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Healing Her IBSEpisode 33: Healing from Within -Interview with Jodi GelineDeep dive interview with IBS survivor, Jode Geline on her story of healing from her IBS, which she suffered with for nineteen years.Erin Maillo helps women with IBS who are sick of being sick reduce triggers, zap flareups, find peace and get their lives back. For VIP one on one support, apply for Erin's Healing Her IBS Program here: https://healingheribs.com/work-with-erin/2025-04-2333 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 32: Tools Or WeaponsToday’s episode is close to my heart because I think this is the episode that I would have needed most when I was trying to heal my IBS. Also, I think the information and mindset shifts I’m going to share today would have probably been the most difficult for me to grasp at the time. If you are approaching healing your IBS as a project, or you are approaching it too tightly or too loosely, this approach could be the number one impediment to your healing, and you may not even be aware of it. Often when we a...2025-03-2608 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 31: Do You Need Probiotics?The question of if how and when to incorporate probiotics is most certainly a hot topic when it comes to healing IBS. Most of us know that when it comes to healing our IBS, we do want to focus on the health of our gut and that having probiotics and prebiotics in a healthy ratio is an essential part of a functioning gut. What is more confusing is if we truly do need probiotics, what kind and from what source. Should we be supplementing with probiotics or try to get them from what we eat? In today’s episode we...2025-03-1207 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 30: Asking For What You Really NeedToday I want to speak about participating in celebrations or holidays when you have IBS and asking for what you really need from others. I’ve wanted to cover this topic that is really impactful for women who suffer from IBS and are just sick of being so sick. I know it’s difficult to know how to deal with your IBS during these events and how too it can bring up the opportunity to ask for what you need directly. It can be really hard to ask for the things that we want in life, and it can some...2025-03-0509 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 29: Healing Her IBS Back AgainHello again, everyone listening. I’m happy to be back recording today after quite a decent break from podcasting the Healing Her IBS show. Today I want to talk with you about what prompted this break for me and also what is bringing me back here again, more renewed and ready to record and share. I also want to speak with you about some of the changes that I am hoping and planning on making in this new year of podcasting and this new year of exploring how to heal your IBS.Erin Maillo helps women with IB...2025-02-2607 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 28: Taking a BreakHey everyone, welcome back to the Healing Her IBS Podcast. Today, I'm taking a moment to address something important. I've been thinking a lot lately about the direction of this podcast and where I want to take it. To truly serve you, my listeners, I've decided to take a temporary break from creating new episodes. I know this might come as a surprise, but it's a decision I've made with careful consideration. Over the past six months, I've poured my heart and soul into this podcast, sharing my knowledge, experiences, and my personal stories around healing IBS.2024-12-1803 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 27: Personalized Habit Change ProtocolsIn last week’s episode we spoke about the importance of discovering your true why for why you want to change or establish a habit before you go into a deep dive of the details of that habit change. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, I recommend you go back and listen to that one before continuing with today’s episode. Today we are going to talk about the importance of overcoming skepticism and truly believing in your goal for habit change before committing to it. This topic is one that is often overlooked and yet is s...2024-12-1107 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 26: How To Change a HabitOn the Healing Her IBS podcast, we’ve already spoken a lot about different aspects of your life and how they could be contributing to your suffering, or to healing your IBS.We’ve talked about the importance of quality sleep and fiber, getting enough protein and the importance of taking care of yourself to the best of your ability, managing stress and addressing the gut-brain axis connection through mindfulness and self-compassion. One of the missing pieces for so many of my clients and women with IBS is how to start doing something new, how to change a ha...2024-12-0407 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 25: Asking for Help With Your IBSIn Episode 22 of the Healing Her IBS podcast, I spoke about the specific practice of using cod liver oil and heat to manage some of my bad bloating and stomach pain. I mentioned having a conversation with my husband about needing to do this practice and asking for his support so that I could get away by