Check in tomorrow here at the health and wellness channel. We as a group are posting on the 12 steps to recovery from addiction as September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month- thank you Alicia. Liz and Liberty at Healthbolt will be hosting the entire roundup of posts.
Here are the 12 steps in case you were not familiar with them… I will be taking on number 5 and 7. Please check us out tomorrow!

Step 1 – We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable
Step 2 – Came to believe that …read more

The month of July symbolizes Independence in the USA so we here at the health and wellness channel used that as our platform for our theme day. I hope you enjoy what all of our great writers had to say around the H&W channel. Enjoy!
Gloria at Cancer Commentary gives us Freedom from Cancer- What does that really mean?… Speaking of freedom, in the context of cancer…what does freedom really mean? The definition varies from case to case, from person to person, from one’s perspective to another.
Pink Ribbon Review blogger Karen Lynch recaps the dependent days that followed her double mastectomy …read more

Keeping with this months theme day here at the Health and Wellness channel-  ‘School is out for the summer’… which means summer camps.
Thanks to many of camps around the world- kids that have disabilities or special needs including congenital heart defects and severe heart disease can take place in the summer fun all the same.
I found and incredible resource while searching for camps in my area.  The camps are listed by State and Region. Many are offered for children with heart disease- wonderful indeed!
If you have had any experience with any of the camps listed please let me know how …read more

This week was celebrity week at the health and wellness channel, and while I did not have that much to offer up in the way of diabetic celebrities, my fellow bloggers did have a lot to share.
Check out what Karen at Pink Ribbon Review and Liz and Mary Emma at Alzheimer’s Notes had to say.  Karen gave us a Celebrities survival list and Mary Emma offered a complete list of all Alzheimer’s related posts. Thanks ladies!

I have a couple of announcements this fine morning. Number one is that A Hearty Life is no longer part of the Science and Health channel at b5media … it is now part of the Health and Wellness channel!!!! That is our new name but the faces are the same! I think the new channel name fits and encompasses what we do here each and every day.
My second announcement pertains to our Health and Wellness channel theme day. It is going on right now as we speak and the wonderful Marijke is hosting over at Help My Hurt. It is …read more