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Above Atlas Clinic Dr. Jim Galvin, DC, INHC

Above Atlas Clinic
Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Nutrition, Performance, Functional Medicine

Gray Beard Forge Mixed Martial Arts

10/23/2026

Want to know where I actually learned to say no? Jiu-jitsu.

In jiu-jitsu, people ask if you want to roll. And there are still moves I'm not comfortable with, things I'm learning, positions I'm not ready for. So I've had to practice saying no. Out loud. To another person, right there on the mat.

Most of my partners are men. So this has been real practice for me. Learning that I can say no and it's respected. That I can say not that move, or not today, and it's fine.

And here's the part that surprised me. I can say no, or I can say yes, and still have fun either way. The no isn't the end of anything. It's just me deciding what I'm ready for.

Turns out a boundary on the mat is the same muscle as a boundary at the holiday table. You practice it in one place, and it starts showing up in the others.

Results and relationships are my top two priorities as a practitioner and clinic owner. You will feel different. You wil...
10/18/2026

Results and relationships are my top two priorities as a practitioner and clinic owner.
You will feel different. You will heal different.
The more consistent YOU are, the more effective I am. We will get to know each other.
I want to hear about your life. You’ll hear about mine. The good, the bad, the ugly.
People cry on my table. We pray together.
I’m learning to hug more.
God is good. He put the most amazing capacity to heal within each human being and it is my calling to bring it forth.
It does not matter what you have going on. There is HOPE to see your life improve.

Maybe. Should. Doesn’t apply to everyone.Just not something many people consider. A body with 5-10 more lbs of muscle in...
09/30/2026

Maybe. Should. Doesn’t apply to everyone.

Just not something many people consider.

A body with 5-10 more lbs of muscle in the right places looks closer to what MOST people actually want compared to losing the same 10-20lbs on the scale over and over because they “don’t want to get too big.”

Cuppies
09/25/2026

Cuppies

Working with weight cut athletes be like…
09/15/2026

Working with weight cut athletes be like…

09/04/2026

I didn't always have rhythm. For a long time I ran on pure survival.

Get up, handle it, get through, collapse, do it again. There was no rhythm to it. There was just the next thing that needed me.

As I began to value myself and see myself as a person outside of just the job and the roles I had, I started to recognize that I was dehumanizing myself from the moment I woke up. I was waking up to crisis and going to bed in crisis, and at some point it became unbearable to keep living that way.

So I did what I thought I was supposed to. I tried every rigid schedule I could find. I made my checklist and did all the fads the high-functioning authors said I should do. But I stayed burnt out.

It wasn't some big morning routine that supported my nervous system. It was the small, simple changes over time. I'm not perfect at them, and they often change, and that is okay. In fact, that's the point.

These small rhythms let me be human. They let me meet my own needs, have a full cup to give from, and stay in the now instead of the past or whatever's coming that day.

That's why I care about this so much. Not because rhythm is trendy. Because I know what it's like to have none, and I know what one small anchor did for me.

So this month, we start small. One thing. That's how it started for me too.

Here’s a few things I am seeing results with acupuncture/needling over the past few monthsNeuropathy/radiculopathy Migra...
09/02/2026

Here’s a few things I am seeing results with acupuncture/needling over the past few months

Neuropathy/radiculopathy
Migraines
Digestive symptoms
Edema, lipidema, lymphedema, fluid retention in general
Scarring impairing peripheral nerve receptors and myofascial mechanics
Sleep, mood, appetite, mental/emotional state

There is just as much, if not more, “nervous system” in your face mouth feet and your finger tips as there is in your spinal cord and brain. Say that again out loud. Then look at the weird little sensorimotor homunculus guy.

INNATE doesn’t discriminate between a head trauma, brain hemisphericity or lobe dysfunction, a misaligned vertebra or section of vertebrae, curvature of spinal regions, poor spinal posture, poor spinal mechanics, spinal cord, nerve, nerve root, nerves, or the 5 different classifications of peripheral nerve receptors found in the neuro-myo-fascial-skeletal system.

Same, same. But different.

All can produce nerve interference. Subluxation.

It doesn’t matter the tool, or the words, or the methods.

This is what chiropractic is rooted in and really the only thing chiropractors “treat.”

Symptoms change, over time, based on the signals your body is telling you.

Will you listen and apply a proper stimulus to create an adaptation?

It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

But if you want to go deeper

Sub - less
Lux - light
Ation - a state of

A state of less light. Your cells emit UV light internally. 🤯

Nothing new under the sun. As above, so below. Created in His image.

Nobel Prize winning work.

But it sounds stupid and impossible that we have light inside our bodies when we have a systemic “theology” around belief in the scientific method that only the things we can see or measure with man made tools of the educated mind are absolute truth.

They are a portion of relative truth.

We’re still in the Dark Ages. The Enlightenment was a farce.

Carry on.

We got abdomens, c section scars, pelvic floors and bowels 💩🚽 moving this week! Multi day, debilitating headaches improv...
08/31/2026

We got abdomens, c section scars, pelvic floors and bowels 💩🚽 moving this week!

Multi day, debilitating headaches improved in a few treatments.

Deep sleep and naps happening after months of insomnia.

The right tool, in the right place, at the right time.

That is specificity.

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