September 11, 2019 By

Towards or Away- a new view of your Nervous System

Good morning and wishing you a happy Monday!
As a refresher overview- the automatic or auto pilot part (technically called the autonomic nervous system) of our nervous system makes up about 90-95% of our nervous system (can also be called subconscious), and this automictic part has 2 modes it can be in. Sympathetic/ fight/flight/freeze or parasympathetic/rest and digest. One of our goals at Next Level is to help your Nervous system return to a parasympathetic dominate state, and then to continue to move in that direction.
Now that that is out of the way we are going to discuss how the orientation of your nervous system affects your health and life in a fun new way,
That way is towards or away. Towards will represent parasympathetic dominance and away will represent sympathetic dominance.
The towards direction starts off moving towards better health and function as more energy is automatically focused on cellular repair, homeostasis, upright posture, digestion and all other healing. As your body, mind, and emotions work better, you can start to improve your life.
Moving further in the towards direction requires more energy and momentum than simply helping your self. At this point you might find it easier and more appealing to be open to collaboration, community and helping others. It is easier to collaborate with others because in a parasympathetic dominate state, you do not automatically see others a threat / source of stress. More options are available to you in many areas of life as your brain function shifts to using more of the prefrontal cortex and less of the limbic system(animal brain). This allows you to see the bigger picture and make long term rational decisions as your automatic random thoughts will be geared more for long term growth rather than pain or pleasure. It is easier to delay gratification now for a better future.
Continuing in the growth direction will require more energy and efficient use of that energy. This can be achieved by the leveling up of your nervous system via Network care. The far end of the towards direction moves you towards greater meaning and connection in life. This usually means some sort of spiritual practice or greater connection to your own beliefs or Religion. We say some sort because this can be deeply personal and different for everyone.
In contrast, in the away direction, energy is automatically focused on skeletal muscles that would be used to flight or run and on staying on high alert (think anxiety). Repair is minimal and healing is slow. Homeostasis is not a priority so hormones and blood chemistry can easily become out of balance. Instead of repair, the body slowly degrades similar to the way most people think about aging. Focus is generally not on making large improvements in life so much as conserving what you already have.
Moving further in the away direction leads to stagnation and isolation in life. It will be harder to get along with people, much less collaborate since new people will be seen by the automictic part of your nervous system as threats. The mentality will be “what does this person want from me” and we all know how fun that can be. Random thoughts will be driven more by the limbic system and will be more often concerning immediate pain or pleasure. It will be harder to see the bigger picture as blood flow moves away from the prefrontal cortex. This makes it harder to make good long term choices for your health and life. It is harder to delay gratification even if we know we will pay for it later.
I was recently asked if we promote any particular religion and why we have so many items associated with different spiritual practices in our office. The answer is no. We support all practices and do not promote or try to convert anyone to any religion, rather we simply believe in a higher power. We respect everyone’s own journey. Network care can help you move more in your own towards direction whatever that might be by helping your auto pilot be oriented towards growth.
We have  a rosery from the Vatican, a Taoist blessing, statues of Hindu deities, flowers from the Hare Krishna temple, multiple photos of Buddha and more. Everything except for some of the photos has been gifted to us over the years. When we see them, we are reminded of the feelings of gratitude and connection. The art that we have purchased mostly comes from events we have done with Donny (gates and AWEs), and they remind us of very energy rich times for our family. Having these around the office makes it even easier for us to serve from an energy rich place.
Next week we will cover how to tell if your autopilot has shifted to any degree of sympathetic dominance or stress mode. I also plan on covering why you might feel “worse” after an entrainment in coming weeks.

