Final Debriefing of the Check-In Exercise
Let’s return to discussing the Check-In exercise. The Check-In is an exercise in self-care as much as anything else. To be successful with the Check-In exercise, you must be willing to pause and interrupt your normal routine. If doing so feels difficult to impossible,...
Continued Debriefing of the Check-In Exercise
Let’s return to discussing the Check-In exercise. The Check-In exercise quickly demonstrates your strengths and weaknesses across a set of skills. Those skills include slowing down, paying attention, tuning into various parts of yourself, non-judgmentally observing...
What to Make of the Check-In Exercise
In the last blog post I presented the Check-In. The Check-In exercise is an expedient way for you to facilitate self-awareness and mindfulness, which is critical to healing. Self-awareness and mindfulness together deepen our insight into the way your thoughts,...
The Check-In Exercise: My Favorite Practice for Practicing Mindfulness in Every Day Life (and Increasing Self-Awareness)
In the last blog post, I offered some general instructions for bringing mindfulness you’re your daily life and offered a number of simple ways to facilitate mindfulness in everyday life. In this blog post, I’m going to walk you through my favorite mindfulness...
How to Bring Mindfulness Into Your Every Day Life
Whether or not you have a formal mindfulness meditation practice, I strongly recommend that you start to modify your behavior in gradual ways to facilitate some mindful moments in your everyday life. In general, it is a whole lot easier to make slight modifications to...
Mindfulness, Second of Three Essential Elements of Healing
In my last blog post, I wrote about self-awareness, the capacity for coming to know things about oneself. As I mentioned, this is an essential element of healing from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), another functional gastrointestinal problem, or a functional...
Self-Awareness, One of Three Essential Elements of Healing
In my last blog post, I presented the three essential components of healing from a functional digestive problem like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) or a functional non-digestive medical problem: self-awareness, mindfulness, and connection with others. In this blog...
How to Begin Healing by Working With Your Nervous System
Functional medical problems like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), chronic migraines, chronic back pain, and many other physiological problems may be physiological in expression but cannot be understood purely physically. The problem is a function of a complex...
Get to Know Your Nervous System
Comprised of your brain, your spinal cord, and all of the neurons (nerve cells) spread throughout your body, the nervous system plays an important role in both your survival and livelihood by serving three main functions: gathering, synthesizing, and responding to...
Interconnectivity Means a Ripple Effect for the Body
At the end of my last post on healing, I write: Healing on any level is healing. I don’t distinguish among psychological, emotional, mental, physical, physiological, relational, spiritual healing because your body does not know the difference. Your body is integrated....
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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