Each year I write my “Memory Lane and Crystal Ball” email reflecting on the year past and the year ahead. I share it with you because I have been told that oftentimes I see things on the horizon that might still be out of view for others. After four decades now, I am realizing that working in the wellness industry has felt like a calling and…
A Healthy Habitat: Designing with Wellness in Mind with Joanna Frank from The Center for Active Design Joanna is President & CEO of the Center for Active Design in New York. They’re a non-profit on a mission to promote health through design in the real estate and landscape we inhabit. Now, they’re the licensed operators of Fitwel, the world’s leading certification system for optimizing buildings…
15th Annual Global Wellness Summit Celebrates Innovators, Visionaries and Thought Leaders The Global Wellness Summit (GWS), the foremost gathering of international leaders in the multitrillion-dollar global wellness economy, celebrated wellness pioneers and innovators at its 15th annual conference. The 3-day event’s robust agenda, with the theme “A NEW New Era in Health & Wellness” wrapped up last week. If you missed it, the Summit on Demand…
A Message of Hope, Resilience and Healing with Dr. Jeffrey Rediger Dr. Jeffrey Rediger is a Harvard professor, medical doctor, psychiatrist, and the author of “Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing.” His pioneering work studying recovery from terminal illness has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr. Oz Show. In this episode, he lays out his pillars of wellness and invites…
Medicine’s Wellness Conundrum–The New Yorker This article discusses the rising commingling of medicine and wellness at hospitals–and how patients and doctors don’t always see eye to eye. Patients demand alternative therapies–touch treatments, mental support and stress-reduction, nutritional advice, etc.–that address them in a more human, holistic way. Far more hospitals now have a wellness facility of some kind, and cancer patients in particular are demanding services that fall under the aegis of wellness. For some physicians, offering…
TREND: Healthcare Meets Wellness–Recent Signs of a New Convergence Our 2021 trend “The Self-Care Renaissance” argued that a new era was upon us–one where the complementary yet often combative relationship between medicine and wellness gets rethought, leading to new conversations and convergences between these two worlds. The pandemic was the shock that has forced healthcare to finally focus on prevention and more holistic models of medicine. At the same time, wellness companies are increasingly forced…
Life Enhancing Design with Clodagh Kicking off the fifth season of the Global Wellness Summit podcast is an illuminating discussion of all things design with pioneering design icon, Clodagh. Turns out, open space, objects, sounds, people, materials, smells and energy — or the lack thereof – has a deeply profound impact on our wellbeing. Also joining us is guest co-host, Veronica Schreibeis Smith, who you’ll…
What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?–The New York Times COVID-19’s strangest symptom–losing one’s sense of smell–has opened up new doors to understanding our most neglected sense. If you want to understand our long cultural history that has denigrated the importance of the sense of smell and the mounting research on how smell is a “startling” and complex superpower–read this article! It covers so much:…
TREND: A Wave of Scent Innovation Fueled by the Pandemic Fragrance is being developed and applied for wellbeing in dramatically new ways Back in 2019, one of our key trends was how fragrance was getting a wellness makeover. With a new understanding of scent’s role in our mental and physical health, there was a new wave of functional fragrances and scent-for-wellbeing applications starting to rise. The pandemic has kicked…
Fifth Season of the Global Wellness Summit Podcast Features One-on-One Conversations with Summit Keynote Speakers, Wellness Icons, Authors, Designers & Disruptors Guests include Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, Author of CURED; Joanna Frank, CEO of Center for Active Design; Dr. Howard Murad, Skincare Pioneer; Abby Brody, Education Disruptor; Dr. Sharon Malone, Women’s Health Expert; and Clodagh, Pioneer of Design for Well Being Miami, FL – November 18,…
