Redefining Wellness on Your Own Terms
I recently read an article in Vogue Arabia by Alexandra Venison about the quiet rise of the “less but better” beauty movement. She describes a growing shift — one where women are beginning to move away from the belief that wellness means perfecting a lifestyle of green juices, ten-step skincare routines, supplements, bio-hacking gadgets, and sunrise meditations. Instead, it’s becoming about something far simpler, yet more powerful: creating space to listen to our bodies and redefining what wellness means on our own terms.
This is something I explored in my previous blog post, The Art of Slowing Down. We’re beginning to understand that true, sustainable healing doesn’t come from doing more — it begins when we slow down. When we allow ourselves to pause. When we choose practices that bring us into presence, rather than push us toward perfection.
We live in a world that’s constantly overstimulating — urging us to do more, fix more, be more. And so, we believe if we can just check every box — drink the green juice, follow the routine, tick off the rituals — then maybe, finally, we’ll feel less overwhelmed. But as we often explore at WCL, what if the first step is actually the opposite? What if it’s about creating space? About simplifying?
Because feeling well doesn’t come from outside-in strategies alone. It starts with understanding your story, your body, and reconnecting with your inner voice. And yet, even this — even the simplicity, the space, the rituals that truly support us — can’t protect us from the full experience of being human.
There will still be days where no routine, no pause, no amount of “less” makes the discomfort go away. And on those days, what we need most might simply be permission — to hold ourselves close, to soften, and to remind ourselves that it’s okay to feel it all. That whatever we’re carrying is valid. That, as we always do, we’ll find our way through.
So yes — less can be better. But even more than that, being with yourself is what matters most. In the mess, in the stillness, in it all.
