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

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

Update: 2025-09-04
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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:

🎧 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

⭐️ If you loved this episode, would you take a moment to leave a five-star review on Apple or Spotify. It helps more women learn to listen, trust, and transform their health.

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

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

Dr. Brook Sheehan