Dr. Linda Slaney DC

06/15/2026

"I've been abducted by aliens. I don't know who this body belongs to but it's not mine."

That's what I said to my doctor in 2022.

I expected the postpartum fog to lift like it did after my first two pregnancies. It didn't.

I saw my doctor more in two years than I had in the previous ten. She offered antidepressants first. I declined. I asked for bloodwork. She said it wouldn't tell me anything. I left feeling dismissed — but honestly, she wasn't wrong. Standard bloodwork wasn't going to show what was actually happening.

So I read every book. Tried Wellbutrin. It was like taking Tic Tacs. Tried Concerta — mid-afternoon headaches every day and my brain still running at a million miles a minute. Went back. Demanded we treat the perimenopause piece.

That's when I started feeling like myself again.

Not a switch. Not an overnight fix. But something shifted. Enough that I could think again. Enough that the woman in the mirror started looking familiar.

18 years as a clinician. I thought I understood the body pretty well.

Perimenopause humbled me in ways I didn't see coming.

If you're in the "who is this person" stage right now — you're not losing it. Your biology is moving faster than your understanding of it. That gap is closeable. But first you have to stop blaming yourself for being confused by something nobody actually explained to you.

That's where I want to start.

If this landed, the Soul Tired Quiz is a good first step — it helps identify which pattern is driving what you're feeling. Three minutes: https://bit.ly/soultiredquiz

Cheers! Come home to yourself. 🌿

06/13/2026

🎓 June 13, 2008 — 18 years ago today I walked across that stage and became a Doctor of Chiropractic. Honestly? I had no idea what I was actually signing up for. 😅

I thought I was getting a degree. Turns out I was getting a front-row seat to 18 years of human resilience — and honestly, a crash course in my own.

The clinic came first. Took over Active Health, expanded into a multidisciplinary space, surrounded myself with an incredible team, and somehow managed to serve thousands of people in this community along the way. Two NLCA Chiropractor of the Year awards I'm still a little shocked about. 🏆

But here's the thing nobody tells you at graduation — the work has a way of teaching you things about yourself that you weren't expecting. A late ADHD diagnosis. A hormonal transition that blindsided me. A slow realization that so much of what I was seeing in my patients, I was living myself.

That's what led me to where I am now — building Soul Well Living, going back to school (again 🙃), and becoming a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner because midlife women deserve actual answers, not "just push through it."

18 years in and I'm somehow more curious, more energized, and more fired up about this work than ever.

To my patients — thank you for trusting me with your health. It never gets old.

To my team — you make it all possible. Every single day.

Here's to whatever comes next. ✨

06/13/2026

Save this. Your nervous system needs it more than you think. ⬇️

If you've been wired, exhausted, and running on cortisol since approximately 2019 — this one's for you.

Here's what most wellness posts won't tell you:

Perimenopause doesn't just make you stressed. It literally rewires how your body handles cortisol.

Declining estrogen impairs your HPA axis — the system that regulates your stress response. That means the same life you had at 38 now hits harder, lingers longer, and takes longer to shake.

You're not anxious. You're not weak. Your physiology changed.

The good news? Your nervous system responds fast when you give it the right input.

Here are 10 cortisol-lowering interventions that work in under 20 minutes — and why they hit differently when you're in perimenopause.

Swipe through. Pick one. Do it today.

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Not sure why you're so tired all the time — even when nothing is technically "wrong"?

There's a quiz for that.

It's called the Soul Tired Archetype Quiz and it takes 2 minutes. It'll tell you exactly which pattern is running your nervous system into the ground — and what to do about it.

Take it free → bit.ly/soultiredquiz

Or drop TIRED in the comments and I'll send you the link. 🌿

06/12/2026

It’s Friday and I have one thing to say to the woman who white-knuckled her way through this week.

You’re still here.

I know that sounds small. It’s not.

Some weeks the win is just that you kept going. You showed up for your people even when you felt invisible inside your own life. You made it to Friday.

I see a lot of women in my clinic who are holding so much that “fine” has become their default answer to every question — including the ones they ask themselves.

If that’s you today — this is your soft landing.

You don’t have to have it figured out this weekend. You just have to rest.

Cheers! Come home to yourself. 🌿

06/10/2026

Something I’ve been building for months is finally live.

The Soul Tired Archetype Quiz.

Because “I’m exhausted” doesn’t tell you what to do about it.

But knowing why your nervous system is depleted? That changes everything.

There are five ways exhaustion shows up in women in perimenopause. Five completely different patterns — different drivers, different symptoms, different fixes.

