Dooley Noted: 9/19/2015   After sitting in traffic yesterday for 1.5 hours, I managed to make it to security at JFK airport.   Somehow, I got cleared for TSA Precheck. No shoes off.    No computers out.    And that wasn’t even the great part.    The TSA employee, Jas, was making everyone crack up as they passed through.    As I stepped into the scanner, he passed me through but stopped me.    He … Read more

Dooley Noted: 9/18/2015   I remember when my six-year relationship ended.   I was in such a massive amount of pain that I’ve never been able to replicate it.   During that time, my father was sitting at the kitchen counter.   My mother told me that he started crying over his coffee.   She asked him, “Roland, what’s wrong?”   He said, “When she hurts, I hurt.”   My father is a man of … Read more

Dooley Noted: 9/16/2015 I’ve been sick for about a week, spending way too much time in bed, thinking.  I got a lot of busy work done – and a lot of quality healing time logged.  But without distraction, the mind can wander.  When the mind is left wandering, sometimes it is left to fester. I found myself getting stuck on feelings and unable to meditate my way through them. I reached out to my friends, … Read more

Dooley Noted: 9/13/2015 I have the honor of lead instructing for two seminar series and instructing anatomy for five schools.  I also take a highly educational approach to my patient care.  I receive overwhelmingly positive feedback on my teaching abilities.  But on occasion, I’ll get a few outliers that don’t prefer my methods.  They’re almost always anonymous, which I suppose empowers some people to state what they feel.  After all, I can’t give a rebuttal … Read more

Dooley Noted: 9/12/2015 When I see people jogging for fitness, struggling with major gait disturbances, I think these things: 1. Consider sprinting, then brisk walking. You can work on gait. 2. Gait matters. What is dysfunctional now might be painful tomorrow.  3. All that energy jogging you forward could be used to build some lean mass in the weight room. That lean mass burns fuel 24/7. 4. Swinging a kettlebell will torch calories without causing … Read more

Dooley Noted: 9/11/2015   As a doctor of chiropractic, I have been trained to give nutritional advice to patients.    Having recovered from my own eating disorder in my early 20s, I had a decent background in how Food affects health and fitness.    I had patients sending me food logs and helping them with their goals.    But in the past year, I wasn’t consistently doing it for myself.    I was putting work … Read more