Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Cara Wheatley-Mc Grain, Hay House author about Resetting our Gut Health and her book ‘Calm Your Gut: A Mindful and Compassionate Guide to Healing IBD and IBS’.

• Cara gives us a bit of background on herself and the work that she does and talks about her first book and shares with us about the work she does with teens and how gut health can affect our mental health. 
• Cara tells us about the 4 G’s and what they are and how it can help us understand more about our gut health. 
• Tess and Cara talk about how the gut links to our mind and how we are feeling as a whole. 
• Cara talks about our microbiome and what this is and how this can help our immune system and our mood and gives us simple ways that we can bring foods into our diet that can help us strengthen this. 
• Tess and Cara talk about self care and how important gut health is to consider when we are going through our day and talk about the importance of slowing down around meal time. The importance of taking a moment before you eat by saying grace or a word about being grateful and being mindful of where our food comes from and connecting with our family around the table. 
• Cara talks about being a custodian of our inner world and outer world and making conscious decisions about the food we eat and encourages us to keep it simple and plan ahead to help keep you on track along with batch cooking, and cooking with our tweens and teens.
• Cara is most grateful for her colon after becoming seriously ill. She considers this when she is thinking about her daily meals so she can look after her colon after almost losing it and realizing its importance.

Find out more about Cara’s work here and order her new book which is available now:  www.themindfulgut.co.uk.                             

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