Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.

Friends, welcome to the fourth episode in the How to Live Beyond series of episodes on this podcast.

To open 2023, each episode in this series considers a set of tools or way of thinking that are useful, but that we're ready to go beyond in 2023. So we've looked at things

like the New Age movement on the first episode in the series with Mitch Horowitz. We've looked

at psychedelics and sorcery with Lisa Romero on episode 209. And then on the third installment

with Polar Lesko, it was how to live

beyond money magic. These are techniques and traditions that we use to cope with and confront

the challenges of our time, but risk, if we can't consider them deeply, getting us stuck in those

challenges or worse, funneling their strengths back into those challenges and

driving us deeper into the problem.

These episodes aren't a call to forget about these techniques and transitions, but instead

to bring them forward, to bring forward what they've offered without the barbs of the

problems they're tangled up with.

This time, it's Faria Roshin on Beyond Wellness.

Wellness, I think, is synonymous now, almost, with tracking, tracking our lives.

Fitbits, exercise journals, food journals, meditation apps, even like Spotify rap to tracking,

which songs you like best. It's all a kind of data gathering exercise, which of course mirrors

the data gathering exercises of corporations. And a lot of times this wellness approach of tracking is really just about addressing surface wounds.

What if wellness went beyond all of that?

Went beyond even what supplements to buy or what exercises to do, what diet plan to follow, how to meditate.

What if instead it witnessed the deep wounds and trauma created by materialism? And what if it saw the knives, the weapons that keep

rewooning so that we never heal? Colonialism, capitalism, capitalism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and more.

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