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It’s Time to Reclaim Wellness
Let’s reestablish what wellness truly is and take it back from everyone who wishes to commodify it
I’m a self-proclaimed wellness junkie, but I will be the first to admit that Wellness Culture™️ is the worst.
Especially in this age of COVID and post-truth, we need wellness and mindfulness more than ever. But, modern society and capitalism took a practice that is meant to be about caring for and connecting with ourselves and turned it into this for-profit consumerist suck-fest.
Instagram wellness influencers peddle detox teas – which basically act as laxatives and can cause diarrhea – or diets or basically everything you don’t actually need to practice wellness.
It’s also become a toxic sphere of “good vibes only” rhetoric where the balance of positive and negative emotions doesn’t exist and if you aren’t sparkly and happy all the time you must be doing something wrong.
No thank you. That is not wellness.
I’m by no means an expert – just an average white girl doing her best – but I think reclaiming wellness could be a revolutionary act.
Instead of cancelling wellness culture, or labelling it a toxic thing that no one needs in their life, let’s reestablish what wellness truly is…
