The Art of Healing
Welcome to "The Art of Healing Podcast," where the realms of traditional medicine, energy healing, and holistic well-being converge. Join Dr. Charlyce, a distinguished physician who wears multiple hats as a Reiki Master and Functional Medicine physician, on a transformative journey toward optimal health.
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When Your Body Attacks Itself: Understanding the Hidden Link Between Emotions, Hormones, and Autoimmunity
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Your body may not be attacking you at random—it might be repeating a story it learned when safety felt scarce. We explore how the heart’s unhealed wounds can echo through the thymus and immune system, why women in midlife see autoimmune symptoms rise, and how hormone shifts turn emotional strain into inflammation.
Drawing a clear line between emotion, endocrine signaling, and immune behavior, we translate a complex web—estrogen, cortisol, insulin, thyroid hormones—into grounded steps you can use right away.<br><br>We walk through the “hormone triad” we see in autoimmune patterns: adrenal stress muddling immune tolerance, blood sugar swings fueling cytokines, and thyroid slowdowns when the throat center is chronically silenced. From Hashimoto’s to mixed inflammatory symptoms, the throughline is a body trying to protect you with outdated rules. ACE research backs the connection: when early life taught your system that the world is unsafe, the thymus remembers. That memory can look like hypervigilance, flares, and exhaustion—until you provide a new experience of safety.<br><br>Healing starts with presence over perfection. We share practical tools to regulate the nervous system (paced breathing, grounding, gentle movement), reopen the heart through self-compassion and grief work, and stabilize the basics that move labs: protein-forward meals, fiber-rich carbs, steady meal timing, mineral support for thyroid health, and honest communication to unfreeze the throat. Energy practices help soften emotional armor so the immune system no longer needs to shout. If autoimmunity is the body saying “please stop abandoning me,” then your daily acts of care are the answer it has waited for.<br><br>If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs hope, and leave a review telling us the one practice you’ll try this week. Your story could be the lifeline someone else is searching for.
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Hello, beautiful souls, and welcome back. Today's episode holds a special place in my heart because autoimmunity is one of the biggest mysteries in medicine, but one of the clearest patterns in energy healing. So many women in midlife suddenly begin developing autoimmune symptoms, Hashimoto's, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, or mixed inflammatory patterns. But beneath all the labs and symptoms, there is often an emotional thread running through the story. And that thread is the heart chakra. The heart chakra is where we process connection, compassion, loss, and emotional truth. When this center is wounded, the thymus and immune system remember. Today we're exploring how heart chakra wounds contribute to autoimmunity and how hormonal healing begins with emotional awareness. Autoimmunity explained. Let's simplify autoimmunity. Your immune system is designed to protect you, but in autoimmunity, that protection becomes confused. It begins seeing you as the threat. This breakdown in self-recognition often begins in the thymus, your heart chakra endocrine gland. Hormones influence this too. Estrogen affects immune activation. Cortisol shapes inflammation. Insulin influences cytokines. Thyroid hormones regulate immune metabolism. I always tell my patients, your immune system is listening to your hormones and your emotions. Heart chakra wounds. When someone has a history of heartbreak, abandonment, betrayal, emotional neglect, or chronic stress, the heart chakra constricts. That constriction can become chronic inflammation, hypervigilance, trouble regulating stress, uh, difficulty trusting, immune system overreactivity. ACE trauma research shows this clearly. Children who grow up in stress are more likely to develop autoimmune disease later. Why? Because the thymus learned early on that the world is not safe, and it carries that imprint into adulthood. The hormone triad. In autoimmune women, I always see three hormones affected. Chronic stress exhausts the adrenals and confuses the immune system. Doi, insulin, solar plexus chakra. Blood sugar instability fuels inflammation. 3. Thyroid hormones, throat chakra. The immune system frequently attacks the thyroid when the throat chakra is blocked or suppressed. When one of these centers goes offline, the others try to compensate, and autoimmunity develops in that imbalance. Here's the good news: autoimmunity is not the end of your story. Healing comes from nervous system regulation, heart chakra opening, trauma awareness, compassion practices, gut healing, blood sugar balance, thyroid supports, energy work to soften emotional armor. Autoimmunity is the body saying, please stop abandoning me. I need your presence. When you begin listening, your body begins healing. Download your chakras and hormones guide. It will help you understand the energetic roots of inflammation. And in our next episode, we go deeper into the heart chakra with a guided self compassion meditation.
