Welcome to this week’s Weekly Reset.
Every week I’ll share one thought about health, one challenge to improve your week, and one reflection that has been impacting my own life. These should be a 3 minute read.
Health Insight: The Body Reflects Your Habits
Many people spend years searching for the perfect supplement, workout, or treatment.
While those things can help, the truth is that your body often reflects the habits you repeat daily.
A 20-minute walk.
Getting to bed 30 minutes earlier.
Drinking more water.
Taking time to decompress.
Small actions performed consistently usually outperform dramatic changes that only last a week.
This week, instead of asking, “What should I start doing?” ask:
“What healthy habit do I need to become more consistent with?”
Reflection: What Are You Actually Chasing?
I’ve been reading through Ecclesiastes recently.
One of the themes that keeps showing up is that people spend their lives chasing things that ultimately don’t last - money, possessions, status, recognition, and achievement.
None of those things are inherently bad.
The problem comes when they become the ultimate goal.
Ecclesiastes reminds us that everything on earth eventually fades. The car gets old. The house needs repairs. Money comes and goes. Recognition is quickly forgotten.
What lasts is the impact we have on people, our character, our relationships, and our relationship with God.
It’s a reminder to enjoy the blessings we have while remembering they were never meant to be the purpose of life.
Three Questions
What am I currently chasing most aggressively?
Is it helping me become the person I want to be?
What is one thing that will still matter five years from now?
Weekly Challenge
For the next seven days:
Take one 20-minute walk without your phone.
Use that time to think, pray, reflect, or simply be present.
Practice Update
I’m currently completing my chiropractic internship and preparing to join the team at Y Wellness in Plymouth this August ... exciting!
Thank you for following along on the journey. Feel free to reply to this email - I’d love to hear what stood out to you most,
Preston Hetland
Futuredrhetland.com
952-261-5846
Welcome to this week's Weekly Reset.
Every week I'll share one thought about health, one challenge to improve your week, and one reflection that has been impacting my own life. These should be a 3-minute read.
Health Insight: Direction Matters More Than Speed
Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a week and underestimate what they can accomplish in a year. When it comes to health, we're often looking for dramatic changes - a new workout program, a strict diet, or the perfect supplement. While those things can help, the body responds most consistently to the habits we repeat every day.
One workout won't transform your health, just like one unhealthy meal won't ruin it. What matters most is the direction you're moving. Are your daily habits slowly leading you toward becoming stronger, healthier, and more resilient? This week, instead of focusing on perfection, focus on progress. Small actions, repeated consistently, often produce the biggest results.
Reflection: Who Are You Becoming?
One thing I've been thinking about recently is how much attention we give to where we're going in life, while spending very little time thinking about who we're becoming along the way.
Many of us have goals for our careers, finances, health, or family. Those goals are important. But every decision we make today is shaping the person we'll become tomorrow. The habits we repeat become our character. The things we think about become the things we value. The way we spend our time reveals what is truly important to us.
Scripture reminds us that life moves quickly. The days can feel long, but the years pass faster than we expect. Looking back, most people don't wish they had spent more time worrying, comparing themselves to others, or chasing things that never fully satisfied them. Instead, they value the relationships they invested in, the people they served, and the person they became.
Maybe the most important question isn't, "Where will I be five years from now?" Maybe it's, "Who will I be?"
Three Questions
• Who am I becoming through my current habits?
• What is one habit that may be shaping me in the wrong direction?
• What is one small change I can make this week that my future self will thank me for?
Weekly Challenge
Choose one habit you've been neglecting and commit to it for the next seven days. Just one simple action done consistently. It could be a daily walk, reading for ten minutes, getting to bed earlier, or spending time in prayer. Focus on consistency, not perfection.
Practice Update
This week I've continued laying the groundwork for practice after graduation at Y Wellness. It's been a good reminder that meaningful goals are usually accomplished through small daily actions rather than massive breakthroughs.
