68. Who Is Wellness For?
Sensual Self with Ev'Yan Whitney
Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula®
4.7 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
What does the word “wellness” even mean anymore? In this one, Ev'Yan speaks to poet, artist, and author, Fariha Roisin, about self-care, collective healing, wellness culture, and this question, "Who is wellness for?"—also the title of Fariha's soon-to-be-released book. Fariha shines light on the “wellness industrial complex” and how consumerism and capitalism have disconnected us from what it truly means for us to be well. They also speak about messy, non-linear processes of healing, the ways can interrogate our own participation in wellness culture, and the things that keep Fariha feeling well in her own body.
Ev’Yan also makes an announcement about the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to sensual self. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Evian Whitney, and this is a space for you to slow down, tune in, heal and feel the sensations |
| 0:25.7 | and pleasures of your sensual body. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:42.0 | I am so happy to be here with you again. |
| 0:44.3 | So happy to be in your ears. And I want to start this conversation by asking a question that I've been turning over in my head for the past few months. |
| 0:55.9 | What is wellness? Like, what does wellness mean? What does wellness look like in practice? |
| 1:06.8 | I've been having a really hard time answering this question. I mean, I know what I've been told |
| 1:14.1 | and sold that wellness is. You know, it's expensive candles around a CBD-infused bath, because |
| 1:22.8 | literally everything is CBD right now. It's exclusive 10-day retreats in Bali or Costa Rica. Wellness is a |
| 1:34.0 | specific BMI and a certain level of spiritual enlightenment. It's healing yourself and all of your |
| 1:41.8 | complex traumas in one fell swoop through watching someone's |
| 1:46.1 | webinar. Wellness is hot yoga and juice cleanses and granola bars, or at least that's what this ad I |
| 1:55.5 | heard on a podcast told me. As an aside, I did a Google to see what comes up when I type in the word wellness. |
| 2:04.5 | And here's what was on the front page. Pfizer, which is a pharmaceutical company, goop, |
| 2:11.7 | because of course it is, and a dog food brand because apparently our dogs need wellness too. If it sounds like I've got a |
| 2:23.2 | whole attitude about this, it's because I do. Wellness as a word, as a concept, has been so steeped |
| 2:33.6 | in consumerism and capitalism that it's been very hard for me |
| 2:38.2 | to think about it as an intimate practice for myself and also a standard of existence that should |
| 2:44.9 | be available for everyone. I don't want to believe that wellness is about buying shit or becoming something you're currently |
| 2:53.6 | not. And I also don't want to believe that wellness is for a specific group of people with a certain |
| 2:59.6 | tax bracket. I mean, intuitively, I know it's much, much deeper than that. But what other models |
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