Louisa Finding Wellness - Wellness.com

Welcome to the very first of my weekly finding wellness editorials. Let me introduce myself, my name is Louisa Johnson, I am the VP Sales & Marketing here at Wellness.com. The motivation behind this editorial is to help you - our audience, there are currently 3 million of you, visiting our site, searching for help and information on Wellness each month.

We receive many emails asking for information, advice and our experience on all things wellness. In this section I want to communicate and address answers to some of those questions.
The majority demographic for Wellness.com, 57% to be exact, is female over the age of 35, highly educated; Graduate, Post Graduate in the highest income bracket. I am - GULP - going to be 43 in July ! did I really just admit that to 3 million people! I hold Graduate and Post Graduate degrees; I am a working Mum, who struggles every day trying to find the work- life balance. I want to bring Wellness - an optimal sense of well being to my family, and myself but how do I do it?
What works out there?
How do you fit it into your life?
What is IT?

Many of the questions we receive are about life balance and also the struggle with weight and the desire to be healthy. Therefore, I start the journey of finding wellness with weight loss. I have struggled with my weight my entire life; I finally reached the non-obese BMI target a couple of years ago. I was the oldest bridesmaid by 10 years in my brothers wedding; I most certainly was not going to be the most overweight!! I was so proud of myself, worked out, and ate healthy food, got down to a size 8. I was strong both physically and mentally, but now 2 years later its all crept back slowly but surely. Does that sound familiar to any of you 3 Million out there!

This time I want to take myself as a whole, I want to look at my weight loss as a journey of Wellness, my absolute goal is not the weight loss - Oh please just let me get into my 10 pairs of fabulous size 8 jeans - but my sense of well-being. I want to address how am I treating myself, how do I feel emotionally, physically. Am I at peace with what I am doing, am I ultimately enjoying the journey. Am I losing the weight and still feeling happy.

I am currently deciding which program to work with; I will let you know next week which one appeals to me.

I welcome your comments and ideas. If you have any questions or information on Wellness, future areas you would like me to investigate and discuss just drop me an email.

louisa@wellness.com.
www.twitter.com/louisawellness

I am interested in all areas of Wellness from Beauty to Meditation, from the products I use to clean my house to how scent can change your sense of well being.
I look forward to sharing my journey of finding wellness!
Be Well
Louisa