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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Thrivy Cyberase Podcast where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three, and after dealing with my own health mystery, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner, and so much more. After that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, The Hansen Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable
Speaker 2: and practical strategies for
Speaker 1: developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest expert. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. Alright, you guys.
Hey, welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast with your host, Shannon Hansen. I was really inspired by a friend of mine where we kind of started our businesses at the same time, at least online. Like, when I was starting my business online, she was starting her business online. Both of us had worked with other people prior to all of this. And she got on her Instagram stories and was like, it's been a long time since I've shared my story.
And I was like, oh my gosh, it is a long time since I have shared my story about why I do what I do. And that's essentially what she was also talking about, was why do we show up? Why are we on these platforms?
Why are we doing the work that we're doing in the way that we're doing it? And so I just felt very inspired by that. And I was like, she is so right. She is so right. I am also in that place where I share business pieces of my story. So let's kind of dive in.
And this might be a multiple part theory because I think in order for you guys to really understand why this is so important to me, you have to understand so many different pieces and parts of my life to bring this all together. So the first experience that I personally had with natural medicine was when I was 17 years old. I was having, I grew up in conventional medicine, not conventional, in, yeah, conventional medicine. That's the right word.
Going to see doctors, doing well checks. There was not really ever any thought behind what is natural, what is not natural. My parents ate very clean, growing up. I did not have sugar, any form of like processed sugar until after I was two years old. And that only happened because we went to go on vacation and I saw grandma and grandma fed me some, some candy.
So, and that was very, I would say normal, like getting a treat, getting a candy bar, eating ice cream, things like that was, was a treat for us. Growing it and then after that, like my parents, my mom was a vegan for a while, vegetarian, juice, vegetarian. For a long time, my dad, I remember growing up and like he would add raw eggs to his protein shakes in effort to get added protein. Protein was a big thing or is a big thing when you're trying to bulk up.
And this is before protein powders were as prevalent as they are today. And so I, I just remember very distinctly having these memories of my parents definitely taking care of themselves. I grew up one of those, one of those sounds growing up was my mom would, I would wake up to listening to my mom on her stationary bike and I had a big fan in the front. And so, you know, my siblings joke that it was.
we would hear the Wushin sound in the morning. So definitely grew up with a very, in a very blessed home, being that like my parents were very mindful of what we were eating to the best of their ability. I grew up eating weird strange things like calamari. I remember my first time having calamari was when I was first grade. We went to a kids parents-teacher conference and they had calamari out for the parents and I tried it and I liked it and I kept going back for more and my teachers were like, you like calamari? But like they were so blown away because they're like most kids will not touch that. And I was like, I don't know anything about it.
Like I don't know why they would it. It's delicious, you know? And I grew up eating deer hearts and all kinds of stuff because my dad was a hunter.
So food has never been, like I've never been scared of food and I eat a wide variety of things. So that's a little bit about my background. At 17, like I said, I went to have my first experience with naturopathic medicine and holistic health. So this was, I moved, I was primarily raised by my mom. I did not see my dad for over eight years. We didn't know where he was or what he was doing and there's kind of a story behind that but not the point of today's, not the point of today's conversation. But I was, me and my mom were not getting along. We were not being eye to eye. And now as a mom and an adult, I can see how and with my own kids, I can see how it is important to have both a mom and a dad because there are times in our lives where we're closer to the dad, we're closer to the mom because we get different needs met by both, by both parents.
And so I went to go live with my dad and it was probably one of the best moves for me, not only like physically but also spiritually because my, I grew up in a pretty conservative, my mom is very conservative in our belief and in our thoughts. So I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint and we have dress codes. We have different things that we should abide by. Yes, they're guidelines. They're guidelines.
I'll say it that way. So my mom wanted my shorts to go to my knees and wanted me to at least have like short sleeves. She liked, you tell me what a rule is and I'm like rules are meant to be broken.
