Module 3
Learning What is Healing and Healthy For Your Body
You are about to embark on a healing way of life. This module helps guide you through the steps to take to create this new, healing, and healthy lifestyle. YOUR new and healthy lifestyle. This is not a one-size-fits-all approach.
Keep In Mind...
That as you start this journey to healing, autoimmune diseases, such as Hashimoto's, affects each person differently. Nutritional changes that might work to reduce Hashimoto's symptoms in one person may not be effective in another person. Just like you have to tweak thyroid medications, you may have to experiment with different dietary modifications that work with your body.
The best indicator of your healing is to evaluate your overall symptoms every 30 days, maintain a daily food journal in which you document your body's physical and emotional reactions to different foods consumed. Included in this program are the various trackers which will help you to monitor your progress and determine what foods are healthy for YOUR body.
I can't emphasize enough the importance of journaling and tracking in this healing journey. Utilizing the trackers will keep you focused and help you to be in tuned with the healing changes that are occurring within.
How Do I know if I am healing?
Trust the Process
This is not a one size fits all approach. Everyone’s journey and healing is going to look different. Some will take longer to heal than others. So, I feel like it’s important to mention that your healing is also dependent of the effort you put into this. I’m not going to lie to you, this journey is going to challenge your body, mind, and soul. You will have to dig deep (somedays REAL deep) because the determination and perseverance to heal lies deep within you. But I promise you, it's there!
The tools provided in this guide when used consistently are meant to help you let go of limiting and old school beliefs regarding nutrition and fitness while building the foundation for a healing lifestyle. As you move forward allow yourself the patience and grace to go through the trial and errors of the journey you are taking. As you go through the ups and downs take time to find the beauty in the learning process. Afterall, you are in a new relationship with yourself, and you are learning YOU all over again. There are going to be a mixture of bad days and good days. The goal is to have more good days than bad.
Healing is going to be evident in a variety of ways. There is no right or wrong way to feel. As with any change to a healthier way of life, you are going to feel the adverse effects of eliminating the “bad” and replacing it with the “good” stuff. Your symptoms may temporarily get worse before getting better. That’s okay too! The extent to which you feel any adverse side effects is also dependent on the lifestyle you are living before implementing the ten steps in this guide.
So, if you feel like this isn’t working, then that means it is! Don’t stop! Don’t give up!
That is why it is so crucial to journal and track your progress! The journaling is going to help you see the ways in which your body is healing from the inside out. Healing is going to be evident as your symptoms start to subside and become less frequent or nonexistent, the brain fog starts to lift, your energy picks up, inflammation starts to reduce, and as you experience less bloat and weight loss.
Everyday rejoice in the victories both big and small. Thank God for the blessings of healing as they occur and pray for the perseverance to continue on the journey when there are hard moments.