Healing Beyond the Symptoms with Dr. Leah Hahn, D.C.

The Science of Sensitivity: How Empaths Process Stress Differently

• Dr. Leah Hahn, D.C. • Season 1 • Episode 14

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Have you ever been told you’re too sensitive or that you “feel too much”?
If so, this episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms is for you.

Dr. Leah Hahn,D.C. chiropractor and functional wellness doctor at Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, explores the science and spirituality of sensitivity — and why empathic and highly sensitive people often experience nervous system overwhelm.

She explains how empaths literally absorb emotional energy from others and how Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) — as identified in research by psychologist Elaine Aron — have a genetic and neurological trait known as sensory processing sensitivity. These individuals process emotions, sensations, and social cues more deeply, making them highly intuitive but also prone to fatigue, anxiety, and burnout.

Dr. Hahn shares her personal journey as a highly sensitive practitioner and offers tangible strategies to help empaths, deep thinkers, and sensitives reclaim their energy and regulate their nervous systems. You’ll learn how Network Spinal care helps transform overwhelm into resilience — allowing sensitivity to become a gift, not a drain.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • The difference between empaths and highly sensitive people (HSPs)
  • The neuroscience of sensitivity: mirror neurons, serotonin, and stress response
  • Why deep thinkers experience physical tension and mental fatigue
  • How Network Spinal helps sensitive systems regulate safely
  • Daily nervous system rituals to restore calm and balance

If you’ve ever felt like you “feel too much,” this episode will remind you that sensitivity isn’t a flaw — it’s your brilliance.



If you've ever been told you're too sensitive, you overthink everything, you feel too much, I want you to hear this. You are not broken. In fact, sensitivity is your gift. Nervous system-based care may be the key that you have been searching for. Welcome to Healing Beyond the Symptoms, the podcast that helps people discover the root causes of their health struggles, and take back control with science strategy and self-awareness. I'm Dr. Leah Hahn, a chiropractor and functional wellness doctor who believes that true healing starts beneath the surface. So let's dive in. So there's definitely a gift and a challenge with sensitivity. Empaths and deep feelers. Those with really intense emotions, and those who are deep processors are those who notice more. They notice emotions. They notice energy. They notice people's expressions. They notice tension. They even notice subtle shifts in relationships. So this is actually a strength, but it means that your nervous system becomes overwhelmed more quickly. It means that you become overstimulated more quickly. A patient once told me that I feel everyone else's stress. I carry it in my own body and I become depleted so quickly. And that's the empaths challenge, or the sensitives challenge, is that your body is absorbing all of what is happening around you. Again, the energy, the tension, expression, subtle shifts that are happening within the room. And so when people deal with this, they don't just process their own stress, they process the world's stress. And so we wanna get back into this in terms of looking at it in the nervous system. And I look at it as like overloaded circuits. Just like a breaker flips when there's too much current running through it, the sensitive nervous system can become so overwhelmed by constant input. And before we get further into this, I wanna give you some background on this. I wanna tell you the difference between empaths and highly sensitive people. So when we think about empaths, our empaths are the people who, um, maybe in spiritual or psychological terms, they have this heightened emotional resonance. Um, they don't just feel other, other people's emotions. They feel them as if they were their. Own emotions. And so what happens is that they're actually absorbing that emotional energy that's happening from people and from the environment that's surrounding them. And they can feel drained or anxious around really strong emotions or strong conflicts that are happening. If there's a lot of tension in their workplace, they feel like they're taking it all on, and it's very common for them to then struggle with emotional boundaries. Often people who are empathic are drawn to helping others or being in a healing type of a role, and that is so their gift. It can be utilized as a beautiful gift to help others. But the problem with it is that when you're absorbing all of the emotions of the people that they're working with, again, what they're, um, designed to help people with is also often a drain for them. In essence, being an empath is about absorbing all of that emotional energy all of the time. And I promise I'm gonna give you some ideas and solutions of things that can help with this, but I wanna get into the difference of what, um, what would be looked at as a highly. Sensitive person, and I'm talking about highly sensitive person based on research by Elaine Aaron. You can read all about it in her book, the Highly Sensitive Person, her research is from the 1990s, and what it means is more of, instead of like, kind of like the psychological or emotional trait that people may have, it's a biological trait and it's called sensory processing sensitivity, which means that their nervous systems are finely tuned. To submit stimulus, whether it's emotional, whether it's physical, whether it's environmental, and so you start to see these characteristics among what I'm gonna term as HSPs for short, where they deeply process information, they deeply process their emotions. They're easily overstimulated, so. It could be noise in their environment or the type of lighting that's in a room, or just being in a crowded environment. They're often highly empathic as well as like neurologically attuned to absorb all of this. Um, and. It takes time for them to actually recover from sensory or emotional input. So when I look at these individuals, what is so fascinating with this is they're often incredibly creative. They're incredibly conscientious, they're