Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind /

In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet, a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown and Indigenous people--while ignoring and excluding them.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Róisín, Fariha (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Health > Popular works. Self-care, Health > Popular works. Mind and body > Popular works. Cultural appropriation. Yoga. Self-care, Health. Mind and body therapies. Cultural competence. Autobiographies. Self-help publications. Biographies.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Journey to the mind
On the mind
On meditation
On intuition and unseen things
On the frustrating pitfalls of healing
Part II: Journey to the body
Introduction to the body
On body dysmorphia
On white people co-opting yoga
On IBS
Part III: On self-care
Introduction to radical self-care
On self-care and self-harm
On eroticism
On divination
Part IV: Introduction to justice
Who is wellness for?
On degrowth
On healing our wounds with the feminine
Conclusion: On sacred reciprocity.

Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind /

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