My Thyroid Love

30/04/2026

New 5-min health affirmations designed to help your mind & body to focus on vibrant health and vitality:

I AM Health Affirmations for vibrant health and full body healing

30/04/2026

Haha proud of being high maintenance😉😂

29/04/2026

Well, one thing being debilitated with chronic illness such as unmanaged Hashimoto’s and then mold toxicity /lyme disease flare-ups has taught me - is how f**king strong I am.

The times where there has been no space to run from the mind because you are physically unable to rush around and make yourself chronically busy. There is nowhere to escape to. Ultimately, you are forced to sit with what you had previously buried deep. And out of this place comes a surrendering and an acceptance for these emotions. These parts of yourself that had been frozen in the dark for so long. These wounds and traumas. And perhaps some hidden gifts that never saw the light.

I have met so many people that just CANNOT sit with themselves and therefore they CANNOT sit with you. It can be retraumatising if you have ever been in the situation where you are reaching out for help, and they cannot hold the space. These are the types of people who usually laugh / scoff at sensitives and space holders, and laugh at emotions. They don’t ’believe’ in “mental health” or stress-related illnesses apparently. But yet, when they are going through pain, YOU are able to hold space for them. And boy, they needed it.

Sad that this skill is not celebrated in our culture. The skill of being able to hold space for someone is deeply healing and EXACTLY what this world needs more of. We don’t need more emotional bypassing. We need some empathetic and compassionate people who FEEL so that we can heal the narcissistic imbalance in our culture.

15/04/2026

Some of us were born sensitive. We were the canaries in the coal mine. This productivity and profit-obsessed culture and its disconnect from nature - our very own truth, will hit us first. Long before others even begin to notice. In this sense, it can be both a blessing and a curse to be sensitive. In one sense, we suffer with health issues in a response to a sick environment- we all live in a toxic soup of chemicals, EMFs and this mental disease that we are trained to believe we must ‘be productive’ 24/7 or that we ‘need’ all these external and material things in order to be ‘happy’, whilst on a never-ending hamster wheel of chasing happiness. The new car was fun for a while… and then you needed something else.

However, the blessing is that we wake up to the reality of the world sooner. We course-correct and begin to live a life more authentic to ourselves. We choose to start living a life in alignment with OUR values and not just what society told us to.

Btw - no shade on enjoying material things, it’s just when it becomes the thing we define our worth by, that’s where the danger lies.

07/04/2026

5 years ago today, we handed in our notice to our little flat in Surrey / Greater London. We didn’t know what we were going to do or where we were going to go and had only two months to sort it out. We ended up following my intuition and moving to South-west England. We did van life for a while and so had to get rid of 90% of our belongings, including all our furniture and so many clothes!!
Then we found a little cottage in Somerset.

It was health that changed our lives forever. After going through autoimmunity and then dizziness and vertigo - my priorities in life changed.

Being cooped up in lockdowns and losing so much freedom made us realise what really mattered in life.

I have been through so many rebirths these last 5 years, and cannot go back. It has been a journey of accepting myself and how different I am to the mainstream. Accepting my neurodivergence, psychic sensitivity and depth. Learning to stay true to myself, as Beyoncé sings in the song ‘Running’ by Naughty Boy, “if I lose myself, I lose it all”.

02/04/2026

Some people don’t want love, they want supply.

Most people think of narcissistic abuse coming from romantic relationships, but what is often overlooked is family members and friendships.

Many highly sensitive souls find themselves in these types of relationships and I’ve written a blog about why this tends to happen, link in bio 🔗

30/03/2026

For many, if not all of these, I learnt the hard way.

The nervous system is KEY to any autoimmune disease.

When dysregulated, it sends signals to the body that it is “unsafe”.

The body responds with its powerful army.

Sadly, our own glands and tissues can get caught up in this.

Give your body moments of safety throughout the day - being in nature listening to nothing but the birds, drinking a hot cup of tea, cuddling up with a weighted blanket and a book, having breaks from the screen, etc.

10/03/2026

What do you wish you'd known sooner on your autoimmune / thyroid health journey?

I feel like there would've been FAR less stress and confusion if I'd had known these key things about autoimmune and thyroid health from the start.

04/03/2026

I know some of you are new here, so I thought I’d do another introduction post!

My name is Dani, and I am a thyroid and autoimmune advocate and patient. After feeling let down by the conventional system, I went on a journey of researching and trialling complimentary and holistic health.

I was able to turn my health around, feel like myself again and find ways to manage Hashimoto’s in order to live my life well.

I went through such a painful time with the diagnosis - I felt so alone and misunderstood. I was being made to feel as if it was all in my head.

This is why I like to write and share from my lived experience here and on my Substack.

I’m here to be that support, that reassuring voice (it’s not all in your head!), and hopefully give you some ideas on how to live well with autoimmune disease.

I love to talk about:

💚Food & nourishment
💚Trauma, nervous system & safety
💚Low-tox living & environment
💚Life as a highly sensitive person

If you want to read more in-depth reflections, I write regularly on my Substack (link in the comments). I’d love you to join my community space there - you don’t have to suffer alone 🌻

Thank you for being here 🙏

03/03/2026

Hunter & Gather are becoming one of my favourite brands, they have strong values and I can trust the quality of their products to be without nasty fillers or chemicals.

It’s so hard to get enough protein into every meal, and so I find their protein and collagen powders help me to increase my intake.

Eating protein with each meal helps to stabilise our blood sugar (which can be all-over-the-place with Hashimoto’s, thyroid issues and autoimmune diseases, and cause more fatigue and inflammation).

02/03/2026

Some people won't want to hear this but ...
..the ‘perfect’ diet won't save you if your nervous system is stuck in survival mode.

And working through trauma won't fully land if your gut is still sending distress signals to your brain every day (due to inflammatory foods & chemicals).

That's why we have to look at all three of them... together.

It's not about being perfect. It's about acknowledging that healing is multi-layered.

The first step is to ask: where can I create a tiny bit more balance in each of these 3 areas?

(Just one small step for each one. You don't need to overhaul it all overnight. Healing is about pacing yourself, and knowing what your body and nervous system can handle.)

Have you ever felt like you were 'doing all the right things' but yet still didn't feel better? Share your experience below 👇