In other news, the Guardian is launching a weekly wellness newsletter!
Starting tomorrow, Well Actually will appear in subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday. When you sign up, you’ll receive The Guardian’s essential reporting on topics like health and relationships, advice from your favorite columnists and stories about the ways people are trying to live the good life.
I will be your guide. I’ve spent my career reporting on lifestyle and wellness. I’ve written about lemon water, divorce doulas, and how to do laundry properly. I’ve talked to doctors, nutritionists, psychologists, influencers, celebrities, trainers, astrologers, athletes, and a pet psychic. I did cold dives and loved them, and I was confronted with yoga and hated it.
Why? I long to be healthy – by which I mean I strive to reach my full potential and never feel bad. Is that so much to ask?
Obviously this is a fantasy. And a hugely profitable one. The global wellness industry will rise to $5.6 trillion by 2022, the report said Global Wellness Institute. That is 14% more than in 2019.
Being a person can be difficult, and it is often made even more difficult by forces beyond our control. But everyone finds their own way to make it more bearable and even joyful. There are as many ways to live a good life as there are people, and we’d like to learn more about them.
So should you take magnesium? Want to join a knitting group? Try the Pomodoro Technique? And how harmful is dust?
Each week, the Well Actually newsletter will cut through the noise of today’s unrealistic, perfection-obsessed wellness reporting, offering practical advice and expert insights. We hope you will join us.
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Madeleine Aggeler
Lifestyle and wellness reporter