The Gut Brain Connection: How to Nourish your Gut for Better Mental Health

Join Emily as she explores the gut-brain connection and it's impact on mental health. Emily gives an overview of the bidirectional relationship between the gut and the brain, explores the nervous system and its impact on digestion, and offers tangible takeaways and tips to support better gut hygiene in order to feel better mentally and emotionally. Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients.  She explores  - what is the gut-brain connection - why our mental health is contingent upon what is happening in the gut - Leaky Gut, dysbiosis, and what this means for the body - the enteric nervous system, our fight or flight, and more - chronic stress and its impact on the gut - good gut hygiene practices to support better quality mental health Interested in 1:1 holistic health coaching? ⁠Learn more here!⁠ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU: Check out ⁠my website⁠ to join my weekly newsletter and stay up to date on all things wellness, recipes, and more! ⁠31 Tips for Daily Mental Wellness:⁠ explore 31 different lifestyle habits to support your mental health daily ⁠The Good Gut Guide: explore how to better support your gut and practice good gut hygiene Support the Show: Please subscribe, rate, and review to help support the show! Share to your IG stories and tag @_wholewithemily. Connect with me on IG: ⁠@_wholewithemily⁠ Connect with me on Tiktok: ⁠@wholewithemily⁠ Let's eat together! To sponsor our show or to become a guest, email: [email protected]