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.  Purchase includes the Digital Edition and News Service. Please stay in touch via our Facebook Page.

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Your Third Circulation System

From the editor • Remember to be impressed with yourself. You have earned it more times than you have noticed.

The spoonful • Thoughts for sipping

The Pulse • Medical findings for a healthier body

Life Lines • Interesting slices of life

Green Beat • All the latest in environmental issues

Matcha • Matcha tea is the centrepiece of Japanese tea ceremonies and an antioxidant powerhouse.

Garcinia cambogia • Garcinia cambogia, known also as brindleberry or Malabar tamarind, is a digestive aid that can help with weight maintenance.

Smart about supplement stacks

THE COMPOST CONNECTION • Creating a compost bin helps your garden but also reduces waste, supports the planet, and connects you to your life.

A people pleaser’s road to boundaries • For years, WellBeing reader Ally Page thought people pleasing meant she cared. Therapy taught her it was a coping mechanism built from fear, and that voicing her needs has deepened her closest relationships while letting the wrong ones run their course.

Taking control • WellBeing reader Vanessa Sewak was diagnosed with breast cancer at a point when very little felt within her control. She found her way back through a weekly exercise class designed for breast cancer patients: six other women, a stationary bike, and the relief of finally being in a place where she didn’t have to say she was fine.

A walk in the brain forest • Autism isn’t a trend, a tragedy or an “epidemic”; it’s one expression of human neurodiversity. So why do so many autistic people spend years masking, misread as “too much” or “not enough”, and only discover the truth in adulthood? In this article, we follow real Australian stories, from late diagnosis to unmasking, while exploring what the latest research is revealing and what the neurodiversity movement is asking of all of us: more understanding, more flexibility and far fewer assumptions.

TIM JARVIS • Environmental scientist and polar explorer Tim Jarvis AM has built a career out of turning endurance into advocacy. From a faithful recreation of Shackleton’s 1916 survival journey to streaming live footage of retreating glaciers into UN climate talks, he uses adventure storytelling to make climate change tangible. This is his story.

Your skin during the season of perimenopause and menopause • When hormones shift, your skin follows. Here’s what’s unfolding beneath the surface and how to meet it with intention.

A path to wellbeing • For a growing number of women over 45 years old, solo travel has become a way of taking back time, headspace and a self that years of caring for other people have blurred.

The histamine problem

On lifting weights and loneliness • Sam Graham-Felsen spent his late 30s and early 40s in the gym, building physical strength to outlast the absence of close friends. He talks on a recent New York Times podcast about the moment he realised the kind of strength he needed was the one that lets you call somebody. A reflection on men, weights and what gets pushed down.

WHAT organic REALLY MEANS IN AUSTRALIA • Australia is the...