# 108: Is Not Speaking Your Truth Contributing to Thyroid Symptoms? - With Dr. Izabella Wentz

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Podcast: [Thyroid Pharmacist Healing Conversations with Dr. Izabella Wentz](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643)
Published: 2026-06-29T10:00:00+00:00
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In this episode of the Thyroid Pharmacist Healing Conversations podcast, Dr. Izabella Wentz explores a question she has heard countless times from people with Hashimoto’s and thyroid conditions: Is not speaking your truth contributing to thyroid disease? Drawing from her own health journey, she shares personal experiences where suppressing her voice, avoiding difficult conversations, and prioritizing others’ needs appeared to coincide with symptom onset, symptom flare-ups, and periods of chronic stress. Dr. Wentz also examines the science behind stress, nervous system dysregulation, immune function, and autoimmunity to better understand how emotional patterns may influence physical health. This conversation offers a compassionate and balanced perspective on the connection between self-expression, chronic stress, and healing, while emphasizing that thyroid disease is never caused by a single factor. Instead, it invites listeners to consider how long-standing patterns of people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, hyper-responsibility, and self-suppression may contribute to the physiological stress that impacts health and wellbeing. What you'll learn in this episode: Why so many people with Hashimoto's struggle to put themselves first. Many people with thyroid disease are highly responsible, caring, and dependable, but those same qualities can sometimes lead to chronic self-sacrifice. Dr. Wentz discusses the common patterns of people-pleasing, over-giving, conflict avoidance, and difficulty asking for help. Recognizing these patterns may be the first step toward reclaiming your health. How self-suppression may show up in the body. Through three personal stories, Dr. Wentz explores how avoiding difficult conversations and suppressing her needs appeared to coincide with chronic f…

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