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❌❌ Changing what you eat won’t heal your body.This is what my doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️ told me 🤦🏻‍♀️ when I was diagnosed with Hashi...
04/05/2024

❌❌ Changing what you eat won’t heal your body.

This is what my doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️ told me 🤦🏻‍♀️ when I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s 🦋 (an autoimmune thyroid disease) 13 years ago.

He said my only option was synthetic medication 💊 for the rest of my life... and eventually my thyroid would need to be 🔪 removed.

My autoimmune antibodies🩸showed that my white blood cells were attacking me instead of healing me and there was nothing I could do.

I was crushed.

It would take many years of frustration 😭 and symptoms before I was completely fed up. I was willing to do anything to reduce inflammation and stop the white blood cells from attacking me.

I removed gluten 🌾 and started to feel better. But I was still dealing with these symptoms:

1️⃣ Bloating 🙋🏻‍♀️ and constipation.
2️⃣ Acne🧍🏻‍♀️like a teenager.
3️⃣ Irregular menstrual 🔴 cycle.
4️⃣ Exhausted 😴 all day long.
5️⃣ Energy pills 💊 to stay awake.
6️⃣ Random 🤷🏻‍♀️ weight gain.
7️⃣ Mood 😍😭😬🤬 swings.
8️⃣ Brain 💭 fog.

I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

So, I finally went all in. I ❌ removed inflammatory foods and added ☑️ in gut-healing foods like ginger 🟡, turmeric 🟠, collagen 🐄 and bone broth 🦴. I forced myself to sleep 😴 more and manage stress better. Within a few days the brain 💭 fog lifted.

I woke up with energy ⚡️ for the first time in years. Then, my tummy bloat was gone. My interest in being active 🚲 🧗🏻‍♀️ 🛼 returned. And every morning, I continued to wake with energy.

Within a few months my antibodies dropped 📉. Fast forward ⏩ 3.5 years and they are now consistently so low that my autoimmune diseases 🧬 and viruses 🦠 are now in 💫 complete remission and I have no autoimmune symptoms.

➕I do take a natural thyroid supplement 💊, but my white blood cells are no longer attacking me. 🙏🏻

As I have shared my story 📕, many of you asked for help. I knew that we needed to do something.

➡️ Madison and I spent months 🎉🎉 building the Autoimmune Sisters 21 Day Anti-Inflammatory Plan to introduce you to the same methods I used.

Our last class before summer begins Tuesday, May 7th. Are you in? Leave a comment below and we’ll send you the details to your inbox.

Oh, there are so many mornings 🌞 that I wake up, turn off my alarm ⏰, roll over and moan from ______________ (a. exhaust...
24/03/2024

Oh, there are so many mornings 🌞 that I wake up, turn off my alarm ⏰, roll over and moan from ______________ (a. exhaustion, b. pain, c. fear of another hard day, d. all of the above).

Some days I just feel so fragile. Limited. Unable.

I want to change this. Be intentional every single day.

I want to wake firmly believing that instead God will. Instead God provides. Instead God makes a way. Instead God knows.

I want to firmly believe that God is not fragile, and then trust Him to be everything I need today.

xoxo, Aimee | Founder of

Low on energy 😩 with autoimmune disease? Taking a shower 🚿 and then needing to rest 🛌? Scheduling your week with 1️⃣ or ...
05/01/2024

Low on energy 😩 with autoimmune disease? Taking a shower 🚿 and then needing to rest 🛌? Scheduling your week with 1️⃣ or less events a day? Having to cancel plans ❌ because you just can’t? Yup. Ditto!

What about these symptoms?
☑️ Brain 💭 fog or forgetfulness
☑️ Abdominal 💩 discomfort or irregularities
☑️ Joint 😣 pain or swelling
☑️ Loss of ✨ overall function
☑️ Exhaustion after 😴 waking up
☑️ Mood 😍😡😫😭 swings

There is hope!

In just a few short months 📆 I was able to overcome these symptoms by committing to:
🚫 Removing common inflammatory foods
🛌 Getting 8-9 hours of sleep
🔥 Managing stressors
❌ Removing toxic beauty, cleaners and kitchenware
💊 Supplementing low level vitamins and minerals

It does take an “all in” mentality and commitment... and it can take time
⏰. So, don’t forget to be patient ♥️♥️♥️ with yourself.