I'm also excited to share that I'll be hosting an Open House this August as I prepare to begin practice in Plymouth. The date is still being finalized, but there will be opportunities to meet the team, learn more about the practice, eat great food, and enjoy SOME AWESOME giveaways. More details will be coming soon.
Thank you for following along on the journey. Feel free to reply to this email - I’d love to hear what stood out to you most.
Preston Hetland
https://www.futuredrhetland.com/
952-261-5846
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Reset.
Every week I’ll share one thought about health, one challenge to improve your week, and one reflection that has been impacting my own life. These should be a 3-minute read.
Health Insight: Your Body Responds to What You Carry
Stress does not only affect the mind. It affects the body too.
We’ve all been there, life feels overwhelming, the body responds before we even realize it. Our shoulders get tighter. Our breathing gets shorter. Our sleep gets lighter. Our patience gets thinner. Sometimes we can feel like we are carrying the weight of the entire week physically.
This is why learning to pause matters.
A lot of people think rest only comes once everything is figured out. Once the schedule slows down. Once the problem is solved. Once the next thing is handled. But the reality is, life rarely gives us perfect conditions to finally be at peace.
Sometimes the healthiest thing we can do is slow down in the middle of the unfinished things and remind ourselves that not everything needs to be carried at once.
A walk, a deep breath, prayer, stretching, getting outside, or simply taking five minutes without your phone can all be simple ways to tell your body, “We are okay right now.”
Your body was not designed to live in constant urgency. Sometimes health begins by learning how to release what you were never meant to carry all day.
Reflection: Don’t Let Chaos Steal the Good
One thing I’ve been thinking about this week is how easy it is to let the chaotic parts of life define the entire week.
A few things go wrong. A plan changes. Something costs more than expected. A conversation feels uncertain. The schedule gets busy. And before we know it, we start calling the whole week stressful, frustrating, or bad.
But when we slow down, there is usually still a lot of good mixed in.
This week reminded me that hectic schedules can be present without being in control of the whole situation.
There can be uncertainty and still be progress. There can be stress and still be encouragement. There can be things that feel unresolved and still be moments worth being grateful for. Trust does not mean pretending everything is easy. Trust means choosing not to let the hardest part of the week become the whole story.
Scripture reminds us over and over again to trust God with our steps, even when we cannot see the full path in front of us. That is not always easy, especially when life feels busy or uncertain. But sometimes trust looks like taking the next faithful step and believing that God is still working in the middle of what feels unfinished.
Maybe the goal is not to have a perfectly calm week - but maybe the goal is to not let the chaos blind us from the goodness that is still there.
Three Questions
• What part of this week have I allowed to control my attitude?
• What good thing happened this week that I may have overlooked?
• What would it look like to trust God with one thing that still feels unfinished?
Weekly Challenge
Write down three good things from your week that stress or control tried to make you miss - they do not have to be big.
It could be a conversation, a small win, a moment of peace, an answered prayer, a sign of progress, or someone who encouraged you. The goal is not to ignore the hard parts, but to remember that the hard parts do not define your whole week.
Practice Update
This week I’ve continued thinking through how I want to introduce myself to the Plymouth community in a more personal way as I prepare to begin practice at Y Wellness.
One thing I am working on is a new “You’re Invited” flyer that will give people a chance to follow the journey, receive The Weekly Reset, hear practice updates, and learn more about upcoming opportunities as we get closer to opening.
I am also continuing to work on timing and details for the Open House later this year. The date is still being finalized, but there will be opportunities to meet the team, learn more about the practice, eat great food, and enjoy some awesome giveaways.
Thank you for following along on the journey. Feel free to reply to this email - I’d love to hear what stood out to you most.
Preston Hetland
https://www.futuredrhetland.com/
952-261-5846
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Reset.
Every week I’ll share one thought about health, one challenge to improve your week, and one reflection that has been impacting my own life. This week should be a 5-10 minute read.
Health Insight: Health Is Function, Not Just Feeling
Most people measure health by how they feel. If nothing hurts, they assume they are healthy. If they have energy, they assume everything is working the way it should. If they do not have symptoms, they assume there is nothing to pay attention to.
