Gut Health: Emotions & Toileting

Within this blog post we share how the Gut Health can affect childrens emotions and toileting.


Is your child feeling anxious, frustrated or experiencing meltdowns around toilet time? This could be more than just resistance, their gut health may be influencing their emotions

The gut-brain connection means that digestive issues like poo difficulties, can send stress signals to the brain, causing discomfort and emotional reactions. This can trigger a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.

With your child, are you seeing:

  • Fight: Resistance or anger around toileting
  • Flight: Avoiding the toilet area altogether
  • Freeze: Feeling overwhelmed and appearing to shut down
  • Fawn: Trying to please, even at their own discomfort 

    How can Clear Steps Consultancy help your child further with their gut-health?

    By improving and supporting your child's gut health, will enable your child to feel more comfortable and confident with toileting.

    Charmaine, at Clear Steps Consultancy supports neurodiverse children, their families and schools in progressing with toileting, sleep and understanding behaviour, through groups and one to one support. 

    A FREE Gut Health Tracker is available to monitor your child's progress: Click here: Gut Health Tracker

    Practical support with gut health is available within Clear Steps online support group: How to get the PEE & Poo in the Loo!. Click here for further information: How to get the PEE & Poo in the loo! 

    These two tools, help you as a family, understand your child's physical and emotional needs, creating a smooth path to towards toileting success.



    Help and support is available!

    Start helping your child with their gut health today! 



      What next:
      Click here for your FREE Gut Health Tracker, to start your journey: Gut Health Tracker




      Click here for further information about the support group and receive step by step support today: How to get the PEE & Poo in the loo! 


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      Categories: : children with additional needs, constipation, digestion, emotions, gutbrainaxis, gutbrainconnection, guthealth, neurodiverse, pee, toilet progress, Toileting, wee

      GutHealth Emotions and Toileting