That's what I tell my husband all the time. Rules are meant to be broken. And I mean, listen reason, right? Like I do know now that a lot of rules and guidelines are set forth to keep us safe. And that's what I tell my kids. We don't have rules to restrict us.
We have rules to keep us safe and out of harm's way. And I like now that I'm a mom of four girls, I can definitely see that that was what my mom tried to do. But my dad did. I was not required to have the same level of like conservativeness.
Is that a word? I wasn't required to uphold those standards with my dad. The way that I was with my mom, my dad stopped going to church when I was little. And so anyway, it was right after my 17th birthday. And he thought it was appropriate for me because again, my parents were very health conscious.
You go in for annual checks, you know, get things picked out, make sure everything's working properly or whatever. And my dad had been working with a natural pathic doctor. They discovered that he had gluten sensitivity over he only thought it was dairy, but when he would eat gluten and dairy, he would react only to the dairy. And so he cut out dairy for a long time when it was actually a gluten sensitivity.
And so that's kind of like an interesting story. So he was working with this natural pathic doctor to kind of isolate and figure out, you know, what was going on with his digestive system and all these wonderful things. And he sent me to he booked me an appointment and he sent me to get a natural pathic doctor. And like looking back, like it was so cool because I didn't even know or realize like anything was wrong with my body. Everything that I was experiencing was quote unquote normal for teenage girls, acne, heavy periods, painful periods, crampy, things like that.
It was all categorized as normal. And so when I went to this natural pathic doctor and they I filled out like 15 pages of information that I was honestly like, I don't know the answer to this. Like I'm sitting there asking my dad, how, how often do I eat? How often do I eat? How often do I do this?
How often did that? Because I like at 17, I was not aware of what I had going on in my body, right? Like or what I was doing, I was just going through life and feeling with things as it. So this cute little doctor, super petite, she was like really short, really petite and her frame came in and very like, I don't want to say homely looking, but like when I think of like a um verbal medicine doctor or something like that, like she's the person that I that I picture and in in my head, someone with like dark brown plain hair, they don't do their hair, they are just a little bit more like their hair might be frizzy, you know, like that kind of like that kind of look and anyways, so I go in, she asked me some questions about my cycle and I'm answering them that the best of my ability. I drove myself there, so I'm like literally completely alone, my dad gave me a blank check and I go to the doctor and she says okay, let me go check on something, leave room, tell them back in, she's like okay, here's what we're gonna do, she gives me I don't know five or six supplements that I'm supposed to take, writes down on the lids, how many I'm supposed to take and how often I'm supposed to take these supplements and they give me a grocery bag and tie it up and I go up to the front and I am they tell me my total and I write it, I write in the number and I'm thinking oh my gosh, this is a lot of money, you know, I think it's around like $180, but for me being in high school and only working part-time and making you know like just above minimum wage, like it felt like a lot of money and so it was, I didn't know why I was taking this stuff, I just remember feeling like one, this is a lot of money, two, if my dad sent me and he felt like this was important that I would follow through and I would take, I had my my little like pills in my bag and next to I had a TV in my room and next to it on the floor and I remember like before school I would take whatever I needed to and then after school I'd come home and I would take the other one, I don't know if that was the right thing, like they did not break down when I was supposed to be taking it or anything like that and I noticed like very quickly my started to clear up. Now I didn't know that that was connected to what I was doing with this supplement. I honestly had no clue because I didn't like honestly guys I was so oblivious like I was so uneducated at this point and fast forward I finished up my supplement, moved back with my mom or I moved back with my mom and I finished up my supplement and I just, I, because I was so uneducated I didn't know I should go buy them again and I didn't know why my acne came back and why these other things came back once I started the supplement. Again it wasn't until years later that I started to make this connection so moved back with my mom my acne came back, my cycles came back, I started on esophageal lactic acid and I went to the doctor with my mom and she was like well you know for your acne and your period we'll put you on birth control and I was like I'm not going on birth control like I I distinctly remember I was like I am not sexually active I do not want birth control the doctor made my mom leave the room and she's like hey it's okay you know like she's basically telling me it's okay like my mom isn't there and I was like listen I unless I am the next Virgin Mary like I haven't had sex I'm not pregnant like you know and it was kind of like a funny a funny thing um and she remembers that for years every time I went in she was like you're the girl that told me you you know and being 17 almost 18 and being pretty and not sexually active like that was kind of mind-blowing to to my doctor and so basically she's like well I don't know what else to do for your skin so they referred me to a dermatologist did all of the lotions and potions and creams and face washes and everything to try to clear up the acne I remember him telling me you know don't wash your face in the shower because you have to wait till you get out and I'm thinking what the crap like this is so stupid you know but anyways I followed it it still did not take care of the acne there was still stuff happening inside my body so being a female with acne my next option was acutane and you have to take acutate when you take acutane as a female you have to take birth control because there are some yucky nasty side effects with the body that or like birth defects can happen with in the body if you get pregnant so I was actually pretty lucky I did not suffer from a lot of the acutane Acutane symptoms being like I didn't have dry skin.