myself for twenty or thirty minutes to just breathe and have this hot blanket on my tummy when I was in pain. I realized as I was describing this practice and it’s high efficacy for my healing that part of the ba...2024-11-2707 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 24: How to Tackle Thanksgiving with IBSThanksgiving is coming up for those Americans that celebrate, and for many of you who do indulge in this food feast holiday while suffering with IBS, what should be a time to come together and be with loved ones, can turn into a truly intimidating event. How can you navigate this day to the best of your ability when you are worried about the consequences of eating or not eating the foods that you love? Today we are going to talk about a few different essential strategies that can equip you to e...2024-11-2008 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 23: What Are Your IBS Triggers?Women who have IBS have spoken to me at length about their IBS triggers. Sometimes you know what it is that sparked your IBS syndrome, or your symptoms. Other times what triggers your IBS can seem a mystery that you need to figure out. Even if you have no clue as to what has activated your IBS, there are a few different areas that you could explore that could give you insight into what’s giving you those really bad IBS episodes and what you can do about it. Today we’ll discuss the most common IBS triggers so that...2024-11-1310 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 22: How Heat and Cod Liver Oil Can Help IBS ConstipationDealing with the symptoms of IBS can be so annoying, time consuming and frustrating to manage. Depending on what type of IBS that you have, the symptoms can vary in degree and presentation. Many women deal with constipation and bloating as the major symptoms of their IBS. Until you’ve experienced these symptoms yourself, it may sound like it’s not that big of a deal. For those who have had these problems in their lives, you know what a big deal it can be. But what can you do about it? There are long term strategies to heal your...2024-11-0609 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 21: How You Eat Matters for IBSMost often what we are focused on when it comes to nutrition and health is what we are eating. We focus on what we should and shouldn’t eat to be at maximum health. Especially for those with IBS, there are so many rules we hear about around what foods are triggering for IBS. You hear about what to cut out of your diet, or how potentially your IBS was caused by certain foods that you do or don’t eat. Of course there is some truth to this belief. But there is also another truth that is much less...2024-10-3008 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 20: Should You Diet If You Have IBS?Dieting, or attempting to lose weight while you are also trying to manage or heal your IBS is a complex situation When I was trying to heal my IBS, I was also about a year postpartum and had about 25 pounds of weight that I wanted to lose after having my baby. When I was first in healing m IBS mode, I was also trying to lose that weight at the same time. After a while, I realized for myself that it was hard for me to focus on both goals at the same time. Nevertheless, for you, this issue m...2024-10-2309 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 19: What Are the Top Sleep Tricks for IBS?In Episode 13 we discussed the importance of sleep and how it’s connected to IBS. I heard from several listeners who were very interested in this subject and have asked to hear more about specifically how to get better sleep. Today we will get into the nitty gritty of sleep habits, not talking so much today about the why of getting good sleep to heal, but the how of getting good sleep. If you are desperate to heal and you struggle to get the sleep you know that you need, today is going to give you some missing clues in...2024-10-1606 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 18: Should You Track Your Food?The question of whether you should track your food or not is a personal decision that has a lot of variables to it. Tracking your food when you have IBS can have great outcomes for you, but it can also do quite the opposite—depending on who you are and what your history with eating and IBS is. In my own life, I can see how food journaling at times was very helpful and necessary for me in reaching certain health goals and I can also see how in other time periods, it was detrimental to my mental health. The...2024-10-0907 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 17: Why Doctors Aren't Helping Your IBS?One of the biggest shocks that I had when I was diagnosed with IBS is that my doctors couldn’t or wouldn’t help me. It took me a long time to accept this fact as it seemed counter intuitive to me. I had health insurance through my job — I was diagnosed with IBS through this health system, and yet when it came time to offer me a path to health, there was almost dead silence. I spent a great deal of time questioning why the doctors wouldn’t or couldn’t help me and today we’ll talk about why th...2024-10-0209 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 16: Should You Drink Alcohol If You Have IBS?Alcohol is such a