{"id":294,"date":"2023-05-03T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellbeings.nz\/?p=294"},"modified":"2023-05-04T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:12:05","slug":"surviving-the-wellness-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellbeings.nz\/surviving-the-wellness-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the wellness epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&nbsp;Surviving the wellness epidemic&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pat Dossett\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fqc_moHBEnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pat Dossett, a former US Navy Seal and founder of wellbeing business Madefor discusses the &#8220;wellness epidemic&#8221; with Dominic Bowden, for the Wellbeings podcast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may seem an ironic phrase, but Pat Dossett and Dominic Bowden agree that \u201cwellness epidemic\u201d is a fitting description for the overload of supposed cures, therapies, treatments and experts that have over-run so much of the health and wellbeing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEspecially in the US, we\u2019re so heavily marketed quick-fix solutions and wellness fads, and things that aren\u2019t really backed in science or aren\u2019t foundationally good for us or serve us well,\u201d says Dossett, a US Navy Seal turned entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the problem with that, he argues, is, \u201cwhen you pursue things that are quick fixes or aren&#8217;t grounded in science, what you end up doing is losing agency or losing an ability to control things that you\u2019re designed to control.\u201d When what he believes the goal should be is, \u201cif you exert control in specific ways you can actually be better\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dossett has himself ventured into that crowded and often dubious world of wellbeing treatment with his <a href=\"https:\/\/getmadefor.com\/\">Madefor<\/a> business \u2013 except in his case, he is confident that his programme based on the principle of mindset is a sound and well-proven one. He can cite himself and his former Seal comrades as evidence of mindset in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dossett is the first guest in <a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.stuff.co.nz\/2021\/wellbeings-podcast\/\">Bowden\u2019s podcast series, <em>WellBeings<\/em><\/a>, which is being hosted on Stuff (and in <a href=\"https:\/\/play.stuff.co.nz\/page\/series-wellbeings\">video form on PlayStuff<\/a>). Bowden\u2019s catchphrase to sum up the intent of the series is, \u201cconversations on the science of feeling good\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowden \u2013 who was a near-constant presence on New Zealand television throughout the early 2000s \u2013 now lives in Los Angeles, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/life-style\/wellbeing\/300434309\/dom-bowden-is-back-the-reinvention-of-a-reality-tv-king\">as he told <em>Sunday<\/em> magazine recently<\/a>, he stays in close contact with what\u2019s happening back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with New Zealand following the rest of the world in trying to figure out a future co-existing with Covid-19, he\u2019s certain that the time is right for <a href=\"https:\/\/wellbeings.nz\/\">his new venture<\/a>. He has another phrase to sum up that part of his philosophy: \u201cHow can we grow through this rather than go through this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, Dossett is quick to dispel some of the Hollywood-inspired myth surrounding his previous career. Doing so is central to the message he has about the importance and power of mindset to allow humans to cope with things they may have considered overwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His introduction to the world of the Navy Seal (one of the US military\u2019s elite special forces), was \u201csurprising\u201d. He was part of some 220 individuals who showed up for his initial training intake, a brutal process which rapidly winnowed numbers down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surprising thing was, as he points out, some of the first to go were the \u201ccentral casting\u201d characters who fitted the stereotype of special forces he-men. 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