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04/09/2026

⚰️ Have you ever been to someone’s funeral…

and suddenly realised you hadn’t seen them or spoken to them in ages? Maybe you could have contacted them more or spent some greater quality time.

We’re very good at telling people how much they meant to us after they’re gone.

Maybe we should get better at telling them while they’re still here.

Who have you been meaning to call?

Don’t comment their name.

Call them. The time is now ❤️

03/09/2026

SUNSHINE ☀️

Last night I asked a ridiculously simple question:

“What’s ONE tiny thing that instantly improves your mood?”

I wasn’t expecting the answers to be so one-sided.

But over and over again people said:

SUNSHINE.

Which got me thinking…

Have we become so frightened of the sun that we’ve forgotten our bodies actually need it?

Now before everyone throws their SPF50 at me... I’m absolutely NOT suggesting we go outside and bake ourselves until we’re burnt. 😂

We know excessive UV exposure damages skin etc...

But there’s another side to this story.

Sunlight is our major natural source of vitamin D.

And here’s something I think a lot of people misunderstand:

Vitamin D doesn’t actually come FROM the sun.

When UVB from sunlight reaches exposed skin, it triggers a chemical reaction in our skin that ultimately allows our bodies to produce vitamin D.

Vitamin D is incredibly important for maintaining healthy bones and muscles.

And then I stumbled across a fascinating study.

Researchers followed 29,518 Swedish women for around 20 YEARS.

They found that the women who avoided sun exposure had a significantly higher rate of death from all causes than the women with the highest sun exposure habits.

Now...important bit... that doesn’t prove sunshine itself made people live longer. It was an observational study, and there could be other differences between people who spend time outdoors and people who don’t.

But it certainly makes the conversation interesting.

Because perhaps the answer isn’t:

SUN = BAD

or

SUN = GOOD

Perhaps, like so many things in health, it’s about balance.

In Australia especially, that’s important.

Cancer Council recommends sun protection when the UV Index reaches 3 or above, because excessive UV exposure absolutely does increase skin cancer risk.

But they also acknowledge something equally important:

UV radiation from the sun is our best natural source of vitamin D.

And for most Australians, regular incidental outdoor exposure is enough to maintain adequate vitamin D.

So maybe we don’t need to fear sunshine.

Maybe we need to respect it.

Get outside.
Move your body.
Feel the warmth.
See daylight.
Enjoy being outdoors.

And when the UV is high... protect your skin.

Which brings me back to all those answers last night…

Why does sunshine make so many of us FEEL better almost instantly?

Forget vitamin D for a moment.

What does sunshine actually do to your mood?

☀️ Do you notice a genuine difference in yourself on a beautiful sunny day compared with a grey one?

02/09/2026

QUICK QUESTION…

What’s ONE tiny thing that instantly improves your mood?

One answer only. Go. 👇

01/09/2026

WIT’S END 🥵

Have you ever reached it?

Have you noticed Bentley Wellness has become a lot more active online recently?

There’s a reason for it.

As you know, these days I’m doing my Master’s degree, and a lot of what I’m studying revolves around something that has fascinated me for years:

Human behaviour.

Why do we make the decisions we make?

Why can incredibly capable people sometimes make terrible decisions?

What happens to our judgement when we’re tired, stressed, angry, overwhelmed or simply… done?

Which brings me to a fascinating case I’m studying at the moment.

In 2010, a JetBlue flight attendant named Steven Slater was working a flight from Pittsburgh to New York.

The aircraft had landed at JFK when things came to a head following a confrontation involving a passenger who got up while the aircraft was still taxiing. The seatbelt sign was still on and the passenger was fussing around in the overhead lockers trying to get his bag. Slater went back to sort it out, and the passengers bag hit Slater on the head.

And then something extraordinary happened.

Slater got onto the aircraft PA system.

He unleashed a profanity-filled farewell, essentially announced that after years in the industry he was DONE…

grabbed 2 beers from the galley…

opened an emergency exit…

deployed the evacuation slide…

slid down it…

and went home.

Police later arrested him.

Now obviously, deploying an emergency slide and walking off your aircraft isn’t exactly an employee wellbeing strategy I’d recommend. 😂

But the case has got me thinking about something much bigger.

Did Steven Slater reach his wit’s end?

And what actually IS our wit’s end?

Is there a point where stress accumulates for so long that one seemingly insignificant event becomes the final straw?

We often describe people as having suddenly “snapped”.

But did they really snap suddenly?

Or were there 100 smaller things happening beforehand that nobody noticed?

Maybe that’s why the expression “the straw that broke the camel’s back” has survived for so long.

The final straw isn’t necessarily very heavy.

It’s everything already on the camel’s back that makes it matter.

And that brings me to today’s question:

Have YOU ever reached your wit’s end?

A point where you genuinely thought:

“That’s it. I can’t do this anymore.”

What happened?

Did you explode?

Walk away?

Make a huge life decision?

Or somehow pull yourself back from the edge?

And here’s an even stranger question…

We talk about rock bottom as though it’s the lowest a person can go.

But is there a level below rock bottom?