intuitive. Being that HSP is how your nervous system is processing both the sensory and the emotional information that's happening around you. So the difference, I guess, is that it's a physiological trait, not just a personality trait. In her book, when she talks about this and about HSPs, she's gonna describe them as biologically based in about 15 to 20% of the population. So if you're listening to this and you're like, wow, that's me. I'm so sensitive to my environment, to my work environment, to what's happening at home, and that energy, just realize that you are being, um, your brain is being stimulated over and over again by your environment and your social surroundings. HSPs actually have increased activation in areas of the brain that are related to awareness and empathy. So realize this, that they may have greater activation of what's called mirror neurons, which is a fancy way of saying that due to how their brain is processing information, they may experience other people's emotions more deeply. Research shows that their brain even can take more time to process emotions. They may be so aware of subtle changes in people's expression, whether it's unhappiness or stress or excitement or nervousness or anxiety. They may be so aware of social cues. They have typically very high order visual processing in which all of those fine details that some people may miss. They're taking it all in. There's even a genetic component to this. Studies show that there may be genes linked to our serotonin that can be both changes in our genetics and biochemical reasons that HSPs have such a high sensitivity to both positive and negative environmental influences. So again, if you're looking at this, I want you to start to think about yourself. If this is 15 to 20% of the population that feels these types of, um, kind of sensory overload from what's happening in their environment, realize I, again, look at this as not only sensitivity but it's also your superpower. So I wanna go into that a little bit more. Um. When we talk about HSPs, they often have stronger autonomic nervous system responses. That means that when they're, when they do get stressed, they may feel it at a, um. An overwhelming degree if that, if that makes sense to you. They can have higher heart rate variability when they're processing emotions. They can have greater reactivity to just subtle environmental changes, but that heightened nervous system response is not just emotional reactivity. It actually looks like this could be a survival strategy. And what I mean by that is if you are able to detect subtle cues, if you're more observant in your environment, if you're maybe more cautious because of all of the stimuli that you're taking in, you're much more easily to able to identify threats. So it would make sense genetically that this trait would be passed on from individual to individual. Years ago I worked with a psychologist and I was describing to her how I often felt after a workday. And I would talk to her about how I would sense so much of what was happening in my environment. Um, the clients I was working with, their tone of voice, um, their. Maybe what was even happening behind me in the room, I could sense that I could read their, their facial cues, their expressions, um, intonations that were happening in their words. And she said, you know, I'm pretty sure you're an HSP. And I started reading a book, her book or the Elaine Aaron book on HSPs and. It made a world of difference to actually understand what was happening within my body, and it's one of the reasons that I am so incredibly, um, drawn to helping other people that are highly sensitive because I know what it feels like. I know what it feels like to take in so much of what's happening in your environment and how draining that can be. So it's really important to have strategies and I wanna be able to give you some of those strategies today. I also will tell you that I firmly believe that it runs in families. I've looked at that, how it affects my mom. I've looked at how it affects me. I think it affected my grandfather. So I look at that kind of genetic trait as, again, it's something that does run in families, but it can be such a gift. So I, for me, it helps me be a better practitioner. It helps me be a better doctor. It helps me be able to help more people and specifically be able to help highly sensitive people. But at the same time, it consumes a lot of energy. So again, I wanna give you, um, some really key points and what can make a difference. But I also wanna tell you how important it is to really focus on healing and reorganizing how the nervous system functions, because it will be a game changer in terms of how you live your life on a daily basis. I wanna talk to you a little bit about how network care specifically can help people that are highly sensitive or empathic. And we're gonna touch on this in a minute about deep thinkers as well. So when I started experiencing and learning the work of Network Spinal, I didn't know why it was so healing to me how so much of the research, um, shows that when you're incredibly sensitive, it can be incredibly dysregulating to the nervous system. You need tools that help round you into safety and that help. Balance the nervous system, regulate the nervous system, rebalance it, clear, stress, clear, um, really move into healing state. But I was so attracted to network care because after experiencing it, it was the most peaceful I had ever felt within my body. It calmed my thinking. It put me so much more in touch with my own thoughts, with my own needs, my emotions, what my boundaries actually were. That sense of peace was my parasympathetic nervous system kicking in instead of just living at a fight or flight 24 7. And that created deep healing throughout my entire body. As much as being an empath or a highly sensitive person affected me, it's one of my superpowers. And network Spinal actually helped me discover that. So again. It's something that I wanna be able to educate you on of different tools and things that you can do to help yourself. I work with lots of highly sensitive people and I feel so honored to be able to do that because I recognize their gifts, and I also recognize how when we can tap into that power in the nervous system and really put it into a healing place, how much better their lives will be, how much better