Wellness
What Does Wellness Mean To You? One simple question, 12 different answers
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ellness. It’s one of those words that seems to be everywhere at the moment. Wellness classes, wellness drinks, wellness cruises – everyone’s jumped on the W-word bandwagon. But ask someone to define it, and you’ll most likely get blank eyes and several attempts to finish a sentence that encompasses everything it means. As the Global Wellness Institute reported late last year, the world wellness market grew 12.8% in just the last two years: from a $3.7 trillion industry in 2015 to $4.2 trillion in 2017, making the consumer spend on wellness more than half as much as total global health expenditures ($7.3 trillion). Clearly the demand for anything wellness related is huge, so we asked beauty and wellness experts to share with us their thoughts on the buzz word and what it means to them personally.
Nicole Manning, Owner/Director Tribe Natural Beauty “Wellness to me means enjoying a life in balance. I love what I do and find it incredibly fulfilling, however at times it can be tiring. It’s important to me to take a holistic approach to wellness; not only keeping my skin healthy, but taking care of my body, inside and out, and my mind. This means achieving what I set out to do each day with enough energy, vibrancy and presence to practice my personal self care rituals with an enthusiasm that helps me to feel well. I do my best to create personally meaningful moments throughout the day, no matter what I may be doing or where I am. I begin each morning by making my bed, sipping a glass of warm water with lemon and apple cider vinegar and taking a dip in the ocean to get in touch with nature. Approaching wellness in this way has become a useful signal for me when I may be pushing myself too hard 42 | SPA+CLINIC
and perhaps need to take a step back and find more balance. And for me, it’s a more relaxing way to think about living a healthy life.”
Laura Soszynski , Owner/Director Willow Spa “When talking about wellness from the point of view of a skin specialist, I think that wellness is so much more than making choices towards an active or healthy life. I think that wellness is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. When treating our guests' concerns we are always conscious about what they are putting into their body and around their body, just as much as what they’re using on their body. I think it is important to take the time to really understand all of these contributing factors when treating our guests, as, if they truly want to find results in you, you first need to find out where their concerns may be feeding from, which is not always limiting to what they’re putting onto skin. When I talk about wellness I believe we also need to consider the mental state of mind, this to me can include spiritual well-being.”
Melanie Gleeson, CEO/Founder endota spa “Wellness is not just about physical rejuvenation but also about spiritual and emotional invigoration. This is what became the guiding principle of endota, to help women be their ‘best me’, to show them the benefits of taking time out for themselves to replenish body, mind and spirit so they can give back to family and loved ones – to disconnect in order to reconnect. endota is a curated place for women to replenish, rejuvenate and take some time out for themselves. Myself and the whole team at endota believe that having
