A self-paced online course guided by Daniela Hess · 6 modules, start anytime

Remission IS possible.

Name: ARM Foundations: The Autoimmune Recovery Method for Hashimoto's
Price: 97 USD
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You have been told to just live with the flares. That is not the whole truth.

Remission with Hashimoto’s, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or celiac disease is not luck, and it is not a miracle. Your thyroid is the casualty of a misdirected immune system, not the culprit, and the conditions that keep that immune system firing can be worked with. When specific things come together in your body over time, flares can grow rarer and gentler and energy can come back online. Many women describe it as a true coming home to themselves.

You should not have to figure this out alone. I built the exact self-paced course I wish I had been handed when I was first diagnosed with Hashimoto’s. It is the steady companion for the in-between space, the 6, 8, 10, or 12 weeks that pass between you and your doctor or Functional Medicine practitioner. Real, in-the-moment education and community, with women walking this path beside you.

6 self-paced modules, unlocked the moment you enroll

Watch on your own schedule · lifetime access

$97 tuition

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It is education and support. It does not replace your medical care. It walks beside it.

Watch, about 7 minutes. The two paths after a diagnosis, the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission, and exactly what the self-paced course includes.

From your educator

Daniela Hess, MSEd · Autoimmune Educator and Functional Wellness Consultant, certified AIP coach. I live and thrive with Hashimoto’s myself, and I built this course to be the companion I wish someone had handed me at the very start.

“Daniela has been such a gift on my healing journey. She’s kind, compassionate, and truly takes time to listen and understand. Her knowledge combined with her own personal experience has helped me better understand what my body is going through and has reminded me that I am not alone. I’m so grateful for her support.”

Erin P., a private Autoimmune coaching client of Daniela’s

Mine took 7. 7 years undiagnosed while my body was slowly breaking down in ways no one could name. I was vegan on and off for almost 20 years, doing everything I thought was ‘right’, and I still ended up with Hashimoto’s, hypothyroidism, SIBO, gut dysfunction, and brain fog so severe I found myself googling the symptoms of early onset dementia. What finally changed was my understanding of what was actually driving all of it.
Daniela Hess

The story behind why I built this

When a diagnosis finally arrives after years of searching, the feelings come all at once. Shock. Relief that someone has finally named what you have been living with. And then anger, that it took this long, that your body knew for years before anyone would listen.

What follows for most women is profoundly isolating. You are handed a diagnosis and sent back into your life. Appointments are weeks or months apart. And in between those visits, you are navigating this alone, making decisions, fielding symptoms, trying to find your way through a condition no one has fully mapped out for you.

The Autoimmune Recovery Method is the exact self-paced course I wish I had access to when I was first diagnosed. It is the steady companion for that in-between space, the real-time education and community with women who are walking this path alongside you. So that you are not isolated, and you are not alone.

The course at a glance

A self-paced online experience

The most common questions first: what it costs and what you receive. Work through 6 modules on your own schedule and walk the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission that most influence healing.

For comparison: Daniela’s private 1:1 Autoimmune coaching is $250 an hour. This entire self-paced course, 6 modules plus 14 days of Great Energy Qigong, costs less than half an hour of that.

How it works

All 6 modules, unlocked at once. No schedule to keep and no cohort to wait for.
Work through them in order, or jump to what you need. Revisit anything as many times as you want.
Yours for life. Once you enroll, the modules are yours to keep.

What is included

6 self-paced modules, unlocked at once. Work through the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission on your own schedule, with space to revisit anything as many times as you need.
14 days of Great Energy Qigong (optional and encouraged). Practical tools for stress reduction, nervous system regulation, and daily self-care, gentle enough that it typically does not cause flares.
Education and implementation tools. Not just information about your condition, a sequenced path you can actually walk.
Lifetime access. Keep every module to revisit at your own pace, for as long as you want it.

