#29: Your Spine has Magic! With Dr. Jackie St.Cyr
Description:
In this wonderful episode, Tina Marie and Innate Chiropractic's founder and CEO Dr. Jackie St.Cyr discuss the science, philosophy, magic, and importance of chiropractic care.
Bio:
Dr. Jackie St.Cyr has been in the Chiropractic profession since 1980. Her career began as a chiropractic assistant where she served from 1980-1992. Her main focus and love was the direct “hands-on” experience of working with patients to heal their body and their life. In 1982, she attended her first Parker Chiropractic Success Seminar. There she was inspired by the passion and philosophy taught by Chiropractors Dr. Jim Parker and Dr. John Demartini and she decided to become a Chiropractor.
With confidence in her healing touch, a dream and desire to serve more, she entered the Parker College of Chiropractic, Dallas, TX, in January of 1992. She excelled and graduated from Parker and received her Texas State Chiropractic license in January of 1995. Dr. Jackie also earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Anatomy from Parker College.
Today Dr. Jackie’s approach to health and wellness incorporates a “full-spine, whole-person” approach utilizing the gentle techniques of NetworkSpinal Chiropractic Care (aka Network Chiropractic and NetworkSpinal Analysis) and Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI). Studying under Dr. Donald Epstein, she has achieved the highest level of Certification in NetworkSpinal Analysis and SRI Wellness Education.
Links:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjackiestcyr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjackiestcyr/
Website: https://www.n8chiro.com/
Transcript:
Tina Marie (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to light your life. I'm your host, Tina Marie St. Sierra. And today is a very special day because the guest that we have is someone dear, dear, dear, to my heart. And I want to introduce her to you and have you know, about her life and her wisdom and her genius that she applies into our world. Each week, we get to learn from those people that are living their passion and they share their wisdom so that your life can be even better. And today is an amazingly special day to me because I want you to know about the gifts of chiropractic in your life. I happen to be very honored, to be married to Dr. Jackie St. Cyr of Houston, Texas. She is the owner and founder of innate chiropractic. She's been in practice 26 years, and she has an amazing following here and helps so many people have amazing lives and know the power of their spine, their nervous system, and their true health through the wisdom of chiropractic care.
Tina Marie (01:05):
Not all of us know about chiropractic. I was one of those people that knew of chiropractic, but the truth was when I finally got introduced to chiropractic, I had not known about chiropractic. I had just thought I knew. And so what I want to do is take you on my journey, take you on the journey that Dr. Jackie St Cyr has been through and have you understand the wisdom and the potential for your own health, your own healing and your own marvelous, amazing nervous system that is going to help you Uplevel your life. That's why we listen to this podcast, right? And the beauty of all of this is I get to have another wonderful conversation with my wife, Dr. Jackie safe fear. And so you get to know her as well. So this is so fun. Thank you for being our guest today and having this wonderful conversation, Jackie.
Tina Marie (01:54):
Hello. Hello. Thanks for having me. I'm going to call you Dr. Jackie, but at home, I don't call you Dr. Jackie, I call you sweetheart. So this is awesome. Thank you for sharing your, your wisdom of chiropractic. And so what does start with, you know, what got you introduced to chiropractic? I know you've told this story many times and I've heard it many times. Our listeners have not, and I think it's important for everyone to understand how chiropractic can come into our lives. You may not necessarily want to become a chiropractor and, you know, understand chiropractic at that depth, however, chiropractic services and the awareness of what chiropractic does for us does come into our life because of a need. It's like, it's not like this mainstay conversation that's out there in the world. We sort of get introduced to it typically through pain. So how is it that you came into contact with the chiropractic field and understanding of chiropractic for yourself as a young young woman? Well, thank you. Chiropractic
Jackie St.Cyr (03:00):
Found me and the way it found me was through a car accident and I was in a car accident at 16. And my mom took me to a chiropractor. She had been to a chiropractor for several years for lower back pain. And her mom, my grandmother had been to a chiropractor for gallbladder problems. And so when we had this accident, there were a few of us teenagers in the car. We got rear-ended and they took us to a chiropractor. And then shortly after that, I started working for that chiropractor.
Tina Marie (03:35):
That's very interesting. And so many, would you say that many people learn of chiropractic through that introduction of pain via pain in their body or an accident? Is that how we become aware of chiropractic?
