Even good things are bad. Take the cult of wellness. This was supposed to be a way to improve health in all of its dimensions, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It hasn’t always turned out that way. Many people say wellness proves to be trying and diminishing. It’s become “you are not good enough” theater. One respondent captured the

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It feels like modern “mindfulness” and “self-care” have become a scam imposed by corporations to keep us shackled to the grind. “Optimization” and “stress reduction” are merely a ruse so that we might remain in the systems that burnt us out and drained us of all life force in the first place. These things—that were meant to help us see ourselves

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What wellness culture asserts, in essence, is that there is some higher state we can achieve, but only if we’re willing to put in the work. Our natural impulses, the ones that draw us to the buzz of sugar, the sting of salt, bright sweets and festive feasts, are all wrong according to the wellness mantra. The way to upper-middle-class white-girl

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