Organic Living Chiropractic

09/06/2026

The Weird Little Body Part Quietly Running Your & Your Kid's

School Year

Back-to-school season means new backpacks, new schedules, and — if you're anything like most parents in Colorado Springs right now — a fresh wave of "why is my kid so tired/unfocused/wired at 9pm." We tend to look everywhere for the cause: screen time, diet, the sleep schedule, the usual suspects. Rarely do we look at the actual physical starting point — where a kid's tongue rests, how their jaw sits, and what their breath is doing while they're sitting in a classroom for six hours a day.

Here's the part most people have never heard: tongue position, jaw tension, and breathing pattern aren't three separate things — they're one system, and it's foundational to how a developing nervous system organizes itself. A tongue that rests low instead of up against the roof of the mouth changes how the jaw develops. A jaw held tight changes how a kid breathes. And breath — mouth versus nose, shallow versus full — has a direct line to sleep quality, to whether the nervous system can settle enough at night to actually restore itself, and to whether a kid shows up the next day regulated enough to focus, or wired and defensive before the first bell even rings. None of this makes it onto a school supply list, but it arguably matters more than the backpack.

This is also a good moment for Snorkel Gear, Part II. If you caught last month's letter, you know the phrase: don't wear snorkel gear in a Colorado winter — whatever strategy got you through one season can become exactly the wrong gear for the next. Summer's loose schedule, later bedtimes, and unstructured days built one kind of nervous system rhythm. School's back — earlier mornings, more sitting, more demands on focus — and that rhythm needs to shift with it, for kids and for the adults raising them. Carrying summer's gear into fall doesn't just feel off, it costs energy nobody has extra of right now.

The practical piece, and it's genuinely simple: for a few days, just watch. Notice your kid's mouth when they're relaxed — resting open or closed? Watch at breakfast, during homework, right before bed. You're not diagnosing anything, you're just gathering information your body already knows how to read once you're actually looking. Same goes for you — notice your own jaw and breath in those same moments. Awareness always comes before any useful change, for a seven-year-old's nervous system or a forty-year-old's.

If this is landing, you're going to want to be in the room this Thursday.

Whats Coming Up Soon

This Thursday — September 10th

Can't make it in person, or want to build this into a regular practice? Ask about our SRI (Somato Respiratory Integration) classes — breathwork is literally the foundation of the whole system.

We are in the process of creating a special series of 2nd Thursday classes we hope to start in November.

This series will be a sort of culmination of the major pieces we have put together for you so far. We will explore the practicality, science, and philosophy that really gets to the foundational principles we all need to know and embody to have the best shot at creating both a body and a life that we love and enjoy.
Be on the lookout for more details coming soon!

Tentative Topics and dates

November 12th: From Fear to Passion

December 10th: From Pain to Freedom
January14th: From Stuck to Reconnection

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08/02/2026

What Elite Athletes Know About Rest That Most of Us Ignore

Hey there,

Colorado Springs likes to call itself Olympic City USA, and most of us wear that a little differently than we realize. We don't have to be training for Trials to have absorbed the culture around it: push harder, do more, rest is for people who haven't optimized yet. Funny thing - actual elite athletes don't believe that. They treat recovery as part of the training, not a break from it. We're usually the only ones in the stadium still confusing exhaustion with progress.

Here's what's worth separating out, because they get lumped together constantly: wanting something and actually liking it are not the same event in your brain. Wanting runs on dopamine - it's the chase, the reach, the next thing. Liking runs on a different system entirely (opioids, cannabinoids - your body's own chemistry), and it's what happens when you actually land somewhere and let it register. Neuroscience calls these dissociable systems for a reason: you can spend an entire summer wanting - one more goal, one more win, one more thing checked off - without ever completing the loop into liking. That's not a willpower problem. That's an incomplete cycle. And when the cycle stays incomplete long enough, the brain adapts by wanting more and liking less, which is exactly the late-August hustle fatigue so many of you are describing right now: busy, "productive," and strangely flat.

So the practical piece - borrowed straight from how athletes actually train - isn't complicated, it's just unfamiliar. Before you try to fix anything external, give your body one full exhale that's longer than the inhale, and actually notice where that lands: shoulders, jaw, the back of the throat. If nothing softened, you're not done yet - that's the cue, not a failure. Once you feel that place of ease, that's your starting point, not your reward for finishing something. From there, run a quick self-check on your last week: where was the passion, where was the purpose, and where - separately - was the actual pleasure? If one of those three is doing all the work while the other two are running on fumes, that's useful information, not a character flaw.

None of this is about doing less. It's about noticing whether your nervous system ever gets the signal that it's safe to stop reaching and start receiving. That signal is trainable - it's literally what a regulated nervous system does better with practice.

If you want an objective look at where your system actually is - not what you assume, what your body is doing in real time - a Neuro-Somatic Evaluation gives you that picture: high-tech, real-time, and a genuinely useful starting map. And if the wanting/liking distinction above sparked something, our full From Pain to Pleasure class digs into it in a lot more depth - worth the watch. Either way, you deserve a body that gets to enjoy the summit, not just climb it.

