Thewellchat

02/01/2026

01/31/2026

I get it. Food is culture. Food is family. Food is identity. But sometimes the food culture keeps us stuck in symptoms.

And when symptoms won’t budge, we have to separate who we are from what our body can tolerate right now.

Removing certain foods short-term isn’t punishment — it’s information.

What improves?
What worsens?
What actually matters?

Most of the time, this isn’t forever.
It’s a strategic pause so healing can actually happen.

✨ Culture stays. Data guides. Healing improves.

👉what was the funniest thing your family has said to you to push foods?!

01/29/2026

Join us the first Wednesday of each month from 6:30-7:30pm, if you are in the Westfield NJ area at the Westfield Library! Register in advance to get a seat! (fills up each month).

DETAILS: 2nd floor local history room. Join us for a mini presentation, then a round table discussion about a variety of topics including: gut health, food sensitivities, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, vitamins, making sense of lab-work, IBS and other health challenges!
Facilitated by Cheryl Schmid, AFMC.

Cheryl Schmid, founder of The Well Chat, is an AFMC Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and licensed Speech Language Pathologist. Cheryl truly believes that by working on the body as a whole, specifically through the Functional Medicine lens, significant progress can be made, beyond what one has experienced thus far.
Cheryl Specializes in gut health which directly impacts all forms of Dis-ease (autoimmunity, food sensitivities, IBS, heartburn, SIBO, candida, H-pylori, osteoporosis, nutrient deficiency, headache, constipation and much more).
Link to Register: https://events.wmlnj.org/event/16187994