Life Sprout Collective

05/10/2026

Performance anxiety. Shaken confidence after a hard loss. Difficult teammates. Injury that messes with their identity. If you’ve watched your young athlete struggle mentally and wondered what you’re supposed to do about it — this one’s for you. Emotional well-being coaching for youth athletes isn’t about fixing your kid. It’s about giving them tools their sport never will.

04/24/2026

In 2004 I was a broke college student desperately searching for answers to a whole slew of health problems.

Starting when I was 12, I became that kid.

👉 Used an inhaler before every run, practice, or game
👉 Allergic to everything under the sun
👉 Missed 45 days of school some years from being sick
👉 Daily headaches and way too many painkillers
👉 Sinus infections and allergy flare-ups that never seemed to end
👉 Multiple medications, weekly allergy shots, and no real hope in sight
👉 Prodded and poked at every doctor’s visit — but never any real answers

By sophomore year of college I was struggling to stay well enough to make it to class. I was in danger of failing. I just wanted to feel well again.

Then a classmate overheard me having a breakdown and said something that changed everything:

“I don’t really understand it, but I’ve been going to the chiropractor right off campus and I just feel better. You should go.”

Feeling desperate, I went.

From the minute I walked through the door I knew I’d found something different. I started getting adjusted. I cleaned up my diet. I kept going. And I started feeling better.

🌱 I wasn’t sick as often
🌱 I stopped missing class
🌱 I stopped getting allergy shots — the hayfever disappeared
🌱 I got a headache one day and realized I hadn’t had one in weeks
🌱 One day I forgot my inhaler before a run — and haven’t used one since.

I went on to run the Atlanta ING marathon. Without an inhaler. Something 12-year-old me couldn’t have imagined.

I didn’t outgrow my diagnoses. My body finally got the support it needed to do its job.

I became a chiropractor because of that story. But here’s the part I haven’t said enough:

I think about that 12-year-old version of me constantly. Especially as I’ve watched my own son (pictured below, born in 2013) grow up navigating the toxic and stressful world we live in.

The kid who spent years being managed instead of helped. Who missed school, sat out of games, and just wanted to feel normal. And I wonder how different things might have looked if someone had found the root of it sooner.

That’s exactly who I built Life Sprout Collective for.

The kids in Fairbanks who are that kid right now. The ones getting sick over and over. The ones dealing with anxiety, headaches, focus challenges, or emotions that feel too big for their bodies. The ones whose parents have been told to wait it out or try another medication.

There’s another option. And it exists right here.

If your child is somewhere on that journey — or if you are — I’d love to have a conversation. I offer a free consultation where we connect, talk through what’s going on, and decide together if Life Sprout is the right fit.

🔗 Link in bio to book — or send me a message directly.

You found this post for a reason. 🌱

04/24/2026

How do you do it? With a very simple tool we’re talking about this week!

04/17/2026

How you think about stress and how your body reacts to stress are two very different things…this week we’re starting the conversation on how you can reset your stress baseline.

04/02/2026

Did you know positive emotions do more than just feel good? Research has shown they can impact your overall health and wellness in the long term. They improve cardio vascular health, heart rate variability, resilience, emotional regulation and can reverse the effects of long term chronic stress. So…how do you become more positive in life? That’s what we’re talking about in this short thought of the week!

03/24/2026

We’re learning a new word this week…salutogenesis. What is that? Tune in to learn more and how it makes Life Sprout much different from being just a neck and back pain solution (though we can help with that too).

03/17/2026

Bringing back the thought of the week! This week is something pretty cool about your heart…give me 2 minutes to find out what it is and how to start to train emotional regulation 🤗

03/10/2026

Dr. Alex is one of a very small number of chiropractors in Alaska who have trained in pediatric care with the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association. Taking care of kiddos is one of her favorite parts of practice. Especially when it helps them be so much healthier in the long run!

02/19/2026

Rest can feel unsafe.

This is the part that lands hardest for women I work with.

It’s also the part that took me years to finally figure out.

If your system learned that:

Productivity = safety
Being needed = belonging
Control = stability

Then stillness may unconsciously register as vulnerability.

And vulnerability may register as threat.

So you sit down to rest.

Your thoughts speed up.
Your body tightens.
You feel restless.

Not because you’re failing at self-care.

But because your nervous system adapted to survive.

Brilliant. Protective. Exhausting adaptation.

You’re not broken.

You’re patterned.

Resetting the nervous system doesn’t mean eliminating stress.
It means restoring flexibility.

That’s the work we do inside Rooted & Regulated.

If you’re exploring whether this is the next layer for you, start with the full blog post here: https://lifesproutcollective.com/i-feel-stressed-even-when-im-resting/

And if you’re ready to have a conversation about your patterns specifically, you can book a consultation here: lifesproutcollective.com/book

I feel stressed even when I'm resting. Learn how chronic stress rewires your nervous system—and how coherence research shows it can reset.

05/15/2025

We help women flourish — physically, emotionally, and energetically — by reconnecting you to your heart’s intelligence, healing hidden emotional barriers, and restoring your nervous system from the inside out.
We believe each of us possess an innate intelligence within us that with the right direction and guidance helps us be happy, healthy and free.

05/15/2025

We believe the chronic stress and overwhelm women silently carry are at the root of the chronic health challenges, hormone imbalances, and emotional struggles so many face today.
In a world obsessed with faster, harder, and more, we invite you into a different way — One where slowing down becomes your superpower.
Where healing doesn’t come from doing more, but from feeling more.

And where you finally reclaim the vibrant energy, resilience, and joy that have always been yours.
Our approach blends Family Chiropractic Care, Women’s Wellness & Leadership Coaching, Trauma Sensitive HeartMath Coherence training, Positive Psychology and Deep Emotional and Physical Healing

To explore how The Flourishing Nest might best fit your goals and needs, jump on a free 15 minute, no strings attached discovery call with Dr. Alex. The link is in our bio 💞