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This is carried forward a space for stories of resilience,
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purpose and forward resolve. Hi, welcome to Carried Forward.
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I'm your host Shawna Nissan. And as usual, we're going to
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have some stories about resilience and how my guests
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have carried themselves forward in their life through
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challenges. As we all go through, I'll have
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them introduce themselves. My name is Doctor Travis Diesel
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and this is my wife, Doctor Rachel Diesel.
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And our son Aries is also here with us too, so.
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Thank you for being here. And we were actually, we're
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actually sitting in their business.
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They have a chiropractor business in New Braunfels and
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we'll get to that. But they were I was lucky enough
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to let them do the interview here.
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And we can even like at the end, we can even show you guys place
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if you. Sure, that'd be great, yeah.
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Yeah, but first we'll talk about you, Travis.
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Travis is a combat veteran and his life journey has brought him
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to this and I hear through his wife's journey too.
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But tell us a little bit about your time and service and how
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that's affected, maybe your perspective now and moving into.
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Yes, ma'am. So I got in the Army in 2007.
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I was in for five years. I was a scout and during that
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time I did 2 deployments. I did a year and a half in Iraq
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and then another year in Afghanistan.
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Yep, got to do a lot while I was there.
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Learned a lot of things to to help me with where we're at now.
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I mean typical military structure, timeliness, order
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things along those lines. As far as our business, it's
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it's dramatically helped me with owning our own business because
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you do need to be structured. You need to have set things in
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place to help you run a successful business and you need
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good team. And we have an amazing team
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here. I get to share this journey with
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my amazing family and wife that holds it all together, so it's
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been a great journey to get here.
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I will say he also wakes up at 4:00 in the morning still.
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So that's super helpful. And he's a phenomenal leader.
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I mean he's the head of our household, but he's the head of
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our team here. So he's he's fantastic in
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leadership that comes. Useful at 4:30 in the morning,
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getting up now, yeah. Yeah, A.
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Little more extra daytime and they do have a great team
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because I've been able to come here and be like interact with
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this team and be a patient and they make I was telling him just
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the other day that you really feel community here and like
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I've, I guess it's been about a month I've been coming here,
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right? And you really like get used to
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showing up and being somewhere and doing something for yourself
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and your whole team encourages that.
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So it's been really good. Thank you.
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Yeah, that's that's one of our overall goals is to build a
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community. It's all about not just us
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teaching patients and showing patients what health is, it's
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the patients talking with each other and sharing their
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experiences and of what their health journey has looked like.
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Because we like we love to say, if you can heal, heal loudly,
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that helps those suffering silently.
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So that that really resonates with me and our team because so
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many people either don't know how to talk about it or to even
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express, or they might feel embarrassed.
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So hearing those stories from other people is massive in being
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able to start that healing process.
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And we'll show you guys a little later, they have a wall of
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healing where people share what's been good for them.
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But at the end, we'll we'll run by there.
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Yes, ma'am. Yeah.
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But tell me a little bit more about your military service.
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What brought you to being in the military and then getting out?
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And then how much time before getting out of the military to
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starting the business? Yeah, So what brought me to the
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military? I come from a military family, A
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lot of my uncles and aunts and, and people that I've always been
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around were in the military. And then I was always a really
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athletic person growing up. And I just wanted to be able to
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use that athleticism for something good.
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So that's why I wanted to be more in the combat role to be
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able to use that for for good. And so that that's really kind
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of how I got to be in it. When I was getting out, it was a
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little bit of a rougher transition for me.
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I would say getting out just because I extended my contract
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for that fifth year to be able to do that last tour.
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I didn't want to train up my soldiers and then, you know, say
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bye, good luck on your tour. So luckily at that time, they
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weren't doing a lot of re enlistments at the time.
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That's when a lot of the military was down downsizing,
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but they did allow us to extend the contract to be able to do
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that last deployment just because the the way the timing
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fell. But when we got back, it was
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they're really just trying to hurry up and push us out.
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It was, hey, you don't have any time.
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You can't be with the soldiers. We need the new leadership to
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take over. So it was really hard for me.
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I didn't know what I didn't know at the time.
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And so I didn't know what questions to ask or how to
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complete that exfil, you know, the ETS aspect of it getting
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out. And luckily once I got out
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though it, I found the right people to show me that and to
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explain to me, hey, it's OK to file for, you know, your intent
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to file to get your disability and things like that.
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Because at the time I was still a pretty young guy.
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I felt like if I can eat, sleep, walk and breathe, I don't want
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to take money away from other soldiers that weren't didn't
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have that capability. So just really the mindset
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coming out of the military was really hard for me.
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And knowing what to do and then the transition to chiropractic,
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it actually took a while. It took me a while to find my
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footing in civilian life. I jumped around from kind of a
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job to job to job and lived a couple lives and they were in
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between and really got lucky, moved to College Station.
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I was going to go to A&M and turns out I had too many college
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credits. They wouldn't accept me.
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I didn't even know that was a thing.
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That I didn't either. Yeah.
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So no out there, if you have too many college credits, they might
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not accept you. Like we, we don't know what to
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do. And you it's not a degree.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, what they told me was if
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you wanted to, you could graduate.
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And then when semester, OK, but I didn't want to take that
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route. I was going to try to do a
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totally different plan. But they're like, well, once we
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accept you, you could do whatever you want.
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They would have no control over that.
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So, but overall, that was the best mistake I ever made in my
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life because by moving to College Station, that's where I
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met my beautiful life and and start the our journey together.
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So. OK, OK.
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So you guys met in College Station where you tell tell us
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where you were at at that time? Yes, ma'am.
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So I actually ended up in College Station.
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It's pretty close to my hometown, but I had ended up
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basically becoming the caretaker for my elderly grandparents.
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My mom had passed away when I was 19.
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So I kind of stepped in and my grandparents were older.
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My grandpa had Alzheimer's. And, you know, it's just kind of
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like a rougher patch for them. And where we're from, we had,
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you know, great, decent medical care, but it was better for them
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if I could provide more for them in like a bigger town, which was
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called Station. So that's how I ended up there.
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And I worked in medical aesthetics.
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And yeah, I mean, that's just kind of that's where I was
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there. I was kind of just working,
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doing my family thing. And we have a mutual friend
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that, you know, I had grown up with basically my whole life,
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you know, because of my grandparents actually.
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And, and her now husband served in the military with him.
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So we actually met through a mutual friend, which is a pretty
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cool story. I'm very proud to say.
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Like we never had to do dating hours.
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I could not do what y'all are doing out there in the dating
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world today. So very blessed to very blessed
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to have just met him organically.
