Guided Meditation...Meditation has been shown to have multiple benefits on a person’s health, both physical and emotional. Regular meditation can help relieve pain...reactionscomments
Living With IBD: A Podcast Interview with Natalie Hayden...I recently interviewed InflammatoryBowelDisease.net advocate Natalie Hayden for the Health Union podcast, Living With. Natalie talks about her diagnosis and how her...reactionscomments
World IBD Day: In 2019, is awareness of IBD actually any better?...Awareness is a word we hear a lot about when it comes to living with IBD. And with each World IBD Day...reactions2comments
Why IBD Awareness Matters...IBD...a fad it seems? When I was diagnosed about 12 years ago, I rarely saw commercials for medications to help with IBD...reactions1comment
Chest Pain With IBD...We asked the community to submit questions about inflammatory bowel disease IBD, and we received a range of great ones! Here, Dr...reactionscomments
Nutrition, Food, and IBD: Community Questions Answered...When we asked the community to submit questions about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), we received a range of great questions related to...reactions2comments
How to Be the Best Companion While Living with IBD...This has crossed my mind a million times. If it were the other way around, and my husband was the one with...reactions3comments
What it's like to be a mom with Crohn's...What’s it like being a mama with Crohn's? It’s feeling like a walking zombie day in and day out as you deal...reactions2comments
Preparing to Become a Mother with Crohn's Disease - Part 1...In my last post, We Have to Plan to Plan - Life & Routine with IBD, I talked about how my Type...reactions14comments
Back Pain and Inflammatory Bowel Disease...Before I get into the topic at hand, I just wanted to take this time to let you know how much we...reactions8comments
10 Ways to Balance Body and Mind...Mental and physical health are intrinsically linked. Managing the stresses of a physical condition can be mentally and emotionally exhausting. Here we...reactions2comments
Getting Through The Unplanned...I wrote a few articles last year about how my mental health was affected by several long hospitalizations and how it lead...reactionscomments
When you reach that moment that you feel like its just not your path...I was lucky. I have always been an intuitive person. I've always just “known” things and have even been lucky enough to...reactions1comment
When IBD Wants To Share Mother's Day...Eight years ago, I officially became a mother. Ten years ago, I officially became an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patient. And the...reactions2comments
The Doctor I Fired...A few years ago, I didn’t like where my care was at. I had been in and out of the hospital and...reactions1comment
Music Therapy...Turn your darkness into light Turn your silence into sound Josh Groban My whole life, I’ve turned to music to express the...reactionscomments
Breathing Exercises...Focusing on the breath is a technique used to help calm the mind and reduce stress and anxiety. There are many forms...reactions1comment
Passover 2019...I have to be honest- I usually don’t keep Passover. Keeping the holiday means not eating anything with yeast in it. This...reactions1comment
Sick...I absolutely hate being sick, but especially when it's due to things other than IBD. I 100% realize that my ulcerative colitis...reactionscomments
IBD Friendly Activities...Finding IBD-friendly activities can be a challenge sometimes. Over the past few years, I’ve been a lot more involved with hiking and...reactions1comment