(Pictured above is Kim Scharf (left) with friends.) Finding out you have a health issue is never easy. When the diagnosis is something serious like cancer, it can be terrifying. But when she was battling breast cancer in 2013, Auburn nurse Kim Scharf got by with a little help from […]
Learn About Lymphedema
Lymphedema: What is it and how is it treated? Lymphedema is a condition affecting the body’s lymphatic system. When excess lymphatic fluid surrounds tissue cells, it causes excessive swelling in different areas of the body, most noticeably the arms and legs. Lymphedema can be caused by cancer treatments. Learn more […]
Breast Health: Important All Year
Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October may come once a year, but with one in eight women being diagnosed with breast cancer annually, this is a topic that’s worth discussing year-round. During October, you wear the pink and hear the statistics, but you think, “it will never happen to me,” […]
Joy to Life Foundation Expands Funding
Although the Foundation has provided funding for breast cancer screenings for many years in all of Alabama’s 67 counties for women and men who cannot afford them, we are now proud that we can take over the northern counties of Alabama. Previously, the Susan G. Komen Foundation funded these counties, […]
Joy to Life Foundation: Re-Committing To Our Roots
In late 2012, when the JTL Foundation decided to start a magazine, it had these goals in mind: to raise awareness of how a healthy lifestyle can help prevent breast cancer and other health issues and provide information and advice on how to pursue such a lifestyle; to spread positive […]
Bring on the Blues
(recipes developed by Jennifer Kornegay) Plump blueberries are welcome signs of summer. The season is in full swing by the time they’re good and ripe, and even though that means it’s hot, a trip to U-pick farm to fill a few buckets is worth the time, effort and any temporary […]
Holly Rowe, Game of Her Life
Famed Sports Journalist Holly Rowe has fought through adversity to beat back cancer, and she shares how her career has helped her on her journey in more ways than one. “During my cancer journey, I started keeping a joy journal to record the little moments each day that made me […]
Strawberry Dip & Strawberry-Lime Cooler
(recipes developed by Jennifer Kornegay) The arrival of strawberries each spring is cause for celebration. The shiny, cardinal-red berries crowned with green leaves are so pretty, they’re a treat for your eyes before you ever get them into your mouth. When you do, and the first bite releases their sweetness, […]
Growing Green
A quick glance inside MGM Greens’ rectangle shipping containers brings to mind a disco, thanks to the intense purple glow, light emitted from thousands of tiny blue and red LED bulbs, filling the small space. The illusion quickly fades; there’s no music or dancing. And yet, there is life, energy […]
JOY Magazine REAL LIFE – A Discussion with Beverly Helton
In 2008, a very healthy and active 48-year-old Beverly Helton, who up until the moment she detected a lump in her breast felt “just fine,” was diagnosed with stage III invasive breast cancer. She beat it. Then, in 2017, she was diagnosed with stage III ovarian cancer, and she’s beating […]