they'll function, and how much more regulated they'll actually feel. Highly sensitive people often live in fight or flight without even realizing it. And we talked a lot about HSPs. We've talked some about empaths, but what if someone's a deep thinker? A deep thinker lives in their head. They're analyzing and replaying what's happening in their day, what's happening throughout their lives. It's a lot of thinking, obviously, but the body is left holding those patterns. Often what it looks like is a really, really tight shoulders having shut off breath through the mid back, meaning their body when I'm working with a deep thinker, may look like everything moves in their pelvis. Then it shuts off in their mid back and then it moves in their neck again. Kind of fascinating to see that pattern. They often have a clenched jaw and that breath that we're talking about, not only does it not move very well in the mid back, but it also looks like their breath is very shallow, very stuck. Being a deep thinker means that your mind naturally processes information at multiple levels, meaning emotionally, analytically, intuitively, and often empathically as well. It's reflective, it's inward focused. There's processing that can overestimate the nervous system if it's not balanced with grounding or rest. So when you think of this, there's a constant cognitive load that's happening. They rarely turn off even at rest. Their minds are constantly analyzing and reflecting and connecting the dots, replaying experiences, and that constant engagement and thinking actually activates the sympathetic nervous system. Deep thinkers often feel emotions with equal intensity to how they think. So again, if you're. Feeling really deep emotions along with the thoughts that you're processing that can be very overactive to the fight or flight side of the nervous system. It can activate the same pathways as someone in chronic stress. So it's an interesting way to think about that. A new way to think about deep thinkers may actually be putting their bodies in a stress state without intending to. The brain doesn't always distinguish between a thought about a threat and an actual threat. So if they're mentally revisiting worries and the what ifs or past situations, the body is actually responding as if those stressors are happening now. That's releasing cortisol into their bloodstream. It's tightening their muscles, it's shifting their breath patterns. It could be affecting their digestive system or even their reproductive system. And the thing is, is that they're spending so much time in their head that they really start to decrease that mind body connection. So everything becomes about what they're thinking versus what they physically or sometimes emotionally feel. They can also be highly sensitive, so very queued into what's happening in their environment. Again, that can create this sense of nervous system overwhelm. All of these patterns can create fatigue, anxiety, or chronic tension within the body. So I love working with empaths and sensitives and deep thinkers. Mainly because it's something where I think their superpower just needs to be expressed. I think they can have a higher quality of life and they can contribute so much to this world. Many practices would see sensitivity as a weakness or a problem that they're trying to fix. We see it as this is just their brilliance and it's being weighted to be supported. Network's final is gentle enough for very specific sensitive systems, yet it's powerful enough to create long lasting changes within the body and the mind. The approach of network spinal actually creates such a sense of safety within the nervous system, which is exactly what sensitives need in order to be able to release those chronic tension patterns and more importantly, to be able to recalibrate their nervous system. It gives so much energy back when you actually are able to ground the nervous system and give it new strategies for healing and existing in the world. Rather than just manual cracking or thrusts that are used in traditional chiropractic network, spinal practitioners use very specific, very light contacts, very precise contacts on the spine, typically in the top of the spine and the bottom of the spine. But these contacts actually cue the body to self-regulate, to go into its self-regulating mechanisms, and this prompts breath, and it can prompt movement and energy flow that gradually release tension and re-pattern the spine. We don't ever try to toughen you up in terms of a highly sensitive or an empathic person. We help your nervous system become more resilient so you can feel deeply without being consumed, without being drained and losing all of your energy, deep thinking and being highly sensitive, being an empath. These are all the gifts, and the key is learning how to regulate. How to create an adaptable nervous system that is reorganized in a way that allows you to function at your best self, at your highest level. So I wanna go over some practical steps for how you can help the nervous system, especially when you're a sensitive person, when you're an empathic person or a deep thinker. And the first thing I want you to do is start to reframe your thoughts about this. It's okay to say I feel deeply, and that's a strength. That's a message that you can tell yourself, and I really want you to start thinking about having a layered approach to caring for your nervous system. And what I mean by that is how do you start your day? Do you take breaks? How do you end your day? And so for me, I have different nervous system regulating activities that are layered throughout my day. So the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is typically make a cup of coffee, but I sit down with my journal and I spend about 20 minutes with just freeform journaling. Whatever comes out on the page, comes out on the page. I find that it reframes what I'm thinking about. I can shift into more positive thinking. I'm able to let go of tension and worries, and it's such an amazing way to start your day. I like to follow that up by about five to 10, maybe even 15 minutes of guided meditation. I use that time to deep breathe, to focus, and to set the tone of my day. I then start my day and it starts, all of the demands of the day start coming at me, just like all of us, the emails, the phone calls, really starting to work on projects.

