Mind the Gut is a guided audio app for IBS and the gut-brain connection: gut-directed hypnotherapy, CBT, and breathwork, in sessions that fit into your day.
Coming soon to iPhone. We'll email you when it's ready.
Hypnotherapy
Guided visualisation and calming suggestion, focused on the gut. Gut-directed hypnotherapy is one of the best-studied approaches for IBS, recommended in UK and US gastroenterology guidelines, and it's the core of what we do.
CBT tools
Sixteen short sessions for the worries that circle around symptoms: understanding what's happening, easing worry and body focus, getting back to the things you've been avoiding, and real-life moments like meals out and appointments.
Breathwork
Sixteen slow-breathing practices built for gut symptoms. Learn the basics, calm down fast, settle before and after meals, or wind down for sleep.
Flare Support
A dedicated tab, always in reach, for the moments things get hard. Short recordings you've saved sit at the top, with a curated set below. Use it only when it's safe to focus.
Foundations is the main program: five gut-directed hypnotherapy recordings a week, played in order. You can replay anything you've finished.
Week 1
Settling In
Week 2
Quieting the Alarm
Week 3
Warmth & Comfort
Week 4
Turning Down the Signal
Week 5
The Steady Flow
Week 6
Meeting It With Calm
Week 7
Your Own Calm
Four recordings each: Calm the Cramps, Ease the Urgency, Gentle Movement, Settle the Bloat, and Soothe Reflux.
Eight recordings for ongoing practice once Foundations is done, from a daily cue to steadying through stress.
Your saved short recordings come first, with a curated set below, so there's nothing to search for. It reminds you to listen only when it's safe to focus, and shows when to get medical help.
Today shows where you are in Foundations, down to the week and the recording that's next, with one button to continue.
Today counts the sessions you've done this week and keeps your routine streak.
Traditional gut-brain therapy comes with a waitlist and a bill most people can't cover. Mind the Gut puts well-studied methods into guided audio on your phone, at a price meant to be within reach wherever you live.
Mind the Gut draws on two approaches that UK and US gastroenterology guidelines recommend for IBS: gut-directed hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for gut symptoms. Both have been tested in clinical trials, hypnotherapy since the 1980s.
We add slow diaphragmatic breathing, which gut specialists use for some kinds of belching and bloating. Research on breathing on its own for IBS is still early.
Mind the Gut is a wellness companion and hasn't itself been tested in clinical trials. We don't diagnose or treat. If your symptoms are new, severe, or getting worse, please see your GP or gastroenterologist.
Recommends IBS-specific CBT and gut-directed hypnotherapy for overall IBS symptoms, while rating the evidence as low quality.
Suggests gut-directed psychotherapies, including CBT and hypnotherapy, for overall IBS symptoms (a conditional recommendation).
CBT and gut-directed hypnotherapy had the largest evidence base. The authors caution that bias in the trials may overstate the benefit.
In 354 people, six sessions of hypnotherapy, one-to-one or in a group, gave adequate relief to more people than supportive education.
In 558 adults, CBT by phone or on the web reduced IBS symptom severity more than usual care at 12 months.
Lists diaphragmatic breathing among the treatment options for some kinds of belching and bloating.
Premium unlocks every session, program, and tool. Pay monthly or annually; both plans include the same features.
$12.99 per month
or $79.99 billed yearly
Cancel anytime. You can turn on a reminder three days before your first charge.
Without Premium, you can still browse every program in the app. Prices are in US dollars; your App Store price may vary by region.
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