About Helen & Well Hell
When I first got into fitness it was in a moment of all or nothing, punitive workouts, earning food, and skipping dessert. I felt like shit. Yet the dance and wellness industries praised this rigidity as virtuous “discipline”. Creating Helen Phelan Studio was an act of rebellion against diet culture but also to prove to myself that it is possible to enjoy athleticism and rigor and body kindness at the same time.
This newsletter is a similar project, where I can rant about things I hate about the wellness industry, share products I’m loving, articles/books that made me think and anything else I just want to wax poetically into the void about.
Here, wellness is sweat, kale and consistency and it’s ALSO Netflix, therapy, and snoozing your alarm. We read Carl Jung and Sally Rooney. We listen to Taylor Swift and NPR. We enjoy Selling Sunset and French cinema. It’s a safe space to be more than one thing, because we all contain multitudes.
Why subscribe?
Well Hell is a play on how hypocritical the wellness industry is sometimes (and also my name) where I dive into how to make sense of an industry that seems to care more about the beauty myth and capitalism than your actual well-being, plus honest product reviews, and reading recommendations, and early event access.
Subscribe to get full access to my newsletters and website, plus, each month, I gift a free year long membership to my on demand pilates studio to a random reader to help make wellness more accessible.
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