Well Intentioned: 7 Celebrity Wellness Tips to Inspire Your Self-Care Practice in 2023

From mantras to meditation, mindfulness to manifestation, Well Intentioned offers an intimate look at how to make space for self-care in meaningful ways, big and small.

Whew. 2022—am I right? This year, we marked the second anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and many people effectively washed their hands of the virus— both figuratively and literally. Headlines have proclaimed that COVID-19 is “over” and offices, restaurants, bars, and schools are essentially operating at full, in-person tilt. But it would be incorrect to say that we’re back to “normal.” Concerns about health and safety abound, and stress and anxiety levels are still running high, which has made this year’s Well Intentioned column a particularly relevant part of what we do here at Vogue. 

Cher (Cher!) extolled the mind-clearing virtues of burning incense, Tiffany Haddish offered up the greatest mantra of all, which happens to be chanting Whitney Houston’s The Greatest Love of All, and Drew Barrymore gave us permission to be “a mess” while still leaning into the important self-care ritual of watching “Top Chef” while eating. Because here’s the truth: There’s no such thing as normal anymore, so best to mind some of our favorite tips for staying centered from the year that was, to better learn how to cultivate an internal sense of comfort and familiarity for the year ahead. We can think of no better resolution for 2023.

1. Practice Passive and Active Helping

“I wish that I journaled, and I’m actually supposed to! And I just. Can’t. Get. Into. It. I just can’t get there, you know? I have great intentions and I’ll write for like three days, and then I’ll just misplace the book and I won’t be interested in finding it. But there’s one meditation that says, ‘May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering and find true happiness,’ and I think that’s my favorite thing to kind of focus on—I think it’s really important. Because my life is so easy, and people have such hard lives, you know? So you have to be actively helping people, and you have to be passively helping by just putting it in the universe.”

2. Drink More Water

“My strategy is having a water bottle that I really like carrying around. I have this bedazzled one that’s made by Collina Strada. I love carrying it and I get so many compliments on it! It also helps me use less plastic. It’s so silly, but it feels like a very fun accessory and I know I’ll never lose it because I love it so much. Another thing is having a really beautiful glass carafe with its own cup. I have that at my bedside and now it’s become a ritual of filling it up each night. I really do drink a lot more water because of it.”

Collina Strada Water Bottle

3. See Yourself as Whole 

“In our culture, we spend a lot of time thinking about ourselves as like a problem we need to fix—our skin, weight, diet, even fashion is never quite living up. Recently, I shifted and reframed my belief about myself: I am whole, I am strong, I am healthy, and I am enough. And anything that I’m adding to that is about what makes me feel good. For example, I’ve had a history of injury and pain since I was a teenager and I find the best way to transform my story around that physical trauma is to feel my strength. At the moment I’m doing that by weight training with my trainer Grant Roberts. We like to use Gripbell weights for our virtual workouts. I’m also enjoying my trampoline and getting on my Peloton.”

4. Keep Your Eyes Open

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5. Go With Grace

“I have no boundaries. I’m all about burnout. My time management sucks. And I’m a total overachiever, so it’s a hot mess! I am just trying to stay afloat, and I’m never going to tell anyone that I’ve got my shit together. I am a work in progress, and I am desperately trying to get it right. My joy comes from if that day I acted and behaved with grace—if I was emotionally rational and I handled situations to the best of my ability. Don’t look to me for tips on how to live your life and get it right—I don’t have them! I am still trying to figure it out myself. Did I not freak out, did I handle myself well, did I manage to keep the stuff I’m going through to myself and not put it on other people? Those are my daily goals.”

6. Be of Service 

7. Smoke Weed 

“Smoking weed is so culturally acceptable now, thank God, in most of the country, not enough of it, but most of it. I’m from Vancouver where it’s very, very acceptable. Everyone smoked weed when I was growing up and I’ve been smoking since I was 13 years old, which is not necessarily something I recommend! [Laughs.] But it’s been well documented for me. Now, I just smoke weed all day, every day and I love it. And thank God it’s out there because it seems to be what I need. I know weed works for me. You’ll have a very hard time getting me to go somewhere I can’t smoke weed at this point in my life because it doesn’t seem reasonable to me [laughs]. I’ve equated it to, like, wearing glasses or shoes. It is just a thing I do to make my journey through the day more navigable. Could I go through my day without glasses or shoes? Yeah. Would it be much worse? For sure. That’s really how I view it.”