The Brain -Gut Connection - What Recovering from Anxiety Feels Like

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:01]Hello, my friend. It's Bonnie Brindle, the anxiety avenger here.

[00:00:05]And I am back again to explore how we can recover from what anxiety feels like.

[00:00:12]And today I'm thinking about the gut-brain connection. How consistently and constantly and fully our brains are connected to what happens in our guts.

[00:00:26]And you might have heard of irritable bowel syndrome, which we tend to look at a medication to help with right away and not necessarily notice or pay attention to the fact that a lot of the irritation in our gut can come from our thoughts.

[00:00:46]Irritable bowel syndrome is mostly common in people who had early life stress, family strife, a um abuse of physical, psychological, like sexual nature.

[00:01:04]Ways that we were very stressed as younger people can often show up in intestinal issues later. And I will say, here I am again, it's me, because that's happened exactly in my life as a person who was a very stressed kid.

[00:01:23]I now deal with a lot of um intestinal issues that I have to pay attention to and I have to watch my diet and in addition to the just sort of general um discomfort that I can get sometimes, I discovered at the age of 40 that I had celiac and that consuming gluten was making me sick, making me bloated, giving me gastrointestinal pain and discomfort, constipation, and all sorts of issues and I had no idea why until then and then was able to stop ingesting gluten and got much better.

[00:02:04]But the damage had been done and I have to manage that all the time.

[00:02:09]So if you're noticing that your gut's not performing well, you might be dealing with constipation or bloating or diarrhea or just pain and discomfort, please get yourself checked out and recognize maybe when those things flare up whether or that might be connected to what your mind is doing, where you're where your head goes and what you're thinking about cuz they really are connected and they can get much better when we work on helping ourselves to breathe better, to get outside in nature, and to surround ourselves with positive people so that our minds stay relaxed.

[00:02:51]See you guys soon. Take care.