05/26/2026
The Opportunity of Summer!
Summer is my favourite time of year. In spite of my Nordic blood, I really enjoy the heat. I love to barbecue, I like to hang out in my back yard, and I like to try to get some colour on my pasty skin.
Summer is also one of my busiest times of year. In addition to my ‘normal’ life, I am the GM of the local junior lacrosse team, which takes up A LOT of time over our short 4 month season.
Most people are NOT busier during the summer. They typically have some vacation time. Many activities shut down for the summer. There is typically less stress, less rushing, less go-go-go.
This decrease in stress and demands on our life is a great opportunity to really make progress in your health. Without the need to just handle or ‘manage’ your stress and life, we can use this time to build our capacity, vitality, fitness, and resilience moving into the more demanding times of our lives.
At Nexus, it is not uncommon for patients to ‘take the summer off,’ from care. This could be because of travel, or just seeing less of a need because people tend to feel better during the summer.
This can be a big mistake. It is also not uncommon for me to see these same people back in the fall either back where they started or in crisis when the stresses of life start to build back up again. They lost the opportunity to take advantage of the summer to build CAPACITY against the demands of life, and settled for the same problems they have had in the past.
Human nature is more motivated by the ‘stick,’ than the ‘carrot.’ The truly healthy, wise, and successful learn to focus on getting healthy by eating the carrots, regardless of how big the stick is.
By building capacity through an unobstructed and optimized spine and nervous system, you can live life with more health, energy, and vitality with each passing year regardless of what stresses and demands life has in store for you.
