http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:16:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Butterflies in the stomach are usually associated with nerves. How often have your bowel habits changed when you were faced with a new or challenging task or event in your life. When I had a fear of public speaking many years ago, I remember having the need to empty my ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/psychology-of-ibs/ Digestion Our last blog described the digestive system. We will now consider what takes place in this digestive process. It is a continuous changing of substances, which is brought about chemically and organically. This changing is called Metabolism. Upon food being taken into the stomach, it is then mixed with gastric ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/diagnosis-of-ibs/ IBS is defined as a functional bowel disorder; a disturbance of the colon where patients present with long standing symptoms of any of the following:- crampy abdominal pain, bloating, excessive flatulence, diarrhoea, constipation or alternating diarrhoea and constipation. IBS accounts for about half of all the visits to gastroenterologists. It ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/what-is-ibs/ Every 3 months we will be focusing on conditions that can blight the quality of your life and for which the medical profession do not have the answers. These are conditions that have a psychological component even though the symptoms may be physical. Over the next 3 months we will be ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/irritable-bowel-syndrome/ Win a free course of therapy at The Life Makeover Show on Saturday 26 November at Hove Town Hall. We will be exhibiting at this show. If you visit thespencepractice stand you can enter our free competition to win a course of therapy up to the value of £350. Every ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/free-therapy/ We tend to associate bullying with the school playground bit it doesn't stop there unfortunately. A survey* by The Samaritans has revealed that over 80% of workers have been bullied during their careers and a third of people are so stressed they have dreamed of quitting for a life abroad. The ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/stress-at-work/ At last, the book that smokers have been waiting for. 'Stop smoking easily and Transform your Life for good'! is a new book by Elliott Wald founder of the 'EasyStop' stop smoking method which helps you (1) To make your mind up to stop. (2)To stop and (3) Stay stopped ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/new-stop-smoking-book/ Whilst exhibiting at The Wellbeing Fest in Lewes at the weekend i was surprised at how few male smokers came to visit our stand and how many women, whose partners' smoked, stopped by for a chat. I shouldn't have been surprised because i have seen it happen many times before. For ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/make-your-smoking-mind-up/ Need some inspiration to get 2008 off the ground? Then i suggest you visit, The Lewes Well-Being Fest this weekend (Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jan) at The Corn Exchange (Town Hall) & Assembly Rooms in Lewes. You can experience the best in Alternative & Holistic lifestyles, live music, free workshops, ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/lewes-well-being-fest/ Happy New Year from everyone at thespencepractice! Having reflected on what happened last year you may feel it was a good year, a bad year or just mediocre, but what can you learn from it that will help make this year a better one? Traditionally, at this time, people make New Year ... http://www.thespencepractice.co.uk/news/welcome-to-2008/