{"id":832,"date":"2018-09-01T01:48:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=832"},"modified":"2018-09-05T01:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:56:05","slug":"wellness-just-expensive-hype-or-worth-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"Wellness: Just Expensive Hype, Or Worth The Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Exhausted from working 15-hour days running her own marketing agency in London, Jo Miller\u2019s evenings would consist of a cocktail of takeaways, Ubers and impulse purchases. \u201cI\u2019d end up spending \u00a3100 at Waitrose, grabbing a takeaway or going out for dinner as I didn\u2019t have the energy to cook. At the train station I\u2019d feel the need to buy something, so I\u2019d end up spending loads at Oliver Bonas. It was all instant gratification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of unhealthy takeaways and excessive shopping, the 42-year-old spends \u00a318,000 a year on her wellbeing. This includes \u00a33,200 a year on a transpersonal psychotherapist, \u00a33,000 on retreats, and \u00a31,000 on supplements, probiotics and vitamins. She also receives a weekly organic fruit and vegetable box, has a CrossFit membership and enjoys regular treatments such as massages.<\/p>\n<p>For Miller, wellness is about \u201cpeople reconnecting and being comfortable in their mind and spirit level. Before, people were distracting themselves through consumerism.\u201d Now, Miller says, she has \u201ccompletely switched\u201d her expenditure. \u201cWellness is the new currency,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trend has developed a reputation for being quite expensive and elitist,\u201d says Sarah Housley, senior editor of lifestyle at trend forecaster WGSN. \u201cAt the more luxury end of the market, wellness also became a way for people to show off their wealth more subtly than by buying an expensive handbag or car \u2013 instead, they could go to exclusive yoga classes and drink expensive juices \u2013 a trend that we call \u2018wellthness\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/sep\/01\/wellness-hype-superfoods-yoga-price\">The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhausted from working 15-hour days running her own marketing agency in London, Jo Miller\u2019s evenings would consist of a cocktail&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}