When we talk about kids and mental health, we usually talk about things like screen time, school stress, sleep, or therapy. But there’s another part that flies under the radar, nutrition. There’s also a growing amount of research looking at how what kids eat may affect things like mood, stress and how they handle everything…
Category: Vagus Nerve
The Link Between My Gut and My Trigeminal Neuralgia
For years, I only ever treated my trigeminal neuralgia like a jaw problem. The pain was all in my cheek and mouth, so that’s where I looked. I spent years bouncing between dentists and doctors just trying to make it through the next flare-up. When my TCM doctor first told me the real issue was…
Move Your Body, Shift Your Mood
Some days, moving is the last thing on earth I want to do. It’s that deep, leaden exhaustion where you sleep for eight hours and wake up feeling like you haven’t rested in weeks. Between the kids, perimenopause swinging my mood all over the place, and just feeling flat, my instinct is to stay on…
The Vagus Nerve (Your Body’s Secret Reset Button)
Ever feel like your body is stuck in overdrive, heart racing a little, stomach off, mind going in circles, even when you’re exhausted. Between managing two teenage boys, studying, juggling everyday demands, and dealing with a chronic illness, I know that feeling well. Sometimes I don’t even realize how “on edge” I’ve been until I…