A colorful, playful illustration inspired by fantasy creature trading card games showing a holistic wellness team working together. Cute cartoon healer characters perform different therapies on relaxed patients in a peaceful outdoor setting. One character provides chiropractic care, another craniosacral therapy, another hypnotherapy using a pendulum, another acupuncture with glowing needles, and another massage therapy. Sparkling energy effects and soft rainbow light surround the scene. Bold text at the top reads, “Gotta Catch Them All! Who’s part of your holistic team?” The overall mood is calming, joyful, and focused on integrative healing.

🌟 Gotta Catch Them All… Your Holistic Health Team

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By: Dr. Mary Nochimson

If you grew up with Pokémon, you already understand something most people miss about healing…

No single Pokémon wins every battle.
You build a team.

Each one has unique strengths.
Each one supports the others.
Together… they create balance, resilience, and adaptability.

Your health works the same way.

True healing rarely comes from just one provider, one therapy, or one perspective. The body is layered — structural, neurological, emotional, energetic, and behavioral.

That’s why the most powerful approach to wellness is collaborative care.

If you want optimal healing…
You don’t pick one.

You catch them all.

🧠 Why One Modality Isn’t Enough

The human body is not a single system — it’s an integrated network.

Structure influences nerves.
Nerves influence organs.
Emotions influence physiology.
Energy influences regulation.
Touch influences healing chemistry.

Research across integrative medicine consistently shows that multimodal care produces better outcomes for chronic pain, stress disorders, injury recovery, and nervous system dysregulation.

In other words…Different therapies affect different layers of healing.

Let’s meet your dream team.

🦴 The Chiropractor — Structural Alignment Specialist

Your chiropractor focuses on the mechanical and neurological relationship of the spine and joints.

Why that matters:

  • The spine protects the nervous system

  • Joint motion affects brain signaling

  • Mechanical stress alters muscle tone and pain perception

Adjustments help restore:
✔ Joint mobility
✔ Nervous system communication
✔ Movement efficiency
✔ Postural balance

Think of chiropractic care as resetting your body’s hardware.

🌊 The Craniosacral Therapist — SomatoEmotional System Regulator

Craniosacral therapy works with the subtle rhythms of the brain, spinal cord, and connective tissue system.

This gentle approach helps:
✔ Release deep tension patterns
✔ Improve fluid dynamics in the central nervous system
✔ Reduce sensory overload
✔ Shift the body from survival mode into healing mode

This is especially powerful for:

  • Concussion recovery

  • Chronic stress

  • Trauma patterns

  • Sensory regulation challenges

Craniosacral therapy helps your body feel safe enough to heal.

🌙 The Integral Hypnotherapist — Mind-Body Reprogramming Expert

The brain predicts health outcomes based on stored patterns.

Hypnotherapy helps access the subconscious programming that drives:

  • Stress responses

  • Habits

  • Pain perception

  • Emotional triggers

  • Behavioral patterns

Through guided therapeutic trance, the nervous system can:
✔ Release outdated survival patterns
✔ Install healthier responses
✔ Improve focus and resilience
✔ Enhance healing behaviors

If chiropractic resets the hardware… Hypnotherapy updates the software.

🌿 The Acupuncturist — Energy Flow Balancer

Acupuncture works through neurochemical signaling, connective tissue stimulation, and energetic pathways traditionally known as meridians.

Modern research shows acupuncture can influence:
✔ Pain modulation pathways
✔ Inflammation markers
✔ Blood flow regulation
✔ Autonomic nervous system balance

It helps restore functional communication across systems.

Think of acupuncture as improving your body’s internal communication network.

🤲 The Massage Therapist — Tissue Recovery Specialist

Muscles store stress — physically and neurologically.

Therapeutic massage helps:
✔ Improve circulation
✔ Reduce muscle guarding
✔ Enhance lymphatic flow
✔ Release stored tension patterns
✔ Activate parasympathetic relaxation

Massage creates the physiological environment needed for healing to occur.

It’s not just relaxation — it’s recovery.