But health is deeper than a feeling.
Your body is constantly working to keep you alive and adapting to the world around you. Your heart beats without you thinking about it. Your lungs breathe. Your stomach digests. Your immune system responds all day long.
The body is designed with an incredible “God Given” ability to heal. In science, we often call this homeostasis, which is the body’s ability to maintain balance. In chiropractic, this is often connected to the idea of innate intelligence, meaning the body has a built-in wisdom and design that is constantly working toward life, healing, and function.
One of the main systems responsible for coordinating this is the nervous system.
This is why chiropractic has always placed such a strong emphasis on the spine and nervous system. The spine is not just a stack of bones. It protects the spinal cord and helps provide structure, movement, and communication between the brain and body.
In the Gonstead approach, we are not just looking to “crack backs” or chase symptoms. The goal is to carefully analyze the spine and identify areas that are not moving or functioning the way they should. When a joint is restricted, irritated, inflamed, or under stress, it can affect the way the body moves and the quality of information the nervous system receives from that area.
I like to explain it like an outdoor water hose. When the hose is open and flowing well, the water moves freely. But when there is a kink in the hose, the flow becomes restricted. The body is more complex than a hose, of course, but the idea is similar. When there is dysfunction in the spine, the body may still function, but it may not be functioning as efficiently as it could.
In chiropractic, we often call this interference.
Interference does not mean the body is broken. It means something may be getting in the way of the body functioning at its best. The purpose of a specific chiropractic adjustment is to reduce interference and support the body’s ability to adapt and function the way it was designed to.
Interference does not mean the body is broken. It means something is getting in the way of the body functioning at its best. Over time, stressors can build up and affect how well the body adapts. These stressors are often grouped into three main categories: physical, chemical, and emotional.
This is why health is not just about waiting until something hurts. Pain is important, but pain is usually one of the last things to show up. Long before symptoms appear, the body may already be adapting to stress, compensation, inflammation, lack of sleep, or emotional tension.
Over the next few weeks, I want to walk through these three types of interference more specifically. We will look at physical stress, chemical stress, and emotional stress, and how each one can affect the body’s ability to function the way it was designed to function.
Reflection: Designed With Purpose
One thing that’s been on my mind recently is how easy it is to take the body for granted.
Most of the time, we only think about our health when something goes wrong. But we rarely take a step back and just say thank you for this body & life we have been given. Even on an ordinary day, the body is doing something remarkable.
Scripture reminds us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. That perspective changes how we see health. Instead of only asking, “How do I feel today?” maybe we should also ask, “How am I caring for what God has given me?”
Health is not about obsessing over the body. It is about stewardship. It is about recognizing that the choices we make each day either support the body’s ability to function or add more stress to a system that is already carrying a lot. Maybe health is not just about feeling good. Maybe health is about helping the body function well so we can live, serve, work, and show up for the people God has placed in our lives.
Three Questions
This week, ask yourself if you have been measuring your health only by how you feel, or if you have been paying attention to how well your body is functioning.
Ask yourself what kind of stressor you have been placing on your body most often.
Then ask yourself what one thing you could begin removing this week that may be interfering with your body’s ability to function well.
Weekly Challenge
For the next seven days, pay attention to one area of interference in your life. The goal this week is not perfection, it should be your awareness. Pay attention to what your body has been trying to tell you, and take one small step toward removing what may be getting in the way.
Practice Update
This week I’ve been thinking a lot about the foundation of how I want to explain health as I prepare to begin practice at Y Wellness in Plymouth.
Over the next few Weekly Resets, I’ll be walking through a short series on the three main types of stressors that can affect the body: physical, chemical, and emotional. My hope is that this series helps you think about health in a deeper way!
Thank you for following along on the journey. Feel free to reply to this email - I’d love to hear what stood out to you most.
Preston Hetland
https://www.futuredrhetland.com/
952-261-5846
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Reset.
Every week I’ll share one thought about health, one challenge to improve your week, and one reflection that has been impacting my own life. This week should be a 5 minute read.
