One thing writing a blog does? It opens you up to lots of email from folks seeking help. And that’s a good thing! I know when I searched for Dr. Jack, I was looking to find someone who could help me. Last week I got a an email from a man with Hashimoto’s. He talked to me about his life, his inability to lose weight, his fatigue, how he lost his job because the brain fog was so bad he forgot essential things at work.
I wrote him back, I respond to everyone. And he told me those words… “I can’t…” He feels powerless to change his life, lack of funds, lack of motivation, lack…. and I can relate because all too often I have found myself knocked to the ground, and what I believed was powerless…. felt like I couldn’t get up and try again that there was no “try” left in me. It would be easy to lay there and give up.
I have only one piece of advice for that, no matter what the story is…. Don’t!
You can lay there a little while and look at your wounds. But don’t stay there… get up. And try something. You don’t have to change everything! But we all have enough steam to change something! It doesn’t need to be big, just change something, one little thing.
Give up coffee for a few days. You can get it back later, but it is one of the biggest enemies I Had. I do drink some organic coffee now, but not tons and not more than once a day. That constant coffee to help isn’t helping at all.
Take up walking, even if it is to the end of your driveway. Park farther from the door. Buy an inexpensive music player. Borrow some music from the library. Listen to the radio, and walk a bit.
Give up sugar for a few days, and take up some new vegetables you never tried. At the end of a few days, you will see you can live without it!
Sleep more and watch tv less. Give up an hour of internet surfing for free meditations on YouTube. I watch Dr. Jack’s videos on supplements allllll the time. Just to help keep health goals in my head,
Read something every single day to feed your soul! Even if it is just one paragraph!
Pray….. most people have no idea how many conversations I have with God. And how God as heard and answered me.
Laugh…. smile! Let only one or two see what is really going on inside but for the rest of the world be the smile that they need. I try to do that every day. I am free to totally be myself, all my ugly with very select people. The rest of the world? They think I am always happy! And that’s good! Maybe you are the only happy they see today.
Download some song that just perks up your mood! I just found my “theme” song! One that I just thought Wow! That is ME!
Dare…… dare to do something no one would believe you could not even you!
Sit in nature for a little while,and enjoy…. the melting snow, the birds, the sunshine….
Take up some new crafty thing, pour your self into some kind of art even if no one like someone it but you.
Write… putting words on paper sometimes helps to relieve stress.
Research holistic methods to help you with your health goals. Research costs nothing. Books from the library cost nothing. I am an information junkie!
Make one big step or one tiny step….. just don’t settle that where you are is enough for you, because so muchhhhhhhhh is waiting for you to find it!
Josh? Hashimoto’s is not the end! It’s just the beginning! Start your journey with one baby step! You aren’t stuck with it, I believed that for sooooo long. Don’t you believe it and when you are ready? Dr. Jack isnt going anywhere, he is ready. He has helped so many people and I know he can help you!
Hugs!
Chris