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Our friendly, welcoming staff will guide you through your visit at Fresh Start Chiropractic and Wellness Center. We work very hard to stay current with the latest techniques and technologies to provide the best care possible for all of our patients. We not only offer a variety of chiropractic adjusting techniques to cater to the needs of different patients, but we pride ourselves in our many other Health and Wellness services to help you live your healthiest life! We believe your overall health is like a big jigsaw puzzle with many moving pieces. We can assist you with each of those pieces (just pick one to start with!) and we will work with you to complete the best overall version of you!
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April 22, 20255 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health
Sometimes we just don’t want to get out of bed. We feel sluggish, tired, and heavy. Maybe it was the pizza we ate last night. Maybe it’s a stressful time at work. Whatever your reasons, we are here to help you get through it! We have put together a few ways to help you give yourself some much-needed mental health self care.
1. Eat a Diet Rich in Fruits and Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables have so many health benefits from decreasing inflammation to healing our gut to cancer prevention. Most people know that eating more fruits and vegetables is good for your health, but many struggle to get the amount and variety that your body needs on a daily basis. Want to take your nutrition to the next level? Try our Whole30 online course that will teach you about the benefits of eating more whole foods like fruits and vegetables. Or, start with the ‘easy button’ to get 20 different fruits and vegetables into your daily routine in just a few seconds with Juice Plus+ capsules or gummies.
2. Meditate
Meditation, being by yourself for a while or sitting in a peaceful environment, can do wonders for your stress level. Parents who constantly hear the words, “Mom” or “Dad,” definitely need some quiet time. Business owners can also relate to the need for having peace and quiet so they can make plans and set goals. Whether you’re using official meditation breathing and relaxation techniques or whether you’re just sitting in a peaceful area without others, finding ways to have quiet time to yourself helps to clear your mind of distractions and helps you to de-stress. Need somewhere to start your meditation? Come spend some time in our salt room and just relax for 30 minutes in a dark, soothing environment while breathing in cleansing salt air.
3. Get Enough Quality Sleep
This one is a biggy. When our body sleeps, and we mean really sleeps, our body has time to heal and repair problems that have been occurring inside – even things that we didn’t know were happening. It means something when we say, “I’m tired.” It means we need to slow down and let our body heal from what is draining our energy. What better way to do that than to sleep! The word quality is also important. Just because we slept doesn’t necessarily mean we had quality sleep. If you are waking up several times while sleeping, you aren’t getting the caliber of sleep that your healing body requires. Maybe your sinuses are acting up because of allergies or you’re in pain which causes you to toss and turn. Whatever the reason you aren’t sleeping well, we might be able to help. Make an appointment with our office to discuss how we can help you sleep better.
4. Take a Step Away from Electronics
In today’s world, this is hard. Have you been guilty of working on a computer and then picking up your phone to scroll through social media? Maybe you even put the television on while playing on your phone? We get it. Electronics can be fun! But they can also be stressful. Comparing ourselves to our friends and acquaintances on social media can be harmful to our mental health. What about politics? Seeing those political ads and instantly worrying about the world our children are being raised in can cause us to worry. So as much fun as electronics bring, they also bring stress into our lives. Schedule time in your day to be completely unattached to electronics. Go for a walk and leave the device at home. Take a drive, get lost, and figure out how to get home without the GPS. And to help with the previous topic, make sure not to use electronics 30-60 minutes before bed to help you get better, restful sleep, too!
5. Journal or Write Things Down
Have you ever been so upset with someone that you start typing them an email or text message and before you know it, the email or text message is pretty long, but in the end you decide not to send it? That’s a form of journaling. When we get upset and start writing, we put words to our feelings and acknowledge our emotions. We learn about what we get angry about, why we got angry, and we may even find a solution to fixing what we were upset about. Journaling or writing things down is a healthy way for us to cope with our stressors. In the end, we help our mental health by getting our feelings out in written words and not leaving those emotions bottled up inside. The next time you find yourself stressed about something, pull out a journal start a new document on your computer and get those stressful thoughts out. You’ll feel better afterward, for sure!
