Episode 9: Well, it's Wednesday... I think that calls for a mid-week, pause. What does it really mean to be well? Wellness has become one of the defining conversations of our time, everyone is constantly on about matcha and pilates, to fit the social mold of 'taking care of myself'. I think our understanding of Wellness is often fragmented. We associate it with health, productivity, self-care, balance, or success. But perhaps wellness is something far more expansive, and far more expensive. Or rather, the neglect of our true wellness, is where it becomes expense. Perhaps it is less about what we achieve, and more about the quality of the lives we cultivate from the inside out. The.Inside.Out. Our heartinnermost. This episode is an invitation to consider wellness as a way of being. A continual practice of tending to our sacred and private lives; our minds, our bodies, our heart space, our relationships, our spirituality, our philosophies, and the many stories that quietly shape how we move through the world. There is something deeply symbolic about a well. A well does not produce water only when it is needed; it offers what has been gathered over time. Similarly, we are all becoming wells. Day by day, experience by experience, relationship by relationship, we are filling ourselves with something. The question is not whether we are filling our wells, but with what. And when life inevitably comes to draw from us, what will it find? Perhaps wellness is found in the quiet integration of our humanity. By allowing purpose to give us direction, passion to give us just the right energy, pleasure to remind us to satisfaction, and pain to deepen our capacity for compassion, wisdom, and grace. Wellness is not the absence of hardship, but about the tools we leverage to cultivate wholeness when we may be feeling, spent. Our relationship with wellness is also deeply personal and is constantly evolving. What it meant to be well in one season of life may no longer serve us in another. As we grapple with our identity, our choices, the foundation of our meditations... as we grow, our understanding of fulfilment, rest, meaning, community, and abundance grows with us. Wellness is rarely ours alone. The quality of our inner lives inevitably becomes the quality of our shared lives. It shapes the way we listen, the way we lead, the way we love, the way we create, and the atmosphere we carry into every room we enter. Our wellness becomes something others experience. What better idea to filter through in the middle of our Working Week. The invitation is not simply to pursue wellness, but to embody it. Feel it through your entire being. We want to become people whose hearts are well-watered. People whose presence nourishes. Journal the answers to these questions about Wellness: What brings me a sense of Wellness, within?What is the quality of my Wellness?What fills my well? And what kind of life flows from it? You're welcome.
