Youthful Skin Is An Inside Job—Here's How To Keep Your Skin Vibrant, Regardless Of Age

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Youthful Skin Is An Inside Job—Here's How To Keep Your Skin Vibrant, Regardless Of Age

When it comes to skin health, what you put in your mouth is more important than what you put on your skin. This may be new news to some of you. “But isn’t skincare about skin care products? What does eating have to do with it?” The answer: Actually, a lot. Everything you eat becomes part of your inner AND outer being. Your skin is your largest organ, and everything going on inside your body (specifically in your gut) shows up on it.

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Pure Joy Wellness Approved! HU Almond Butter + Puffed Quinoa Dark Chocolate

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Pure Joy Wellness Approved! HU Almond Butter + Puffed Quinoa Dark Chocolate

The wellness industry is saturated with products. (It’s a multi-trillion dollar industry, afterall.) My goal with this series, Pure Joy Wellness Approved, is to help you cut through the noise, and give you insight into the items and brands that I use on a regular basis. Every month, I’ll be featuring a product I love that can make achieving your health goals easier—whether you want to lose weight, take better care of your skin, develop an exercise routine, find balance with your nutrition, or improve your mental health, to name a few.

Welcome to the fifth edition of my monthly blog series: Pure Joy Wellness Approved!

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5 Healthier Dishes You Can Make For 4th Of July

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5 Healthier Dishes You Can Make For 4th Of July

The dishes we tend to eat on the Fourth of July aren’t always the healthiest. Mac and cheese, mayo-filled salads, and other heavy dishes often find their way to the table, forcing our health and weight goals to take a backseat.

Fortunately, there are plenty of healthier, delicious dishes that are easy for you to make and won’t rob you of that indulgence feeling. Below are five of the best-tasting (and also festive!) recipes I could find that I highly recommend for this Fourth of July.

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How Women Over 50 Should Be Eating To Balance Blood Sugar

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How Women Over 50 Should Be Eating To Balance Blood Sugar

As our age increases, our blood sugar (glucose) levels tend to as well, and insulin becomes less and less effective at bringing it down. This means that the older we get, the more caution we have to take when it comes to eating sugar or anything that gets metabolized like sugar (aka pretty much all carbohydrates, especially the refined ones).

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The Importance Of Flexibility & 5 Stretches You Should Do Daily

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The Importance Of Flexibility & 5 Stretches You Should Do Daily

As we get older, we slowly start to lose our flexibility—the ability to move our muscles and joints through their full range of motion. It’s kind of a “use it or lose it” situation. And while flexibility might not be top of mind when you think of training, it’s an essential part of fitness and plays a major role in our overall well-being. 

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8 Foods You Should Always Have On Hand—No Matter What

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8 Foods You Should Always Have On Hand—No Matter What

It’s hard to remember a time when grocery stores were so full and empty at the same time—of course, I mean full of people and out of items. As the weeks pass, we’re all trying to stay stocked on food and minimize trips to the grocery store in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. So with that in mind, I thought I’d put together a list of items you should ALWAYS have in your pantry and freezer—no matter what. 

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3 Healthy, Affordable Recipes You Can Make With Canned Or Frozen Ingredients

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3 Healthy, Affordable Recipes You Can Make With Canned Or Frozen Ingredients

With restaurants and stores continuing to close due to the coronavirus, eating at home has become a necessity for everyone (and this may or may not be the case for a while, depending on how this situation pans out). Everyone is stocking up on canned foods, frozen foods, and anything non-perishable—but these foods still carry a stigma of being less healthy or not as delicious as fresh (usually more expensive) ones. Fortunately for us, that is not the case.

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The One Supplement Every Woman Over 50 Should Be Taking

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The One Supplement Every Woman Over 50 Should Be Taking

It’s rare that I recommend a supplement across the board, but if there’s one that I feel everyone can benefit from—especially women over 50—it’s turmeric. Not only is it surprisingly easy to work turmeric into your diet or routine (don’t worry, I’ll tell you how), but in doing so, you’ll reap numerous benefits and improve your overall health.

But first, let’s start with the basics...

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8 Ways You Can Show Yourself Self-Love Everyday (Especially Valentine's Day)

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8 Ways You Can Show Yourself Self-Love Everyday (Especially Valentine's Day)

Valentine’s Day is a pretty loaded holiday—it comes with a lot of pressure and expectations about what the day should look like. In our minds it should have chocolate, a romantic dinner, gifts, cards—and most of all, we should feel loved. Unfortunately, though, we’ve been conditioned to look for love, validation, and even permission outside of ourselves.

We’ve come to rely on other people for love, and we spend a lot of time waiting to receive it instead of giving it to ourselves. I believe that until we become our own steady source of love, it’s very difficult to fully love anything or anyone else.  

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Calling All Women Over 50: Here’s How To Make 2020 Your Healthiest Year Yet!

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Calling All Women Over 50: Here’s How To Make 2020 Your Healthiest Year Yet!

It’s officially 2020, and after taking a brief hiatus from blogging and social media, I’m happy to say I’m back! I’ve been hard at work on Pure Joy Wellness, and I’m excited to take my brand in a new, community-focused direction this year. 

To start, I’d like to look at an email a new client recently sent me:

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5 Lifestyle Changes For Sleek, Sculpted Arms

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5 Lifestyle Changes For Sleek, Sculpted Arms

Summer is finally here and If you have been fighting flabby arms and feeling self-conscious about putting on your tank top, it is time to make a change. For too many women (including myself), the upper arms are a problem area, especially the triceps area at the back of the upper arms.

Sometimes referred to as bat wings, this area is easily neglected, because compared to the biceps at the front of your upper arms, it’s less visible.

So, if sleek, sculpted arms are the accessory you want most this summer use these 5 lifestyle changes to get the job done.

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What I Learned By Eating Slower

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What I Learned By Eating Slower

As you can image I live a very busy life. Running my own business, while I love it, is also at times very stressful. My days are filled rushing from one client to another, doing Skype coaching sessions, writing blog post, taking conference calls and managing my own life. I rush through my day with very little time for anything and when I have time to get a bite to eat, I gobble it down.

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