Download e-book for kindle: Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by Brigid Delaney

Cold-pressed juices, quitting sugar, Paleo, scorching yoga, mindfulness … in case you embody these items you'll be satisfied, you'll be good – simply ask Instagram. wellbeing has turn into an international mega-industry. yet does any of these things really work?

Feeling exhausted, frightened and out of form, journalist Brigid Delaney makes a decision to determine – utilizing herself because the guinea pig. beginning with a brutal 101-day fast,

Brigid exams issues that are supposed to make us fresh, lean and serene. traveling the area, she attempts colonics, meditation, silent retreats, team psychotherapy and oodles of yoga, figuring out what's valuable and what's simply dear hype.

In monasteries and future health farms, on mountaineering trails and therapeutic massage tables, she asks, why accomplish that many people swing from indulgence to detox and again back? Is it attainable to combine strong behavior into your lifestyle? What does our obsession with wellbeing say approximately us? And why do you odor so undesirable if you happen to haven’t eaten in seven days?

‘Brigid Delaney is the queen of calamity and a fearless, sane advisor into the unusual center of our sleek obsessions. this may make you groan in horror up to it’ll make you snort out loud.’ —Benjamin Law

‘A bloody pleasing learn that leaves you thinking about no matter if you must do yoga and meditation or get mindlessly under the influence of alcohol and melancholy on the nation of the area. primarily I want that I’d written it.’ —Judith Lucy

‘At final! A humorous, well-written paintings of first-person gonzo reportage relating all of the wellbeing and fitness and serenity remedies you have ever been too feeble in my opinion to adopt. give some thought to this publication as an enjoyable semi-colonic.’ —Annabel Crabb

Brigid Delaney is a senior author for Guardian Australia. She has formerly labored as a attorney and journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald, the Telegraph (London), ninemsn and CNN. She is the writer of 2 books: This stressed Life and Wild Things.