Digestive Health Program

full course

The IBS Relief Now Program is built around 8 modules of content. Each module contains four resources for you:

• A presentation covering that session’s content

• A guided meditation to help you absorb that session’s lessons

• A self-reflective journal to help you capture thoughts, feelings, and ideas that can put you on a path to better health

• A “deeper dive” reading resource (PDF) to serve as a jumping off point for a fuller understanding of any topics that are especially relevant to you on your path to improved digestive health and general well-being

Overview

Session 1

Learning to “connect the dots” between your past, present, and future as you learn to develop the skills that are the essential building blocks for restoring your health and enriching your life.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 2

You have more than one brain. It works outside of conscious control. But, when trouble arises, like with, this second (enteric) brain listens to our conscious suggestions.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 3

Nourishing yourself is about much more than what you put in your mouth. Dive in to learn about your microbiome, how to care for it, and the mental, emotional, and physical role it plays in lasting health.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 4

The connections between our emotional states and our digestive health are very ancient. Establishing lasting IBS control relies on creating solid abilities to regulate our emotional lives.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 5

What role does stress play in IBS? This issue focuses on how life stress impacts IBS, how we can learn to reduce stress, and how we can actually learn to use stress to increase our resiliency skills.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 6

Sleep is as important to our long-term health as are the many choices we make and actions we take during our waking hours. When it comes to IBS management, restful sleep rhythms is key.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 7

Our personal history impacts the content o our memories, shapes our expectations of the future, and can condition our body to react in harmful ways to daily experience. For example, a negatively remembered history influences IBS. Learn to put the past in the past.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning

Session 8

IBS is a “syndrome.” It needs to be approached from multiple perspectives because there is no single path that causes IBS. There is also no single solution path to manage it. Here are six core dimensions of a holistic personal IBS care plan so you find your path.

1. Video Lesson

2. Guided Practice (audio)

3. Reflective Journal Practice (download Journal PDF in Session 1)

4. Deep Dive for more learning