I wish I would've learned this in grade school or high school. I was a good student, but I wasn't taught how to manage stress and why it's important to recognize stress before it affects your health. Managing stress is a lifelong effort for everyone. Thank you for the information!
You're welcome, Denise. As long as we're breathing, there's gonna be stress. The thing is our self-awareness and how we define it or even some people may label it. When we address it in a healthy way, we won't have the illnesses and diseases that people have have that don't address it in a healthy way. No one is immune from it.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and read the article. I really appreciate it. Welcome to substack, you're gonna love it here 🤗💕🙏
Thank you! And we need to continue to spread these messages and reminders while the most gentle, loving, and do it now! For the wellbeing of all humanity.
Kathleen - This is such a needed piece. Thank you for sharing your story and clinical insight with such clarity and care.
As a psychologist focused on health and wellness, I deeply appreciate how you bridge lived experience with science. You name what so many miss: that chronic stress and cortisol dysregulation often go undetected until the body waves that white flag.
Your framing of perception as central to healing is especially resonant. In my own work, I’ve seen how the nervous system can't truly recalibrate until it knows what safety feels like. And I love how you root healing in deep restoration related to physical, emotional and your nervous system on the whole.
Thank you for being a voice of real, grounded, holistic healing.
yes, I definitely know what the gut can do to mental health. Been there done that. A lot of times we have to be careful though on the supplementation, including probiotics and probiotics because if we don't need it, it can actually cause more harm than good so I quit taking a higher dose multi probiotic that I had been taking for a few years. Plus my blood type we tend to have gut issues because we produce a lot of acid which is why I believe in eating according to our DNA and then we don't usually have those stomach problems. I mean something just as simple as bone broth. It will heal you from your mouth to your anus. I've seen it. It's got collagen in it. It healed me and mine was due to a PTSD type thing when my brother passed away and I was doubled over in pain I lost 30 pounds I had blood in my stools. I mean it was horrible, but I was able to heal it naturally. We're definitely on the same page and in the same book 😉
thank you, Dr. Rice (Bronce). I am sure we've both seen this way too many times in our career. And the thing is, we can educate all day long but until people are willing to take responsibility and implement what we teach well, the crisis continues 😏
Yes, it's why I've switched from being a classic psychoanalyst to more centered on holistic health. For instance, as you know, a gut condition can masquerade as depression or even drive it directly. In many cases, addressing the gut can alleviate or fully resolve mood symptoms, especially when conventional psychiatric treatment hasn’t been effective.
I've heard tell down the road that there will be a way to take a hair sample at home and feed it into your phone and it will read your cortisol levels pluse a lot of other health related information. Now saliva tests need to be take 3 times a day - morning, noon and eveneing. New technology helps with diagnosis, thankfully, but until we make the changes you mention it's often a losing battle.
And I had a gut condition for 2-3 years a number of years bakc and it was the worst 2-3 years of my life hands down. I tried everything under the sun until my condition was diagnosed and treated. I felt 15 years younger in a matter of days/weeks once I was able to take cetain supplements.
I needed this post. Thanks for sharing, Kathleen!
absolutely Keagen. Nice to see you again 🙏
I wish I would've learned this in grade school or high school. I was a good student, but I wasn't taught how to manage stress and why it's important to recognize stress before it affects your health. Managing stress is a lifelong effort for everyone. Thank you for the information!
You're welcome, Denise. As long as we're breathing, there's gonna be stress. The thing is our self-awareness and how we define it or even some people may label it. When we address it in a healthy way, we won't have the illnesses and diseases that people have have that don't address it in a healthy way. No one is immune from it.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and read the article. I really appreciate it. Welcome to substack, you're gonna love it here 🤗💕🙏
Thank you! And we need to continue to spread these messages and reminders while the most gentle, loving, and do it now! For the wellbeing of all humanity.
you are absolutely correct Alicia! Thank you for reading and commenting. I really do appreciate it 🤗💕🙏
Kathleen - This is such a needed piece. Thank you for sharing your story and clinical insight with such clarity and care.
As a psychologist focused on health and wellness, I deeply appreciate how you bridge lived experience with science. You name what so many miss: that chronic stress and cortisol dysregulation often go undetected until the body waves that white flag.
Your framing of perception as central to healing is especially resonant. In my own work, I’ve seen how the nervous system can't truly recalibrate until it knows what safety feels like. And I love how you root healing in deep restoration related to physical, emotional and your nervous system on the whole.
Thank you for being a voice of real, grounded, holistic healing.
yes, I definitely know what the gut can do to mental health. Been there done that. A lot of times we have to be careful though on the supplementation, including probiotics and probiotics because if we don't need it, it can actually cause more harm than good so I quit taking a higher dose multi probiotic that I had been taking for a few years. Plus my blood type we tend to have gut issues because we produce a lot of acid which is why I believe in eating according to our DNA and then we don't usually have those stomach problems. I mean something just as simple as bone broth. It will heal you from your mouth to your anus. I've seen it. It's got collagen in it. It healed me and mine was due to a PTSD type thing when my brother passed away and I was doubled over in pain I lost 30 pounds I had blood in my stools. I mean it was horrible, but I was able to heal it naturally. We're definitely on the same page and in the same book 😉
thank you, Dr. Rice (Bronce). I am sure we've both seen this way too many times in our career. And the thing is, we can educate all day long but until people are willing to take responsibility and implement what we teach well, the crisis continues 😏
Yes, it's why I've switched from being a classic psychoanalyst to more centered on holistic health. For instance, as you know, a gut condition can masquerade as depression or even drive it directly. In many cases, addressing the gut can alleviate or fully resolve mood symptoms, especially when conventional psychiatric treatment hasn’t been effective.
I've heard tell down the road that there will be a way to take a hair sample at home and feed it into your phone and it will read your cortisol levels pluse a lot of other health related information. Now saliva tests need to be take 3 times a day - morning, noon and eveneing. New technology helps with diagnosis, thankfully, but until we make the changes you mention it's often a losing battle.
And I had a gut condition for 2-3 years a number of years bakc and it was the worst 2-3 years of my life hands down. I tried everything under the sun until my condition was diagnosed and treated. I felt 15 years younger in a matter of days/weeks once I was able to take cetain supplements.