You wake in the morning after tossing and turning all night, feeling like you've barely slept for 5 minutes. You drink the coffee, eat the quick energy foods but feel sluggish and exhausted all day. Then, as nightfall sets in and it's time for bed, you get a second wind and find it near impossible to wind down for the night. Next thing you know, you're burning the midnight oil and the next day the cycle repeats itself.  

​Sound familiar? Welcome to the hamster wheel of adrenal fatigue sleep dysfunction.​

About a year ago I had a massive flare-up of my Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, an autoimmune condition where my immune system seeks to destroy my thyroid gland. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's when I was around 12 years old and things had been well controlled for many years until a series of intensely stressful events over the course of a 5 year period triggered an increase in my thyroid antibodies. After working closely with my naturopathic doctor and implementing a number of strategies that I learned about in my schooling for holistic nutrition, things weren't shifting in the direction I needed them to in order to feel back to my regular, energetic self. In July 2017, after my yearly blood test results came in, it turned out that my antibodies were the highest they had ever been and I needed to make the final BIG change that I had been putting off for almost a year.