HCI’s 90-Day Health Coaching Program

+ Marcelle Pick’s Thyroid Protocol

Session #1

  • Desired State Goal Setting
  • The Big MOFA
  • Anchoring the MOFA Exercise
  • Experiential Exercise: Clear the Clutter
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step #1:
    • Fill out Marcelle’s Thyroid Health Questionnaire to gain a comprehensive understanding of the different lifestyle factors influencing your thyroid health.
    • Make an appointment with a Functional Medicine Practitioner to have the following labs ran: Thyroid Antibodies, TPO & TgAb, Reverse T3, Total T3, Free T3 & T4, as well as Vitamin A & D, Iodine, Iron, Homocysteine, Magnesium, Selenium, and Zinc.

Session #2

  • The Cortisol Connection
  • Experiential Exercise: Chewing
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step #2:
    • Begin tapering gluten sources out of your diet that you can see such as bread, pasta, and cereal.
    • Experiment with different ways to increase your resiliency to stress by using lavender oil, practicing yoga, trying a breath technique, or simply releasing what you can stress-wise.

Session #3

  • The Blood Sugar Balance
  • Honoring Hunger and Fullness
  • Honoring Hunger and Fullness Action Steps
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step #3:
    • Prioritize drinking half your bodyweight in fluid ounces of high quality drinking water that’s free of Chlorine, Bromine, and Fluoride.
    • Remove sugar and other stimulants like caffeine and alcohol from your diet to help balance blood sugar.
    • Continue to taper off gluten until it is completely out of your diet.

Session #4

  • Review Original Goals
  • Revisit MOFA Anchors
  • Experiential Exercise: Mental Rehearsal of pleasure and success
  • Pre-Framing Self-Sabotage
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step #4 (part 1 – 3): 
    • Use the Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen and High Quality Foods Cheat Sheet to prioritize foods free of pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.
    • Schedule an appointment with your Functional Medicine Practitioner to check-in on your progress and assess your level of toxicity.
    • Amplify your rest by practicing good sleep hygiene and prioritizing a consistent sleep-wake cycle throughout your week.

Session #5

  • Self-Sabotage
  • Self-Sabotage Scenario Coaching Question Sequences
  • Experiential Exercise: The Mirror
  • “Spine Session” = remains the same
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step 4 (part 4):
    • Fully remove any remaining culprits like gluten, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine from your diet.
    • Continue previous week’s Action Steps and add additional support and accountability where necessary.

Session #6

  • Being B-A-D
  • Experiential Exercise: Create an Adventure Menu (Optional “Nourishment Menu”)
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step #5:
    • Begin greening your personal care routine by swapping out the 3-5 most used items from shower products, lotions, makeup, aftershave, etc.
    • Add in iodine and selenium rich foods to support your thyroid.
      • If you have Grave’s Disease or Hyperthyroidism limit the consumption of foods rich in iodine or goitrogens.

Session #7

  • How to Relax
  • Experiential Exercise: The 5-5-7 Breath
  • “Slow down” Action Steps
  • List of Action Steps
  •  Step #6:
    • Practice being fully present while doing your 5-5-7 breath or an item from your Nourishment Menu.
      • Bonus: Each morning while you lay in bed, think back to the day prior and one thing that you are most grateful for.
    • Add in probiotic-rich foods like sauerkraut and non-spicy kimchi and aim to eat as many different colors of produce that you can to support your microbiome.
      • If you are experiencing significant digestive challenges check-in with your Functional Medicine Practitioner to see what else may need to be addressed.

Session #8

  • Nourishment: What wants to be nourished in them? Where is there potential for greater expression?
  • Experiential Exercise: Wheel of Life
  • List of Action Steps
  • Step #7:
    • Switch household cleaning products for non-toxic alternatives to begin to reduce toxins in your home one step at a time.
    • What other movements can you add to your week to change it up and keep you engaged?

Session #9

  • Personal Power
  • Experiential Exercise: Personal Power Meditation + Woundology (where do they store their personal power?)
  • List of Action Steps:
    • Personal Power homework
  • Step #8:
    • Have your preferred medical provider retest your thyroid, vitamin, and mineral levels to assess and see what other support, if any, needs to be added going forward.

Session #10

  • Review Personal Power homework
  • What are they curious about learning next?
  • Experiential Exercise: Acknowledging people in their life
  • List of Action Steps

Session #11

  • Discovering the Next Level
  • Experiential Exercise: Life Inventory + Life Inventory Coaching Question Sequence
  • “Spine Session” = remains the same
  • List of Action Steps

Session #12

  • Completion and Invitation
  • Go into Closing The Deal script and invite them into your next program
  • List of Action Steps to prepare for the next program
  • “Invitation Session” = remains the same

Use of this Protocol is subject to the Student Policies and Procedures, including the ANHC Program Participant Agreements contained therein and agreed to by you upon entering the ANHC Program Platform.