The Mindful Gut UK

17/08/2025

My story part too...Over the next two decades, my path unfolded into something much deeper than “fixing symptoms.”
I returned to meditation, immersed myself in mindfulness, trauma-sensitive healing, and somatic work. I attended over 100 retreats, learning from master teachers around the world, including the Dalai Lama.

I wasn’t just gathering tools — I was weaving a way of being.

✨One that honours both science and soul✨

I began to see how the world conspires against our health. Our food environments are flooded with ultra-processed, over-stimulating choices.
Expert “noise” leaves people confused and disconnected from their own bodies.

So my work became about helping women create healing bubbles — spaces of nourishment and calm. Sometimes it’s as simple as baking bread by hand, sipping an herbal tea with intention, or eating a piece of seasonal fruit.

I’ve seen it again & again:

✨Michelle, a business owner, attended one of my mindful baking workshops and replaced supermarket bread with her own soda and sourdough loaves — and in doing so, found both health and joy!

✨Kirsty, a mid-life mum, reconnected with cooking for her kids, supporting their gut health and finding herself with more energy & calmer children.

✨Janet bravely gave up ultra-processed food, even when her family ordered takeaway, and slowly healed decades of IBS.

This is the heart of my coaching: guiding women— mothers, professionals, caretakers — to slow down, tune in, and reclaim their health without rigid diets or a shelf full of supplements.
Because healing isn’t about fixing what’s “broken.”

It’s about remembering who you are when your gut, your mind, and your spirit are in harmony.

👉If you’ve been pushing too hard for too long…
👉 If you’re tired of the confusion, the quick-fixes, and the self-blame…
👉 If you’re ready to feel at home in your body again…

I’ll walk beside you.🐾

Something new is coming this September.

It’s not a diet. It’s not a supplement stack.

It’s a deeply personal, 1:1 journey designed to help you listen to your body, trust its signals, and feel safe inside your skin again.

I'll be sharing more soon 🌿 DM me if you'd like to know more...

16/08/2025

Grateful for these beautiful words

Calm Your Gut is a love letter to you and your Gut!

15/08/2025

My story...

I remember the heat first.

❤️‍🔥 Dripping with sweat, body trembling with exhaustion, I could barely lift my head from the hospital pillow. The night before, I’d slipped into a deep, dreamless sleep that felt like surrender — like I was brushing hands with death itself.
And then came the voice.

💚Soft, steady, and impossibly kind, an Afro-Caribbean phlebotomist leaned over me, gently searching for my veins. “Cara Marie… Cara Marie…” he murmured, before asking a simple question that cut through the fog:

“What have you been doing?”

In that moment, something inside me cracked open. I looked down at my pale, fragile body and saw the truth of my life — too much pushing, too much stress, too little joy. For years I’d been living with chronic gut issues and relentless anxiety, long before “gut health” was a thing.

❤️‍🩹I’d been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, hospitalised for weeks, and warned they might remove part of my colon. And still… the doctors insisted food wasn’t a factor. But my body told a different story. That day in the hospital was the turning point. A fierce self-compassion took root in me, along with a knowing that everything had to change.

I was living in London at the time — a countryside soul stuck in the wrong city. Every day, I endured long, stressful commutes, crammed into packed trains, feeling my anxiety rise and my gut tighten. My environment was draining me, my nervous system was frayed, and my health was collapsing under the weight of it all.

💚 After leaving the hospital, a strange but powerful thing happened. My intuition sharpened. I could look at a piece of fruit and know if it would heal me or harm me. I began listening — really listening — to my gut’s wisdom.

No diets.
No rules.

💚Just quiet, instinctive choices that my body guided me toward. I’d later learn about gut microbes, the “inner garden” that shapes our health, but back then I was already tending to it — lying belly-down on the earth, grounding myself, letting the land and my own inner knowing lead the way.

Sharing the next part of my story soon...

12/08/2025

So grateful each time somone shares the power of 'Calm Your Gut'

❤️‍🔥 It really is a love letter to your gut!

08/08/2025

Flour on your hands. Soil under your nails. Calm in your belly.
Welcome to Bake & Bloom—a workshop where we rise with our bread and root with intention.

In this cozy, gut-friendly gathering, we’ll:

🥖 Learn the slow simple bake of sodabread
🌿 Get grounded—literally—by making something yummy to take home!
🧠 Explore how nurturing microbes, reflects the care we give ourselves.

It’s not just a workshop. It’s a pause. A reset.
A warm exhale for your nervous system and your gut.

🗓️ August 29th 9.30am
📍 Moseley, Birmingham

Spots are few. Curiosity and messy hands welcome. DM me to find out more!

03/08/2025

Something’s rising… and it’s not just the sourdough!

🌾✨ Bake & Bloom is The Mindful Gut’s hands-on workshop is coming soon! Dates to be released so keep an eye out if you're in the Birmingham area for this IN PERSON workshop late August. If you're interested DM me to find out more!

