Everlusting™ is a consultancy that is reimagining longevity through Sensual Wellness™. Sensual Wellness™ (vs. Sexual Wellness) is all about intensifying our senses — particularly what are called the Cinderella Senses — smell, taste and touch. It’s a vital branch of self-care, health and wellness that is rarely acknowledged or fully appreciated. And a major must-have as we age.
Why would two fairly sophisticated aroma-philes with an acute senses of smell care about a relatively unknown occasion like Anosmia Awareness Day?
Imagine waking up and not being able to smell the coffee? Or stopping in a field of flowers unable to smell the roses. Imagine the inability to smell trouble — a gas leak, a burning stove, smoke or a bottle of sour milk. Or for that matter, not knowing when something smells fishy.
Imagine having anosmia — the clinical term that describes the total loss of smell.
Sensual Wellness, that is maintaining and enhancing our senses, is vital to our health, safety, independence, engagement, emotional well-being and overall quality of life. And a major must-have as we age. Sadly, this critical component of health and longevity has been sorely missing from the wider conversation.
A couple of weeks ago at my birthday celebration dinner with my husband, sons, daughter-in-law, nephews and niece, my husband toasted me as the “matriarch” of our family. Sheepishly, I looked around as if he may have been toasting someone else. Are you talking to me?? Me, a matriarch??!! I couldn’t imagine that he was bestowing this title upon me. And while on one hand I felt honored to have had this new label, I also felt rather unsettled. The word “matriarch” carries with it a lot of weight…
