SIBO is usually described as “too much bacteria in the wrong place,” but what if it’s really an overgrowth of emotional responsibility, guilt, and other people’s chaos living in your gut? In this episode, Heather McKean explores the emotional and metaphysical blueprint behind SIBO—over-responsibility, self-punishment, delayed reactions, fear of change, and inherited family patterns. Through a client story and practical reflection questions, she shows how restrictive diets can often reinforce the very emotional architecture that created the problem in the first place. You’ll learn how to begin releasing what was never yours to carry, rebuild trust with your body, and support true healing using the Mind Change method.

Episode topics:

🧬 What SIBO Really Is (Mechanically vs. Mind-Body) (00:00:00)

📣 Symptoms as Messages, Not Malfunctions (00:00:32)

🎒 Over-Responsibility as the SIBO Blueprint (00:01:08)

🤐 Stuffed Emotions → Gut Pressure (00:03:00)

❄️ Freeze Response & Delayed Reactions (00:04:20)

🧍‍♀️ Childhood Helper Role Shaping Gut Patterns (00:07:00)

🍽️ Key Childhood Memory That Wired Digestive Stress (00:12:20)

🧬 Inherited Emotional Patterns (Especially Maternal) (00:14:00)

🥗 How Restrictive Diets Reinforce Self-Punishment (00:18:00)

🧠 Rewiring Emotional Architecture to Shift Symptoms (00:20:20)

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In this episode, Heather McKean welcomes guest Rachael Leman, who spent 30 years navigating chronic illness, debilitating food sensitivities, fatigue, pain, and endless cycles of searching for answers. After exploring countless therapies—from dietary restrictions to plant medicine to breathwork—Rachael discovered Mind Change and experienced a profound and unexpected healing breakthrough in just two sessions. She shares her journey of uncovering the emotional roots of illness, releasing generational trauma, experiencing a spiritual awakening, and reclaiming her life, health, and joy. Whether you’re facing chronic symptoms or seeking deeper emotional transformation, this conversation offers hope, clarity, and inspiration.

Episode topics:

🧡 Gratitude for a Hard Healing Journey (00:00:00)

🌆 Life in D.C. & Transition to Breathwork/Reiki (00:01:45)

📉 30 Years of Chronic Illness & Searching (00:03:06)

💡 Discovering Mind Change & Realizing the Root Is Emotional (00:04:44)

🌀 Two Sessions With Cara → “Quantum Leap” Shift (00:07:37)

🍽️ Food Sensitivities Disappear Within 48 Hours (00:08:10)

😴 Relief From Headaches, Fatigue, and Systemic Symptoms (00:09:31)

✨ Spiritual Awakening & Emotional Expansion (00:20:10)

🧬 Healing Generational Trauma With Family (00:31:19)

🌊 Clearing Energetic ‘Whirlpools’ Holding Old Emotions (00:34:55)

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Are you swallowing your truth… and feeling it burn?

In this episode of The Mind Change Podcast emotional drivers series, Heather McKean uncovers the subconscious patterns behind GERD and acid reflux—symptoms often blamed on food, stress, or “just getting older,” but rooted much deeper in the mind.

Heather breaks down how unspoken anger, guilt, fear of rejection, people-pleasing, and lifelong self-silencing can create the internal “acid” the body can no longer cool on its own. She shares the story of “Naomi,” a woman who learned early that speaking up meant losing love—so she stayed quiet, compliant, and responsible for everyone but herself. When her body finally pushed back through chronic reflux, Mind Change work helped her safely process the emotions she once swallowed whole.

You’ll explore powerful questions to help you identify:

• What you can no longer “stomach” in your life

• The truths you keep holding in to stay safe or accepted

• Where guilt, resentment, or pressure may be creating internal burn

• How to begin rewiring your emotional responses around expression and boundaries

If GERD has been your body’s way of speaking for you, this episode reveals how Mind Change techniques can help you reclaim your voice, restore safety around self-expression, and cool the emotional fire from the inside out.

Tune in and discover what your body has been trying to tell you.

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