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Common Blocks to Mindfulness & Awareness: Stress and Resistance

   When you try to practice mindfulness and awareness, you might run into common blocks that get in your way. One major barrier is physical and emotional stress. When you are highly stressed, your body diverts blood sugar away from your thinking mind and sends it to...

How Stress Physically Changes Your Gut Bacteria

  When you face a stressful situation, your body undergoes immediate changes that directly impact your gut health (0:00). You might think that stress is just something you feel in your mind, but it physically alters your digestive system. Your gut lining acts like a...

Understanding Insulin Resistance (Analogy)

To understand insulin resistance, you can imagine every single cell in your body as a tiny little house (0:06). Just like a house needs power to run, your cells need fuel to function properly (0:14). In your body, this essential fuel comes in the form of sugar, which...

A 5-Week Plan to Heal Your Nervous System

Video Summary: A 5-Week Plan to Heal Your Nervous System In this clinical education video, Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes outlines a structured, five-week therapeutic framework designed to help individuals downregulate a hyper-reactive nervous system (0:57). Prolonged stress...

Why Older Adults Struggle with Nutrition

 Why Older Adults Struggle with Nutrition As you get older, your body changes in ways that make good nutrition harder. One big reason is that your sense of smell gets weaker. Smell signals also take longer to travel from your nose to your brain. Everything slows down...