We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kurt Cagasan a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Kurt, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?
Moments in our life definitely change how we view the world and how we show up in life.
About two years ago, we experienced a tragedy and well as a life altering moment that reshaped how we showed up to our practice and how we treated our patients. We lost our new born son after just two days. He was an angel and changed us and our family instantaneously. We should have been angry and completely lost, and we were, but in the darkness we found strength and we found resilience. Our son was an angel, definitely filled with light and brought light into our hearts and into our practice.
This defining moment changed us completely. We had more purpose and more desire to bring healing to all of our patients.
We really honed in on our brain health practice and the desire to have transformational change in our patients.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
About 5 years ago we spearheaded a chiropractic practice that was all encompassing looking at full body health and really focusing on brain health and transforming a patient’s experience of life. Giving them life changing treatment. Dr. Kurt brought in vibroacoustic therapy and red light therapy. These added features in addition to regular chiropractic adjustments allows the body to heal quicker and to bring the patient into balance and to feel less stressed and overwhlemed. This whole body restoration is looking at the physical health, the chemical health and the mental emotional health of the patient. Dr. Kurt offers support for the physical body, Dr. Shaffana is a certified brain health coach and trained in functional medicine so is able to offer chemical balancing and finally the vibroacoustic therapy is able to offer the patient the abilty to calm the mind and decrease feeling of stress and overwhelm.
Our patients receive all areas of treatment and are able to transform the body and move through a wellness journey.
Dr. Kurt optimizes physical wellbeing and movement.
Dr. Shaffana looks at biochemical markers such at neurotransmitters and cortisol, really optimizing patients that are experiencing depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue and cognitive issues like ADD/ADHD.
The vibroacoustic therapy is customized for the patient and allows them to move into slower brain wave states and offer a sense of calm.
the red light therapy increases blood flow and mitochondrial function to help with quicker healing.
Have you ever had to pivot?
Dr. Kurt had practiced fro a number of years in a traditional type of chiropractic environement and he noticed that patients we not healing completely and that they seemed to be stuck in the same challenges and stresses of life. He really wanted to move past this type of healing model. He did not want to just treat pain, he wanted to transform someone’s life expereince.
He started following Dr.Joe Dispenza and learning his meditation and breathing techniques. These approaches changed his life and how was able to navigate his own personal experience. Dr. Shaffana also started doing the meditationsa nd breath work and again it changed her life as well and made both of them resilient.
This is what motivated them to reimage how they would show up in practice. This is what motivated us to pivot and create the environment that we have currently.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
All of our work on ourselves allowed us to move through tragedy in our own life with grace and resilience. It allowed us to see the silver lining and to always find gratitude. The loss of our son was hard but we managed to move through this.
That resilience has given us the grit to navigate all the challenges of owning a small business and to find the silver lining and to find gratitude and joy in treating our patients.
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