Welcome, welcome, welcome to What Pain in the Neck, the Podcast! Friends and Experts are sharing their True and Tried solutions to suffering .

Several stories come from my own life experiences and learning, but most come from the room where it happened, working in specialized healthcare since 1994. Suffering people understood there had to be a solution. They found there was hope, their suffering RESOLVED, and they got their lives back.

For more than 20 years, I lived with Chronic, debilitating pain 100% of the TIME. Every year growing up was worse than the year before.  Practically speaking, I was an invalid.  And yet all the doctors were telling me they couldn’t find anything wrong with me.

I have felt life get choked off from the inside. Then I got to know what it felt like when life came rushing back.

In 1994 my young husband, Gordon, took me to see a Blair  Upper Cervical Chiropractor. He found an injury in my upper neck by the brainstem. 

This was the underlying cause of my suffering. I used to tell Doctors I had pressure on the nerves in my neck. They said it couldn’t happen. 

Now a Doctor was telling me what I already knew to be true. I had pressure on the nerves in my neck. He fixed it without any popping, twisting, or jerking. The correction was so light I hardly felt it. But I slept through the night for the first time in my life. That was the beginning of my healing process.  Turns out the brain and the neck influence the health of the whole rest of the body,

Soon after, I got a job for that Doctor. It turned out healing was a trend. Hundreds of people got better from all kinds of conditions, and suffering was resolved. This was so exciting my husband and I decided to devote our lives to helping people in this exact way.

In the years that followed, I went from being an invalid to having an active life as a mother of 4 children and discovered that I loved, loved, loved group exercise and made this hobby my career for a few years.  I had gone from being a parsley leaf to someone who lifted heavier than most guys. Along with a healthy nervous system, a healthy lifestyle is a medicine for the body, mind, and soul. I will share stories about it all.

Over the years, I have seen transformations in people’s faces.  

There was a cloud of suffering worse than Eeyore. Then somewhere along the way, there was vibrant color, sunshine, and fireworks coming out of the eyes when they smiled. People got their lives back. Many of them are sharing their stories with me and me on this show.

I have heard people say, “Why didn’t I know about this sooner?”  

These stories need to be told on the record.

As an assistant to Dr. Muncy and then as a Wife to Dr. Gordon Elder, both Certified  Advanced Blair Instructors, I have helped host seminars and dinners. It has been my privilege to listen to many great discussions from some of the best high-level doctors. Many of these experts share their specialties and insights on this show.

I got my own life back because someone told me despite a lifetime of suffering and going to Doctors, I hadn’t tried everything. There was hope for me still.  Now I am telling you.

I can trace my healing back to the work of a smart and dedicated Doctor named William Blair. In 1951 he published a flier with these words:

“Sick People need Friends, Friends who know what it is like and have an interest in seeing sick people get well. “ 

I am that friend. My time has come to use my voice and my purpose.  

Are you suffering and feeling like you have tried everything?  Gone from Doctor to Doctor, had tests, X-Rays, MRI, and more, only to be told there is nothing wrong with you? But You know something is very wrong with you?! 

It is not in all in your head.

It is a real pain in the neck, but it doesn’t have to continue.

I ask like Dr. Blair asked in his pamphlet:

 “Could it be that YOU are Suffering Needlessly?