Wellness Solutions - Neuro Reset

This was very well written and explained! It’s a must share for my clients too! So insightful and relevant for so many people 🤩 If this spoke to you, or you can relate to any of these symptoms, feel free to reach out to me.

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🤪😁Emotional stress😢😣

is often described as “stored” in the upper back and chest/shoulder area because fear, grief, anxiety, or chronic vigilance can change breathing patterns, muscle tone, and posture. When that stress is held consistently, many people report physical discomfort and functional limitations in the thoracic spine region (mid-back) and surrounding structures. Below are clear examples of both the emotional contributors and the physical ailments people may see or feel, along with a practical way to invite you toward Northern Spinal Flow sessions.

Examples: emotional stress held through the Center Gateway or thoracic spine region

💥Chronic anxiety / hypervigilance: feels like an “always-on” state; often corresponds with raised shoulders, tight upper back, and shallow or restricted breathing.

💥Grief / heaviness: can feel like carrying “weight” through the chest and upper back; commonly shows up as stiffness across the mid-back.

💥Emotional overload / stress from responsibility: can create a bracing pattern—people hold their ribs, tighten the torso, and lose thoracic mobility.

💥Fear / perceived threat: can tighten the chest and upper back as the body prepares to “brace.”

💥Unprocessed tension from conflict or pressure: can drive persistent tightness between the shoulder blades and along the sides of the ribs.

💥Resentment or emotional shutdown: may present as a guarded posture—rounded thoracic spine, limited expansion with inhalation, and reduced rotation.

Physical ailments people may see and/or feel from the Center Gateway or Thoracic spine region

😩Mid-back stiffness or “stuck” sensation (difficulty twisting or extending through the thoracic spine).

😩Rib and intercostal tightness (a band-like feeling around the chest or sides).

😩Shoulder blade tightness (often felt between the scapulae or along the medial borders).

😩Upper back muscle guarding (upper trapezius, rhomboids, and thoracic paraspinals feel chronically tense).

😩Restricted breathing sensation (inability to fully expand the rib cage, frequent sighing, or shallow breaths).

😩Postural discomfort (rounded shoulders, forward head posture, or “hunched” thoracic posture).

😩Chest wall discomfort or tightness (felt as constriction, heaviness, or soreness that may fluctuate with stress).

😩Headaches related to upper back tension (tension patterns from thoracic/shoulder girdle commonly contribute).

😩Nerve-like symptoms around the upper back/side of ribs (tingling, radiating discomfort, or hypersensitivity can be reported when thoracic mobility and rib mechanics are restricted).

😩Reduced thoracic rotation (tightness when reaching across the body or turning while standing).

Have you been dealing with thoracic tightness—between the shoulder blades, upper-rib constriction, “stuck” mid-back rotation, or a breathing feel that never quite gets fully open—and wondered if it is more than just posture or muscles… like there is an emotional stress pattern underneath that you have been carrying longer than you meant to?

If you read this and felt a genuine “yes,” recognition, or even a little relief just seeing your experience named, that matters. If you feel drawn to getting yourself flowing in the right direction through Northern Spinal Flow—especially to clear the blocks and support easier breathing and thoracic movement—message us with your top symptoms, how long you have had them, and what you have already tried.

Well said! Let’s take this challenge together!

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Are you ready to listen to your body and let go of things that no longer serve you? Spinal Flow can get you out of that fight or flight mode which can help your body heal. Reach out if you’re ready to heal. Heal your body, change your life!

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🌿 Hey friends, has anyone else experienced this?

After years of the same frustrations—feeling unheard, unseen, or carrying old hurts—do you ever wonder if that emotional weight is showing up in your body? Trauma isn’t just “in your head.” Science shows it can literally get stored in specific spots, leading to tension, pain, and ongoing physical ailments.

Think about it:

• Shoulders carrying the weight of responsibilities and unexpressed burdens.

• Neck holding chronic stress and “fight or flight” tension.

• Jaw clenching from unspoken words or suppressed anger.

• Arms and upper back guarding against old emotional hits.

A high percentage of our physical issues (headaches, tightness, fatigue, and more) can trace back to unprocessed emotional trauma. As Dr. Bessel van der Kolk explains in The Body Keeps the Score, our bodies remember what our minds try to push away—through the nervous system, muscle memory, and stress responses. Somatic approaches recognize that trauma gets “trapped” in the body, and releasing it can bring real relief. 

If this resonates, you’re not alone.

Have you noticed patterns in where you hold tension? Share below—We would love to hear your experiences!

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The nervous system is essential to healing, as it serves as the pathway through which life force energy flows throughout the body.

Spinal Flow Technique gently helps restore this flow, allowing the nervous system to regulate, heal, and return to balance.

Healing Soul~Mind~Body at Bowenwork Marin

Good explanation of what some clients experience during a Spinal Flow session.

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✨ Some clients report seeing colours, gentle lights, feeling like they are floating or swimming, or entering that space between wakefulness and sleep during a session. Why can this happen?

From a neuroscience perspective, these experiences are often linked to the nervous system entering a deep state of regulation and relaxation.

When the body feels safe and the mind begins to quiet:

🌿 external noise reduces
🌿 brainwave activity can shift into calmer alpha/theta states
🌿 awareness turns inward
🌿 the brain may generate internal sensations such as colours, light, floating feelings or dreamlike imagery

This is similar to what many people experience during:

meditation
deep breathwork
hypnagogic states (the bridge between wakefulness and sleep)

It does not necessarily mean anything strange or wrong. Often, it can simply reflect that the body is letting go of stress and the nervous system is moving into a restorative state.

💛 Every person experiences sessions differently. Some feel stillness, some feel emotion, some feel energy, and some experience colours or drifting sensations.

