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The Love to Own Your Business Podcast's third episode features Chris Edwards, owner of Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs talking about his business loves (and hates), stress and business growth.

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Transcript:

Hi everyone. I'm Sean and this is episode three of the Love to Own Your Business podcast. For this week's episode, Settling Your Stress, we're talking with Chris Edwards, owner of Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs. For those of you who are joining us for the first time, welcome to the show with the purpose of having a lighthearted discussion on the great advice that we've received as we grew our businesses. And also what advice we wish we'd received to avoid some of those missteps that made us not love our business so much and hope to keep you from making the same mistakes as you grow. I've started the series to compliment the work I do with business owners that feel like their businesses really own them and provide them with the experiences and supports that they need to help put things right. For this week, I was thinking that many of us have already begun navigating the return to school activities, despite already increasing numbers and looming warnings. And that also many of us are beginning to think a lot about the nearing changes in weather that will begin to soon close the great summer release valve of being outside that sort of helped keep us going with our social lives. So stress levels and anxiety are once again rising. And I wanted to have a discussion about coping in a more realistic and meaningful ways than the current gestalt of positivity that I have been coming across in my feeds. So, so Chris, this has been your wheelhouse for about as long as I've known you and I've always appreciated your ability to balance empathy with a workable, tough love approach to things. But let's start with telling us about Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs, what you do and how you started it.

- So, I mean, it's a long story, but I'll keep it shorter. Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs is a practice that deals with brain rehabilitation in the biggest sense of the word. From the standpoint of ADHD, anxiety, brain injury, stroke, performance enhancement, all of these things are really budding up against an old model, an old medical model. In Europe we moved to a inflammatory model for mental health and medicine, the United States is definitely behind the times in this and so what we do in our practice is an integrative model for improving brain functioning. So we look at tools using, we use biofeedback and neurofeedback, we use cognitive behavioral therapy, we use lifestyle management and we look at nutritional levels and all the ways that they integrate in and commingle in a person. We found that, you know, as I was getting back into to mental health from our days in, from being musicians in my days doing research at the University of Buffalo, that I just wasn't really happy with the efficacy of just traditional mental health counseling and the numbers aren't pretty, you know. The reality is that a straight-up statistical analysis of it, you're just as likely to get better if you go versus if you don't go, statistics. And that's because talk therapy is not enough to get past a lot of people's issues. And so what we get at is we use brain imaging, we use quantitative EEG to do what's called brain mapping and we're looking for electrical deviations in the brain that are statistically significant. So we're looking for people who make too much of something or not enough of something. We look at the area of the brain that that's occurring in.