About this episode

Dr. Izabella Wentz and Amy Untamed discuss the emotional patterns contributing to chronic illness and the importance of boundaries and self-worth in the healing journey.

In this episode of Thyroid Pharmacist Healing Conversations, Dr. Izabella Wentz speaks with content creator, speaker, and self-trust advocate Amy Untamed about the often-overlooked emotional patterns that can contribute to chronic illness and autoimmune disease. After recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) twice, Amy realized that lasting healing wasn't just about calming the nervous system or following the right protocols. It also required addressing deeper patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-abandonment, and unresolved trauma that had kept her body in a chronic state of stress. Together, she and Dr. Wentz explore how chronic emotional stress, attachment wounds, boundaries, self-worth, and nervous system regulation can all play a role in the healing journey. In this episode, you'll learn: How chronic stress and self-abandonment can keep your body stuck in survival mode. Amy shares her remarkable journey of recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) twice, revealing how unresolved trauma, people-pleasing, and years of putting everyone else's needs before her own contributed to nervous system dysregulation. Discover why healing these deeper patterns…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Izabella Wentz

Guest: Amy Untamed

Topics covered

• chronic illness
• autoimmune disease
• emotional patterns
• nervous system health
• self-worth
• boundaries

Keywords

• chronic fatigue syndrome
• self-abandonment
• people-pleasing
• nervous system dysregulation
• trauma
• healing

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