Physiological Gut Responses and their Emotional Connections
If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!
Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut
If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!
Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut
If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!
Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut
Sylvia Plath was not a scientist.
But surprisingly, she wasn’t wrong when she said…
“I’m sure there are things that can’t be cured by a good bath, but I can’t think of one.”
Bubble baths have gotten a lot of media attention in the last few years as the self-care movement picked up speed. We’ve talked before about the difference between self-care and self-soothing, and although they are both perfectly valid and necessary…
There’s a theory in the health community that…
Much like fire leaves ash when it burns, so does your metabolism. But we don’t call it ash. We call it metabolic waste. And metabolic waste, or what’s leftover after our metabolisms have consumed the food we’ve eaten, can be one of three things:
Acidic
Neutral
Alkaline
Here’s the idea – some foods will metabolize and leave an acidic residue. Some will leave an alkaline residue.
Bolstering your friends is easy — you see their worth, light, and influence so easily.
Bolstering yourself seems to be much harder — especially if you suffer from any number of possible mental disorders, including but not limited to:
Depression
Anxiety
Bipolar disorder
Borderline personality disorder.
That pervasive denigrator has been called lots of things, from inner critic to devil-on-your-shoulder to alter ego. But there’s one thing they all have in common: they don’t help you, at all, in an
“Treat yo’self” is the millennial anthem.
Self-care can be generally defined as being a friend to yourself. Recognizing when you need a soft, gentle environment, when you need a break, when you need a treat, when you need some space, when you should pay special attention to your mind, body, and soul.
Living in the world isn’t easy — everyone can agree on that. And for the first time in living memory, people are allowed to experience poor mental health without fear of being told:
No matter where you get your news, if you’ve been watching it for the past week, you can only have been disturbed. Whether you were