It wasn't super flaky. It's gonna get red It just cleared everything up and my skin was beautiful. I Looking back now, I'm like man my skin was so so nice, you know, like I wish that was something that Could have continued for me like I took my Honestly, I kind of love Acutane Because my skin did so good. I ended up having to do two rounds of acutane stayed on birth control got like by that point got married with my husband and Just be it on birth control. I had taken it for several years We get married. I want to have a baby and so the month that I got off birth control I got pregnant with my baby and this doesn't even like maybe a year Barely a year after I had been off acutane maybe a little bit longer but this was also the first time in my life where I Did not realize how exhausted I was we would be I remember like distinctly being at church and just yawning and I'm like, oh my gosh I can't even sing because I like every time I open my mouth.
I'm yawning and I was so embarrassed by that and I was like what the heck but I was also waking up at like 4 30 in the morning both my husband will get both my husband and I woke up super early in the morning To go to work both of us preferred that I got done by work at work by like two o'clock and I would go to the gym on the way home and then I would come home and clean up the house and make dinner and my house was like spotless and it was maybe and like I Got pregnant with baby and I remember cleaning the bathroom and Just being like oh my gosh. There's a lot of chemicals in here. There's a lot of smell in here I probably shouldn't be breathing in all of these chemicals Guys I honestly don't know where that thought came from because I had never heard someone else say anything like that at least not to my knowledge So I talked to my husband about it and I was like, you know, I just they say that women couldn't clean litter boxes Well, they're pregnant so I probably shouldn't be smelling and all these fumes and may have been agreed and so he took over cleaning the bathroom for a little while that kind of died off because I came home earlier than he did and It was just easier for me to do it myself, you know a lot of times He by the way, you guys like my husband is freaking awesome.
He always is super helpful but That was kind of like my first little moment I think of Opening my mind. I Hired a midwife and I wanted to have a natural home birth on a mom and my sister had home birth and I was like that's exactly what I want to do and It was really like that was My list now fast forward Pregnant delivery my delivery was horrendous and I ended up having to be transferred to the hospital Going through that whole process of all of that baby come six months later I had to start cost I bring I was inspired by a friend who was cost I bring for baby and so Jumped on that bandwagon. I guess and again on like several different forums and pages about Clothed I bring and things like that people started talking about this thing called tea tree and no idea what that was Tea tree oil. Okay, I'll go to the grocery store by you know buy some at the grocery stores and then One thing led to another On mommy pages or talking about clothed I bring and oil like all of this stuff I got hooked on some of these natural Wellness pages started learning more and more about natural health and natural wellness and I was like all this stuff is really cool So I feel like this is a good place to wrap up This first part of my story if you guys want to hear more about How I got started even further with natural health Then come back for part two Before you go I There's no pressure here,
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