I’m genuinely interested in people’s experiences with this one.

You don’t need to share anything you don’t want to, but if you’ve ever reached your wit’s end, what did it teach you?

31/08/2026

Have you ever bought a multivitamin… and secretly hoped it would just fix your life?

I think most of us have done some version of this.

We buy the vitamins.

Start taking the supplement.

Join the gym.

Buy the water bottle.

Download the meditation app.

Throw out the chocolate.

And somewhere in the back of our mind we think…

“Right. NOW I’m going to be healthy.”

But what actually IS good health?

Because I’m increasingly convinced that you can’t separate the health of the body from the health of the mind.

You can eat beautifully and exercise every day…

But what if you’re constantly stressed?

What if you barely sleep?

What if you hate your job?

What if you’re lonely?

What if your internal dialogue tears you to pieces every day?

And the opposite is probably true as well.

You can meditate, think positively and work on yourself psychologically…

But your body still needs to move.

It needs decent food.

It needs sleep.

It needs recovery.

Maybe the “secret” to good health is disappointingly unexciting.

There isn’t one thing.

It’s the relationship between all the little things.

How we eat.

How we move.

How we sleep.

How we handle stress.

How we speak to ourselves.

Who we surround ourselves with.

Whether we have something meaningful to get out of bed for.

And perhaps most importantly…

whether we can actually do these things consistently without needing to do them perfectly.

A multivitamin might have its place.

But it can’t exercise for you.

It can’t put you to bed.

It can’t repair a relationship.

It can’t make you put your phone down.

And unfortunately, I’ve never seen one that comes with 30 minutes of walking inside the bottle.

So here’s today’s Bentley Wellness question:

If you could only improve ONE area of your health right now...physical OR psychological...what would make the biggest difference to your life?

I’m really interested to see what people say.

30/08/2026

SUNDAY WELLNESS QUESTION…

What’s ONE “healthy” thing everyone says you should do…
that you personally think is completely overrated?

I’ll go first in the comments.

Go. 👇

28/08/2026

What's ONE thing you STARTED eating or drinking that drastically improved your health?

27/08/2026

What's one thing you stopped eating that drastically improved your health?

24/08/2026

🧠 What if we’ve got “freedom” completely backwards?

We usually think freedom means being able to do whatever we want.

Eat what I want.
Spend what I want.
Stay up as late as I want.
Skip the workout.
Have another drink.
Say exactly what I’m thinking.

And discipline?

Discipline sounds like restriction.

But what if it’s actually the opposite?

Think about it.

Saying no to some food today might give you more freedom in your body later.

Saying no to spending everything you earn might give you financial freedom later.

Going to bed when you’d rather keep scrolling might give you energy and freedom tomorrow.

Exercising when you don’t feel like it can give your future body more freedom to move.

Walking away from an argument might free you from words you can’t take back.

Sometimes the thing that feels like restriction in the moment is actually buying us freedom in the future.

And sometimes what feels like freedom in the moment slowly creates the very prison we don’t want.

That’s got me thinking…

Where in your life has saying “NO” actually given you MORE freedom?

Could be alcohol. Food. Spending. A relationship. Social media. Work. People pleasing. Anything.

I’d genuinely love to hear this one.

What did you say NO to… and what did it eventually give you?

23/08/2026

🧠 Here’s a strange experiment for you…

Think about some of the little decisions you’ve made today.

Your alarm goes off.

Get up… or snooze?

You’re tired.

Go for the walk… or stay on the couch?

You’re stressed.

Deal with what’s bothering you… or distract yourself?

You’re about to say something in anger.

Say it… or stay quiet?

It’s 10:30pm and you’re exhausted.

Go to sleep… or pick up the phone?

You’re full.

Stop eating… or have a little more?

Now here’s the interesting part:

How often would doing the OPPOSITE of your first impulse actually have been the better decision?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

Because perhaps one of the strangest things about being human is that knowing what’s good for us doesn’t necessarily make us want to do it.

Sometimes the first voice says:

Stay in bed.
Don’t exercise.
Eat it.
Buy it.
Say it.
Have another drink.
Check your phone.
Put it off until tomorrow.

And then something even more interesting happens…

We become incredibly good lawyers for our own bad decisions. The great justification process begins, to convince our own self that our poor decision is ok! Ie...

“I’ve had a hard day.”

“I’ll start Monday.”

“One won’t hurt.”

“I deserve it.”

“I don’t have time today.”

We don’t just follow the impulse.

We build a perfectly reasonable argument for why we should follow it.

So here’s something to try this weekend:

When you notice one of those little internal battles, don’t immediately act.

Stop for five seconds and ask:

“What would happen if, just this once, I did the opposite?”

Not every first instinct is wrong, of course.

But I wonder how different our health, relationships, finances and lives might eventually look if we became better at recognising the moments when the easy choice and the better choice are heading in opposite directions.

So I want to know:

What is ONE thing in your life where you KNOW what the better choice is… but regularly find yourself doing the opposite anyway?

No judgement. I’m pretty sure every one of us has one.

Mine is avoiding stretching before and after exercise 🥺

What’s yours?

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