Do you struggle with many symptoms that seem unrelated? Is your body reactive, sensitive, or allergic? Do you have any mental struggles like anxiety, OCD, ruminating or intrusive thoughts? We cover how they can all be connected, why most interventions fail, and how to successfully reverse these issues.

“...a lot of people don't connect it. They just think, “I have [mental health issues]. I'm just going to have to cope with this my whole life. But histamine does affect the brain. It's a hormone and a neurotransmitter. And if you have excess histamine in your brain and it's chronically inflamed, you are going to have some very intense mental symptoms.” - Jen Donovan

You’ll Discover

• How Jen overcame lifelong mental health struggles
• What to do when the conventional approach doesn’t work
• When your health continues to get worse even when doing all the work
• How to stop overriding your nervous system so it can feel safe and become less reactive
• Feeling damaged based on frustrating symptoms and lab test results
• Understanding the meaning behind your uncomfortable symptoms
• Continually asking “why” until you get to an acceptable answer for your health
• Getting empowered through solving your difficult health problems
• It’s the simplest interventions done consistently that make the difference
• The value and drawbacks of getting a label for your health condition
• How histamine affects the brain and can lead to intense mental symptoms
• What to do when you can’t tolerate any protocols
• Getting shocked out of your old view of the world
• MCAS - one condition that can explain many symptoms
• The psychiatric manifestations of MCAS
• Finding your own answers when the ones you’re getting aren’t good enough
• Changing not just what you’re doing, but the way you’re doing it
• The importance of slowing down
• Learning to communicate directly with your nervous system
• Using nervous system retraining to lessen immune reactions
• Why many people with chronic illness cannot think their way out of it and need to get into their body somatically
• Healing the gut-brain axis to permanently resolve your symptoms

Listen now and stay wise!

Connect with Jen:

Instagram: @wholebodyhealingwithjen

Website: www.wholebodyhealingwithjen.com

YouTube: @wholebodyhealingwithjen

Connect with your host Josh Dodds:

Website: www.thecalnut.com

Instagram: @josh__dodds

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