WEBVTT 00:00:10.579 --> 00:00:13.660 Welcome to her comeback, Transforming Your Life 00:00:13.660 --> 00:00:16.519 After 50. I'm your host, Michelle Thompson. If 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.379 you've ever whispered to yourself, there has 00:00:19.379 --> 00:00:22.440 to be more than this. You are in the right place. 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.239 This show is for women over 50 who have hit their 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.600 breaking point and are finally ready to stop 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.539 going at it alone. You've tried the self -help 00:00:30.539 --> 00:00:33.640 books, the vision boards, positive thinking, 00:00:34.060 --> 00:00:36.759 but you're still stuck. And here's what I know. 00:00:37.219 --> 00:00:40.659 You're not broken. You just need the right support. 00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:42.619 And that's exactly what you're going to find 00:00:42.619 --> 00:00:45.700 here. Each week, I'll sit down with incredible 00:00:45.700 --> 00:00:48.460 women who have transformed their lives. You'll 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:51.479 hear their real stories, the messy middle, the 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:53.579 breakthrough moments, the practical steps that 00:00:53.579 --> 00:00:56.420 they took to create the lives that they love. 00:00:56.899 --> 00:01:00.259 Because your lowest limit, it can be your launching 00:01:00.259 --> 00:01:03.979 pad. So if you're done settling and ready for 00:01:03.979 --> 00:01:07.010 your comeback, Stay with me. Let's discover how 00:01:07.010 --> 00:01:09.890 other women have made it happen and how you can 00:01:09.890 --> 00:01:14.769 too. Are you ready? This is her comeback. Hi, 00:01:14.810 --> 00:01:18.909 everyone. Good day. It is so wonderful to have 00:01:18.909 --> 00:01:22.549 as our featured guest today, Dr. Michelle Pelletier. 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:26.670 She is a wonderful chiropractor local here to 00:01:26.670 --> 00:01:29.870 Southwest Florida. Michelle, welcome to the show. 00:01:30.290 --> 00:01:32.599 Hi. Hi, Michelle. I'm very excited to be here 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:35.200 and hello to everybody who's listening and hopefully 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.120 you will receive some really good wisdom and 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.060 information today. Yes, definitely. Michelle, 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.079 tell the audience a little bit more just about 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.299 yourself and who you are. Sure. I am a chiropractor 00:01:48.299 --> 00:01:51.200 in Benita Springs. I've been practicing for 25 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:55.299 years. I moved here in 97 after I graduated from 00:01:55.299 --> 00:01:57.760 chiropractic school. I was living in Minnesota 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:02.620 at the time and I started my business down here 00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:08.069 and I just love what I do. different experience, 00:02:08.250 --> 00:02:11.729 chiropractic experience for people. And I'm excited 00:02:11.729 --> 00:02:14.210 to tell everybody about it. I also live in Benita 00:02:14.210 --> 00:02:17.530 Springs with my husband and my two cats. And 00:02:17.530 --> 00:02:20.990 so we're pretty involved with the Benita community 00:02:20.990 --> 00:02:25.150 for a long time. Wonderful, wonderful. What took 00:02:25.150 --> 00:02:28.210 you into being a chiropractor? What was your 00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:30.969 interest that sparked there? When I lived in 00:02:30.969 --> 00:02:33.729 Minnesota, I was having an issue with my back. 00:02:33.810 --> 00:02:35.870 I've actually my back was tingling into my fingers 00:02:35.870 --> 00:02:39.069 for a long time. And at the time I was in the 00:02:39.069 --> 00:02:42.610 neuropsychology profession as a cognitive rehabilitation 00:02:42.610 --> 00:02:45.449 specialist. So working more sort of mentally 00:02:45.449 --> 00:02:48.409 with people, you know, kind of in, I wasn't counseling, 00:02:48.409 --> 00:02:53.719 but it was very much of a mental type of a thing, 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:56.699 work that I did with people to, to regenerate 00:02:56.699 --> 00:03:01.300 their nerves in their brain. And I had had this 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:03.439 problem for several years and one of my friends 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:04.759 said, Hey, you should go see a chiropractor. 00:03:05.379 --> 00:03:07.780 And so I was very resistant to it. But once I 00:03:07.780 --> 00:03:11.479 went, I read in his office about innate intelligence 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.400 and how the body, how that made the body heals 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.599 the body. And it happened. And healing happens 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:20.099 from above down inside out. And that was very 00:03:20.099 --> 00:03:23.219 interesting to me to know that actually I could 00:03:23.219 --> 00:03:26.300 find the power within my own body to heal myself. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.780 And then I wound up going to chiropractic school. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.539 And while I was in chiropractic school, I was 00:03:32.539 --> 00:03:34.280 getting the regular, you know, cracking type 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.259 of chiropractic, but I kept having to get adjusted 00:03:36.259 --> 00:03:39.060 all the time. And I thought, well, why is my, 00:03:39.659 --> 00:03:43.229 if you fix the alignment, why is it keep? misaligning 00:03:43.229 --> 00:03:45.789 and what's happening. So that's when I met Dr. 00:03:46.009 --> 00:03:47.990 Donnie Epstein, who's the founder of Network 00:03:47.990 --> 00:03:50.449 Spinal Analysis, or Network Spinal, it's called 00:03:50.449 --> 00:03:54.460 now. And he said, well, you know, your body's 00:03:54.460 --> 00:03:56.560 strategy when you get under stress is to misalign. