Welcome to Dr. Franklin’s Blog
Hello, and welcome to my blog. This is the place to come for tidbits on a wide variety of topics, all centering on healing and recovering from functional medical problems, both gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal. This is my first blog post ever, though I’ve...
What Does Your Gut Need to Heal?
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to healing IBS. Everybody and every body is unique, so it follows that your individual path to healing will be unique as well. But how do you start to determine what your unique body needs in order to heal? As a psychologist...
How Psychotherapy (Relationships) Can Heal Your Gut
People think of psychologists or psychotherapists as practitioners who can help them cope with the physiological symptoms associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or as practitioners who can help manage the stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship issues that go...
Improve Vagal Tone: 10 Ways to Stimulate the 10th Cranial Nerve
Today I’m going to talk about ten ways to stimulate your tenth cranial nerve, commonly known as your Vagus nerve, in order to promote ease, relief, and healing. If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, another digestive issue or physiological problem, or are gridlocked...
Heal Your Body: Create a “Feel Good” Resource List
Right now, as we are in the midst of a difficult, unprecedented time in our lives, I’d like to offer you an opportunity to practice resourcing. If you’re already resourcing yourself, I’d like to offer you a chance to become more conscious and deliberate about it. As...
Why Trying to Control Your IBS Symptoms Might Be Causing More Stress
If you have IBS or some other medically unexplained digestive disorder and your objective has been to control your symptoms, then you have been unknowingly and unintentionally creating more stress for your body, making it harder, not easier, for your body to heal. As...
Stop Trying to Control Your IBS Symptoms
Trying to control your IBS symptoms is like playing a zero-sum game with your body. When you eventually lose at this game, you will end up paying a huge toll, both physically and psychologically. As a licensed psychologist specializing in the treatment of Irritable...
Does Your Child Have IBS?
Does your child have IBS, cyclic vomiting, chronic constipation, or some other digestive problem for which doctors cannot offer a clear explanation or cure? As a psychologist specializing in the treatment of IBS, I know that a child’s IBS diagnosis can be scary and...
Cultivate Compassion to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and IBS Symptoms
Last week, I shared a blog and video acknowledging that Covid-19-related stress anxiety may be exacerbating your IBS symptoms. Right now, your body is not feeling safe because there is a threat in our external environment, and that threat then creates an internal...
Is Anxiety About Coronavirus Making Your IBS Worse?
Is the stress and anxiety about Coronavirus making your IBS worse? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Given how drastically our lives have changed in such a short time due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it makes perfect sense that you would be experiencing greater...
The Second Brain in Your Gut
If you have digestive symptoms that have been diagnosed as a functional GI problem like IBS, then you need to know about the brain in your gut. As a psychologist specializing in the treatment of IBS, it is my goal to help you heal and recover from IBS or whatever...
Dr. Jennifer Franklin is a unique mind-body & gastro-psychologist (NC #4137; CA #PSY20709) inspired by her own personal experience of healing and recovering fully from Irritable Bowel Syndrome. She has been specializing in the treatment of disorders of gut-brain interaction and other psychophysiologic disorders since 2001 and offers a wealth of knowledge, expertise, training, experience, and insight. While managing symptoms is important, Dr. Franklin’s ultimate objective is to help people to heal and recover.
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