Episode 51: Dr. Jennifer Franklin and Don't Hate Your Guts

Today on the show I have Dr. Jennifer Franklin. We met several years ago as we were studying the stress and threat responses of the nervous system. Please listen to this fascinating conversation about the psycho-physiology of digestive disorders, especially how we need to cultivate more parasympathetic experiences for ourselves in our lives. We NEED this!

One of the first “gastropsychologists” in the US, Dr. Franklin is an  experiential, somatically-oriented, mindfulness-based psychologist,  specializing in the treatment of Psychophysiologic Disorders (PPD),  especially digestive PPD. Dr. Franklin began her career on the heels of  having suffered greatly herself from digestive PPD. A year of  psychotherapy as a teenager kick-started her healing process and made  her acutely aware of the powerful relationship between mind and body,  and then over the course of graduate school, she recovered completely.  For over two decades, Dr. Franklin has been providing psychotherapy,  teletherapy, and consultation to individuals, couples, and families. She  has taught Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, served as an associate  editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, given  talks on the brain-gut connection and healing the gut, and started a  website and YouTube channel to offer patients and health-care providers  valuable information about how to promote healing. To learn more, visit donthateyourguts.com.