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    Healing from Hashimoto’s

    Healing from Hashimoto’s

    written by Kristen Koester-Smith

    I have been pretty quiet about this publically, but if you’ve spent any time with me in the past year, you’ve heard about my diagnosis and struggle with an incurable disease, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.

    The Diagnosis

    About a year ago, my mom noticed that my throat was swollen at the base. I’ve always been pretty much the opposite of a hypochondriac, in part because I’ve been privileged to be largely healthy my whole life. Otherwise, I kind of felt like because I was a vegetarian and a yogi and meditated and ‘thought positive’ I would be all good in the health department (toxic positivity?). 

    I asked my nurse friend Sam about it, expecting to hear that it was nothing.  Yet, she confirmed my mom’s suspicion that something was not right. Shortly after, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I’d had all the symptoms for the past six months—weight gain, depression, and tiredness, but tbh had just chalked it up to the fact that there was a global pandemic and at 30 I was living back at home in Idaho with my parents (I love mom and dad but…you know). Looking back, I really see how my beliefs about ‘positive thinking’ could/can be potentially harmful. Instead of being sensitive to what was going on in my body and dealing with reality, I just kinda figured I needed to think a little happier and ‘clear my energy field.’

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    faces of (the human) race: The Why

    by Kristen Koester-Smith July 4, 2021

    It was my intention with this blog series to amplify the voices of those around me who have something to…

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    28.

    by Kristen Koester-Smith February 11, 2019

    I will remember 28. I’ll remember that he delayed his trip to spend the week of my birthday with me…

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    I’m Always Leaving

    by Kristen Koester-Smith November 5, 2018

    Or at least that what’s it feels like. 2 years here, 2 years there, repeat. It seems like saying goodbye…

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    The Properties of Gold

    by Kristen Koester-Smith April 24, 2018

    As a health tonic, My grandfather ate Gold. Atomic Number: AU, Is what he said to my her, As she…

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    Phases of the Moon

    by Kristen Koester-Smith March 30, 2018

    28 days old and she’s whole. She appears. Full. Magical. Dressed in satin black and diamonds. The others are star…

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    A Different Type of Starving Artist

    by Kristen Koester-Smith January 9, 2018

    I used to say I write to bleed the pain out of me, which, albeit angst-y, was true and certainly…

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    Abby

    by Kristen Koester-Smith September 20, 2017

    I feel her bones in my bones. She’s always been there. I was born with the knowing. Her story has…

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    The Rat.

    by Kristen Koester-Smith May 5, 2017

    Part 1: The Bleed That rat-tat-tatting in her head. The melancholy won’t leave her alone. No matter what she does to…

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    Here.

    by Kristen Koester-Smith April 19, 2017

    I have this thing Where sometimes I’m fine Sometimes I know my path and I know what’s good for me.…

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