Kathryn Dunn
Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy
Free guided relaxation

Twelve quiet minutes for your body and mind

A gentle guided relaxation you can listen to whenever you want to slow down and unwind. Sign up below and it is yours, along with Gut Feelings, my weekly email for people living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

A note before you start: this is a relaxation recording to help you feel calmer and more at ease. It is here to sit alongside the care you get from your GP, not to replace it. Please see your GP to get a proper diagnosis and about any new or changing symptoms.

What you will get

  • The guided relaxation. A ten to twelve minute audio you can return to whenever you would like to unwind. Yours the moment you confirm your email.
  • Gut Feelings, once a week. One short email with a single idea about the gut and mind explained in plain language, and one small thing to try. Never a lecture.
  • A link to the blog. Every email points you to that week's Mind Your Guts blog if you would like to go deeper into the science.
  • Early access. Subscribers get each new piece on Sunday evening, ahead of everyone else on Monday.

What Gut Feelings is really about

Living with IBS can be exhausting in ways other people do not see. The sudden cramp before a meeting. The mental map of every toilet on your route. The quiet worry that follows you around.

Gut Feelings is a gentle weekly companion. Each email helps you understand a little more about how your gut and brain talk to each other, and gives you one calm, practical thing to try. IBS is real, it is far better understood than it used to be, and understanding it is often the first thing that helps you feel more in control.

There is no hard sell here. Just useful, science-based reassurance landing softly in your inbox once a week.

Wherever you are right now

Still looking for answers

If you are trying lots of things and not sure what is going on, the most useful first step is a positive diagnosis from your GP, so the red flags are ruled out. Gut Feelings walks alongside you from there.

Diagnosed a while ago, still struggling

If you were diagnosed twelve or more months ago and things are still hard, you are not a difficult case. You are exactly the person the treatment guidelines had in mind when they suggest considering psychological approaches.

Simply want to feel calmer

If you just want ten quiet minutes and a bit of understanding each week, that is more than enough reason to be here.

Who is writing to you

KD

I am Kathryn Dunn, a cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist specialising in IBS working face to face in York and online for the rest of the world. I use an integrated approach which brings together cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and gut-directed hypnotherapy, and my specialist training in this area was developed and delivered by an NHS consultant gastroenterologist.

I started Gut Feelings because so many people with IBS are left to manage it alone, with short appointments and long waits. This is my way of offering something calm, clear and genuinely useful, every week, for free.