⚡ When the Whole Team Works Together

Here’s where the magic happens.

Each modality supports the others:

Chiropractic improves structural alignment →
Craniosacral enhances nervous system regulation →
Hypnotherapy shifts behavioral patterns →
Acupuncture balances systemic communication →
Massage restores tissue health

Together they create:

✔ Faster healing
✔ Longer-lasting results
✔ Reduced relapse
✔ Whole-person wellness

This is integrative medicine in action.

🌱 Healing Is Not One Thing — It’s a System

Your body is designed to heal.

But healing requires:

  • Safety
  • Alignment
  • Regulation
  • Adaptation
  • Support

No single therapy does all of that alone….But a TEAM can.

💛 Your Holistic Dream Team

So if health is the goal…

Gotta catch them all:

🦴 Chiropractor
🌊 Craniosacral Therapist
🌙 Integral Hypnotherapist
🌿 Acupuncturist
🤲 Massage Therapist

Not because more is better…

But because complete support creates complete healing.

✨ Final Thought

In Pokémon, evolution happens through growth, experience, and the right environment.

Your body evolves the same way.

When you build the right healing team… TRANSFORMATION becomes possible.

💬 Ready to build your holistic dream team?

Start with one step… Schedule a nervous system reset, alignment session, or guided mind-body consultation. Your healing journey deserves full support! Email me (NochimsonDC@gmail.com):

   And remember… Your Health & Wellness is worth catching them all!

Happy Gal & Palentine’s Day

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💕How to connect with your heart 💕

By: Dr, Mary Nochimson

 

Did you know that your heart started working when you were just 3 weeks old in-utero and it continues to work today????

Listen to your heart takes on new meaning in Craniosacral. A huge component of Craniosacral
involves communicating to your cells, tissues, organs and glands in your body. Due to third party
perspective, having a conversation with yourself is not viewed as a “cool” thing to do, but it is
very therapeutic and often results in a beautiful moment.

Did you know that your body is made up of a community of millions of tiny organisms known as
cells. Each cell has a job, an energy and a personality! That’s right! Even a bacterium, a
one-celled organism, has a purpose, has an energy and has a personality. 24 hours of every
day, cells of the lung community work together to form breathing. Sixty minutes of every hour of
every day, cells of the gastrointestinal community work together to process the food we eat. 60
seconds of every minute of every hour of every day, the cells of the heart community work
together to beat and pump fresh oxygenated blood throughout your body. All out of site and out
of mind, but even cells, just like people, like to be acknowledged, loved and appreciated.
So the next questions are how do you talk to your body? How do you listen to your body and
what does your body say? Do you acknowledge the work your body does on a daily basis?
There is no better Galentine’s present than speaking to your heart and doing what makes your
heart happy!!!

How do we begin the process?
First, let’s set the mood. I suggest sitting or laying down in a comfortable spot, dimming the
lights or having the lights off with a scentless candle. The beach or a park are also great
locations. Soundwise, I recommend quietness or light soothing wordless music. We don’t want
to persuade our body or appease our body, we want to have a real conversation.
Wherever you are, this is the next step. Lightly place one or two hands over your heart and just
envision your heart. Keep meditating on your heart. With the palm of your hand, feel the beating
of your heart. Is it beating fast? Is it beating slow? Is it beating strong? Is it beating soft? Once
you feel your heartbeat, tune into your heart sounds with your ears. Mimic the beats with a
whisper, “lub, dub… lub dub”. Keep tuning into your heart. As you continue to go deeper into
meditation, feel that connection. Note how it feels to be this connected with your heart. And note
any images or memories develop in your mind.

This next part will help guide you for your heart to human conversation.

First let’s talk rules:

  1. After you ask a question, wait for the answer. Be patient. Your heart may answer in
    words or in images. Acknowledge the image of words as they come into your body and
    mind.
  2. Don’t doubt the words and images that come to you. It’s NOT in your head. Your head
    may try to get in the way of the conversation.
  3. Always thank your heart (or any organ you talk to) for taking time to talk to you today.

What are questions to ask your heart?

