The Wellness Issue: How to Feel Good in 2025

In this special issue, we explore the future of wellness – from tech trends to collagen-enhanced booze.

Wellness is personal. What you put in your body. What advice you take (and give). How you show up in the hard times. And address mental as well as physical health.

One thing we learned putting this issue together – and talking to more than 30 industry leaders about the future of wellness – is that personal doesn’t have to mean solo. For 2025 and beyond, communal wellness is trending: in run clubs, bathhouses, yoga classes and community retreats across Australia. Social connection promotes health – and now health and wellness is making its way into our social lives as well.

We’re literally in this together, so we’re happy to share our first wellness digital issue with you all. It’s time to feel good about feeling good.

What’s the Future of Wellness? How To Move, Eat, Recover and Connect in 2025

ActiveWe asked more than 30 industry leaders to share their forecasts on health and wellbeing trends for 2025 and beyond. Here’s what they said.

Is Constantly Knowing My Heart Rate Bad for Me?

ActiveEvery breath you take, every move you make. Tech is tracking you.

What Wellness Looks Like to a Chronically Ill Person

ActivePlease never mention downward dog again.

Waiter! There’s Marine Collagen in My Wine!

Food & DrinkThe protein du jour is appearing in more than a few of our food and drink products, promising beauty-boosting results. We jump on the trend, chat to the Aussie behind the country’s first marine-collagen-infused wine and ask a clinical nutritionist for her take.

Fuca Makes Caring for Sensitive Skin Feel Like a Treat, Not a Treatment

FashionLifelong skincare obsessive Jess Armstrong refused to settle for boring clinical products after chemotherapy left her skin hypersensitive. So, she created her own.

This Aussie Mag Is One of the World’s Best Sports Titles – But It’s Not Really About Sport

Art & DesignAfter a decade in print, Good Sport has covered everything from basketball-playing barbers and drift car racing to the art of releasing glute tension with a pool ball. Founder and photographer Ben Clement is playing the long game.

What Your GP Wants You To Know About Wellness Culture

ActiveDoctors don’t have all the answers, but they do give good advice. Like what to look out for in vitamin supplements. And when Pilates and acupuncture are worth a try.

36 Things To Do Instead of Doomscrolling

Home & LifestyleFinding alternatives to endlessly scrolling through a mire of negative news is beneficial for your mental health and emotional wellbeing.

No Sweat: Sports Bras That Work As Hard as You Do, According to the Experts

FashionWhat makes a good sports bra? An international netball great, a Kic founder and a principal at The Australian Ballet should know. From running to Pilates to everyday gym sessions, this list has you covered.

Brutalist Calm

ActiveAbout Time is one of the biggest openings in Australian wellness this year. Its owners, and their architect, knew it had to look and feel different to anything that came before it.

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