Your nervous system is the body’s control centre: your brain relies on constant sensory input from spinal joints to build an accurate “body map” that governs proprioception (where am I), motor control (how do I move), and threat assessment (am I safe). When spinal joints are restricted, the resulting distorted input floods your system with TV static - leading to compensation, poor posture, tension and a shift toward protective stress responses. Adjustments provide specific input that research suggests alters activity in the prefrontal cortex, motor cortex and cerebellum, improving sensory-motor integration, regulation and benefits that go way beyond pain relief…like better sleep, calmer reactions, clearer thinking and more energy.

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Get ready for a mic swap - returning guest Dr. Amy Graf takes up the mantle of hosting duties for this episode from Dr. Lindsay!

Dr. Amy is a pediatric and family chiropractor at Healthy Families Chiropractic in Calgary, and in this special solo she explains how gentle, nervous system focussed chiropractic care can support babies and families…especially with difficulties in breastfeeding. She describes common feeding-related signs of tension, and discusses how neck and body tension developed in the birth process can affect nursing coordination. Get ready to nerd out about all the complex jobs your baby’s cranial nerves are in charge of when they’re feeding, and why gentle chiropractic support can help them eat, sleep, and live better - because any parent knows that if their baby can do all those things well, it makes their life better, too.

Follow Dr Amy Graf on Instagram, @dr.amygraf

Healthy Families YYC is hosted by Dr Lindsay Nealon, founder of Healthy Families Chiropractic in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Follow Dr Lindsay on Instagram @dr.lindsaynealon.

Learn more about the clinic or schedule a visit at https://healthyfamilieschiropractic.ca/ and visit us on Instagram, @healthyfamiliesyyc.

Produced by Jess Schmidt: https://www.jessdoespodcasting.com/

Edited by Morgane Chambrin: https://www.morganechambrin.com/

Dr Lindsay sits down with Emily Bishop, biomedical-engineering-researcher-turned-embodiment-guide and founder of Sovereign Success. They speak about helping ambitious, high-achieving mothers reconnect with their inner knowing, and redefining success so ambition and motherhood can coexist in harmony. Emily shares her own post - a mat leave experience of feeling unfulfilled despite “having it all,” noticing stress, anxiety, impatience, and lack of presence creeping in, and using her second maternity leave to rediscover who she was beyond career and motherhood. They discuss the matrescence identity transition, the need for a holistic view of success across career, family, and wellbeing, and how human design offers a practical framework based on birth data to explore one’s natural gifts beyond conditioning. Emily also explains her eight-week, one-on-one cohort program Sovereign Success.

Check out Sovereign Success at https://www.emilylynnbishop.com/sovereign-success

Follow Emily on Instagram @emilylynnbishop