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

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

By Kaia Findlay,

Anita Rao

Published November 24, 2023 at 5:30 AM EST

An illustration of a woman standing on a yoga mat, balancing on one foot and waving her arms around as if she is off balance and about to fall. Around her are different wellness trends in boxes: a CBD drink with a thought cloud of a person mediating coming out of the can opening, several prescriptions and supplements, a symbol for a heart rate monitoring app, a mortar and pestle and fresh fruits and vegetables. The word "Commodified" is in the lower lefthand corner of the illustration.

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:

, author of ",鈥� shares how insidious wellness industry marketing can be
, 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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Kaia Findlay

Kaia Findlay is the lead producer of Embodied, 瓜神app's weekly podcast and radio show about sex, relationships and health. Kaia first joined the 瓜神app team in 2020 as a producer for The State of Things.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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