Talk soon,
Dr. Tad
Organic Living Chiropractic

Coming Up: When Your Mouth Is Running the Show

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07/30/2026

Healing hard is an important part of a healthy lifestyle!

07/30/2026

This is what healing hard looks like!

07/21/2026

Our experiences as humans come from inside our bodies. Changing outer circumstances is an inefficient way to get what we want.
It’s what’s inside that counts 🧠🫀👁️

07/20/2026

Are You Resting, or Just Collapsing?

Hey there,

When's the last time you actually rested, versus just... stopped?

Colorado Springs in July doesn't help - everybody's outside, everybody's doing something, Pikes Peak sits there being smug about it. And when you finally collapse onto the couch at 9pm, your body isn't resting. It's playing dead.

There's Being Still, there's Relaxing, and there's Resting - three different animals wearing the same pajamas.

Being still just means you stopped moving. Your body can sit on the couch fully braced - nervous system on alert, muscles clenched around nothing, running the same defense program it'd run for an actual bear. Motionless, not safe.

Relaxing only happens once your nervous system gets a real 'we are safe' signal. Not a maybe.

Resting is supposed to be Being Still plus Relaxing. Drop the relaxing part and all you've got is being still - which doesn't count, whatever your calendar app thinks.

The research on resilience backs this up: people recover from hard stretches not because the hard part ends, but because their nervous system gets clear evidence, afterward, that it's safe to stand down. No evidence, no recovery - just a body stuck 'off but still armed,' even on vacation.

So, the practice for July. Do these in order - out of order is why most breathing exercises don't work:

Step 1: Breathe. Four counts in, six or seven out. That's a direct 'stand down' signal - mechanics, not vibes.

Step 2: Find one place in your body holding tension, and let it actually soften. A real spot - jaw, shoulders, that tight thing behind your eyes. If step 1 didn't produce this, you're not done.

Step 3, and only step 3: ask 'What part of this situation is mine to influence?'

Here's what trips people up - OLC's answer always starts with your body, not your circumstances. Work with your body first, as a teammate, until it hands you more ease. Only then turn outward: the text you've been avoiding, the boundary that suddenly feels doable.

Skip the body part and go straight for circumstances, and you're just white-knuckling summer with a nervous system that never got the memo. Ask me how I know.

Most of us are running an unconscious program built for actual survival - the tiger-in-the-grass kind. Almost none of us live that life anymore, but the program's still running full blast, deciding resisting change beats enjoying your one summer. Not your fault - outdated software, no update installed. Rebelling against that unconscious 'normal,' gently and with a sense of humor, is basically our whole job.

Noticing more Being Still than Resting lately? Find out where your body's still armed with a Neuro-Somatic Evaluation - a high-tech, real-time look at tension you might not even know you're holding. That tension costs you: energy to sustain it, energy stolen from everyday tasks, and a running signal telling your brain you're still not safe.

Schedule yours before summer gets any louder. (https://organiclivingchiropractic.com/new-patient-experience/)

Talk soon,
Dr. Tad
Organic Living Chiropractic

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07/12/2026

“We do not see the world as it is, we see the world as we are”
This isn’t philosophical it’s a biological fact. As crazy as it sounds, outer reality is beyond our capability to experience directly. The nervous system is “our reality” generator. 🧠
It indirectly creates our experiences based on sensory input from the body not from actual “seeing” what’s around us.👀👂🏻👅☝️
If the nervous system is restricted 🚫 then our experience and expression is also. The scary part is that we will have no way of knowing when it’s restricted until after it’s clear.
Give the gift of clarity to yourself, your friends and your family. Why stay restricted? We all deserve a full experience of Life.
With our Neuro-Somatic Evaluation we can see, in real time, if we are restricted or clear. No guessing, no hoping. Just the truth.
Act now!

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07/08/2026

In business we many times focus on optimizing other systems—relationships, environment, behaviors—but neglect the most crucial one: our nervous system. Advanced NetworkSpinal care helps your body reorganize, becoming more resilient and functional against life's stresses. Experience enhanced mental clarity, deeper sleep, better digestion, more energy, and true authenticity.
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07/07/2026

Just a reminder that if we are taking our heath seriously, we are doing it the hard way.
Take your health joyfully, playfully, and enthusiastically!
Stressing ourselves out with all the things we “should” do to be healthier only makes things worse in the long run.
If you want to know how to do this better, remember that we offer an indepth and high tech exam where you can see, in real time, where your body is holding the stress that makes being healthy hard. Releasing that stress gives you more energy to love the life you are in. Loving the life you are in makes caring for your body both easier and more enjoyable.

Sign up here when you are ready for more energy…

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06/28/2026

The perfect candidate for NetworkSpinal Care? Anyone with a nervous system! While some may not be ready for deep self-awareness yet, there's a timing to healing. Embrace the journey to meet your true self.
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