How the Mind & Body Connection Influences your Health & Relationships Staring Stress Nutritionist Nicole Burska

Nicole Burska goes into detail about the mind and body connection and how it impacts our health and relationships and shares her own personal journey from being broken to making a complete recovery. She now uses  the lessons she has learnt along the way to help others overcome the same kinds of things that she herself went through. 

Some of the key take aways include:

- When you start to improve your mental health, your digestion will improve and when your digestion improves, so does your mental health.

- Physical touch, comfort, love, nurture, and warmth is more important than food. Our relationships proceed before our need to consume and digest food. 

- Parents who provide strong relationship stability as a child set their children up to become stable adults, while neglectful parents usually result in children becoming unstable as an adult. 

- Being vulnerable, opening up, and acknowledging the past pain and trauma that you experienced as a child growing up can lead to healing once you start to uncover the layers that have been repressed. 

In this episode Nicole talks about how the skin affects the body, improving body function without needing to resort to prescription drugs, how the quality of your relationships can enhance your mental health, how mental health impacts your digestion, understanding the gut/brain connection, how stress impacts your appetite, understanding the link between your mental health, relationships, digestion and hormones, how hormones impact your body functions, and stress management.

Making sure your social circles are strong, rebuilding your relationships with friends, family work colleagues  and so on, the power of emotional touch, the monkey experiment, why comfort and warmth is important, why humans need to feel comforted and socially fulfilled, how to meet your biological needs, what connections contribute to our survival and well-being, understanding the sympathetic & parasympathetic nervous system, dealing with trauma, and adverse childhood experiences.

Addressing depression, childhood relationships, why having genuinely good parents is detrimental to a child's long-term mental health & well-being, relationship psychology, social skills, emotional intelligence, finding role models, managing conflict, processing feelings, embracing your emotions, acknowledging your pain and working through it, using a journal to process past emotions that hurt you, and how naming your emotions can help you recognise them.

Committing to change, breakthrough, how to surrender, becoming aware of your self destructive patterns and behaviours, how to work through your layers of pain and unresolved conflict, making better life choices, learning what contributes to making you feel good, and creating habits that support your ongoing growth and development.