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.219 And if we go beyond what we used to, what they 00:04:00.219 --> 00:04:02.500 call car part is called the subluxation and look 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:05.379 at the connection of the brain to the body through 00:04:05.379 --> 00:04:07.939 the nervous system, you can actually function 00:04:07.939 --> 00:04:10.620 at a higher level and your body won't have to 00:04:10.620 --> 00:04:12.259 feel like it's protecting itself all the time. 00:04:12.889 --> 00:04:16.509 And so here I am 25 years later after doing that 00:04:16.509 --> 00:04:18.970 work and through the evolution of all the work, 00:04:19.050 --> 00:04:22.790 he's constantly evolving the work to match what's 00:04:22.790 --> 00:04:28.269 happening in culture. I find this really fascinating 00:04:28.269 --> 00:04:31.610 because for me, I am a longtime chiropractic 00:04:31.610 --> 00:04:34.269 patient. I started having similar to something 00:04:34.269 --> 00:04:36.449 you described. I started having issues in my 00:04:36.449 --> 00:04:40.759 early twenties where for me it was my neck. It 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.220 would stiffen my back so much that like I couldn't 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:45.899 walk. I found for all these years that the work 00:04:45.899 --> 00:04:48.839 with a chiropractor has enabled me to function 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.379 and able to manage whatever my issues are without 00:04:52.379 --> 00:04:54.279 any type of surgery or that type of thing. But 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.339 when you talk about this network approach, that 00:04:57.339 --> 00:05:02.019 is new to me. So what is it that drew you to 00:05:02.019 --> 00:05:04.579 that specifically? And then maybe you were mentioning 00:05:04.579 --> 00:05:07.100 that a little bit, but is there something that 00:05:07.100 --> 00:05:11.519 just you feel makes this network? very different 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.759 from other options. What I think I was feeling 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.120 at the time, and I was in chiropractic school, 00:05:19.019 --> 00:05:21.100 was, and chiropractic, don't get me wrong, is 00:05:21.100 --> 00:05:23.220 a very great profession, or I wouldn't be doing 00:05:23.220 --> 00:05:25.839 that, is what brought me to, made me who I am 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.379 today. But what I felt was, is that was keeping 00:05:28.379 --> 00:05:31.279 me in the same place. Like I really didn't feel 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.240 like I was able to make any changes, or I didn't... 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.300 I feel like it was just working for me. I felt 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:39.439 like it was something like I kept having to put 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.920 a bandaid on. And so when I learned about network 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.980 and actually started receiving the care, which 00:05:45.980 --> 00:05:48.519 is I'm a very experiential person. So when I 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.579 started receiving the care, one of the questions 00:05:50.579 --> 00:05:53.000 when I first went to my first network doctor, 00:05:53.139 --> 00:05:55.459 she said, are you aware of your spine? Well, 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.399 I was in chiropractic school. Well, yeah, I am 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:00.379 aware of the spine because we're studying it. 00:06:00.750 --> 00:06:03.370 But that's not what she meant. And I didn't really 00:06:03.370 --> 00:06:05.550 realize that I didn't, I was not connected to 00:06:05.550 --> 00:06:07.470 my body. I wasn't aware of what was happening 00:06:07.470 --> 00:06:10.649 in my body or how my thoughts and how everything 00:06:10.649 --> 00:06:15.829 around me was affecting my body physically, emotionally, 00:06:16.129 --> 00:06:19.790 and even chemically sometimes. So after my first 00:06:19.790 --> 00:06:23.069 session with her, I remember I could feel my 00:06:23.069 --> 00:06:26.550 spine moving. Like I was like, Oh, so now I'm 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:30.639 aware of my spine. And so I said, I really felt 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:32.920 like I need to learn what this is going to do 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.939 to help other people to move forward. Because 00:06:35.939 --> 00:06:38.139 at the time I thought, well, if people keep having 00:06:38.139 --> 00:06:42.660 to keep coming in to see me to reduce their subluxations, 00:06:42.740 --> 00:06:44.839 why can't their body do that on their own? How 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.879 can I help somebody to empower themselves so 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.759 that they have the resources and the ability? 