121: The Gospel of Wellness (w/Rina Raphael)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Philosophy, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.0 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Are you ready to biohack your brain with buttered coffee? How about going “within” at the Drybar of acupuncture? What if we told you that cannabis will catapult your chakras into higher consciousness—all it costs is a $5,000 retreat entry fee, not including airfare and hotel? In the $4.4 trillion wellness industry, is any cost really too expensive to achieve true self-care—even if it never really seems like you arrive anywhere at all?Rina Raphael was getting burnt out as a millennial digital news producer at NBC News. And so she did what anyone would do: she moved to Los Angeles in search of that self-care. Yet she could never shake her journalistic chops, and so she ended up writing about the wellness industry for the NY Times, the LA Times, Fast Company, and other publications. Her skeptical eye and earnest curiosity lead her to write her brand new book, The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care. And she’s here this week to talk to us this week about her adventures in modern spirituality—its teachings as well as its traps. Show NotesThe Gospel of WellnessWell To Do — Rina Raphael -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:30.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Conspirituality. I'm Derek Barris. I'm Matthew Remske.
0:52.5	And I'm Reena Ruffiel. Okay, welcome Reena. We look forward to getting into your gospel today.
0:57.7	As for us, you can stay up to date with Conspirituality on all of our social media handles
1:02.4	independently on Twitter, collectively on Instagram. Occasionally, I will put something up on TikTok
1:08.3	when I'm feeling bored. And of course, we are at Patreon at patreon.com slash Conspirituality,
1:14.0	where for $5 a month, you can help support us and keep us editorially independent as well as
1:19.0	get access to our Monday bonus episodes, speaking of which Matthew, what's going on over there on
1:24.8	Monday's? Well, Julian and I are cooking up three final early access episodes on the perennial
1:30.8	catastrophe of the satanic panic, including a movie night on the asylum drama Girl Interrupted,
1:37.6	which happened to be Tiel Swan's favorite film as a teenager. We're also going to look at a book
1:43.0	called Courage to Heal and how it laundered the satanic panic through the language of trusting
1:49.6	the body, which is how it actually infiltrated yoga teacher training reading lists. But we've also
1:55.2	started this other series called Listener Stories because a lot of you out there have a lot of
2:02.2	stories. And our first guest has been Christina Flinders, who came on to share this roller coaster
2:09.2	ride out of a sexually abusive world denying cult into the world of strip clubs. And then finding
2:16.5	her calling as a yoga teacher only to have her mentor get red-pilled into QAnon. So it's a great
2:23.6	story. She's a super lucid storyteller. And since we released that one, we've lined up actually
2:28.5	three more stories to come. What are you working on in the bonus department, Derek? For this Monday,
2:34.2	I'm looking at the field of behavioral economics, working in finance full-time. I feel like
2:41.2	some of the best research on understanding human behavior comes from behavioral economics.
2:46.9	And specifically, I recently came across a couple of studies. One is why about the language
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