Health Insight: Physical Interference
Last week, we talked about the idea that health is function, not just feeling. This week, I want to talk about the first type of interference: physical interference.
The body is incredibly resilient, so it will usually keep going: It will compensate, adapt, and find a way to function. But just because the body can adapt does not mean there is no stress on the system. Think about something as simple as cutting your finger. You do not have to consciously tell your body what to do. You do not have to sit there and say, “Send blood to this area. Create inflammation. Build new tissue. Close the wound.” The body just knows what to do.
That is one of the most amazing things about the human body. Our body was designed with the ability to heal. The body is constantly working toward life and function without us having to micromanage every process. In chiropractic, we often talk about this as the body’s innate intelligence. It is the built in wisdom and design that was given to us at birth. But here is the important part: healing and function depend on communication.
Your brain and body are constantly communicating through the nervous system. The nervous system coordinates movement, healing, digestion, immune response, and organ function. That is why physical interference matters. When there is an injury, irritation, inflammation, edema, or altered movement in an area, the body responds with: Blood flow changes. Inflammatory responses. Ligaments, muscles, joints, and nerves can become irritated. That irritation can change the way the nervous system receives and sends information.
This is where chiropractic becomes so important.
As Gonstead chiropractors, we are not just randomly adjusting the spine. We are looking for specific areas of subluxation. A subluxation is an area of the spine that is not moving or functioning properly and may be creating stress or interference within the nervous system. The goal of the adjustment is not to force the body to heal. The goal is to remove interference. When interference is reduced, the body has a better opportunity to express the life and intelligence that God already placed within it. I like to think of it like this: chiropractic does not put health into the body, it was already designed with an incredible ability to heal and function. Chiropractic helps remove what may be getting in the way.
That is why pain is not always the best measurement of health, pain is often one of the last things to show up. Long before pain appears, the body may already be compensating. This is also why babies and kids can often respond so well to chiropractic care. Their bodies have not always had years and years of compensation layered on top of each other. Their nervous systems are growing and developing rapidly. When interference is found and corrected early, the body often responds quickly. That is also why we care about specific levels of the spine. For example, the mid-back region is connected with nerve pathways that influence many functions in the body, including digestion. That does not mean one adjustment is a magic button. But it does mean the spine and nervous system are deeply connected to how the body functions.
The body is not a machine made of separate parts. It is one connected system. This is the heart of chiropractic. We are not treating the body like it is broken. We are recognizing that the body was made with wisdom, design, and purpose. Our job is to find what may be interfering with that design and help remove it as specifically as possible.
Reflection + Weekly Challenge: The Blessing of the Body
This last weekend we were able to celebrate the 4th of July. I hope yours was filled with laughter, family, and friends like mine was. It made me reflect on how beautiful this life can really be when we take a step back and look at the little things. Most of us are blessed with a body that can walk, talk, breathe, think, and express the life we have been given.
I know for myself, all of those things can be taken for granted in an instant. So I encourage us to take a step back and be thankful for the little things that we have been blessed with in our bodies. Stewardship of our health can be as simple as being thankful for this life we have, even when everything around us can be so crazy.
Three Questions
When you think about your body, do you see it as something broken that needs to be fixed, or as something with the ability to heal?
Where in your life might physical stress be interfering with your body’s ability to express the health and life it was created with?
What would it look like this week to better steward the body you have?
Practice Update
This week I am continuing the 4-week series on chiropractic philosophy and health.
Last week was about health being function, not just feeling. This week is about physical interference. In the next two weeks, we will talk about chemical and emotional interference and how those stressors can affect the body’s ability to adapt and function. My hope is for those who take the time to read these, that they would develop a new appreciation for the body they have been given. The body is not broken. The body is intelligent. The body was designed with the ability to heal, adapt, and function. Sometimes we just need to remove what is getting in the way.
Thank you for following along on the journey. Feel free to reply to this email - I’d love to hear what stood out to you most.
Preston Hetland
https://www.futuredrhetland.com/
952-261-5846