Like many of us, in my 20's and 30's, I had remarkable strength, ambition and motivation that could overpower any fear, anxiety, frustration or doubt in most situations. In my early 40's, life started truly challenging my entire system: stressful corporate responsibilities, ailing family members and friends, aging pets, unpredictable world events and leadership, grief and the acceptance of mortality kept throwing me for loops that my yoga practice never fully prepared me for. My resilience began to dwindle and eventually plunged me into an autoimmune condition that practically shut down the once stunning confidence in my whole being. The diagnosis of Hashimoto's caused a daunting shift of feeling in control of my body and mind to being controlled by it's inability to function properly in it's form. From the outside, it was a confusing diagnosis, however in my more recent studies of Ayurveda, it makes perfect sense that my body has been trying to signal to me for much longer than I knew how to interpret. A slow and steady return to basic routines, nutrition, activities and practices allows me to sustain clarity and stamina once again. It is from this experience of adjusting from pushing through to breaking down and building again that my own healing path was revealed. This journey inspired me to share our healing potential with others and manifested as Spiral Source Ayurveda.