Our Hours for: 9/09/19-9/13/19
Monday- Thursday:
10:00am-1:15pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday:
3:30pm-6:00pm
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August 29, 2019 By

8/26/19- Rest and Digest

Good morning and happy Monday!
Thank you to everyone that has emailed, texted, gifted or otherwise sent love this way! We are very grateful. Sarah and Atlas are doing great. He is an eating and pooping expert at this point and even sleeps really well (during the day 🙂 lol). Max loves being a big brother and overall has been doing a great job dealing with all of the change.
Over the last few weeks, we have discussed how Network care, specifically the respiratory wave, helps to stimulate a parasympathetic tone. Generally speaking sympathetic and parasympathetic are the 2 modes of the our human auto pilot with sympathetic being the fight, flight or freeze mode and parasympathetic being the rest and digest mode.
Lets take a closer look at what rest and digest means.
To rest is to be able to recover. In this state, your body is able to focus on recovering, making repairs and maintaining homeostasis throughout all of its systems and subsystems.
It is also able to digest all of the things that it lacked energy to digest while it was stuck in stress mode. In stress or survival mode, energy is pumped into your skeletal muscles that you will need to fight or run for your life instead of to digestion.
Digestion can of course mean digesting food that we have eaten or that has become lodged in our digestive system somewhere. It can also mean digesting unprocessed emotions or feelings that we previously not allowed ourselves to feel. It can mean digestion of old thought patterns that have previously been playing on repeat. It can mean digestion of stored chemical stresses from any chemicals exposure you have previously had- think air and water pollution, processed food, bug spray, cleaning materials etc. In the case of rest and digest, digest can refer to the processing of ANY stored stress.
As some of these old thoughts and emotions get digested, sometimes there is an overflow from the subconscious (where most of this is happening) to the conscious. When this happens we might find ourselves feeling grumpy, angry or frustrated for no reason at all. (this can also happen with positive emotions, however most of us have shoved down way more of the darker emotions than the positive ones) This generally will not last very long, and the best thing to do is to simply be with whatever comes up. Do your best not to judge anything or avoid feeling what you are feeling. That is how we got in that position in the first place. The remnants or overflow will never be as stressful or extreme as the original stress that was stored. Again, most of the digestion will be in the subconscious part of our bodies.
This usually only happens once or twice and does not last but a few hours or moments. The great part is that after digesting something, you can get the benefits from it. Over time, expect to experience a fuller range of emotions with the potential for more and more positive emotions as you gain momentum in the growth (rest and digest) direction.
Our Hours for: 8/26/19-8/30/19
Monday- Thursday: 10:00am-1:15pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday: Closed Have a great week, Your Next Level Team

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August 19, 2019 By

8/19/19- Somatopsychic wave

Good morning and happy Monday!
We had a baby–Thank you for all of the love and support! We appreciate all of the emails and texts!!
Meet our newest source of instability. Atlas Sol Johnson was born on Thursday evening 39 hours after Sarah’s water broke. Our hearts are overflowing with love. We are so grateful he decided to join our family. Our dear friends have set up a meal train for us and I have included the link under the photo below if anyone feels drawn to participate or donate gift cards. Please do not feel obligated. I am only including it here since so many of you have asked if we were registered anywhere or if they could get us anything.
Our journey this week was more challenging and rewarding than we could have ever imagined. We were pushed up to and past our breaking points in many ways and were also loved and supported beyond what we could have imagined from friends, family, soul family and even strangers. We are beyond grateful. This week we berthed Atlas Sol Johnson, and in the process Sarah and I were reborn as well.
Somatopsychic wave
Over the last few weeks, we have talked about the respiratory wave. The respiratory wave helps you connect to and release stored stress and stimulates an overall parasympathetic tone in your body and nervous system. This wave creates more stability in your spine and overall system.
The other wave in Network is the somatopsychic wave (sp), and it creates temporary instability. It does this in order to help your spine and overall system reorganize to higher levels of efficiency and function.
This wave is muscular in nature and its job is to carry energy and information (from stored stress processed via the respiratory wave) up and down your spine and from different parts of your body into the gateways we are working with. Essentially it picks ups up newly liberated energy and information as it travels through your body and carries it to the areas where we make contacts. This allows your system to use the energy that was previously bound (as stored stress) to grow, heal and reorganize.
Network helps improve your spine and life by stacking levels of stability and instability during each entrainment and from entrainment to entrainment as described above. We are constantly accessing if your spine needs more stability or instability before each contact we make. Some days your system will require more stability and some days your system will require more instability. If you experience a lot of instability in one session, you will likely need more stability the next session. This is another reason we recommend coming regularly. Imagine cleaning out a closet or garage. At first, things get a little more messy or unstable as you take things out. Later the overall system moves to a higher level of stability as you get rid of things that you no longer need and then put things back in a more efficient/functional way.
In general, the sp wave looks like a sine or ocean wave that moves up and down your spine. The way your individual wave looks and the way you experience this wave depends on your Triad of Change (to be covered later). Some people will have very large or small fluid waves, some people will have large or small jerky or staccato wave and some people will have more of a feeling of a wave. That said, no two persons Network wave is exactly the same. Everyone has a unique wave just like they have a unique fingerprint or gait (the mathematical pattern of the way you walk).
In general, learning something new, getting better at anything or growing as a person requires stacking levels of stability and instability. Too much stability is boring and leads to stagnation. Too much instability leads to constant stress and burn out, and it is hard to make progress without laying a solid/ stable foundation. This is why we are constantly accessing if your spine/life needs more stability or more instability at the start of and throughout each entrainment (I say life because, as Donny says, “the shape, position and tone of your spine equals the shape position and tone of your life”).