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.939 to make changes and do things in their life, 00:06:56.300 --> 00:06:57.980 not necessarily on their own. I mean, with some 00:06:57.980 --> 00:07:00.639 coaching from me, of course, we all need some, 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.439 we all need some support and help. But for me, 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:05.899 it was like, how do I do that by myself? If this 00:07:05.899 --> 00:07:07.759 innate intelligence is supposed to work, how 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.639 can I make that more available to me? And that's 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:16.480 kind of how I fell into it. That's awesome. So 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:19.560 you had your own personal experience, a personal 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:23.399 story with the technique. Have there been other 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.139 stories or experience you've had maybe with clients 00:07:27.139 --> 00:07:30.759 that really have just solidified your path and 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.189 working in the space? Yeah, I was thinking about 00:07:33.189 --> 00:07:35.129 that. And I'll give you two examples, one, a 00:07:35.129 --> 00:07:37.389 physical one and one, maybe more of a life one 00:07:37.389 --> 00:07:40.709 as well. I had a client who had come to me who 00:07:40.709 --> 00:07:42.490 had been having that work from the area where 00:07:42.490 --> 00:07:44.230 she came in. We have snowbirds here, so we have 00:07:44.230 --> 00:07:47.689 people visiting and she came in one day and I 00:07:47.689 --> 00:07:49.370 felt her spine and I had her lay down. She was 00:07:49.370 --> 00:07:51.670 basically in for maintenance. And then she said, 00:07:51.689 --> 00:07:53.949 did you notice anything different today? And 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:55.269 I said, yeah, there was a little bit of tension 00:07:55.269 --> 00:07:57.470 in your neck. And she said, well, let me tell 00:07:57.470 --> 00:08:01.250 you, I was in a car accident. feel many spines. 00:08:01.310 --> 00:08:03.490 It did not feel like her spine was in a car accident. 00:08:04.129 --> 00:08:07.310 And she said, I'll tell you what happened. I 00:08:07.310 --> 00:08:11.550 felt my neck starting to build up tension. And 00:08:11.550 --> 00:08:14.069 then I just put my hand right where you usually 00:08:14.069 --> 00:08:15.910 put your hands when you're working on me. I took 00:08:15.910 --> 00:08:18.389 a deep breath and it went, the tension went away 00:08:18.389 --> 00:08:22.389 and it never came back. So to me, when that happened, 00:08:22.649 --> 00:08:26.060 I said, this is what happened was her body had 00:08:26.060 --> 00:08:28.980 a choice. Do I go into fight or flight or can 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:31.399 I resolve this tension here? So I don't store 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.379 it for later and have to experience it again 00:08:33.379 --> 00:08:36.480 later. And so that was physically something, 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:40.759 physical story that led me to believe, you know, 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.080 what I've been doing all these years is very 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:48.379 valuable. And then I had somebody else who she 00:08:48.379 --> 00:08:51.179 was just going through, you know, She was a little 00:08:51.179 --> 00:08:53.299 bit less than 50, but she was going through the 00:08:53.299 --> 00:08:55.639 life changes and she was going through some physical 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.580 changes, but also her kids had left to go to 00:08:59.580 --> 00:09:03.100 college and everything. And she was having a 00:09:03.100 --> 00:09:05.279 relationship challenge with people, her husband 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.919 at the time, and she just felt stuck. And she 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:09.559 said, I really, I don't know how to describe 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.980 it, but I just don't feel like I have the energy. 00:09:12.619 --> 00:09:15.720 To deal with anything, we sometimes call it the 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.000 bandwidth. She said, I just don't feel like I 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:19.899 have enough energy, enough resources to make 00:09:19.899 --> 00:09:22.340 the changes I want out of my life. And she had 00:09:22.340 --> 00:09:24.799 found out of this technique, I think it was on 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.100 Instagram or something. And so from a colleague 00:09:28.100 --> 00:09:30.379 of mine, and so we started working with her, 00:09:30.419 --> 00:09:32.399 which, you know, a lot of people would say, well, 00:09:32.419 --> 00:09:35.559 what were her symptoms or what were her physical 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.019 things? Well, just, I mean, in general, she was 00:09:38.019 --> 00:09:40.860 very fatigued. Of course she had the hormonal 00:09:40.860 --> 00:09:42.580 changes that we go through. through when we were 00:09:42.580 --> 00:09:47.059 in our late 40s, early 50s. And she didn't really 00:09:47.059 --> 00:09:49.279 feel like she was connected to herself. Like 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:52.759 she didn't understand why this was happening. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.580 So when we started working with her, I remember 00:09:55.580 --> 00:09:59.639 she came to me and she said, I really feel more 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.679 like who I am. And now I know what I need to 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.779 do to change my life, to be to where I think 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:09.460 I should be. And so she, like the passion in 00:10:09.460 --> 00:10:13.679 her just lit up. And those are my favorite stories 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:17.240 when people come in and they say, Oh my gosh, 00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:19.179 you know, remember I was trying to start this 00:10:19.179 --> 00:10:21.139 business and something was stopping me. And then 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:23.940 all of a sudden I had this thought or had this 00:10:23.940 --> 00:10:27.299 idea and it helped me to make the decision that 00:10:27.299 --> 00:10:29.419 I've been talking about for three, four