Jackie St.Cyr (03:50):
I think so. I think that's what most people think chiropractic is truly about is neck pain, back pain, headaches. But really, as you know, it's about more than that. And that's why that, that more than that is why I fell in love with chiropractic.
Tina Marie (04:06):
Awesome. And so you went to school, so we're, short-circuiting along story here and jumping straight into Dr. Jackie from the age of 16 to the age of what you worked in chiropractic offices as a chiropractic assistant. So you were basically the person that did all the other stuff besides adjust the patients. How long of a span was that? I think we've said 13 years.
Jackie St.Cyr (04:28):
Well, I graduated from chiropractic school when I was 30. And for the years before that, I was in school for chiropractic school for three years. And before that worked for chiropractors and did my pre-recs and all of that for all of those years. Right? 15 or 16 years. Yeah.
Tina Marie (04:50):
There you go. And you're one of two people. If, if master Lindsey is listening, she's the other person that falls in this category of people that I know that whenever you started in the workforce or you're your young version of yourself, you went into, you've only had a couple other jobs, but you've stayed true to a field and you've stayed true to chiropractic. And, you know, as an aside master Lindsey is karate Tung sudo, right? And so when we're talking about Dr. Jackie here, so with chiropractic, how did you fall in love with it? What was that thing that said, Oh my God, this, this stuff is marvelous. Take us to that place.
Jackie St.Cyr (05:29):
Well it was saying miracles happened in the chiropractor's offices that I worked in number one. And number two was when they took me to seminars where I got to learn about the chiropractic philosophy and the universal principles and laws that they all teach and live their lives by. You know, whether that be professional, personal success success in business, universal principles for manifesting, you know, kind of like law of attraction type of stuff
Tina Marie (06:02):
And that stuff. So, you know, typically we wouldn't think of, I wouldn't think of a health field. I know I was going to say medical, you have as much training, if not more than a medical professional in the schooling that you had to go through in order to become a chiropractor. Few people know that actually a few people know the, the intensity of the training. And even though you mentioned that you did this in three years, you did basically a four or five-year program in three years because you went full in, right. Year-Round yeah. Yeah. It's so the amount of knowledge and wisdom and training that you received as a chiropractic student, would you, what's the equivalency there? Based in, in the medical field, if we were to compare that?
Jackie St.Cyr (06:47):
Yes. That's. So that's something a lot of people don't know, you know, some people think we get a few weekend seminars and boom, you're a chiropractor or go for maybe a year, like a massage therapist. But we have to study everything a medical doctor does. We even learned how to have to learn how to do pap smears. Okay. not that I've ever done one except on a model, a plastic model. Okay. But yeah, so we have to learn everything they learn. We might study nutrition where they study, study drugs or medications. We study adjusting where they study surgery, but as far as diagnostics and x-rays and medical testing and things like that diagnosis, we have to study that just as much, maybe more on the diagnosis spectrum than a medical doctor. So,
Tina Marie (07:44):
And then a part, what you mentioned that is not in the medical field, or is not in the common acumen language of health professionals is this the, the manifesting piece, the law of attraction, the, the unseen principles that design and work in and through our healing systems and in our mind and our spirit. And you mentioned that that had you really fall in love with chiropractic.
Jackie St.Cyr (08:12):
Yes, because it showed me a better way of life. I grew up in like many of us humans did dysfunctional family with drug and alcohol abuse. And that the principles of success showed me a different way of living and ha you know what, somehow I instinctively as a young teenager adult knew that there was more to life, you know? And when I heard these chiropractors speaking about the universal intelligence and aid intelligence manifesting the law of attraction, all those, those types of methodologies, that was fascinating to me because it true, it was truth. And I knew it in my spirit, my soul.
Tina Marie (08:58):
Right. And so chiropractic's based on something you've called the spa of chiropractic, the spa of chiropractic. Could you help our, our, our listeners know what the, a stands for
Jackie St.Cyr (09:12):
Sure. The spa, my favorite the science philosophy and art of chiropractic, the science is, you know, the human body the neurology, the philosophy is the connection of that neurology to our spirit and our soul. And the art is how are you going to address someone's spirit, soul and nervous system? There's over 135 different chiropractic techniques. And so that's the art, you know, how will you apply that, like different type of massage therapy while there's different types of chiropractic theory?
