Part of improving chronic stress is to start to sense and feel it. Close your eyes and start to sense and feel.

I’ll never forget the day. It is completely bright in my mind like it happened a minute ago. I woke up. It was spring. A perfect, melty March day. You could hear the snow dripping off of the building. The sun was shining in through the windows of my small apartment. There were little dusty floaties in the air of the sunbeams.

Your gut health is tied to your stress, anxiety and depression. And your stress, anxiety and depression is tied to your gut health.

Your soma - body, mind and spirit - reacts beautifully to stress. The problem is, it doesn't hold up well when we don't come down from the stressor. It adapts for a time, but wasn't designed to handle it long-term.

Do you think we hold things in our bodies? Physical trauma sure. What about emotional trauma? Do you think we kind of stick stuff away in little boxes? In our minds, certainly. But what about in our bodies? Do you think we can have issues in our tissues?