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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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?"

The real kicker? The vicious rumor that personal growth must feel like... See more

This is the seductive lie at the heart of the wellness industry: that liberation is something you can buy, that freedom is something you can achieve alone, that your individual healing somehow exempts you from collective suffering. It's a form of spiritual bypassing dressed up as empowerment—a way to feel like you've transcended systems of... See more