Raising Greener Teens is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:

What is acne and how can you treat it while also improving your overall health? In this episode Caralyn Hale helps explain where a teenager (or anyone) struggling with acne can get started to help heal and stop breakouts. She explains what a healthy skin routine looks like, how to find the right products and insure you aren’t destroying your skin barrier. She goes on to also look at what is happening internally when acne is an issue, how to tell if your acne is hormonal, and what to do if it is. She covers realistic diet strategies to help maintain a healthy relationship to food but also understand how to increase nutrient dense foods and to decrease known acne triggers. She also talks about how she helps women dealing with post-pill acne and why the pill doesn’t fix—and can even cause—acne. “Things will get better!” she says to teens struggling with acne. “Acne has been my greatest teacher. It has encouraged me to find the best version of myself.” If your teenager wants more, but doesn’t want to listen to this whole episode, then my teenager simplifies the episode in her “Teen Splain”.

Guest Bio & Links:

Caralyn Hale is a registered holistic nutrition practitioner, holistic acne coach, PCOS sister, and frequent writer/podcast host on issues related to holistic skin care and her business Skin Theory. She guides from her “own 15-year experience struggling with chronic acne, which has made me well versed in all areas of conventional and holistic acne therapy.”

Learn more about Caralyn Hale at her website which includes a blog with a lot of acne targeted tips at CaralynHale.com. Or follow her on instagram at carlyn_skintheory where you can also DM her.

About the Show and your Host:

Are you a parent to a teenager? For most parents, the teenage years can be the most challenging. Parenthood will make the best of us rethink our fundamental values and question our preconceived beliefs. The Raising Greener Teens podcast invites listeners to use their skills of curiosity, research, and humour to further develop as experts in the care of their family and to help guide the teens in their care to do the same.

Host Manda Aufochs Gillespie is the author of Green Mama & Green Mama-to-be, creator of the award-winning website thegreenmama.com, and founder of Folk University (folku.ca) and FolkU radio. She interviews doctors, naturopaths, sex educators, brain researchers, drug counsellors, parents who seem to be doing it better, and all sorts of interesting people in this series to provide inspiration to parents of teens and pre-teens, and—hopefully—teens themselves. Join Manda and her teenage daughter as they ask the experts: Is this the way it’s supposed to be?

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:

The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice across our six podcasts: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids’ nutrition, green beauty, healthy home, and raising greener teens. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:

Audio magic on this episode was performed by the incredible Kattie Laur.

This pilot episode was made possible with support from Ontario Creates.