For readers of the April Sherborne Times…
Whether you're reading this because my April Sherborne Times article left you wanting to know more, or you landed straight here, you are welcome!
There are a few thoughts that I wanted to take time to explore in a little more depth. One is the emotional aspect to food and the other is the importance of supporting the microbiome.
It is useful to know that true hunger tends to build slowly and gradually and that by contrast emotional hunger reveals itself by tending to be more urgent. I want to offer breathing exercises as an incredibly powerful way to help manage all kinds of aspects of emotional gut-related issues. Such exercises are best done regularly as well as in moments of anxiety or upset. There is a super-highway of connections between brain and the gut via nerves. We used to think that the communication was mainly in one direction only: brain to gut. Now we know that the gut transmits a LOT...