Habit-changing, mood-lifting, thought-provoking reads of 2023
In case you missed them
To mark the end of the year, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favourite editions of Well Well Well from 2023. Most of these are free to read.
Enjoy this round-up, which I’ve divided into 4 categories: moving your body, soothing your nervous system, nourishing yourself and changing your mindset.
See you in January 🧡
Moving your body
‘I really should be doing strength training’
Since I’ve started seeing clients for health coaching, one of the things I hear a lot is...
Exercise is different now
If your targeted Instagram ads are anything like mine, then you’ve recently seen a video of Emma Stone talking about an emotional experience...
Build a better 'old lady body'
My daughter sometimes entertains us by doing a ‘little old lady walk’. When she spots a suitable stick, she brandishes it like a walking stick, hunches over and hobbles along. It’s very funny, and also quite reve…
Soothing your nervous system
Protecting your mind in a scary world
It feels more important to address what is dominating my thoughts and conversations at the moment: how to cope when the news is s…
Can spirituality save your life?
This week sees the publication of my book, Reconstruction: How to rebuild your body, mind and life after a breast cancer diagnosis, so I’m sharing an extract...
What happens in vagus...
‘The vagus nerve? I’m vaguely aware of it!’ That was the response from one health-conscious friend when I asked how much she knows about the body’s longest cranial nerve. It’s one of those things that’s often mentioned...
Nourishing yourself
What is a 'breakfast salad'?
I started hearing about ‘breakfast salads’ in the middle of winter. I follow lots of American wellness types on social media and there was a spate of them all talking about their breakfast salads: how front-loading your day with nutrients, and focusing on protein rather than…
Everything we know about protein is wrong
Of all the contradictory and confusing information out there about nutrition, I always thought that the subject of protein was pretty straightforward. We all need protein. The amino acids found in protein are known as the ‘building blocks’ of life, as they provide structure fo…
Why it's time to show your liver some love
If I asked you how big your liver is, and where it is in your body, would you be able to tell me? (I mean, without referring to the picture of me above, holding a life-size liver in the right place?) I certainly would have guessed…
Changing your mindset
Happy New You?
When I was in my early twenties, working as an assistant on a magazine, the headline ‘New Year, New You’ was a recurring joke. It had become a cliché long ago and someone always said it in the January issue meeting. When we were running low on new ways to sell the ‘fresh star…
The art of never saying no
When we talk about the idea of ‘time affluence’, we’re thinking of time as money. We talk about spending, saving and wasting time, as if it is something that we own. I instinctively recoil at this, because it makes me think of the lunch-is-for…
What even is wellness now?
When Goop’s former chief content officer, Elise Loehnen, promoted her recent book with a series of scathing interviews about life at Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, it was heralded as the end of a wellness era. ‘My interests …
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