The Role of Intimacy in Holistic Wellbeing

Wellness has a tendency to be discussed in compartments. Sleep lives in one conversation, nutrition in another, movement in a third. Stress management gets its own lane, as does mental health and preventive care. This compartmentalization is understandable. It reflects the way medical and wellness institutions have historically organized themselves. But it also creates a significant blind spot, because human health does not actually operate in compartments, and one of the areas most consistently left out of the mainstream wellness conversation is intimacy.