Digestive Disorders

‘Every thought, emotion, event, concept, pattern and belief go through a digestive process in which we assimilate the nutritive components into our makeup while ridding ourselves of what is no longer needed.’ Kristin Leal

Traditional treatment of gut disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) tend to have a ‘silo' approach... zoning in on the gut as its own exclusive silo, rather than regarding the whole person. 

The truth is that we are ‘digesting' all sorts of stresses from our external environment and signals from our internal environment all the time. These stresses and signals have a significant effect on our digestive processes.

Working with a medical doctor, gastroenterologist, naturopath, or homeopath can be effective. Oral medication whether allopathic, naturopathic, or homeopathic, has its place. Evaluation of diet and lifestyle are important. 

My intention is to complement whichever path you have chosen to take by addressing the other factors affecting your digestion and your life, specifically:

• Manually treating the organs involved with specific visceral manipulation techniques. If organs are under tension, congested, poorly circulated or ‘stuck', they do not function well. Improving the mobility and motility (i.e. the intrinsic vital health) of the organ gets it working better. Manual therapy of the gut is so important. It is the missing link

• Treating the stressors affecting the mind-gut connection and calming the nervous system through Mind Body Therapy, Somato Emotional Release and Craniosacral Therapy

• Getting your gut out of sympathetic overdrive and back into its ‘resting and digesting' parasympathetic happy place by stimulating the Vagus nerve and ‘resetting' the Autonomic Nervous System 

• Addressing subconscious stressors and self-limiting belief systems influencing your gut with Hypnotherapy