Tina Marie (09:51):
I like that they call it an art because, I mean, even if I, if I think about it, because Cairo it, it stands for hand, right? It's, what's the, the breakdown of the Latin of chiropractic
Jackie St.Cyr (10:02):
Chiropractic means done by hand
Tina Marie (10:04):
Done by hand. And if you think of artists, right. Artists being musicians, or even, you know, artists that paint, they have different mediums. So some artists are going to use acrylics or oils or pastels or watercolors, or, you know blend. Right, right. And so whenever you speak of these 135, did you say methods
Jackie St.Cyr (10:26):
Was the last I heard many years ago, 135.
Tina Marie (10:29):
That's a lot. So the arch is how do you apply the spa, right? The science and the philosophy and the art of chiropractic to help someone's life in general. It's not just spine. I mean, that's whenever I came to meet you. Some people know this story. I was in a lot of pain severe pain. And it didn't matter if I was sitting down, laying down even post a massage things did were not right. You could just tell inside of my body, the amount of pain that I was enduring, it was just that I was enduring it. And it made me irritable. And the rest of my life was also being affected by that pain. Now I knew inside that the reason why the pain was there wasn't because I was in a car accident. It was because of the emotional stress I was holding within my body was at an all time high breaking level.
Tina Marie (11:25):
And my body was putting that in me, you know, it's, it's keeping me as safe as it can. And I had the show had to go on so to speak, but the evidence of that pain was, was deafening to my way of being, and for people in 48 hours, all different sides of the Houston area referred you to me. And, you know, sometimes I can be a bit daft. I am of Irish descent. So then you got a stubborn streak. And so the first two people that recommended you in the same day, giving me your business card, one at about eight o'clock in the morning and the other one around four 15 in the afternoon that got my attention. And then the next day, two other people that I admire also saying how your care would be able to benefit what I was experiencing.
Tina Marie (12:12):
It's as though the universe said, okay, woman, can you finally listen to us? And I came in I was not a proponent of chiropractic. I had heard the war stories, the horror stories, the the pain that it could inflect. And I had held inside my own mind, my imagination, something that was going to be harmful yet. I had to give it a go. I had to give it a go. And what I learned through your form of chiropractic was something I'd never known, even existed was the methodologies like you speak of, you have one that's called tonal. And that total technique was something that my body resonated with it immediately. It felt as though it was more natural, more holistic, more appreciative of the healing process and more participatory in that. It's could you explain to us your technique that you specialize in here in Houston and why you selected that?
Jackie St.Cyr (13:11):
Sure. Thank you. First let me say, I'm sorry that you heard the war stories and the horrible stories, because there's so many more success stories with chiropractic than whatever people here that are people getting hurt. You're getting squarely get hurt. People rarely get hurt with chiropractic. So just
Tina Marie (13:34):
It's true people rarely do, but isn't it interesting that the bad cases, the bad things that happen tend to elevate and surface,
Jackie St.Cyr (13:41):
Just look at the news today, right?
Tina Marie (13:44):
What about the bad? Not the good, so much. So, you know, and it keeps me scared. It keeps us scared. So you, you specialize in a tonal technique. I'd love to learn more about that. And then also why you, why you selected that tonal technique.
Jackie St.Cyr (13:58):
Okay, sure. So the technique that that I practice is called network spinal chiropractic. It used to be called network spinal analysis. And before that, it began as well before that it was never chiropractic. And before that it was just network that were technique
Tina Marie (14:18):
And all the way through it, right.
Jackie St.Cyr (14:20):
Network has been all the way through it. So network chiropractic, network care, whatever you want to call it. Network is a combination or began as a combination of many of the different techniques that are out there, because there are techniques that are more specialized or more leading in the field of chiropractic. But network took, let's say the best pieces of those and network them together to create a protocol where the body could learn over time. It developed where the body was learning and becoming self corrective. Okay. so that's why I chose network is because, because network helps your body become self-correcting, that is more in alignment with the true philosophy of chiropractic versus a technique where somebody is treating PI and work comp cases and just treating that pain back pain headaches. Right? So the very first chiropractic adjustment curate a man of deafness.
