I find this fascinating and comforting to know, whether you like it or not, your body is constantly healing.
Cut your finger? Put the plaster on, take it off and it’s healed. Catch a bit too much sun? Your skin peels, renews, and rebuilds. In fact, your skin is completely new every 4–6 weeks. It’s your largest organ, and is constantly regenerating.
But here’s the exciting part so is the rest of you.
Bones, muscles, nerves, and even organs like your liver and lungs they’re all constantly repairing, replacing, and regenerating cells too. You’re not stuck with the same body you had last year, or even last month. You are a walking, talking work-in-progress. And it’s your own body doing the work.
We always like to point out that the only person who can get you better, is you. Here is why.
Now, before you get the wrong idea, this doesn’t mean you’re on your own. It means that the real healing happens within. The role of chiropractic is to support that healing, not to replace it.
Think of a plant. You don’t make it grow, you just give it the right conditions. Light, water, soil, space. And suddenly, new leaves appear. Fresh blooms. It wasn’t the gardener who grew the flower, it was the plant, doing what it was born to do.
You’re no different.
I suppose as chiropractors, we see our job as gardeners, not fixing or curing but removing obstacles to allow your body to thrive. That means looking to the nervous system, which coordinates every function in your body, including healing. If that system is under stress through poor posture, unresolved tension, or misalignments (subluxations), we help by gently removing that interference.
Then your body takes over. Like it always does. Like it’s doing right now.
This idea that healing comes from within is at the heart of everything we do. It’s not about waiting for something outside to make you well. It’s about creating the best conditions for the amazing, intelligent system you have to do its job.
So, it’s time to trust your body, your inner wisdom, your innate intelligence, which is already on the job, and we are here to help facilitate that process.
With love,
Tom