I look forward to seeing everyone in the office this week
Love
Homer and Sarah

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August 12, 2019 By

8/12/19- Storing Stress

Good morning and Happy Monday,

In last weeks email we discussed how the respiratory wave helps you connect to and release stored stress in your system/ body. Lets quickly review how this stress gets stored in your body in the first place and why connecting to and releasing it would be good for you.

Your Brain is basically like your bodies’ computer or operating system. Its job is to process all the data from your 5 senses as well as all thoughts and emotions you have each day. Side note: Humans are the only creatures smart enough to think our selves into stress- lucky us since we can also think and feel ourselves into relaxation, bliss and any other state as well.

After processing and interpreting all of life’s input, the operating system determines the appropriate output. As a reminder, most of this output is automatic or subconscious (digestion, breathing, cellular repair, posture ect).

When the amount of life or data coming in is more than the operating system can process, the left over part is stored in different parts of the body as tension or subluxation.

The other main way stress gets stored in our bodies is via large stresses that have happened at any point in our life. If you were to pause and think about it, you would likely be able to identify a few moments in your life that were extremely stressful or too much to deal with. Or maybe you know someone who was never quite the same after xyz happened to them. If you can not identify any extreme or painful moments in your past, this might be a hint that you have an internal orientation. (more on internal/ external orientations in the future)

These are the main ways your body stores stress (physical, chemical , mental and emotional). When you are storing stress in your body on top of the large amount of stress in daily life, it tends to keep the Automatic part of your operating system in fight, flight or freeze mode. In this mode your breath will automatically be short and shallow and the stress cycle easily repeats itself.

Awareness is the key to breaking this cycle. You have to first become aware of your breath so that you can know if it is short and shallow, deep and full, or somewhere in-between. Once you are aware, you can make a changes as needed.

Awareness grows with practice and is accelerated via Network care. As I said last week, Regular Network care is a great way to make sure that each of the 20,000 breaths you take each day is working for you instead of just keeping you alive.

Over the next few weeks we will cover the somatopsychic wave and how it helps our nervous systems reorganize to a higher level of efficiency. I will also do my best to include a short video or sound clip walkthrough of SRI stage 1. Somato respiratory integration stage 1 is a great tool to find areas of disconnection in our bodies. This goes back to the concept that you must be aware of a problem or disconnection before you can correct or connect.

An update on our family. Sarah is doing fantastic and her due date is this upcoming Saturday. Max is a happy little guy excited for his baby brother to come and for school to start. We will update everyone via email when we have our baby and if we need to close the office at all over the next couple weeks.