Jackie St.Cyr (15:23):
It wasn't about neck pain, back pain and headaches. And so when you know that story and you know, that it's really about the nervous system. That's why I chose to practice network after let's say 16, 17 years in the chiropractic profession as a chiropractic assistant or a student after a year of practice after graduation, I received my first network chiropractic adjustment and at the time network spinal analysis. But it, it became clear to me right away. How do I do this for myself and not for my patients? And in 45 days, I switched my whole practice over. And so now I've been practicing network for 25 years.
Tina Marie (16:07):
And so a tonal technique is what how's that different than other types of techniques. What's it mean to be tonal?
Jackie St.Cyr (16:13):
Yeah. Great question. So there's what, what all chiropractic techniques treat if you want to say they treat what all chiropractic techniques address is called subluxation. And there's two different types of subluxation. One is called a structural subluxation, which involves the bones, muscles nervous system, but typically that's what people think of as a bone out of place, putting pressure on a nerve. Okay, well, there's another type of facility of subluxation called a facilitated subluxation. And that's the anatomy of that is like there's direct tension on the brain and spinal cord. Okay. So if it happens with defense physiology or head forward posture, which is really prevalent in our society to date today with all the texting. So w you hear people talking about text neck, well, it's not just how it looks so bad, but what it's doing to your nervous system is it's pulling directly light directly on the brain and spinal cord. And so a tonal technique addresses first, the facilitated subluxation or the tension that's directly on the brain and spinal cord through the meningeal system, the covering of the brain and spinal cord.
Tina Marie (17:27):
And you've seen evidence because what we're talking about, if we, you know, put it in layman's term, there's some chiropractic techniques that, you know, I personally call, this is not a term in chiropractic field. I call it snap, crackle, pop. It's just like we, we, we go to the chiropractor and cook, cook, cook, cook, you know, you've got the cracking, right. And I've received that in as cool, love it. You know, you know, whenever relax into it, it has great effects. And, you know, it works for a good majority of people. This total technique is more using the body's own intelligence because you're a partner with that intelligence to adjust the body so that the body learns. And I've been a receiver of this and can testify absolutely. That the body, like you said, it's, self-correcting it adjusts itself. So I think whenever I was under your care at the very beginning, it's been many years ago I think I'd received maybe six, maybe seven of your entrainments you call them entrainments.
Tina Marie (18:27):
Other people would know them as adjustments. And I was there one day and my body, it literally started moving. Like it was, had this, this breath that came through the body is the best I could tell, and that breath had movement to it. It wasn't like a simple breath. It was like the whole body was breathing at a whole level at together is fascinating. And I've had it since, but I remember the first time, it's like, you always remember your first time. And this was my first time where that body just like, totally took over. And what happened is I felt and heard my spine pop it adjusted itself. As you had said it, it would, and not only the thoracics in the middle of my back, but then my neck also correct it. And I was like, Whoa. And I was, I looked around cause there's other people there, you work in an open environment where there's two to three people at the same time.
Tina Marie (19:19):
And, and I was like, did you guys hear that? Like, Oh my God. And it was fascinating because it felt natural. It's okay. You said that this would happen, but there was this doubting Thomas inside of my head going yet. Right. You know, without somebody coming in and knocking you around, how's it going to go back and place, but the bones did go back in place. Cause it seemed like this intelligence is movement that took over my body that it was timed. Right. Or it was just is ready to go. Right. So, and you say that, why, why did that happen?
Jackie St.Cyr (19:52):
Well, first of all, that is not the experience for, for everyone. And it's not necessarily the experience we're going for. Right. I mean spines can correct. And curves can correct without ever, you know, the person being popped and cracked, whether it's happening from the inside of their own body or somebody cracking and popping them. Right. Right. Your terms, crack and pump. So what network is is doing is helping the nervous system to observe the patterns, important word, they're helping the nervous system and observe the patterns of tension that have helped you to survive that have helped you to adapt to your world. The problem with the way your body is, or a person's body is in survival mode or in congruent adaptation is that it will make you live with pain, suffering illness dis-ease and cause you to age early and not feel or function well.
