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Rachel Molenda

Rachel is a Toronto-based Holistic Nutritionist, the Community Manager at Joyous Health and a lover of whole nutritious foods! When she's not thinking up nerdy nutrition tweets, she's whipping up a new recipe, snuggling her cat, or being the amateur CrossFitter she is. Rachel specializes in helping women heal from emotional and disordered eating, ultimately helping them to establish a healthier relationship with food and their body. To stay up to date on Rachel's happenings, visit her online at rachelmmolenda.com
Well-being

What You Should Know Before You Launch a Podcast

As you may already know if you’re an avid listener, we launched the Joyous Health Podcast this past June 2019. It’s something we wanted to do for a while, but with everything else we had going on, we weren’t sure if it was the best time to do it.

Well-being

How To Find Your Voice As a Business

I’m super grateful to have had an awesome mentor when I was first starting my business a few years ago. Since that mentor had already established her successful business, I thought – perfect, I just have to do exactly what she’s doing. So, I did.

Recipes

7 Health Benefits of Kombucha

If you’ve ever had kombucha, you already know how incredibly delicious it is. It’s an excellent  transition away from pop

Well-being

Guest Post: How To Overcome The Isolation of Entrepreneurship

My first taste of entrepreneurship was in November 2016, just after I had graduated from the Institute of Holistic Nutrition and became a Holistic Nutritionist. I was ready to heal the world and was bracing myself for the big rush of new clientele, now th

Well-being

How To Navigate The Holidays With Food Sensitivities

Navigating your way through food sensitivities can be difficult to begin with. But navigating your way through food sensitivities over the holidays?! Eeeep – what about all of the peppermint, gingerbread and egg-nog-goodness?! Not to fret – after rea

Well-being

How To Cope With Stress Eating During The Holidays

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or is it? Your to-do list just got longer than life, it seems like all you do is go to holiday parties where you’re surrounded by indulgent food which induces feelings of worry [of over-eating and expanding waist

Well-being

How To Manage Emotional Eating

We are all emotional eaters to some extent. Often people confuse emotional eating for not having willpower or self-control. The reality is that it’s not about this at all.

Well-being

How To Use Adaptogens To Reduce Stress

Admittedly, I can be a bit of a stress ball. I’ve always had a worry-wort side to me as part of my [recovering] Type A personality. But the fact that I know this about myself actually makes managing stress easier. Once we know our tendencies, triggers and