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July 2010

ChronicBabe Blog Carnival: Deadline tomorrow! (7/24/2010)

The Big Breakdown: When Everything Goes to Hell, What Do We Do? That's the theme of next week's blog carnival, and we know you want to be part of it. Send us your entries today! Here are all the details...

Another take on "team" from Kerri at @sixuntilme (7/23/2010)

Our ChronicPal Kerri talks "team" over at dLife.

Depression, arachnaphobia, and Buddhism: What Editrix Jenni thinks you should ready today (7/23/2010)

It's Sam Russell's awesome essay at TinyBuddha, and Jenni is a little bit in love with it. We hope you find some good stuff in it like we did here at ChronicBabe HQ.

Last day to enter the ChronicBabe essay contest! (7/23/2010)

The hours are slipping away...today's the last day to enter our essay contest! Don't delay...

Are you a "health actionist"? (7/16/2010)

From Edelman, @RachaelBB talks about how health issues are starting to take over for the societal focus on "green" living - healthy living is becoming as much of a conversation starter. Read on for a fascinating discussion...

365 Pain-free days? Perhaps... (7/16/2010)

We're digging this blog: 365 Pain-Free Days. It's got a tip for each day, and so many of them are excellent. Take some time to peruse and find ones that work for you!

Watch out, gluten-free babes: Some GF foods might still be contaminated (7/16/2010)

Our Twitter pal @ivanoransky (exec. editor for Reuters Health) pointed us to this piece about gluten-free foods being contaminated. Bummer. Do your homework, Babes!

We decided to extend the essay contest deadline. Yay! (7/16/2010)

You asked, and we listened. We're extending the ChronicBabe essay contest deadline because a bunch of you are on vacation. So get your thinking caps on, Babes, because you have until July 23 to send in your essays. All the rules are here; winners will be announced July 30. Yay!

Dr. Rob writes "A Letter to Patients with Chronic Disease" (7/15/2010)

And we like it. Of course we disagree on finer points, but we love that Rob's so honest about his experience as a doc, and we're open to his advice...because we get the feeling he would be open to listening to us. See how that works?

And just for fun: Old Spice Voicemail (7/15/2010)

Want to crack yourself up? Check out this Old Spice Voicemail app.

Patients for a Moment: What have you done? (7/15/2010)

Leslie makes a great Patients for a Moment blog carnival host this week. What a faboo collection of patient-centric posts? We like :)

Last two days to submit to the essay contest and WIN prizes! Or be our 3,000th subscriber! Prizes prizes prizes! (7/8/2010)

It's our 5th birthday this summer, but we want to give YOU presents. You can still win a prize pack: subscribe to the Goodie Bag enewsletter and be our 3,000th newbie (we're so close!)! (Or, refer a friend to join and prove to Editrix Jenni you did...) Or enter our essay contest! So many ways to win prizes this summer. The essay contest deadline is tomorrow, Friday July 9, so don't delay!

Congrats to our 600th Forum member! Still time to win a prize pack... (7/1/2010)

Charlotte will look super-babelicious as she sports a Chronicbabe t-shirt and brags about being the 600th member of our forum. You can still win a prize pack like she did: subscribe to the Goodie Bag enewsletter! (Or, refer a friend to join and prove to Editrix Jenni you did...) Or enter our essay contest! So many ways to win prizes this summer...

Have you played HealthSeeker? (7/1/2010)

HealthSeeker is a new game on Facebook designed to help you make healthy lifestyle decisions. Our pals at TuDiabetes helped develop it, and we're super-proud of them!

Patients for a Moment: First Anniversary (7/1/2010)

It's their first anniversary, and you get to celebrate. Check out the Patients for a Moment blog carnival today for some fabulous writing on health, wellness, illness, strategies and more.

31 Days to less stress (7/1/2010)

ChronicPal Anne sent us a link to this SparkPeople calendar that has one tip per day for beating stress. Editrix Jenni printed a copy to hang in her apartment. How about you?

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