Jackie St.Cyr (21:03):
And so rather than adjusting doing a structural adjustment, or rather than manipulating the muscles through massage or electric STEM or something like that, what network does is we help the brain observe the tension patterns and start to unwind that stress from the inside out because you, if you get a massage therapist to unwind tension and stress for you, that's great. Right. It gets rid of chronic stress intention, but you ask anybody who's ever had a full body massage and they'll tell you, yeah, it comes back as soon as it gets stressed out again. Right. Same patterns. Right. And that pattern is controlled by the nervous system. So the change has happened within the nervous system and that's what network has happened.
Tina Marie (21:47):
That's amazing. And so what do you see in the affects of your patients? What are some of the things that you've seen walk in you, you, you alluded to whenever you were first at chiropractic you know you worked in the chiropractic office, right? You were a chiropractic assistant that you fell in love with chiropractic because you saw people come in with certain conditions and you saw what chiropractic did for them without drugs, without surgery. And, and you've evolved. I mean, you've been in, in the practice and the industry a long time. What have you seen? And what are some of those hallmark things that you say, you know, just makes you proud to be a chiropractor,
Jackie St.Cyr (22:29):
Right? Everything from crawling in because they have lower back pain and can't walk literally saying that too, I remember this one story where this doctor that I was working for, someone came in and they could not lift their arm up. Right. They had an AC joint separation. That's the joint on the very top of your shoulder. Right. And so he literally, he was a great structural adjuster. Okay. He literally put his thumb on, on that one spot on her shoulder and took his fist, like a hammer and hammered the top of the stump. And you heard the loudest pop from across the room. Right. And the woman was not able to lift her arm four months. Okay. And then, and immediately she could lift her arms. She's like, Oh my God, I can't believe this. And let me stand up. And she stood up and she could still do it, you know?
Jackie St.Cyr (23:25):
And it was so funny, but to see the light come on in her and to see, you know, that happened, I was just like, Whoa, that's crazy. And you know, to see people will be able to walk, to see people changed, you know, in their attitude to, to be like coming in grumpy bumpy and you know, happy. Right. That's something that is just amazing. And you know, I've heard stories when I fell in love with chiropractic, I heard stories from people like Dr. Dimartini and telling stories about people coming into their office. And one day they come in with the kid, for example, and the doctor asks the child, you know, how, how has daddy been since he's been getting adjusted, you know? And he goes, well, daddy still has back pain, but he doesn't hit mommy and I anymore, things like that. Okay. Hearing stories like that, where people are changed, that is why I fell in love with chiropractic.
Tina Marie (24:25):
That's amazing. And in your own practice, what have you seen
Jackie St.Cyr (24:29):
Everything?
Tina Marie (24:31):
26 years? I can imagine.
Jackie St.Cyr (24:34):
One child that I adjusted who was like seven years old, I think seven or eight. And he was afraid to get in the pool. Right. He was scared of the pool. He was scared of the baseball. And he was scared of so many different things. He was scared of the dark. Right. Well, I just adjusted him. Cause his grandmother brought him in and said, Hey, can you adjust them? Right. I don't even think we did an exam on him at the time. But we adjusted him and then the family came back the next day. And they were astatic because he had gone to the pool and jumped in the pool and him and his brother actually got kicked out of the pool that day because they were jumping in the deep end and holding their breath too long. And it scared the lifeguard. Okay. Yeah. He came back to me and told me that he turned into a dolphin, like the dolphins on my wall had a picture of some dolphins. Right. Well, it makes me smile from what I understand hearing about this child later. It changed his life because he was afraid of everything and one adjustment changed his life.
Tina Marie (25:48):
And so help us understand the anatomy and thank you for being that, that mentor and that guide for him in his life at that time. And thank you to his grandmother who brought him in what was happening in his physiology and the nervous system and the biology of the body to, I mean, help, help us see how the physiology and nervous system and biology of our bodies partner with chiropractic to create an outcome like that.
Jackie St.Cyr (26:16):
Sometimes people, when they come in, let's use, for example, they have neck pain and they can look up and down, but they can't turn their head left or right. And that means they have decreased range of motion. So the spine is not moving fully through its range of motion and they're limited. And when you're limited there in your spine, you're limited in your life because your nervous system is what comes through your spine and animates them and controls the coordinates, the function of everything in your body. So I've always said, if you have limited range of motion, you have limited range of emotion. And so I think that's how they get a quality of life change is by, you know, they might think that they're there for their neck pain, but when their neck improves their life improves. Yeah. I'm not sure if that answered your question.
