03/16/2026
I see this pattern so often.
Your symptoms aren’t random.
Your patterns, beliefs, and mindset affect more than just your brain. They affect your whole body.
These patterns put your nervous system into a hyper alert state, which places your body into fight or flight- even when you aren’t realizing it.
This hyper vigilant mode of never shutting the brain off, always worried about others needs impacts your gut, hormones, energy, inflammation, immune system.
A stressed out state doesn’t prioritize digestion. Motility changes, stomach acid lowers. This means food isn’t broken down well, you’re bloated, and often either constipated or having diarrhea. Heartburn is often seen here as well- when stomach acid is low, your lower esophageal sphincter doesn’t get the memo to close meaning you’re left with reflux and heartburn.
This also leads to poor nutrient absorption- which can correlate with anxiety and depression, as well as less than optimal hormones.
Poor gut health often correlates with hormone imbalance as a healthy gut is needed to metabolize and detox estrogen. Heavy periods and breast tenderness are often a gut issue, not hormone.
When your brain can’t shut off and is hyper vigilant, blood sugar is imbalanced as it goes hand in hand with cortisol. And all of these impact progesterone which is meant to balance with estrogen. When progesterone is low we may see heavy periods, as well as irritability and PMS.
All of this circles back to low energy and inflammation. Minerals become depleted with long term stress. Blood sugar and gut imbalance impact inflammation greatly.
It all circles back together. Which is why when I help women with their chronic symptoms, we’re looking into patterns.
Have you been a people pleaser?
Do you feel you’re worthy?
Are you supported?
Are you a perfectionist?
It’s not just about fixing the imbalances. It’s about working on the patterns that triggered them as well- that is how you get long term results.
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