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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 | Healing, Anxiety, 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 | Healing, Anxiety, 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 | Healing, Anxiety, 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...
Untangling the Web of Dysfunction, the Set-Up

Untangling the Web of Dysfunction, the Set-Up

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | May 23, 2018 | Healing, Anxiety, The Nervous System, Web of Dysfunction

A functional medical/gastrointestinal problem like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), cyclic vomiting, rumination (the digestive kind), regurgitation, or chronic pain represents a tangled web of dysfunction. Physiological symptoms associated with a functional medical or...
Anxiety + IBS (a Functional Medical Problem) = 1 Problem, Not 2

Anxiety + IBS (a Functional Medical Problem) = 1 Problem, Not 2

by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | May 16, 2018 | The Nervous System, Anxiety

Anxiety is a common psychological problem among patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). My aim is to help you to understand the nature of anxiety and how to work with it so that you can better regulate your nervous system and body, thereby decreasing your...
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