When Pain Speaks — What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You

Sometimes the wake-up call comes as pain — the kind you can’t push through, stretch out, or numb away.

For Ellie, it started as severe lower back pain that threatened her career, her relationships, and her sense of self.

In this powerful episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms, Dr. Leah and Dr. Scott Hahn D.C. of Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, explores how pain often signals more than just physical dysfunction — it’s the body’s way of asking for attention, safety, and truth.

Ellie’s story unfolds from physical suffering to emotional clarity. Beneath her back pain were years of unprocessed family trauma and emotional strain that her body had been carrying for decades. Through gentle, nervous system-based chiropractic care (Network Spinal), Ellie not only released tension and pain but also rebuilt her relationships and rediscovered joy in her life and work.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why chronic pain is often rooted in emotional and nervous system dysregulation
• The connection between family trauma, tension patterns, and pain
• How breath reveals safety and healing in the body
• The power of creating safety and coherence in the nervous system
• How true resilience means growing beyond pain — not returning to who you were before it

Pain doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means your body is ready for transformation.

Learn more about Body in Balance Wellness Center
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If you’ve ever said to yourself, “I’m so lazy — why can’t I just get it together?” stop right there.

Because chances are, you’re not lazy at all — you’re dysregulated.

In this powerful episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms, Dr. Leah Hahn D.C., of Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, breaks down the truth behind “laziness” — and reveals how fatigue, procrastination, and emotional shutdown are often signs of a nervous system stuck in survival mode.

Dr. Hahn explains the science of freeze and dorsal vagal responses, where the body shuts down energy, digestion, and motivation in order to conserve resources and feel safe. What looks like “laziness” is actually your nervous system protecting you from overwhelm.

You’ll also learn how to gently restore regulation through breathwork, co-regulation, connection, and nervous system-based care, creating a path from burnout to balance.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why “laziness” is often a sign of chronic stress and nervous system shutdown
• How the dorsal vagal response creates fatigue and emotional numbness
• Why connection and co-regulation are essential to healing
• How gentle chiropractic and somatic care help reactivate safety in the body
• Simple daily resets to shift from survival to restoration

If you’ve ever judged yourself for being tired or unmotivated, this episode will help you see your body with compassion — and remind you that you’re not broken. You’re patterned. And patterns can change.

Have you ever noticed how stress doesn’t just make you anxious — it affects everything? Your digestion, your hormones, your sleep, your mood.

In this solo episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms, Dr. Leah Hahn, D.C. of Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, unpacks the powerful role your autonomic nervous system plays in regulating your body’s most vital functions. She explains how chronic stress locks your system into survival mode — keeping cortisol high, slowing digestion, disrupting sleep cycles, and throwing hormones off balance.

She breaks down the science of the sympathetic (fight/flight) and parasympathetic (rest/digest) systems, helping listeners understand how modern life keeps us stuck in a loop of vigilance, fatigue, and hormonal chaos — and what it takes to reset.

You’ll also learn about the vagus nerve, your body’s master regulator of calm, and how to activate it through breath, movement, and gentle care.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• The difference between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
• What “dorsal vagal shutdown” really means for digestion and mood
• How cortisol imbalance disrupts sleep and energy
• Why chronic stress causes hormone fluctuations and PMS
• Practical steps to regulate your nervous system naturally

Your symptoms aren’t random — they’re communication. When you support your nervous system, your body can finally return to balance.