Tina Marie (27:06):
And I've seen patients that, you know, they come in for a certain stuckness, I guess, in their life, be it physical. Some people actually have the awareness that chiropractic can help them with their emotional stuckness as well. That's a more elevated perception of chiropractic and a wiser you know, something I've learned from myself definitely. And I've seen people come in with their particular ailments, so to speak, and then the energy comes back in their body. And after care with you, they are able to have enough energy where they're going to make some courageous decisions in their life and completely pivot into what their soul has always called them to have. And B, have you seen that? And could you share a couple stories?
Jackie St.Cyr (27:49):
Well, yes. And Tina, Marie, it goes in alignment with your living above the line, right. It goes into alignment unintended. Right? Right. So if you're living below the line and you have no energy in your system, or the energy is trapped in the system, then you can't live from your higher mind because if you're in fight or flight stress, then the frontal cortex of your brain, it's like hijacked. Right. And you're living from your reptile brain. And so he can only make the decisions of a reptile. Right. Right. I use the example on fight or flight a lot. Like your frontal cortex is hijack. That's the part of your brain that makes decisions, right? The part of your brain that if you're, if you're hijacked in urine in a, an argument with someone that you love, you end up saying something stupid. That means you're in fight or flight. Okay. That's the part of you that's hijacked and you can't live above the line when you don't have that, an affinity in the system. So chiropractic helps restore that energy.
Tina Marie (28:57):
That's beautiful. And that life forces is calling to us at once us to unleash it and utilize it. And whenever it's trapped in the stuckness in the body, we feel the effects of it in our life. What have you seen? Some people do under care that, you know, you remember that they completely pivot their life or they make a big decision and it opens up their entire destiny.
Jackie St.Cyr (29:25):
A lot of people. So there's a phase in network. We're just different phases of tension, right. Which is that tonal tension on the nervous system. And there's a phase three which is classically throughout the development of network been associated with personal identity issues. It says, or issues where a person needs to make a decision in their life or they're, they're stuck and they can't make a decision. And we'll often see the sacrum tilted or the pelvis out of alignment. And so one day I'll come in and check the feet and check the alignment. And all of a sudden that massive phase three that's been so persistent is gone and I'll say, wow, what's changed in your life. You know? And they'll say, I quit my job. That I've hated that I've had for however many years. And I'm moving to Nebraska where I've always wanted to live, you know? And I'm gonna go be an artist or, or do whatever, things like that. So our nervous system controls everything. It is the master system of the body. And it controls the way we think the way we feel. It's beautiful when we operate. Yeah.
Tina Marie (30:40):
Yeah. I've seen it too. And they, they, they even, it's kind of interesting to watch and to observe that they'll say, you'll never believe what I did or they'll say, you know, I gotta tell you something. And because we do not pin do have a holistic approach to our lives. I mean, we haven't been trained, you know, I wasn't trained, I had to learn wholism. We don't have that integrated understanding that one thing that moves here moves all other things. And so it's, it's hard for some of your patients. I've, I've noticed that whenever they get in training, they are under care. They'll have this new energy and they'll go make these huge decisions and make these leaps of progress. They don't always tailor it right back to what they did in chiropractic. You know, it's like a disjointed decision tree there, but we see it.
Tina Marie (31:32):
We see that they found courage. They found passion again, they found their voice, they found healthy boundaries. They, they found connection to their soul where they were simply as, as I've put it a hamster on the wheel. Right. And, and doing what we think we're supposed to do or should do or ought to do and feeling completely unfulfilled in life. I mean, I've seen so many of your patients. I was one of them. I was one of them that was simply doing everything she could to keep everything together. Like some kind of control, freak, not wanting to be a control freak, but thinking, you know, it's like the proverbial Jenga that if one thing pooled at the wrong time in my life, then everything would crash down. And, and so whenever I finally started getting the energy in my life, my perspectives came back, my, my ability to think, and actually figure stuff out and not just start to fix it, but figure it out. And, and it wasn't like I was the be all end, all of my decision-making anymore. There was like an actual higher power. Like I invited that in and partnered with it. What a concept. So your level of chiropractic and chiropractic in general, from what I've learned is that it's putting you, you have an what's it called inside out. What's that analogy that you have tons of those chiropractic
Jackie St.Cyr (32:53):
All down in turnout
Tina Marie (32:56):
What's ADAO mean
Jackie St.Cyr (32:58):
Above, down, inside out. That's how healing happens. It comes from above, down into us, works from the inside out tension, in, in network hair, tension, dissipates from the inside out. That's how your body's going to learn. If something is going to fix you from the outside in, it's not going to fix you.
