Ingredients of Wellness

I consider myself very privileged to be living in a part of Hong Kong that allows me to hit the hiking trails within minutes of leaving my front door.  Over recent months we have been hitting these trails much more often; on the weekend with Kenny and during the week either on my own or […]

Recently I asked a business owner friend if they have implemented any wellness practices for staff in their office. She thought for a while and then reflected her frustration that the staff did not utilize the wellness benefit.  I was intrigued at this response.  Through my work in researching workplace wellness, I’d suggest that most […]

While the idea of ‘Wellness’ is obviously quite distinct from the concept of mainstream health, it is interesting that as yet no fixed definition or theory exists for Wellness.  Yet this is not to be viewed as a bad thing.  The wide use of the term Wellness results in different meanings, for different groups, in […]

Miessence is the world’s first extensive range of internationally Certified Organic skin, hair, body, cosmetic, oral and nutritional products – certified to food standards.  As part of my wellness journey I was looking into using natural and sustainably produced products and was intrigued by the food standards certification of what was essentially a skin and personal care […]

Welcome to the Ingredients of Wellness. When I first mentioned the name of this blog to a friend the first thing that came to mind for her was that it may be about cooking wholesome food.  Well that’s not such a bad first impression, but that’s not all I intend for this blog.  Sure we will […]

A friend recently shared her concern of a great anxiety she was experiencing and how it was impacting her ability sleep leaving her regularly relying on sleeping tablets.  Sleep did not come partly because of what many refer to as the ‘monkey mind’ working overtime. You’ve heard the yoga teacher refer to the monkey mind […]