Live life with steadiness, balance: Wellness expert

The proper perspective towards healing is the road to health and wellness, said a Dubai resident who quit her nearly a decade GCC-wide corporate strategy and communications job in exchange for well-being and trauma-informed activism.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

The “turning point” to Nancy Zabaneh was her “complete exhaustion” at the workplace and her consequent pondering on “Who and I?” that resulted in her exploration of “holistic modalities to healing; combining transpersonal psychology, Kundalini Yoga, and trauma-informed care.”

Her thoughts on the power of openness to the power of healing is in connection with the 2025 theme - “Diabetes at the Workplace” - of the 34th year of November 14 (Friday) “World Diabetes Day.”

The awareness campaign of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has been ongoing since 1991. IDF operates in seven regions which include the Middle East and North Africa, involving 251 national diabetes associations from 158 countries. Its most recent data on people living with diabetes: seven in IO are of working age; three in four have experienced mental illnesses; and, four in five had experienced diabetes burnout.