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But that's how we came together. And it was right shortly after
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he got out of the military. And, and I was just young too,
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trying to find my own path and, you know, just trying to get on
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my feet. So it was a neat time for us to
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both come together. OK.
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And then talk about that. You both can try then.
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So you met each other and you were dating and then decided to
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get married and neither one of you were in chiropractor at that
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time. No, absolutely not.
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So for for me personally, I've been a patient of chiropractic
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for a long time. I can't do not see you.
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Sorry, sleepy baby. So I had been a patient probably
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year 11, and I never thought about becoming a chiropractor in
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any realm. I just knew that it had helped
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me, you know, just feel better. And I was an athlete myself, so,
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you know, performance and things like that.
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But other than that, I didn't really ever give it like two
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different thoughts, you know, like about becoming one or
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anything like that until later. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was.
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Pardon. Us.
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Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, no, I was sports and even
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when I got out, I did personal training.
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So that was the main thing that I did when I got out.
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I loved personal training. I love everything about healing
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the body. Actually did structural or not
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structural but corrective exercise.
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That was kind of my specialty. So people either couldn't finish
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PT or you know, whether it was too expensive for them or they
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just didn't finish, whatever and they still had injuries that
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they're trying to deal with. I would show them how to rehab
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and really get back to their way of life.
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It's it's a lot. So I kind of knew a lot about
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the body and I loved helping people already.
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So it was a, it was a fun transition, I would say, to
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doing from that to chiropractic. OK.
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Yeah, I can see where that was kind of going.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Funny enough though, that is
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still not how I got to chiropractic.
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But yeah. Yeah.
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And I know a little bit because they share when you come here
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what how they kind of came to being, well, chiropractic is
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just being important to them. So go ahead and share a little
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bit about that. I mean, take us through the
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steps that got you there and that if you.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So we always think it's really big to to tell our big why as
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far as what got us to this point, because we never had a
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desire to necessarily want this. Like this was never the life
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that we thought we would have. But when the medical model fails
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you and it fails you in a in a way that almost takes your life,
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you know, you have to speak out into the world.
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And that's literally what happened to us.
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So I'll let Rachel tell her story as far as what it was that
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got us to where we are now. Yeah, so we, we were very early
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on in our relationship. We were barely into our first
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year of marriage and I just kind of, I became, I'll like I was
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working a couple different jobs. You know, I was, I've always
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been a very hard worker. And I just remember like having
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to call in and call in and call in and I would get these
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reoccurring chronic urinary tract infections, which if
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you've never had one, then God bless you because they can be
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very painful and obnoxious. And, you know, I just thought
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that was just something that I had going on as a young adult.
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But then, you know, you start to look at it in the like now that
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I look back, you know, you look at it in a bigger picture and
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you're talking, you know, year and a half, almost two years of
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repetitive UTIUTIUTI. And then and So what happened is
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it started to spread. So I would get kidney stones.
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I started getting these kidney infections and, you know, I
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would go to the doctor and I would get an antibiotic and then
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it would go away for a little while and it would come back.
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And it just was this just kind of chronic, you know, repeating
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cycle. And it really made me miserable
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and it made me really embarrassed because at some
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points it was like so painful and debilitating, I couldn't go
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to work. And that's just not what I, that
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just wasn't in my character, you know, and, and so that part
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alone was really hard. And it really got to a point
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where it felt kind of helpless because the answer was just
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antibiotics and then which, don't get me wrong, there is
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always a time and place for medication.
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Like I'm not anti medication or anti medicine, you know?
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It just wasn't. Working.
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It just wasn't working. And then what it did was it gave
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me really bad gastrointestinal issues as chronic antibiotic use
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does. And so it just became, it just
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became a real lengthy, you know, issue and the pain from the
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kidney infections alone, you know, I wouldn't really
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recommend that on anybody pass any kidney stone.
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I wouldn't recommend on Satan himself.
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You know, so, so we, we were just kind of stuck and I, I
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looked back and we went to the hospital like 10 times in one
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year. And you know, that's almost one
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time a month to be in there. And I just felt really hopeless
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not having any answers. And, you know, when I talked to
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Travis about this, he, it was a desperate time in his life too,
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because, you know, he loves me. He's a fantastic husband, He's a
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fantastic supporter. And he just felt like he
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couldn't do anything different. He couldn't help.
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So all of that to say so. These that started happening
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after you guys were married. Yeah, so it was right.
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It was right around like our wedding.
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It was right around right in into our engagement, like into
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that first year of marriage. And you know, that's the
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happiest time of your life. You know, we're in the honeymoon
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days and here I am, bam, bam, racking up these medical bills.
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And we're starting to go, you know, if things are starting to
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get rocky with our finances and, you know, we're young and we're
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still trying to figure out our career.
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And so it's not like we made a ton of money.
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We had just moved to this new town and, you know, so it, it
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became pretty depressing pretty quick, right?
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And it's frustrating because you guys are just married and you're
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still killing. Probably insecure, right?
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Yeah, right. You know what is going on, I
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think with this. Folks.
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Yeah, right. Right.
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Yeah. I mean, I would say we were in
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a, in a fairly dark place at that time just because, you
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know, we felt like we were failing each other and failing
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not necessarily as a couple, but just failing in life, which was
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a really hard time for us. She felt like it, she was
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failing me because like she was saying she couldn't work that
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often. We were racking up massive
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amounts of medical bills with no end inside.
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Nobody had an answer for us. I felt like I was failing her as
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a husband because we couldn't figure out what was going on.
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So for me, I mean, I fell down a dark place and and started
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drinking more often. And you know, we were just the
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woe is me and and just couldn't. Life was heavy.
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Yeah, it was. And then we would just get
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depressed. Like we're supposed to be in the
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happiest time of our life right now.
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This is what it looks like. What's it going to be like in a
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year, five years? So it was, it was really, really
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hard on us. And we just honestly got
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extremely lucky that this happened to us because all she
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could really do at that time was work for at a farmers market for
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a company where that they, they would sell their products at
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farmers markets at the time. And I would go and help her set
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it up and everything. And then I would just walk
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around and just talk to the other vendors and everything.
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And just so happens was walking by a guy and he said hey man, do
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you want to get your spine checked?
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And I started laughing and I was like, absolutely not.
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Oh, that's how I became your. That's how I've become your.
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That's exactly right. And that's why it's so important
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for us to get out in the community because if that doctor
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wouldn't have been there, if he wouldn't have bothered me so
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much to the point where I was like, fine, you can have some
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money and I'll make. But you are bothersome.
