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Daniela Hess, MSEd, CTACC, RYT500, is the founder of the Autoimmune Recovery Method and an Autoimmune Educator and Functional Wellness Consultant. She speaks on Autoimmune recovery, the gut-immune connection, and the nervous system work that keeps healing sustainable, for conferences, summits, and podcasts.
Daniela Hess, MSEd, CTACC, RYT500
MSEd (Master of Science in Health Education) · CTACC (Spiritual Director and Coach Trainer) · RYT500 (Registered Yoga Teacher, 500-hour)
Daniela lives with Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism herself, and built the Autoimmune Recovery Method to be the guide she wishes someone had handed her at the start of her own 7-year road to diagnosis. She trained formally with Mickey Trescott and Jamie Hartman of AutoimmuneWellness.com, holds a Master of Science in Health Education, and teaches the science and the Soul of moving an Autoimmune condition Toward Remission: the gut, the nervous system, the relationships, and the daily rhythms that hold a body steady.
- Founder of the Autoimmune Recovery Method
- Autoimmune Educator and Functional Wellness Consultant
- Master of Science in Health Education (MSEd)
- Certified AIP coach, trained under Mickey Trescott and Jamie Hartman of AutoimmuneWellness.com
- Great Energy Qigong teacher and Enneagram guide
- Co-founder of Great Energy, with her husband Christopher Grant
From patient to educator
For roughly 7 years, Daniela lived with fatigue, hair loss, and brain fog while doctors kept telling her that her labs were normal. Her diagnosis, Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism, took 7 years and several practitioners to reach, and her story is not unusual: research puts the average time to an accurate Autoimmune diagnosis at 4 to 5 years.
Once she found the right team, functional practitioners, real lab testing, and a coach who helped her make sense of it, everything changed. She now lives feeling fully Alive and flourishing with Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism, and built the Autoimmune Recovery Method to organize what she learned into 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission: Community and Foundations, Gut and Nourishment, Environment and Rhythms, Love and Healthy Relationships, Calm and Resilience, and Purpose and Aliveness. She teaches that the food is one Key among 6, real and necessary, and on its own it can only take a person partway home.
Daniela co-founded Great Energy with her husband, Christopher Grant, and teaches the live 6-week Autoimmune Recovery Method course, weekly Great Energy Qigong, and the 6-month ARM Immersion. She is not a licensed medical provider and does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. Everything she teaches is education and support, walking alongside a person’s medical care, never instead of it.
Talks pulled from the classroom, not built for the occasion
Every topic below comes directly from the Autoimmune Recovery Method and the classes Daniela teaches live, week after week.
Autoimmune recovery beyond the plate
Why the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission treat food as one Key among 6, real and necessary, and what the other 5 actually are.
The protector reframe
The immune system is not malicious and has not betrayed you. It is a devoted, exhausted protector working from crossed signals. Mistaken identity, not malice, and why that distinction changes how a person heals.
The gut-immune connection
Leaky gut, molecular mimicry, and why healing the gut barrier is part of calming the immune system.
The nervous system and Autoimmune flares
Why chronic stress keeps the immune system on alert, and the Great Energy Qigong practices that move the body toward rest and repair.
Relationships as immune medicine
Why the safety a person feels in their closest relationships shapes inflammation more than most are ever told.
From patient to educator
Daniela’s own 7-year road to an Autoimmune diagnosis, and what she built because no one had built it for her.
“You do not have to hold all 6 Keys at once. You only have to take the next honest step, and keep taking it.”
Daniela Hess
What practitioners say
“As a functional provider that has been serving Hashimoto’s and Autoimmune patients for over 12 years, I understand all the intricacies that come with this terrain. … Having the right guidance between their practitioner visits is not a luxury; it is a critical part of the healing process.”
Dr. Matt Rayner · D.C. · Co-Owner, The Wellness Institute of Dallas
“…too many women have been under-educated about what is actually happening in their bodies. Her whole-person approach thoughtfully addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual layers of a woman’s experience while staying clearly within her scope and encouraging women to partner with their licensed providers. That combination of rigor, humility, and genuine care makes Daniela a trustworthy guide and a natural complement to medical care.”
Melissa Vorhis, FNP-C · Owner, Finger Lakes FNP
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COO, Great Energy
Christopher handles booking and logistics for media interviews, podcast guest requests, and conference or summit speaking inquiries. For anything else about the Autoimmune Recovery Method or Great Energy, this is also the right place to start.
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