➡️ If you are looking for a great place to start, we strongly believe that changing your food can have the biggest and most immediate impact on your energy 💫 and overall health. Making it much easier to handle the rest of those changes mentioned above.

Today, my body is stronger 💪🏻, healthier 🥥🥬🍇 and my inflammation is completely gone. I am also in remission from my autoimmune diseases and chronic viruses 🦠. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet has literally changed ♥️ my entire life. I have become the best version of myself.

As I have shared my story with you here, many of you have reached out 💬 asking me for help and I knew that we needed to do something.

In September 2020, we created 👩🏻‍💻👩🏼‍💻the 21 Day Anti-inflammatory Plan to help reduce your inflammation and improve your nutrition based on the very methods that worked for us.

🎉 Jumpstart your healing with our 21 Day Anti-Inflammatory Plan. If you’re ready to make a change, we welcome you to join our next class starting this Tuesday. We’ll help you prep for 5 days and Day 1️⃣ begins on January 14th).

Are you in? Leave a comment below so we can send you the details.

xoxo, Aimee Founder at

😅As you fight autoimmune disease, be brave. Try things with a little faith… and without knowing the end result.In 2014, ...
18/08/2023

😅As you fight autoimmune disease, be brave. Try things with a little faith… and without knowing the end result.

In 2014, I had a naturopathic pediatrician (a client of my website design business) challenge me to remove gluten 💯% to reduce overall inflammation. No more wheat-based bread 🍞, Einstein Brother bagels 🥯, $5 Little Caesar pizza on Fridays 🍕, McD’s Big Mac 🍔, Krispy Kreme donuts 🍩… um, clearly my diet lacked healthy. 🤣 So, naturally, the next day I began… and nearly 10 years later I am thankful for the day I rose to the occasion. My husband, children, mother and many friends have even adopted a gluten free lifestyle because of my story and wow, what a difference it has made.

‼️Of course, over the next several years, I would go through removing many more food groups and ingredients and sometimes adding some back in.

I still miss Big Macs 🍔 and Krispy Kremes 🍩… but I do not ever regret taking the steps I do to get to where I am. Of course, all without knowing if I was on the right path.

➡️ As you make decisions to follow a path for your autoimmune disease healing, be brave. Try new things… wild things like parasite 🪱 cleanses with , mushroom 🍄 complexes, smoothies 🥤with grass fed collagen, stool 💩 tests and beef 🐄 organs… 🤤 and just see what happens.

What’s something you’ve done without knowing the result?!

xoxo, Aimee | Founder at

I started getting sick with pre-autoimmune symptoms at age 15. At that age, I went through a traumatic experience, my im...
01/07/2023

I started getting sick with pre-autoimmune symptoms at age 15. At that age, I went through a traumatic experience, my immune system sunk and I collected 3️⃣ Epstein Barr Virus rounds in 3️⃣ years. Paired with the MTHFR 🤦🏻‍♀️ genetic mutation, I didn’t have a chance.

Fast-forward a few years and I would begin collecting diagnosis (Hashimoto’s 🦋, narcolepsy 😴, pernicious anemia 🩸, hormone 🧬 imbalances… and on and on).

Looking back over the past 20 years… I am so thankful I never gave up. I never quit. I never accepted my life with all of the symptoms and no explanation.

➡️➡️ Whatever you do… don’t give up on yourself. Keep searching, keep seeking, keep asking questions, keep sharing your story.

Watch what happens when you don’t quit.

xoxo, | Founder at

♥️ Yes, I’ve been on a hiatus… more to follow about my time away shortly. With love and thanksgiving.

♥️ We can and we will. We will not back down. We will not give up. We will not walk away.Chin up, sister.Stop 🛑 telling ...
21/04/2023

♥️ We can and we will. We will not back down. We will not give up. We will not walk away.

Chin up, sister.
Stop 🛑 telling yourself that you’re struggling.
Instead rest 😴, take it easy on yourself, rest 😴 again. Then, back at it.
Because you’re simply mid-conquer.