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Yeah. So he was like, hey, come as you
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were walking. Around, Yeah, he just was asking
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me. Hey, if you want to get your
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spine checked and I thought I knew a lot about the body.
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I've been, you know, been in sports my whole life.
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I was a personal trainer. People.
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Recover right, right. So I thought I knew a lot and
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Rachel had been seeing chiropractors her whole life and
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I've been to her to some of the appointments and things.
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And and he just kept talking about how the nervous system
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works and you know, if your spine is misaligned, how it can
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affect different areas of your body and this and that.
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I was like most people, I just assumed it was associated with
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back pain. And that's one of the biggest
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misconceptions. And when he broke down what was
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going on and I was like, OK, well, maybe this might be good
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for my wife to get checked out. We've been in chiropractors, but
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nobody's ever taken X-rays of her.
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They would just do the test and say, Yep, you have scoliosis.
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Never said to what degree or anything along those lines or
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how it could affect anything functional wise in her body.
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Just Yep, we'll get you a justice so you're not in back
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pain. And thank goodness he did
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because when he went in, he, you know, said that he has, she has
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a 30° scoliosis curve blocking off the nerve going to her
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kidneys. So of course, when she was
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getting these tests, they couldn't find anything wrong
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with her kidneys. It was a neurological issue.
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They just couldn't get signals from the brain.
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So it wasn't, you know, anything else.
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We just had to get the pressure off the nerves so the nerves
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could receive signals from the brain and operate correctly.
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And sure enough, in three months, that's what exactly what
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happened. So it takes time, it takes
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repetition, it takes consistency.
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But once the body is able to start holding those adjustments
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like she did, and she was adamant about it, then yeah, she
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gets her health back. And not only that, probably one
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of the biggest changes is you saw one of my sons as a
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teenager. She usually doesn't tell this
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part, but she had cervical cancer when she was a teenager
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and the doctors told her she wouldn't be able to have kids.
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So when you have left the body heal the way it's designed to
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and remove any interference. Your body can do miracles, and I
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have two of them now, so I love to tell people.
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Chiropractic gave me my family and allowed us to be able to do
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everything we have and we just knew we had to tell the world
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about it. It's not just about pain.
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It's it's so much more than that.
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And so many people have no idea about what structural correction
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can do and how it can actually affect the body.
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So talk about that. So the you're reproductive, your
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again your back issue or your nerves are being pinched, Yeah.
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So, yeah, and, and I almost hate to use the word nerve pinching
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because, you know, there's a lot of people who understand that
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it's a lot more than that and it is a lot more than that.
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But just no, no, no. But that is that is exactly how
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we explain it. So because it's the easiest way
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to understand. That exactly.
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All parents out there, you already know we're multitasking.
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So I would say, you know, I was the girl that would, you know,
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had I played volleyball and basketball my whole life, I was
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on the court, but I would suffer through, like, debilitating
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cramps and menstrual cycles. And I just thought that was my
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normal, you know, And then, yeah, I get to whatever it was
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1718 and I had an abnormal Pap smear.
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And, you know, they came back and told me then.
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But back then it was called a leap procedure where they would
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go in and they would cut, burn and freeze out.
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You know, a large portion of my cervix is what happens.
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And it really, it wasn't that necessarily.
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It was the scar tissue that they were telling me like, hey,
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there's going to be a really hard time conceiving and holding
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on to a pregnancy because of the health of your, of your cervix
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now. And start to get graphic for you
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guys out there. But that's just anatomy.
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And so, you know, I kind of wrote that off.
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I was like, well, I don't want kids anyways, you know, I'm 1718
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years old. I'm not thinking about kids, you
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know, So that was really just, you know, my, my first
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experience. But then, you know, you can meet
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somebody as amazing as him and you're like, man, I, I, he, the
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world needs more of him, you know, and so, and, but we didn't
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really even think it was a possibility, you know, for us
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until God decided it was. And now we have 2 amazing boys
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and you know, and so, but, but back to the structural part of
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it, my, my personal subluxation pattern or misalignment,
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whatever you want to call it was in my low back.
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So that was the main thing for me.
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So like when you look at the spine from the front, it should
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be straight up and down from from front to back.
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And I had a curve in my spine here in the lumbar part.
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And all of the nerves that exit that part of your spine, they
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control your GI tract, your, your absorption of nutrients,
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your kidneys, your pancreas, liver, gallbladder, spleen,
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reproductive organs. And so where I had my main issue
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or my miscommunication was to the kidney, to the liver, to the
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the GI tract and to the reproductive organs.
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And that's where I have had issues my whole life.
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So, you know, it just made so much sense to me.
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He talks about the the doctor that I say saved my life, Doctor
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Brent Smith, if you ever watch this, I love you so much.
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You saved my life and gave me a family.
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But yeah, he, he just sat down and clearly showed me.
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He showed me how to read an X-ray.
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And then he showed me what my X-ray looked like.
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And then he helped me correlate that back to the function of
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what was going on inside my body and my organs.
23:11
And no one had ever done that for me before.
23:13
And I, I remember thinking like that it cannot just be that
23:17
simple, that the brain's not communicating and there's a
23:19
block in the road. It can't be that simple.
23:22
But then I watched my life turn around.
23:23
I watched me get my health back. And I looked healthy.
23:26
Yeah, I looked like a healthy girl, but I was not healthy,
23:30
right, You know? So I think that's a
23:32
misconception. Too is yeah, for sure that
23:35
you're going to see it on the outside.
23:37
But no it does make like Doctor Travis is what I call him.
23:46
He like when he explained my own X-rays I was like wow.
23:52
Like it just makes logical. Sense once you've seen it, it
23:55
does. And it's been explained that way
23:58
like the like when pathways are blocked, they're not going to,
24:02
there's not going to be any communication.
24:03
Right. Yep.
24:05
And that for us is the biggest premise.
24:08
Like that's one of the things that means the most to us about
24:10
practicing physicians is like, I can't tell you how many doctor's
24:14
offices and appointments I walked into and this is no,
24:17
again, this is no shame to the medical community because y'all
24:19
are busy. It's overloaded, we know.
24:22
But I would walk in, I would wait and somebody would come and
24:25
they'd be on the computer, you know, typing, not really making
24:28
eye contact, asking me questions.
24:30
And then somebody would come in and say, here's your
24:31
prescription. And then that would be it.
24:34
And I refuse to give people that same experience because it
24:38
feels, it just feels hopeless. Like it, it just feels like
24:43
you're just an, especially if you're a person who is fighting
24:46
for your health and you are trying to get to the root cause
24:49
and trying to understand what is going on inside your body.
