How to Manage Stress, Improve Mental Clarity, and Enhance Your Overall Well-Being
- Brainz Magazine
- Jul 2
- 4 min read
Janell Rae is a master energy coach and certified learning specialist who helps visionary leaders, healers, and neurodivergent learners unlock their purpose by aligning with their true energetic and cognitive design.
Every day, nearly a million people search for ways to feel better – physically, emotionally, and mentally. The direction is clear: more people are turning toward holistic, individualized approaches that address the full system, not just the symptoms. Here’s a key connection that’s often overlooked and why it matters more than ever.
What’s already known: The gut–brain link
1. Your gut and brain are in constant communication
The gut-brain axis connects your nervous system, hormones, and immune responses. Emotional stress can directly impact digestion, absorption, and inflammation.
Research supports this: A 2015 study in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology confirms the microbiota-gut-brain axis plays a vital role in mood, behavior, and neurological health.
Cryan & Dinan, 2015 – Microbiota and the Gut–Brain Axis
2. Stress disrupts digestion and microbiome balance
When the nervous system is in fight-or-flight, digestion slows. Gut bacteria shift. Even with a clean diet, the body can remain inflamed or sluggish due to unresolved stress signals.
3. Your gut produces mood-regulating neurotransmitters
Roughly 90% of serotonin and 50% of dopamine are produced in the gut, chemicals essential to mood, motivation, and sleep. Gut imbalance means emotional imbalance.
“Remarkably, microbes in the gut are thought to be responsible for producing 95 percent of our body's serotonin,” states Dr. Spencer. Stanford Longevity Center – More Than a Gut Feeling
This isn’t just gut health, it’s mental health at the root.
4. Gut health affects energy levels
Poor gut function leads to poor nutrient absorption. Without what your cells need, you get fatigue, brain fog, and emotional flatness, no matter how many supplements you take.
5. Emotional tools support gut repair
Mindfulness, breathwork, and energy-clearing help regulate the parasympathetic nervous system, activating the “rest and digest” state where healing occurs.
6. Nourishing the gut nourishes the mind
Fiber, fermented foods, and targeted probiotics fuel a thriving microbiome. The result? Better digestion, better mood, better clarity.
What’s missing: Energy is the root
Everything above is important but it’s not the full story. Here’s the truth most people miss:
Emotion is self-created energy.
Try this:
Notice how you feel right now.
Now bring up a joyful memory. Really let it in.
See the colors. Smell the smells. Feel what you felt.
Chances are, your body just shifted. A little lighter. A smile, maybe. That’s a change in your energy.
Now recall a harder memory.
Feel what happens, how quickly your body responds.
This is proof: You don’t just remember stories. You remember the frequency. And your body holds onto that frequency long after the moment has passed.
Why mindset alone isn’t enough
The mindset industry exists for a reason because changing your thoughts can change how you feel.
But what happens when it doesn’t?
When the affirmations and perspective shifts don’t land? You have to ask:
What created the thought in the first place?
And that brings us to the root.
Getting to the root cause
You’ve heard the principle:
If you get to the root, the pattern stops.
That applies to weeds and it applies to energy.
Every experience gets recorded in your system through your senses, your nervous system, and your field.
Not just the story of what happened, but the energy of how you felt.
And that’s what your body reacts to.
Not the facts of the event, but the frequency it left behind.
When you remember something painful, your body relives it.
But when you shift the energy in that memory, everything changes.
The emotion clears.
The trigger loses charge. The pattern releases.
This is what energy healing does
It doesn’t erase your history.
It changes how that history lives in your system.
When energy shifts at the root, the symptoms stop. You stop feeling stuck.
Your digestion improves. Your clarity returns.
Your system begins to work the way it was designed to.
The missing step in wellness
Most people are doing all the “right” things, and still not feeling better. This is why.
Energy is the missing step.
Not a bonus tool. Not a last resort.
It’s the place you were always meant to start.
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Janell Warkentin, Energetic Intelligence Mentor | Learning Specialist
Janell Rae is a master energy coach and certified learning specialist who sees what others miss—both in the field and in the classroom. With over 25 years of experience, she helps visionary leaders clear energetic interference and realign with their purpose, and guides neurodivergent learners to unlock the gifts inside their unique minds. Her work is grounded, intuitive, and results-driven—designed to bring clarity where there’s been confusion and real movement where people have felt stuck. Whether she’s working with a CEO or a child who’s lost their confidence, Janell brings the same clarity: You’re not broken. You’re built differently. And once you know how you work, everything changes.
