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 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 | Dec 12, 2017 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Mental Health
The Hard Decision If you follow me on Facebook or are one of my friends on Facebook you might have read that I am Pursuing Bariatric Surgery. This was not an easy decision for me to make. It has taken me years. Choosing to change your stomach with surgery shouldn’t be...
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 | Nov 28, 2017 | Fitness, Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health
Fads come and go but we all need our diet to be a Trusted Wellness Tool. Instead of relying on any Fad Diet, I think we can all say that Healthy Eating should be a goal we all work towards. I have a beef with diets. It is personal. I don’t mean to color your Wellness...
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 Summer D Clemenson | Sep 21, 2017 | Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
Welcome to part 4 and the final article in our Fat Cells Series. To think I had thought this would be an easy topic! After all we have learned about adipose tissue, Karen G Clemenson thought it would be appropriate to write about Fat Cells Connection to Eating...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 27, 2017 | Book Reviews, Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
This article was originally posted at JamieChasesButterflies.com on June 24, 2017. The last week I have been practicing body scan meditation. In my pain management class we did this meditation and I did it with my counselor too. At my library I found guided meditation...
by Summer D Clemenson | May 25, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Supplements, Women's Health
The latest topic that Karen has been asking about is Vitamin D. She talks about it during dinner, when she talks about clients and even in her sleep. In order to answer her need for information I asked her specifically what she wanted to know and here are the answers...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 16, 2016 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Mental Health, Women's Health
I am one who suffers from high levels of uric acid in her blood. I just had a serum uric acid measurement test done and I was at 9. Normal is between 2 and 6. Since I take immune suppressant medications, and at one time a blood pressure medication that is known to...
by Wellness Works NW | Nov 2, 2016 | Book Reviews, Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Supplements, Women's Health
“I have been given this product as part of a product review through the Chronic Illness Bloggers network. Although the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain my own and I was in no way influenced by the company.” A Word from Jamie Holloway...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 20, 2016 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
Whether you have a chronic illness like fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis or you have suffered an injury, Chronic Pain is a common ailment felt by a lot of people. Chronic Pain can lead to changes in lifestyle and emotions and ability to do activities you once...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 28, 2016 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Men's Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
Drug & Alcohol Addiction; I cringe when I hear these words. It is probably because most of my family is either addicted to, or recovering from drugs or alcohol. It hurts my heart. I’m also immensely proud of my family members who are living the life of recovery....
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 4, 2015 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Men's Health, Mental Health
Wellness Works NW has asked me write a series of articles for their website on men’s health and on living with a chronic condition. My first article will be on Men Living with Depression. I chose depression, because it is something that happens to men. Whether they...
