Dr Shannon O'Brien

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Dr Shannon O'Brien

Chiropractor specializing in prenatal, pediatric, and family wellness care.

11/18/2025

More running 🏃🏻‍♀️ this past weekend. Got out early enough to catch the coolness and stayed out there long enough to feel the heat 🫨 still trending - embracing the “slower than normal” pace for me cause these ankles be talking to me.
I think I’ve posted about this before, but there’s this joint by joint theory. The cervical spine is stable, thoracic mobile, lumbar stable, hips mobile, knees stable, ankles mobile……..so we can have injuries to certain joints but it’s all connected. So when I’m working with patients (or doing my own rehab), I’m not just looking at the injured joint. I’m looking at the rest of the body to see how it’s responding and maybe where we need more stability or more mobility. Sometimes when an injured mobile joint gets “stabilized to heal” it’s not the best thing. Support without loss of function and specific exercise and adjustments to the spine and extremities can make all the difference!

11/10/2025

I did not want to run this past weekend because it was my first trail run since my crazy ankles…….and I was going to be really upset if it didn’t go well. So ideally I wanted to avoid it and pretend things were fine 🥴 normal schedule, I would have run 20 miles. Instead, I was planning on 12 miles with the hopes that I could do 15 miles even though I didn’t want to run. Mile 4 and crazy ankles were being crazy……SO I SLOWED DOWN. And had an absolutely magical 15 mile run. The Lord was once again speaking to me 🥴
I also ran into some folks scoping out some routes for the Red Top Rumble on 2/1/2026!!!!!! If I survive this Amicalola Marathon, I’ll be there for the rumble. 11.5 miles at Red Top!! Who wants to join me??

11/10/2025

Have I told yall about my broken ankle. So about 20 years ago, I broke my right ankle. I’ve got a metal plate and 8 screw. And no I won’t tell you how I broke it. But you can guess. And if you know how - best keep it to yourself 😂😂. I have the truth and then what I tell folks……anywho. It’s not broken anymore, but I affectionately refer to it as my broken ankle. I’ve obviously run a lot of miles on my bionic ankle and it still tends to flare up but I take care of it best I can.
So 2 1/2 weeks ago, I step up on the foot stool in my bedroom to fix the drapes and it totally flew out from underneath me 🥴 and I came down on my NON-broken ankle!!! 😩😩😩😩 so I did all the things - ice, rest, red light, adjustment, compress sleeve, scar tissue work, cross training…….and I’m moving on it again - carefully.
So here’s how the Lord has used this fiasco. “Stay present”.
Sometimes I’m 2 steps ahead of myself mentally while doing a task and I’m not 100% present in the current moment (and then I slip and fall 🙄).
Sometimes I’m so busy in the future that I’ve forgotten to look around and see the glorious gift that is the present.
Sometimes I trip and fall on a trail run because I wasn’t mentally in the run. Staying present in a 2 hour trail run is hard. My mind wanders. And I do come up with great ideas while out there, but I don’t think I’m meant to completely disassociate while out there. There’s something about being present.
So both ankles feel a little iffy as I train for a trail marathon in less than a month. But such is life 😘 trying to not worry about the fortune and “stay present”

11/04/2025

October was grand. Kinda felt like it went by quickly and yet slowly. Maybe it’s the rush to Halloween and then p**f - I’ve put up the Christmas tree (seriously I have). When I look over these numbers and started adding in the amount of days each month I run, I think I was surprised that it’s really not that much - comparatively. I think folks think that if you like to run, you do it every day. And some folks do. But on average, I’m only running about half the month. This month was a little lite in the running - read below 👇
I got in some extra miles on the bike and the rower and walking cause I twisted my ankle towards the end of the month. Thank goodness I could keep moving, but I did pause on running. Just trying to keep up that cardio fitness and also heal 😘
Here’s to hopefully logging lots more miles on the trails as I train for a trail marathon in December 😬🤪🙌

10/28/2025

According to my Oura ring - I had 90 minutes of restorative time today which is like the first time ever during the day 😂 but that’s thanks to a massage from
Sometimes you go in for a massage and maybe you don’t come in carrying a lot of baggage and you leave feeling restored. Other times, it’s been years since you’ve had a massage 😩 and you have so much baggage 😩 and everything already hurts 😩 and then you leave knowing that this kickstarted some painful healing…….
I mean I have folks leave adjustments in these ways too 😉
I love visiting Elizabeth cause I like to ask what my body was telling her. Sometimes it’s too loud in my head for me to translate. And I’ve found that this “fall into winter” can be particularly tumultuous for me. So Elizabeth asked what I felt about “unstructured movement”. Excuse me- I am an enneagram 1, people pleasing, type A, perfectionist, Capricorn. I don’t do unstructured.
So here’s 🍻 to figuring out what that means to me 🫨
Also, schedule the adjustment, schedule the massage, restore your body. It will thank you eventually!

