Welcome. I’m Angie Bucu.
I am an optimist and a wellness enthusiast…a full time seeker of wellness.
I seek to learn, research, experience, and share knowledge on those things in life that bring us wellbeing, positive health and happiness and that allow us to be conscious participants in how we interact with the natural world.
I have a love and passion for the creatures that live in our oceans and marine environments and a particular interest in understanding how our interaction with these environments impacts our wellbeing and influences human behavior.
If you are interested in recent research and news in the field of wellness then I hope you find the Ingredients of Wellness a valuable resource.
The Ingredients of Wellness Blog
This blog is intended to be a platform to share relevant wellness research, articles, tips, news, interviews and musings about wellness. I’m interested in researching how wellness is influencing the physical, psychological, emotional, spiritually, social, environmental and occupational dimensions of our lives. Finding out how choices toward a wellness paradigm….a wellness approach to living life….can contribute to positive health and wellbeing.
For me, the holistic application of wellness to these dimensions is fundamental to achieving balance in our lives, and may be a means to achieving a meaningful, happy and loving life.
Above all I would like this blog to be a conversation, an opportunity for readers not only to receive knowledge but also to share knowledge and points of view.
Inspire someone – inspire people to do things that inspire them and together we can change the world. Simon Sinek
What do I do?
In a nutshell – Wellness Research. I’m also a tutor in MindBody Wellness at RMIT.
I went back to Uni to do a Masters of Wellness and became addicted to research. Not as boring as it may seem when it comes to researching this relatively new field of Wellness. Actually it’s very rewarding reviewing and writing about the fascinating research, advances being made, and the practical application of what is the field of Wellness.
These are a couple of the principal areas of wellness work l am most interested in and will spend more time on in these pages.
Mindbody Wellness
Mindbody wellness considers the interactions between the mind and body and the ways that a holistic connection of emotional, mental, social and spiritual factors, can contribute to health and wellbeing. I will spend time in this realm bringing to light research and achievements in mindbody wellness techniques and therapies and how they are helping us live healthier, meaningful and well lives.
As a tutor of Mindbody Wellness at RMIT, I have been privileged to see firsthand how various mindbody therapies and techniques are making a difference to the lives of our students, confirming much of what the research tells us.
Wellness and the Connection to Nature
I have a particular research interest in finding out if and how a connection to nature and marine environments influences our wellness; how this interrelationship changes attitudes; and how, if at all, it can result in positive behaviors such as conscious consumption.
In 2011 we participated in an Earthwatch project for Project Manta, a research project studying the biological and ecological goings on of manta-rays in Queensland. Our involvement with the scientists on this project ignited my interest in how a connection to the marine environment and marine conservation affects us and if such a connection can have an effect on changing attitudes to create positive behaviors.
How did I get here?
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Marianne Williamson
My journey lead me from a career in professional services (as a Director at Deloitte) to a future in holistic healthcare and wellness, in which I had been personally interested all my life, an interest ignited by my mother Irene who always looked for alternative health options for our healing and well-being.
Throughout my professional career I had wanted to continue my education but my intuition kept telling me that an MBA wasn’t the right path. I wanted something different, something that would help launch my career in a new direction and something that would inspire, motivate and help my own well-being. The Master of Wellness program offered by RMIT University was the path I was bound to follow.
The knowledge I have gained, the insights discovered, the research conducted, the resources, the people…I have been rewarded with so much abundance from the program that I feel it must be shared.
Organic Care HK – nourishing the body
You’ll find a bit about this here as well.
The catalyst that saw me start this journey was illness. So it seemed that the first thing I should do is cleanup my life and my house. At this time I found Miessence, the world’s first certified organic skin and personal care range, certified to FOOD grade (not many brands can be held to this standard). I also found it important to become knowledgeable about what’s in the products we put in and on our bodies; that we allow into our homes; and that we put into our environments; to be a conscious consumer; to learn to read and understand labels and the ingredients. Through my other business Organic Care HK I share information on ingredients used in our beautiful Miessence products, product uses and reviews, and special offers.
I am proud to be the change I want to see, and I am proud to be involved with an organization that is about changing the way we act toward what we put on and into our bodies, about sustainability and about giving back. Miessence offers an opportunity to improve lives and do well for mother earth.
Be well and live well
Angie