24:52
And that's the, you know, and that's just the level of, of
24:54
human interaction that you get through that.
24:57
I, I never want anybody to feel like that.
24:59
You know, I want people to understand what's going on in
25:01
their body, how this could be affecting it, and then help them
25:03
walk through all the other things like diet and exercise
25:06
and all the other contributing factors to.
25:08
Health. So I mean, that's so important
25:10
because. Yeah, so many people, especially
25:12
when you're going through something that it's just not
25:14
getting corrected, you just feel helpless and you're like, OK,
25:20
like this is all that you're going to give to me.
25:22
But yeah, when you do come here, you guys do sit down and they
25:26
schedule appointments and you talk with and talk about what's
25:30
going on with your body beyond just what is going on with your
25:34
back. Right.
25:36
Yeah. Right, and that I think that is
25:37
important because so many people don't they are just like, OK, we
25:41
I got to get to the next patient, right.
25:43
This will help, like when you're treating the symptom instead of
25:47
the actual. That's a great way to put it,
25:49
Yeah. We like to look for the root
25:50
cause, not just a dress. OK, so you already covered a
25:55
little bit of this, but what do you wish more people understood
25:57
about chiropractor care you've been?
26:02
Jonesing for this? Well, I, I just, I think there's
26:05
just a lot out there. And today, so much, so more than
26:10
even when I got started a decade ago in chiropractic, you can
26:16
learn anything on YouTube or TikTok.
26:17
I mean, you can and there's a lot of information out there.
26:20
But I think one of the top misconceptions of chiropractic
26:23
care is, well, number one, I'll go on a little bit of a soapbox.
26:28
Is that OK? I would say number one, that it
26:30
is pseudoscience because that is so far from the truth.
26:33
If you look at anybody like Doctor Heidi Havoc or anybody in
26:38
neurological research for chiropractic, there is tons of
26:41
books on research of chiropractic and how I mean
26:45
chiropractic really it is neurology.
26:46
I mean, it's really just how your brain communicates with
26:49
your body and it, it really is just that simple.
26:51
So you know, yes, there was a Doctor Who, you know, you know,
26:57
the Dee Dee Palmer, the very first doctor of chiropractic,
27:00
the first documented chiropractic adjustment.
27:02
You know, people say, well, he was a magnetic healer.
27:05
This is, you know, Foo Foo voodoo kind of thing.
27:07
But you know, and that and that, you know, there might be some
27:10
truth to how we got started in that.
27:12
But today in 2026, there is no reason that we shouldn't have
27:16
evidence based care and be be really basing our patient care
27:21
off of what is has been researched and shown and there's
27:24
a ton out there. And then?
27:27
The world has become more accurate.
27:31
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
27:32
And, and I think like it's actually just being studied more
27:36
so, but you know, chiropractic is really just releasing your
27:39
own innate intelligence. Chiropractic doesn't cure
27:42
anything. Chiropractic doesn't heal
27:44
anything. Chiropractic allows your body to
27:46
do what it's designed to do, which is heal and function at
27:48
the optimal level. And God designed us like that.
27:50
And all we do is let God do the work.
27:52
That is literally it. We move the bone, God does the
27:54
healing. I mean, that's what we say.
27:54
We don't actually move the bones, we move the joints.
27:56
But you know, that's the that's the saying in chiropractic, you
27:58
know what I mean? So, so that's the first thing is
28:01
really just. Letting your body do what it was
28:05
meant. To do right.
28:05
And for some people that kind of that brings me to my next point,
28:09
because for some people that takes time, you know what I
28:11
mean? So some people have really
28:13
chronic issues and we want things like that.
28:17
We do especially when you're in pain and especially when you
28:21
know, when you've been dealing with this.
28:22
And I've tried XY and Z and beyond.
28:25
And I think one of the things that we hear all the time is,
28:30
oh, I don't want to try chiropractic.
28:32
I've already done that. I've tried chiropractic and it
28:34
didn't work for me. And I think what I would tell
28:36
the public is give it another shot.
28:40
There are hundreds of techniques of chiropractic and you know,
28:45
just like your hair stylist or your tattoo artist or whoever,
28:49
you got to find the right fit for you and you and one, you
28:52
that might not have been the right, you know, that might not
28:54
have been the right vibe for you.
28:56
But two, you get out of chiropractic what you put in.
28:59
So if your chiropractor is telling you, you know, this is
29:03
your recommended treatment plan, these are the things that you
29:06
need to be doing at home and here's other ways to support
29:10
your healing. And you only come in and get
29:12
adjusted every so often and don't do any of the other stuff
29:16
at home care. Yeah, then of course, you know,
29:19
then of course it's not going to work or, or if you just go into
29:21
one of those really quick, you know, weekend type chiropractic
29:25
places and get an adjustment and don't do it again for three
29:28
months. And then that's not really, you
29:30
know, it's not going to work because it takes time to build
29:33
that dysfunction. So it's going to take time to
29:35
help your body heal it, so. So another thing that I just
29:41
want to add on to that is like she was touching on their
29:43
consistency is key on this. So I think of it as like you
29:47
were going to go to a gym, if you really wanted to get in
29:50
better shape, would you go to the gym once a month, right?
29:53
It's not, it's not going to happen.
29:55
You have to build consistency. You have to, with what we do,
29:59
we're structural correction docs.
30:01
We want to try to get your spine in the best possible position so
30:03
that it can heal and function the way it's designed to.
30:07
And that takes consistency because when you get an
30:10
adjustment, what do you think is going to happen?
30:13
It's going to want to go right back, right?
30:14
Because it's been that way for so long.
30:17
So we you have to find somebody if if you want long term care,
30:21
you want long term results, you have to retrain the body.
30:24
You have to retrain the muscles to hold the the spine in the
30:27
correct position. So a lot goes into it.
30:30
It's not just unfortunately of, you know, one magical adjustment
30:35
that it can temporarily make you feel better, but that's why it
30:38
always comes back. Yeah, yeah.
30:40
So not only moving the joints, but inflammation in the body has
30:44
a massive amount to do with it. So there's so much inflammation
30:50
in our bodies, the amount of systemic inflammation in our
30:53
bodies now that has risen so much.
30:55
I mean, that's, that's total body inflammation, right?
30:58
It's, it's a lot of things that you need to so much, right?
31:04
Our lifestyle now that's completely different.
31:07
When you do have misalignments, that's going to cause
31:10
inflammation in joints and in bones and then that's going to
31:12
cause degeneration and that's going to just, it's a big
31:15
snowball effect there. So what we're eating, what our
31:21
lifestyle is, when we talk about most people that come in here,
31:26
somebody has some type of stress.