tricky subject to tackle. I really wanted to address the subject of alcohol and at the same time I thought maybe it would be smarter to just ignore it. If you have IBS, you may have heard already that alcohol may trigger your symptoms or could be contributing to your IBS. Maybe you have also thought that you don’t care if it’s contributing to your IBS, or you don’t want to know whether it is or not. Whether you don’t drink, drink in moderation or drink a lot of alcohol, it’s always g...2024-09-2509 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 15: What's Dysbiosis Got To Do With It?When you have IBS, what you really want is to get better as soon as you can. I think that the second most common curiosity for IBS sufferers is: What caused this pain? What is going on in my body? Why? \You wonder if you did something wrong or why some people can go on with their daily normal lives, while you are in so much discomfort. And it often doesn’t make sense as to why this syndrome was put upon you. Dysbiosis may be part of the reason you are experiencing these intestinal issues. Figuring out if...2024-09-1806 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 14: How to Heal IBS in Small Doses?When women are being honest they say that they know what they should be doing, they just don’t do it. Everyone knows that we should be drinking more water, eating vegetables, and exercising if we want to have great health. But for whatever reason you don’t make all the habits stick in the long term like you wish you would. And you can’t figure out why. And you can’t figure out the how. Part of the problem is how you think about changing important habits and your motivation behind doing so. In today’s episode we...2024-09-1108 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 13: The Sleep Significance For IBS SufferersIf you think that there couldn’t possibly be a link between your sleep and your IBS, you may be surprised to hear that you are incorrect. Ideally, it’s reassuring to know there are so many areas of your health that can are connected to your gut. If gives you more strategies that could potentially help you.With gut issues, we must look far and wide for what might be contributing to our pain. Getting the rest and recovery you need is related to your gut’s ideal functioning. Today’s episode we’ll talk about the how and the wh...2024-09-0407 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 12: Is Protein the Missing Puzzle Piece to Healing IBS?Women with IBS spend a lot of time thinking about food. Most of the time you just want to have a healthy diet where you can eat the things you love without feeling sick afterwards. Or you want to eat the things you know support your body. Or ideally both! You want this simplicity without causing constipation or bloating or diarrhea. When you have IBS, food choices can take center stage because of the obvious connection to the digestive system. Food also has the power to heal, especially when you have IBS. One of the macronutrients that is...2024-08-2809 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 11 Five Ways to Conquer IBS With JoyWhat does joy have to do with healing your IBS? A lot, in fact —which I hope is good news regardless of where you are with your gut. If you are already a person investing in your own pleasure, learning that joy plays a role in you getting healthy should encourage you to keep going in that direction. Keep making your happiness a priority even though it can be hard to do. For others, seeing joy as a healing mechanism is a stretch because IBS is so frustrating and can be debilitating. IBS itself can suck your joy. T...2024-08-2109 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 10: Should You Consider Taking a Fiber Supplement?Whether or not to consider taking a fiber supplement is an individual decision that may or may not be right for you. Like so many things IBS related, what works or doesn’t work is so personal. You wish there was a silver bullet that worked for everyone, but unfortunately health just isn’t that way. I used a fiber supplement when I was healing from my IBS as I was finding it difficult to meet my daily fiber goals. However, for many women taking a fiber supplement can upset the stomach and make symptoms worse. If you’ve been t...2024-08-1407 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 9: Are You Getting Enough Fiber to Heal Your IBS?If you suffer from IBS, the topic of fiber has most likely been swirling around your world for some time now.If you have been wanting to heal your IBS and exploring different ways to do so, getting prebiotics through fiber is an important first step that’s often overlooked. When I first started trying to heal my gut issues, I rolled my eyes at the concept of eating more fiber and how it could help me. I honestly thought it was too basic a strategy and I thought I already ate well enough. I thought I was al...2024-08-0709 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 8: One of the Most Powerful Ways to Heal Your IBSDid you know that the things that are good for your overall health are also good for healing your IBS? Regular exercise is one of these top tier strategies. I’ve spoken with so many women who have had IBS for a while and