The Braced Woman. The Wired Woman. The Story-Bound Woman. The Depleted Giver. The Scattered Woman.

Most women are carrying all five labels at once — anxious, burnt out, foggy, reactive, depleted — and have no idea which one is actually running the show.

This quiz tells you.

2 minutes. Free. Built from 18 years of clinical practice.

👉 https://bit.ly/soultiredquiz

Take it and tell me what you get. 👇

Cheers! Come home to yourself. 🌿

06/08/2026

Hey…

You cannot work full time, raise kids, keep the house running, show up in your marriage, stay fit, and still feel like yourself.

I know, because women sit across from me every week convinced they’re failing.

They’re not failing.

Their nervous system is running a five-alarm fire — and nobody told them that’s what exhaustion actually is.

It’s not a willpower problem. It’s not laziness. It’s not perimenopause “just being like this.”

It’s a body that’s been in survival mode so long, it forgot what safe feels like.

The list was never the problem.

The lie was that your body could handle the list indefinitely — without cost.

It can’t. Mine couldn’t either.

That’s not weakness. That’s biology.

If you want to understand what’s actually driving your exhaustion — not just name it, but understand it — start here: https://bit.ly/soultiredquiz

Cheers! Come home to yourself. 🌿

06/07/2026

I’m back. 🌿

Two weeks. Actual rest. The kind where your nervous system finally exhales on day four and you didn’t even realize it was holding.

I read books. I slept past 6. I rode roller coasters with my kids and did exactly zero clinical thinking.

And now I’m back — with something I’ve been building for months ready to go live this week.

If you’ve been wondering what type of Soul Tired you are, the wait is almost over.

More Wednesday. Good to be here.

Cheers! Come home to yourself. 🌿

06/03/2026

The Menopause Foundation of NL is running a province-wide survey and honestly — it's about time.

If you're between 35–70, live in NL, and have been through perimenopause or menopause… they want to hear from you.

Symptoms. Access to care. The gaps. What we actually need.

Because our experiences deserve to be counted — and this data has the power to shape the future of menopause care in this province.

10–15 minutes. Closes June 30th.

YOUR MENOPAUSE STORY MATTERS.

For too long, women across Newfoundland and Labrador have been told their symptoms are "just part of aging," dismissed, misdiagnosed, or left to navigate menopause on their own.

Today, we're changing that.

The Menopause Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is launching our first province-wide menopause survey, and we're asking every woman who has experienced perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause to have her voice heard.

This isn't just a survey.

This is an opportunity to help shape the future of menopause care in our province.

Because stories are powerful.

But data creates change.

Every response helps us better understand the experiences of women across Newfoundland and Labrador and strengthens our ability to advocate for the care, education, awareness, and support women deserve.

📝 Complete the survey here: https://forms.gle/W2bRvPejBo51rG5CA

The information gathered will help support our advocacy efforts for:

✔ Publicly funded, evidence-based menopause care
✔ Mandatory menopause education for healthcare providers
✔ A Provincial Centre of Excellence for Menopause Care

Our goal is ambitious: 10,000 responses in 30 days.

And we can't do it without you.

If you've ever felt dismissed...
If you've ever struggled to find answers...
If you've ever felt alone in this transition...

This is your chance to help create change.

👉 Complete the survey.
👉 Share this post.
👉 Tag the women in your life.
👉 Help us reach women in every corner of our province.

Every voice matters.
Every story matters.
Every response helps us build a stronger case for change.

Together, we can help shape the future of menopause care in Newfoundland and Labrador.

06/02/2026

I fell off the wagon.

No posts. No strategy. No content calendar running in my head.

Just roller coasters and bad theme park food and actually laughing.

18 years of practice. And somewhere in the last few years, I forgot what it felt like to just… be somewhere. Not documenting it. Not optimizing it. Not asking myself if this counts as filling my cup.

It does. It counted.

If you’re a high-functioning woman who hasn’t had a real break in longer than you can remember — I see you. I was you.

Come home to yourself. 🌿

Take the quiz → https://bit.ly/soultiredquiz

05/28/2026

I took a week.

Not a working vacation. Not a “I’ll just check in once a day” week. A real one.

And I won’t lie — it took a couple of days before my nervous system actually believed it was allowed to stop.

That’s the thing nobody talks about. We’re so conditioned to earn our rest that even when we’re standing in front of the ocean, part of us is still running the list.

This week I watched my kids dive in without hesitation. No negotiation. No guilt. Just — in.

I’m working on that.

Coming home soon. Back to the work I love, and back to this space.

If you’ve been here a while — thank you for staying. 💚