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Overhead view of white bowl filled with roasted chopped sweet potatoes, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped avocado, cooked ground beef, chopped cilantro, with sour cream drizzled on top. The bowl is next to a stainless steel fork to the right, half of an avocado in upper left quadrant, and chopped cilantro to the top right quadrant.

Sweet Potato Taco Meal

A hand holding half an open empanada in the foreground, with four empanadas on a sheet pan in the background.

Gluten Free Paleo Empanadas

Greek Sheet Pan Supper

Salted Chocolate Tart

A side view of three single-portion sized mason jars, filled with scoops of AIP Ice Cream. Each jar contains a single flavor; on the right is a jar of Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, in the middle a jar of Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream and at the left a jar of Pina Colada Ice Cream. The picture is square sized and the two outer jars are cut in half.

3 Easy and Delicious Dairy-free Ice Creams

Close up view of two tigernut waffles stacked on a white plate with a jar of blueberry syrup and a napkin in the background.

Tigernut Flour Waffles With Blueberry Syrup

4 paleo aip seasoning mixes in jars

4 Paleo & AIP Seasoning Mixes (and what to do with them)

Carrot Ginger Soup

6 finished and glazed Paleo AIP Cranberry Orange Scones laid out on a counter from above

Cranberry Orange Scones

How to Make Sweet Potato Milk

Italian Sausage Kale Soup

AIP mac and cheese on a plate from above, sprinkled with bacon bits

Bacon Mac and Cheese

Sweet and Sour Broccoli Ham

easy AIP dessert truffles with one in the foreground that has a huge bite out of it

AIP Chocolate Recipes That'll Satisfy That Craving

Winter Steak Salad fully assembled from above

Winter Steak Salad

Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Parfaits

Maple Blueberry Breakfast Sausage

Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl from above, covered with fresh banana slices and tigernut granola

Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl

Lemon AIP Scones

AIP Chicken Salad Lunch - Last Minute & Portable

homemade tigernut milk

AIP waffles covered with coconut whipped cream, fresh blueberries and mint from the side

Crispy AIP Waffles

AIP coffee alternatives

AIP Coffee Alternatives (Skipping coffee is not as bad as it seems)

AIP Coconut Milk Substitute - Banana Milk!

tigernut butter on a kinfe

30-Second Tigernut Butter

You take the meds. You try to eat “healthy.” Y

You take the meds.
You try to eat “healthy.”
You keep showing up.

But behind the scenes?

You’re dragging yourself out of bed, even after 9 hours of sleep.
You’re staring at a fridge full of “clean” food with zero energy to cook.
You’re canceling on friends—again—because one flare can knock you out for days.
And you’re tired of pretending it’s all okay.

This is the part no one talks about.

The quiet ways your symptoms chip away at your peace, your confidence, and your sense of self.

What no one’s told you?
Your thyroid isn’t broken.

But your body might be stuck in survival mode—and conventional medicine doesn’t fix that.

There’s so much you can do to change this—without adding more stress or confusion to your plate.

In my free class I’ll walk you through:
✅Why symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, and weight gain persist—even on meds
✅What your doctor isn’t telling you about Hashimoto’s and hormone conversion
✅The 4 overlooked systems that keep your body in survival mode
✅A step-by-step approach to start healing without hating your food or lifestyle

💬 Comment WORKSHOP and I’ll send you the link.

#hashimotos #thyroidhealth #hypothyroidrelief #aipdiet #autoimmunehealing #chronicillnesssupport #thyroidsupport

You want to feel better. You want to heal. But t

You want to feel better.

You want to heal.

But there’s this quiet tug that still pulls you back into old habits—not because you don’t care…

But because you’re afraid of what people will think.

For me, it looked like:

🍻 Staying out late and drinking so I’d “fit in”—even when my body was begging for rest
🥗 Obsessively dieting and working out to shrink myself, just to avoid judgment
🍕 Eating food I knew would cause flares, just so I wouldn’t be the “difficult” one
🍔 Skipping accommodations because I didn’t want to “be a burden”
🧺 Saying yes to everything—because being exhausted felt safer than being called selfish

These choices didn’t come from failure.