31:28
Like it's a big one because we're so busy nowadays and
31:32
everything is always rush, rush, rush.
31:34
There's always by the time you go to bed, you have so much on
31:37
your brain and we don't get good sleep.
31:39
And again, another big snowball effect that's going to be
31:42
affecting our our health, maybe not today or tomorrow, but a
31:46
year, five years, 10 years down the line.
31:48
Because everybody always asks me how did this happen?
31:52
That's always the number one question we get.
31:54
How did this happen? Why did this happen?
31:56
I don't know your life, but I can usually put some things
32:00
together based on the history that you've told me.
32:03
And if you are stressed, that means you're not going to get
32:05
good sleep. When you're not getting good
32:07
sleep, you're not going to have energy for the next day.
32:10
Your muscles and and body aren't going to be able to heal through
32:13
the night because that's when most of our healing takes place.
32:17
Then if you're not healed, your muscles are already fatigued
32:20
from the day before. Then when you go to work or
32:22
whatever you're going to do the next day, you're already tired.
32:25
You're going to have worse posture.
32:27
That's going to lead to more injuries.
32:28
That's going to lead to more stress.
32:30
And again, it's just it gets worse and worse and worse the
32:35
farther down the line you get. And then we just want to take a
32:38
medication to try to cover up one of those symptoms when in
32:41
reality, you're never getting down to the root cause.
32:43
And like Doctor Rachel was saying, that's why we just keep
32:45
falling down the line of taking more and more medications
32:48
instead of just get down to the root cause.
32:50
What's causing this in the 1st place?
32:52
Get that corrected. And also, I mean, we all want
32:55
quick fixes like Rachel was saying, and that that can be
32:59
difficult. Do you see when you have
33:02
patients that come in and you show them, do they typically
33:06
stick with it? Yeah, for the most part, yes,
33:10
yes. I mean, the thing with what we
33:13
do is we can't want it more than everybody.
33:17
It's a partner, it's a partnership.
33:18
We're in it together. We can give everybody all the
33:20
tools. We can do everything that we can
33:22
do for everybody here in our office, but when you leave the
33:25
office, there's there's nothing I can do anymore at that point.
33:28
So it's really if you really want this, That's why we want to
33:32
show people that there can be change, right?
33:35
That's why we always want the classes and the workshops and
33:38
things to show people life is a evolving change.
33:42
Like we're always something, always new is coming.
33:45
So what else can you continue to do to be healthier?
33:48
Because it's not just about longevity of life, it's quality
33:52
of life at the same time. So we want people to be able to
33:56
play with their kids and grandkids and great grandkids as
33:58
long as possible, to be able to go on hikes and vacations as
34:02
long as possible. Last thing I want is to be in a
34:05
nursing home at 70 years old, right?
34:08
That's never what I want. That's never what I want for
34:10
anybody. We should be able to live our
34:12
life to the fullest as long as humanly possible.
34:16
Our bodies are designed to live a lot longer than what we give
34:18
it credit for. Now we're just not taking care
34:21
of our bodies. Yeah, it's so, so true.
34:24
Yeah. And we're all very sedimentary.
34:28
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, best and worst thing I
34:31
would say is the the whole COVID situation cause that created a
34:36
lot more sitting jobs and stationary jobs which we talked
34:40
about. It is sitting is the new
34:42
smoking, right. It's going to create so much
34:45
long term health issues that it might not today or tomorrow like
34:49
we're saying, but over time that creates a plethora of of health
34:53
issues just in. Yeah, I mean, that does make
34:57
sense here. Just kind of the new downfall of
35:00
our society, Like we sit so much and we weren't really, we
35:03
weren't created to do that. What are some simple habits
35:08
people can begin practicing to better support their physical
35:12
health? You think Standing.
35:14
Yeah. Stand up, stand up posture.
35:17
Posture is big and that's for people that do come in here more
35:21
desk jobs and stationary jobs. I tell them all the time, if you
35:25
have a smart watch, if you have a watch, whatever, just keep
35:27
track of time. Set an alarm every 30 to 45
35:30
minutes, stand up, reposition yourself because nobody can have
35:33
great posture for longer than 45 minutes, especially while you're
35:35
working. So that's, that's a huge one.
35:39
And really just do research, like figure out what's what's
35:43
going on in your life, what could be causing different
35:46
things, get more active. Yeah, personal habits are huge.
35:51
I would. Say walking is wildly
35:52
underrated. I mean, just walking for 30
35:54
minutes a day or getting up and moving after every meal.
35:57
I mean, it's such a simple thing to do, but it's, you know.
36:01
I'm you know, I talk. Himself, I would say walking is
36:07
definitely the most underrated, you know, tool and it's free
36:10
and, you know, especially here in Texas, walking in the
36:13
sunshine, although it's like 1000° outside, but get some
36:18
vitamin D yeah, go outside, get in nature, you know, decrease
36:21
your stress, decrease your cortisol, get connected back to,
36:24
you know, Mother Nature and just go for a 30 minute walk.
36:28
That morning sunshine is good for you, yeah.
36:30
Absolutely. OK, So what are you both proud
36:34
of in your life and career that you've built most proud of?
36:43
Besides our family, you know, I would always, I would always say
36:46
family. That's something that, you know,
36:48
we didn't even honestly think we could have.
36:50
So I would say first and foremost that I would say just
36:55
the way our relationship personally has grown together,
36:58
our relationship with God and and that whole journey has been
37:02
not always a smooth one. That's in me personally.
37:06
I went some big time rocky roads in that field and and starting
37:11
to come out on the other side now has been massive for us and
37:14
our family all together. And of course, this office, you
37:19
know, being able to talk about that A.
37:21
Little bit, I was just going to ask you like how do you bring in
37:23
your faith because it is noted here, but into your practice and
37:27
talk about that? Yeah, we always just like we
37:30
said, I mean, you can, you can, I'll let you go more on this
37:34
one. You're you're going to say,
37:36
we've moved the bone of God does the healing.
37:37
So you're going to say, yeah. And we, we do.
37:39
I mean, we say that and we say, you know, after you get
37:41
adjusted, we say your power is on.
37:43
And that really is true because once you remove the interference
37:46
to your nervous system and your brain is able to connect more to
37:49
your body, it is literally like your lights coming on.
37:51
And some people really have felt that, you know, you can feel it
37:54
immediately after it's kind of slow burn, whatever it might be.
37:57
But I would definitely say you can't know.
