As wellness retreats reopen, writers try the packages designed to banish a year of pandemic blues
The past year has been incredibly tough for everyone; but especially so for women in their 40s and 50s. With children still at home and, in some cases, their own parents to worry about or care for, they’ve had to juggle work with full-on family and home commitments. Poor old sandwich woman has never felt more thinly spread. Husband booming away in the spare room, kids occupying the kitchen table, the washing machine permanently full, the fridge always empty . . . it’s been relentless and exhausting. Deprived of the social mechanisms we all rely on to take the edge off things, many have fo...