What no one tells you at diagnosis

The direction your Autoimmune condition moves is not set

Left unaddressed, Autoimmune conditions often keep moving in the direction that includes a little more fatigue, a little more fog, a little more distance from the person you were before. Over time it becomes not just the weather of a hard day, but the seasons of your life.

And here is the heartbreaking part that most women are never told: having 1 Autoimmune condition raises the odds of developing another, significantly. Researchers call it ‘polyautoimmunity’, and they estimate that more than a third of people with an Autoimmune condition go on to develop more.

I say this not to frighten you, but because you deserve to be told plainly, and because there is so much you can do to move your Autoimmune condition toward Remission before another one jumps on board. The direction is not set, and what you do when you are diagnosed matters more than almost anyone will tell you.

A woman standing where a forest path splits into two

Two paths are open to you from the same diagnosis. This course is the map for the path that moves you Toward Remission.

Free guide, ‘You CAN Live Fully Alive and Flourish with Hashimoto’s’: the 3 underlying factors, the labs to always ask for, and your first steps toward Remission.

The free Hashimoto’s guide, You CAN Live Fully Alive and Flourish with Hashimoto’s, by Daniela Hess

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The thing almost no one tells you

Through Functional Medicine, an estimated 1 in 6 women is living with Autoimmunity, much of it undiagnosed. And the food-as-medicine piece is not just a feeling: in a 2017 clinical trial, 73% of people with IBD reached clinical remission after just 6 weeks on the Autoimmune Protocol. Researchers increasingly point to 3 things that must come together for an Autoimmune condition to develop:

a genetic predisposition
increased intestinal permeability, often called leaky gut
a triggering stress, whether chronic or a single overwhelming event

And on average it takes around 4 to 5 years, and several doctors, for a woman to get a proper diagnosis. Mine took 7, and what finally changed everything was not effort or willpower, it was understanding what was actually driving it.

What you learn

The 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission

Autoimmune recovery is built, not random. Over 6 self-paced modules you walk through the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission, held together by education throughout.

Key 1

Community & Foundations

How the 3 factors come together for Autoimmunity to actually develop, the difference between normal and optimal lab ranges, all learned in the live company of women who truly understand what it means to live with Autoimmunity.

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The ground upon which everything rests. Foundations and Autoimmune 101: how an Autoimmune condition actually develops, the labs to ask for, and the difference between normal and optimal lab ranges. You gain the knowledge, and you gain it in company, because we are not designed to heal in isolation.

Key 2

Gut & Nourishment

What inflammation actually is, and which foods calm it, the Autoimmune Protocol, blood sugar, and the true nuances of the gut barrier, where much of your ability to move Toward Remission lives.

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Food as information, not punishment. The Autoimmune Protocol, the elimination and reintroduction seasons, blood sugar and meal order, and the gut barrier and stomach acid that sit at the center of so much. Where a great deal of the leverage lives. And it is profoundly nourishing to be among caring company who know your world, without your having to explain or convince anyone.

Key 3

Environment & Rhythms

Sleep patterns, your morning and evening habits, especially with technology, daily movement so you are not sedentary, and the hidden toxins in your everyday environment. Set these into a steady rhythm, and your hormones and your energy start to steady with them.

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Sleep, morning light, daily movement, and the toxins and load in your home. Your body keeps time by light, movement, and rest, and when your days take on a steady shape, your hormones and energy steady with them. Once your rhythms are set they ask for almost no willpower. They are the container the rest of the work heals inside.

Key 4

Love & Healthy Relationships

Your relationships, partners, colleagues, family, siblings, children, shape your inflammation more than you have been told. Tend your self-honesty and your boundaries, soften your inner dialogue, and let yourself be cared for, guided through it all in the course.

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The relationships you live inside, and the one you have with yourself. Tending an honest boundary, softening how you speak to yourself, and letting yourself be cared for. The safety you feel in your closest relationships shapes inflammation more than most people are ever told, because your nervous system is always listening for whether you are safe and held.

