I’m Marie Well, as in healthy well. At least, that’s my aim—to get well and make you well. We all have woes, from breakups to cancer to hoarder houses. I’m here to fix those woes—with tips mixed with my own tales.
Why read me? I’ve got a track record of fixin’ stuff. I’ve cured myself of anxiety. For a decade, I had anxiety attacks that struck almost daily. When not stricken, I’d write Voice articles, mostly on how to combat stress.
And then my world changed. One week went by with no attacks. A month. A year. Two years. And counting.
Now, I want to skyrocket our health—and bolster our creativity. After all, nothing soothes better than strokes of paint or tones of music or reps in a gym.
So, let’s get fit, creative, and well with Marie Well.
Hug books about self-awareness. Pore over positive and negative trait thesauruses—even over the emotional wound thesaurus. Relish readings about traits that tag family and friends. These tomes teach about life. We all bear nice and nasty traits. But how do we flee our own poor traits or those flagged in others? Well, many of us… Read more »
Would you froth if you won an Olympic medal? Well, you could score gold—in another lifetime. Believers in rebirth say wisdom from this lifetime carries over into the next. So, wise-up with sports primers and old-timer teams. Yes, you could win an Olympics, if not this life, then maybe the next. I study sports rules… Read more »
Do you want the brain of John von Neumann or the bod of Wonder Woman? Well, what you nibble now builds or breaks you later. (Same with what you think and do now.) You see, your body replaces cells fast. You get a spanking-new body every seven years. That might mean you grow a new… Read more »
Tuck that tum into a keto speedo by next summer. The ketogenic diet dishes up an anti-fat fad. The keto diet burns flab by feeding the body fats, not carbs. A paradox? Well, your body nibbles fat for energy when starved of sugars. And carbs break down into sugars. So, starve the body of carbs… Read more »
Harness your health—and hone your body. Hang out with me, and I’ll dish out secrets for sculpting you into a Madonna or Michelangelo. But what if you snub gym-rats and heath-nuts? Well, dip your fingertips into the cream: the tighter tummy, endless energy, curbed stress, cured disease, skyrocketed productivity. Once you taste it, you’ll toss… Read more »
What happens when we get cast out? When people we love backstab us? When we get fed fists? Stress happens! In grade school, a girl got persecuted. Swarms of students circled her, shoving her, day in, day out. She feared for her life. So, I started bringing her home at lunchtime. That is, until Mom… Read more »
Make splashy goals. You could wax into a star, a professor, a billionaire. You could get stricken with deadly disease but thrive beyond your 80s. You could get smacked with mental illness yet wind up a bank’s Chief Technology Officer. Anything is possible, right? Yes! So set grandiose goals! Once I dreamt of hosting a… Read more »
Fashion your figure after Farrah Fawcett beyond your fortieth birthday. Yes, strut like a six-million-dollar woman. Doesn’t matter if you’ve beefed up 200 pounds. Just glance at me. I once plunked my 180-pound beefcake on a dead-tired weigh-scale. Now I tuck my tees into size two pants, fleshed out with leaner muscles by the minute…. Read more »
When you wriggle into your office chair, does your brain swell like tortellini? Noodles bursting out your ears? Well, that’s workplace anxiety. And I’ve laid bare the cure. Ten years ago, I braved my first on-the-job anxiety attack. And then workplace anxiety smacked me daily. But I learned to curb it through self-talk and journaling. … Read more »
Do you whittle away half a day on social media? Boob tube for hours before guilt knocks? Or go crazy on tasks that crimp your goals? Focus instead on what counts: your main hustle. For many students, studies mark the main hustle. Nail down a hustle that inspires passion. But how do you pinpoint your… Read more »