Let Chiropractic Be Your Tour Guide

Seasons' Greetings Everyone.

Today is a cold, snowy day and the local schools have closed (kids are cheering).  I have a minute of quiet time to type out a blog post with a holiday message. 

I have a wish for everybody  I'd love for folks to experience the feelings of inspiration as the new year approaches.  

My goal is to provide a new outlook to the folks who cross my path.

Chiropractic gives us the opportunity to look at life with a fresh perspective.  I hope I convey that when you meet me.

Chiropractic gives us the energy to stay busy with our passions.
Chiropractic helps us face life's stresses so we end up stronger and wiser. 

The chiropractic mind-set allows us stay excited with an adventurous spirit.

So, don't face the world alone.  Take chiropractic with you on your life's journey.  It brings out the best in you!

Merry Christmas.

You Don't Need A Health Scare to Make Change Easy

You've heard about the folks with major health scares.  They had no problem giving up bad habits overnight.

They were the lucky ones.  You also know people who died suddenly or suffered such a serious health threat that they ended up with permanent damage.

There is a third choice.  Start making changes today.


However, there are two big challenges I see everyday in the office and I want to help you overcome them.

Meet the Challenges Head On:

#1 - Following incorrect health information

#2 - Not enough "people support" to help you stay consistent

#1 - Where do we come across incorrect health information?  Everywhere!  If you are want to feel better and get rid of nagging pain, you need to give your body what it is crying out for.  This is the simplest approach.  Don't treat.  Treatment implies you just need temporary attention to cover up symptoms and then cross your fingers hoping you heal for good.  Wrong approach.  Give your body what it needs and your body will pay you back tenfold.

I'll show you how to do that in the office.  We have a few easy questionnaires to point you in the right direction.

And how do you receive support?
#2 is difficult. Family members don't understand it.  You can't eat out, you can't go to most social events.  You can't be around the junk, processed, grain-ful foods that create the inflammatory fires of pain and disease.  You get the support here at the office.  You can meet amazing like minded people

Don't make your visit in the office and in-and-out event.  Stick around and talk to each other.  This is your opportunity.

If You've Got a Big Fire, You Need Big Water (Not an Eye-Dropper)

I'm on a mission to extinguish the "Eye Dropper Mentality."






Over and over I see people depriving themselves of what the body actually needs. It's my job to educate, but it sure takes teaching and reteaching.  I know life is tricky at times and things get in the way, but we can experience better health with consistent effort.

I see people when stress has built up so much, they have no choice but to admit it and take corrective measures.

So, when you have a big fire, don't sit around, get some big water.

Some examples:
   Are you getting adjusted once or twice a month?  Why?  Imagine the benefits you would experience if you were getting adjusted once or twice a week?  (Get on the table more often.  Use the PCD discount)

Stress doesn't take a day off.  Remember?

Why are you taking a maintenance dose of your supplements when you really need a saturating level to really see results?   I call that the eye-dropper mentality.  You wouldn't starve a kitten.

Stop trying to stretch out your Drenamin to make it last 6 months!

People are more cautious with supplements than they are with prescription drugs!  Really?  Last I checked over the counter pain meds cause liver and kidney failure, not fish oil!

You don't put out a house fire with an ice cube.

You know the song, We Didn't Start the Fire?   Yes, we did start the fire.  We do silly things and wreck our health.  Let's get real and save our health.

Expose * Challenge * Commit..........Please commit.  

See you at the table!

The Ice Maker's Dilemma

At my house, I make the ice.  We don't have an automatic ice maker inside the freezer.  I use ice daily so I monitor the ice usage.  During the winter it's not a big deal, but now summer has arrived and everyone in the house loves ice.

You can imagine what happens during the hot summer days.  We're drinking a lot of ice water or iced tea.  No one else replaces the ice they take since they are lucky enough to find a full bin.

Then, mysteriously, the ice runs out and I am making ice twice a day.   When the ice bin was empty I probably made ice three times a day but people had to wait since it takes a few hours for the water to freeze.  In order to keep up with the demand for ice, I put an extra bin in the freezer and filled that up with a pile of ice, too.

In a week or so, the temperature cools down for a bit and the need for ice is not as great. Then something really awful happens.  The extra bin stays full of ice and then it turns into one big ice chunk that I later have to dump into the sink because it is too difficult to break up.  Whew!  Do you see how busy I am?