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April 7, 2025Taste of Spring 2025
Join us on Monday, April 14, 2025 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in our office for our first Taste of Spring event powered by JuicePlus! Come taste test our JuicePlus products and tour our facility to view all we have to offer at our Wellness Center. This event is for anyone who wants to improve their health journey by learning more about our JuicePlus products and Fresh Start wellness services. Door prizes and more will be available! There is no cost to attend this event and it is open to the public. Whether you are an existing JuicePlus customer, you just want to try the products, or you just want a tour of our facility, we want to see you Monday night!
Location:
Fresh Start Chiropractic and Wellness Center565 McElhattan Drive,Lock Haven, PA 17745
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April 1, 2025Benefits of Gardening
It’s gardening season and whether you are planting a vegetable garden, fruit bushes and trees, or a butterfly garden, gardening has health benefits that you might not know about!
Better Diet
If you are planting a vegetable or fruit garden, then this might be obvious to you. Fruits and vegetables are essential to our body as they provide vitamins and minerals that help our bodies to function. Not to mention the delicious cooking and baking flavors we can add to our meals once our garden provides some key ingredients!
Exercise
Up and down, up and down. That’s what we do when we garden. We bend over, squat, carry bags of mulch or shovel mulch, dig into the ground using our biceps, and much more! Gardening helps us to exercise in ways we didn’t even realize we were. Even if you have a raised garden bed, you are still walking back and forth from your garage or shed to get your next plant.
Disconnecting and Reconnecting
Anyone else love getting away from their electronics when you garden? We do! We put on our garden gloves and ignore our phones. (Don’t want to get our phones dirty with those gloves on!) Spending time away from electronics helps to clear our brain from noise. Reconnecting with nature through gardening helps us to release stress, enjoy the sounds of nature, breathe in fresh air, and get some Vitamin D from those sun rays!
Are you Vitamin D deficient? Learn about our Vitamin D supplement!
Outdoor Gardens Might be too Much for Some
If you aren’t able to have an outdoor garden, consider indoor gardening. Consider using a Tower Garden! Easily grow your own produce year-round with our vertical, aeroponic growing system! Have your own clean, fresh foods with no pesticides or herbicides and drastically cut your grocery budget by supplementing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs from your tower. This self-watering system allows plants to grow 3x faster with 30% more yield. No soil and no weeding means that this garden is much less time-consuming than traditional gardens and it takes up less than 5 square feet of space!
Spring Allergies and How to Cope
How to Celebrate Earth Day
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March 31, 2025Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
Yes, every year we celebrate Earth Day, but really, Earth Day is EVERY day. It’s easy to take daily things for granted like the land we live on and the air we breathe – and both come from our Earth. We need to be thankful for the things we take for granted. Here’s your reminder to thank Mother Earth, and here are a few ways to celebrate our Earth this Earth Day (April 15th) and every day.
Plant a Tree
This is probably the most obvious one because everyone suggests it. But, did you know that the air we breathe comes from trees? No trees = no air = no breathing. The more trees we have, the more fresh air we breathe.
Pick a Road and Pick up Litter
No one likes to see litter, especially in the areas they live in. Take a minute and think about the last time you drove past an area and said, “Eww. Look at that trash!” Get a few people together and spend an hour or two cleaning up that litter. Your lungs, the animals that live in that area, and others who pass by the area will thank us for this.
Plant a Garden
How about some fresh fruit or vegetables from your own backyard? The dirt and soil in our yards is just sitting there. Why not save some money this year and grow your own tomatoes? Or better yet, plant an apple tree for fresh apples and fresh oxygen. Apartment renter? Plant a single plant in a pot and stick it outside. Gardens don’t need to be big. They can be whatever imagine them to be in your space.