38:03
And, and you know, people might disagree with me on this, but
38:06
the more you know about human function, anatomy, Physiology,
38:11
especially on a micro level, on a cellular nano level, the
38:15
intricate inter workings of the way that our body is designed
38:20
and living breathing things is designed.
38:22
You cannot design you you can't, you can't deny the design and
38:27
the creator of that. And that in itself is just, it's
38:33
just the most life giving thing. You know, God is the source of
38:37
everything. And you know, I had a kid ask me
38:40
one time, OK, so if the brain controls everything, what
38:42
controls the brain? And I still get goosebumps when
38:45
I think about that because what controls, you know, what, what
38:47
gives us life? You know, it's that life source.
38:50
And the expression of life is God, I think.
38:52
And so, and, and for us, you know, we might not be for
38:57
everybody, you know what I mean? But we don't, we don't sugarcoat
39:00
that here because your body has an intelligent, incredible
39:04
design. And the body really doesn't need
39:07
any help from the outside. It needs no interference from
39:10
the inside. So getting a chiropractic
39:12
adjustment removes the interference and allows it to do
39:14
what God designed it to do. I love that.
39:17
Yeah. And when you see the miracles
39:18
that we've got to witness, not just our own, but people that
39:21
come in with no hope and that they've tried absolutely
39:25
everything and, and they're just crushed in life.
39:27
And you see literally like she was saying, when we say your
39:31
power is on this, the light that just turns on or when they come
39:34
in and they're a completely different person.
39:36
And not only for that, it's everybody that they come in
39:39
contact with and it just spreads like wildfire.
39:42
And like it's, it's such an A magical feeling that it's hard
39:46
to say that there's, there's, you know, that's why we have
39:49
faith in God in here is because it's so magical what we get to.
39:53
Yeah, exactly. In our in our eyes anyways,
39:56
Right. Yeah.
39:58
And I think too, like, I think that's why we love working with
40:00
veterans and service members and things like that.
40:02
And not, not saying veterans are curmudgee, you know, or, or, but
40:06
but we do see so many people that are.
40:09
You know, kind of grumpy, you know, because if you've been in
40:12
pain for so long, if you've had this mindset for so long, which
40:15
a lot of service members, you know, are just dealing with, are
40:18
just dealing with it, you know what I mean?
40:20
And that Oxycontin isn't touching it, you know, but but
40:24
that that also changes your biochemistry, it changes your
40:26
Physiology and it and it kind of just makes you a grumpy person.
40:30
I love my favorite patient. I have a lot of favorites,
40:33
babies being one of them. But I think probably my favorite
40:35
testimonies are, you know, the grumpy old guys that come in and
40:39
they're all, you know, you can't help me and you know, I'm too
40:42
far gone, you know, that kind of mindset.
40:44
And then, you know, you see them in a month, two months later,
40:47
once they start to, you know, get some good sleep and function
40:50
a lot better. And they are completely
40:52
different people. And the testimony from the
40:54
women, from the wives are what's amazing.
40:57
You know, you know, my husband's a completely different person.
41:00
He's nice now. You know, that kind of thing
41:02
that is that's. Yeah, I mean, that is huge when
41:06
you hear testimonies from the people in their circle, right?
41:10
That's like this person. It made me think of when the
41:13
Holy Spirit changes somebody. Yeah, I mean, that's what it
41:18
makes me think of. You guys are allowing your body
41:21
to function, how God created us. So yeah, that's amazing.
41:28
Let's see what else I have in here.
41:32
Is there anything else that you would like to discuss with our
41:35
listeners or provide some insight into maybe better
41:41
health, the physical body health?
41:43
And you already said like standing and walking, but what's
41:48
the mindset? Yeah.
41:50
Mindset's a big, big factor of it when we go out, yeah, we sure
41:54
do. So one of the things that we
41:56
always ask people when they come in is what's your definition of
41:59
health? I think that's huge when we want
42:03
to see people's outlook and, and what people view health as.
42:06
I mean, when I go out and I ask, the typical answers I get are
42:10
how you look, how you feel, how you eat, do you exercise?
42:15
And then the latest 1 is a lot of people have been coming
42:17
around to how your mindset is, which is all great aspects of
42:22
health. It's not the actual definition
42:24
of health, right? The actual definition of health
42:26
is your body's ability to heal and function at its optimal
42:29
level 100% of the time. And that's when where the
42:33
nervous system comes into play. So really understanding what
42:38
your view of health is, I think is, is really important.
42:41
And mindset's so big, so many people have no idea.
42:45
They think it's like the Foo Foo, Oh, you're going to think
42:48
you're going to be better. Well, there's actually
42:50
physiological and chemical changes that happen in your body
42:53
when you have a better outlook or if you have a worse outlook.
42:57
And then there's the, I call it the weird God factor of like
43:01
when you're a kid and I think thing we talked about it was
43:05
when you're a kid and you act like you're sick because you
43:07
don't want to go to school, you're like, oh, I got a tummy
43:10
ache, I got a tummy ache. I don't want to go to school.
43:11
And then sure enough, at the end of the day, you have a stomach
43:14
ache. You know it is the.
43:15
Power of the tongue. I mean, your mindset is
43:17
everything. So if you think you're sick, if
43:19
you think there's no hope, I mean, that's what comes into
43:22
your life. So mindset, I think before
43:24
anything else, you have to know that you're created to heal.
43:28
You have to know that you're created to, you know, have an
43:32
abundant life. I was trying to think of that
43:33
Bible verse that says take control of your thoughts.
43:37
You guys know that one. Don't ask me to quote, I can
43:40
tell you. Everyone.
43:42
In the body, yeah, right. But there's a scripture that
43:46
says, you know, take, take every thought cast.
43:49
Yes. Exactly.
43:51
Sorry out there, I don't know which Bible verse that is, but
43:54
like, and I mean, and I think that's exactly what God is
43:57
trying to tell us is like we have to not only like it's not
44:02
like, Oh, I'm thinking about that, but it's like, why am I
44:06
thinking about that and how can I think better?
44:09
That's right, You're right. How, how your mindset, like I
44:13
was going through a class this morning that was talking about
44:17
kind of cognitive distance, where distance, where we get in
44:23
these patterns of thinking and, and, and once like maybe it's
44:28
because we don't feel well, right, our bodies and we wake up
44:32
every day to that same pain and we're like, you know, it just
44:36
wears on your mind. Like that's just what I'm going
44:38
to feel like. But you guys are allowing them
44:40
to feel different and which eventually leads to the mind a
44:45
perspective changing. It's because some people can't
44:50
change their mindset until their physical changes.