Our Hours for: 8/12/19-8/16/19
Monday- Thursday: 10:00am-1:15pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday: 3:30pm-6:00pm Our next planned Fri closure is Fri 8/23. **Dr. Jarrett works Friday afternoon**
Have a great week, Your Next Level Team
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August 12, 2019 By

08/5/19- Respiratory wave

Good morning and Happy Monday,

This is the first week of our new hours. The only things that have changed are that Tuesday and Thursday morning shifts now match Monday and Wednesday, and all morning shifts now go through 1:15pm We ask that you are in the door by 1:15pm to get entrained during the morning shifts. Afternoon hours have not changed.

So why this change?

We have noticed that 1:15pm seems to be a natural cutoff, and that not many people come in from 1:30-2:30pm.
Having different hours on different days was confusing. This will simplify things making it easier to come get entrained.
This will also allow me to go home for lunch Tue and Thur to see our newborn, give Sarah a short break, and pick Max up from extended day a couple days a week. I love being at the office, and being able to go home and come back (instead of staying at the office all day like I had been on T and Th) will allow me to be more energy rich and to provide better care.

Respiratory wave

What is the respiratory wave?
There are 2 waves in Network that carry energy and information through your body. The first is the respiratory or breath wave. This wave allows your Nervous System to become aware of stress and tension stored in your body and begin to release it. It starts at your tail bone and travels all the way up your body to your head and back down, eventually carrying energy and information into the Gateway (where we make contacts) we are working with.

How much of the respiratory wave are you aware of? Do you feel it moving up your spine rocking each bone as it goes? Does it stop or get stuck somewhere? Are you aware of it moving through your neck all the way to the top and back down your spine? Do you feel it go into the gateway and maybe notice a lifting or rocking in your body at the place we made a contact? The more you are aware of, the more you can connect to and release. As Donny says, “You have to feel it to heal it.” This is why you might notice pain that you were unaware of as you lay on the table.

This wave is all about adding stability and ease to your system. It is generally the first thing to develop and that people notice. It usually starts out only moving part of the way up your spine and body and gets bigger/ moves further with repetition. We might ask you tuck your chin or lift part of your body to help the wave progress.

The respiratory wave also drives your parasympathetic system (the rest and digest) and reprograms the way you breath off the table as well. Many people report being more aware of their breath during daily life, and that their breath is deeper of fuller than before starting care. Each of the roughly 20,000 breaths you take each day can make you more or less healthy, and most of these breaths are unconscious. Regular Network care is a great way to make sure that each of the 20,000 breaths you take each day is working for you instead of just keeping you alive. Here is an article on the benefits of deep breathing.

Our Hours for: 8/05/19-8/09/19
Monday- Thursday: 10:00am-1:15pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday: 3:30pm-6:00pm Our next planned Fri closure is Fri 8/24. **Dr. Jarrett works Friday afternoon**
Have a great week, Your Next Level Team
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August 1, 2019 By

8/1/19- Important update to office hours

Hi everyone!

As we get ready to have a new baby, we are making some changes to optimize our future lives.

Starting next week, all of our morning shifts (M-Th) will be from 10 am – 1:15pm. Please feel free to come all the way up to 1:15pm. I do not plan on leaving until close to 1:30pm. This change will allow me to pick Max up from school a few days per week and to go home for lunch to give Sarah a break and be with our new baby on Tuesday and Thursday.

We will also be going through our face cloth holders and removing any tags for people who have not been in in some time.

Finally, be on the look out for a possible re organization of the entraining room. We are experimenting with a few different layouts and will see if we like any of them better than our current layout.

See below for more information on upcoming epienergetic events.

The gate is a great entry point to the event world. At the gate you receive 5 Network sessions by some of the top entraining staff in the world as well as group exercises. The gate happens to be at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center which conveniently has a water park in it.

