Wellness: if it was a smoothie, it would be green like a dollar bill, full of good intentions, but stirred with a spoonful of guilt and a sprinkling of confusion – because, while we’re totally down with the idea of getting healthier, some ingredients have become hard to swallow. And expensive. From £800 yoga mats to £400 juice cleanses, the wellness industry is big business, worth a cool £3trillion globally, including tourism, spas, beauty, fashion, food, supplements and gyms (to name but a few).
In fact, what constitutes wellness is harder to explain than an acai berry chia seed rainbow bowl. At its simplest, it’s about finding ways to feel healthy and love yourself – but the message has been diluted by information-overload and experts, bloggers and influencers instructing us…
