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Are you prepared to keep your wellness during the winter? With chilly days and unpredictable weather, its important to do everything you can to make sure that everyone in your house makes healthy choices to maintain their wellness as we head into the winter season. These tips will go a long way to help you stay healthy and keep your wellness game strong all winter long, paired with a few common wellness suggestions. Wash your hands often Lather your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds before rinsing. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth as much as possible throughout the day. When soap and water are not available, try Young Living’s Thieves® Foaming Hand Soap to gently and effectively cleanse your hands or our convenient Thieves® Waterless Hand Sanitizer. Formulated with Clove, Cinnamon…

Being intentional of your thoughts and actions is what enables you to live mindfully. When you go about your everyday tasks, do so with present-moment awareness and gratitude for life’s simple pleasures. When you sit down for a cuppa — at a cafe or at home, with others or solo — cultivate a ritual around the process to make it intentional. When you’re conversing with others — be it loved ones, colleagues or strangers — choose to communicate consciously by actively listening and responding thoughtfully. When you live with intention, you realise that mindfulness isn’t just reserved for certain aspects of your life. Instead, it’s a way to stay intrinsically connected to the present as each moment unfolds.…

“Can you meet whatever’s present with gentleness and softness,” my yoga teacher Ryan Mannix asked recently in a yoga class. “What’s it like to meet yourself with compassion and kindness?” I often put this beautiful teaching into practice, and I had to lean into its wisdom when my publisher recently told me that this is our last print issue of Being magazine. It is with a very heavy heart that I share this news with you. This magazine is not just the essence of what I live and breathe, but it is also an extension of each of the beautiful contributors who fill these pages. This isn’t the end of Being as a publishing brand, but it means that we will be connecting with you in a different, yet just as…

“Keep close to nature’s heart … and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”—John Muir Dappled light is filtering through the canopy of trees around the kitchen as the coffee pot starts bubbling on the gas stove. Poppy is lying down by my feet on the timber floorboards; I watch her nose twitching as she follows the caffeinated scent emanating throughout the open-plan kitchen and living area. Both the aroma and Poppy follow me upstairs as I take our cups of coffee to the treetop balcony where my love is sitting in the morning sun surrounded by grapevines, fig trees and other lush foliage. As I hold the warm ceramic cup in my hands, I smile…

Food & drink • Forrest General Store: Visit for good coffee, fresh homemade pies and baked goods, and stock up on supplies for an evening platter of local produce.• Forrest Brewing: Enjoy a tipple of beer that’s brewed on site as well as tasty breakfast, lunch and dinner options.• Brae: Immerse yourself in nature and eat off the land at Dan Hunter’s renowned restaurant, Brae. Set on a hillside 20 minutes from Otways Loft in Birregurra, Brae is ranked in the top 50 restaurants in the world and makes for a very memorable dining experience. Adventures in nature • Mountain biking: Forrest is a mountain biking mecca with world-class mountain bike trails across 60 kilometres of sign-posted single track.• Forest bathing: Visit Beech Forest and the Redwood Forest for the ultimate forest bathing…

Multiple outfit changes, a pile of clothes on the bed, a closet bursting with items that have barely seen the light of day, the constant “nothing to wear” feeling. It’s easy to get caught in a fast-fashion frenzy, and it’s only getting faster. According to the World Economic Forum, clothing production has doubled since 2000, and the 2021 Sustainability EDIT Industry Report showed that the number of new styles released by brands was up 19 per cent from 2020. This isn’t only bad for the planet, but unhealthy for humans too. An industry focused on speed and hyper-productivity goes hand-in-hand with pressure and over-stimulation. Livia Firth, founder of creative agency Eco-Age, compares it to fast food: “After the sugar rush, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.” The slow-fashion movement,…