Ep 25 - Turning Trauma into Art

Welcome to Season 2 of Gut Matters!With a world full of tension, taking the time to focus on your health is increasingly important! Join me on this first episode of Season 2 with Sara Rawda to learn how holistic nutrition can be a great asset to improving your gut health.To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

Join me in this last episode of the season as I speak with Daniel Leighton, an artist, a patient, and a extraordinary person who has turned the pain of his illness into exceptional pieces of art.Check out Daniel's art at https://www.danielleighton.com To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

I was misdiagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and paid a heavy price for 14 long years. Unfortunately, sometime doctors get the diagnosis wrong.  Join me with Dr. Phil Hassard and hear what other conditions can mimic IBD. Get educated. Be empowered.To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

Have you ever wondered what naturopaths do and how naturopathic medicine can help you manage your health? Join me with Dr. Audrey Sasson as we explore the training, practice and role of naturopathic medicine in gastrointestinal health.To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

Join me as I speak with Jess Diener, a Canadian psychotherapist who has had Crohn's disease since childhood. Jess offers great perspectives, shares her insights, and teaches others strategies to successfully juggle the competing roles of parenting, working, being a spouse and being a chronic disease patient.To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

In today's episode, we are going to learn three different breathing techniques that will help us stay in a calm, relaxed parasympathetic state.To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

We all know breathing is important...but only in the last several years have I learned about how important it is, the different ways we breathe, and ultimately how to incorporate breathing into changing what is happening in your body. Join me with Haim Dreilich, an expert in breathing and how to use breathing to benefit your health.To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

In today's episode of Gut Matters, I interview Theodore Merriweather Jr., the Founder of Crohnsnomore.org, a foundation dedicated to raising awareness about IBD and offering alternative methods to reducing the pain and suffering caused by IBD. To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

The teenage years come along with testing lots of new behaviors from smoking and drinking to drugs and sex. When you're a female with IBD, things can get even more complicated. Join me as I speak with Dr. Susie Kane from the Mayo Clinic as we explore the teenage years with IBD and what to think about as teenage girls become young women. To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531

Do you actually know how you feel when you are anxious, depressed or angry? Most of us use lots of words to describe emotions without actually knowing what we are feeling in our bodies. If you want to learn to control your pain and other GI symptoms, you need to be able to identify what's happening in your body. Join me and start to learn how to feel what you feel! To work with me privately on managing your chronic pain or illness, please email directly me at [email protected] join the Gut Matters Community on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553717605442531