The AWE event is a great entry point to Donny events. At the AWE you are worked on by Donny exclusivly.
Click here to get more information and register.
The next Transformational Gate is at the end of this month in Denver, CO. At this hallmark EpiEnergetics community gathering you will develop, experience, and explore your unique spinal wave that awakens, enlivens, and heals. Non-authentic nervous system and spinal patterns are replaced by your authentic healing signature. Experience the 12 Stages of Healing coupled with extraordinary awakening. Formerly exclusively available to those actively in NetworkSpinal Care, this program is now also available for seekers wanting to discover the sheer magic of the body’s wisdom and life’s unfolding! This weekend is a MUST for seekers to know, understand, and optimize their bodies and the organizing energies that fuel us all. More than seventy thousand participants from six continents have come through The Gate. See you on the other side!
AWE announecd for October!
For Seekers wishing to hack the energetic code of your incarnation. You can be part of an intimate group that will experience EpiExchange, an energetic method created and exclusively provided by Donny Epstein. Through talks, exercises and table sessions we will go beyond experiencing energy in the field and actually begin to form personal Energy Houses in the fields of attendees!  At AWE, by helping link the forces of creation through your field, you will actually experience EpiField Exchange. Beyond change or personal development you can exchange your organizing EpiField and be a higher, more congruent, more authentic and effective version of YOU. You will forever alter your concepts of what is possible at this life-changing weekend of AWE.

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July 30, 2019 By

7/29/19-Going with the Flow vs Making a shift

Good morning and happy Monday,
We are one week closer to having a baby; Sarah’s approximate due date is August 17th! We are hoping for a weekend birth, and we will see how that actually goes 🙂 If we need to close the office suddenly, we will send out an email to everyone and do our best to put a note on the door and change the voicemail.
Go with the flow vs making a shift
“Going with the flow” or “swimming with the current of life” vs. “swimming upstream” is a great way to live life and works conceptually for most people. However, from the view of the Triad of Change (an epienergetic model), there are a group of people that will have a very hard time with concept of “going with the flow.” That group of people would be anyone who typically has a behavior drain. You will know you are one of these people if the concept of “going with the flow” has never made sense to you or never seemed relevant or seemed to work for you.**(see below for a refresher on the triad)
For these people, the concept or idea of flowing will actually drain energy from their overall system. Instead of “flowing”, a good strategy could be to focus on making a shift or even multiple shifts in a row.
For everyone, there will be times when going with the flow will work better and when focusing on shift/s will work better. The goal is to know what works best for you most of the time and to use that to move the same direction / flow as that which the current of life is pulling you.
Respiratory wave
Look for more information on the Respiratory wave and how it changes your spine and life in next weeks email. The respiratory waves are the really big breaths you feel/ take while on the entrainment table, and they do much more than you think.
Have wonderful day and week!
**As a refresher there are 3 sides to the Triad (Perception, structure and behavior), and the idea with the Triad of Change is to know your personal formula to go from energy neutral to energy rich. The triad has 3 parts: The prime which is the initial spark or what comes first to prime the overall system, the keystone which is the way we manage the world or our “auto pilot”, and the drain or the part that drains energy from your system when gone to directly. The ideal order is prime–> keystone–> drain. Done in this order, the energy carries over into the drain to fully fuel your system. This is a simplified explanation.

Our Hours for: 7/29/19-8/02/19
Monday- 10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30 pm -6:00 pm Tuesday- 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Wednesday-10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Thursday: 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday:3:30pm-6:00pm Our next planned closures on will be Fri 8/24.
**Dr. Jarrett works Friday afternoon**
Have a great week, Your Next Level Team
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July 30, 2019 By

7/22/19- Newsletter to be posted in blogs

Hi everyone,
We are happy to be open Monday- Friday this week!
We apologize to those of you that missed that we would be out of the office Thursday and Friday the last two weeks. We know some of you drive a long way to see us and we appreciate your dedication to your care and evolution. We have started posting our newsletters to our website under the blogs to make it easier to go back and reference them. Newsletters are the best place to find when we will be open/closed and we do our best to let everyone know weeks in advance of closures.
We are 36 weeks pregnant this week!! Our fingers our crossed that Sarah will go into labor sometime Thursday evening- Saturday and that we will not have to close the office. If she goes into labor during the work week, we will send an email newsletter updating day or days closed. I have done a poor job updating the voicemail hours lately. I’m sorry for the inconvenience and will do better on this. Have a wonderful day today!!

