Long term anxiety, work stress and gut health issues? Read this

I meet a lot of professionals caught in a trap.

They need to work to live, but their work is spiking their anxiety.

This makes their gut symptoms worse, which makes it harder to work and, in turn, makes the anxiety worse.

It’s a negative spiral.

Often, the harder they fight against this trap, the worse things become, as it just increases the pressure.

It gets to the point where they don’t want to go out and socialise, they dread going to work, and each meal becomes a horrible experience they have to go through to survive.

Given that food is the centrepiece of our society, that one really hurts and makes life truly uncomfortable.

What people generally want is to be able to re-establish flow in life — doing things without planning, eating whatever they want, socialising freely and doing well at work.

Often, my clients have a long history of anxiety, which far precedes the IBS. For years, they’ve carried around a weight they can’t quite put words to, but it manifests as a feeling of not being safe in the world, of needing to assess threats around every corner. Unfortunately, relaxation and standard therapy rarely help much.

I started working with people with IBS with some trepidation. There is a whole medical establishment telling people to think about it one way, and I’m suggesting another. But when I started seeing the same results play out with other people, just as they did for me during my own recovery, I knew it was something I had to do.

By approaching IBS as an issue with the gut-brain connection, I’ve seen quite simply staggering results with clients. Some have gone from constant discomfort to virtually no symptoms in a few months, and that’s just the start.

If you are in the cycle of anxiety, IBS, work, and restricting your life, I want to reassure you that there is a way out.

Book in an informal chat if you’d like to learn more.