or five 00:10:29.419 --> 00:10:32.960 years. So that was, that's another way that it's, 00:10:32.980 --> 00:10:35.440 when I talk to people in my workshops, you know, 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.139 a lot of people come in for physical things, 00:10:37.580 --> 00:10:39.399 but there are many people who come in because 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:41.679 either they'll refer to some people like life 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.820 coaches, like yourself, or psychologists who 00:10:44.820 --> 00:10:47.019 are like, boy, we're really kind of at a crossroads 00:10:47.019 --> 00:10:50.399 and there's this thought or this, this experience 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:53.960 that this person can't get through. And, you 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:57.360 know, can network help that? it can because it 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.600 gives the person a different connection to themselves. 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.340 So sometimes what's happening with all of, you 00:11:03.340 --> 00:11:06.139 know, people are feeling fatigued, especially, 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.460 you know, when they are done taking care of the 00:11:09.460 --> 00:11:11.320 kids or they have to shift what they have to 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.980 do at home and they find that they can't sleep 00:11:13.980 --> 00:11:19.000 or they're having issues with tension that they've 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.659 stored for years in their body. and had to hold 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:23.759 there for whatever reason, it puts us in fight 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.139 or flight. And then that's where our filter is. 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.700 So instead of responding to things in our environment, 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:34.100 we're reacting. And for those who aren't familiar 00:11:34.100 --> 00:11:36.700 with fight or flight or, or, um, they, you know, 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:38.419 a lot of, they're talking about a lot of vasovagal 00:11:38.419 --> 00:11:40.519 thing. There's a lot of little buzzwords that 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.580 they're using much of our culture. It's like 00:11:44.580 --> 00:11:49.100 our foot is on the gas of our car 24 seven and 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:53.990 they can't shut it off. And that is simply reconnecting 00:11:53.990 --> 00:11:56.809 the brain to the body will help release those 00:11:56.809 --> 00:11:59.529 tensions and all the life tensions in the spine 00:11:59.529 --> 00:12:04.269 that will give the body another option to filter 00:12:04.269 --> 00:12:07.110 life through. So instead of using fight or flight, 00:12:07.389 --> 00:12:10.490 it connects with the frontal. lobe a little more 00:12:10.490 --> 00:12:14.830 where we have reasoning and we can evaluate things. 00:12:15.029 --> 00:12:16.110 When we're in fight or flight, we don't have 00:12:16.110 --> 00:12:17.809 time for that, right? Cause our body thinks that 00:12:17.809 --> 00:12:21.129 it's running away from a lion. One of the analogies 00:12:21.129 --> 00:12:24.029 we use is with the nervous system is do you want 00:12:24.029 --> 00:12:28.549 a nervous system that can hear the lion's roar 00:12:28.549 --> 00:12:31.730 from afar? Or do you want a nervous system where 00:12:31.730 --> 00:12:32.929 you don't know the lion's there until they're 00:12:32.929 --> 00:12:36.409 breathing on your neck? Which one's more, more 00:12:36.409 --> 00:12:41.019 adaptable? Right, definitely you want more neuroplasticity 00:12:41.019 --> 00:12:43.000 we have the more we can adapt to the changes 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:44.799 that are happening in our lives. So it's not 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.480 really I mean it's not magic there's a lot of 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:49.480 science behind it. But when we are not aware 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.820 of that of what's going on. This type of work 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:56.360 can help people get there. Yeah, it's really 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:58.960 fascinating because you're really talking about 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.679 this mind -body connection that can truly transform 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.139 your life. You see transformations in your patients, 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:10.120 and so you've talked about your approach. It's 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:14.559 more than just this physical adjustment. Can 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.460 you give any further explanation about how this 00:13:17.460 --> 00:13:21.320 mind -body spirit connection works? You've walked 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:23.799 through that a little bit, but just any other 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:28.490 detail there. Well, certainly. I think that what 00:13:28.490 --> 00:13:31.169 happens a lot is that we are influenced by a 00:13:31.169 --> 00:13:33.330 lot of things that are outside of our environment, 00:13:33.330 --> 00:13:37.850 right? So when we're going. through tough times. 