Befriend your body Podcast

How Not to Panic Part 2: Why Stress Causes Digestive Issues

This podcast is a continuation of the series on your body, your physiology, and your autonomic nervous system and how they impact you minute to minute in your everyday life. Today's podcast is part 2 of How not to panic! If you have not listened to part 1, I encourage you to do so. This one will make more sense.

Today's podcast is about our Belly! The belly is a wonderful part of our body and responsible for much more than holding up our bathing suits and digesting our food. There is a neural network in our belly, the scientists call it the Enteric Brain. Neural networks are systems that learn to do tasks by considering examples, generally without task-specific programming, so they can be very "knee-jerky" in their responses to stimuli. For example, if you had an accident and are now anxious about driving, your belly can start clenching, twisting or fill with a jittery sensation when you just think about getting in the car.  So listen today to learn more about your wonderful belly, your gut instinct. And for goodness sakes, stop sucking it in. That makes the anxiety levels worse!

Physiology 102: How not to Panic Part 1

This podcast continues to build on the content of the previous podcast. Learn more about your Autonomic Nervous System and how it impacts your daily life and sense of safely and well-being. When you know how to care for yourself and how to respond in challenging circumstances, your confidence will grow and your level of anxiety will diminish. It may seem a bit like academic material but I assure you from personal experience, knowing how your body works is so empowering. Enjoy!

A page from our Bodies owner's manual: Physiology 101

This episode discusses how the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and high anxiety are interrelated. Understanding your own body and especially your ANS is key to living a relaxed and joyful life. Many of us get caught up in doing, acocmplishing, and busyness and don't realize the cost of this way of living to our health and our inner sense of well-being.  

Of towels & Timing: Being present to life makes all the difference

Are you waiting for something imporant in your life? Sometimes patience seems impossible. Being present and listening to our bodies allows us to experience life with more openess and to catch the goodness that is all around us that we miss when we take our minds for a walk and forget that we have a body.

How I became a body Whisperer!

Welcome to this podcast! This is the beginning of a series about your body, your mind and your phsyiology. When you understand how to listen to your body's messages, and figure out how your body works, living up to your full potential, and living without anxiety and debilitating stress is possible and easily attainable.