We can use these examples of ice making to understand how the body compensates for stress.  When stress increases the body senses the need to  kick in the cortisol, fight or flight response.  Now the body is in crisis mode to handle the stress before healing reserves get too low.  An empty ice bin represents an inadequate stress response.  When the ice is refilled in a reasonable manner, that represents our ability to take care of ourselves, such as getting good sleep as a routine, going to the chiropractor as a consistent habit, and taking high quality food concentrates.  When we have to wait for the water in the ice tray to freeze, that could be a temporary illness that requires our patience to work through.

In chiropractic we understand that the nervous system fluctuates between high activity and low activity.  Hopefully, we don't get the nervous system patterns stuck in a hyperactive state or too low of a state.  We don't want to run out of ice, nor do we want a big useless chunk of ice either.

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See you at the table,
The adjusting table.


---Dr. Lisa
---Your Health Freedom Advocate

When Stress Takes Away, How Do You Give Back?

Stress happens.  It will always happen.  The body resists as much as it can, but there will be cell damage, fatigue, and injury.  
Over time this leads to soft tissue weakness, nerve dysfunction, and other maladaptive processes.  
The end result is chronic disease.  

So, while stress is chipping away at the body, it is taking away health.  It is so critical  that you give back to your body.  How will you give back so the body can recover and renew?

Imagine this, you are fixing up parts of your house.  Do you go to a junkyard and buy pieces of plastic to cover a broken window (with duct tape)? Do you bring home rotting boards and use them to repair a cracked wall, or broken step?  Would you use rusty nails to secure the shingles on the roof?  Of course not!  Nonsense you say!  Never in a million years.

However, everyday people are feeding their bodies processed foods, iced sugary drinks loaded with high fructose corn syrup, fast food, etc.  Many people hoping to be healthy take synthetic vitamins made out of coal tar and more corn syrup.  

To fix  a house, you use the best of the best.  You use brand new materials.  To take care of your body, you eat the cleanest foods and supplement with whole food concentrates.  

And since the body is a dynamic living organism, unlike an inanimate object, it has brain power to process informational stimuli and react in ways that allow you to move, think, speak, digest, heal, and more.  

The brain relies on the spine to power it up!  Funny how that sounds because you would expect it to be the other way around.  The brain needs spinal movement to maintain brain function otherwise you'll see deficits in cognition, metabolism and healing. 

So give back to yourself.  Get adjusted, and feed your body.

Why Should You Go to the Open House ??

Saturday, June 4th, 10 AM - Noon

Why should I ask my regulars to attend my Open House?

It will have the usual:  refreshments, door prizes, samples and a meet and greet with other holistic peeps.

But you will also be introduced to the Plateau Breakthrough Success Formula.

Everyone has some aspect of his or her health that could be improved.  We all can work on something to better ourselves, even if we think we are doing OK.

So, check it out.

If I haven't seen you in a while, please come visit.  If you are a regular, you might have more time to talk about a health issue that we can address that you haven't been able to think about because the job is busy and you squeeze your appointments in right after work and before going home.

I'm looking forward to it.  See you there.

--Dr. Lisa
--Your Health Freedom Advocate

Mom, What Does a Migraine Feel Like?

Well, what do you say to that? Kids in school must be talking about migraines. Maybe a child or parent is suffering from migraines and it is a topic of conversation among them. The last thing I want my son to do is dwell on the negative aspect of disease names, symptoms and feelings of helplessness.

Rather than focus on types of migraine pain I said, “We need to look at what the body is needing and not getting. The body is asking for help.” I brought up examples he could relate to, such as, how bad he feels after eating too much sugar and flour, or with a poor night's sleep.

Many adults will just go go go and stay so busy they don't even notice the stress accumulation in their bodies. The number of people who ignore or get used to their pain is actually staggering. With a simple chiropractic exam people say to me, “I had no idea how bad I was.”

The biggest unmet need in health care is maintaining the nerves that connect to every organ of the body. Even when we adjust the spine, if other things are lacking such as nutrients, the adjustment is not as effective. That's why we need to explore the interferences that are stressing the body.

Are migraines a problem with just the head? With any pain or dysfunction, there is actually a multi-systemic problem with the nervous system, circulatory system, digestive system, and immune system just to name a few.

You are invited to learn how a chiropractic exam can help you replenish the body with what it hasn't been getting. Don't live in a state of “unaware deprivation.”

Expose * Challenge * Commit