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I turned the heat on. I turned the heat on last night for the first time this season and already I can feel my skin shrivelling. I will not fall...

A bath can be an all-out sensory experience enhanced by temperature, candlelight, music, and scents. It's reported that immersion baths (rather than showers) have significant self-reported mental and physical health benefits - including less anxiety, less depression, less hostility, and - the best one - more smile.

Imagine a life where we could release ourselves from the feeling that we aren't enough? Or too much? Imagine a life where we could lie back and feel the sun on our face and smell the sweet breeze more? Maybe true success lies in a general feeling of ease? Knowing not that the obstacles are passed us but that we are content to be in the moment when it arrives. That's in clover.

I'm part of a growing phenomenon - the Clubhouse Sandwich Generation - caught not only between raising their own children and dealing with the declining health of their parents but also lucky enough to have living grandparents. In the layers of life, do you know where you fit in?