In less than an hour, Emilio had worked his magic. He had tapped into the well’s original water line, run a pipe up the olive tree’s trunk, and mounted the brass showerhead among the branches. A flat, smooth stone was set into the earth as a drain. He turned the small wheel-valve, and a warm, soft rain of water fell through a dappled mosaic of sunlight and leaf-shadow.

Modern wellness rejects "diet culture" and restrictive eating in favor of nourishing the body as a form of self-care.