Happy Inside - Conquering the Stress of IBS

For people with gut disorders, the hypervigilence around bowel movements can become a focus and preoccupation that actually hinders the normal bowel function you’re desperately trying to achieve. So how do you stop it?

Food Anxiety? Hypervigilence about food? Afraid of food? Don't know what to eat? The above are all anxiety behaviours. They heighten your nervous system and upset your digestion and tolerance to food.  When you soften the anxiety, your symptoms will soften and your body will stop being hyper reactive to food. Website mention @ 20:30 mins www.bellalindeman.com

Softening is different to letting go. Letting go feels frightening, like a huge leap and it’s a one-time option that could go well or not, and feels risky. But softening, well, that’s soft. It’s gentle and safe. It’s just loosening your grip slightly while you still hold yourself steady.

Happy Inside originally focused on gut disorders. While they still remain a big focus, the app now includes other chronic conditions, illness, pain, anxiety and stress. Why? Because gut disorders are just one way psychological and emotional factors present themselves in the body; there are many other avenues for the body to express them and it only seems fair that there’s support for this too. It’...

Whether we work together in consultation, or have contact in some other way, you enrich my life and that enrichment is almost entirely based on my relationship with you, because of the courage you have in showing up while I hold space for you. Incredible insights and transformations happen in this space for both you and me, which is the ultimate reward. Come and hear how amazing I think you are. 

We are all gifted the same amount of time in our week, and it is up to us how we spend that time – that goes for me too. In this episode I share why I’ve spent the last 6 months not podcasting, and how this relates to you, what offerings are on their way, and most importantly I ask what it is you want?

You live within you so you can't avoid you. No more running from yourself, distracting and keeping so busy to avoid what you think you can't tolerate. You can. 

Skills and experience alone are not enough when determining a good practitioner.  You want to look and feel for the “Goodness of fit”. It’s a relationship that fosters healthy psychological development and positive self-esteem and is based on the temperament and personality of each person in the relationship. Here's a run-down of those crucial elements that determine a good practitioner. 

To be happy, you've got to start with the right questions. When you know how you want to feel, you'll start making choices and taking actions to bring those very feelings into your life. These 4 crucial questions will change your perspective and life for the better.

We have the freedom and power of choice. We can be annoyed at what’s happening in the spaces around us, or we can let that go and focus on creating an internal space that promotes wellness. When our internal environment is content, it vastly changes how we see the external one, how we relate to it and how it affects us.

Emotions aren’t tangible objects you pack into a box and store under the stairs or in the attic. You can’t just sweep them into a dustpan or out the front door. Emotions are energy within you and when you push that energy aside, you’re doing so inside your own body.

That link between your body and mind is unmistakable. You can’t switch off the connection between the mind and gut, but what you can do is create a really great friendship where the both of you thrive.

Worrisome thoughts will generate the relevant feeling; stress, anxiety, worry, anger, resentment. If you want to feel something other than those, something more beneficial, you gotta get in the drivers seat and start thinking better quality thoughts.

  When we make decisions and behave in ways that meet our own values, we experience healthy self-esteem. This is why coming home to listen to ourselves is crucial in all that we do.

  We’ve got Google, apps, social media, books, articles, doctors, practitioners, workshops, health retreats, yoga, and the rest – there is no shortage of information or help out there that we engage with every day. It’s evident that we are seeking for something more. Grasping though has a different feel to it; it comes from a place of fear. Two things happen when we grasp: We clutch at something o...

You’re feeling even more disappointed, upset, frustrated, angry and discouraged than before because your gut symptoms just keep getting worse. Join me as I share with you the very common pattern of behaviour that keeps symptoms in full swing, and even exacerbates them.

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All this scanning and scrolling is feeding in to our anxiety and idea that multi tasking is better. It’s pulling us away from our presence, and therefore, happiness. And a note on scrolling and scanning - to the people who have the massive phone screens, we can read your feed!

When was the last time you stopped to smell the roses?  We are living a pace of life that is far beyond our capacities. We have abandoned ourselves for other ideals and it's making us stressed and sick. 

All those questions you have about the inside workings of the Happy Inside Program are answered here. Here are the logistics of the program, how it works, what we do, how we spend each session, and of course, how we reduce and eliminate your distress and symptoms. 

A full guided meditation practice to get you started, or to renew a current practice. 

Meditation doesn’t come without its challenges, and they are often the reason people never take it up, or abandon a new practice. Knowing how to address those very hurdles will transform your current practice, or inspire you to begin.

There is a distinct difference between a bowel movement that occurs naturally and one that is activated by anxiety. Recognising the difference is the first step in trusting your body, reducing your symptoms and experiencing freedom.

Gut symptoms can develop from simple life stressors. The key word here is unresolved. Emotions are the body’s representation of a thought, and if those emotions are unresolved then the body will eventually give way by developing symptoms. Maybe these real life stories relate to you, and provide valuable insight to some possible causes of your symptoms. 

I'm afraid of food I don't know what to eat anymore What if this food makes me unwell? Which food did I eat yesterday that's caused todays symptoms? I'm too scared to try anything new Any of these sound familiar to you? In seeking the answers outwards, we have forgotten how to intuitively eat; to listen to and trust our own bodies.