Archive for the healing Category

The Business of Healing

Going into business for myself was a bigger decision than I really understood at the time. I made the decision six years ago when I resigned from my seven-year career in software development and enrolled in chiropractic college. I knew that the change in career would involve […]

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Healing in an Economic Downturn

Gas prices are going up, and so is the cost of groceries. Money is starting to feel tight, or maybe it’s just the fear of money becoming tight that we’re feeling. Every week another politician, news anchor, or talk show host trots out the word “recession” as […]

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When is Pain Good, and When is it a Pain? (Part 2 of 2)

(Continued from Part 1 of 2) The higher centers of our brain are what physiologically defines us as human beings. Our capacity for compassion and self-reflection, for faith and understanding, is housed in these parts of our nervous system that are only available to us when the […]

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The Trouble with Healing

(Continuing from the beginning of this thread on curing and healing, posted last year…) When your sense of safety is threatened, curing symptoms can be critical in moving out of a defended state. The fight-flee-or-freeze response is inherent in our bodies whenever we perceive a threat or […]

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Curing vs. Healing…

When the question of curing versus healing was first posed to me, I was in chiropractic school, and told in philosophy class that curing symptoms is pointless at best and harmful at worst. Successful symptom elimination was compared to taking the battery out of a beeping fire […]

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