103. How To Love Your Gut - Not Hate The Food with Dr. Heather Finley

Themes: Nutrition, Nervous System Regulation, Gut and Digestive Health

 

Do you struggle with food sensitivity or digestive issues? Have you tried every elimination diet out there but experienced little to no relief? Registered dietician Dr. Heather Finley joins Lindsay and Cait on Rewire to discuss the missing piece of healing digestive symptoms and conditions: using nervous system regulation to heal your gut. Hear Dr. Heather’s story and learn practical tools to help you begin to find safety in your body and around food. 

Dr. Heather Finley is a registered dietitian with a doctorate in clinical nutrition. She helps people struggling with bloating, constipation, and IBS find relief from their symptoms and feel excited about food again. Dr. Heather has a doctorate in clinical nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health. Her work has been featured on Good Morning Texas and in Mind Body Green, Yahoo! Life, and Very Well Health.

 

Show Notes:

-Heather telling her personal experiences with digestive issues, and feeling “incurable” for 20 years of her life; her first job out of college in a hospital and how she was inundated with imposter syndrome with her patients because she was still experiencing so many symptoms herself; how she arrived at her “light bulb” moment and realized later that her symptoms were directly related to the state of her nervous system and her level of stress; how this lead her to the nervous system work she does today with her clients

-Why blanket solutions that are widely accepted (certain probiotics, etc) are not always the best thing if your gut is not healthy 

-Exploring the mind body connection and how this affects your relationship with food/eating 

-Going from seeing food as a source of symptoms to a source of nourishment (steps on how to get there) 

-Learning to examine underlying issues to help heal your digestive issues: regulating your nervous system, stress levels, gut health, your environment, and more; what else besides food are you “consuming?”

-Defining a healthy gut: you are able to digest and absorb food adequately; you are able to produce the end products that benefit your entire body

-Why gut health is “north to south”; discussing more of the mind body connection in reference to food 

-Recognizing where your gut health stands; recognizing red/green flags 

-Heather’s tips for where to start if you are experiencing symptoms; why the biggest key is rewiring your nervous system into feeling safe and joyful around eating 

-Practical tools to make your body and mind feel safe when eating 

-Food is freedom; it represents culture and love and we all deserve to enjoy it

 

Resources:

-Visit Dr. Heather’s website here

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co 

-Visit Cait’s Website

 

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