00:13:37.870 --> 00:13:39.889 And I'm going to use, you know, because your 00:13:39.889 --> 00:13:42.549 audience is all about transforming, you know, 00:13:42.549 --> 00:13:45.289 in our fifties, you know, we have changes in 00:13:45.289 --> 00:13:48.110 our health and our hormones and all these things 00:13:48.110 --> 00:13:50.710 are physical and everybody focuses so much on 00:13:50.710 --> 00:13:54.250 the physical without being aware that there's 00:13:54.250 --> 00:13:57.570 a mind that controls that as well. And we want 00:13:57.570 --> 00:14:00.210 that to be in congruence. We don't want it to 00:14:00.210 --> 00:14:03.169 be fighting what's happening. Right. So there's 00:14:03.169 --> 00:14:04.429 some people are like, well, you know, I don't 00:14:04.429 --> 00:14:07.159 know if I want to do this. this physical treatment 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.879 for what's going on. And then the mind tells 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.980 you, well, you know, you have to because that 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:13.679 society is telling you that that's what the problem 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.700 is. But if we just look at the nervous system 00:14:16.700 --> 00:14:20.340 and learn how to optimize that so that we have 00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:24.659 the energy to make those decisions, we can see 00:14:24.659 --> 00:14:27.159 a bigger picture of how everything fits together. 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:32.059 And then you can choose and or come up with a 00:14:32.059 --> 00:14:34.970 strategy that works for you. So it might be a 00:14:34.970 --> 00:14:37.769 combination of doing some of the physical things 00:14:37.769 --> 00:14:40.990 or maybe we start to meditate or start to do 00:14:40.990 --> 00:14:45.009 yoga or do something to help our body to reconnect. 00:14:45.629 --> 00:14:49.370 But the decision, first you have to decide to 00:14:49.370 --> 00:14:52.029 do that. And sometimes because the nervous system 00:14:52.029 --> 00:14:55.230 doesn't have the energy or the resources, it's 00:14:55.230 --> 00:14:58.730 harder to make that decision, right? Because 00:14:58.730 --> 00:15:02.019 you're just thinking. Well, I already can't sleep 00:15:02.019 --> 00:15:05.580 and I don't have any time in the day to go to 00:15:05.580 --> 00:15:07.899 yoga and I don't have time to work out five hours 00:15:07.899 --> 00:15:09.940 a day and I don't have, so it's all of these 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:12.080 things that get piled on top of us, which also 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:15.580 make us even more subluxated or interfered with 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:17.279 with our nervous system. And the nervous system 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:19.860 just shuts down and says, eh, let's just go take 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:24.779 a nap. So how do you help your patients when 00:15:24.779 --> 00:15:27.320 they they're in that state that you just described? 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.279 Like everything is just so overwhelming and they 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.980 just are so stuck. What is it? How do you get 00:15:33.980 --> 00:15:37.679 them to take that first step? It usually happens. 00:15:38.059 --> 00:15:40.000 When people come in, when we have them come in, 00:15:40.100 --> 00:15:43.019 we do an extensive evaluation with them or an 00:15:43.019 --> 00:15:47.740 exam. So I do a physical exam. tension and position 00:15:47.740 --> 00:15:49.960 of your spine is directly related to the same 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:52.860 tension and position of your of your life. Right. 00:15:52.980 --> 00:15:57.259 So we'll take a picture of some posture and at 00:15:57.259 --> 00:16:00.000 first just kind of bring people aware of what's 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.480 going on. So that first two visits is, oh, are 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:06.860 you aware that you have tension here? Or are 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:09.460 you aware that when you started talking about 00:16:09.460 --> 00:16:12.639 your relationship, you had tension in your low 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.700 back or are you aware? So I make them aware of 00:16:14.700 --> 00:16:17.799 anything that they might feel is prevalent at 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:21.720 their life at the time. And then the work that's 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:26.120 done is physical, but it's also, I hesitate to 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:27.779 call it energetic, but it's an energetic. I mean, 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:29.240 anytime you're putting your hands on somebody, 00:16:29.259 --> 00:16:32.000 it's energetic, but we're working with all of 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.820 the energy fields that create what's going on 00:16:35.820 --> 00:16:37.980 in our nervous system and create our lives. And 00:16:37.980 --> 00:16:42.200 so from doing the physical contacts to the spine 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.500 to get the brain to be more aware of what's going 00:16:44.500 --> 00:16:48.059 on to having a conversation sometimes with people 00:16:48.059 --> 00:16:52.419 on table. I'll say, oh, that's interesting. You 00:16:52.419 --> 00:16:55.340 told me today that you did X, Y, Z, and now that's 00:16:55.340 --> 00:16:57.980 showing up in your spine here. Do you feel that? 00:16:58.620 --> 00:17:02.139 Or what thought is coming up when I did that? 00:17:02.330 --> 00:17:04.009 Like, what did you think of? Because sometimes 00:17:04.009 --> 00:17:06.049 people will have an emotional response on the 00:17:06.049 --> 00:17:08.630 table. And they'll say, oh, I'm crying. I don't 00:17:08.630 --> 00:17:12.750 know why I'm crying. And I'll say, well, I touched 00:17:12.750 --> 00:17:14.970 this part of your spine. And they'll say, oh, 00:17:15.049 --> 00:17:17.670 yeah, I remember I fell off my bike and I hurt 00:17:17.670 --> 00:17:20.970 myself there. And I never processed it or whatever 00:17:20.970 --> 00:17:24.009 it is. We don't know what we're hiding in our 00:17:24.009 --> 00:17:26.230 bodies. Because our bodies, when we have tension 00:17:26.230 --> 00:17:29.910 and we don't have the ability to transform it 00:17:29.910 --> 00:17:33.180 at the time, our body will store it. store it 00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:36.299 there until it, until it gets at the attention 00:17:36.299 --> 00:17:39.660 again, that it needs to transform it. So it's 00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:41.440 kind of a combination and we don't talk about 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:44.000 it like therapy or anything like that. It's just 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.339 bringing attention, bringing awareness to what's 00:17:47.339 --> 00:17:50.220 going on with the body, acknowledging that it's 00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:52.440 there and then accepting it for what it is and 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.019 then moving on. You mentioned the word optimizing 00:17:56.019 --> 00:17:59.440 it a little bit ago. How can optimizing the nervous 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:03.329 systems. help with life transitions. So we know 00:18:03.329 --> 00:18:06.309 women in our 50s, we have all these different 00:18:06.309 --> 00:18:10.289 transitions we're facing. So how does this optimization 00:18:10.289 --> 00:18:15.009 really help us? So if you think of it in terms 00:18:15.009 --> 00:18:18.910 of, say, software on your computer, right? So 00:18:18.910 --> 00:18:20.910 let's say you have a really old computer and 00:18:20.910 --> 00:18:26.250 you have this, you're working on Windows 10 and 00:18:26.250 --> 00:18:29.269 you're trying to run some new programs and they 00:18:29.269 --> 00:18:32.539 just won't work. Right. So you need windows 11 00:18:32.539 --> 00:18:35.819 to do that. So really optimizing the brain and 00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:38.200 the spinal cord, we look at as the operating 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:42.440 system of the nervous system. So this is also 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:44.000 a new term that people are talking about what 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.519 we've talked about it network for a while. It's 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:48.859 creating the bandwidth, optimizing nervous system 00:18:48.859 --> 00:18:52.000 is creating the bandwidth. So somebody is able 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.940 to assess and respond to what's going on in their 00:18:54.940 --> 00:18:58.279 environment in a more productive way or in a 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:01.640 more optimized way. And so the connection that's 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.359 made from the light touches to cue the brain, 00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:08.119 to allow the body to release tensions and start 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:12.680 living a better life, that is optimizing the 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:16.480 nervous system. At some point, will the body, 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:19.819 if you do this with some frequency with your 00:19:19.819 --> 00:19:23.480 work, does the brain start to automatically maybe 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.000 do some things it didn't used to do? That's a 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.279 really good question. I like that question. Yes, 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:31.400 it does. Because I've had a lot of people, when 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.279 they've gone through their immersion care or 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:36.660 they're still in what we call beyond wellness 00:19:36.660 --> 00:19:40.319 care, they will, they will tell me like, Oh, 00:19:40.380 --> 00:19:42.900 you know, the other day, I always use this as 00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:44.519 an example, because we're headed towards the 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.400 holidays. You know, I always have a lot of tension 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.980 and stress and anxiety about going to my in -laws 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:54.269 for Thanksgiving. That's not happening today. 00:19:54.269 --> 00:19:57.069 And my in -law said something and I really didn't, 00:19:57.190 --> 00:19:58.990 I didn't feel like I took it on that way, or 00:19:58.990 --> 00:20:02.549 I really felt like I was able to handle it better, 00:20:02.869 --> 00:20:05.809 right? And so there wasn't something conscious 00:20:05.809 --> 00:20:08.130 that they did. They will just come back and they'll 00:20:08.130 --> 00:20:11.049 make the observation later. Well, the way I see 00:20:11.049 --> 00:20:13.250 that, the way I kind of explain it is they had 00:20:13.250 --> 00:20:15.829 two options now to take care of it. They could 00:20:15.829 --> 00:20:17.930 be really defensive and shut down and not do 00:20:17.930 --> 00:20:20.430 anything about it, or they can allow it to happen. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.000 You know, allow that person to see that person 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.599 for who they are and what they say and know that 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:28.880 it didn't have anything to do with them and to 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:32.000 move on. And it becomes more organic. That becomes 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.119 the thing where the brain makes a decision. Oh 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.059 yeah. I don't have to protect myself now. Oh, 00:20:37.059 --> 00:20:40.920 it's good. It's good. Well, thanks. Great. We're 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:44.200 going to leave now. Yeah, yeah, that that is 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.640 fantastic. I find the work that you do is just 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:50.940 fascinating and I think it's such a great option 00:20:50.940 --> 00:20:55.140 that's available for those to try and see what 00:20:55.140 --> 00:20:57.920 your experience might be that it could really 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:00.900 open up some opportunities and open up some doors 00:21:00.900 --> 00:21:04.170 for you. No matter what's going on in your life, 00:21:04.269 --> 00:21:06.569 because it sounds like anything stored in our 00:21:06.569 --> 00:21:09.369 bodies, anything that is there, whether we know 00:21:09.369 --> 00:21:12.990 it or not, the work that you're doing can really 00:21:12.990 --> 00:21:17.150 go a long way with releasing and healing and 00:21:17.150 --> 00:21:20.170 being able to move forward without those struggles. 00:21:20.970 --> 00:21:23.190 Yeah, for sure. And when we talk about optimizing, 00:21:23.430 --> 00:21:25.529 we want to make sure that we're functioning at 00:21:25.529 --> 00:21:27.910 the highest level that we want to function. And 00:21:27.910 --> 00:21:29.609 sometimes we're not aware that we're not functioning 00:21:29.609 --> 00:21:33.349 there. And so when we release those, you know, 00:21:33.509 --> 00:21:35.609 physical tensions in the spine and which also 00:21:35.609 --> 00:21:37.490 releases the life tensions that we're having 00:21:37.490 --> 00:21:40.990 in our environment, we're more able to evaluate. 00:21:42.210 --> 00:21:44.750 And, you know, with, they talk about neuro neuroplasticity. 00:21:44.890 --> 00:21:46.250 That's another thing they're talking about that 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:47.809 we've talked about for years that people are 00:21:47.809 --> 00:21:50.650 starting to catch up with. But when we have the 00:21:50.650 --> 00:21:54.009 ability to have, we'll call it like brain gymnastics. 00:21:54.130 --> 00:21:57.759 Like if we can do those. brain gymnastics backbends, 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:00.480 we're probably more flexible to be able to heal 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.500 things, feel and experience things from a different 00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:06.960 perspective and the energy to do that. And so 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.019 when we optimize the nervous system, we're making 00:22:09.019 --> 00:22:13.079 sure like, do I have the latest download of the, 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:15.799 of the operating system so that I can run all 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:19.279 of my programs? And I use the, that's an easier 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:21.940 way, but it does. And what will happen is you 00:22:21.940 --> 00:22:26.109 will default. To that, which is going to give 00:22:26.109 --> 00:22:31.329 you the greatest change and the most. The deepest, 00:22:31.390 --> 00:22:35.130 deepest experience. Whereas before, if you're 00:22:35.130 --> 00:22:37.569 not optimized or if the nervous systems bandwidth 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:40.450 has decreased a little bit, I've had people say 00:22:40.450 --> 00:22:42.049 this to me before. Oh, I can't talk about that 00:22:42.049 --> 00:22:43.390 right now. I don't have the bandwidth for it. 00:22:43.470 --> 00:22:46.769 And I think, well, optimize your nervous system. 00:22:48.450 --> 00:22:51.170 It's a matter of changing the channel, right? 00:22:51.230 --> 00:22:53.390 We're getting static in that channel. So let's 00:22:53.390 --> 00:22:57.289 go to the next one up. Let's go to 97 .7 and 00:22:57.289 --> 00:23:00.309 set as 0 .6 because we got to get a clearer message 00:23:00.309 --> 00:23:03.549 in our nervous system. And the clearer message 00:23:03.549 --> 00:23:07.250 that we can get, the more we can create things 00:23:07.250 --> 00:23:08.750 that we want to create and we have the energy 00:23:08.750 --> 00:23:13.269 to go ahead and do that. Yes. That's fantastic. 00:23:13.490 --> 00:23:16.549 I love it. So tell me a little bit more about 00:23:16.549 --> 00:23:20.349 any promotions that you have or what you're promoting 00:23:20.349 --> 00:23:25.410 with your practice. So currently, September 18th 00:23:25.410 --> 00:23:29.190 was the birthday for Chiropractic. It's 130 years 00:23:29.190 --> 00:23:31.769 old. Oh, I didn't know that. It was founded at 00:23:31.769 --> 00:23:35.109 September 18th. So it was founded 130 years ago 00:23:35.109 --> 00:23:38.210 by Dee Dee Palmer and the developer, his son, 00:23:38.369 --> 00:23:41.109 BJ Palmer created it. So it's been around for 00:23:41.109 --> 00:23:44.890 that many years. And currently right now for 00:23:44.890 --> 00:23:47.049 people who call into the office or anybody who 00:23:47.049 --> 00:23:49.869 refers people to the office, that person will 00:23:49.869 --> 00:23:54.670 get their first exam for half off. So 50 % off. 00:23:55.289 --> 00:23:57.490 It's great to get people in and refer people. 00:23:57.730 --> 00:24:01.230 What I find that happens is one person from a 00:24:01.230 --> 00:24:03.890 family will come and then they have this experience 00:24:03.890 --> 00:24:06.450 and people start seeing the changes in them and 00:24:06.450 --> 00:24:08.150 their energy, the way they're doing things. They 00:24:08.150 --> 00:24:11.029 might seem happy or they might be a little less 00:24:11.029 --> 00:24:13.549 stressed out. And then they're like, Hey, what 00:24:13.549 --> 00:24:16.910 are you doing? How can I get that? Or when they 00:24:16.910 --> 00:24:18.670 do that, they see that in their children or see 00:24:18.670 --> 00:24:20.109 that in their loved ones. And they're like, you're 00:24:20.109 --> 00:24:24.000 going to go in now. I need you to get your bandwidth 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:29.559 to where I am so that we can live happier together. 