Books that have deeply shaped my path as an intuitive chiropractor and lifelong learner — blending nervous system wisdom, emotional healing, manifestation, personal growth, and the mind-body-spirit connection that fuels the DeFT Technique
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The Body
Business Books
Movies
The Mind
My Roots
The Body
Wendy Palmer's work is as close to what I practice every day as any book I've found. She teaches you to listen to your body's intelligence — not just your mind — and use that awareness to move, heal, and relate differently. As an intuitive chiropract...
The Intuitive Body: Wisdom of Embodiment
One of the first books I read about trauma stored in the body
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
Dr. Nambudripad's allergy protocol is great.
Say Good-Bye to Illness: Nambudripad, Devi S.
The Hubbard Detox Protocol
Clear Body, Clear Mind Purification Program
This helped me work on trapped emotions. I don't use the 'codes' in practice, but the concepts are great.
The Emotion Code: Release Trapped Emotions
I bought this book many years ago. I thought it was amazing that I actually learned Chi-gong from a book!
The Way of Energy: Mastering Chinese Internal Strength
The body-based companion to The Body Keeps the Score. Levine shows how trauma gets stuck in the nervous system — and how to release it.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Business Books
This is one of the books I read when I started my own practice
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Marketing
lots of great business building ideas in this book
This is written by my friend Matthew Loop it’s a great big resource for all kinds of ideas
Social Media Made Me Rich: Here's How
Movies
this is the original “like Water from Chocolate” movie that I saw in the early 90's
Like Water For Chocolate
The new remake is fantastic!
Like Water for Chocolate (TV Series 2024–2026)
The Mind
i loved this book so much , I would buy copies and give them to friends that “needed” it
The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition) by Paulo Coelho, Paperback
My first book by Tony Robbins. It got me started on the whole self improvement thing
Unlimited Power: New Science of Achievement
This book changed how I approach healing. Eckhart Tolle teaches that most of our pain — physical and emotional — is rooted in living in the past or future. As a chiropractor, I see this play out in the body every day. When patients learn to drop into...
The Power of Now: Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Where most of the self-help stuff started. I was late to this one even though I've owned the book for years.
Psycho- Cybernetics: Maltz, Maxwell M.D.
Your beliefs literally change your biology. This is the science behind why the words after 'I am' matter so much.
The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton
Frankl survived the camps and came out with this: you can't always choose what happens to you, but you can choose what it means.
Man's Search for Meaning
My Roots
Learn the Basic Study Techniques
Scientology Basic Study Manual
Based on the work of Thurman Fleet
THE LAWS OF THE BODY & MIND: Forgotten Principles
I learned about Bernard Jensen early in my chiropractic career. I was still in chiropractic school and one of my professors turned me on to all his work
Dr. Bernard Jensen: Books
I remember when the author came to interview everyone. I was just a kid.
Years later, the book came out. I have a copy and I believe I tried to read all of it, but it’s a long book
The Path Between the Seas: Panama Canal
Rays of the Dawn is Dr. Fleet's book explaining the principles of healing and the laws of life!
