Why Your Anxiety Lives in Your Stomach: Understanding the Gut-Brain Connection
Struggling with both anxiety and digestive issues like IBS, nausea, or stomach pain? Your gut and brain are in constant communication through the gut-brain axis and vagus nerve. About 90% of your serotonin—your mood-regulating neurotransmitter—is actually produced in your gut, not your brain. This means gut health IS mental health. Learn why anxiety disrupts digestion, how chronic stress changes your microbiome, and why holistic therapy that addresses your nervous system, psychological patterns, and physical symptoms together is most effective for lasting healing.
Grounding Techniques For Anxiety & Lowering Stress
Grounding techniques for anxiety are meant to bring you back to the present moment and to help you reconnect with the here and now. We can do this by refocusing attention on our breath, on our body, or on the environment we find ourselves in. When we can reconnect to the present moment, to what is actually happening right now, our brain is reminded that in this moment we are safe. Once our brain recognizes that we are, in fact, safe in this moment, our anxiety begins to decrease.
Exercise and Mental Health: 3 Biological Benefits of Physical Activity
At some point or another, I am sure you have heard about the great benefits of exercise, especially for improving and maintaining mental health. Sometimes hearing something is beneficial isn’t enough of a reason to give it a shot, so here are 3 backed-by-research reasons why exercise improves our mental and emotional well-being.
The Impact Of Gut Health On Mental Health
The human body is a complex machine; every organ and cell working and being impacted by all other organisms in the body. This is why the concepts of Holistic Wellness and Healing are so important – they take into consideration the entire body and how the inner workings of the body are interacting with one another.