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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
