by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 10, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness
Lupus is a Chronic Autoimmune Disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs. Chronic means that is long-term and there is no cure. Lupus can be either localized or systemic. Systemic means that it relates to an entire...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 9, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Mental Health
I was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism in the Fall of 2015 the very week of the annual fundraiser for Autism. How ironic is that? I was 57 and 10/12ths. Essentially I had self-diagnosed a few months previous while reading aloud to my Mom, The Best Kind of...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 8, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health
IBS stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. IBS is a very common disorder that affects the large intestine. IBS affects 3-20% of the US population, depending on ethnicity, gender, communication abilities, education, financial and coexisting medical conditions. Luckily...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 26, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness
Amino acids are organic compounds composed of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and variable side chain groups. Amino Acids are referred to as the building blocks of protein that conduct many vital processes like syntheses of hormones and neurotransmitters. Your body...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 19, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Skin Care, Women's Health
Self-Care is a vital part of life that I think many of us have little to no knowledge of. I know I didn’t 10 years ago. Just like many other people, it took me getting really sick to make me start learning. I don’t want this to happen to you so here I am putting...
by Nancy Cho-Auvil | Mar 11, 2020 | Chronic Illness, From the Heart with Nancy Cho-Auvil, Women's Health
This article is part two of Nancy’s original article: My Heart Attack Experience By Nancy Cho-Auvil Greetings to all…following my heart attack of February 28, 2004, I was admitted to SW Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington. My length of...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 9, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
Everyone knows that movement (exercise) is important for wellness but what do you do when you can’t breathe normally? How do you exercise then? Although Pulmonary Rehabilitation is designed for those with chronic lung disease, it can help anyone with a variety of...
by Summer D Clemenson | Mar 5, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Women's Health
March is National Kidney Month National Kidney Month was started to bring awareness to kidney disease. Often times people don’t know they have kidney disease until their kidneys are damaged so it is important to know if you should be tested. What Do Kidneys Do? Your...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 2, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
World Sleep Day is March 13, 2020 World Sleep Day® is designed to raise awareness of sleep as a human privilege that is often compromised by the habits of modern life. “First and foremost, we need to make sleep a priority,” says Cleveland Clinic sleep disorders...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 28, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
February 29th is Rare Disease Day There are 300 million people worldwide who have a Rare Disease. Currently there are 6 thousand of them. I live with a rare disease, in fact, two of them. I have subglottic stenosis (tracheal stenosis) and Wegeners (Granulomatatosis...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 24, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Mental Health, Sexual Wellness
February 24 through March 1, 2020 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Eating Disorders are both medical and mental health disorders, they are not a lifestyle choice. If you are needing immediate help please contact the National Eating Disorders Association:...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 19, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Men's Health, Women's Health
February is Low Vision month and the number one disease of low vision is Macular Degeneration. Macular degeneration affects 4 million Americans of all ages, mostly in older adults. This is more than glaucoma and cataracts. Currently there is no cure for the disease....
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 11, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Fitness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
I am disabled. Being disabled makes every day activities and exercise or like I call it, movement, a challenge. Because I have challenges I have to be creative in how I choose to move my body. There are 48.9 million Americans in the United States. 24.1 million have a...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 5, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Children's Health, Chronic Illness, Men's Health, Women's Health
February is Low Vision Awareness month. You are probably wondering what low vision means and how to take care of your eyes. I know I was until I did some research. I grew up with a mom who is partially blind. She has Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and I remember her...
by Nancy Cho-Auvil | Feb 1, 2020 | Chronic Illness, From the Heart with Nancy Cho-Auvil, Women's Health
During the month of February, 2004, I was working for Kaiser Permanente NW at the Regional Process Center at the Sunnyside Campus. I was feeling quite well, and was happy because I had just purchased my second townhouse in Salmon Creek, a suburb just north of...
by Jamie Holloway | May 30, 2019 | Book Reviews, Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Women's Health
This article was originally posted on May 28, 2019 on JamieChasesButterflies.com I was 13 years old when I found out I had PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome). The moment I started my period I had problems, blood clots, having a period for six months or longer, which is...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 21, 2019 | Chronic Illness, Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, News
Karen and I are so blessed to have people in our lives who care about us and help us while we are growing Karen’s dream of a successful business. The other day one of our clients gave us a small roast and Karen asked me if I could figure out how to make it stretch for...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 17, 2018 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Supplements, Women's Health
You probably wonder what all the hype is regarding Probiotic Supplements, but did you know that 70% of our body’s immune system lives in our digestive tract? Poor eating habits, high stress and chronic illness can cause our immune system to become irregular and even...
by Summer D Clemenson | Dec 7, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health, Skin Care
I wasn’t planning for The Importance of Self-Care to be the next article I write for Wellness Works NW; I knew a blog about self-care was brewing, but it wasn’t until Monday afternoon that I understood the timing of this article. You see, Veda is here. If you haven’t...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 5, 2017 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Fitness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
I feel like I am at ground zero when it comes to my wellness journey. A lot of challenges have shown up in my life and it is time to re-assess and come up with a different approach to my plans. I am learning that there are times that you have to slow down, realign,...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 5, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
I live in a body that hurts. Always. Living with Central Sensitization Syndrome, more commonly referred to as Fibromyalgia has changed my world in many ways. For nearly 14 years Karen G Clemenson has been getting me ready for this challenge because she always is...
by Barb Berg | Aug 15, 2017 | Celiac Living, Chronic Illness
Even if your doctor doesn’t believe you, you must be your own advocate: Many years ago, I felt like there was “something wrong” with me. I didn’t feel good. I had no energy, couldn’t keep a thought in my head, I was bloated after eating, I had no energy, I hurt...