Together, we’ll knead, shape, and bake gut-loving breads while diving into the microbial magic behind each loaf. Then we’ll pause, plant, and reflect—exploring how gut health mirrors how we grow, nourish, and bloom in life.

✨ Expect wild cultures, warm ovens, earthy moments, and a beautiful mess of flour and insight.

Sodabread meets self-care. Microbes meet mindfulness.
Growth happens—inside and out.

01/08/2025

Barefoot isn’t just a vibe—it’s a biohack. 🧠🦶🦠
Walking barefoot (especially on grass, soil, or sand) activates pressure points, reduces cortisol, and even supports vagus nerve tone—key for digestion and mood.

Bonus? It may help diversify your skin microbiome, which talks directly to your gut.

So this weekend - who is with me? Go ahead, ditch the shoes. Your nervous system and your microbiome will Thank You!

23/07/2025

🌍✨ My TED Talk is live—and it comes from the deepest part of me: my gut.
Not just the place of digestion, but the center of intuition, emotion, and deep wisdom.

In this talk, I explore a simple but radical idea:
💛 Loving your gut could help heal the planet 🌍

✨Because when we reconnect with our own inner ecosystem, we begin to care more deeply for the world around us.
✨When we nourish ourselves with compassion and mindful choices, we naturally ripple that love outward—to our communities, our food systems, and the Earth itself.

If this message resonates with you✨ I’d be so grateful if you could watch, like, comment, and share. Every action helps this message grow and reach more hearts (and bellies!).

From my gut to yours—thank you 🌱

NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical advice. This talk only represents the speaker's personal views and understanding of diet, health, ...

27/06/2025

🌿 Today on World Microbiome Day… a gentle reminder:

Your gut is a garden.
So is the Earth beneath your feet.

🦠 The microbes in your belly and the microbes in the soil speak the same quiet language of balance, nourishment, and renewal.

When we care for the soil, we care for our gut.
When we nourish our gut, we reflect that care back to the Earth.

Let it be a cycle of kindness — inside and out. 💚

24/05/2025

🌱 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🌱
I'm excited to share that my TEDx Talk on holistic gut health is going LIVE online soon! 🎤✨

In this talk, I dive into the mind-gut-planet connection, and why healing your gut is about so much more than what’s on your plate. It's a radical act of self-love, grounded in science, compassion, and deep intuition. And when we support our nourish our inner eco-system we naturally start to support our outer eco-systems to thrive!

🧠💚 Your gut is your second brain – but are you really listening to it?

As a speaker, author, and advocate for holistic gut health and wellbeing, this moment is about amplifying a message that’s urgently needed:

🌿 Healing is holistic
💬 Your body is always communicating
🌀 True wellness starts within

🎥 Stay tuned for the TEDx link – dropping soon!
📢 Share with someone who needs to hear this!

23/05/2025

🌟 IG LIVE This Saturday 🌟

Join us for an inspiring and soul-nourishing Insta Live with two transformative voices in mind-body healing and intuitive wisdom:

✨ Cara Wheatley-McGrain – Holisitc Gut health pioneer, mindfulness and self-compassion advocate & author of Calm Your Gut
✨ Amanda Charles, author The Psychic Psychologist – Intuitive therapist bridging science and spirit

🗓️ Date: Saturday 24th May
🕖 Time: 15.00 UK time
📍 Where: Right here on Instagram Live!

Amanda and I are excited to be back London this weekend
Tomorrow we'll be sharing a sneak peak from our talks! We'll be diving deep into:

💫 The connection between your gut and intuition
🌿 Practical tools to tune into your inner guidance

This is a conversation not to be missed – real, raw, and rooted in powerful transformation.

✨ Come with questions. Come with curiosity. Come as you are.

🔔 Set a reminder and tag a friend who needs this energy!

21/05/2025

🌿✨ Join me for my 5 TOP TIPS for Holistic Gut Health to Nourish Your Mind, Body & Spirit ✨🌿
The Mindful Gut | Live at in London this Bank Holiday weekend!

💚Your gut does so much more than digest food — I'll be sharing tips for your immune system, your emotional wellbeing and exploring how food can even shape your mood.

💚I'll be sharing the Power of the 3Ps! Prebiotics, Probiotics & Polyphenols — the dream team for gut health.

💚Tune In to Your Gut Instinct
Your gut is wise. Listen to how food, people, and habits make you feel. Holistic health starts with awareness.

💚We'll even practise a little Mindful Eating. Digestion starts in the mind before the gut.

💫 Come say HI at The Mind Body Spirit Festival! I’ll be sharing stories, tips, to help you build a gut-friendly life that feels good from the inside out. And I'll be at the stand signing books straight after!

🔥For a fabulous 20% discount code to this gorgeous weekend: BELTANE20.