The Journal.
Quiet, considered writing on movement, recovery, the nervous system and the unhurried life.
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The Long Game: A Man’s Guide to Living Well, For Longer
There’s a version of longevity being sold to men right now that I want no part of. The one with the spreadsheet of forty-seven supplements, the cold, clinical obsession with biomarkers, the quiet panic dressed up as optimisation. Living longer has somehow become another thing to grind at. Another race. Another way to mistake busyness…
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Cold Water, Warm Community
Nobody steps into cold water gracefully! There is always a moment — the breath that catches before you commit, the split second between knowing you are going to do it and the water closing around you — where every instinct fires at once. The body does not want this. The mind is loudly questioning every…
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Why Traditional Sauna Heat
There is something that happens in a traditional sauna that is difficult to explain to someone who has never experienced it. Not the heat itself — though that is considerable. Not the physical effects, though those are real. It is something more than either of those things. A kind of enforced arrival. The noise of…
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Why Your Body Knows What Time it is
There is a moment, sometime in the mid-afternoon, when everything slows. You are not tired exactly. You have not done anything particularly taxing. And yet the energy that felt available an hour ago has quietly retreated. Concentration softens. The screen in front of you loses its urgency. If you could, you would close your eyes,…
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Where we Have Always Belonged – Our Forgotten Connection to Nature.
For the vast majority of human history, there was no distinction between where humans lived and where nature was. We did not visit nature. We did not retreat to it at weekends or seek it out for its wellbeing benefits. We were inside it, always — sleeping with the rhythms of light and dark, moving…