September 2025 Anchored in Healing Newsletter

Build Resilience by Embracing Discomfort

Chiropractic Review
Book Recommendation
Podcast Recommendation
5 Factor Health Challenge
Workout of the Month
Recipe of the Month

📖 September 2025: Build Resilience by Embracing Discomfort

September marks the shift into a new season and is also National Self-Care Awareness Month. While self-care often evokes images of bubble baths and relaxation, true self-care sometimes means embracing discomfort. Chiropractic care, though gentle and healing, is also about challenging your body to adapt, heal, and function at its highest level.

When your nervous system is properly aligned, your body is better equipped to handle stress, movement, and even physical challenges. Adjustments restore mobility, improve balance, and reduce the likelihood of injuries, thus preparing you to face discomfort and growth with resilience. Just like stepping out of your comfort zone with a new workout or unfamiliar challenge, chiropractic invites your body to grow stronger.

This month, we encourage you to move toward the discomfort you’ve been avoiding, whether it’s a neglected ache, poor posture, or a mobility issue you’ve put off addressing. Small discomfort today prevents bigger problems tomorrow.

📖 The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
A modern classic on stepping outside your comfort zone to reclaim resilience, health, and happiness in an increasingly ease-obsessed world. It blends personal story, science, and ancient wisdom to challenge readers to embrace discomfort for personal growth.

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🎧 Podcast: IN-DEPTH: The Comfort Crisis (w/Michael Easter)
In this episode of IN-DEPTH, Cal welcomes the bestselling author Michael Easter to talk about the importance of embracing discomfort in the quest to cultivate a deep life. Drawing from Michael’s two books, The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain, as well as Michael’s personal journey from an unhappy office worker with an alcohol problem to a full-time writer who enjoys daily hikes in the desert, Cal and Michael get into the weeds of our human wiring and what it feels like to build an intentional life.
🎙️ Apple Podcasts | Spotify

🥗 5 Factor Health Challenge: Train

How we eat, sleep, train, think, and connect
Challenge: Incorporate 5 minutes of mobility or stretching into your daily routine. Foam roll, stretch tight hips or shoulders, or try a yoga pose.
Why you benefit: This builds physical resilience, gets you comfortable being a little uncomfortable, and is a small way to challenge yourself daily.

📅 Workout of the Month

Workout: “Uncomfortable 10”

Goal: Push yourself (safely) with short, challenging movements.

Complete as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes:

10 jump squats (or regular squats)
10 push-ups
20 mountain climbers
10 alternating reverse lunges
10-second plank hold

Designed to get your heart rate up and muscles burning a bit — embracing discomfort, but scalable for all levels.

🍳 Healthy Recipe: Spicy Sweet Potato & Sausage Hash

A warming, hearty, slightly spicy meal for early fall that pushes you outside your flavor comfort zone.

Ingredients:

2 sweet potatoes, diced
1/2 onion, diced
1 bell pepper, diced
2 chicken or turkey sausages (no sugar added)
1 tbsp avocado oil
1/2 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp cayenne (optional)
Salt, pepper (to taste)

Instructions:
Sauté sweet potatoes in avocado oil until tender. Add onion, pepper, and sausage slices. Season and cook until browned. Serve warm.

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