When most people think about detox, they think about food, supplements, or cleanses—but healing doesn’t start there.

In this episode of Fire Your Doctor, Dr. Dani Lockwood and Richard Lockwood unpack the detox no one talks about: what you’re taking in through your eyes, ears, attention, and self-talk. In a world designed to overstimulate, distract, and exhaust you, your nervous system may be carrying a toxic load long before your labs ever change.

This conversation reframes detox as an act of discernment—not restriction—and invites listeners into a quieter, clearer way of healing.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why detox is more than physical—it’s neurological, emotional, and spiritual

• How digital overload drives nervous system burnout

• The impact of constant screens, news, and notifications on cortisol and focus

• Why your eyes and ears are gateways to your internal environment

• How what you watch shapes what you believe and how you feel

• The difference between numbing, distraction, and true rest

• Why digital detox is nervous system medicine

• The power of words: are you blessing your life or working against it?

• How discernment protects peace, clarity, and healing

Matthew 6:22–23 (AMP)

“The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive], your whole body will be full of light…”

Healing accelerates when what you take in aligns with truth, peace, and intention.

Most detox conversations focus on food and supplements—but what if the biggest toxin in your life isn’t on your plate?

In this episode of Fire Your Doctor, Dr. Dani Lockwood and Richard Lockwood explore the detox no one talks about: what you’re consuming through your eyes, ears, attention, and self-talk. In a culture built on constant stimulation, many people are burned out not because they’re weak—but because their nervous systems are overwhelmed.

This conversation reframes detox as an act of discernment, not deprivation—and explains why healing often stalls when we ignore digital overload, emotional inputs, and mental noise.

• Why detox is more than physical—it’s neurological and emotional
  

• How digital overload drives nervous system burnout
  

• The effect of screens, news, and notifications on stress hormones
  

• Why your eyes and ears shape your internal environment
  

• The difference between distraction, numbing, and real rest
  

• How digital detox becomes nervous system medicine
  

• Why what you speak over your life matters more than you think
  

✝️ Spiritual InsightMatthew 6:22–23 (AMP)

“The eye is the lamp of the body…”

What you allow in determines what takes root within you.

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Season 2 of Fire Your Doctor continues with a hard truth many driven, capable people need to hear: burnout is not a character issue—it’s a biological one.

In this episode, Dr. Dani Lockwood and Richard Lockwood unpack why leaders, caregivers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, and faith-driven individuals are often the first to burn out. This isn’t about weakness, poor mindset, or lack of discipline—it’s about how the nervous system responds to prolonged stress without recovery.

If you feel exhausted despite “doing everything right,” this conversation will help you understand what your body is actually asking for.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why high-capacity people burn out first

• Burnout as a nervous system survival response, not failure

• The roles of cortisol, adrenaline, and mitochondrial shutdown

• Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn in everyday life

• Why exhaustion can worsen after exercise

• The difference between rest and collapse

• Why boundaries are biological protection, not selfishness

• How identity, productivity, and faith can become tangled

• What real recovery actually requires

  
  

  ✝️ Spiritual Insight

Mark 6:31 (NIV, pre-2020)

“Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

Exodus 18:17–18 (ESV)

“What you are doing is not good… you will certainly wear yourselves out.”

God designed limits not to restrain us—but to sustain us. Rest is not a reward for collapse; it’s a requirement for longevity.

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The Hidden Blocks That Stall Healing

Have you ever felt like you’re eating clean, taking the supplements, exercising, praying, and doing everything you’ve been told to do—yet your body still isn’t healing?

In this episode of Fire Your Doctor, Dr. Dani Lockwood and Richard Lockwood explore why so many well-intentioned people get stuck on their healing journey. The problem isn’t a lack of effort—it’s often that healing is happening out of order.

This conversation reframes chronic illness, fatigue, hormone imbalance, and stalled progress through the lens of physiology, nervous system safety, and spiritual alignment.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why “doing all the right things” doesn’t always lead to healing

• The difference between managing symptoms and restoring systems

• The body’s order of healing: inside-out, top-down, past-to-present

• Common hidden blocks to healing:

  • nervous system stuck in survival

  • poor drainage and detox bottlenecks

  • blood sugar instability

  • unresolved emotional trauma

  • spiritual striving instead of rest

• Why the body does not respond to force—but to safety

• Discernment vs desperation in health decisions

• How slowing down can actually move healing forward

  
  

  ✝️ Spiritual Insight

Isaiah 30:15 (NASB 1995)

“In repentance and rest you will be saved,
in quietness and trust is your strength.”

