Our regular check-in on holistic wellness: movement, food and mood, habit stacking, grief, and the rituWells that hold it all together. Read in any order; they compound.
Writing from the floor of an emotionally exhausted week: how a walk with the dog paused the rumination, and how repetition becomes rituWell becomes the body saying, “It's safe to stay.” Featuring trauma-informed personal trainer Gabi Varga on the podcast.
Read the issue →Regulation isn't the absence of stress; it's meeting life's chaos without losing yourself. On self-regulation, co-regulation, and why that friend who picks fights when they're scared is really dysregulated.
Read the issue →Your movement practice isn't broken; it's mismatched. A working-styles exercise to find whether you're Expressive, Analytical, Amiable, or Driver, and the rituWells that fit each.
Read the issue →Before the science, the commitment: movement as ritual. Consistency beats perfection, and a ritual only exists if it's repeated. With Dudu Phele on the podcast: nutritionist, yogi, figure skater, and card-carrying Member of The Well.
Read the issue →Closing the food–mood chapter: every bite is energy, and your body decides how to spend it. Plus an important, gentle note on orthorexia, when the pursuit of perfect eating tips into harm.
Read the issue →In praise of mono-tasking and the Fruits of Fruition: layering habits slice by slice on the Swiss Cheese model, with a seven-day food–mood habit stack to try.
Read the issue →When supplements make sense, when they're just expensive hype, and the special considerations South African women deserve. Not medical advice; very much a professional conversation waiting to happen.
Read the issue →For overwhelmed beginners: the gut and the brain are in constant conversation, and nourishing one gently heals the other. Built on the work of nutritional psychiatrist Dr Uma Naidoo. This isn't a detox; it's a return to yourself.
Read the issue →A mid-year check-in on your goals, exactly what a health and wellness coach does, our commitments to you, and a chance to win a private flying lesson with the coolest pilot we know.
Read the issue →A little writing from the heart on grieving both parents, treading softly between Mother's Day and Father's Day, and the first episode of Well Said: The Podcast, recorded with love and dark humour.
Read the issue →Ten years, thousands of rands, and a headless-chicken run through directories to assemble one wellness team. Why The Well exists: coaching, in-person community, and Aisha's Apothekary, dedicated to the woman who inspired it.
Read the issue →The loving introduction: the Western–Indigenous wellness dance, poly-vagal theory and the Window of Tolerance, the food–mood connection, and somatic healing. The four pillars everything else draws from.
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