Wellness. Just reading that word makes you feel more healthy. Calmer. More virtuous. That’s why marketers are using the hell out of it, slapping “WELLNESS” on everything from yoga mats to activewear, vitamin supplements. But what does wellness actually mean? At a particularly unhealthy point in her life, journalist Brigid Delaney received an email from her editor about an assignment. Did she want to go on Malcolm Turnbull’s crash diet? It would involve eating nothing for weeks while drinking a concoction of herbs some have compared to bin-juice. Brigid said yes. And decided to write a book about her wellness journey called Wellmania.
Show Notes
Your host is Mia Freedman.
With thanks to special guest Brigid Delaney.
Find Wellmania at apple.co/mamamia
This podcast was produced by Elissa Ratliff
You can buy Mia’s book, Work Strife Balance, or any book mentioned on our podcasts from iBooks at apple.co/mamamia, where you can also subscribe to all our other shows in one place.
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Top Comments
I absolutely love the No Filter podcasts and look forward to each week when a new one is released. I got 3/4 of the way through your podcast with Brigid Delaney and had to turn it off... Both Mia and Brigid laughing about people who pay to do yoga and pretty much condemning those who choose to detox and comparing it to an eating disorder. It was utterly ridiculous and I expected a lot more from someone like Mia. I'm no yogi, fasting saint but in a society where junk food is cheaper than your basic fruit and veg and there is an obesity epidemic - I really don't think this conversation was helpful. The fact that youths are turning to fitness instead of nights out drinking is a huge positive and something that should be commended in spades and advertised. It's okay to have a treat every now and then but to laugh at people who are fasting and detoxing is beyond frustrating.