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2019 Health

This entrepreneur is making inclusivity a pillar of her projects

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April 18, 2019 at 03:30AM by CWC Well+Good proudly presents Wellness in Color, a new series highlighting prominent wellness practitioners of color who are doing healing work in their communities. Featuring conversations led by Latham Thomas, a Well+Good Council member and the founder of Mama Glow, these stories will shine a spotlight on energy workers, nutrition experts, sexuality doulas, and other wellness luminaries. Here, entrepreneur Gianne Doherty talks about how she founded one of the country’s leading wellness conference series, WELL Summit. Latham Thomas:  Gianne, I would love for you to start by telling our community just a little bit about yourself. Gianne Doherty:  I am the co-founder of Organic Bath Co., an award-winning organic skin-care company based out of Boston. I’m also the founder of WELL Summit, a leading wellness conference series. My mission and purpose is to empower women to live their healthiest lives with both of my brands. With Organic Bath Co., our predominant focus is making sure that what you put on your body is nontoxic. With WELL Summit, we extend upon that conversation with our belief that wellness should be a 360-degree conversation. What inspired you to take this path from skin care to a producing a wellness summit? Back in 2014, I started marinating on the idea. Through my journey of Organic Bath Co., as I started sharing the importance of what you put on your body, I started getting more questions from friends and family and our customers. I realized that while I

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2019 Health

7 reasons nothing gives me a confidence boost quite like a beach vacation

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April 18, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC The temps are rising and soon enough, someone is going to have to wrestle my beloved opaque tights away from me. Without the security-blanket-effect provided by layers of wool and down, summer body anxiety is real. But here’s the thing: Despite all my initial fears about peeling the winter covers off, my body confidence never gets as much of a boost as it does on a warm-weather vacation. Here’s why: 1. Less clothes = less fear over exposing my body (really) My fear of going sleeveless is right up there with some people’s fear of spiders, but the beach is the one place where I trade my long sleeves for, you know, an actual swimsuit. Somehow, once I start baring a little more, I’m more comfortable baring a lot more. It’s a kind of exposure therapy, really—I’m putting myself in a situation that causes distress only to have the fear lose its grip on me. 2. My inner food police is off-duty How many times have I judged the success of my days by whether the calories I’ve budgeted on my MyFitnessPal app are in the red? Too many to count. While being on vacation is about leaving my should-do lists behind, for me, it’s also about taking a break from my should-eat (and not eat) lists. There’s no tracking, calculating, or over-planning my calorie intake. Food isn’t good or bad, it’s just—novel concept, I know—food. And that neutrality about my food choices

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A new hotel wants you to come to New York City…to sleep

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April 18, 2019 at 02:00AM by CWC New York City’s Lower East Side isn’t exactly known for being calm and peaceful, but it’s also one of the best areas to stay if you want to experience the authentic culture, nightlife, and food scenes the city has to offer. So what’s a mindful traveler to do? Sister City, a new wellness-focused hotel in a former Salvation Army building on the Bowery—one of the LES’s most iconic thoroughfares—opens in May and wants to make your Big Apple visit way more Zen. The newest property from Ace Hotel Group, which offers rooms starting at $199, is designed to make you feel “energized by the present moment, calm, comfortable, and well cared for,” says Kelly Sawdon, chief brand officer of Atelier Ace, the company’s in-house creative studio. One way the space aims to make good on that promise is through its collab with meditation app Headspace, officially launching today, Well+Good exclusively reports. The idea is that by outfitting each room with a Bang & Olufsen Beoplay speaker offering the Sleep by Headspace programming (sound and visualizations called Sleepcasts), you’ll be able to clock in great, restorative sleep rather than falling victim to the stress and sounds of the city keeping you up. “It’s so easy to get stressed when traveling, and so tempting to get lost in thought,” Headspace founder and CEO Andy Puddicombe tells me. “Mindfulness helps us to be more present in our life, so we feel less stressed and less distracted.”

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