So by about one to 2:

00 PM I'm ready for a break. And so I either will take a walk if it's a beautiful day or I might take a 20 minute rest. And really, again, refocus with breath. Maybe some meditation. I might take a quick nap, but that. Energizes my day and helps my brain feel so much clearer, especially when you're a highest, highly sensitive person and you're taking on so much throughout the day, your nervous system can again become overloaded. What is your strategy for dealing with that? And then how I end my day is critical, so putting aside my computer. Taking time to be away from technology, deciding to read a book, maybe take another walk, but I spend some time specifically giving my nervous system the chance to regulate itself before I try to fall asleep. So all of those strategies are layered throughout the day and can make a big difference in terms of regulating your nervous system. It's really key for highly sensitive or empathic people or deep thinkers to create boundaries for their energy. Notice when you're carrying emotions that are not yours and use kind curiosity. What I mean by that is that instead of saying something critical to yourself, you can instead ask, and again, I want you to think of your tone. Is this mine? Do I really need to carry this? You can release other people's emotions. Either in your thought process energetically, but you can do it with movement. You can do it with journaling, you can do it with stillness. When I'm done working with clients, not only do I love to take a walk, but I also love to take a hot shower and visualize everyone else's energy flowing off of me, and that can really help me reset as I prepare to rest, and then seek care that honors your nervous system. Network spinal care can help sensitive people feel safe to let go, to regulate, to be able to move forward, to reconnect, to heal. With traditional chiropractic, the practitioner does the correcting. What I love for highly sensitive people is that network is allowing you to be guided to make your own changes. That's incredibly effective for sensitive people. It helps to create new strategies for alignment, for energy efficiency and resiliency. Patients begin to often develop even waves of healing. Some are breath waves, some are movement waves that help to unwind spinal tension. So many people as they go through this process report emotional release shifts in consciousness, a sense of expanded awareness during the session or even after the sessions. It happens because that unresolved stress and trauma that's stored in the nervous system, all that overwhelmed from taking in, so much of their environments can actually be processed by the nervous system. It's brought to the surface and it's integrated in such a gentle and thorough process of helping the nervous system. It's incredibly therapeutic. I wanna go through some tactical takeaways from today's episode. Sensitivity is not a flaw. It's your superpower. It needs to be regulated so that your body can move into a state of thriving. Empath sensitive deep thinkers often feel too much because their bodies don't know how to downshift. And there are tools that can help HSPs and empaths and deep thinkers live their best, most grounded, most expansive life and gentle nervous system care can help you feel deeply, but also stay grounded at the same time. Thanks for joining me today on Healing Beyond the Symptoms. If you've ever felt like sensitivity was a burden, I want you to know it's a gift. You just need the right tools to be able to support it. To learn more, download my free resource@bodyimbalancechiropractic.com or book a consultation@bodyimbalancechiropractic.com to explore how networks spinal care can support sensitive nervous systems. And don't forget to follow me on Instagram at Body Imbalance Wellness Center for daily insights. Until next time, breathe deep. Honor your sensitivity and trust your body's wisdom. If you've ever thought about starting chiropractic or nervous system based care, but felt nervous about what would actually happen during that first visit, this episode is for you. Let's take the mystery out of it. Welcome to Healing Beyond the Symptoms, the podcast that helps people discover the root causes of their health struggles and take back control with science. Strategy and self-awareness. I'm Dr. Leah Hahn, a chiropractor and functional wellness doctor who believes that true healing starts beneath the surface. So let's dive in. Walking into a doctor's office, especially a new doctor's office, can feel intimidating, especially if you've had experiences where you weren't listened to or where things felt very rushed or transactional. So many people tell me, I almost didn't come to see you because I didn't know what to expect. And when your health already feels overwhelming, that fear of the unknown can be the biggest barrier to receiving the care that you need. Today I wanna walk you through exactly what happens during your first visit at Body and Balance, step by step. No surprises, no jargon, just clarity and reassurance. The first thing I wanna tell you about body imbalance is that we designed it to have a very nurturing and relaxing type atmosphere. It's very family friendly, and it's not a sterile clinic. Our focus is safety, calm, and connection. From the moment you walk in the door, our team always will greet you by name. You'll be oriented to the space, and you'll be given time to settle. This is not a five minute in or out experience. We value presence. The atmosphere itself is such an important