BeWell Blog

Some days, eating foods that other people enjoy without a second thought can bring on fatigue, swelling, brain fog, stomach discomfort, or long stretches of feeling unwell. Your body may react differently now. Things that once felt normal, like a...

Finding relief by spring? Not how it works when sickness sticks around. Plenty of people barely have enough vitamin D left – its impact sneaks into places most never connect. Picture sunshine stored in your body. That quiet helper does...

One of the ways in which I was brought up to celebrate Christmas was through Christmas cookies. One of the Christmas traditions that I look back on now that I cherish is my mom making what we used to colloquially...

If you live with psoriasis, you can almost feel the change coming before the weather app confirms it. The air dries out. The wind picks up. The heater turns on,  and suddenly, your skin feels like it’s fighting against you...

September is Pain Awareness Month, a time when the world comes together in solidarity for what millions of us experience every day. If you're reading this and live with chronic pain, then you already know how awareness months can simultaneously...

And here is what you do: it's October and you're walking down the street when that divine smell of cinnamon and nutmeg wafts out. Your head is already screaming "pumpkin spice latte!" but your body—the one that has sat through...

There's something strangely earthy about strolling through a farmer's market in August. The harvest is so abundant on the ground, it's almost shy—tables brimming with colors I'd forgotten to expect of the gray winter months. But for patients of chronic...

Have you ever noticed how your mood improves when you've spent some time by or in the sea? There actually is some scientific basis to this. The ocean is not just a pleasant picture to us chronically ill folk—it possesses...

A view into how IBD shaped BeWell for World IBD Day. When I Was First Diagnosed with Crohn’s... ...I thought my life would be divided in two: before IBD and after IBD. But what I didn’t expect—what no one tells...

The pastel bunnies intrude, supermarkets are filled to the brim with egg-dying kits, and social media feeds are saturated with pristine family Easter schedules. And we, with chronic illness, quietly tallying the energy cost of every tradition and attempting to...

There's having IBS at home - and having IBS out and about. Two very different problems. At home, you know where the bathroom is. You've got your heating pad, your comfort foods, and no one questioning why you've been in...

April rolls around annually as IBS Awareness Month, and it always has me thinking about diagnoses, doctor visits, and those gut feelings (yes, literally) that something just doesn't seem right. For all of us, IBS is not just a diagnosis...