Sarah Wilson - Why Are We All Anxious AF?

WellBeings with Dominic Bowden

Here at WellBeings, we have been fans of Sarah Wilson for many years. A New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist, for those unfamiliar with her work, she was formerly the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, a news journalist, as well as host of Masterchef Australia. She’s written 11 cookbooks including the international phenomenon, ‘I Quit Sugar’ which sparked a movement that has helped millions in over 130 countries, making her a household name around the world.

Since then though, that world we live in has become a lot more complex; climate change, loneliness, the question of how we all live more sustainably, and that’s nothing on the last few years. So what shows up for most of us is burnout, stress, and of course anxiety. And Sarah’s trying to put her finger on why, in a time when we’re more interconnected than ever, we are feeling so disconnected, fractured. She has a theory, “Where the real loneliness sits is that we feel lonely from ourselves, so we feel disconnected from a relationship with ourselves, but we also feel disconnected from nature, and what I call the matrix of life, a sense of meaning, a belonging to something larger than ourselves.”

In some ways, Sarah is letting us tag along on her own journey of growth and spiritual discovery, picking up where she finished off in her last book. She is now on a mission to try and help us find a way back together, to find a way to connect us back to what matters, to the life we feel we ought to be living and the world we live in. She started her journey in nature, hiking solo around the world and writing as she went, returning home just as the pandemic hit. Sarah withdrew to a remote cabin in Northern NSW to finish the book within the frame of the new normal, and it changed and grew into something bigger than even she could have anticipated.

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