00:24:30.220 --> 00:24:33.359 That's right. That's right. Everybody wins. This 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:35.799 is a special one. Anybody who's listening to 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:40.359 this podcast also get the 50 % off, even if it's 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:43.779 not September. Wonderful. Well, thank you for 00:24:43.779 --> 00:24:46.059 doing that for our audience. That's fantastic. 00:24:46.619 --> 00:24:48.680 And what's the best way for them to contact you 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:51.059 or your office? They can call the office, which 00:24:51.059 --> 00:24:55.740 is 239 -949 -1222. Or I do have a website and 00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:59.960 it's back to wellbeing .com. And then from the 00:24:59.960 --> 00:25:02.460 website, yeah, they can make that website, thinking 00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:05.359 all information about how to contact us. You 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.299 know, our email is on there and then my assistant 00:25:08.299 --> 00:25:10.650 can get them set up. with their appointment, 00:25:10.710 --> 00:25:12.710 or if they wanna call and talk to me, they can 00:25:12.710 --> 00:25:16.269 do that as well. Oh, wonderful. Dr. Michelle, 00:25:16.329 --> 00:25:18.210 I think you go by Dr. Michelle, right? Is that 00:25:18.210 --> 00:25:20.009 what your patients call you? Yeah, Dr. Michelle, 00:25:20.109 --> 00:25:23.880 or Michelle's fighting. Dr. Michelle, thank you 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:27.559 so much for sharing your expertise with us and 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.640 walking us through your approach and how your 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.519 practice works. It's just been really fascinating 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.460 for me and so many practical things that just 00:25:36.460 --> 00:25:38.799 make sense. As you described, it's like, oh, 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:40.960 that really makes sense. So, you know, thank 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:43.839 you for kind of breaking that down for me and 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:46.640 the audience. And I really wish you the best. 00:25:46.740 --> 00:25:49.140 Oh, there's one more thing before we close. We 00:25:49.140 --> 00:25:52.000 got to share with our audience. You and I. are 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.519 doing a networking event together. Yes. Would 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:58.299 you share a little bit more about it? Absolutely. 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:02.160 So I am super excited to be partnering with Michelle 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:06.559 Thompson, Michelle Thompson life coach, coach 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:10.049 Michelle. Yes, there we go. We are having an 00:26:10.049 --> 00:26:13.809 event for women in business who just want to 00:26:13.809 --> 00:26:17.210 get together and collaborate together and kind 00:26:17.210 --> 00:26:19.750 of meet each other and talk about how we can 00:26:19.750 --> 00:26:23.369 help each other in our business as women, women 00:26:23.369 --> 00:26:26.569 in culture. And it's on October 7th, Tuesday, 00:26:26.670 --> 00:26:29.250 October 7th from five to seven. And we're going 00:26:29.250 --> 00:26:32.910 to do it at BCN. paella, which is close to my 00:26:32.910 --> 00:26:35.710 office. And it's just a lovely place. Uh, the 00:26:35.710 --> 00:26:39.069 woman, uh, Kristen, she's very sweet. And, um, 00:26:39.069 --> 00:26:41.049 I studied in Spain, so I kind of have a soft 00:26:41.049 --> 00:26:44.750 spot for the place. So we'll be having, we'll 00:26:44.750 --> 00:26:47.690 be able to meet, um, Michelle and myself, and 00:26:47.690 --> 00:26:50.089 then we'll have a time where we network with 00:26:50.089 --> 00:26:52.410 everybody and anybody can get up and tell us 00:26:52.410 --> 00:26:55.750 what they do and how we can kind of work together 00:26:55.750 --> 00:26:58.869 as community to help the people in our community 00:26:58.869 --> 00:27:01.460 and help people in business. And also we're going 00:27:01.460 --> 00:27:05.180 to have some tapas and looking forward to the 00:27:05.180 --> 00:27:08.799 tapas. Yes, it should be a fun evening. I'm very 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:10.740 much looking forward to it. And I'm very grateful 00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:13.779 that Michelle wanted to partner with me on this. 00:27:14.380 --> 00:27:16.859 Yes, yes, me too. I'm so grateful that our paths 00:27:16.859 --> 00:27:19.440 cross and that we've been able to have some shared 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.740 experience together here. Thank you again. And 00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:25.279 I wish you continued success in your work and 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.980 hope your business will just flourish. Thank 00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:32.319 you so much. And you as well. Thank you. We work 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.640 very well together. When somebody needs some 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.440 help to make that transformation, they need a 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:41.059 coach. Yes, that's right. Yes, there's complimentary 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:45.119 services. Yeah, that's right. All right. Well, 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.319 thank you again. Have a wonderful rest of your 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.400 day. Thank you. Thank you. 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