggled through my adult life to maintain close friendships and relationships and community among other women.

[00:11] And I've been thinking about this a.

[00:13] Lot lately because this is also a significant part of having balance and having our hormones work. And we're going to unpack what that means today. But I also think that for those of us who identify as high achievers, we're driven and we're always after the next thing. That's a lot of what being a high achiever is about. It can be hard to prioritize friendship because we're already stretched so thin in our careers and in our personal and family lives. And so it's something that gets missed.

[00:52] Welcome to The Selfless Syndrome Show, where we help women executives and entrepreneurs rise through Adversity, connect to their intuition, transform their hormones, and get their energy back. This is the show where we go beyond asking how do I treat my symptoms? And instead examine how do I truly heal, transform my hormones, and change my life? We are here to bring you outside the box ideas, interviews, and action steps focused in the areas of health, relationships, and our career, all three of which have a huge impact on our hormones. My name is Dr. Alex Swenson Ridley. I'm your host, mentor, speaker, author, entrepreneur, and thought leader on hormones and work life balance for high achieving women. I'm also a wife's, mom, and stepmom to four boys and a furball. And I'm a woman whose own life experience and journey from Adversity and the resulting hormonal chaos to finding hormonal harmony has led to me helping other women break with convention and find the tools they need to not just survive, but thrive. Ready to dive in? Let's go.

[01:53] What I started to see and really have recognized, especially when I was writing my book on Selfless Syndrome that came out in January, is that we're missing this really important component that we were designed to be in relationship with others and in community. And I'm not talking about the pandemic or pre or being introverted or extroverted or that has nothing to do with any of this. There is something that we gain from being in relationship with others, particularly peers and those who we can relate to in a peer way. Women who get us and understand us, that actually helps us to de escalate from stress. We as women, go through something called tend and befriend. And the way I think about this is I'm going to tell you to share a little story here that I actually shared in my book. But I grew up in Vermont, which is actually where I'm recording this because I'm here helping my mom recover from a pelvic. Broken pelvis. But when I was a kid, we would go out and go hiking all the time. And there was a stay where we were driving to what was my favorite.

[02:57] Mountain because we drove up most of it and then only had a short.

[03:00] Hike at the top.

[03:02] But on the way up, she suddenly pulled over and she was like, we're.

[03:04] Here to my brother and I.

[03:06] And we were both, we were probably under ten at the time.

[03:09] And she gets out of the car and I realized that there are two.

[03:12] Or three bear cubs in the trees. And I'm watching her walk up and.

[03:17] My brother and I are freaking out.

[03:19] I have running through my head like, can I figure out how to drive the car if things go really bad.

[03:23] And we need to go get help?

[03:25] And I watch my mom and she's going to check it out to make sure the cubs are okay. But I'm like, Mama Bear's got to be there. And she was. And so all of a sudden we see my mom freeze and hear this huge roar.

[03:38] And I watch my mom kind of start to back away and I'm like.

[03:43] Oh my gosh, I'm about to watch.

[03:45] My own mother get mauled by a bear.

[03:47] But what happened and how this relates to what we're talking about here...

Having no energy and feeling utterly exhausted all the time is a real thing and a real problem. But the reality is that it is much more complex than simply your adrenal glands not functioning correctly. I tackle some of the science behind this phenomenon and get into some of the specifics that can be leading to low energy levels on today’s episode of Rejuvenated Women.

Having no energy and feeling utterly exhausted all the time is a real thing and a real problem. But the reality is that it is much more complex than simply your adrenal glands not functioning correctly.

A few months ago, I listened to a lecture with Arie Witten, the author of The Energy Blueprint and host of a podcast by the same name. Years ago, he was really interested in this Adrenal fatigue thing and wanted to prove it was real. So he did his research, and what he found was that Adrenal Fatigue isn’t actually a thing.

What is a thing is HPA axis dysfunction and the role stress (cortisol) can play in causing major disruptions to your hormones and energy levels.

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Self sabotage is something that plagues all of us at some point in our lives. It can be confusing, frustrating and a let down to ourselves when we get in our own way. Today I’m joined by EFT expert Theresa Lear Levine who walks us through an exercise to get beyond self sabotage for good.

Theresa Lear Levine is an EFT Master Practitioner and Energy Coach living in Davidsonville, Maryland with her husband, Jeff, and their 4 boys. Theresa is no stranger to overwhelm, stress and anxiety but her challenges led her to discover and implement amazing coping mechanisms, and teaching and sharing them with others is her passion! In her business, Becoming More Me with EFT, She empowers entrepreneurial moms who feel a calling to more effectively release stress, overwhelm, and limiting beliefs to clear their blocks and make way for purpose, fulfillment, calm, clarity, and joy to flourish and thrive both at home with their families and in their work.

Using the powerful practice of the Emotional Freedom Technique, once overwhelmed and stressed moms begin to positively transform, show up for themselves and their families in greater ways, reclaim their power, and learn to love, accept and forgive themselves in all areas of their lives!

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