This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert, and life coach, Baye Victoria Albina.

I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart.

Welcome, my love. Let's get started.

Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. Listen, we got to talk about it.

Wellness has been hijacked.

What once meant reclaiming health, presence, and wholeness through community care and interdependence

has been flattened into a commodified, whitewashed industry of detox teas, yoga retreats,

priced at three months rent,

and the ever-lusive high-vibrations state that you can only achieve if you buy the right

white-labeled supplements, stick to the right diet, and inexplicably, but coffee or coffee

should never go. And my loves, I cannot stress this enough. This is

deeply dangerous, especially in the middle of outbreaks of both tuberculosis and measles

across the U.S. My darling, mainstream wellness isn't neutral. It's a profitable commodity co-opted by white capitalist

individualism. This wellness systematically excludes marginalized people, ignores race-class,

disability, colonialism, all of the social determinants of health and actual wellness and

pretends to be apolitical. But wellness, in reality, is never

apolitical. If your approach to wellness ignores who has access to rest, care,

healthy food, clean air, somewhere safe to live, bodily autonomy, protection from state violence,

then it's not wellness, it's complicity.

And that is why feminist wellness exists.

Wellness is not a luxury good.

It's your birthright.

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