by Jamie Holloway | Sep 29, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
Confusion, loss of memory, paranoia, and mood swings are often associated with older people. Alzheimer’s Disease affects 5.5 million Americans, aged 65-years-old or older. It is the third largest cause of death among Americans. Alzheimers is an irreversible...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 28, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! Its Karen from Wellness Works NW. I find that this is the time of the year that I get new clients and I ask them if they have had any blood work done, like checking your A1C or Cholesterol? And they say, “No,” or “I did back in 1985 and it was fine.” ...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 28, 2020 | News
Starting October 12, 2020 all appointments made with any representative of Wellness Works NW will be final In the past clients have been allowed to cancel and reschedule their appointments at a later time without any issues, regardless of our policy of charging a...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 27, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hi Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. The seasons have changed and the air is different. Feeling good, huh! Until you go to do something and you feel this pain. It stops your whole world. You were getting ready to get into your car and the pain is all you...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 24, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Sexual Wellness
Healthy aging: One thing we all have in common no matter what gender, race, sex, or size we are is that we all get older. In the article I am going to talk about learning how to age well. As we age our body changes: Our blood vessels begin to stiffen Our arteries...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 23, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hi Everybody. It’s Karen from Wellness Works NW and I want to welcome you to Autumn…or Fall…I can’t remember which one; let’s just call it Autumn. I like it when the seasons change and the colors change and speaking of speaking of seasons, as we start to get older we...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 23, 2020 | Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health
We hear the word mindful so often, it is almost a constant reminder, but what is Mindfulness? Being mindful is a verb that describes a practice of paying attention to what is happening now. Being mindful is something that is naturally part of ourselves, whether we...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 22, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway
September is Cholesterol Education Awareness Month. There is so much misinformation about cholesterol floating around. The truth is cholesterol has an important role in the body. Cholesterol is needed for three main things in the body. These are: Production for of sex...
by Nancy Cho-Auvil | Sep 21, 2020 | From the Heart with Nancy Cho-Auvil, Mental Health
Here is my experience with flying to California during a pandemic and the worst ever fire season in the history of the west coast.. As many of you know, I flew to Reno to visit my family in Lake Tahoe, where I spent a fun-filled week with my first granddaughter, my...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 18, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos, Women's Health
Hey Everybody! This is Karen with Wellness Works NW. You know, when we were first starting we were really thinking about the people we really wanted to help, kind of our target group of people, and we want to help everybody because we love everybody but we decided on...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 17, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Women's Health
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Ovarian Cancer is called the silent killer because the symptoms are so similar to other symptoms that women experience while they are aging. 80 percent of women first get diagnosed with ovarian cancer in stages 3 or 4. This...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 16, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! How are you doing? This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. Do you feel that burst of energy? They tell me that a lot of times, when your energy level is low, you wonder how to bring this back up again. They say that Yoga is very good for this. September...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 16, 2020 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Product Reviews
Hi Everyone! I wanted to share with you are product I found while Karen and I were waiting in line at Walmart. I try hard to not notice all the odds and ends and treats while we are waiting, but I was hungry and I was eye-balling the end-cap with the jerky on it and...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 15, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
September is Pain Awareness and Drug-Free Pain Management Month. Since both of these awareness campaigns are advocating the same thing: making people aware of what pain is and that there are alternative ways of living well with pain than opioid use I decided to...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 14, 2020 | Fitness, Food News, Men's Health, Videos
There you are! This is Karen with Wellness Works NW and today we are going to talk about Low T…Back in the 70’s there was this great soul singer named, Barry White, and he could get his voice very low and he had this very seductive voice, like, “Hello Baby.” He could...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 12, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
I am so excited! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW and it is almost time for my Seahawks to play! Go Hawks! This is something to look forward to after a year of challenges. Our first game is going to be against the Atlanta Falcons. Because of COVID-19 there will...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 10, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! Its Karen from Wellness Works NW. It has been very hot but we are getting through it. I do a lot of talk but I am sure that you would never guess that, but I also try to do a lot of listening and every now and then you hear something that you haven’t heard...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 9, 2020 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Product Reviews
The other day I tried a Shanti Bar. I am not a fan of meal replacement bars, in general. Most of them taste like cardboard and many of them have soy in them, which makes them taste like chalk, but it also makes me sick. Some of them have tons of sugar in them too. I...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 8, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway
September is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Awareness Month. PCOS is a group of symptoms that affect the ovaries and ovulation. In one study, up to 70 percent of women with PCOS hadn’t been diagnosed so it may be more common than we think. I was diagnosed with...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 7, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hi Guys! It’s Karen from Wellness Works NW! I was just thinking the other day about when I came to Washington State in September of 1988. Isn’t that amazing! I remember getting off the plane and breathing in the air and thinking it smelled right, it looked right…You...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 4, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen from Wellness Works NW! You have done it! You have decided it is time to feel better. Maybe you just went up the stairs and it wasn’t as easy as it used to be. You used to be able to do it fine, but today, half way up, you began to struggle...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 3, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway
Cancer sucks! Lung Cancer especially sucks because it takes your ability to breathe well away. I know how that feels despite not having lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer worldwide. In 2020 so far, 228,820 new cases of lung cancer has been...
