Pregnancy is a very real physical change and demand. Not to mention the many aspects of delivery. “I’ve heard chiropractic care can help me be more active through my pregnancy,” is a common call on the office line. “And feel less miserable.” (If they are being honest).
But the funny thing is that there are nearly as many dads, too, around this same time. Young family, kid number one just arrived, or maybe baby number two is on the way. And now Dad is having all sorts of issues. “I just need to get back in shape,” is what they usually say.
But it makes sense because kids are hard. The crawlers bolt away just as you lean over and twist to pick them up. Somehow the bigger they get they actually want to be held more and carried everywhere. Even when they are perfectly capable of walking.
And when they want to start walking but haven’t quite got it on their own, that might be the hardest of all. If you haven’t gotten there yet, it’s not easy being human training wheels when you are a fully-grown adult.
But that is what happens when the little people arrive. Every last injury, stress or trauma finds its way back and manages to show up to. Those old stresses and traumas – the ones that kept you out of that game, or missing ski weekends, or had your college roommates (or your mom) waiting on you hand and foot… They manage to find a way to come right back.
Just like the older parents say about their own grown-up kids. Coming back. Looking for money. Or a car. Or you name it. When you think they are gone, those injuries and weaknesses have a habit of popping right back up at the worst time.
So, when the young parents of young children (or not so young parents, as they inevitably are today), come in saying “I don’t know what I happened?!?” It’s less of a mystery than you think. You hit the challenge of parenthood right at the same time as the challenge known as “not-in-your-20s-anymore” began.
And you know what? It’s okay. Just like it was so hard to imagine having children, and being a parent, when you get there everything changes. Suddenly a new identity appears, to match where we are in life. So just like expecting parents want to learn all about every last detail of life with the new baby, there are a few details about learning to live the new “you.”
After you have been there for a while, you start to learn the rules. It’s just that all the books are about the kids, and not about you.
But take it from your chiropractor, young, old and in-between, they’ve seen all the stages of life. They can help with everything you wished you’d learned about going through life (with a body that doesn’t make sense until after the fact) and wished you had found out sooner.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Has anyone told you you don’t need permission to be a superhero? Or that you don’t need someone to tell you it’s okay to help other people? There are some amazing stories of people that decided they didn’t want to wait to help the people around them that needed help. These were people that didn’t have advanced degrees or complicated certifications. What they did have was the sense of action and an overwhelming urgency to start making changes in the world around them.
It’s a classic phrase by Rene Descartes – one that is instantly recognizable. And it comes from a totally unrecognizable world – 1637.
Yet it is still true today. Descartes’ attempt to get to the very bedrock of what he was as a human being is worth looking at as we turn over into the new year. Especially as we examine the beginning of something new – a time when discussions turn to the entire idea of new, and what the idea of new creates – the vision of new possibilities.
Anti-aging is a trick. And like all tricks, it’s not real. We all slow down, grow old, and die. But like all tricks, when done well, they are amazing and fun. Here is how the trick of anti-aging can work for you.
Take the aging progression above and expand it all the way. From the time we are very young, we grow, get bigger, stronger, smarter and generally better at everything as we go.
Here is the solution to understanding an ever-more common anxiety-causing malady. And how the key to solving it is getting two things – knowing what it takes to get healthy – and the power of understanding how to choose the quickest line at the grocery store.
