Ep17: When Your Gut Goes Quiet: Decoding Constipation, Bloating & Digestive Shutdown

This one’s for the moments you feel stuck—physically, emotionally, spiritually.
 In today’s episode of your body speaks, Dr. Brook Sheehan dives into the not-so-glamorous but incredibly common experience of gut silence: constipation, bloating, and digestive shutdown.

You’ll hear the story of “Sarah,” a high-achieving woman doing all the right things—and still feeling backed up, bloated, and emotionally heavy. Through the lens of the bodyOS™ framework (physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental), we uncover what your gut might actually be trying to say when it stops moving.

Because your body is not broken.
 It’s speaking.
 Even when it’s quiet.

💡 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The top physical drivers of constipation and bloating (dehydration, low stomach acid, dysbiosis, poor motility, and more)
• Solutions that support rather than override your gut’s wisdom—like magnesium, warm lemon water, belly massage, and reflex points
• Why emotional weight, grief, shame, and control patterns often get stored in the gut
• The role of discernment and truth in the spiritual dimension of digestion
• How to use the Pause. Connect. Ask. Adjust. method to listen and respond with compassion
• Why your gut might be asking for more than a fiber supplement

🛠️ Tools & Resources:

• 📓 Download – My Body’s Whispers Journal
  Track your gut rhythms, emotional cues, and spiritual nudges with this free journaling tool
  👉 https://os.drbrooksheehan.com/bodys-whispers-journal
  
  
• 🟡 Talk to Me, Body Card Deck
  Faith-rooted affirmation cards from the voice of your body—includes gut, stomach, liver, gallbladder, and more
  👉 https://drbrooksheehan.com/talk-to-me-body
  
  
• 📹 Reflex Point Video Tutorials
  Stimulate your small intestine and large intestine reflex points to support digestive flow
  👉 Large Intestines Reflex: https://youtube.com/shorts/diLdKug3_jM?feature=share
• 👉 Small Intestines Reflex: https://youtube.com/shorts/l1_7otWdU50?feature=share
• 🌿 Join the Waitlist – bodyOS™

🎧 Stay Connected + Explore More Support:

If today’s episode spoke to something deeper in you, there’s so much more waiting for you inside my world.

💬 Start meaningful conversations with your body using the Talk to Me, Body affirmation card deck. Each card is written from your body’s perspective to help you shift from fear to faith in your healing.

📔 Track what your body is whispering with the My Body’s Whispers Journal, a gentle guide to help you connect physical symptoms with spiritual, emotional, mental, and lifestyle insights.

🌿 Want to deepen your listening practice and explore real-time body wisdom with others? Join the waitlist for the bodyOS™ membership, where we learn to decode the body’s signals together.

🌐 For more tools, free downloads, and upcoming course releases, visit drbrooksheehan.com

📲 And come say hi on Instagram: @drbrooksheehan

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