all say that, without a doubt, physical activity helps decrease their IBS symptoms. It helps keep things fluid … in a good way. And I agree!So, if you know it helps you, why is it so hard to consistently exercise?There are a lot of things that can get in the way and...2024-07-3106 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 7: Befriending Yourself When You Have IBSBeing good to yourself during the process of healing from IBS can be one of the most challenging aspects of managing this illness. When you have IBS, there’s a lot of mind chatter that comes right along with the frustrating physical symptoms. In my life, a lot of this mental back and forth was very negative and unhelpful. While you can’t instantaneously control your IBS symptoms or get better immediately, you can learn how to be an ally to yourself in the process. You can learn how to listen to your symptoms without become emotionally overwhelmed by them...2024-07-2406 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 6: How Fast Can You Heal Your IBS?The concept of time can be tricky when wanting to heal your IBS. When you are feeling the constant IBS symptoms, you just want it to go away already. You want it gone yesterday. Logically you know that healing takes time, but how much time should it take? What can you expect? Though there is no one time frame to fit all, there are some strategies that you can use around this time question that can help you heal faster. These strategies will help you see the long game and help you not get caught up in eve...2024-07-1707 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 5: How To Conquer Food FearWhen you have IBS, food fear is a real thing. When you are suffering and you know there are foods that make you feel sick, the thought of eating a meal can send you into a little panic-or into a big one! You avoid certain foods; you restrict certain foods. Maybe you are specifically told to eliminate many foods. Restricting too many foods limits the diversity of your diet. It limits the essential nutrients your body needs to be well and to heal. But what can you do when you’re afraid to bring foods back in? Let’s talk...2024-07-1009 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 4: Will the Low FodMap Diet Help Your IBS?One of the first strategies that I implemented to help heal my IBS was to focus on what to eat — or, better said, what NOT to eat.In the IBS community, many foods are labeled as bad, so it was a normal response for me to consider that what I was eating was both the cause and solution to my IBS misery. It is true that what you eat is part of the solution but not the whole solution. You’ve most likely heard of the Low FodMap diet. Many women stay on it for a very long time. Thei...2024-07-0308 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 3: Can Talking About IBS Help You Heal?Women with IBS tell me they feel alone. With friends or even a therapist, it seems like IBS isn’t something people want to hear about. I can relate. As I’ve shared my podcast with close friends, I realized that they didn’t even know I had IBS! When my IBS was diagnosed and at it’s worst, I was shut down, closing myself in and scared. I did not have anyone to talk to about IBS. If you are lucky, you have at least one person in your life that you can open up to. If you don’t, I...2024-06-2604 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 2: Is the Stress of Your IBS Making it Worse?Have you ever heard that stress in your life is contributing to your IBS? Has a doctor ever told you that your IBS is just in your mind? Have they told you to de-stress more and that would fix your issue? Because that happened to me a lot and it literally made me want to scream. So, I’m not here today to tell you your IBS is in your head or that stress alone is causing your IBS. But I am here to say that I have learned that for me personally I know that my stress was int...2024-06-1906 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 1: One Woman's Harrowing IBS StoryMany things led me to share this audio space with you on Healing Her IBS. My name is Erin Maillo, I am a health coach, a mother and educator. And, I have struggled with IBS for 6 years, especially just after the birth of my son in 2017. Did your IBS start with a specific event like that? Today, I can thank the Universe and my personal journey in saying that I am almost entirely healed from IBS. When I do have recurring issues, I have a tried-and-true set of emotional and physical practices that get me back to feeling better qu...2024-06-1208 min
Healing Her IBSEpisode 0: Healing Her IBS TrailerHealing Her IBS is hosted by Erin Maillo, IBS Wellness Coach for Women, who successfully manages IBS in her own life. This show offers both practical and emotional strategies for dealing with the often-confusing diagnosis of IBS. Each episode delves into the complexities of IBS, offering valuable insights into its potential causes, symptoms, and potential healing solutions. Her goal is to empower you with knowledge, daily tips and tricks, and a deeper emotional awareness to help you regain control of your digestive health. Join the conversation as we explore the necessity of self-care, and how you can begin to...2024-04-0301 min