The word mental health is a little bit of a misnomer because it implies that everything is just happening in our mind.
But the truth is, it's much more interconnected than that.
Physical symptoms and health outcomes are reflections of our brain function and our nervous system health.
Our bodily reactions and physical health states impact our emotional responses, our social experiences.
These things are always interacting with one another.
It's like an interactive feedback loop.
And the nervous system is unifying the mind, the cognitive thoughts and the body.
There's this bio psychosocial model.
Bio is the physical from the body up.
Psycho is the mind, the thoughts, the beliefs, the interpretation of sensations and the emotional experiences.
And social is the.
The relationships, the societal structures, the outside forces and dynamics that impact health.
And so we're weaving all of those together and really trying to understand that all of these impact our nervous system health, our resilience, our ability to modulate and regulate.
And these all interplay with one another, right?
Because as my mental health is disrupted, then it has physical health outcomes that impacts my social situations.
And it's just an ongoing interplay.
It seems absolutely necessary to visit the topic of relationship to our body, relationship to ourself.
And this is a topic that you and I love to explore.
And it's really how we got started on this path of healing was our disordered relationship with food and with our bodies.
I think that this is the most sacred relationship that we can enter into.