The Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit

You've spent too many late nights becoming your very own gut health expert, when all you want is to stop thinking about it.

You're tired of second-guessing every bite and every plan:

Did I eat something wrong?Is this a flare starting?Am I going to have to cancel again?

You're ready to be the up-for-anything person you know you are, instead of the one who always says…

Let me see how my stomach's feeling.

If it hasn't worked yet, the third time isn't going to be the charm.

It's time to stop restarting the same protocol.

Sound familiar?

It's not like you haven't tried.

You've lived on the same five “safe” foods for months, done round after round of antimicrobials, tried every probiotic on the shelf, and downloaded the meditation app to try to reduce your stress.

Some of it helped, for a while. Then your gut went right back to calling the shots. And when you asked for help, you heard “It's IBS, try more fiber” or “It's probably anxiety.”

Meanwhile, the cost keeps adding up:

The trips, dinners, and plans you've said “maybe” to when you wanted to say yes
The money spent on tests and protocols you'd rather not add up

Plus you're already a busy, big-dreaming human with a full plate. If you have to research ONE more supplement, you may scream into your bowl of plain rice.

'Cause you don't have time for another round of test, treat, retest.

And you're starting to suspect the answer isn't only in your gut.

What it could look like

One day, you'd plan the trip around the sights you want to see and the restaurants you want to try, not the menus you can tolerate or the nearest bathroom.

A deadline, a long flight, a late night out: your gut stays resilient through all of it. And when something does throw it off, you don't panic. You know what your body needs.

Imagine going a whole day without thinking about your gut, and getting that headspace back for your work, your people, and your plans. Committing to future events with confidence. Ordering whatever sounds good on the menu. Wearing the outfit you want, not the one that hides the bloat. Feeling present with the people you love instead of half-listening while you track your stomach.

You won't get there with a stricter diet, a fourth round of antimicrobials, or forcing yourself through another meditation you secretly dread. You've tried that road. It's hard to stay on, it shrinks your life, and the moment you step off it, the symptoms come back.

What gets you there is a nervous system with the capacity to handle real life:

Resilience to everyday stress, so the busy work week, the travel day, and the hard conversation don't turn into a flare
Understanding your body's language, so a sensation or symptom becomes information instead of an emergency
Regulation tools that work in the moment, at the restaurant, on the plane, before the big presentation

Healing should make your life feel bigger, not smaller.

The missing piece

You can't out-diet or out-protocol a nervous system that isn't ready to rest and digest.

For the last decade, the medical world has classified IBS as a disorder of gut-brain interaction: a miscommunication between your gut and your brain. Your nervous system runs that connection.

Your gut is wired into the same system that controls how you respond to stress and what your body has learned to call a threat. When that system signals “not safe,” digestion goes offline. Yet almost every plan you've been handed starts and ends with your diet and your microbiome.

66%

of people with IBS name stress as their biggest trigger, ahead of food.

Stress is the number one trigger, and it gets the least support. You hear “try to reduce your stress,” maybe get handed a meditation app, and your gut still flares before the big meeting. Your stress response lives in your nervous system, in patterns it learned to protect you. A calmer week won't undo them.

Years of bracing for the next threat can make your gut more sensitive and teach your brain to treat normal sensations as danger. Each flare strengthens that pathway, and a nervous system wired to repeat what it knows runs the loop again. That loop is the IBS-stress cycle.

Same gas, different reaction

Researchers gave 29 people with IBS and 29 people without IBS the same fiber drink, then measured the gas in their colons on MRI. Both groups made about the same amount. Nearly half of the IBS group developed symptoms, while the group without IBS felt far milder effects.

The food was identical. The difference was how strongly each gut reacted, and that sensitivity is shaped by the nervous system. That's why cutting another food doesn't break the cycle.

Your gut has been following your nervous system's lead all along. Retrain your nervous system, and your gut gets to follow.

Introducing

Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit

The Gut–Brain Healing Toolkit is a personalized, nervous-system-led framework for people exhausted from managing symptoms without real resolution.

This approach is designed for those who have done so many of the “right” things yet still feel stuck doubting their body, carrying constant mental load, and cycling through restrictive diets and protocols that never quite get to the root. Here, we focus on understanding why your symptoms are happening, rebuilding trust with your body, and supporting healing on a deeper level.

Our goal is to reduce your daily mental load around symptoms, break out of the IBS–stress cycle, and create true lasting relief — so your nervous system and gut become more resilient and you can live your life with more freedom and ease.

