A story I hope you forward to everyone you love (not a sales email)

Published 27 days ago • 1 min read

Hey friend,

I want to tell you a story that stayed with me long after the camera stopped rolling.

Katherine and I filmed a testimonial the other day, and at one point she said something that hit me so hard I had to pause:

“I used to lie on the couch because my back hurt too much to hold my own child.
And now I can kettlebell swing my 36-pound four-year-old and feel totally fine.”

She cried.
I cried.
Because that’s not just “progress.”

That is life-saving in a way most people never think about.

Not life-saving like an ER or a surgeon.
Life-saving like:

getting your independence back
being able to parent the way you want
trusting your body again
breaking a cycle you watched your parents fall into
choosing a different future at 40 so you’re not stuck at 80

Watch her story here:
👉 [CLICK HERE]

The thing that changed everything for her?
She said every other program failed because no one ever taught her how to understand pain.

They told her pain = stop.
Pain = danger.
Pain = don’t move.

But learning that pain is data, not a red light, gave her her life back.

This is why I’m so serious about this work.
Why I care so much.
Why I talk about strength and capacity like it’s urgent.

Because it REALLY is.

You don’t realize how life-saving strength is…
until the day you can’t do what you used to do.
Or until pain takes away something that deeply matters.

This isn’t a sales email.
This is a PSA.
A reminder that building strength now saves parts of your life you don’t want to lose later.

Please forward this to someone you love.

💛
Dr. Shannon

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