Competitive Wellness

We collect healing modalities like they're Pokémon cards, each promising to fix whatever part of ourselves we've decided is defective this week. " Oh, you have childhood trauma? Have you tried this artisanal, small-batch, locally-sourced form of emotional self-flagellation?"

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In the Western world, we experience personal suffering—a more subtle but equally powerful form of distress that hides behind privilege and comfort. Despite living in climate-controlled homes, having access to modern conveniences, and never facing true material scarcity, many of us are plagued by an insidious discontent. Social media traps us in cyc

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We know what we are “supposed” to do—eat more vegetables and move our body, practice mindfulness, rest and get enough sleep, address mental and physical health issues, deal with our unresolved shit. All of which is nearly impossible in the culture created by the American Dream, which sucks up our time, doesn’t adequately resource most of us, and ma

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the grim notion that self-improvement is not only a cultural imperative but a spectator sport, like professional wrestling. Othership calls its cult-y theatrics “wellness entertainment,” and journeyers are both audience and participant. Consciously or not, everyone is performing.