They came from fear.

And until I addressed that?

My symptoms stayed.

👉 So let me ask you gently:
Where are you still choosing pain… just to keep other people comfortable?

#autoimmunedisease #hashimotoswarrior #autoimmunehealing #hypothyroidwarrior #hashimotos

You don’t have to eat cardboard to heal your gut

You don’t have to eat cardboard to heal your gut.

You don’t have to “earn” dessert.

You definitely don’t have to give up everything you love to reverse Hashimoto’s.

This cherry chocolate chip ice cream is dairy-free, Paleo, and AIP-friendly—aka yes, it’s dessert that heals.

I believe in making temporary gut-healing elimination diets like AIP and Paleo simple, flavorful, and sustainable—no bland food, no burnout. You deserve to heal without sacrifice!

Want this recipe? Comment “recipe” below and I’ll send it your way!

(Or you can go to https://thrivingautoimmune.com/project/3-easy-and-delicious-dairy-free-ice-creams/ )

Let’s be real: chronic illness really messes wit

Let’s be real: chronic illness really messes with your head.

Even when things are going okay, you can’t fully relax.

Because one weird symptom could mean a flare.

A relapse.

Another diagnosis.

You know you’re being sensitive…

but when your body has betrayed you before, how can you not be?

This isn’t you being “crazy.”

It’s your nervous system stuck in survival mode.

Inside the Autoimmune Collective, we help you heal the parts of you that don’t feel safe.

Not just your gut or your hormones—but your fear, your trauma, your patterns.

So you can finally trust your body again.

You get all the tools, coaching, feedback, connection, and clarity from someone that’s been there (I have Hashimoto’s and Celiac - and my son has Type 1 Diabetes!) and has helped hundreds of women in your position.

Until tomorrow night, you can join us for $10 off per month - this is the last time I’ll be offering a discounting. Tomorrow night it goes back up to $47 a month and stays there, permanently.

📲 Comment AIC and I’ll send you the info.

Or go to autoimmunecollective.com

You deserve to feel safe inside yourself again. ✨

Ever scroll Pinterest looking for “easy healing

Ever scroll Pinterest looking for “easy healing recipes”…
Only to end up with a cart full of expensive ingredients and no idea what to actually cook?

Or join a meal plan membership that has the exact TYPE of recipes you need, but each meal requires 3718362 steps and 25 ingredients?

Don’t worry, if this has happened to you…

You’re not failing.
You’re not lazy.
You’re not “bad at meal prep.”

You were set up with plans that were too complex for a body that’s already exhausted.

The real problem isn’t your motivation.
It’s the way these plans overwhelm your already-inflamed nervous system—leaving you even more drained, discouraged, and stuck.

That’s why inside The Autoimmune Collective, I give you:
✅ Simple, healing meal plans (AIP, Paleo, or GF/DF)
✅ Meal prep guides that have done the work FOR you- what order to prep and cook everything to maximize your time and energy
✅ Weekly structure that fits your real life
✅ Recipes that are fast, affordable, satisfying, and your whole family will love

Healing shouldn’t feel like another full-time job.
It should feel like momentum—one doable step at a time.

✨ Curious what that feels like?
Comment AIC below and I’ll send you the details. (Or you can go to autoimmunecollective.com)
💵 Get $10 off per month through Wednesday night!

#hashimotosdiet #aipdiet #thyroiddiet

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I’m Michele Spring, a Certified Health Coach, AIP Coach, and Hashimoto’s warrior. With certifications in yoga, Qi Gong, and nervous system regulation, I help women reverse symptoms by addressing the real root causes—gut health, stress, and emotional healing. This isn’t theory. It’s the method that changed my life—and has helped hundreds of others heal too.

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