Focus on good posture

Hi Everyone!

This month we are focusing on the importance of good posture. I like to tell patients that having good posture is as essential for spinal health as brushing your teeth is for dental health. That seems to be an analogy most can relate to. As a matter of fact, I think most of us take better care of our teeth than we do our spine. Why is that? If the teeth decay or are lost, it does not dramatically effect health and can be remedied quite easily with modern dentistry. If the spine decays and becomes arthritic we know scientifically that nerve interference occurs and overall health diminishes.

This happens often without pain but many times is also associated with pain, loss of ability and function. Therefore we encourage you to bring your BACK to the FRONT of your mind when it comes to your health. Be sure to include spinal health checks in your routine health care and make an appointment to see us if you are in pain or suffering any loss of range of motion. Until our next adjustment...

Yours in health,

Dr. Heidi & The InnerMovement Wellness Team

EXERCISE your Freedom!

If there was a pill that had even half of the benefits as movement, everyone would be taking that pill and paying lots of money for it. Moving your body has documented benefits for almost every ailment known to man. It makes you feel better by bringing oxygen to the cells and lubrication to the joints. It makes you look better by improving muscle tone and posture. It even makes you smile more by increasing serotonin levels in the brain. We are mostly familiar with active forms of movement like hiking, yoga & weight lifting but most people don't know that passive forms of movement are just as important to your health.

Chiropractic Treatments and Massage are two of the most widely used forms of passive movement. These treatment modalities restore normal movement to injured, fixated joints and tight, painful muscles both if not corrected, create pain & decreased health.

Movement is a required nutrient that we just aren't getting enough of. So if you can make it a goal to move more than you sit each day through both passive and active forms of movement, you'll be on your way to wellness. Until our next adjustment...


Yours in health,
Dr. Heidi & The InnerMovement Wellness Team

Start your Summer!

So far, the popular concepts on ideal weight and weight loss have not resulted in happier, healthier Americans. As we all know, obesity rates are only rising. And while it is true that increased weight leads to joint wear and tear, diabetes, heart disease, hormone imbalance and other health issues, it has not proven helpful to stress this. I think a radical new approach is necessary. My suggestions to patients who struggle with weight are simple but if applied, can be absolutely liberating. I tell patients to either accept and love themselves exactly as they are fully and totally right now, conscious of their own choices OR change their habits!

Either of these choices will result in more energy and a happier life. If you really accept that there are no other choices besides these two and you become okay with your choice it releases guilt, victim mentality and self-condemnation. If you choose to change and release the weight, we have a nutrition program, exercise recommendations and specialists to help monitor progress and document your success! And if the choice made is to accept yourself fully as you are, we'll let you know that we already have!

Until our next adjustment...

Yours in health,

Dr. Heidi & The InnerMovement Wellness Team

InnerMovement Chiropractic to host a Health & Wellness Expo on Saturday, June 5th, 2010.

InnerMovement Chiropractic is hosting a Health & Wellness Expo with a theme of overall family wellness emphasizing on local alternatives and offerings.

Owner and Founder Dr. Heidi Fennell and her wellness team will be providing complimentary spinal health screenings, acupuncture, chair massages, aromatherapy, nutritional consultations and well as office tours that will offer information on their Aqua Detox treatments.

Booth participant sponsors include: All About You Bootcamp, who will be conducting their monthly weigh-ins in conjunction with the Lose a Ton in ’10 campaign and two free work-out sessions; Heartbeat House, a local studio that encourages fitness through dance with over a dozen offerings; Lions Health Insurance Services Inc. which offers individual, family plans and supplemental insurance; and Naja Tea, a boutique line of gourmet specialty teas. In keeping with the family-friendly theme, there will be activities for kids and a henna artist as well.

Purity Organic Skin Spa, Maid in the U.S.A., Bamboo Shoots Photography and all booth participants will be sponsoring gift bag inclusions, all of which will be provided in eco-friendly re-usable shopping mini-totes courtesy of Lululemon Athletica.

Dosa Food Truck will be onsite offering their signature healthy food choices for attendees to enjoy and the event will be serving as a drop-off location for Dress for Success, encouraging donations of interview-appropriate women’s clothing.

About InnerMovement Chiropractic:
InnerMovement Chiropractic is a wellness center that is focused on finding healthy solutions for the whole family by offering chiropractic care, massage, acupuncture, aqua detox treatments and nutritional counseling.

Event address:
1218 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205
with parking available at 1230 E. Broadway.

Event Date:
Saturday, June 5th, 2010. 12 - 3pm

Congratulations to our Winning "Mother-of-the-Year"

After reading our entries for the Mother of the Year contest, I was so happy to surprise the Winning Mom! Her own mother, who praised her daughter for overcoming many obstacles in raising her child, nominated her. Her story sang of perserverance and dedication of this deeply committed mother who has given her child a warm home filled with love and laughter.

In celebration of her efforts, the team at InnerMovement will be pampering her and sending Maid in the U.S.A. to clean and sparkle up her home.

Each day at InnerMovement I meet mothers worthy of honoring. Moms who care enough to get adjusted during pregnancy so that birth can be easier for baby. Moms who bring in their little one's for spinal checkups after their first big fall and insist on the whole family getting adjusted, knowing the adjustment will help keep them strong and healthy. Mothers who have raised wonderful children and only now have the time to tend to themselves. I'm so proud and it is the highest honor to treat all of the mothers at our wellness center. Happy Mothers Day to you!

Until our next adjustment...

Yours in health,

Dr. Heidi & The InnerMovement Wellness Team

Save The Date: June 5th, Health & Wellness Expo

SAVE THE DATE!

InnerMovement Wellness is hosting a Health & Wellness Expo!

June 5th 12:00-3:00 pm

look for more details coming soon!

Mother-of-the-Year Contest

InnerMovement Chiropractic & Wellness

is sponsoring a

Mother-of-the-Year Contest

Do you know someone who should be named #1 Mom? Nominate the nurturer in your life for some well-deserved pampering!

Winner will receive a complimentary wellness package that includes:

a 60-minute Aromatherapy Wellness Massage

a Spinal Health Evaluation

and a Nutritional Consultation!

And while they are enjoying a day of wellness, our friends at

Maid in the U.S.A. (LA's Premier Boutique Cleaning Company) will perform a 4-hour detailed house cleaning!!!

(total package is valued at over $400)

All entries should be submitted in an essay of 250 words of less and must contain the following information:

• Your name and telephone number
• Your nominee's name, address, email and telephone number
  (winning Mom must live within 20 miles of InnerMovement Chiropractic)
  

• Why this person should be recognized as a "Mother of the Year."

Email your nomination to: innermovementchiro@gmail.com

Entry is open to US residents aged 18 and above.

Enter once before May 3, 2010, 5:00pm PST.

Please visit InnerMovement.net for more information and official rules.

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Self-discovery and Emotional Healing Leads to the True You

As the season turns and flowers bloom, newness begins to surround us. During this time I am reminded of the importance of having newness within. If we have not spent time unraveling our childhood experiences and wounds, how can we ever say it's a fresh new day? For example, if a child has lost a parent, a feeling of abandonment may often carry into adulthood. This may express itself as a deep feeling of longing for someone or something to fill that void. This "past" wound is likely to lead to "present" relationship problems or issues such as overeating or overspending. When we ignore our childhood wounds indefinitely, our bodies can even begin to express our emotional pains physically.

We all carry the risk of getting stuck in patterns of automatic reactions from our past experiences and from this place we are unable to fully enjoy the beauty that exists in the moment. Thankfully every one of us has the opportunity to peel away the layers in order to become present to the newness within. And while it may be challenging, this process of self-discovery and emotional healing leads to the true you...the best you!

Until our next adjustment...

Yours in health,

Dr. Heidi & The InnerMovement Wellness Team

Visit Us at the Glendale Downtown Dash

Come visit us at the Glendale Downtown Dash on Sunday March 14th!

Dr. Heidi and her Wellness Team will be on-site providing Spinal Screenings, Nutritional Consultations & Chair Massages!

The Dash Event offers a fun, family atmosphere that takes participants down Brand Blvd, through the Americana and back up again. 100% of the proceeds from this event support GAMC Stroke Services for our community.

Special thanks to one of our partners in wellness - AAY Bootcamp - for coaching race participants in preparation for the race.

Don't Let Your New Year's Resolutions Fade Away

Greetings!

At this point many of us are starting to feel the hopeful aspirations of our New Year's resolutions fade away. Beyond that many of us may be once again putting ourselves down for our glaring imperfections. Striving for perfection seems to be one of the most accepted illusions of our time.

Trying to be the perfect parent, coworker, spouse or to have the perfect body, status or income is an obsession each of us suffer from on one level or another. But the truth is that this perfection we all unconsciously seek will never arrive nor was it meant to. Imperfection is part of our design. Light cannot be without darkness, peaks do not exist without valleys, yin must be balanced by yang.

But knowing this is only the first step. Accepting it and therefore accepting ourselves in all of our imperfection is the ultimate freeing destination. A tree grows, its leaves fall, its fruit ripens than rots. But the tree does not worry when its leaves are brown and wrinkly nor when its fruit is turning to soil. We are not trees, but just as nature reflects we too are meant to experience seasons as well as peaks and valleys.

So with your resolutions, goals and growth this year, just do your best everyday and allow that to be perfect. Consider your body's aches and pains and imperfections the same way. Your path to wellness will have its good days and its bad as long as your on the path that is enough. Until our next adjustment...

Yours in health,

Dr. Heidi & The InnerMovement Wellness Team