Soft living mornings are easy to dismiss as linen-and-slow-coffee aesthetics, but the gentle approach is better supported by the evidence than the militaristic 5am routine, because a few undemanding habits do nearly all the useful work and the elaborate version is mostly theatre

The wellness industry's gentlest trend isn't just prettier than boot-camp mornings—it's actually backed by science, though most of what people do in either camp is performative.