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Holistic Thyroid Healing 🌿✨
Hashimoto's / Graves / Nodules/ Thyroidectomy
Gut Health | Mindset & Somatic Healing

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11/03/2026

Have GRAVES’ disease? Not all thyroid advice applies to YOU.

GRAVES’ and HASHIMOTO’S are two different autoimmune thyroid conditions. Understanding the differences matters when deciding what advice is relevant to your health.

Here’s where it gets interesting…

With GRAVES’, antibodies can stimulate the TSH receptors, signalling your thyroid to produce excess hormones.

With HASHIMOTO’S, immune-mediated inflammation and damage to thyroid tissue can gradually impair hormone production.

🔍 THE IMPORTANT DISTINCTION? It’s not simply which antibodies you have. It’s what’s happening within your thyroid.

TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies can also be present in Graves’, not just Hashi’s. And Hashimoto’s can sometimes cause a temporary release of stored thyroid hormones.

So what else matters?

🔑 1. THE MECHANISM
Graves’ involves stimulation of the TSH receptor. Hashimoto’s typically involves inflammation and damage to thyroid tissue. But there can be overlap.

🔑 2. YOUR THYROID FUNCTION
Graves’ commonly causes excess thyroid hormone production. Hashimoto’s commonly leads to reduced function. However, some people experience a temporary HYPERthyroid phase when inflammation releases stored hormones. Thyroid function can subsequently shift towards a HYPOthyroid pattern.

🔑 3. THE WIDER PICTURE
Graves’ can also involve thyroid eye disease, which needs specific assessment. Your symptoms, thyroid function, relevant antibodies and clinical history all matter.

This is why copying someone else’s diet, supplements or thyroid protocol doesn’t necessarily mean it’s right for YOU.

I want to understand your health history, connect the dots and explore what deserves attention — from digestion, nutrient status and lifestyle to nervous system and emotional wellbeing.

YOUR GRAVES’ JOURNEY DESERVES AN APPROACH THAT CONSIDERS THE WHOLE OF YOU. 🩵

SAVE this as a reminder that thyroid advice isn’t one-size-fits-all.

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10/30/2026

One of the biggest things I want women with thyroid conditions to understand is that there’s often more to explore than what shows up in their blood tests, or what they’re eating and taking.

And I don’t just mean adding another supplement or changing your diet.

Your overall lifestyle, the way you respond to stress, the patterns you repeat without even realising it, the beliefs you carry and the emotional experiences that have shaped you can all be important parts of the bigger picture.

Some of these patterns are so familiar that you don’t even recognise them anymore.

Perhaps you’re always putting everyone else first. You find it difficult to ask for help, switch off or slow down. You feel responsible for keeping everything together, even when you’re running on empty.

These deeper patterns deserve space to be explored, too.

This is why my approach goes beyond conventional naturopathic support. Alongside looking at your physical health, nutrition, digestion, nutrient status and lifestyle, I incorporate somatic healing, subconscious work and deeper emotional and energetic practices.

Because I don’t believe in looking at one part of you in isolation.

I’ve walked my own thyroid autoimmune journey, and I know how much there can be to discover when you start looking beyond the obvious.

You deserve an approach that considers the WHOLE of you — not just your thyroid diagnosis. 🩵

If you’ve been searching for answers and feel there’s more to understand about your health, I’d love you to explore my work.

Book a Clarity Call through the link in my bio and let’s talk about what’s been going on for YOU.
brontemay.naturopath

10/26/2026

With Graves’ disease, getting your thyroid numbers into range is only part of the picture.

There’s more to consider than just T3 and T4.

Medication can play an important role in managing Graves’ disease, but your wider health deserves attention, too.

This can include medication side effects, digestion and nutrient status, stress, lifestyle, and even deeper patterns that may be influencing how you feel.

Because you are MORE than your thyroid results. 🤍

🔎 This is where my whole-self approach comes in.

I look BEYOND individual symptoms to explore what else may be going on — including the patterns and blind spots that can be difficult to recognise on your own.

Sometimes, it’s not about doing more. It’s about understanding what you haven’t yet considered.

✨ Want to explore what else may be relevant to YOUR thyroid health?

