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...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
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...
