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Audrey’s Healing Soup Collection: Gut, Liver & Thyroid Edition

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Because your body deserves more than boxed broth and microwave meals.

When you’re navigating Hashimoto’s, high triglycerides, gallbladder issues, or just trying to balance hormones and inflammation — you don’t need trendy detoxes or expensive powders.

You need a pot.
Some real food.
And a soup that knows exactly what parts of your body are crying for help.

That’s where Audrey’s Healing Soup Collection comes in — a warm, nutrient-dense, digestion-soothing guide to healing from the inside out.

🌱 Why Healing Soups Are Powerful Medicine

Soup isn’t just comfort food — it’s a strategic healing tool for:

1. Thyroid & Hormone Support

  • Easy-to-digest foods allow your body to absorb key nutrients (like selenium, magnesium, and vitamin A) that are essential for thyroid hormone production and conversion.
  • Light meals like soups reduce stress on the liver and pancreas — two organs that play key roles in T4 to T3 conversion.

2. Liver & Gallbladder Relief

  • Soups with cruciferous veggies (like cabbage, kale, and spinach) contain sulfur compounds that help the liver detox naturally.
  • Low-fat, high-fiber bases support bile flow, helping reduce gallstone risk.

3. Gut Healing & Leaky Gut Repair

  • Gentle broths and cooked veggies help seal a damaged intestinal lining (a common root of autoimmune flares like Hashimoto’s).
  • Fermented add-ins like kimchi or sauerkraut (added after cooking) can reintroduce healthy gut flora without bloating or irritation.

4. Weight Support & Blood Sugar Balance

  • Low-glycemic ingredients like zucchini, sweet potatoes, spinach, and mushrooms stabilize blood sugar — a must for healing metabolic issues.
  • Soups can be satisfying without spiking insulin or causing post-meal crashes.

🔬 Science-Backed Ingredients to Include:

  • Celery + Parsley – support kidney function and reduce inflammation
  • Cabbage – stimulates bile flow and is rich in antioxidants
  • Sweet Potato + Carrots – gentle carbs with beta-carotene for liver & thyroid
  • Garlic & Onion – antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory (use if tolerated)
  • Turmeric + Ginger – natural pain reducers and liver-loving powerhouses
  • Bone Broth or Veggie Broth – rich in minerals, helps rebuild gut lining
  • Apple Cider Vinegar – improves digestion and stomach acid

🍲 Featured Recipe: Audrey’s Hashimoto’s-Fighting Gut & Thyroid Soup

This soup is warm, grounding, and built to reduce inflammation while gently supporting your liver, gallbladder, and thyroid hormone balance.

🌿 Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp olive or avocado oil
  • ½ onion (optional, if tolerated)
  • 2 garlic cloves (optional)
  • 1 cup chopped celery
  • 1 cup chopped cabbage
  • ½ cup zucchini
  • ½ medium sweet potato, cubed
  • 1 tsp turmeric
  • ½ tsp ginger powder or 1 tsp grated fresh
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 4 cups low-sodium veggie broth
  • Salt, pepper to taste
  • Fresh parsley or cilantro to garnish
  • Optional: add 1 tbsp sauerkraut or kimchi juice after cooking

🥄 Instructions:

  1. Sauté onion, garlic, celery in oil for 5 mins.
  2. Add zucchini, cabbage, sweet potato, broth, turmeric, and ginger.
  3. Simmer for 20–30 mins until everything is soft.
  4. Stir in ACV before serving.
  5. Garnish with parsley and optional probiotic add-ins.

📚 Resources & Scientific Support:

  • Leaky gut & autoimmune thyroid: Fasano A. (2012) Leaky Gut and Autoimmune Disease Connection, Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology
  • Thyroid and liver connection: Izumiyama et al. (2008), Endocrine Journal — showing liver enzyme elevation often found in hypothyroid patients
  • Sulfur veggies & detox: Higdon et al. (2007), Linus Pauling Institute on Cruciferous Vegetables and Cancer Prevention
  • Bone broth & gut health: Pizzorno J. (2014), Integrative Medicine — noting glycine and glutamine support mucosal healing

💡 Audrey’s Tips:

  • Make a double batch and freeze portions
  • Don’t overcook leafy greens — add in last 5 minutes
  • Add lemon juice or dandelion root tea on the side for extra liver love
  • Avoid store-bought soups with “natural flavors,” yeast extract, or MSG

🔁 Final Thoughts

Soup isn’t just soup.
It’s a healing ritual in a bowl — and for women like you (and me), dealing with Hashimoto’s, hormonal chaos, and chronic inflammation, it’s one of the most beautiful, affordable, and grounding ways to come back to yourself.

A.L. Childers
Published Author, Advocate, and Your Partner in Thyroid Health

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Letter to My Unknown Father

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Dear Father — whoever and wherever you are,

I do not write this letter with anger, or bitterness, or blame.
I write it with something much deeper: a longing to understand where I come from — a longing that has lived quietly inside me for as long as I can remember.

I grew up never knowing you, only fragments of stories and the silent spaces where your name should have been.
I was told you were a soldier, stationed far from home. That you once crossed paths with my mother, Joyce, and in that brief moment, a life was created — me.

You may have never known about me.
Or perhaps you did, but life, distance, or choices pulled you away.
I do not know the details.
I only know the questions I carry in my blood:
Who are you?
Where do I come from?
What echoes of you live in me?

I am not here to shame you.
I am not here to ask anything from you.
I seek no inheritance, no apology, no rewriting of the past.
I seek only truth — because I believe truth, even when complicated, is better than a lifetime of wondering.

In your absence, I grew strong.
I built myself from pieces, from dreams, from stories that had no ending.
I have become someone I am proud to be — someone whose roots may have been hidden, but whose spirit could not be denied.

Whoever you are, wherever your journey took you, I send you this:
Not anger. Not sorrow.
But recognition — that once, for a brief flicker of time, two souls crossed paths and something lasting, something beautiful, was created.

Me.

If our paths never cross again, I will carry that knowing with me — that even in mystery, I am whole.
If, by some chance, truth finds its way to me, I will welcome it, not with resentment, but with the fierce love of someone who finally remembers her own story.

Thank you, unknowingly, for the gift of life.
Thank you for the hidden strand of strength you gave me.
Wherever you are, may you be at peace.

— Your Daughter,
Audrey

— A grateful daughter seeking her roots

Seeking Information: Fort Bragg Paratrooper or Acquaintance of Joyce, 1971-1972

Hello,

I am respectfully seeking anyone who served as a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, during the years 1971–1972, or anyone who may have socialized in the Fayetteville/Fort Bragg area at that time.

I am trying to locate or learn about a man who may have known, dated, or briefly been involved with a woman named Joyce — who lived in South Carolina, but spent a lot of time near Fort Bragg during those years.

Joyce was married at the time to a serviceman who was stationed overseas in Germany, so there was no possibility of him being present in North Carolina at the time.

My understanding is that the biological father’s name may have been John Moore, or something similar — however, due to memory gaps and the passage of time, the name may not be exact.

I want to be clear:

  • I am not seeking any legal action.
  • I am not trying to find my mother.
  • I am not seeking financial claims of any kind.

I am simply trying, in my 50s, to understand my true roots — and to find a missing piece of my identity regarding the man who shared his bloodline with my mother during that time.

If you remember Joyce, or if you recall anyone who was connected with a woman by that name, or a paratrooper possibly named John Moore (or another similar name) —
I would be deeply grateful to hear from you privately.

Thank you so much for any kindness, memories, or leads you can share — and thank you for your service.