44:53
Yeah, yeah, it's, I mean, it's hard if you've been going
44:56
through all that, it's hard not to have that mentality.
44:58
And that though not necessarily just the woe is me mentality
45:02
aspect of it, but it affects so much of your life.
45:05
You know, if it, if pain is getting so bad to where you
45:08
can't bend down, you can't do the things that you love, you're
45:11
going to be in a worse mood. So it's really, really hard to
45:14
not be in that mindset, but kind of on that same level.
45:19
One thing that I would always love to share with people is you
45:23
have to try though. You have to try just giving up
45:27
and just hoping something is going to get better.
45:30
That never works for anybody. No successful person or miracles
45:34
happen to people that just gave up, right?
45:36
You have to keep trying. You have to try to keep putting
45:39
your best foot forward. Try to stay as positive as
45:41
possible because it's always easy just to think about
45:45
yourself and you're just like, oh, this is just going to affect
45:47
me. Well, it doesn't.
45:49
It affects everybody around you. So even though, yeah, if you
45:53
think I'll just let myself be sick, well, who's going to take
45:56
care of you when you're so sick that you can't take care of
45:58
yourself? That's when it starts affecting
46:00
everybody. So don't have that mentality.
46:04
It's not any type of cell like singling out yourself.
46:09
I mean think of your family, think of everybody else and stay
46:13
as positive as possible. I think one of the main things
46:15
in life is to try to help your neighbor essentially, you know,
46:19
and if you can stay as positive as possible, that's going to
46:23
help somebody else and if. You can't yourself then I've
46:27
noticed like surround yourself by people that are they aren't
46:31
going to feed the negative, right, And maybe you're feeding
46:36
the negative, but if you're around someone that's like is
46:40
going to help you with that, that is important.
46:43
And then eventually you'll, you know, move over to the being
46:47
more positive. But it is it is who you surround
46:51
yourself with and not isolating yourself because it's easy to
46:55
go. I'm not going to affect anyone.
46:57
I am like I'm I'm just going to be in my bubble and and then I
47:03
won't bother anybody. But then your mind gets worse
47:05
and worse and then it's just a vicious cycle.
47:09
So I do think that's important when you come here to is it Max
47:15
living chiropractic? Like you guys work on that whole
47:19
person and then you try to help with mindset and and coming in
47:25
here often and then your whole team, you know, ask like, oh,
47:30
how are you today? What's going on?
47:32
You know, I think that's important.
47:34
Yeah, yeah. So we live by what we call the
47:36
five essentials of because there's more than just one facet
47:39
of being healthy, right, Mindset being one of them.
47:42
So it's core chiropractic mindset, nutrition, oxygen and
47:46
exercise. And then minimizing toxins.
47:48
We always say minimizing toxins because you can't eliminate them
47:51
all, but we're always trying to figure out with each patient
47:55
what is the one area that you need to approved the most.
47:58
Like so many people just don't know where to start, right,
48:01
right. So we try to sit down with them
48:04
and figure out what that is and what, what are some some
48:07
starting steps to get that ball rolling, start some small
48:11
victories and. And to your point, you're
48:14
talking about, you know, surrounding yourself with the
48:16
right type of people. I always tell people that, you
48:18
know, when you're minimizing your toxin, sometimes those are
48:20
relationships and. Sometimes those are right, and
48:22
sometimes. You know, you just have to step
48:24
away. You can heal your box.
48:27
Yeah, yeah. OK.
48:32
Do you want to take the tour of of your your place here?
48:37
Absolutely. Do you have anything else you
48:39
want? To share, is there anything else
48:40
that you can think of? We pretty much covered it all.
48:44
I mean, we're happy to be a resource for people, you know,
48:47
no matter what. Yeah, if you have a question
48:49
about anything. From the military community like
48:53
in regards to like making a huge transition, continuing to
48:57
educate yourself like. Yeah, definitely continue to
49:00
educate yourself. Don't be afraid to reach out.
49:03
I know a lot of us are always scared, or not necessarily
49:06
scared, but hesitant. Yeah.
49:09
You, you don't want to feel vulnerable.
49:11
You don't want to seem weak. And it's especially coming from
49:14
like a combat guy like myself. We never want to put our
49:17
emotions out there. We never want to make it seem
49:19
like we're weaker. We're always put on that front.
49:23
So be open, be OK to talk to other people, find a good
49:27
community. There are a lot of resources.
49:29
You just got to do a little bit of of research and and figure
49:33
out what it is that you want. I think that's a big, big part
49:37
of it. So that would be really be my my
49:42
big take on getting out. I would have transition.
49:46
I would. Have a chiropractic table right
49:47
at the gate when they get off the plane.
49:49
I mean, you got to get adjusted goal.
49:51
You've got to get adjusted. I mean, your body goes through
49:53
so much. You know, you're sleeping,
49:56
you're sleeping not much. You know, you're going through a
49:59
lot of stress. You're putting your body through
50:03
unimaginable, you know, physical things get get adjusted.
50:07
Don't sleep on chiropractic here.
50:09
That's that's my good. Note.
50:11
Yeah, yeah. And then to well, one last
50:14
question and then we'll do the walk around.
50:18
Both of you have had journeys of that you needed resilience.
50:24
Talk about that in regards to where have you seen that
50:28
resilience and where has it LED you to like in your lives?
50:33
Like does that like what has helped you carried forward?
50:38
Like we've talked about, people were around education, things
50:43
like that, but for y'all's journeys specifically, what has
50:46
been your resilience and carrying helped carried you
50:49
forward? Because it takes a lot to get
50:52
here where you're at. Yeah, Yeah.
50:54
We were thinking about that actually right before you came
50:59
carrying it forward, like what that means to us.
51:02
So even in chiropractic care and chiropractic care, that's one of
51:07
the main things that we have not necessarily care it forward, but
51:11
guard. It well, Guard it well.
51:13
So we always want to guard that and carry that on.
51:16
It's our duty to share with not just other chiropractors, but
51:19
the world, the power of the body, what we're actually
51:22
capable of. And it's continuously gaining as
51:25
much knowledge and, and, and life experiences to pass that on
51:29
to the next person and to try to make either the next person's
51:34
life easier or understand life or their bodies or whatever the
51:37
situation that they're going through, make it easier for that
51:40
person or let them know that they're not alone.
51:43
So that way we can just continuously, we should be
51:45
building as a community, not just staying level or down
51:49
grading. We should be continuously
51:50
getting smarter, knowing more, empowering each other more and
51:54
not trying to tear each other down South.