Tina Marie (33:17):
It's going to be abandoned.
Jackie St.Cyr (33:19):
They'd be a mandate. Yeah, exactly.
Tina Marie (33:22):
And more philosophy. I think you have one the power of the body
Jackie St.Cyr (33:26):
That made the body, made the body heals the body. Do that one again, the power that made the body heals the body. It happens no other way.
Tina Marie (33:35):
Do you believe that there's a part of our population that believes that once we're born, there's some vulnerability to us that we have to always be in fear of. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. I know you come from the manifestation higher mind of, you know, we have all this power inside of us and I've seen culture live in this place where they think that we have to be fixed. As soon as we're born. There's some kind of the innate intelligence doesn't carry through with us. It was just part of the birthing process. And then all of a sudden, boom, here we are. And good luck have a good time of it. But you're saying that the innate intelligence doesn't ever leave our being,
Jackie St.Cyr (34:20):
It's the part of you that heals when you cut yourself, it's the part of you that has a fever when you need to kill some micro organism within your system.
Tina Marie (34:32):
Yeah. And chiropractic turns that on.
Jackie St.Cyr (34:37):
Absolutely awesome. It removes the interference because subluxation happens when you need to survive. When there's more stress than you can deal with physically, immense, mentally, or emotionally chemically, there's more stress than your nervous system can deal with. It's like the brain says, stop. I can't deal with all of this. And it short circuits. You've heard me use the example of plugging all of the equipment in your kitchen, into one outlet. What's going to happen. It's going to blow the fuse. It's going to blow the circuit. You've got to go down to the garage and flip the switch. Right? Well that subluxation, that bone moves out of place. And it creates a protective mechanism, just like those circuit flips for the protective mechanism. So the house doesn't catch on fire. So your bones got to place your body distorts so that you don't catch on fire.
Tina Marie (35:31):
I love that analogy. And it's so visceral to understand that. And I'm sure people that are listening are saying, I think I'm in that fight or flight. I think I'm in that stress mode. I think I'm in that survival mode. I think I'm feeling that in my body. And what would you tell somebody who's never experienced chiropractic before? What would be the,
Jackie St.Cyr (35:52):
Get your spine checked? Your spine is your lifeline. It's a mirror of your reality. That was a big words. And you'd have them not wait for pain. Would you wait to have an abscess tooth? If you knew you had a cavity, but it didn't hurt.
Tina Marie (36:17):
So floss your spine,
Jackie St.Cyr (36:19):
Your spine. If you go, if you go seriously, if you go to the dentist and he finds a cavity, he's not going to tell you. Let's wait until it abscessed. And then we'll do something about it. No, he's going to say, I think we should fill now.
Tina Marie (36:35):
And so whenever we get our spine checked, what do we expect? What happens when you get your spine checked? What's that even mean?
Jackie St.Cyr (36:42):
Well, we look at posture because posture kind of gives us clues as to what's happening with the spine. In some cases we'll do x-rays because we need to see the actual bones and see what's happening and see what level of degeneration is there. If you have head forward posture, if the hole in your ear is over the chromium process, you have head forward posture, then degeneration is happening right now. And what is the deuteration mean over time degeneration over time. That means that the disc spaces decrease there's pressure and strain on your spinal cord and your nerves. And then that affects the function of everything in your body. If you start to get numbness and tingling and things like that down into your hands, there's some stress on the nervous system in your neck, for sure. And so we're back pain. People, people come often with lower back pain and it's coming from their neck and nobody ever checked their neck because you go to the doctor, you have low back pain, they're going to check your low back. They're going to, they're not going to check full spine network checks full spine.
Tina Marie (37:42):
Yeah. And you have, so we could probably talk for a long time on it.
Jackie St.Cyr (37:45):
That's about to go down a whole nother rabbit hole.