part of your healing journey. I wanna share with you why I became a chiropractor. This has so much to do with how I grew up. I was a very determined, highly stressed kid. Um, but one of the things that really started to happen is my mom actually started to experience more and more health challenges, and she visited doctor after doctor who prescribed her lots of different medications and they finally uncovered that she had rheumatoid arthritis and a, a kind of a combination of autoimmune conditions. And she kept seeing different doctors and trying to go that medical path, and I, at the same time thought I wanted to be a medical doctor. And eventually she decided that seeing all these different doctors wasn't really making a difference. Being on lots of medications was actually making her more ill. And one of my dad's friends actually recommended that she start to see a chiropractor. And I have to tell you that my mom was really opposed to this. It was completely out of her perspective or kind of her frame of re. To see a chiropractor. And what she discovered when she started working with that chiropractor is that the lifestyle that she was living wasn't conducive to healing. It wasn't helping her to thrive. She really needed to change her diet. She needed to be on some supplements that would help her. But then the biggest change that happened was when she learned about her nervous system and when she started to discover that it would make a really big difference if she could regulate her stress more efficiently. So with nervous system-based chiropractic, she was really able to go into a state of healing. I was so inspired by this and it really started to transform my whole way of thinking. I actually started to work with a chiropractor myself, and I realized what a sensitive person I was and how much stress I had absorbed throughout, um, elementary school, high school, and even into college. And so I actually. Was planning on going to medical school and instead changed my path and decided to go to chiropractic school. I wanted to help people heal, just like my mom was able to heal. My life was transformed so much through chiropractic care. My family's life has been transformed. So much through chiropractic care. I want other people to have access to that. I want them to be able to get that healing information that nervous system-based chiropractic can provide. And so I'm hoping that I can make this process a little more comfortable for you so you can start your own individualized healing journey. The first step in this process is I want you to take some moments to really think about what your health history looks like. When you come into our office. We wanna know about you, we wanna know about different stressors that you've experienced, and we like to ask some deeper questions like, when do you feel most disconnected from yourself? What are your biggest stressors, and also what do you wanna create more of in your life? I also like to ask the questions, what can we do to meet your expectations? What are your goals? You will feel heard, and that's the difference at body and Balance. This isn't about chasing symptoms, it's about connecting the dots. It's about looking at the whole picture and really understanding you and what your needs are. It's like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. You story gives us the pieces we need to see the whole picture. It's really important to understand that there's testing that can be done to determine how the nervous system is functioning. And the coolest part about it is that it's non-invasive. It doesn't put anything into the body, but it measures how the nervous system is functioning. We look at how the muscles are functioning, we look at patterns of inflammation. We're able to do measurements as well called heart rate variability testing that, again, is non-invasive, but it measures how your autonomic nervous. System is functioning. Is it shunted more towards the sympathetic side or the fight or flight side, or is it shunted more towards the parasympathetic side? Again, we want balance, so we would love to see that it's balanced in between the two, but I have to tell you, for most clients coming in, it's definitely shunted more towards the fight or flight side of physiology. Another thing that I wanna see when we're doing that testing is the patterning that your nervous system moved into. Most people don't realize that so much of that patterning is not just from physical injuries that have happened throughout your life. It's really how your body has handled stress, handled stress repeatedly. And so that actually forms different tension patterns that we may see on the spinal testing and. Sometimes if necessary, we will take x-rays and those x-rays can really start to demonstrate how the spine has changed over many, many years. So then again, we're able to see the chronic patterning of the system. Uh. Remember, patterning can be changed, but we need to understand and get a baseline of where the nervous system is at before we can start to make those individualized changes for you. I wanna emphasize that in order to change how the spine is functioning, it doesn't have to be cracking or popping or twisting. It can be such gentle contacts that are made specifically to your. Needs and your nervous system. Those contacts are typically made on the top and the bottom of the spine. And the reason that is, is that those are the areas where the spinal cord connects to the bony part of the spine. We can make the biggest changes in the connective