Go a step further and get a group of friends or neighbors together and plant a community garden where your whole community or neighborhood could enjoy the harvest. Everyone can pitch in and help make the neighborhood garden the best garden in the area.
Plant a Butterfly Garden
Insect numbers are dwindling as more housing complexes go up. Insects are good for pollination, nutrient cycling, pest control, and are good food sources for other animals. Planting a Butterfly Garden encourages good habitats for insects to live in or nearby. Plus, Butterfly Gardens will bring beautiful butterflies, humming birds, and bumble bees to the area. (Note: bumble bees do not have stingers!)
Remember our point above in the “Plant a Garden” section where we talk about neighborhood gardens? Why not have a neighborhood Butterfly Garden, too?
Recycle
We can’t stress this one enough. Recycling helps to reduce the amount of waste that is in our landfills. Picture it: When you toss something in the trash can, the trash gets picked up by trash trucks and is relocated to large areas of land. That land is now covered in just trash. Piles and piles of trash. Wouldn’t it be nice if that land was a butterfly garden instead? Recycling helps to reduce the amount of trash that sits on that land. Whether you used to recycle or have never recycled, start small this month and commit to recycling all plastic items instead of throwing them away. Next month, add to that – plastic and paper. Continue this pattern and before long, you’ll be cutting your trash down to one bag a week! Talk about saving money on trash bags!
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Events
Taste of Spring 2025
Join us on Monday, April 14, 2025 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in our office for our first Taste of Spring event powered by JuicePlus! Come taste test our JuicePlus products and tour our facility to view all we have to offer at our Wellness Center. This event is for anyone who wants to improve their health journey by learning more about our JuicePlus products and Fresh Start wellness services. Door prizes and more will be available! There is no cost to attend this event and it is open to the public. Whether you are an existing JuicePlus customer, you just want to try the products, or you just want a tour of our facility, we want to see you Monday night!
Location:
Fresh Start Chiropractic and Wellness Center565 McElhattan Drive,Lock Haven, PA 17745
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Sourdough Gut Health Workshop – April 27, 2025Join us on April 27, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. for our Sourdough Gut Health Workshop! This is our last one until fall. In-home workshops available by request.
What’s this Sourdough craze all about? Join Dr. Fawn Shaffer and her team for a fun Sunday afternoon and we’ll show you!
Bring a large mixing bowl, your favorite mixing spoon or spatula, and an apron (if you’re worried about getting messy). We’ll supply the rest! You’ll leave with your own sourdough starter, a sourdough loaf that you have started and can finish baking at home, and the directions to keep your starter alive and healthy at home.
Location
Woolrich Community Center1080 Park AvenueWoolrich, PA 17745
How to Register
Cost is $20/person with proceeds going to Roads to Peace. Space is limited and classes fill quickly, so please RSVP to reserve your spot. You MUST pre-register by contacting Sally Young at (570) 295-7213. Venmo, PayPal, cash, or check accepted.
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Sourdough Gut Health Workshop – March 16, 2025Join us on March 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. for our Sourdough Gut Health Workshop!
What’s this Sourdough craze all about? Join Dr. Fawn Shaffer and her team for a fun Sunday afternoon and we’ll show you!
Bring a large mixing bowl, your favorite mixing spoon or spatula, and an apron (if you’re worried about getting messy). We’ll supply the rest! You’ll leave with your own sourdough starter, a sourdough loaf that you have started and can finish baking at home, and the directions to keep your starter alive and healthy at home.
Location
Woolrich Community Center1080 Park AvenueWoolrich, PA 17745
How to Register
Cost is $20/person with proceeds going to Brian Oechler Kindness Project. Space is limited and classes fill quickly, so please RSVP to reserve your spot. You MUST pre-register by contacting Sally Young at (570) 295-7213. Venmo, PayPal, cash, or check accepted.
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