Four months of 1:1 support

We start with a 90-minute initial consultation to build your foundation, followed by one-on-one sessions every three weeks. You're never just handed a protocol and left to figure it out alone — between sessions, you have daily support through Slack whenever you need clarity or encouragement.

Your personalized roadmap

I play detective — identifying the true underlying causes of your symptoms, what's keeping you stuck, and the patterns running in your nervous system. From there, I build you a plan that I update every step of the way as we learn more about your system together.

Lifetime access to the Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit

A full library of resources supporting your nervous system, digestion, and microbiome — somatic regulation practices, trauma healing tools, and digestive support guides you can return to anytime, even after our sessions end.

Community space + monthly group calls

Dealing with chronic symptoms can be really isolating. The community space connects you with others who understand exactly what you're going through. Monthly group calls are another place to get support from me, ask questions, and learn from others in the program — because healing happens faster when you're not doing it alone.

Here's what we'll do together inside the program:

01 Stabilize Your System

Strengthen gut-brain communication, reduce gut hypersensitivity, and build safety in the body so healing and digestion can begin.

02 Rewire Stress + Triggers

Understand your nervous system patterns and rewire the stress responses operating outside your conscious awareness — so symptoms no longer keep looping.

03 Support Your Digestive River

Digestion happens in a particular order — starting with the nervous system and moving downstream. We support your physical digestive process and microbiome in a way that fits your body and nervous system, without restrictive diets or protocol overload.

when you join us inside the program, you'll get instant & lifetime access to...

The 6 module roadmap to not only finding relief from the IBS-stress cycle...

but to transforming your entire life.

Module 1

The Gut-Brain Connection & Vagus Nerve

✔ Establish your knowledge about the gut-brain connection and it's different components, such as:

The enteric nervous system (our gut's own nervous system)
Neurotransmitters and how they impact our moods and gut functions
The role of the vagus nerve

✔ You will then work through 12 somatic exercises to increase your vagal tone and improve the communication between your gut and brain.

Module 2

Nervous System Regulation & Stress Response

✔ Learn the language of your autonomic nervous system and it’s various states.

✔ Understand how each state impacts your physical, mental, emotional, and digestive health.

✔ Uncover how the stress response works in your body.

✔ Map your personal nervous system responses and use that to guide you through the comprehensive library of somatic tools for regulating your nervous system & transforming your relationship to stress.

✔ Explore a variety of video and audio practices to help you learn the language of your nervous system and how it’s impacting your symptoms.

Module 3

Understand & Process Trauma

✔ Establish an understanding of what exactly trauma is and how it impacts our body and brain.

✔ Understand the survival responses, patterns, and protective mechanisms that may be keeping you stuck.

✔ Creating your symptom timeline and connect the dots to identify root causes.

✔ Be guided through safe and effective tools to connect with your inner child, explore your parts, and shift intergenerational trauma.

✔ You’ll also learn Somatic Experiencing tools to use in your day to day life.

These are some of the most powerful, effective trauma healing modalities today that have been adapted for safe exploration on your own.

Module 4

The Entire Digestive Process: Support Your Gut Step by Step

✔ Uncover the top to bottom process of our digestion.

✔ Learn how the entire digestive process works and what can go wrong along each step of the way.

✔ Learn the best practices for supporting your digestion along each of those steps.

✔ Once you have that foundation, take the symptom assessment which will help you identify which area in your digestion needs support.

✔ Locate the guides in the action steps that correlate with your results and begin to utilize the practices to find relief from your symptoms without the guess work.

Module 5

Your Own Ecosystem: All About the Microbiome

✔ Here we’ll go deeper into learning about the microbiome and how it’s formed (which is absolutely fascinating)!

✔ We’ll discover how our moods, emotions, and mental states are affected by our gut bacteria.

✔ We’ll cover the most up to date practices for optimizing your microbiome health, and how to navigate them with tricky symptoms.

✔ Once you have that foundation, take the symptom assessment which will help you identify if there is a possible imbalance in your microbiome.

✔ Locate the guides in the action steps that correlate with your results and begin to utilize the practices to support your microbes.

✔ Access the guides to probiotics, prebiotics, fiber, and resistant starch to dispel any confusion.

Module 6

Trust Your Gut: Connect to Your Intuition

✔ Wrap up the program with a light and easeful exploration into learning how to trust your gut.

✔ Here we'll explore what intuition is, how it connects to your gut feelings, and how it's shaped by your life experiences.

✔ We’ll understand the difference between what fear and intuition feels like.

✔ Through somatic tools, we’ll practice tuning into our body and intuition so we can make aligned decisions for ourselves and our healing.

Imagine this...

Your life after joining the Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit...

