EP. 46: The Perfect Storm in Pregnancy: How Prenatal Stress Programs Your Baby’s Nervous System

EP 51: They Said Chiropractors Trap You... Here's the Truth

You finished your care plan. Things are better. So now what? In this episode, Dr. Veronica and Dr. Serena make the case for wellness care, not because chiropractors want to trap you, but because the most remarkable healing they've seen in their practices happens months after the initial work is done.   They cover a family of six whose nervous system scans kept improving six months into wellness, why neuroplasticity means the brain doesn't just hold its new baseline but builds on it, and what Dr. Serena personally noticed when she went two weeks without an adjustment.   00:00 - The "trap" objection and why they'd still ask you to stay 01:00 - Family of six case study: six months into wellness 05:00 - The 30-minute ROI argument 08:00 - How the brain builds on optimal pathways (the secondary breakthrough) 10:00 - Why adult care plans need to be longer than you think 12:00 - Menopause patient sleeping through the night after a year of wellness 13:00 - Weight loss as a side effect of getting out of fight or flight 15:00 - Could wellness care prevent endometriosis and infertility? 16:00 - Weekly vs. every other week: what two years of clinical data shows 19:00 - "You can pick your journey" — care plans vs. starting on weekly 20:00 - Dr. Veronica's personal health history and what she was heading toward 23:00 - HRV staying green through one of the hardest seasons of her life 24:00 - What happened when Dr. Serena took a break from care 26:00 - What actually happens when you skip an adjustment   Resources Mentioned: * PX Docs Directory [https://pxdocs.com/px-docs/]   Connect with Veronica: * Website [https://havenhealthchiropractic.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/havenhealthchiropractic/] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/havenhealthchiro/]   Connect with Serena: * Website [https://vesselchiro.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vessel_chiro] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RedeemedLifeBoise/]

EP. 50: Your Child Met Every Goal. So Why Is the Nervous System Still Healing?

Dr. Veronica and Dr. Serena get honest about one of the harder conversations in practice: what happens when a family's healing journey takes longer than anyone expected. They share real patient stories, talk through what supportive wellness care actually means, and explain why slow progress is not the same thing as no progress.   If you've ever wondered whether your care plan is working, or felt like healing should be further along by now, this episode is for you.   Timestamps: 00:00 What is supportive wellness care? 00:03 Dr. Serena's 8-year-old patient with chronic illness 00:06 How scans work as a personal baseline 00:12 Dr. Veronica's adult patient, neural retracing, and 10 years of medication 00:14 When healing progress feels anticlimactic 00:16 Looking back at intake forms to see how far you've come 00:18 Using the PX community when you don't have the answer 00:19 What putting your ego down actually looks like as a clinician 00:20 The power that made the body heals the body   Resources Mentioned: * PX Docs Directory [https://pxdocs.com/px-docs/]   Connect with Veronica: * Website [https://havenhealthchiropractic.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/havenhealthchiropractic/] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/havenhealthchiro/]   Connect with Serena: * Website [https://vesselchiro.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vessel_chiro] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RedeemedLifeBoise/]

EP 49: Your Kid Doesn't Have to Be Sick 10 Times a Year

If your child keeps getting sick, getting treated, and ending up right back where you started, this episode is going to make a lot of things click. Dr. Veronica and Dr. Serena walk through a real patient case involving chronic constipation, recurring illness, and bladder control issues, and explain why those symptoms are all connected to the same root.   In this episode they cover: * Why antibiotics, MiraLAX, and steroid creams are band-aids, not solutions * The healing hierarchy: nervous system, neuromuscular, gut and immune, brain-based function, and why that order matters * What "neurological soft signs" of healing look like and why they're easy to miss * Why things can get harder before they get better, and how to know that's actually a good sign * The difference between a plateau and a new layer of healing   Resources Mentioned: * PX Docs Directory [https://pxdocs.com/px-docs/]   Connect with Veronica: * Website [https://havenhealthchiropractic.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/havenhealthchiropractic/] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/havenhealthchiro/]   Connect with Serena: * Website [https://vesselchiro.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vessel_chiro] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RedeemedLifeBoise/]

EP 48: Autoimmunity, Inflammation & The Vagus Nerve: The Missing Link No One Is Talking About

A potential patient called with autoimmune symptoms—dizziness, hormone issues, brain fog. Endocrinology found thyroid issues. Neurology found nothing. She's frustrated: "I go to endocrinology and all they talk about is hormones. I go to neurology and all they talk about is brain. Where are the people who piece it together?"   In this episode of Motherhood Aligned and Assigned, Dr. Serena Coffman and Dr. Veronica Schiltz explain what the medical system misses. Dr. Serena shares her patient story: friend with hypothyroidism symptoms, family history, functional medicine said labs were fine—but they weren't. Ran insight scans, found stress in the area controlling thyroid. Care plan: 3x/week for 6 weeks, 2x/week after, desiccated thyroid supplement, removed gluten. After 3 months: thyroid in normal range, sleeping better, more energy, no naps needed, cycles changing. Usually retest thyroid every 6 months because don't expect change that fast. Vagus nerve stress at C1—the brake pedal—affects digestion, sleep, immune system tone. Autoimmune doesn't come out of nowhere: usually had digestive issues, sleep struggles, ear infections building underneath. Insight scans for autoimmune typically show high stress, poor vagal tone, neurological exhaustion. As nervous system heals, scans change and symptoms follow.   Timestamps: 04:00 Functional medicine said labs were fine—but they weren't 06:00 3-month thyroid turnaround (usually takes 6+ months) 09:00 Vagus nerve—brake pedal for immune system 12:00 Perfect storm starts at conception 18:00 Insight scans reveal the hidden pattern   Resources Mentioned: * PX Docs Directory [https://pxdocs.com/px-docs/]   Connect with Veronica: * Website [https://havenhealthchiropractic.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/havenhealthchiropractic/] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/havenhealthchiro/]   Connect with Serena: * Website [https://vesselchiro.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vessel_chiro] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RedeemedLifeBoise/]

EP. 47: Why Your Child Isn’t Sleeping (And What Sleep Is Actually Doing for Their Body)

Most parents have tried everything—earlier bedtimes, blackout curtains, melatonin, white noise machines. Their child is exhausted but wired, awake for hours, and no routine or supplement can override a nervous system physiologically locked in fight-or-flight.   In this episode of Motherhood Aligned and Assigned, Dr. Serena Coffman and Dr. Veronica Schiltz reveal what 35% of US children aren't getting: enough sleep. But it's not about bedtime—it's the nervous system. Sleep is one of the most active healing states (brain organizing learning, growth hormone surges, immune system building infection-fighting cells, emotions processed). Gas pedal (sympathetic) vs. brake pedal (parasympathetic): sleep only happens when the brake works. Dr. Veronica shares a case study: 4-year-old hadn't slept in 7 days, screaming all night, thought to be socially anxious with huge outbursts. Functional medicine mom doing all the gut things, eating right, routines, structure. Chiropractic broke the cycle. Weaned off melatonin (full dose to tip of dropper), no more screaming, behavior 180. Dr. Serena's patient: family thought they were done having kids because it was so hard. Now trying for second baby. Babies should adapt to whatever environment you give them. If they're not adapting, it's a nervous system issue.   Resources Mentioned: * PX Docs Directory [https://pxdocs.com/px-docs/]   Connect with Veronica: * Website [https://havenhealthchiropractic.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/havenhealthchiropractic/] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/havenhealthchiro/]   Connect with Serena: * Website [https://vesselchiro.com/] * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/vessel_chiro] * Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RedeemedLifeBoise/]