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Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)

Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)

Released Friday, 24th November 2023
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Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)

Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)

Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)

Commodified: When 'Wellness' Makes Us Unwell (Revisited)

Friday, 24th November 2023
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Anita has fallen down her fair share of wellness rabbit holes [including a certain alliterative family's beauty and shapewear brands...]. Wellness industry insider and journalist Rina Raphael shares how this $4 trillion industry misleads all of us, and 'Dope Black Social Worker' Kim Young gives us the wellness reframes we all need.

Meet the guests:

- Rina Raphael, author of "The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop and the False Promise of Self-Care,” shares how insidious wellness industry marketing can be

- Kim Young, licensed clinical social worker known as the Dope Black Social Worker, explains how we can take charge of our own wellness ... without buying anything

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