WellBeing

WellBeing is the World’s leading journal of natural health and living. A refreshingly intelligent reading experience, WellBeing offers inspiration for a way of life that is authentic and soulful. Reportage reviews the latest developments (or revived ancient practices) in natural living, and in-depth articles both challenge and inspire pragmatic action in the real-world balance of work, life, family and community. WellBeing reaches an increasingly sophisticated audience of citizens of the global village.

Change • v 1 to make or become different.

Radical hope • Radical a 1 very different from the usual or traditional. Hope n 1 desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment.

Sisu • n 1 a Finnish term that can be roughly translated into English as strength of will, determination, perseverance and acting rationally in the face of adversity.

From the editor-in-chief

From the editor

Recent medical findings for a healthier body

Interesting slices of life

All the latest in environmental issues

Tea • Tea is the most popular beverage in the world after water and it has a range of healing properties.

PEA • PEA is a food component that has multiple effects on physiological function with specific uses as an antiinflammatory, regulator of allergies and an analgesic.

Email me • The statistics surrounding the amount of emails we send are staggering, but getting carried away by the sheer numbers can deflect from some real, and serious, effects that emails have on you and on the planet.

Mitch Wallis • Spend 10 minutes with our Paradigm Shifters, the people who are shaping the ideas that will take us into the future. Mitch Wallis is a top young thought leader on mental health, podcaster and social entrepreneur with a master’s degree in psychology and 20 years of lived experience with mental illness. He is also the founder of Heart On My Sleeve, a global mental health movement and services provider.

Communicating with empathy • Learn how to move past people-pleasing habits and to say No with confidence and empathy.

Raising the next generation • Raising resilient, confident and emotionally intelligent kids takes time and sensitivity to their needs.

It’s time to get real • Authenticity is an ancient word which has undergone a modern do-over in the 21st century. This is the nature of language; it morphs and changes. What does authenticity mean in its more contemporary mode? Is it a fad or does it have staying power? Let’s get real with what it means to be authentic.

The laziness lie • In an “always on” society, doing has become our undoing. Is embracing so-called laziness the secret to a happier and healthier life?

Rewilding • n 1 the practice of helping large areas of land to return to their natural state. 2 rewilding represents a desire to return to the state in which humans existed before the advent of civilisation.

4 heathy cooking oils • Discover the history, smoke points, flavours and uses of four favourite cooking oils: olive, avocado, sesame and safflower.

Recipes

Yoga for non-toxic positivity • We take an in-depth look at toxic positivity and share some antidotes like mindfulness, gratitude, empathy and an inversion yoga practice.

Valerie Khoo—the art of making things happen • Artist and writer Valerie Khoo came to Australia from Singapore with her family when she was just four years old. With a head for business and the soul of a creative, her story is one of brave choices and a relentless drive to understand how to create what you want in this world.

What is “inflammageing” doing to your skin? • The beauty buzzword “inflammageing” refers to how excess inflammation accelerates the skin’s natural ageing process. Based on the nature of...