Most of us think of stress as something that happens in our minds — a mental storm we can outthink, outplan, or outwork.
But what if stress isn’t just mental?

In this solo episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms, Dr. Leah Hahn, chiropractor and functional wellness doctor at Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, breaks down how stress leaves a physical imprint on your nervous system and body.

She explains how chronic overwhelm creates visible changes — from tight shoulders and shallow breathing to digestive problems, sleep disruption, and hormone imbalance. Stress doesn’t just fade; it imprints on your physiology and behavior until you teach your body safety again.

Dr. Hahn also shares practical ways to release stored stress and retrain your nervous system — including body check-ins, micro-resets, breathwork, movement, and Network Spinal care, which helps reorganize tension and restore balance.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How stress becomes a physical pattern in the nervous system
• Why muscle tension, gut issues, and hormone imbalance are stress responses
• The four main stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
• How chronic stress impacts digestion, sleep, and immunity
• Simple daily practices to regulate your nervous system and restore calm
  
  

If you’ve been dismissing your body’s signals as “just stress,” this episode will help you understand the deeper meaning — and how to finally reset your system.

Stress doesn’t end when the moment passes — it leaves an imprint.

In this solo episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms, Dr. Leah Hahn D.C., of Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, explores how stress is not just mental but deeply physiological, affecting posture, hormones, immunity, and emotions long after the trigger is gone.

Dr. Hahn explains how stress, trauma, and chronic overwhelm imprint on the nervous system, keeping it stuck in fight-or-flight or freeze mode. Over time, this creates tension, hormonal imbalance, sleep disruption, and emotional reactivity — even when life seems “fine.”

You’ll also hear the story of a client who faced profound loss and physical limitation after years of emotional trauma — and how her nervous system, through Network Spinal care, gradually reorganized toward stability, peace, and healing.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why stress is stored in the body, not just the mind
• The neuroscience behind trauma and nervous system imprinting
• How stress changes muscle tone, hormones, and digestion
• Why talk therapy alone may not resolve body-held trauma
• Practical tools to retrain your nervous system and create safety
• How Network Spinal care helps release stored stress and restore balance

Your body isn’t broken — it’s patterned. And those patterns can change.

Have you ever felt tension, fatigue, or heaviness that seems to come out of nowhere — almost as if your body is trying to get your attention?

In this episode of Healing Beyond the Symptoms, Dr. Leah Hahn D.C., and Dr. Scott Hahn D.C., of Body in Balance Wellness Center in Golden, CO, share the powerful story of Sarah, a patient who came to them with chronic brain fog and upper back tension after a head injury — only to discover that her symptoms were pointing to something much deeper.

Through gentle, nervous system-based Network Spinal care, Sarah began to release years of stored emotional and physical tension. As her body unwound, clarity began to emerge — clarity about her relationships, her career, and her sense of self.

What started as physical healing evolved into personal transformation. Her posture shifted before her circumstances did — and her nervous system became the guide that led her toward a life of congruence and authenticity.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• What it means when your body and life are out of sync
• How emotional tension shows up as physical pain
• Why safety is the starting point for making major life changes
• How nervous system regulation improves clarity, energy, and awareness
• The science of “defense physiology” — and how to move out of survival mode
  
  

If you’ve ever ignored your body’s whispers until they turned into shouts, this episode will help you understand how your symptoms might actually be your body’s way of showing you what’s ready to change.