How Do We Know Where to Adjust?
Watch this video to hear how I assess each person on the table to figure out which areas of the body will benefit from adjustments.
To summarize, your body has a tone, an energy in the tissues that is ideally a balanced and healthy tone. Much like a musical instrument that sounds on key, your body enjoys great health with a healthy tone in the nervous system.
If the tone is too high (think tight, tense, restricted, compressed, pressure, inflamed) or too low (think lax, sluggish, disconnected, weak) then the body suffers decreased health.
I look to balance your body with a healthy tone to your nerve system every time you are on the table for increased vitality.
Welcome Matthew Spahr, LMT
We are excited to announce that Matthew Spahr, LMT will be joining us in October!
Matthew will take over the space that Chrisanthi Fekkos works in on the second floor when she retires at the end of September.
With over 13 years over experience as a massage therapist, Matthew will be a great addition. I was very impressed with my massage session as I got to know Matthew.
Next month we will share more on scheduling, details, and a short video for you to meet Matthew!
What Are Your Beliefs About Time?
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Can you relate to the image above? I know I do sometimes. I’ve been working on my relationship with time and I thought you might benefit if this is something you would like to change in your life.
As I talk to many of you throughout the day, one of the most common things I hear is “I’m just so busy” and “life is so busy” or “it’s busy season”. Of course it can be helpful to look at what exactly we are doing in this busyness, but aside from what we are doing I have realized my mindset about time might be more influential than the sheer number of tasks or things I attempt to do in a day in regards to how busy or how much pressure I feel.
Mental and emotional stress, such as beliefs around and about time, increase stress and undesirable tone changes in the nervous system, like we addressed in the first video of the newsletter.
A book I have referenced before, One Moment Meditation, has a great quote:
- Time is only significant in that, within it, the steps of becoming can unfold in clearest sequence. IN other words, time is not a prison, but an opportunity. It is the loom on which your weave your life, the classroom in which you learn your lessons, the playground in which you discover and express your possibility. The point is not to be free from time but to be in time, freely.
Would you like to change anything about your relationship with time? How would that feel for you?
Research: Protecting the Developing Mind in a Digital Age
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Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: July 20, 2025; Vol 26; No. 3; pp 493-504More data is coming in on kids and smartphone use. One thing that I notice as chiropractor, that is not addressed in this particular research, is the changes in posture and body mechanics for the generation of kids who have grown up using tablets, phones and computers earlier than any other generation. Physically, it creates challenges to expressing great health, but as this article explains, there are other challenges as well:
- “The global rise in smartphone and social media use has dramatically reshaped childhood and adolescence, with algorithmically engineered digital environments increasingly influencing young people’s capabilities and functioning.”
- “Since the early 2000s, smartphones, operating as gateways into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital environments, have rapidly become central to how children and adolescents socialize, learn and form their identities, offering new avenues to access friends, information and entertainment.“
- “Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, are the first cohort to grow up with smartphones and social media from early childhood.”
- “This can result in the displacement and disruption of key developmental activities such as in person interaction and sleep, while exposing young users to a vast and often harmful digital landscape of developmentally inappropriate content including pornography, deepfakes, violent material, and extreme ideologies.”
- “One striking finding from the project is the decrease in mind health and well being of each successively younger age group.”
- “As the age at which children receive a smartphone continues to decrease, our data suggests a concerning trajectory toward a population with higher rates of aggression, suicidal thoughts, feelings of detachment from reality and diminished self-worth, emotional control , and resilience.”
- “AI systems that drive social media platforms are engineered to exploit psychological vulnerabilities, manipulating and overriding developing cognitive defenses, which imposes a considerable challenge when the prefrontal cortex is not yet mature.”
- “Our analysis reveals that receiving a smartphone before age 13 is associated with poorer mind health outcomes in young adulthood, particularly among females, including suicidal thoughts, detachment from reality, poorer emotional regulation, and diminished self-worth.”
- The researchers suggest the following policy measures:
- “Require mandatory education on digital literacy and mental health.”
- “Strengthen the active identification of social media age violations and ensure meaningful consequences for technology companies.”
- “Restrict access to social media platforms.”
- “Provide kids or teens phones that provide basic utility without social media or AI-powered content streams.”
- “Just as we restrict alcohol, tobacco, and motor vehicle operation to older adolescents and adults based on risk to developing minds and bodies, so too should we restrict smartphones and social media during the critical formative years.”
Recipe of the Month:
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This one-skillet dinner features juicy, boneless chicken thighs bathed in a luscious, dairy-free creamy sauce brimming with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes a flavorful, Paleo-friendly comfort food that’s ready in about 30 minutes.
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