by Jamie Holloway | Feb 9, 2026 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
I live with several chronic illnesses. Today I am will be sharing about living with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Keeping them straight with all the steps of the medical treatment and learning what the illness is and how to live well with it is overwhelming. One of the ways I...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 23, 2026 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Mental Health
Note: This article was originally written by Jamie Holloway and posted on JamieChasesButterflies.com on January 20,2026 I have a voice. It is different from the one I was born with. It is from my new AAC device. My Rheumatoid Arthritis attacked my voice box, this is...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 21, 2026 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
Note: This article was originally written by Jamie Holloway and posted on JamieChasesButterflies.com on January 9,2026 My writing has been inconsistent the last year. My inspiration for writing and researching and journaling has been lacking in my life. I miss you. I...
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 | 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 Karen G Clemenson | Jan 8, 2021 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. You know sometimes you get a song in your head and you can’t stop singing and it starts to bug you after awhile? People are trying to talk to you and you are still singing? That happens to me a lot. The brain is...
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 Jamie Holloway | Dec 28, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
How often do you pay attention to your breathing? Are you out of breath while you are dressing? Are you breathing hard while you are walking to the bathroom? Can you breathe well while you are resting? These are common questions for those who suffer from COPD or a...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 8, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Supplements
This article was originally posted on JamieChasesButterflies.com on November 30, 2020 Warning: I am not a medical professional and if you want to take this type of medication, I recommend you discuss this with your doctor before trying it. I live with several chronic...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 3, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
When it comes to having chronic illness, sometimes, I feel like I have to have a medical degree to handle all the jargon, words, understanding blood work, and having reliable information for my illnesses. In this article I am going to write about Health Literacy. I...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 30, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
As we get older cartilage in our knees begins to wear down. Sometimes this happens because of age related arthritis (Osteoarthritis) or because of an autoimmune disease like Rheumatoid arthritis or because of a knee injury. It does not matter how, it only matters that...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 19, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Mental Health
Having an eating disorder is a real issue and so is having type 1 diabetes, what if you had both? What if you developed an eating disorder while taking care of your type 1 diabetes? This eating disorder is called Diabulimia. Although it is not recognized in the mental...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 13, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
When living with a chronic illness you start collecting medical experts to help you through the chaotic roller coaster of your illness and in making a wellness plan. I am going to talk about one of the important team members that I rely on when it comes to my...
by Karen G Clemenson | Oct 31, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW! I am like that scary movie! LOL! I love movies! Something as simple as breathing is amazing. We do it involuntarily. How many times do people remind you to breathe? Well for some people its not that easy. Our friend,...
by Karen G Clemenson | Oct 31, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. How are you doing? You know sometimes when you ask someone who lives with chronic illness, how they are doing, they answer, “Oh. Fine. Great.” And often times they aren’t. For this of you who are friends who are chronically...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 27, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
When I was a teenager I would watch old movies with my dad and one of those movies was about Lou Gehrig. The Lou Gehric Story was the title of the movie. This movie was about his life as a baseball player in the late 30’s and early 40’s and why he had to retire on...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 20, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
Pain, it can be intense. It can be tiring. It can be ugly. It can be chaotic. Arthritis is painful and there are a lot of different types of arthritis. Today, I want to talk about Gout. I have two forms of arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Gout. I have these and two...
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 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 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 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 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...
