Chronic Wellness

The “xo” in the Mirror

2017-01-26T12:26:04+00:00

Okay, you may already have heard the story, but here’s the deal. As you may know we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to launch our new website and the website for our sister site for the chronic illness community, Chronic Wellness Tools Anyway, it’s been months in the works, and we were proud and [...]

The “xo” in the Mirror2017-01-26T12:26:04+00:00

The Big Question

2017-01-26T12:26:18+00:00

I get asked all the time if I think I am "healed" from Wellness. Underneath this question hides a deeper, more difficult query: is there such a thing as “post-Wellness,” “post-illness,” or in truth a “post-any-major-life-challenge,” and if so, what that may be? At one level, this seems like a question with a simple, yes [...]

The Big Question2017-01-26T12:26:18+00:00

Finding Healing Hope

2017-01-26T12:26:33+00:00

Chronic Wellness Journal Journal Entry 1: Finding Healing Hope at the foot of the tree that survived 911 As those of you following us on Facebook have seen, I traveled across the country with my family to the 911 Memorial in NYC. My husband is a firefighter and his father and grandfather were San Francisco firefighters before [...]

Finding Healing Hope2017-01-26T12:26:33+00:00

Intro to Lindsay’s Wellness Toolkit

2017-01-26T12:26:47+00:00

As those of you following us on Facebook have seen, I have had an incredibly busy summer, from following my oldest child who is 13 years old across the country to a coveted 10 day baseball tournament in Cooperstown New York, to attending the Firefighter Olympics in San Diego, all the while trying to manage family, [...]

Intro to Lindsay’s Wellness Toolkit2017-01-26T12:26:47+00:00

Our Rating Scale

2017-01-26T12:27:05+00:00

Hi Everyone, Some of you have written us asking about our scale, which is a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being worse and 5 being better.  You have pointed out that conventional scales normally run 1-10, with 1 representing less discomfort and 10 representing the highest level of discomfort.  Why, you ask, did we [...]

Our Rating Scale2017-01-26T12:27:05+00:00

Graphing epiphany; impact of holiday stress

2017-01-26T12:27:22+00:00

Holiday stress really can have a huge impact. Wow. I just learned something amazing from my Chronic-Tracker graph. I was printing a screen shot for my LLMD of my top 5 symptoms and noticed that they all had been improving, up until 11/25 when the graph showed they all started to make a precipitous decline. [...]

Graphing epiphany; impact of holiday stress2017-01-26T12:27:22+00:00

Kids and Wellness

2017-01-26T12:27:38+00:00

One of the trickiest parts of managing our Wellness journey has been managing multiple people's symptoms and treatments in one family. I am using Chronic Tracker for myself and my kids and finding it SO much easier. I love being able to enter quotes from my kids in the notes section.  Today my son said [...]

Kids and Wellness2017-01-26T12:27:38+00:00