10/18/2025

Signed up for a trail marathon at Amicalola this December with . So excited to get something scheduled. Excited to plan the long runs. Spend hours out on the trails (slowly losing my mind in the best way possible). Push myself more than I have lately. Just overall excited.
It was an absolutely gorgeous day to spend 3+ hours out at Red Top 🤩 not gonna lie, I was nervous. You know, you sign up for a big race and then you go out and do an intense run to make sure you’re not completely delusional for signing up. But the run is so amazing but also really hard and so you’re not sure about the race but you’re excited 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 that might be the smirk on my face!

10/16/2025

I had something else I was going to post about my exercise today, but when I got done with my run, my Oura ring said that I was “relaxed” and it wanted me to make note of what I was doing that was making me relaxed - so that I could reproduce this in stressful situations……
Honestly - I did yoga and ran this morning even though I have a million things to do…..almost like I’m in denial about them and avoiding them by exercising????? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ not sure my oura ring or my therapist would be proud of me for that 😂😂
But it was a glorious day for some outdoor yoga, and a little trail run. It was good for the soul and does help me get in the headspace to tackle all this work I need (get) to do 😉

10/13/2025

1st pic “oh my gosh - is that a baby bear!?” 😱
2nd pic “I really think that’s a bear! Do we even have bears here?”
3rd pic “definitely not a bear” 🤦🏻‍♀️
The fact that I go through this same exact thought process every time I pass this burnt tree stump on the homestead loop…….
I was talking to about this in the office last week, so I finally took some photographic evidence. I mean, when you’re out on a trail run, everything looks a bear, a mountain lion, a snake……😂 I’m too busy watching my step, so I’m terrified some critter is going to get me!

10/10/2025

Haven’t hit sub 8 min miles in forever and today’s miracle is due to the weather 🙌 cooler temps (even this afternoon when I actually ran), a light breeze, leaves changing……..perfection!!!!!!
And I signed up for a winter race 💃🏻 (I did get some actual work done too 😉)

10/08/2025

September stats 🏖️ 😍 it was a good month and as I sit and reflect a bit, I’m just thankful for every day I get to move. I snuck in 40 miles while we were at the beach 😳 that was unexpected. But I can’t run along the beaches in the panhandle. I guess I can, but I don’t want to anymore. The soft slanted sand and small beach is just too much for me now. Felt like I was speed walking and dodging kids/chairs/fishermen, so I just moved to the road - which running along 30a is gorgeous! (I’m going to share a reel of some of those runs so stay tuned - you don’t want to miss Deer Lake Park!)
Not tracked is the hours I spent sitting on the beach 🙌
I’ve started to look at training for a race 🙌 but I’m having a hard time deciding - go for speed and do a half - go for longer and try for a 50 miler - something local - something afar - trail - road. I can’t really decide, but it’s a fun thing to think about!

10/02/2025

🌅 🧘🏻‍♀️ ❤️
Grateful I had a chance to take a yoga class this morning with and and the cherry on top was when Marlo moved class outside 🙌
A little bit of sun, wind, birds, warmth, folks walking by, kids, and dogs ☺️ 🙏

09/14/2025

A little weekend of running to escape the world. Got 8 miles in on the trails on Saturday and came across so many wonderful folks out enjoying the weather, the peace, the calmness, the healing power of nature 🙌 someone asked if I was running for fun or training for something. “I’m running for mother f-ing FUN”. Got 13.1 miles in on the road Sunday morning and my goal was an 8:30 pace. And I hit that right on the dot.
The early morning sun. The breath in my lungs. The cooler crisp morning. The sound of my shoes on the ground. I feel refreshed and renewed. I highly recommend getting outside and moving your body if you need to recover from last week.

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