About Us
Our Story – Passion and Vision
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“What drives our passion is family wellness. Kids are our future, yet their health is in despair. We must be well for the kids.”
-Dr. Michelle Robin |
Your Wellness Connection, P.A. began as Robin Chiropractic and Acupuncture Center in 1992 as a two person office led by Dr Michelle Robin. A chiropractor trained in acupuncture, Dr. Robin had a dream to create a unique approach to health care suitable for people of any age.
Dr. Robin’s passion began with chiropractic. At the age of 15, she was injured playing sports and received chiropractic care from Dr. John Lakin. She recovered quickly from the injury and, to her amazement also felt relief from chronic sinusitis and sore throats. Dr. Lakin’s holistic approach to health using acupuncture and energy medicine relieved her of intense menstrual cramps.
Dr. Lakin and his wife, Carol, taught Dr. Robin that health was more than the body’s physical aspects. They gave her direction on her spiritual path, teaching her she had unlimited potential to become anything she dreamed of being. She began to understand the human body’s profound capacity for healing when given the proper care.
Dr. Robin worked along side Richard Yennie, Chiropractor and Diplomate in Acupuncture, while in chiropractic school. Acclaimed as bringing acupuncture to the United States, Dr. Yennie played a pivotal role in Dr. Robin’s quest to transform people’s lives through healing. Dr. Yennie introduced her to four aspects of healing based on eastern philosophy: mechanical, chemical, energetic and psychological / spiritual. As Dr. Robin witnessed personal health transformations through this inclusive healing system, she was undoubtedly led to adopt this underutilized model.
Dr. Michelle Robin attributes the Lakins’ mentorship, Dr. Richard Yennie’s wisdom and the leadership of other healing teachers to have positively influenced her life’s mission – to heal, love, and educate herself and others with integrity, humor and spirit.
In 2005, Robin Chiropractic & Acupuncture Center officially became Your Wellness Connection. Our state-of-the-art facility was designed and built to integrate natural healing approaches supported by practitioners and staff under one roof, and to facilitate interaction with a network of community wellness partners. Our name change was also a reflection of our intention to serve each client – to connect them to their wellness.
We meet you where you are on the journey to wellness.
Wellness is a continuum. It is not static, but ever changing. We are either moving toward disease or toward wellness each moment we make a choice of what to drink or eat, how we think, how we interact with others, and how we move.
At Your Wellness Connection we meet people where they are, at their phase of health. We recognize that we are all on a journey toward wellness. No matter where someone lies on the continuum of health, we believe anyone can achieve their personal level of wellness.
We listen carefully to understand what challenges block clients from healing. These challenges can include self-esteem issues, past hurts, resentment, food allergies, depression, hormone imbalance, unhealthy relationships, under/overactive thyroid, etc. Our wellness model strives to identify challenges so true healing can begin.
5 Phases of Health – Can we illustrate this as a horizontal continuum with phase 1 on the left and phase 5 of the right and the descriptions below each phase? – see existing YWC website for example of how we would like this to look
Crisis – disease stage, poor quality of life, limited function of body and / or mind, often chronic pain exists
Alarm – symptoms exist or an internal instinct is present that says something is not quite right
Sustain – neither disease nor wellness exists – this is considered good health in traditional medical disciplines, no symptoms, health is not a priority
Transform – the pathway to wellness, many daily choices promote wellness, proper nutritional intake, movement and exercise and positive thinking are being introduced into daily life
Wellness – dynamic vitality, optimal function, proactively make wellness choices daily, wellness lifestyle
The dictionary defines wellness as a “dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal an external environments.”
Health is merely the absence of disease. Our approach to health is based on the concept of achieving a higher level of functioning in partnership with clients. In order to achieve wellness, you must address and proactively care for the whole person. By using a wellness model, which incorporates natural, complementary disciplines and includes a participative approach to health, clients are empowered to make wellness choices and achieve balance in all areas of health.
Our mission states, “We are your committed partners on your journey to optimal health.” For us, this means doing whatever it takes to connect you to your wellness.
It is with deep gratitude that we touch lives and connect people along their wellness journey. We acknowledge that Spirit is ever present as we facilitate whole body healing.
Our Wellness Model – The Four Quadrants to Wellness
Our wellness model, the four quadrants of wellness, includes a documented clinical model of comprehensive health evaluation adapted from eastern healing philosophy. This model looks beyond the traditional model of evaluation in healthcare and reinforces that the body was designed to be self-healing and self-regulating when given the proper care. This model challenges practitioners to embrace a broader role in the dimensions of wellness care and encourages clients to take an active role in their healing.
Creating a personal wellness plan is a process that involves addressing the whole person. Your Wellness Connection practitioners are trained and experienced in all four areas of wellness, allowing them to lovingly support clients through self-awareness and healing. Our wellness model strives to identify and address imbalances between each area of health so true healing can begin.
“Our wellness journey begins in the heart. Heal the heart and heal yourself.”
Dr. Michelle Robin, founder and owner Your Wellness Connection, P.A.
Mechanical Quadrant– physical or structural body including bones, muscles, tissue and nervous system
Enhanced with chiropractic, massage therapy, body movement and exercise, stretching, proper sleep posture, spinal hygiene
Negatively impacted by posture imbalances, spinal subluxations (link to definition), lack of movement / exercise
“The more mechanically distorted a person is the less energy for thinking, metabolism and healing.”
Dr. Roger Sperry, noted Nobel Prize winner in brain research
Chemical – body chemistry
Enhanced with whole foods diet, high nutritional intake from food and quality supplementation, adequate hydration, daily fish oil, high protein breakfast
Negatively impacted by processed foods, refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, environmental toxins, caffeine, excessive alcohol
“It is toxicity and / or deficiency affecting gene expression that leads to sickness, not faulty genetics.”
James Chestnut BEd., MSc., DC., C.C.W.P
Energetic –life energy, chi
Enhanced with acupuncture, energy work, peaceful alone time, organized living spaces, laughing, dancing, time in nature
Negatively impacted by cluttered living and working spaces, energy drains, excessive electronic usage
“In every culture and every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, biochemist and noted Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Psychological / Spiritual – connection to higher power, emotions, personal mission
Enhanced by counseling and coaching, self-love, fulfilling relationships, balance of work and play, gratitude, meditation
Negatively impacted by life-changing events, chronic stress, deep rooted negative and negative thoughts, lack of joy
“Every stress leaves an indelible scar and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.”
Hans Selye, MD