Key 5

Calm & Resilience

Great Energy Qigong, gentle enough to do standing or seated, that is unlikely to trigger a flare and gives you energy instead of taking it, alongside Effortless Meditation, the practice our students love and actually stick with, moving your body toward the rest-and-digest, parasympathetic state where real healing happens.

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The nervous system work. How chronic stress drives inflammation, and the daily practices that move the body toward the rest-and-digest state where it repairs. These include a slower breath, a few honest minutes of meditation, and Great Energy Qigong, which is suitable for women with Autoimmunity or any chronic condition, gentle enough that it typically does not cause flares and does not cost you energy to do.

Key 6

Purpose & Aliveness

Your spark of life is something to protect and nurture: cultivating real joy, connecting to what gives your life meaning, and letting yourself belong. This is not the reward waiting at the end of healing. It is part of what does the healing.

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The often-overlooked medicine of joy, meaning, creativity, and belonging. Protecting the one thing each week that makes you feel like yourself, the walk, the music, the friend, the work that is actually yours. This is not the reward at the end of healing. The spark of your own Aliveness is part of what does the healing.

Key 1 starts with your own community

The 6 Keys open with Community and Foundations: building the support around you that Autoimmune recovery actually requires. We are not designed to do our healing work in isolation.

It walks beside your medical care

All 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission work with and beside your qualified medical care, they do not replace it. Look for a practitioner who knows the difference between hypothyroidism, the slow thyroid, and Hashimoto’s, the immune process underneath it, who orders you the full panel of labs, and who works with optimal ranges, not only normal ones.

What the work looks like

How your first weeks unfold

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Begin with Key 1, Community & Foundations. Learn what a full panel of labs includes and how to make sense of it, and find your people. Understanding comes first, because it points you toward what is really driving things. This is education to help you see your own picture clearly, never a diagnosis.
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Then Key 2, Gut & Nourishment. You learn what the Autoimmune Protocol is, how the elimination and reintroduction seasons work, and how to begin. Some women start easing in during the transition phase right away, others wait and then dive in fully later with a guided group. The deeper, hand-over-hand walk through a full elimination lives in the 6-month program.
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Set your rhythms, Key 3, Environment & Rhythms. This is more than sleep advice. Your body keeps time by light, movement, and rest, and as those rhythms steady, your hormones, energy, and immune system steady with them. Protect your sleep, get morning light in your eyes, and move gently each day. Once these rhythms are set they ask for almost no willpower, and they become the container the rest of the work heals inside.
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Add the deeper Keys. Key 4, Love & Healthy Relationships, begin to tend the relationships you live inside, including the one with yourself. Key 5, Calm & Resilience, let a nervous-system practice like Great Energy Qigong become part of your day. Key 6, Purpose & Aliveness, protect the things each week that make you feel like yourself. These are not the reward at the end. They are part of what heals you.

Great Energy Qigong settles the nervous system while it gently strengthens the body, moving you toward the rest-and-digest state where the gut actually repairs. It is optional and highly recommended, and it is suitable for women with Autoimmunity or any chronic condition, because it generally does not deplete energy and is unlikely to cause flares. It is part of a comprehensive approach, not a cure on its own, and for many women it becomes the practice that holds the rest together.

One method, many conditions

Built around Hashimoto’s, good for far more

This course is built around Hashimoto’s, because it is the most common Autoimmune condition and most of the women who find me are living with it. And the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission work the terrain that sits underneath every Autoimmune condition: the gut, the nervous system, the triggers, and the load the body is carrying. The name on the diagnosis changes. The terrain underneath it is shared.

That is why this course is equally good for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, lupus, and multiple sclerosis, and for the many other Autoimmune conditions that share this same terrain. So if you live with a different Autoimmune condition, you belong here too, welcome exactly as you are.