Yes… I needed these words tonight and pray 🙏🏻 that at least one of you did too.

xoxo, Aimee | Founder at

😲😬😳 Did you know that “fragrance” is a highly unregulated term? The FDA does NOT ❌ require approval before pushing produ...
19/03/2023

😲😬😳 Did you know that “fragrance” is a highly unregulated term? The FDA does NOT ❌ require approval before pushing products with this “ingredient label” onto the market, and does NOT ❌ require these ingredients to be provided to the consumer. This is all in the name of protecting “proprietary” blends or “trade secrets”!

😩 With 3️⃣1️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ possibilities of ingredients hidden behind the term “fragrance”, consumers are left with only guesses as to how a product may affect their health. 🤷🏼‍♀️ The worst part? Start reading your labels, and you’ll realize that “fragrance” is in nearly every product out there.

Common concerns with “fragrance” include…
🚫 Endocrine disruption
🚫 Allergies/Immunotoxicity
🚫 Irritation to skin, eyes, or lungs
🚫 Organic System Toxicity
…and much more!

➕Guess what? There is good news! At least ONE ☝🏻 company does exist that doesn’t use the word “fragrance” in their ingredient list. So, you don’t have to give up your nice smelling, fragranced self care products… you only need to swap them out! 🎉

♥️ The brand we know and trust for products we feel good about using on our skin is 100% Pure. Not only do they create high quality products that perform great, but they smell amazing too. No chemicals 🙅🏽‍♀️ just plants, and 100% transparent ingredients 🙌🏼.

What are some of your favorite toxin-free beauty products? ⬇️

xoxo, Madison |

🔥🔥🔥 By the way, we negotiated an amazing discount for you to use on our FAVORITE brand. Just go to: and use code: sisters20 for 20% off your order today!

Over the years of learning to heal my autoimmune diseases there were many, many times I went silent 🤫. I withdrew from s...
16/03/2023

Over the years of learning to heal my autoimmune diseases there were many, many times I went silent 🤫. I withdrew from social ❌ events, took breaks from posting 📱 and sharing and avoided talking about my current state.

There were many truths to the silence, but here’s the primary reasons:

1️⃣ Sharing made me angry 😡. Talking about my symptoms, my inability to fully function and the endless doctor appts with little hope 😢 just reinforced how sick I already was.

2️⃣ Most people didn’t understand 🤷🏻‍♀️. I was exhausted 😩 from answering questions and trying to make sense of my crazy.

3️⃣ So many opinions!! People would say “you should try to rest 🛌 more”… or, “my friend started drinking celery 🥬 juice”… or “maybe it’s because you’re so angry, you need to let it go!” Huh??

4️⃣ And, yes, I was jealous that everyone else seemed to have it all together and I was sick 😣.

Some roads you just need to take alone. ♥️ Hunker down, do your research, find your support, so what you can… and yes, rest often.

Just don’t quit.

Have you experienced periods of quiet during your healing process?

xoxo, Aimee | Founder at

One of my favorite quotes ➡️ When things fall apart, they may actually be falling into place. For many years, I was fall...
09/03/2023

One of my favorite quotes ➡️ When things fall apart, they may actually be falling into place. For many years, I was falling apart. Plus, the many years before my diagnosis. So let’s go with 22 years for fun. 22 years!! I have suffered through crazy 😜, upside down roller coasters 🎢 that would not stop 🛑 to let me off.

From doctors 👩🏻‍⚕️ to more doctors👨🏻‍⚕️ to offices hours away, to specialist, to blood🩸draws, to protocols… the never-ending ups and downs and inside outs of Autoimmune Disease.

Some doctors had profound impact on me… like the one that told me changing my diet ❌ wouldn’t help. Or the one that told me I couldn’t control my inflammation without medication 💊.

All lies.

But the one that motivated me the most was when a doctor told me I had Rheumatoid Arthritis ✋🏻 and Lupus ‼️markers on TOP of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis 🦋 and I would be medication-dependent the rest of my life… oh, and I likely had thyroid cancer 🙄.

Um. No.

I ran to my car and sobbed.

