07/24/2023
It's been said that you can't heal a sick society with a bandaid on an individual wound. h/t CTZNWELL
The sad truth is that the wellness industry has become so focused on "healing" the individual with laser treatments, cool sculpt and kombucha exfoliants that it has forgotten its roots. Wellness culture has become individualized and superficial. When "wellness" started it was about going back to the land, living in harmony with the earth and connecting to each other through peaceful practices. It was a counterculture movement led by a bunch of hippies.
But like the rest of our society it got sick. It was sickened by hierarchy and hustle. More more more. Health became a look. Health became a hair color. Health became a body type. Health became a hierarchy. Health became about purity. Health came to mirror some of the worst ideas that humans have ever had and ever perpetrated against one another.
There is a balance between individual health and our collective health. If we learned anything we should have learned that. I'm not talking about shots and masks. I'm talking about something even deeper.
When we are all resilient, we all thrive.
Wellness has become a cult of individuality. It's a stupid filtered Instagram photo with a bogus tag.
We need to heal our very sick, very toxic society.
To do this we need to commit to wellbeing. ✌️
07/14/2023
Wellbeing can't be boiled down to health. More and more we know that health is not as simple as "you are what you eat" or 150 minutes a week of exercise. And it can't be boiled down to genetics or fatalism around genetics. Health is multifaceted and one of the biggest facets is accumulated stress. We are meaning making machines. We remember in stories. Our stories about who we are connect us through culture. When the culture is unfair...when there's a mismatch, we become stressed. When the society is sick, we are sick. Wellbeing has the potential to heal. This is a movement. This is about
07/09/2023
A lot of folks are using the words wellness and wellbeing synonymously.
But we want to speak to some important differences:
⭕️ Wellness is contained within wellbeing.
🌍 Wellbeing is holistic and 100% inclusive. No one is left out.
✊🏾 Wellbeing acknowledges social determinants of health.
🧡 Wellbeing is found in community.
Bottomline...wellness has become so focused on the individual cultivating an image of health that it's as toxic as any of the chemical laden products it shuns. It's time to claim our full humanity and wellbeing.
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