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Improve Vagal Tone: 10 Ways to Stimulate the 10th Cranial Nerve

Improve Vagal Tone: 10 Ways to Stimulate the 10th Cranial Nerve

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 10, 2020 | Anxiety, Healing, How to, The Nervous System, Yoga

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...
Why Trying to Control Your IBS Symptoms Might Be Causing More Stress

Why Trying to Control Your IBS Symptoms Might Be Causing More Stress

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | May 13, 2020 | Anxiety, Healing, How to, Stress Response, The Nervous System

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...
Cultivate Compassion to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and IBS Symptoms

Cultivate Compassion to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and IBS Symptoms

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Apr 22, 2020 | Anxiety, Healing, How to, The Nervous System

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 Anxiety About Coronavirus Making Your IBS Worse?

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Apr 15, 2020 | Anxiety

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

The Second Brain in Your Gut

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Apr 8, 2020 | Healing, The Nervous System, Uncategorized

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...
Get Familiar With Your Window of Tolerance

Get Familiar With Your Window of Tolerance

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jul 18, 2018 | The Nervous System, Window of Tolerance

Having a functional medical problem like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) suggests that there is a level of activation acting on your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) that is outside of your “window of tolerance”. In this blog post, I’m going to be addressing the concept...
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