We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Haley Turpin. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Haley below.

Haley, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

One evening, I find myself pulling up to the local Walgreens drive-thru window to grab my 90-day depression medication when the man behind the counter shares kindly that there is no prescription to be picked up.
Instant heaviness in my chest and ringing in my ears as fear and confusion strike me. It’s as if the world goes on pause and I need someone to shake me or tell me to move.
“How can this be!?”
“Was I suppose to check in with my doctor? I don’t even know his name.”
“Did I schedule a pick up for a different location??”
I instantly blow up my moms phone in panic to see if she can solve this sudden chaos for me and tell me what to do next because I am frozen. All I can think is there is no way I am going home to a night of sleep without my medication. I don’t know how to talk to friends without extreme anxiety or big emotions without these. I have become completely reliant on this for peace.

This experience right here is one of the most defining moments not only in my career, but my life. After losing two family members to suicide, I had taken on an identity at 19 years old that I would be on depression medication the rest of my life carrying around a gray, heavy fog in my energy simply because hard, unfortunate things happen to people and there is nothing we can do about it. and guess what?? I still believe this to be so true – Life does suck sometimes and hard things happen to people quite often. However, through my journey of deciding enough is enough there has to be a different way, I discovered there is something you can do with your pain. In fact, 13 years later in my experience, I now know there is actually quite beautiful and powerful things you can do with your pain.

You see, although taken with good intentions, the medications were not simply helping me to manage but were slowly shrinking my world smaller and smaller over time. I was losing connection with myself and others. As if everything in my world was going gray. I have given all of my power and potential to 90 little chemical compounds stored in a bottle. The pain wanted to speak, move, and heal but the pills closed the door of opportunity every single day. It wasn’t until I heard a message on vitalistic healing from a principled chiropractor in 2017 that a new light of hope ignited. Dr. Michael Viscarelli with ADIO Chiropractic shared how the body was designed to heal naturally. That there is an innate intelligence inside each one of us organizing and directing all of one’s potential and when stress happens, one adapts, learns, and grows. This journey of healing is not designed to be done alone. Through the hands, words, and presence of others we are able to co-regulate and find center and strength again as we work with the pain intentionally.

A year later, I started chiropractic school at Life University in Marietta, Georgia and slowly have gotten off all medications. Currently, in 2025 I am opening Blue Oak Family Chiropractic in Broomfield, CO supporting newborns and kids with developmental delays and early nervous system dysregulation. This service is designed to provide a powerful, natural healing option for families so that kids may start life with a strong foundation and adaptable health, allowing their minds and bodies to have the capacity to become who they are ultimately designed to be.

Haley, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

At Blue Oak Family Chiropractic, we provide nervous system focused chiropractic care for kids and women. What makes us unique is the variety of techniques used to meet each person’s unique needs, which is determined by an in-depth assessment and neurological spinal scans. The focus is to locate and acknowledge the dysfunctional pattern a person’s body is currently living out and begin rebuilding new neural pathways that better support health and vitality through gentle and specific chiropractic adjustments. The main things to know about choosing care with Blue Oak is that it’s a healing journey and we are dancing alongside of you with a holistic approach as your body gets stronger and more resilient.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

Continuing to be a student and being open with clients when I do not know an answer to something. It has allowed me to build trust with clients and families. It shows them that I am on the journey with them. I believe working with young kids and moms, that mom’s gut always know when you are trying to fake confidence or not tell the whole truth. So being honest, always doing research as I go, and continuing to be a student to meet changing needs that come up in the community.

Any advice for managing a team?

Give the team something bigger than you and your goals to get on board with. What is the over arching impact that the business is doing for the community and how can team members reach their own individual life goals as they put in energy for the businesses’ mission, allowing them to adopt and deepen in the mission over time. Reflect to them their potential and provide gratitude and feedback for growth often.

Contact Info:

• Website: in the works (:
• Instagram: blueoak_familychiro

Image Credits

Monica Ann Photography
Treehive Chiropractic
Natural Living Chiropractic and Acupuncture