Start Here: Calming the GI Stress Cycle

If you’re here from the video about the stress-gut cycle, you’re in the right place.

This page is meant to help you take a first, simple step toward settling the stress response that can keep digestive symptoms going.

You don’t need to fix anything or understand everything right now.

Start with the short practice below.


The Rest & Digest Reset

As mentioned in the video, digestion-focused, bottom-up regulation is often the best place to begin interrupting the GI Stress Cycle.

This short guided practice is designed to help shift your nervous system out of fight-or-flight and into a rest-and-digest state that supports digestion and recovery.

How to use this practice

There are two common ways people use bottom-up regulation tools like this:

  1. During symptom flares, to help the system settle.

  2. Proactively as a daily reset, to build baseline resilience activation over time.

What works best depends on your symptoms and your life context.

Even a few minutes can help shift your system and you do not need to feel calm for this to be effective.

Most importantly, you don’t have to fix everything at once.
You’re just starting to shift the cycle.

If you’d like to explore more

If you want to deepen your understanding or continue learning here are some resources: