Good Neighbor Podcast: Colorado Springs

EP #94: Beyond Fixing: How Your Body Heals Itself with Dr. Tad of Organic Living Chiropractic

• Tony Hills & Tad Schexnailder • Episode 94

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What makes Dr. Tad Schexnailder with Organic Living Chiropractic a good neighbor?  

Ready to rethink everything you know about healing? Dr. Tad from Organic Living Chiropractic turns traditional pain management upside down with a revolutionary approach that might just change your life.

Most healthcare approaches focus on fixing what's broken. Dr. Tad sees it differently. Through network spinal, a unique chiropractic specialty, he doesn't just adjust your spine—he teaches your body to heal itself. "If my body gets your body unstuck, I learn how to do that better," he explains. "But if we can get your body to learn how to get itself unstuck, then you walk away with the wisdom."

What makes this approach truly remarkable is Dr. Tad's understanding of pain's deeper dimensions. As both a chiropractor and certified addictionologist (yes, that's an unusual combination!), he recognizes that physical discomfort often connects to our inability to feel good within ourselves. His practice addresses both the physical misalignments and the emotional patterns behind them, creating transformation that goes far beyond temporary relief.

Dr. Tad's journey is equally inspiring. Navigating dyslexia and ADD, he overcame significant learning challenges to earn his doctorate—something he never imagined possible. Starting with just a table in an esthetician's office, he's built a thriving practice that specifically targets community leaders, parents, and others in service roles, believing that "healthy, happy people are the solution to our societal problems."

Perhaps his most powerful insight? The shift from viewing success as the path to happiness to recognizing that happiness must come first. "I'm never going to be happy being successful," he shares. "I actually have to be happy to be successful."

Ready to experience this unique approach yourself? Join Dr. Tad's monthly community classes, follow Organic Living Chiropractic on social media, or visit their website to learn how your body's natural healing wisdom might be the solution you've been searching for.

To learn more about Organic Living Chiropractic go to: 

https://organiclivingchiropractic.com/

Organic Living Chiropractic

719-200-8615



Speaker 1:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Tony Hills.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you in need of help with traumatic, chronic and spiritual pain? Help might be closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing Dr Tad with Organic Living Chiropractic, dr Tad how's it going?

Speaker 3:

Oh, it's going great, Tony. How about yourself?

Speaker 2:

I am awesome. We're excited about everything that you do, so tell us about your business.

Speaker 3:

So we're a very unique type of chiropractic and a unique approach to chiropractic. The specialty in chiropractic that we offer is called network spinal and if you would think of chiropractic as you know, you go somewhere and the chiropractor helps your body get it get unstuck. Well, our type of chiropractic is a lot more gentle in its approach and the goal is to help your body to figure out how to get itself unstuck. If my body gets your body unstuck, well, I learn how to do that and I can do it better and better in the future. But if we can get your body to learn how to get itself unstuck, then you walk away with the wisdom and you are a better, stronger, more resilient person for that.

Speaker 3:

On top of that, I'm also a certified addictionologist, which is super weird for a chiropractor to be. Most people have never even heard of that, but what I really came to notice is that at the root of addiction is the person's inability to feel good within themselves and within their life. So by addressing all of the different aspects that lead to addictions and we all have addictions, they're just a spectrum. Some of us suffer worse with them than others we're really helping people to become happier and I truly believe that healthy, happy people are the solution to our societal and the world's problems that we see now. I don't think our problems are going to be solved by just working harder and doing more of the same. I think we're actually going to have to be better in order to come up with better solutions.

Speaker 2:

Okay, awesome. How did you get into this business?

Speaker 3:

Well, I kind of fell into it. I was in high school. I was very dyslexic and ADD, and so school was never really anything that I was interested in. I just wanted to get out as fast as I possibly could, that's, you know. You could work with somebody. It's very physical. I could use my body, work for somebody, with somebody for an hour and make some good money.

Speaker 3:

So I went to massage school right after high school and just absolutely got blown away by how amazing and capable the human body is, and I just developed this insatiable hunger to learn more and to help more people.

Speaker 3:

And one thing led to another. I ended up running a physical therapy department for an MD and then, through some changes and random events, ended up going to chiropractic school, not really even knowing what chiropractic was. I ended up going to chiropractic school not really even knowing what chiropractic was. It was just like, hey, this is, this is a way that I can get a better degree and keep doing what I'm doing. But once I got into chiropractic school again, it just completely blown away by how the human body works at a much deeper level, especially from a nervous system standpoint, which is what we really focus on. As chiropractors, moved to Colorado Springs and opened my business with nothing but a table in my hands. It was actually out of a esthetician's office, and then I moved it into the living room of my house and just grew from there, and so I think we've been in practice for about almost 11 years now.

Speaker 2:

Okay, awesome. What are some myths or misconceptions in your industry?

Speaker 3:

Well, I think one of the biggest myths and misconceptions, I think, in the industry of healthcare is that we need to be fixed and, in reality, this body that we are operating in it is a self-organizing system. It's a self-growing system. It's a system that takes on stress and responds by growth and increasing in its functionality. So what most people consider, you know, being wounded or being traumatized or being hurt, is really just a stumble in the growth process. And if we can put our focus on growth, if we can put our focus on becoming wiser and stronger and more efficient, our body can heal from some amazing things. And the more and more that we try to get fixed and continue living and being the same way that we were whenever we got messed up in the first place, the more problems that we can cause.

Speaker 2:

Okay, who are your target customers and how do you attract them?

Speaker 3:

Okay, who are your target customers and how do you attract them? So our target customers really are actually community leaders, and that includes parents and families. We really believe that the people that are looking to make the world better for other people are the ones that need this type of change the most, because they're the ones that are going to trickle out. So healthcare practitioners, parents, teachers, government, anybody that's out there in the service industry is who we really want to connect with, because whenever I do my job correctly, when organic living chiropractic does its job correctly, we end up with a happier and healthier person that can then go out and have a bigger impact on on the world. So I want to have the biggest impact I possibly can. I know I can only do that so much as one single person, so I'm a little bit greedy. I want to. I want to help those people that are going to go help everybody else, so that I get some of that credit.

Speaker 2:

Awesome Outside of work. What do you do for fun?

Speaker 3:

Oh, I'm a. I'm a father and a husband and an avid outdoors person. So I am. I am very, very into enjoying the growth and development that my kids are going through at every single stage, just spoiling the crap out of my wife, making sure that my life is the most joyful and the most abundant that I possibly can, and that is very, very linked to my love of nature, because it's that connection to nature both my natural system but the bigger system at a whole that helps me stay grounded and stay energized and charged so that I can keep having a big impact.

Speaker 2:

OK, let's switch gears. Can you describe a hardship, a life challenge you overcame, how it made you stronger and what comes to mind?

Speaker 3:

Absolutely so. There's been quite a few, both in my personal health journey but also my my life journey growing up with dyslexia and ADD, going and getting a doctorate. That was far beyond anything I thought I was ever going to be able to accomplish. But I also was hit really hard by mono whenever I was in high school, so I was chronically fatigued as a teenager. So those are some pretty big health challenges that pushed me into learning more and more about the body, which I truly believe led me to my biggest challenge, which was actually to change the way that I was living.

Speaker 3:

I was living as if life was something to be accomplished, as if life was something that I had to learn and grow from. Otherwise something bad was going to happen. From Otherwise something bad was going to happen, and not just my mental perspective, but actually feeling the shift into no life is actually here to to be enjoyed, and I'm never going to be happy being successful. I actually have to be happy to be successful. So to switch my my focus from from success to actual happiness was the biggest challenge, and the gift that that gave me is that now I'm passionate and can do that for a lot of other people.

Speaker 2:

Dr Tadd, please tell us one thing they should remember about organic living chiropractic.

Speaker 3:

The one thing to remember about organic living chiropractic is that you are a unique individual and you need to be focused on and you need to be connected to as that unique individual that you are. There's no such thing as one size fits all anything, and so the care that a person receives has to be focused on them as a unique individual and if you want to go there as a unique soul. And so by seeing and connecting to each individual person, we get to have that person go through their authentic growth and healing process, and we can do that with a lot of fun. It doesn't have to be too arduous.

Speaker 2:

Awesome. How can our listeners learn more about organic living chiropractic?

Speaker 3:

So every Thursday, the second Thursday of every month, we have a free community class. That's in person. If you would like to come down to the office, it's on, it will, it's it's. You could join virtually on Zoom right now and if you will contact our office we'll make sure that you will get get you that Zoom link and then all of our classes go up on YouTube Organic Living Chiropractic. After that we can be connected with on Facebook Organic Living Chiropractic, instagram, organic Chiro, and they can always visit our website OrganicLivingChiropracticcom.

Speaker 2:

Okay, awesome. Well, Dr Tad, I really appreciate you being on the show. We wish you and your business much success moving forward.

Speaker 3:

Thank you so much, tony, take care.

Speaker 1:

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