Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel by Will Cole


Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel
Title : Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel
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ISBN : 0593232364
ISBN-10 : 9780593232361
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 256
Publication : Expected publication March 21, 2023

"Working with Will Cole has changed my health and my life. Gut Feelings offers a highly effective, intuitive, and softer way to reset and reconnect your body and emotions."--GWYNETH PALTROW

The definitive guide to understanding the connection between what you eat and how you feel, offering a 21-day plan to reset your relationship with your body and heal the gut inflammation caused by stress, shame, and trauma--from the New York Times bestselling author of Intuitive Fasting and Ketotarian.

It's easy to suffer from frustration and confusion when it comes to nutrition and health. With so much focus on what, when, and how to eat, the emotional component of eating tends to get left behind. Dr. Will Cole sheds light on the relationship between your physical and emotional health, providing a framework for you to better understand the gut-brain connection and influence that connection for the better. He illustrates how stress and shame can cause gut inflammation and sabotage your health in a process called Shameflammation. On the other end, problems with the gut can often present themselves in the form of mood swings, anxiety, and food cravings. True health isn't just about what you eat, but how you feel.

Shameflammation can be the reason for chronic health conditions such as autoimmune disorders, leaky gut, IBS, and other GI disorders. Thankfully, it's possible to heal the connection between the physical and mental with good food and somatic practices that support a healthy gut and brain. Dr. Cole offers holistic tools to help you reevaluate your relationship with food and your body, getting you back in touch with your gut feelings. His 21-Day Gut Feeling plan helps you bridge the gap between your emotions and your health, including:

- More than fifty healing recipes, such as Breakfast Fried Rice, Scallop Noodle Bowls, and Honey Grapefruit Sorbet
- Dietary prescriptions founded upon flexibility and awareness
- Mindfulness techniques to strengthen your intuition and discover your priorities

Gut Feelings approaches nutrition and wellness from a place of self-love and will help you eliminate stubborn health conditions, on your own terms.


Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel Reviews


  • Krisha

    A great guide for overall health and happiness!

    I thoroughly enjoyed this very informative book! It’s packed full of important and useful information in an easy to understand format. He covers so many topics from nutrition to mindfulness to mind-gut connection and much more. He also includes a variety of nutrient dense recipes. I wish the topics in this book were part of curriculum in education. To learn about these ideas and have these resources early on would be incredibly beneficial.

    Thank you NetGalley & Rodale Books for sending this book for review consideration.

  • Em

    Gut Feelings by Dr. Will Cole provides readers with a thorough understanding of gut health and the connection between the science of inflammation and gut issues.

    I didn't know until reading that 60% of American adults have a chronic disease and that 40 percent of American adults have been diagnosed with multiple diseases. Dr. Cole helps his readers understand the connection between gut health and mental health which is my favorite part of the text as a mental health professional. He makes the science behind the body/mind connection clear and encourages readers to shed internalized shame around our eating practices. He encourages readers to take control of our habits and to become more intentional with what and how we eat and he does this by helping us focus on foods that make us feel good.

    Dr. Cole designed a 21-day gut-feeling lifestyle plan to help readers explore and experiment with a more balanced approach to food and eating. The plan is based on four key principles: flexibility, lightness, awareness, and grace and shows readers exactly how what we eat impacts our overall mood and health. I'm excited to try the 21-day plan because it's not about dieting or restricting foods, it's about relating to our bodies from a place of compassion and understanding what we need to feel good and be well.

    Thank you to the author and publisher for the e-arc copy!

  • Nikki

    Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel by Dr. Will Cole
    Publisher: Rodale Inc., Rodale Books
    Health, Mind & Body
    Expected Publication Date: March 21, 2023

    Gut Feelings by Dr. Will Cole is the book I needed in my life right now! This book addresses the physical and emotional ways food affects us, and how our thoughts and feelings around food also impacts our bodies. I absolutely love Dr. Cole's writing style. He makes the science easy to understand and he comes across as very relatable.

    The first 6 chapters are filled with the science behind Dr. Cole's 21-Day Gut-Feeling Plan, as well as offers suggestions for best optioned food and mindfulness practices.

    Chapter 7 outlines the daily plan for the 21 days and I absolutely love how he lays things out. There is a suggested activity for each day that relates to the "gut" and one for "feeling" and none of them felt difficult to accomplish. I think each activity should take no more than 15 minutes or so.

    I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

  • Kate

    Excellent book explaining the connection between the brain and the gut in a way that I understood. Will Cole lays out easy ways to feed your brain and gut with recipes using ingredients that most people have. I'm impressed with how much information he included on varying topics that are all interrelated, but I do think it could have been a more in depth discussion rather than just surface level. He includes a 21 day gut feeding plan that has some delicious but healthy recipes to keep you on track and keeping you gut brain connection in top shape.

    Thank you to Rodale Books and NetGalley for the eARC of this book.

  • Kelly Pramberger

    Gut health and the connection between our mind and our gut is very appealing to me. I've been looking for more books on this topic. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC for the purpose of this review. Cole's book is amazingly informative and by far one of the clearest and best resource I've come across. The information is easy to get a handle on. Five stars!