“You do not get your old life back. You get a better one.”Daniela Hess

In their words

Women have already made this turn

“One of the greatest gifts of this work has been learning to trust myself again. … Having someone knowledgeable, compassionate … walk alongside me through this journey has been invaluable.”
Private Autoimmune coaching client, Hashimoto’s, Midlife

“Daniela helped me move from overwhelmed and exhausted to clear and empowered. I had been stuck in the elimination phase for months. With her support, I found peace with food, energy in my day, and a deeper trust in my body again.”
Private Autoimmune coaching client

“… I am experiencing more range of movement … and more energy and positivity in my life as I learn to cultivate Qi. If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, you have found the right page.”
Jennifer W., Great Energy Qigong student

From Daniela’s private one-to-one Autoimmune coaching and the Great Energy community. We will share more stories from the self-paced course, with permission, as they come.

About your guide

Daniela Hess

Daniela Hess is an Autoimmune Educator and Functional Wellness Consultant, and co-founder of Great Energy, who came to this work through her own years-long Autoimmune diagnosis. She has been an Educator for Women for decades, teaching 5 of the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission long before she ever needed them for herself, in her Yoga Teacher Trainings, Foundations of Awareness, the Healing Keys, and Sacred Sunday. The one Key her own diagnosis of Hashimoto’s added was the gut and nourishment work, the Autoimmune Protocol, and weaving it together with the rest is how the Autoimmune Recovery Method was born. She holds science and the wisdom of lived experience in the same hand.

Lives with Hashimoto’s, feeling fully Alive and flourishing with Autoimmune
Certified AIP coach, trained under Mickey Trescott and Jamie Hartman of AutoimmuneWellness.com
Great Energy Qigong teacher and Enneagram guide
Daniela Hess, MSEd, CTACC, RYT500

Trusted by clinicians

Health Professional Endorsements

“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

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“…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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You do not have to do this alone

Stop navigating this by yourself

Enroll in ARM Foundations and begin the work with real education and Great Energy Qigong, at your own pace.

4 bonuses, instantly available when you enroll

The Effortless Meditation course. A full self-paced course of guided lessons with Christopher and Daniela, yours to keep. ($47 value)
The Midlife Journey Workshop replay. 3 hours with Daniela and Kim Beekman on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual layers of Midlife, plus the companion guide. ($47 value)
Qigong for Deep Nourishment. 22 self-paced video lessons to build energy and calm the nervous system, at your own pace. ($47 value)
Jump Start Your Energy. Christopher’s self-paced Qigong course, about 15 minutes a day in a clear order you can keep. ($47 value)

$188 in bonus value, included at no extra cost.

$97
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Have questions? Need help registering? Prefer to enroll on the phone? Text Christopher at 607-323-7272.

Education and support, not medical advice.

Before you decide

Questions women ask me

When does it start, and how long is it?+

ARM Foundations is self-paced. The moment you enroll, all 6 modules are unlocked and yours to work through in whatever order and at whatever pace fits your life. There is no schedule to keep and no live session to catch.

What is the tuition, and what is included?+

Tuition is $97. It includes 6 self-paced modules through the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission, 14 days of Great Energy Qigong, and lifetime access to every module.

Is this only for Hashimoto’s?+

It is built around Hashimoto’s, because it is the most common Autoimmune condition and most of the women who join live with it. But the 6 Keys of Action Toward Remission work the shared terrain underneath Autoimmunity, so the same path serves many conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, celiac, type 1 diabetes, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. The label changes; the terrain underneath it does not.

Do I need an autoimmune diagnosis to join?+

Most people who join carry a diagnosis, but you are welcome if you are still searching for answers, which so many women are for years. The work is the same: understand your terrain and address what you can move.

Is this medical advice?+

No. It is education, support, and community, and it runs alongside your medical care, never instead of it. Do not change or stop any medication on your own. Bring what you learn to your own doctor or practitioner.

Will the course cure me, or get me to Remission?+

No honest program can promise a cure or Remission. Autoimmune is something we learn to bring toward Remission, not erase, and it looks different for every person. What the course offers is a real, sequenced path and a community, so you are no longer guessing alone. Results vary.