Sometimes healing feels less like “doing”… and more like allowing.

An AMAZING testimony of a healing journey with Spinal Flow! Just WOW!!

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✨ Why I Opened Northern Spinal Flow ✨

In June 2020, I was managing Dollar General when a severe injury changed everything. What started as a herniated disc led me down a road I never saw coming.

Just three days after my first back surgery, the same disc shattered on the other side, requiring a second surgery only a month later. Then came my right SI joint fusion. When that side stabilized, the left side started hurting. My surgeon looked at me and said we were going to have an “extensive relationship for the rest of your life” because of the extent of the damage at my age.

By 2024, I had undergone a back surgery almost every single year since my injury. I also had a C-section with my youngest in 2023. My body had been cut open on my back and my stomach multiple times. I was exhausted, broken, and losing hope.

Nobody talks about the mental toll a serious physical injury takes. I was battling doctors, the system, and my own body. At one point I was on 22 different medications — including 4mg of Xanax a day (plus extra as needed), 30mg Adderall in the morning, 15mg in the afternoon, Trazodone to sleep, gabapentin, pain pill, muscle relaxers, antidepressants, something to enhance the antidepressants,… you name it. The meds turned me into a zombie, so they gave me more meds to function. It was a vicious cycle.

I couldn’t lift my kids. I couldn’t play with them. I couldn’t even properly parent them. I had to sit back and watch someone else do everything while I was in constant pain and fog.

I knew the traditional medical route was no longer healing me — it was just managing my very fast decline. I needed something different. Something that cured the CAUSE and not put another bandaid on. Something holistic. Something that actually helped my body heal. That’s when I found Spinal Flow.

I was extremely skeptical. The idea that gentle touch could create such powerful healing seemed impossible. I thought “there’s no way.” But something deep down told me to keep an open mind. This was what would help!

In 2024, I went to an immersive training in Mexico. On the third day, after a session on the table, I stood up… and had zero pain. I waited. Five minutes. An hour. Four hours. Then the whole evening passed — still no pain. I couldn’t believe it.

A year and a half later, I have successfully avoided my fifth surgery. I’m down to just one pharmaceutically prescribed medication. I have energy. I can play with my kids. I can live my life again.

I opened Northern Spinal Flow because I believe people in our community deserve options — the same options I wish I had when I was suffering. I want to offer a gentle, powerful, holistic path to healing that goes beyond what traditional medicine could do for me.

Spinal Flow gave me my life back. And I’m incredibly grateful to now share this work with International Falls and the surrounding area.

If you’re in pain, if you feel stuck, if you’ve been told “this is just how it’s going to be”… please know there are other ways!

I’d love to talk with you.

With hope and gratitude,

Amy 💕

Northern Spinal Flow

International Falls, MN

Do you experience one-sided back pain? Bowen therapy can help!

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When your jaw is unbalanced, your pelvis compensates.

The cascade:
1. Jaw imbalance pulls your head forward
2. Your neck muscles tighten to stabilize
3. Your spine compensates by shifting
4. Your pelvis tilts to maintain balance
5. One-sided back pain, hip tightness, or SI joint dysfunction appears

Why this happens:

Your jaw connects to deep neck muscles that attach directly to your spine. When jaw muscles stay tight, they create a chain of compensations that travel downward.

Your brain tries to keep you balanced. When your head shifts forward from jaw tension, your pelvis shifts backward.

This is why jaw clenchers often have chronic lower back issues that don't respond to hip stretches or core work.

The pattern:
Stressed → Clench jaw → Head forward → Pelvis compensates → Chronic pain

Most people treat the pelvis or lower back. They stretch their hips. They do core exercises. They get adjustments.

But the jaw tension hasn't changed. So the compensation pattern repeats.

Here's what actually breaks the cycle:

Your jaw has to stop clenching. Not through conscious relaxation that only works when you're thinking about it.

Automatically. Even while you sleep.

When jaw tension releases at the reflex level, your head repositions. Your spine decompresses. Your pelvis stops compensating.

The one-sided back pain disappears—not because you treated your back, but because the trigger stopped firing.

Though I never met Tom Bowen, I have great respect and gratitude for him and his work. I’m blessed beyond measure to be carrying on with his technique. Bowen therapy is truly amazing!

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Today we honour the life and legacy of Tom Bowen.

A man of quiet presence, deep care, and extraordinary dedication to helping others. Tom devoted his life to serving those in need, often working tirelessly, day after day, guided by something far greater than ambition.

This is a combination of original images and respectful AI recreations, shared to honour and highlight Tom’s work.

What he left behind is more than a technique. It is a movement, inspired by a line from one of his favourite quotes:
“Any good that I can do, let me do it now.”

Bowen Therapy has become a living body of work that continues to support, restore, and transform lives around the world.

His approach reminds us that less can be more. That gentleness can be powerful. And that true healing often arises not from force, but from listening… from allowing the body the space to respond in its own time.

Today, we acknowledge not only what Tom Bowen did, but who he was.

A pioneer. A servant. A genius. A man deeply connected to the innate intelligence of the human body.

His legacy lives on through every practitioner, every client, and every moment of stillness where healing unfolds.

Happy Birthday, Thomas Ambrose Bowen
18 April 1916 – 28 October 1982

Do you have trauma locked in your body? Trauma can be physical or emotional and unreleased, it can store in your spine and cause your body to stay in a state of stress, known as fight or flight. Over time that stress can cause symptoms in your body... chronic stress, anxiety, pain, illness, and dis-ease. I can help your body get out of that fight or flight mode and into a state rest, relax, repair and guide it towards self healing, using modalities such as Bowen Therapy and Spinal Flow. Reach out if you'd like more information.

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