Our Hours for: 7/22/19-7/26/19
Monday- 10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30 pm -6:00 pm Tuesday- 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Wednesday-10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Thursday: 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday:3:30pm-6:00pm Our next planned closures on will be  Fri 8/24.
**Dr. Jarrett works Friday afternoon**
Have a great week, Your Next Level Team
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July 16, 2019 By

7/15/19- Tony Robbins’ Priming exercise and Gratitude

Next Level Chiropractic
Hi everyone,
We had an amazing time at Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within event, and I wanted to share just a bit of it with you.

One of the exercises we did was a way to prime your day for gratitude, and I have included a link to a video form 2017 where Tony leads the exercise. See it here. This exercise is meant to be done in the morning.

Why would you want to start your day with Gratitude?

To start off gratitude is a super energy rich emotion and this will raise your energy state to help get you and those around to have a great start to the day.

It is also very well known that gratitude is a wonderful emotion. In fact, if you type the words “Gratitude is” into the search bar these are some of the tops suggestions that pop up.

Google: Gratitude is a must , Gratitude is the best attitude, Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness, Gratitude is the parent of all virtues

Yahoo: Gratitude is the key to happiness, Gratitude is a must, Gratitude is good for you, Gratitude is the best attitude

Generally we all start each day with some sort of emotion. Maybe not at first, but at some point something will make you happy, sad, mad, excited, frustrated or cause you to react in some other way. So if we have to experience emotion each day, why not make the first one a great one:)

Come in for a rocking entrainment this week!

Our Hours for: 7/15/19-7/19/19
Monday- 10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30 pm -6:00 pm
Tuesday- 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Wednesday-10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Thursday: 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Friday:3:30pm-6:00pm
**Dr. Jarrett works Friday afternoon**
Have a great week, Your Next Level Team
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July 16, 2019 By

7/8/19 Newsletter – hydration tips

Next Level Chiropractic
Hi everyone,
We are incredibly grateful to have been gifted tickets to Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within next week. The office will be rocking and rolling Monday- Wednesday only as we take this incredible opportunity to better ourselves Thursday-Sunday.

Summer is here and it is hot! One of the most important things during this season is to stay hydrated! If you are spending time outside in the heat, you will need more water to stay properly hydrated. (add even more water if you are having adult beverages).
I stopped drinking coffee and wine for the first couple weeks of my heavy metal detox to help my body flush things out and I noticed that I needed to focus some attention on my hydration. The easiest way to know if you are hydrated is by the color of your pee. Here is a great article on that– Most people know that you do not want dark yellow pee, but you might be surprised to find that totally clear pee is also not ideal. My re-hydration was taking way longer than I thought it should, so I started to dig deeper into hydration. It turns outs drinking tons of water by itself, especially at one time, is not the fastest or best way to hydrate.

These are my hydration tips for the summer:
Drink water throughout the day, especially first thing in the morning.
It is helps to add a small amount of sea salt, sugar, and lime/lemon to your morning water. You can also add lime/lemon throughout the day. Here is an article on why ( Be careful not to add too much salt as it can upset your stomach. Drinking water with 2-3 spoons of salt is associated with a body flush/ cleanse.)
Eat fruits and vegetables that are rich in water content.
Avoid excessive coffee and alcohol.
Make hydration a habit- don’t wait til your thirsty!
We hope you enjoy these tips and suggest you experiment with the proportions for your optimal hydration!

We have also sold out on the TRS detox we had ordered for the office. We are selling them for $75 per bottle. You can purchase an individual bottle for $97 plus shipping or a 3 pack for $150 plus shipping by clicking here. Let us know if you would like an individual bottle and we will see about ordering more for the office once there are multiple people interested.

Our Hours for: 7/08/19-7/12/19
Monday- 10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30 pm -6:00 pm
Tuesday- 11:30am – 2:30pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Wednesday-10:00am – 1:00pm and 3:30pm-6:00pm
Thursday: closed
Friday:Closed
**Dr. Jarrett works Friday afternoon**
Have a great week, Your Next Level Team

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