It seems like every day there is another devastating and shocking world event taking place. It made me once again think about the effects of this, on not only myself but society as a whole. With the introduction of the internet and social media, news has become so much more accessible. We often want to know every little detail, something that has become so easy to obtain. In addition, many forms of journalism are designed to evoke high emotional responses through disaster rep

The mind-gut connection is a two-way street: how we think and feel impacts the gut, and the status of the gut impacts how we think and feel. Let’s delve further into how stress impacts the gut and how to manage it! Understanding Our Stress Response: When we experience stress, our evolutionary protective physical mechanism gets activated – this is our fight-flight-freeze response which defends us from danger. We fight back, flee/avoid the situation for safety, or shut down and