by Summer D Clemenson | Feb 3, 2026 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
About a month ago, Karen G Clemenson asked me to write about water. I was thinking, we’ve written about water. In the over 340 articles we have shared with you, we have certainly written about water. Haven’t we? Jamie Holloway and I talked about it at our...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 25, 2025 | Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health
What is Cortisol? I find myself bombarded everywhere about this one word and even as Karen G Clemenson came home and asked me about it, I knew we needed to be learning about cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone that helps control our mood, motivation, and fear. Cortisol...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 18, 2025 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness
Popcorn is a must in our house. Karen G Clemenson and I both have our weaknesses that we have learned to keep at bay and it is made easier with popcorn. Popcorn is high in dietary fiber which aids in digestion and maintains weight. Popcorn is low in glycemic index and...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 23, 2024 | Fuel Your Wellness, Product Reviews
In June I was inspired to join a week long group called Weakless Week hosted by Jason Seib. During this week where Seib inspired the group to get comfortable with being uncomfortable in order to give up junk food for good and commit to exercise forever because that is...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 29, 2024 | Fuel Your Wellness
Methotrexate is an oral medication, available in a solution or a in a tablet, used to treat several illnesses. I take methotrexate to address Psoriatic Arthritis and Osteoarthritis. I believe I began taking methotrexate in 2015. I also take folic acid to avoid side...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 28, 2024 | Fuel Your Wellness
I have been in a bit of a rut lately and letting my self-care get a little lackadaisical. While I was scrolling on Facebook I saw an advertisement by Jason Seib for Weakless Week June 2024 and thought this might be what I needed. It was. I didn’t get too deep into...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 21, 2024 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness
I was recently watching TV and a commercial came on that said that artificial sweeteners caused strokes. I don’t eat foods with artificial sweeteners because they cause my GERD to flare up but I was curious and thought it was time for me to be learning about...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 16, 2024 | Fuel Your Wellness, Product Reviews, Skin Care
Locally owned by Christen and Willow Ellis, this mother-daughter team has worked to bring their creativity and desire for natural ingredients together to create Crafty Works, LLC, where they sell handmade skin care products and candles. All their products are made in...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 4, 2023 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Sexual Wellness, Skin Care, Women's Health
When I was in my mid-twenties I realized that I had gone several months without a period. I had always been irregular, and at the time I had a very stressful job but this seemed wrong; I had no reason to consider a pregnancy. I mentioned it to a woman in my bible...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 30, 2022 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Fuel Your Wellness, Supplements, Women's Health
This article was originally posted on GoodTimesAlways.com on Wednesday November 23, 2022. I first saw this book on the bed at my sister’s house and was interested. Jamie never gives any clues away, so I was totally shocked that The Gospel of Wellness by Rina Raphael...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 20, 2022 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, News, Women's Health
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Karen G Clemenson asked me to write something regarding the topic. Domestic Violence is a hard topic and I didn’t take it lightly, but I also didn’t want to repeat the same things we have written before so I contacted...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 5, 2022 | Food News, Recipes
Regardless of what your food philosophy is or what diet plan you follow or don’t, eating is important. Babies that don’t learn to latch on properly at birth are labeled failure to thrive and have a hard path in front of them and people with food issues do too. I was...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 14, 2022 | Mental Health, Queer Life
Note: This post was originally written by Summer D Clemenson and posted on GoodTimesAlways.com on June 8, 2022 You know when there are times when you say something in passing that leaves others thinking something you didn’t mean, but maybe there is a grain of truth in...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 7, 2022 | Book Reviews
Note: this article was originally posted on GoodTimesAlways.com on April 23, 2022 by Summer D Clemenson Love Does is the name of the latest book I read by author, Bob Goff. “That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 24, 2022 | Queer Life, Sexual Wellness
Note: This article was originally posted on GoodTimesAlways.com on April 27, 2022 by Summer D Clemenson I don’t talk a lot about my membership in the Queer Community because my realization that I am part of it is so new to me. I know some people cringe at the word...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 3, 2022 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health
I am always amazed to hear of a person that is ashamed of their illness, especially mental illness. The stigma of chronic illness is almost as debilitating as the actual illness, in my opinion, but it doesn’t have to be. I am often told that I am amazingly transparent...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 7, 2021 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness
Hashimoto’s Disease is an autoimmune disorder where your immune system creates antibodies that damage your thyroid gland. The inflammation that is caused is called chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and often leads to a person having an under-active thyroid gland. Often...
by Summer D Clemenson | Dec 1, 2020 | Events
As 2020 comes to a close I bet you are thinking about making your New Year’s Resolution…and I bet wellness is a common topic on your list…. But why wait? Every Tuesday in December we will either announce our weekly prize or announce the winner! All...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 25, 2020 | Fitness, Mental Health, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW! Remember when we were kids in school and we would outline our hands on a piece of construction paper and the next thing you know we had a turkey. So I am not much of an artist but the thing is, it made you happy. It...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 15, 2020 | News
Starting Tuesday November 17, 2020 at 12:01 am, according to the recent Stay Safe – Stay Healthy Proclamation of Governor Inslee all gyms must be closed until Tuesday December 14, 2020. >>>Download a copy of the proclamation >>>Visit the...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 10, 2020 | Events, News
In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 2, 2020 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Recipes
The other day I was really not feeling well. That is normal when you live with chronic illness, but that day it was worse. I felt like I was floating through the day in slow motion. It would have been a perfect reason to decide to pick up a cheep dinner. Karen always...