tissue, how the muscles, tendons, ligaments, how the actual bony part of the spine is functioning. When we are very specific with those contacts that are made to the spine, and again, they're individualized. Towards you and your spinal needs throughout that testing process. Our whole goal is again, to see how your nervous system is functioning. Is it resilient? Or is it stuck? Is it stuck in a pattern that's helping you heal? Or is it stuck in a pattern that is creating chronic stress, creating, um, overwhelm and fatigue within the body, or not allowing it to heal at its best? One of the keys at Body and Balance is that we want to communicate every step of the process. Every step is explained, and you're an active participant in the process. Another thing to realize about this process is that we don't guess. We gather your results and then we schedule a follow up time. My partner in practice and I will always look over your entire history. We'll look over what your goals are, what your expectations are. We're gonna look at the nervous system based testing. If we have x-rays, we're gonna be looking at that information. We sometimes have testing that is provided from other doctor's offices as well. We'll put all of that information together. To really thoroughly look at what your needs are, what's gonna best help you heal, and then we're gonna sit down and we're gonna explain those test results to you. Again, you're an active participant in the process, so it's really important that you understand what's happening within your body and really can take ownership of that. When you understand and you have education and you can take ownership, it is a game changer in the healing process. That way you are going to understand your responsibility, things that you can do outside of care that will help you to regulate the nervous system pieces of your lifestyle that you can work on shifting, and then we're gonna go through that process of gentle spinal adjustments, nervous system based care that's gonna put your body into healing mode. That's gonna be the key in terms of turning around this whole situation so that we can put you into healing mode so you're thriving, not just surviving. We create what's called an action plan. So we do what's called a report of findings, where I explain we're gonna look at your results, you're gonna have time to ask questions, and we're gonna create that plan of action. Again, if we're gonna help the nervous system to heal and actually go into a state of reorganization, realize it's a process. It does not happen overnight, and healing will happen in waves. There's gonna be times where there's a tremendous amount of healing, and then there might be a time where things kind of stabilize for a period of time, and then we go through another wave of healing. But we wanna outline that and we wanna give you time and order to get really into the healing process so that your body can make dramatic shifts in terms of its healing capacity. Realize that this whole process is about listening to you. Listening to your needs, but also teaching you how to listen to your own body, helping you reconnect to what your needs are, what your boundaries are. It's such an essential part of the healing process. I can give you so many stories about patients that came into our office for the first time that had meant to other chiropractic offices or had only had experiences at medical doctor's offices. They often found that they were so stressed coming in, and when they got into the environment of body imbalance, they felt like they could actually exhale. They could actually breathe. They saw what the adjustment process was like, and I have to tell you, some people were skeptical because it is so gentle. And it looks so gentle. What they found when they got on the table for the first time, after they really understood what was happening within the nervous system, they were actually able to feel their body relax. They were able to take deeper breaths, and they were able to start to reclaim that sense of peace within their body. That wasn't just happening on a physical level, it was happening on an emotional level as well. You have to remember, the nervous system is so responsible for your emotions, how you perceive the world, your perspective on events, on life events, how you handle trauma, how you've handled trauma in the past, your emotional wellbeing, physical wellbeing. It's responsible for all of it. So when we really can start to receive that individualized nervous system based care, it can be a game changer on your quality of life. When we really go into this process and what it looks like, your first visit is not about rushing into the adjustments themselves. It's about building trust and understanding. We want you to come prepared with your questions, your story, and what your goals are for healing. Realize that the care plan is created with your individual nervous system needs in mind. Everything is tailored to you. Thank you for joining me today on Healing Beyond the symptoms, if fear of the unknown has kept you from taking the first step, I hope this episode helped you feel reassured about what your first visit with us would look like if you're ready to start your journey toward deeper healing. I'd love to invite you to book a wellness consultation at body and balance chiropractic.com. This is your chance to be heard, to be seen, and begin a path that goes beyond the symptoms. Until next time, remember, you are not broken. You are brilliant, and healing begins the moment you feel safe.