The Feel Good Life

Hi! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m Mariana Calleja, and welcome to my newsletter The Feel Good Life!

Who Am I?

I'm a Costa Rican/Spanish writer, MD, author, dancer, traveller, polyglot (on my fifth language and loving it) and overall, a curious human in love with the world, its cultures, languages, landscapes, dances, food, you name it.

Born and raised in Costa Rica, then nicely brewed in Spain, I've been able to enjoy an enriching personal and professional journey which now brings me here, where I work full time sharing everything I have learned, to help you embrace your health and overall well-being.

If you’re curious about my professional journey, you can visit my Linkedin profile.

About This Newsletter

The Feel Good Life is a newsletter about health and all aspects of what makes a good life. I write about medicine and life, health and hope, healing and emotions. Also about difficult topics that need to be addressed at times such as sexuality, chronic pain, life/death transitions, just to mention a few. Basically, everything that makes us human and brings us together in our shared humanity.

As doctors in strained healthcare systems, we struggle to share, listen, and educate our patients, no matter how much we try. The increasing frustration I felt over the span of two decades made me want to take radical action and do things differently.

Hence how this newsletter was born. In short:

Having worked in Palliative Care and Occupational Medicine, I went from helping people and families navigate the humbling life and death transition, to understanding how much prevention in earlier years plays a key role towards enjoying a calmer life later on.

Through thought-provoking writing, professional health guides and e-courses, curious science-based explorations, and other creative medical prompts (my way), I invite you to re-think how to build your own Feel Good Life. Starting today.

My Golden Promises to you:

1. No medical jargon, just cool, easy learning for your everyday health and life.

2. Everyone’s welcome. No tags of any kind in here. Wellbeing is for all.

3. This is a safe, judgement-free space to grow and evolve. Haters will be blocked.

My Content Is 90% Free.

Why? I’m convinced of two things:

1. Health and wellbeing are a birthright, so it should be of universal access to all.

2. People deserve empathy. Easy, calming and understandable ways are possible. As doctors, it costs us nothing to give a good deal of clarity, empathy and peace of mind by simply being less technical and instead, more human.

Free subscribers will get access to all free content.

Paid subscribers will receive some extras, including:

1. The 1st Feel Good ebook: ‘Don’t Stress It!’ - A medically-guided ebook to help you manage stress and enjoy your life, by yours truly. (Coming December 2024)

2. Audio versions of the newsletters (Starting January 2025)

3. Access to The Green Prescription Club

4. One 1:1 Session (Yearly & Founding Members)

5. Special Features & Events announced in advance

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The Feel Good Foundation

Your contribution goes towards the development of The Feel Good Foundation - Costa Rican-based non-profit organisation aimed to create health education programs to be seeded both locally and internationally.

We aim to become a social tool granting universal access to health education, and giving a much needed boost to preventive education for better public health worldwide. Hence why your support means everything. This newsletter is my full time job. So your subscriptions, whether free or paid, will ensure that I can keep this work going. Thank you in advance for your kind support!

If you want to get in touch for inquiries, collaborations or any other newsletter-related questions, please just message me at thefeelgoodlife@substack.com. I'd love to hear from you!

Much Love,
Dr. Mariana Calleja

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Thanks again for being here.

Let's grow this beautiful thing together!

Much love twice,
Mariana 🥰