Trust Your Gut

Trust Your Gut

Hosted by: Demi Fair

Trust Your Gut, hosted by Demi Fair, dives into the world of the mind-body connection. We explore the emerging science of the gut-brain axis and microbiome, while harnessing the power of intuition and connection to...

All Episodes

Episodes

35. Healthy Habits That Made My Gut-Brain Symptoms Worse

We are bombarded today with so many different messages of what is healthy, especially when it comes to gut health. For 15 years I trudged through all the information out there, trying to figure out what was the best...
View Episode

34. Why I Always Ask Clients With Chronic Gut Issues About Their Childhood

All of our early-life experiences predispose how we interact with the world and what we perceive as safe.  This programs our nervous system responses, microbiome, gut-brain communication, and mental states at a young...
View Episode

33. The Missing Piece To Healing Your Chronic Digestive & Mental Stress Symptoms

This episode is about the entire foundation of the work I do with Trust Your Gut and the framework behind it that I utilize with clients. I talk about this through the lens of my upcoming group program, Gut-Brain...
View Episode

32. The Truth About Exercise & Gut Health

We all know exercise is good for us. Diet culture has ingrained the idea of “eat less, exercise more.”  We’re shown that lean, muscular bodies are the ideal, and that if we aren’t pushing ourselves to our limits in a...
View Episode

31. The Disconnection Between Body & Earth: Our Modern Disease

 The health of the lands and waters, of the culture and the community, is not separate from the health of individuals. Our body is earth. Our bodies have evolved over billions of years with the earth as intricate,...
View Episode

30. Lessons From The Road

Recently, I took a month to hit the road. Getting out on adventures in new places, especially alone, always provides deep reflection and insight. In this episode I share with you what came up for me this last...
View Episode

29. You May Be More Stressed Than You Think

I talk a lot about chronic and traumatic stress being one of the largest culprits and root causes of chronic gut-brain symptoms. If you've looked to improve your gut symptoms or anxiety, then you know just how import...
View Episode

28. How Lack of Safety and Emotional Wounds Manifest in the Mind-Body with Leashia Arrowsmith

As a former nutrition coach and yoga teacher, Leashia felt she was living an extremely healthy life, yet she had strange symptoms and pains coming up. She shares what she discovered to be the cause of her symptoms,...
View Episode

27. The Strong Link Between IBS and Trauma

IBS is so frustrating. It's mostly just a catch all phrase for a doctor to say "I don't actually know what is causing your symptoms." I struggled with IBS-C (constipation dominant) for so much of my life.  The thing...
View Episode

26. The Physical Body & Emotional Body Are Not Separate with Haley DeMarco

This is a MUST listen. Join Haley and I as we talk about her experience with serious digestive issues that were not fixed by a celiac diagnosis and going gluten free - but rather by looking at deeper aspects of...
View Episode

25. Debunking Popular Gut Health Recommendations: Fiber, FODMAPs, Prebiotics & Probiotics

If you go to Google and search for how to best support your gut, you will come across some common recommendations: eat a ton of vegetables, eat lots of fiber, take a probiotic, take a prebiotic!  If you struggle with...
View Episode

24. What Causes Nervous System Dysregulation In The First Place?

What exactly causes nervous system dysregulation in the first place? Seems like everyone and their grandma is talking about nervous system regulation these days. And yes, I am one of them! I have spoken to this as...
View Episode