Writing
Writing that connects personal wellbeing with the wider world.
Why wellbeing begins where we live
What if the biggest lever for public health isn't in the bathroom cabinet, but in the streets outside the front door?
Escape into the mountains: a slow return to rhythm
On the pull of altitude, silence and the wellness retreats reimagining what it means to rest.
The family home after the children cannot afford to leave
Multigenerational living is quietly returning — and it is exposing how badly designed our homes have become.
The biggest wellbeing crisis isn't mental health — it's how we design our neighbourhoods
What if loneliness, inactivity and stress are not simply personal problems, but consequences of the places we've built?
Why are we still building homes that only fit one stage of life?
Our lives change. Our homes rarely do. Perhaps it's time we stopped asking families to adapt to buildings and started asking buildings to adapt to families.
Using AI without losing the human story
How wellness founders can use artificial intelligence to expand their thinking without producing indistinguishable content.
Founders who begin with a story
Interviews with entrepreneurs who built businesses around a meaningful idea rather than a product roadmap.
Sugar, longevity and the awkward truth about ageing well
Which longevity ideas are worth taking seriously — and which are simply well-marketed anxieties?
People, place and the invisible architecture of belonging
How the design of small, everyday encounters shapes whether a neighbourhood feels like home.
Voice, illness and being heard in midlife
A candid episode on regaining voice — literally and metaphorically — after illness in midlife.
The vagus nerve: the invisible thread connecting mind, body and meaning
Why the vagus nerve has become the most talked-about pathway in modern wellbeing — and what the science actually says.
Gut feeling: how what we eat shapes the mind
A closer look at the gut-brain axis and how everyday food choices quietly influence mood, focus and resilience.
Chasing glow without going under the knife
Inside the new wave of non-surgical treatments promising radiance — and how to tell honest innovation from marketing gloss.
The moment time changes: midlife healing and the quiet awakening of the self
On the strange, often unspoken shift that arrives in midlife — and what it asks of us if we listen.
The sobriety shift: rethinking success and status
Why a generation is reappraising alcohol — and what the sober-curious movement reveals about work, identity and belonging.
Dance as medicine — and reclaiming the dancefloor
From Ibiza's sunrise rituals to community halls, why dance is being taken seriously again as a form of collective healing.
Longevity in wellness: living well to 100 vs. Don't Die
Two very different visions of a long life sit at the heart of the longevity movement — and only one of them looks like a life worth living.
Neil Markey: the conscious future of psychedelic retreats
The Beckley Retreats co-founder on doing psychedelic work responsibly, and what it takes to build lasting change beyond the ceremony.
Nature deficit syndrome: why we need more wild spaces
What happens to bodies, minds and communities when the wild is designed out of daily life — and how we might design it back in.
Andrew Thomas: the man who changed how Britain thinks about magnesium
The founder behind BetterYou on turning a niche mineral into a household name — and building a wellness brand that stayed honest.
Nicci Trudgeon: bottling care in a complicated world
How a personal story became a beauty brand built around integrity, sensitivity and quiet, unglamorous craft.
Marina Efraimoglou: the healing vision behind Euphoria Retreat
The founder of Greece's landmark wellness retreat on illness, reinvention, and building a business as a form of meaning.
Susie Abromeit: finding the light that lives alongside loss
An honest conversation about grief, art and the surprising doorways that open when life falls apart.
The M word: a physiotherapist's mission to heal the silence in women's health
Suzy Shutt on menopause, pelvic health and why the loudest wellbeing conversation is still the one we're not having.
Sashwa River of Stars: rewriting the rules of wellness, conservation and community
A founder who believes wellness only means something if it's tied to the land and the people it belongs to.
The rise of wellness hotels: how places like Forsthofgut are redefining travel
Inside a new generation of alpine hotels quietly rewriting what luxury travel is for.
Reclaiming balance: modern Mayr medicine at Park Igls, Austria
A week at one of Europe's most respected medical retreats — and what it teaches about slowing down in a hurried life.
Castaway Llanthony: an off-grid wellness retreat in the Black Mountains
A weekend without signal, schedules or small talk — and the surprising thing that grows in the space left behind.
Bath: a wellness pilgrimage to Britain's original spa city
Two thousand years after the Romans, Bath is quietly reclaiming its place as one of Britain's most restorative city breaks.
A sanctuary without dogma: the living myth of Broughton Sanctuary
How a Yorkshire estate has become one of Britain's most quietly ambitious experiments in nature, ritual and belonging.
Mother–daughter escape to Antalya: Sherwood Exclusive Kemer
A generational trip to the Turkish coast — and a reminder that the best wellness is sometimes just uninterrupted time together.
A note on where to read
Full articles live on the publications that first commissioned them. This page is a curated portfolio — every card links back to the original piece.