Healing is not earned by trying harder. It unfolds when alignment, trust, and safety are restored—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

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The holiday season is meant to be joyful — yet for many, it becomes a perfect storm of sugar overload, increased alcohol, resurfacing family dynamics, unspoken expectations, and emotional exhaustion. In this episode, Dr. Dani and Rich offer practical, grounded guidance to help you enjoy the season without sacrificing your health, peace, or boundaries.

This conversation blends physiology, emotional intelligence, and faith — reminding us that the holidays are not about perfection, performance, or excess, but about presence, wisdom, and remembering why we celebrate in the first place.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why Christmas is two days, not a month-long sugar marathon
  

• The reality behind holiday weight gain — and how to avoid it
  

• Navigating sweet treats without shame or overindulgence
  

• Why movement matters more during the holidays than any “detox”
  

• Alcohol’s quiet impact on hormones, sleep, mood, and immunity
  

• Managing family dynamics without slipping back into old roles
  

• The power of setting expectations and boundaries ahead of gatherings
  

• How to honor family history without repeating unhealthy patterns
  

• Why grief and old emotions often surface this time of year
  

Re-centering the season on wisdom, peace, and our Savior

✝️ Spiritual Insight

The holidays invite us to slow down, reflect, and realign.

“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” — Psalm 90:12 (ESV)

Wisdom allows us to enjoy the season without excess, honor our bodies without guilt, and show up with grace — both for ourselves and for others.

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Can Christians use acupuncture or Chinese Medicine without engaging in Daoism or New Age spirituality?

In this episode, Dr. Dani and Rich unpack a question many believers quietly wrestle with: how to separate physiology from philosophy and God’s design from cultural overlays.

Acupuncture works — not because Daoism is true, but because God’s design is true. The human body contains electrical pathways, fascial lines, lymphatic channels, and neurological reflexes that ancient cultures observed and described using the language available to them at the time.

This episode reframes Chinese Medicine through a Christian lens — keeping the science, anatomy, and neurology while removing spiritual systems that do not align with Scripture.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why acupuncture and meridians are not inherently religious

• What Chinese Medicine originally observed vs. what was added later
  

• How meridians align with fascia, nerves, lymph, and electrical conductivity
  

• What “qi” originally meant — and what it did not
  

• Which elements Christians should remove (Daoist cosmology, yin/yang theology, energy invocation)
  

• What remains when spiritual overlays are stripped away: anatomy, neurology, and healing responses
  

• Scientific research supporting acupuncture as physiology, not mysticism
  

• How acupuncture regulates pain, inflammation, and the nervous system
  

• A biblical framework for using Chinese Medicine without syncretism
  

• Why discovering God’s design honors the Creator rather than competing with Him
  

✝️ Spiritual Insight

“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” — Proverbs 25:2 (ESV)

The body’s pathways were not invented by Daoism — they were discovered. Studying and using them responsibly is an act of stewardship, not spiritual compromise.

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The Neurology, Trauma Science, and Christian Framework Behind Applied Kinesiology

Muscle testing has been misunderstood, mislabeled, and sometimes misrepresented — but in reality, it is one of the most powerful, God-designed tools for understanding the body’s internal stress signals. In this episode, Dr. Dani and Rich break down what muscle testing actually is (neurology) and what it is not (mysticism, intuition, divination, or New Age “energy work”).

Together, we explore the intersection of science, trauma physiology, and biblical worldview — and why the nervous system often reveals truth the conscious mind cannot articulate.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• The real history of muscle testing and Dr. George Goodheart’s research
  

• How muscle testing works through the gamma loop, reflex arcs, and proprioception
  

• Why muscles weaken under chemical, emotional, or physical stress
  

• How each muscle corresponds to specific organs, glands, and emotional patterns
  

• The misunderstood connection between meridians and anatomy
  

• What muscle testing can reveal about hormones, toxins, gut health, and trauma
  

• The difference between physiological feedback and spiritual discernment
  

• Why muscle testing is not New Age, occult, or mystical
  

• How this tool actually aligns with a Christian worldview
  

• Emotional release, trauma imprints, and NET’s fMRI research
  

• Real case examples from practice and how this changes treatment plans
  

• How we combine muscle testing with labs for a truly holistic diagnostic picture
  

✝️ Spiritual Insight

“I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.” — Psalm 16:7 (NIV, pre-2020)

God designed the nervous system to speak truth, even when the conscious mind is overwhelmed or disconnected. Muscle testing is not prophecy or mysticism — it is physiology reflecting His intelligent design.