  1. How are you feeling?
  2. What makes you sad?
  3. What makes you happy?
  4. Is there anything bothering you?
  5.  What do you need?
  6. What can I do differently that will help you function better?
  7. What did you want to do today?

This Valentine’s Day, give yourself 10-20 minutes to practice connecting and talking to your
heart.

Craniosacral Therapy Education

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Do you live with chronic pain that never fully goes away?
Feel anxious or “on edge” for no clear reason?
Struggle with sleep, fatigue, or brain fog?
Find yourself overreacting in relationships — even when you don’t want to?
Sense that you’ve “done the work,” yet something still feels stuck?

If any of this sounds familiar, here’s an important truth:

It may not be in your head.
It may be in your nervous system.

Sometimes healing arrives not just through study — but through experience.

This past weekend, I immersed myself in a CranioSacral Therapy training inspired by the work of Dr. John Upledger. The experiences in that class were profound. I witnessed how gently supporting the craniosacral system can create deep shifts in the entire body — physically, emotionally, and energetically.

I left the weekend reminded of something powerful:

Our body never forgets, and our body never stops trying to heal.

And perhaps the most meaningful realization of all:

“…we must become the medicine ourselves.”

That is why CranioSacral Therapy is the topic this week — because once you feel its effects firsthand, you will understand why this work sits at the heart of true healing.

And this matters because:

Trauma is not only what happened to you — it’s what your body couldn’t fully process at the time.

How Unresolved Trauma Lives in Your Body.

When you experience stress, injury, emotional shock, or prolonged tension, your nervous system shifts into survival mode — fight, flight, or freeze. If that survival energy isn’t fully discharged, it becomes stored in your muscles, fascia, organs, and nervous system.

Over time, it may show up in ways you don’t always connect back to trauma.

Physically, you may notice: chronic pain or recurring tension, Headaches or migraines, jaw clenching or TMJ issues, digestive discomfort such as IBS, fatigue or difficulty sleeping, and even lead to Hormonal imbalances.

Emotionally, stored trauma can appear as anxiety or constant worr, emotional overwhelm, irritability, sudden mood shifts, feeling unsafe for no obvious reason, and difficulty calming after stress

Mentally when trauma remains unresolved, your mind may stay in protective mode resulting in those racing thoughts, brain fog, difficulty focusing, hyper-vigilance, negative self-talk, and feeling disconnected from yourself

In Your Relationships, unresolved trauma often shows up as overreacting to small triggers, difficulty trusting. fear of abandonment, emotional withdrawal, people-pleasing, and repeating unhealthy relationship patterns.

This is why healing trauma isn’t just about “talking it out.”, it’s about releasing the trauma on a subconscious SomatoEmotional level 

How HEALING happens with CranioSacral.

CranioSacral Therapy works directly with your mind and body’s deepest protective patterns. By gently releasing restrictions in the craniosacral system, your body can:

  • Shift from fight-or-flight into rest-and-repair.
  • Release stored tension from past injuries or emotional shock.
  • Enhance body awareness and connectedness.
  • Enhance emotional resilience.
  • Restore your natural self-healing rhythm

Many people describe sessions as deeply relaxing. Later, they notice changes they didn’t expect — improved sleep, calmer reactions, reduced pain, emotional and existential clarity, or simply feeling more like themselves.

That’s because CST doesn’t force healing.

It allows your body to finish what it once couldn’t.

At its core, trauma healing is about restoring safety in our mind, body and spirit, because when our body feels safe, unconditionally loved and accepted, our mind becomes clearer, your emotions soften our relationships improve and our physical symptoms often lessen.

This is why CranioSacral Therapy is such a cornerstone of the work I experience in my office. I meets you gently, respectfully, and powerfully — without pushing or overriding you. 

Because healing isn’t something done TO us.

It’s something WE DO!

If you’ve tried everything and still feel stuck…
If your body holds tension no matter how much you stretch or talk it out…
If your reactions feel bigger than the moment…

CranioSacral Therapy offers a pathway back to YOU!

And your body already knows the way 💛

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