✔ Enjoy eating without anxiety: Picture yourself at your favorite restaurant, ordering exactly what you crave, without the fear of indigestion or discomfort. Imagine enjoying every bite, laughing and conversing freely with others, without the worry of gas or the urgent need for a bathroom ruining the moment.

✔ Be resilient to stress: Visualize stress becoming a manageable part of life, rather than a trigger for your symptoms. Through the program, you'll transform your approach to stressors, equipping yourself with tools that make navigating life's ups and downs easier.

✔ Deepen your body connection: Imagine feeling at home in your own skin. This journey deepens your connection to your body, fostering an intuitive understanding of its needs. As you grow to naturally trust your body's wisdom, you'll find your relationship with yourself becoming richer and more profound.

✔ A life of freedom: Picture the freedom of living without the burden of gut-related anxiety or discomfort. Your life no longer revolves around your symptoms, allowing you to immerse yourself in hobbies, cherish time with friends, and engage in activities you love with ease.

✔ Achieve long-lasting relief from symptoms: Envision having sustainable relief from your symptoms without restrictive diets or protocols, feeling confident in handling any potential flares smoothly.

“Working with Demi has truly been such a gift and transformation in my life.

When I first started working with her, I was working in the health and wellness field and was deep into my own healing journey. But one thing I realized about Demi was that she seemed to be one of the only people to be hitting the nail on the head when it comes to true healing. I've struggled for many years with physical symptoms such as chronic gut issues, constipation, candida/yeast issues, parasites, bloating, weight gain, skin issues. It wasn't until working with Demi was I finally able to link some of these issues to nervous system dysregulation, and come to the awareness that my traumas, anxiety, dissociation, and people pleasing were all playing a part in the continuation of my physical symptoms. She has helped me put language to so much of my truth and healing journey.

Although I have studied topics in medicine, health and wellness for many years, Demi was the first one to educate me so thoroughly about the nervous system, and has provided me with valuable tools to help me self regulate. I love how she teaches the body first approach to healing which works for me personally because I have pretty much lived my whole life in fight or flight. I feel right where I am supposed to be on my healing journey working with Demi as we dive deep into self discovery and true self healing from the inside out. Demi is an incredibly gifted teacher, healer, speaker, and overall human. It is so refreshing to be working with a practitioner who truly practices what they preach. She seems to really be in the flow with this work- you can sense her passion for supporting others to get to the root cause of their health issues in everything she does.

I would highly recommend working with Demi as she is out there doing what no other healers I have come across are doing. Thanks Demi you are so gifted and I cannot wait to continue working with you.

- Katie Kelly

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Meet your practitioner

Hi, I'm Demi!

I help those struggling with the IBS-stress cycle reclaim their lives through my unique blend of nervous system regulation, trauma healing, and nutritional therapy. This approach transforms their relationship to stress and leads to a fully enjoyed life, free from the burden of symptoms.

My practice blends a lifetime of embodied wisdom in this field from my own life-long IBS journey, with my training as a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Somatic Experiencing® practitioner.

It's where gut healing and nutritional therapy meets nervous system regulation and healing chronic and traumatic stress.

For 17 years I have been on a personal journey of healing my own chronic gut-brain imbalances.

I now feel lovingly connected to my body and intuition, have the deepest awareness of why my symptoms came to be, and my gut is the happiest it's ever been.

The best part is, if symptoms or mental triggers pop up, I know exactly how to work through them without feeling defeated.

But it wasn't always this way...

All my life I have struggled with many of the symptoms you do: chronic constipation, IBS, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive thinking.

As a teenager, at the end of my rope with suffering, and fed up with doctors telling me to just take laxatives and fiber supplements, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

This is when I first found relief through changing my diet and utilizing natural supplements. This sent me down a path of experimenting with all the gut healing protocols and diets I could find.

While dialing in my nutrition provided a lot of benefit to my overall well-being and gut issues, I found myself still stuck in the cycle of symptoms and becoming more anxious about eating the wrong thing. There had to be something more that I was missing…

The missing piece was the connection with my nervous system. My system was over-activated in sympathetic (fight or flight) all the time, and therefore I could never truly heal.

All the wonderful diets, supplements, and healing modalities were helpful, but while I was dysregulated in my nervous system, they were only going to do so much.

This is not something that is commonly addressed by doctors or practitioners when we seek support with such symptoms. Yet, it is the often the root cause!

So to address this problem, Trust Your Gut was born!

This is for you if:

✔ You are tired of restrictive diets and supplement protocols that you aren’t sure are actually helping.

✔ You are open-minded, committed to your healing, and curious to explore new ways of relating to your body and symptoms.