📚 Referenced Research

• Monti et al., 2017 — fMRI changes in trauma survivors using NET
  

• Cuthbert & Rosner, 2011 — Applied Kinesiology case report on urinary incontinence
  

• Additional studies on muscle inhibition, proprioception, and neurological feedback
  

Next Episode (28):

The Christian Roots of Chinese Medicine — Using God’s Design Without the Daoism

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Most people think “getting labs done” means answers. But if your labs are being compared to a population where 74% of adults are overweight or obese, is “normal” really healthy?

In this episode, we break down how we evaluate health the Terrain way — through functional interpretation, systems thinking, and clinical discernment. Because your labs don’t live in isolation, and neither do you.

Instead of asking, “What medication matches this symptom?” we ask, “What system needs support so your body can correct the symptom?”

This is slow medicine — investigative, thoughtful, and rooted in physiology, not protocols.

🔍 In this episode, we unpack:

• Why standard lab ranges can mislead you
  

• What “functional” blood work interpretation really means

• Our foundational testing approach:
  

• • Full blood chemistry panels
    

  • GI and microbiome testing
    

  • Nutrient + mitochondrial testing
    

  • Hormone testing (including DUTCH)
    

  • Heavy metals & environmental toxins
    

  • Mold & mycotoxin testing
    

  • Food sensitivities (at the right time)
    

  • Genetic data when appropriate
    

• Why testing environment matters — not just the data
  

• Why we “out-primary-care primary care”
  

• The difference between treatment and terrain correction
  

• Why we don’t guess — we correlate labs, exam findings, and physiology
  

We also walk through the tools we use to support healing: botanical medicine, acupuncture, IV therapy, regenerative injections, ozone, peptides, physical medicine, NET for emotional patterns, and more.

Because health isn’t one modality — it’s the right modality at the right time for the right person.

📖 Spiritual Reflection

“Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.” — Jeremiah 33:6 (NIV)

Healing is never random, chaotic, or accidental. God promises restoration, not confusion — and the way the body heals reflects His order. The Terrain Method honors this divine design by investigating deeply, removing what blocks healing, nourishing what has been depleted, and allowing the intelligence God built into the body to re-establish balance. Every test we run, every pattern we interpret, and every system we support is an act of partnering with His blueprint for wholeness.

The Art & Science of Muscle Testing — How the Nervous System Speaks

We'll break down what it is, why skeptics misunderstand it, how it pairs with labs, and why it's one of our most important clinical tools.

👉 Up Next: Episode 27

What happens when the most powerful medical system in the world faces a crisis — and breaks?

In this episode, we take an honest look at how the conventional model failed during COVID, not to shame it, but to learn from it — and to begin introducing what we call The Terrain Way of practicing medicine.

Because here’s the truth: Emergency medicine saves lives. But emergency-room thinking can’t build health.

• Where mainstream medicine lost its way — especially during COVID
  

• Why lack of accountability destroys trust & innovation
  

• The danger of “one-size-fits-all” healthcare
  

• Why the future belongs to slow medicine — not speed, not shortcuts
  

• Using conventional labs as a starting point, not an ending point
  

• Why we “out-primary-care primary care”
  

• The real work of preventing chronic disease
  

• Individualized care vs protocol-driven care
  

• “Do no harm” doesn’t mean “do nothing”
  

We share how we practice at Terrain Wellness — digging deep, listening long, testing intelligently, and honoring the design of the human body instead of forcing it into rigid protocols.

Healing isn’t fast food. It’s slow, wise, patient, and personal.

Systems fail when pride leads and humility leaves. God’s order brings healing; man's arrogance brings confusion.

“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” — Proverbs 15:22 (NASB)

True medicine seeks truth — even when inconvenient. True healing requires humility — even when uncomfortable.