Rebecca Platt: Thanks for having us, Lale.
MC: So I would like to kick it off by asking how every of you might have built-in wellness into your private travels? How has that factored into the journeys you have been taking lengthy earlier than we had been in a pandemic?
RP: Clearly, the final two years, private journey has been, let’s consider, moderately restricted? Very restricted. So for me, my private travels have solely simply actually began to renew in the direction of the tip of final yr. And one of many issues for me that I’ve actually embraced with my new journey fashion is to have extra “me time.” As a result of typically after I journey myself, 90 p.c of the time it is for work. It is for a piece journey which I’ve then prolonged a private journey on high of. So for me, the largest integration of wellness that I’ve began to do is ensuring that—as a substitute of going there only for the work functions—that I am touring to have a while, taking some additional days, which I would by no means usually do. Life’s too hectic, I am getting again to the workplace and getting again to day-to-day life. So these additional days that I have been taking to unwind, loosen up. I’ve even began doing issues like meditation and spa remedies after I journey as a result of I discuss it each day after I’m working, however really doing it’s a complete completely different ballgame. So for me, it is actually discovering that “me time.”
MC: And Becca, how about you?
Becca Misner: In an identical vein, most of my journey is for work. And even after I’m on a wellness journey, or testing a wellness property, it is actually arduous to not be like: “Spa, verify. Meditation, verify.” And also you’re kind of half in. You are half-working, half-experiencing. And I feel popping out of COVID, I’ve began touring a bit over the past yr and I’ve actually stopped doing that. I’ve stopped attempting to multitask whereas I am enjoyable. So I feel it is issues like attempting to clear my calendar earlier than I am going someplace to loosen up so I am not answering emails whereas I am presupposed to be taking a second. What I’ve began doing pre-COVID, and what I’ve executed all through COVID, and can proceed to do, is incorporating nature wherever I am going. Simply, even when it is leaving a resort and occurring a stroll, or getting up just a little bit early and simply sitting exterior. For me, that is been like the largest head clearer of the previous few years.
MC: I feel, Becca, you sort of alluded to this about your relationship with the way in which you method wellness journey altering because of the pandemic… What are the ways in which each of you might have seen your relationship to wellness and wellness journey change because of what we have been going by the previous two years?
RP: For me, the very best abstract that I could make about my relationship with wellness is that I’ve began to apply what I preach. I, as I mentioned, discuss it on a regular basis. I imply, I stay and breathe wellness, however do I really do wellness? So actually, for me, my relationship has modified as a result of I’ve began to get a relationship personally, not simply attempt to carry different folks to wellness. In my day-to-day, clearly, that is my job. I am bringing folks to a wellness resort to get the advantages of what wellness can do, however really, I am so busy doing that, that truly, when was the final time I sat down and I did a meditation class, or I did do yoga, or like Becca alluded to earlier, bought out for a stroll and simply re-embrace with nature? So for me, that point of lockdown the place I used to be at house gave me the chance to take a seat again and actually consider my life-style, which I had by no means executed earlier than. So lockdown, for me, was a blessing in disguise in lots of respects as a result of it made me actually take a look at: I am in an exquisite vacation spot. I stay in St. Lucia. Individuals come to St. Lucia for his or her wellness holidays, and I stay right here. So what do I do to embrace it? And I wasn’t. So for me, it is constructing that relationship. So I took the time to actually embrace the pure setting of St. Lucia, but additionally eat more healthy as a result of I used to be at house. I had time to arrange good meals versus grabbing one thing actually shortly as a result of I’ve left the workplace late, and actually kind of steadiness all the things that I used to be doing. So for me, it was actually the way in which that I used to be altering that relationship to truly be a relationship, for me. And I’ve carried that on. So lockdown is over and it is now develop into so ingrained in my day-to-day life, that I do exit for a stroll. I bought 5 canines over COVID, in order that’s given me extra of an excuse to exit and embrace nature, and actually kind of join with going exterior, and taking that point out.