51:57
I think that's one of the main things that we want to do and
51:58
that's why we try to go out and do community events and and try
52:02
to be out in the public. And I want people to ask me
52:05
questions about anything health related or life related.
52:09
I'm happy to show share my stories.
52:11
I'm not perfect. I'm far from it and have made a
52:13
lot of mistakes in my life. A lot of mistakes.
52:15
Yeah, I think I don't know, like personally for me, I think I've
52:18
just tried a lot of things like I've done, you know, I've been
52:21
in a lot of different fields. I've tried a lot of things, you
52:25
know, and just always, always learning, you know, I think that
52:29
helps you be resilient. You're never the smartest person
52:32
in the room, you know? Don't be afraid.
52:35
Yeah. Don't be afraid to put yourself
52:36
out there. Don't be afraid to be an open
52:37
book and be vulnerable. Like we're all just human.
52:40
It's all our first time, you know?
52:41
So, you know, there's really no. And each person that comes in
52:46
here is different. So for me, I always want to be
52:49
prepared for that next person. So that's why you have to
52:52
continue to get smarter, continue to to educate yourself
52:55
and to push yourself because there could be somebody out
52:58
there that needs us and we have to be ready.
53:01
To learn something different from their.
53:03
Absolutely, Absolutely. Be like the bones, right?
53:07
Or the the joints Resilient, yes.
53:12
Absolutely to be. Resilient.
53:14
You know, we really are made to be resilient.
53:16
God made. All.
53:17
Of this, you know, the sunsets and the birds and bees and trees
53:20
and still said that you're his best words so.
53:23
You know, I don't know us and sunsets I don't and I'm not sure
53:28
if we win. OK, So we are going to do
53:32
something different here on here's the word and we're going
53:34
to walk around their business so you can see.
53:40
All right, so. OK.
53:45
So, yeah, so normally you'll see somebody back here behind the
53:48
desk, you know, warm face welcoming you.
53:50
And then this is what you were talking about.
53:52
This is what we call our miracle wall.
53:54
So we do. This is growing miracles of
53:56
patient testimonies who have walked out the five essentials
53:59
of health and had, you know, a better outcome on the other
54:03
side. And a lot of these people are
54:04
still here. They're still continuing to take
54:07
care of their health and, you know, be supported in those
54:10
ways. And of course, you know, shout
54:15
out to Max Living. So we are actually a network of
54:18
providers all across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico.
54:23
We're everywhere. So if you like what you heard,
54:26
you know, just let us know. There's practitioners all across
54:29
the place of Max Living Chiropractic who can, you know,
54:31
help you empower, you help get to the root cause.
54:34
We have a couple of exam rooms here.
54:37
So here's one of our, you know, consult rooms.
54:40
With the the spine over there. Yeah, we have to have a, we have
54:44
to have a real life model. And then you guys have a play
54:47
area? We're super family friendly.
54:49
I mean, obviously you guys see we have our own kids in here,
54:52
but there's usually two or more kids in here at all times
54:55
playing. I mean, as you can see has been
54:56
well loved today. And don't worry, we do wipe down
55:01
everything and sanitize it because I know those little
55:02
sticky fingers. And then we have adjustment bays
55:06
here. So pretty, pretty standard, you
55:09
know, typical chiropractic table.
55:11
We use drops. So if you guys have been to
55:13
chiropractic before or know anything about it, the table
55:16
lifts up and comes down so that just it's kind of easier on you
55:19
guys. We use tools as well.
55:22
So we use what we call the Arthurston here.
55:25
It's got a couple different settings on it.
55:27
And so that's one of the ways that we can help adjust.
55:30
And then we also use activator, Dr. Travis's level 2 certified
55:34
and Activator. So that's just a different
55:36
couple different techniques of chiropractic that we integrate
55:39
to make sure it's really customizable, you know, for for
55:42
each patient. Then they have this area.
55:45
Let's see if I can capture that. Yeah.
55:49
So this is our, we call it the hot seat area or the wobble
55:54
room. These little cushions right
55:56
here, they help you get movement in your body, You know, warm up
56:00
your discs, get movement in the joints, hydrate your fascia, All
56:03
those good things that we teach you, movements of the spine to
56:06
make sure that you're really warming up your spine, preparing
56:09
to get a force applied to it before the adjustment.
56:12
And then of course, the traction units on the wall there.
56:15
That's another big thing of how to open up the joints of the
56:18
spine, how to get, you know, get some fluid, get some movement in
56:21
there. I would say not for everybody.
56:24
Don't just buy a traction unit. Try to set it up at home and
56:26
look on YouTube, you know, have a have a professional look, look
56:30
at your spine. And then we do neuromuscular
56:32
rehabilitation here, some reeducation.
56:35
So there's a vibration plate and we use the Pettibon body
56:38
weighting system. Just again, for us, we take in
56:49
house X-rays. I would say most Max living
56:53
offices have their own X-ray system.
56:56
It's very important to us to you know, be able to measure
56:59
everything down to the millimeter, know exactly what's
57:01
going on. You know, what joints are you
57:02
targeting where, where does the adjustment need to happen.
57:05
So that way it's really specific for each person.
57:08
Yeah. And I think that's important.
57:10
Like absolutely X-rays, absolutely, yeah.
57:13
And they're. Getting some adjustments.
57:14
Yes, this is the most important system of your body so.
57:18
So you guys have Christmas in July We.
57:20
Do we do? It's Christmas in July so we've
57:23
got the festive decor going on. We love Christmas, so we do it
57:27
twice. And then right here, this is the
57:31
five essentials that Doctor Travis was talking about
57:33
earlier. Of course, you know,
57:34
chiropractic is our main, our main focus, but we do nutrition
57:38
consultations. He was talking about mindset.
57:41
We talk about oxygen in the body, oxygen through exercise,
57:45
and then of course, minimizing toxins.
57:47
So that's our, you know, our pillars of health.
57:49
Of course, these are the things that contribute to health, but
57:52
there's only one thing that controls it and that's nervous
57:54
system. So that's first.
57:56
Awesome. Well, thank you so much for the
57:59
the tour and we're we're just gonna say goodbye.
58:03
Thank you guys, both for being here and talking so honestly and
58:06
thank. You for having us?
58:07
Yeah, Thank you for having. Us and thanks for, you know,
58:10
having our whole family there, yeah.
58:12
I and I, I was so glad that like I thought you felt comfortable
58:16
to bring him. And that's just life.
58:18
That's how this is. So thanks everyone for tuning
58:22
in. Please take some time to look at
58:25
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58:28
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58:31
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58:34
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58:37
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