Inspired Healing / Dr Joanne Haupert DC

07/30/2025

When was the last time you noticed your breathing? Not during exercise or a deep sigh, but just in a quiet moment. Because breathing happens automatically, it often goes unnoticed. Yet paying attention to how you breathe may play a helpful role in your overall well-being.

07/25/2025

In 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck, a young hippo named Owen was swept away from his herd, left adrift and alone on the shores of Kenya. Lost between the waves of sorrow, fate led him to Haller Park, a wildlife sanctuary, where an unexpected companion awaited him—Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabra tortoise.
In his solitude, Owen saw in Mzee the shadow of the mother he had lost. He began to follow the old tortoise everywhere, seeking warmth in her ancient shell and comfort in her slow, steady steps. Though they were worlds apart—by species, by time, by nature itself—a bond beyond logic grew between them. A friendship that defied boundaries, proving that love and kindness recognize no form, no age—only the meeting of two souls in need.

07/24/2025

H**p, a versatile and fast-growing plant, offers a sustainable alternative to traditional tree-based paper production. A single acre of h**p can yield as much paper as four acres of trees due to its high cellulose content and rapid growth cycle.

H**p contains about 65-70% cellulose, compared to 40-50% in trees, making it an efficient raw material for paper pulp. Additionally, h**p can be harvested in as little as 90-120 days, while trees require 20-80 years to mature for paper production.

This rapid growth allows h**p to produce up to 4-10 tons of usable fiber per acre annually, far surpassing the fiber yield of trees.

H**p’s environmental benefits further enhance its appeal. It requires fewer pesticides and less water than many crops and can grow in diverse climates, reducing deforestation pressures.

The pulping process for h**p is also less chemically intensive, lowering environmental impact. However, h**p paper production faces challenges, including regulatory hurdles in some regions and higher initial processing costs.

Despite these, h**p’s efficiency and sustainability make it a compelling option for reducing reliance on tree-based paper, conserving forests, and promoting eco-friendly industrial practices.

07/24/2025

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07/20/2025

When it comes to making healthy choices, we often focus on diet and exercise – both are crucial, of course. But there’s another essential habit that often gets overlooked: drinking enough water. Staying hydrated can make a noticeable difference in how your body feels and functions. From energy t...

07/08/2025

The Real Reason You Feel Taller After an Adjustment

Have you ever walked out of a chiropractic appointment feeling like you’re standing straighter and somehow taller? That sensation isn’t just in your head – there’s actually a reason behind why many patients experience this immediate change after spinal adjustments.

07/02/2025

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Natural health news published monthly by Inspired Healing | July 2025 Issue

06/28/2025

Why Your Smartphone is Rewiring Your Spine (And How to Fight Back)

Have you ever noticed neck stiffness after a long texting session or felt like your shoulders are permanently hunched forward? You’re experiencing what’s become known as “text neck” or “tech neck” – and it’s literally changing the structure of your spine.

06/15/2025

Around the capital before Saturday, people mused about whether Donald Trump’s long-desired Army-anniversary parade—which cost $45 million and coincided with the President’s 79th birthday—would be something like Tiananmen Square. In other cities, a series of “No Kings” protests were scheduled for the same day. Laura Loomer, a MAGA influencer, had cautioned her followers to “stay strapped when you’re in public this weekend.” On the day of the parade, in what appeared to be an act of political violence, in Minnesota, two Democratic lawmakers were shot by a gunman impersonating a police officer, according to officials.

But as Antonia Hitchens stood in the crowd with teen-agers in period garb, in D.C., the city had the “eerie, abandoned feel it gets before big staged events,” she writes. The occasional pedicab driver rode down the empty downtown streets, cordoned off from traffic by D.C. trash trucks. Tanks that had arrived from around the country had been sitting idly on the Mall for a few days; a summer thunderstorm was now threatening to rain out the President’s parade. An ad on Craigslist circulated, offering a “flat fee of $1,000 paid in cryptocurrency” to seat fillers in red hats and gold accessories “for space maximization and attendance.”

A friend of Hitchens, who grew up in East Germany, said that the scariest thing she saw was a robot dog, at an Army fair that had taken place earlier in the day. “This was nothing like the military parade that I experienced every year until the fall of the wall, in 1989,” she said. The sparse crowds for Trump’s parade were charming to her—you can offer to pay people on Craigslist, but, in the U.S., you can’t force them to attend. Even most Republican lawmakers sat the event out. Read more: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PedqEh

06/14/2025

Someone Has To Go First

I was doing a grief coaching session this week with a woman who had just lost her husband after being together for 57 years.

She was very raw in her grief and asked, “How will I ever survive this and go on without him?”

I explained to her that I had no easy answer and nothing I could say to her would change the circumstances of her loss.

What I did try to explain to her was sometimes a shift in perspective could make a difference in helping us move forward.

I asked, “What do you think would have happened if you died first?”

She replied, “Oh, it would have been terrible for him. He would have been so lost. I took care of everything, and he never would have survived without me.”

I asked her, “So now that you’re the one suffering and he doesn’t have to, how does that make you feel?”

She replied, “I’m glad that he doesn’t have to be the one experiencing this, I wouldn’t want that for him. I wouldn’t want him to suffer anymore.”

Here’s the thing...in an ideal world there would be nobody that dies, and nobody that suffers.

But once she changed her perspective, she then went on to tell me all the happy memories she had of their life together. We talked about how very few couples (very few people in general) die on the same exact day at the same exact time. Someone has to go first.

The one thing in life we can be sure of is death. It will come for each of us someday. But once we accept that, we can then view our loss as having saved our loved one from suffering.

I asked, “Do you think you loved your husband enough to find the strength and pride to carry this grief with you for the rest of your life?”

She replied, “I never thought of it that way, but yes, I loved him so much I would do anything for him.”

There is really no right or wrong answer…but sometimes we need something to turn to, and I hope that this thought will help you today.

Gary Sturgis - Surviving Grief