https://www.elleberry.comRSS Feed for Elle BerryenWed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.elleberry.com/articles/sample/Drawing on policy research, contemporary reporting, and personal narrative, the piece examines the impact of concierge-style models and how they are impacting access to healthcare.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.elleberry.com/articles/sample/https://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/the-year-of-pinecone-days"But a little voice in my head whispered an alternate idea. And for some reason I can’t understand, I listened. 'Make your life small, it said'... I had no idea what that meant, and honestly it sounded rude… "Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/the-year-of-pinecone-dayshttps://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/pockets-for-apocalypse"Refugia was an idea I knew before I knew. You know the kinds of ideas that ring in your soul like a tuning fork and when you hear them your soul doesn’t so much learn, as remember; like those perennial bulbs ..."Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/pockets-for-apocalypsehttps://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/unraveling-the-language-of-nutrition"One thing I’ve learned for sure is that ideas, stories, and language change. What is working now could be corrupted later and as a human, perhaps that is one of our most creative and lovely powers. "Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/unraveling-the-language-of-nutritionhttps://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/chasing-diagnosis"You don’t have an autoimmune disease, or depression, or metabolic dysregulation, in the same way someone has the flu. But rather these chronic conditions reflect patterns of your body in survival; a real time interaction between environmental factors, genetic material, and your body's own defense"Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://wellnessportals.substack.com/p/chasing-diagnosishttps://medium.com/health-and-apples/when-getting-old-doesnt-make-you-wise-f4037bbfb9d7"As a little kid, I believed that grown-ups must be at home in themselves. And in fact, it wasn’t until I was probably in about middle school that I started to increasingly realize this was one of the great myths of childhood. "Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/health-and-apples/when-getting-old-doesnt-make-you-wise-f4037bbfb9d7https://medium.com/a-wellness-story/why-losing-weight-wont-guarantee-health-e55c9231bdeb"It’s long past time to abandon this body shaming, weight-based, ideology, which has no place in nutritional research. It’s time for a new paradigm — one that actually links and matches nutritional sufficiency with health."Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/a-wellness-story/why-losing-weight-wont-guarantee-health-e55c9231bdebhttps://medium.com/a-wellness-story/thin-truths-3cfc311afbad"The story of weight is more complicated than a simple formula —neither the thinness nor the fatness of your body can fully summarize your health. "Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://medium.com/a-wellness-story/thin-truths-3cfc311afbadhttps://atoday.org/shadows-in-the-fog/"I’d been hiking all year looking forward to this last hike and expecting some beautiful meaningful culmination. Instead I was here in my 52nd hike on this stupid fog-locked trail, with bear scat—completely alone."Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://atoday.org/shadows-in-the-fog/https://atoday.org/are-adventist-women-the-madwoman-in-the-attic/"Like Jane, do we make ourselves willing to walk, do we take our flight in the night, realizing that doing so may well break our heart? "Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://atoday.org/are-adventist-women-the-madwoman-in-the-attic/https://www.elleberry.com/articles/v/This literature review was completed as part of graduate coursework and examines the role of the vagus nerve in appetite regulation and weight management.Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.elleberry.com/articles/v/