DM me THYROID
or book a Clarity Call through the link in my bio.

Your health journey deserves an approach that considers the whole of you — and respects your choices.

brontemay.naturopath

10/07/2026

The older I get, the less interested I am in forcing things.

Forcing outcomes.

Forcing healing.

Forcing answers.

Forcing myself to keep going when every part of me is telling me to stop.

So many women I work with have spent years living in GO mode.

Pushing.

Performing.

Holding everything together.

Trying harder.

Being the strong one.

And eventually, the body starts pushing back.

The fatigue gets harder to ignore.
The anxiety gets louder.
The symptoms become harder to override.

Not because your body is working against you.

But because something needs to change.

Sometimes we just need to slow down enough to actually tune in and listen.

To create enough space to notice what’s really going on — instead of immediately trying to fix, push through or override it.

And to bring more JOY, PLAY and REST into our lives.

🔍 This is also something I explore with my clients — because sometimes the reason you can’t slow down isn’t simply that you don’t know you should.

We unpack the patterns that keep you in GO mode, so you can actually SEE what you’ve been running on and why it’s been so hard to do things differently.

And yes, I genuinely ask my clients about their HOBBIES.

Not just what they used to enjoy.

What do you actually DO that brings you joy?

Because healing isn’t only about everything you’re taking away or changing.

Your body also needs experiences that feel GOOD. 🫶

🩵 What brings YOU peace and joy these days?

I’d love to hear in the COMMENTS.

10/06/2026

Hair loss can feel heartbreaking.

You wash your hair and see it in the drain.

You brush it and wonder where half your ponytail went.

You start buying supplements, shampoos and treatments hoping one of them will finally be the answer.

Sometimes they help.

Sometimes they don’t.

Because hair loss isn’t always a hair problem.

A few things I commonly investigate in women with thyroid concerns are:

🩵 Ferritin
🩵 Fasting insulin
🩵 Free T3

But here’s what I want women to understand…

The goal isn’t just to find another supplement.

It’s to understand WHY your body is struggling to grow healthy hair in the first place.

⚠️ Something really important to know about hair loss:

The hair you’re losing TODAY may be connected to something that happened MONTHS AGO.

With some types of hair shedding, particularly telogen effluvium, there can be a delay of around 2–3 MONTHS between the trigger and when you actually notice the increased shedding.

So an illness, period of significant stress, nutritional issue, hormonal change or thyroid disruption may have happened well before you started seeing handfuls of hair in the shower.

And once you identify what your body needs and start addressing it, you still need to give your hair time.

Hair growth doesn’t happen overnight.

It can take SEVERAL MONTHS to see meaningful changes, and fuller recovery can take around 6 months or longer depending on what’s driving the hair loss.

Which is why consistency matters.

Because two women can experience the exact same symptom and need completely different support.

That’s why I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all protocols.

I want to understand the whole picture of what’s happening in YOUR BODY, your history and your lifestyle.

👇 What’s been the most frustrating part of your hair loss journey?

I’d love to hear your experience in the comments.

✨ And if you’re looking for thyroid support that goes beyond symptom management and helps you understand the bigger picture, you’re in the right place.

05/25/2026

One of the most common patterns I see in women with thyroid issues…

is chronic over-functioning.

Women carrying:
the emotional load
the mental load
the responsibility
the home
the relationship
the invisible labour
everyone else’s needs

…while slowly disconnecting from themselves in the process.

And often?

They’re not expressing how overwhelmed they really are.

Not because they’re weak.

Because somewhere along the way they learnt:
it’s easier to just do it themselves
having needs creates friction
asking for help leads to disappointment
keeping quiet keeps the peace

So they over-function instead.

And over time…

the body carries the pressure too.

This is the part I think is missing from so many thyroid conversations.

Because yes:
nutrition matters
supplements matter
labs matter

But so does:
how you communicate
how much you carry
whether you feel supported
whether your body ever truly gets to exhale
whether your needs exist in your own life too

And no —
this isn’t about blaming women.

It’s about helping them see the pattern clearly enough to finally change it.

Because awareness changes everything.

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If this resonated deeply…

DM me “SHIFT”
and I’ll help you understand where this pattern may be showing up in your life.

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