We’re looking forward to introducing you to Dr. Arreanna Marko DC. Check out our conversation below.
Arreanna, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
After waking up and doing my personal hygiene routine, which includes brushing my teeth and doing my skincare regimen, I get started on what I call my morning concoctions. First I mix a glass of water with my greens powder, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a tablespoon of chia seeds, and if I’m headed to a workout I’ll throw in a scoop of creatine monohydrate. Next, I make my warm bone broth, I pour a cup of Trader Joe’s Organic chicken bone broth into a mug and add in some ground turmeric and fresh ground black pepper before I heat it in the microwave.
Once I drink those, I like to start my day with a morning walk, my walks vary in length depending on my commitments but typically they range from 20-40 minutes. I try to hit 10,000 steps a day so this is a great way to get a head start. After my walk, I come home to make and eat my egg and veggie scramble.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Dr. Arreanna Marko, I’m a licensed chiropractor and owner of my mobile chiropractic business Aligned by Arreanna. I have a passion for all things holistic healing such as nutrition, stress management, alternative medicine, and wellness. The biggest factor that drew me into holistic healthcare is that I wanted to be a healer for individuals in a whole body approach. Without understanding that the body works as a unit, some people just find temporary fixes for their issues based off symptoms, not addressing the root cause.
Mobile chiropractic allows patients to be comfortable in their own homes in order to receive the best type of quality treatment. Having trust in your practitioner allows for deeper healing to be done, whether you realize it or not. Treatment is unique to reach individual depending on their concerns and issues at hand.
My passion for healthcare came from a few severe ankle injuries when I was younger. I had to get several surgeries and go through several rounds of physical therapy at a young age. Additionally, my passions stemmed from taking care of my body throughout the various sports I played growing up. I was constantly getting injured and seeking care from my athletic trainer along with learning what best served my body.
These combined exposures placed an emphasis on how care needs to be individualized based off each person’s body and healing processes. My passion for nutrition and functional medicine is a vital part of holistic healthcare as it directly influences every system in the body, from cellular function to mental clarity. What we consume doesn’t just fuel our physical performance, it affects inflammation levels, immune response, hormone balance, recovery time, and even mood and cognitive function.
Rather than simply addressing symptoms, proper nutrition helps identify and correct underlying deficiencies or imbalances that may be contributing to dysfunction, making it essential for anyone seeking true wellness rather than just the absence of disease
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
That there is a specific time in which things must be done by. More so, the perception of time and a life’s timeline. Many children think that when we grow up were supposed to achieve certain “life milestones” such as finishing school at this age, getting married by this age, having children by that age. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that there are no deadlines for your career growth or success, deadlines for marriage or buying a house. As children we believe this is all predetermined and universal depending on the region we grew up in. As an adult, I’ve realized that there is no cosmic deadline for these milestones. Everyone moves at their own pace in life and you shouldn’t have to be competing with these preconceived ideas that stemmed from childhood or societal constructs. With those deadlines comes a certain pressure to achieve those deadlines which bring un-necessary stress and anxiety when those deadlines are not met.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Success shows you what works. Suffering shows you what you’re capable of.
When you’re successful, everything feels validated. Success confirms what you already believe about yourself and the world. You’ve made the right choices and have a clear direction, which feels comfortable and reassuring. But it doesn’t demand much from you beyond continuation.
Suffering forces a choice that success never requires. You can get caught up in your sufferings, experience bitterness, and allow the negative thoughts to spiral until they become your entire reality. That’s the easy way, as wallowing requires no courage and no change. Or you can get scrappy. Suffering teaches you that when everything is stripped away (the comfort, the certainty, the ease) you discover what you’re actually made of. You learn to improvise, to find solutions in places you never thought to look, to build something from nothing. You become inventive out of necessity. You discover strength you didn’t know existed because you never needed it before.
The thing about success is that if it came without the struggle, you might not recognize what hurdles you overcame in order to get to that success. Suffering teaches gratitude in a way success never can. It teaches you that climbing out of the pit yourself makes you someone who knows the way back up. And that knowledge and resilience becomes something success could never give you. The courage and strength to know that no matter what comes, you can handle it and you will be ok.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What would your closest friends say really matters to you?
My closest friends would say I value real connection. Connection with the people I love and in soaking up the world around me. Spending quality time with close friend and family means having honest and deep conversation and loosing track of the passing hours. When you surround yourself with good people, you not only feel loved, but feel purpose.
They’d also say I need to get out and reconnect with the world. Whether that’s at the beach with my feet in the sand, hiking up a mountain where everything feels bigger, or exploring some new country where everything’s unfamiliar and exciting. I tend to come back from those places fully reset, like I’ve remembered what actually matters.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What will you regret not doing?
I’d regret not traveling more and actually seeing different aspects of the world. There are so many places I want to experience, and I know if I don’t make it happen, I’ll look back wishing I had just gone for it. Travel really gives you perspective. Meeting people from different cultures and seeing how they live their lives—it opens your eyes to the bigger picture and reminds you there’s so much more out there than your daily routine.
The other big one is having work-life balance. I don’t want to be that person who realizes too late that they spent all their time grinding at work and missed out on actually living. Time with friends and family, hobbies, just being present—that stuff matters way more than some of the other things in life. While my job does bring me purpose, I’d definitely regret letting work take over everything.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.alignedbyarreanna.com/
- Instagram: alignedbyarreanna
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arreanna-marko
