I am sensitive. Too sensitive, some friends and family have said. Once—and only once—my husband told me that I am super sensitive. In reply, I told him he did not get to decide where the line is between normal sensitive and super sensitive. But also, he wasn’t wrong.
When I was very young, I went into absolute hysterics after watching an after-school movie about a dog whose owner did not come home at the end of the day. In sixth grade, I cried with such intense mania in the middle of Watership Down that I couldn’t breathe. Now I am an adult, but it is the same. I thought Okja would be a heartwarming movie about a girl and her intelligent pig. Nope. I lost it.
I guess all of this puts me in the overly emotional camp, but I never knew that my emotional health had an impact on my overall wellness. But as I consider it now, it makes complete sense. How could the occasional intensity of my emotions be separate and apart from my emotional health?
Dr. Lowell Keppel keenly understands the connection between emotional stress and physical health. I know this because I recently stumbled upon Dr. Keppel’s one-hour webinar titled “Overly Emotional You.”
Before I continue, let me say that all of Dr. Keppel’s webinars offer a bounty of knowledge with downloadable PDF notes and slides. In fact, if you are a holistic health practitioner who is somehow unfamiliar with the many e-learning resources that have been curated for you—yes, you!—by the hard-working staff here at SRP, what in the heck? These are essential resources that will deepen your expertise and help you help your patients, so don’t miss out!
The core topics that Dr. Keppel reviews in “Overly Emotional You” really caught my eye. In just one hour, he manages to touch on the following:
- How emotions, nutrition, and structure come together to form a “triad of health.”
- How emotional stress is a leading contributor to chronic health issues. (Or what I call the bane of existence.)
- How emotional states affect blood sugar imbalances. (As an overly emotional type 1 diabetic, I confer.)
- How you can support emotional well-being with proper nutritional strategies.
- How insights into emotional and organ health can be found in Chinese medicine.
For practitioners aflame with the desire to learn, Dr. Keppel’s webinars offer a bounty of knowledge. “Overly Emotional You” is an enticing combination of traditional knowledge and actionable strategies. It’s a practical framework for understanding and addressing emotional health. Dr. Keppel presents a combination of historical insights and contemporary approaches on the manifestation of negative emotions. You’ll find targeted solutions for common nutritional deficiencies that contribute to emotional imbalance, including a primer on Standard Process foundational B vitamins and supplements such as Nevaton and Orchex. AND you get a downloadable PDF that not only guides you through the presentation itself but also serves as a reference you can go back to again and again.
For sixty minutes, this webinar covers a lot of ground. But after all, an expert-level understanding of the interplay between emotions and health is the job of the chiropractor, the nutritionist, and the holistic health practitioner. That’s exactly why this webinar—heck, all of Dr. Keppel’s webinars—are worthy of your precious time.
If I ever make the unlikely and unwise decision to watch Watership Down again, I’m going to try to keep Dr. Keppel’s words in mind: “Emotions aren’t just feelings—they can shape our physical health. Understanding and addressing them is a key step in holistic care.”
Images from iStock/nito100 (main), Yurii Yarema (post).
