wellness tips from a wellness fraud

plus, mining the wellness routines of Rick Owens and Rei Kawakubo in our elusive search for calm

photo from Harper’s Bazaar: 150 Years: The Greatest Moments

Despite working at goop for the better part of a decade, I’m admittedly a wellness fraud. I reach for my phone as soon as I wake up, and it’s the last thing I look at before I go to bed. I’ve been told, on multiple occasions, that I have “New York energy,” and not as a compliment.

I know many of us feel the unsung pressure to be the immovable core of our families, have a purposeful career and deep friendships and passion-fueled marriages, and do it all to the standards we keep. Which leaves little time to actually be well, to have air and space and calm. Plus there’s the life-hack books, usually written by tech bros, that tell us if we just work smarter, we should be able to do it all in 10 hours a week.

For many of us in creative fields, there’s also the glorification of the ingenue. Of t…