✔ You are interested in learning about your nervous system and implementing somatic (body) based practices.

✔ You are ready and feel supported enough in your current life to look at some of the deeper aspects of your life and history such as your childhood and any traumatic stress you may have endured.

This is not for you if:

✗ You are looking for a quick fix. This level of healing takes time.

✗ You do not feel ready or supported enough in your current life to look at some of the deeper aspects of your life and history such as your childhood and any traumatic stress you may have endured.

✗ You are struggling with serious mental health conditions or distress that would be better suited to 1:1 support with a therapist.

✗ You have serious trauma, PTSD, or CPTSD that you have yet to seek external support from. That is best suited for 1:1 support with a therapist.

*If you aren’t sure if this program is right for you or not, please reach out to ask: hello@trustyourguthealth.com

“My first SE session absolutely rocked my world and I continued to feel its gentle yet powerful aftershocks for days to come.

When I first started reading Demi's Instagram posts I remember thinking, “Yes! This is how we need to be thinking about and working with health and wellness. This is it!” It was exactly what I had been looking for.

Except, being the poor, highly indebted millennial that I am, I just couldn’t justify spending more money on more doctors. I have already spent more than I can admit, and I was still in very poor health. I’m not entirely sure what changed my mind, but after finally talking with Demi I knew it was going to be worth it.

Demi displayed a true passion for her work, a strong desire to help her clients, and used very clear and concise language to not only help me feel connected and understood, but that also showed me just how much interdisciplinary knowledge she truly holds. On so many different levels I knew I could trust her completely.

I was especially excited to work with Somatic Experiencing. Some old, hard habits and belief systems that I knew didn’t serve me (and yet couldn’t seem to shake) suddenly and seemingly just melted away. I made some subtle yet enormous changes in my life and it was like a whole new piece of my world opened up to me. It has been a wonderful journey of discovery and healing ever since.

I am so happy that I took the plunge and gave it one more try. So worth it! I only wish I had found her sooner. Thank you Demi!"

- Ana Ally

Stop being at war with your body and start trusting it.

Do you scour Google, social media, and podcasts looking for answers but end up feeling like your drowning in the sea of wellness advice?

It's more overwhelming than dodging Aunt Susie's unsolicited relationship advice at a family reunion.

So how do we figure out what is actually going to help us?

through tuning in and listening to your body's innate wisdom & messages

I get it, some of you you might be thinking, 'Demi, cut the airy-fairy talk.

This isn't some fluffy, woo-woo idea. It's firmly grounded in the science of the mind-body connection – a scientific truth.

Which, by the way, the gut-brain connection creates the foundation of!

Your body holds the key to ultimate healing because chronic and traumatic stress is encoded in the nervous system, not just the events themselves.

Our bodies store life's memories and experiences, often expressed through symptoms. By learning to listen to your body, it will reveal what it needs to heal.

In fact:

80% of information travels from our body to brain, whereas only 20% travels from brain to body.

This is why somatic (body-based) approaches are so effective for improving symptoms and stress.

We use these somatic tools to learn the language of our nervous system, connect to our intuition, and strengthen the communication between body and mind.

are you ready to trust your gut?

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long is the program?

Do I need to follow a specific diet or supplement protocol?

How is this different from other gut-healing programs?

Do I need to have prior experience with somatic work or nervous system regulation?

Can I just do 1-on-1 sessions with you?

I'm busy! What is the time commitment?

What if I’ve already tried other gut health programs without success?

What kind of results can I expect from this program?

You're not a doctor, why should I listen to you?

how do I know if this will work and be the right thing for me?

Can I do this program if I am also in therapy, working with a doctor, etc.?

Can I join the program if I’m dealing with severe symptoms or chronic health issues?

Real talk, my friend

I know you feel hesitant to try “just one more thing…”

Maybe you've sought help but felt brushed off by doctors, rushed through by practitioners, and given more supplement protocols than answers.

Maybe you've already invested too much money into trying to solve your symptoms and you are afraid to invest more.

Perhaps you have felt like no one really listened, understood, or helped so you had to take matters into your own hands. But now you are feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what the next step is.

You may even be feeling absolutely defeated and helpless at this point.

I know all to well what it's like to be there and I want to offer a different pathway to healing:

✔ One in which you are truly heard and seen. Not rushed through an office.
✔ Where you are guided in connecting your symptoms to your own life experience and the true fundamental cause. Not just something you ate.
✔ In which you are supported in connecting more deeply to your body and it's innate wisdom, and use that wisdom to guide your healing. Not some generalized protocol.

Book a free 45 min clarity call!

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