Prayed 🙏🏻 with relentless ambition. Begged God to heal me… just heal me already. It would take 3 more years of battling, making HUGE changes, sacrificing much and adjusting everything I knew about my diet and lifestyle.

Along the road 🏔️ I met women just like you 👯‍♀️ that shared their story and encouraged me to look deeper. It’s where I found information about Epstein Barr Virus 🦠, hormone 🧬 imbalances, parasites 🪱. It’s where God provided direction, strength and submission to a process.

Now that I’ve fallen apart so many times… and back together again… I can’t wait to tell you about the power of God and the women He has put in my life at just exact moment.

And I am here to encourage ♥️ you on your journey. To keep asking 💬 questions. To keep sharing 🗣️ your story. To keep praying 🙏🏻.

xoxo, Aimee | Founder at

♥️ A simple reminder… as we battle through days, weeks, months and sometimes many years to find healing with our autoimm...
27/02/2023

♥️ A simple reminder… as we battle through days, weeks, months and sometimes many years to find healing with our autoimmune disease. Chin up sister. You’re not struggling. You’re mid-conquer. 🎉

We must stay and fight… and nap 😴 often. But never quit.

🔥My motivation for continuing to fight through the crazy, the sickness, the symptoms and make huge changes to my lifestyle and conquer my autoimmune disease was for our kids. I wanted them to have a mom 👩🏻 that could get up in the morning 🌞, a mom that could help at school 🏫, attend soccer ⚽️ games, take them to the beach 🏖️ and be there to watch them grow up.

What’s your motivation? Leave a comment 💬 below or encourage someone.

xoxo, Aimee | Founder at

😳😳😳Yes!! Into your bloodstream! Often times, we focus so much of our energy into what we’re eating (which is super impor...
16/02/2023

😳😳😳Yes!! Into your bloodstream! Often times, we focus so much of our energy into what we’re eating (which is super important 🎉), that we forget to consider what we’re putting ON our skin.

✖️The problem is, what we put on our skin, we’re actually putting IN our body, and it’s absorbed into the bloodstream in only 26 seconds🩸🫢.

The average woman in the United States 🇺🇸 is exposed to 168 chemicals 🏴‍☠️from cosmetics daily. Which means, we’re absorbing a lot of toxins on a regular basis 🫣.

➕So, what can we do to change this? We know that making the switch to toxin-free living can seem daunting, which is why we do NOT suggest throwing all your products out and making the switch overnight. ➕ Simply swap 🔄 one product at a time, as you run out.

100% PURE] is our absolute favorite, toxin-free brands, and the who we look to for almost all of our self-care product.

From nail polish 💅, bronzer, lipstick 💄, face wash 🧼, lotions🧴and so much more. Their ingredient lists are filled with naturally-derive, fruit based 🍓extracts.

Make the switch slow, and enjoy the process of starting a new self care routine.

What is your favorite toxin-free tips or swap? ⬇️

xoxo, Madison |

🔥🔥🔥 By the way, we negotiated an amazing discount for you to use on our FAVORITE brand. Just go to: 100% PURE] and use code: sisters20 for 20% off your order!

Don’t you tell me that my labs🩸look normal ➕ and the symptoms are just in my head 🧠. Don’t you tell me I’m depressed 😞 w...
15/01/2023

Don’t you tell me that my labs🩸look normal ➕ and the symptoms are just in my head 🧠. Don’t you tell me I’m depressed 😞 when I’m just trying to cope with the wild ways of living with Hashimoto’s 🦋 (autoimmune thyroid disorder). How dare you call yourself an expert 👨🏻‍⚕️and deny that changing food (🚫🌾🥛🍭) and lifestyle (‼️🏋🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🛌) can and do improve my health and diseases.

WE ARE THE EXPERTS!!!!

I wish health care providers would do a better job listening. I will say, I have seen some improvement 😬😅since my first diagnosis in 2010, but sisters, there’s still a long way 🏔️ to go.

➡️ Stand up for yourself every step of the way. Leave a doctor that won’t provide you with labs 🧫 and support that you need. Research 🧐, study 📚 and make every effort to be your own subject matter expert and STAND YOUR GROUND.

Always, with love! ♥️

xoxo, Aimee | Founder at

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