Tina Marie (37:48):
Oh, the rabbit hole. Yeah. What's the youngest patient you've ever adjusted
Jackie St.Cyr (37:54):
Three minutes old. Awesome. And the next one was one day. Oh yeah. Yeah.
Tina Marie (38:00):
And, and why would, why would you, you be in the space where you're going to check the spine of a three minute old or a one day old infant?
Jackie St.Cyr (38:10):
Why? Well, if mom has a difficult pregnancy or difficult delivery, then the baby's neck can be strained also. If you have a birth in a hospital and they're going to pull the baby out by the neck or by forceps or something like that, you want to have the neck checked. Yeah. Beautiful. Awesome. And so you've had an
Tina Marie (38:36):
Invitation to people to get their spine checked. Is there anything that happens at your clinic that you could share? For those that are listening that are in the Houston area@innatechiropracticdotcominnatechiropractic.com. What could someone expect when they come to your offices?
Jackie St.Cyr (38:54):
Well, they can go to N eight letter N number eight, C H I R o.com. Yes. what you can expect is we'll do a consultation, which is always complimentary, and we can see if we're a match, right? If we're a match, we'll move forward with either an examination or a full new patient package, which will explain at the time we do three computerized scans of your nervous system. We do a foot scan, we do a postural exam look at patterns of tension throughout the body. And then we do a full, complete report of findings on a follow-up visit to show you everything that we found. And a lot of people, I know they, they go and get tests or x-rays, and they never get shown what's really happening. And so we take the time to show you what's really happening in your spine and how we can help you feel and function better and age with more grace and vitality.
Tina Marie (39:47):
That's awesome. And I know you have a coupon for some percentage offer as a percentage off that if they've listened to the podcast, it's on your business card, what does that mean?
Jackie St.Cyr (39:59):
That's $50 off the initial. Well, the consultation is always complimentary, like I said, right. But if you decide to go forward, it's $50 off.
Tina Marie (40:09):
Awesome. So mention the light, your life podcast.
Jackie St.Cyr (40:13):
Absolutely.
Tina Marie (40:15):
Awesome. And so Dr. Jackie's chiropractic clinic is innate chiropractic. And you said the letter in the number eight, C H I R o.com. And you're off the ITIN Katy freeway, near Memorial park in that area. And you've had people drive from long distances to get your form of chiropractic care because it's so unique. How far has been the, the, the farthest someone's come to get care at innate chiropractic?
Jackie St.Cyr (40:43):
I'm not sure where Egypt Texas is, but Egypt, Texas, if that's further than Splendora your Texas,
Tina Marie (40:53):
We've also had people come from Louisiana
Jackie St.Cyr (40:56):
Yet. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right, Louisiana. Yeah, I think maybe the furthest, yeah. He's probably the farthest. Yeah.
Tina Marie (41:07):
Awesome. And so what's what phone number could they also reach out to?
Jackie St.Cyr (41:11):
(713) 521-2104.
Tina Marie (41:15):
So what did you guys to know about chiropractic in a world where we get a choice on how we want to age, how we want to heal? And we want to take our power back and have the intelligence of the body like Dr. Jackie said the intelligence of the body that made the body heals the body. This is a time where we take power back over our bodies, our intelligence inside of our body. And we hold it sacred and chiropractic. I have learned firsthand has restored that in me and I have not been to a formal doctor for any elements or throats allergies, stomach issues, those things, this chiropractic is my first modality. Now, if my body is under strain, stress, feeling any type of, out of sorts, I get adjusted first and let the body heal itself. And I'm so grateful for you and my life. For many, many reasons. That's a whole nother recording. I'm definitely grateful that you and the universe led me to chiropractic and the true joys of that at a time where my body was an absolute agony and it was able to heal naturally and come to a whole new level that has been beautiful. And I believe it led me to my destiny. And I'm grateful for chiropractic.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Thank you. You're welcome.
Tina Marie (42:34):
Thank you. So thank you for lending your ears to the light, your life podcast. If you have not yet subscribed, you can find us at bonfire, coaching.com. There's some links there and some goodies for you as well. We can all, you can also find us on every channel out there for podcasts and share this with your friends. We're here to help you light your life. Take wisdom away that you can apply today. I'm your host, Tina Marie St. Sierra. It's always great to be with you, make sure that you keep us in your pocket and in your ear until next
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Time. See ya.