IBS Solutions

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Beyond Stress Management: How Meeting Your Emotional Needs Can Reduce Chronic Stress and Build Resilience

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Beyond Stress Management: How Meeting Your Emotional Needs Can Reduce Chronic Stress and Build Resilience

"Are you managing stress... or just surviving it?

After years of working with people experiencing chronic stress, I've realised something important: most stress management advice treats symptoms, not causes.

My latest article explores how the Human Givens model reveals why traditional stress relief often falls short - and how targeting your specific unmet emotional needs can create lasting change instead of temporary relief.

If you've been doing 'all the right things' but still feel stuck in the stress cycle, this post might offer a different perspective.

What I cover: The 9 emotional needs that drive wellbeing (and stress when unmet); How to map stress management techniques to your specific needs; A strategic approach that goes beyond symptom management.

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Beyond “Fight or Flight”: Rethinking Stress

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Beyond “Fight or Flight”: Rethinking Stress

Beyond “Fight or Flight”: Rethinking Stress
This post challenges common misconceptions about stress by explaining how our nervous system responds to everyday demands—not just danger or crises. Discover the difference between healthy, energizing stress and harmful, chronic stress, and learn why your beliefs about stress shape your daily experiences and wellbeing. Gain practical tips for recognizing and managing stress more effectively in your professional and personal life.

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Why Your Gut Symptoms Aren’t Just Digestive — They’re a Nervous System Issue

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Why Your Gut Symptoms Aren’t Just Digestive — They’re a Nervous System Issue

IBS is a condition rooted in disrupted communication within a part of your nervous system called the gut–brain–microbiome axis.

This article explains what that axis is, how miscommunication leads to symptoms — and how therapies like gut-directed hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy can help restore balance.

If you’ve been searching for a clear, science-backed explanation for why relief has been so elusive — this might be what you’ve been looking for.

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Exercise Could Be the Missing Piece in Your IBS

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Exercise Could Be the Missing Piece in Your IBS

Does this sound familiar? You're doing "everything right": eating carefully, managing stress, taking supplements... and yet, your gut symptoms still flare. The bloating, the urgency, the exhaustion. It's frustrating. It's disheartening. That missing piece? Exercise — but done the right way for IBS.