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  • Who Is Wellness For?

  • An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
  • Written by: Fariha Róisín
  • Narrated by: Fariha Róisín
  • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Who Is Wellness For?

Written by: Fariha Róisín
Narrated by: Fariha Róisín
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Publisher's Summary

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.

Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different—everything from ashwagandha to prayer—were now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people.

In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet explores the way in which the progressive health industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions. She reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous people—while ignoring and excluding them.

Who Is Wellness For? is divided into four sections, beginning with The Mind, in which Fariha examines the art of meditation and the importance of intuition. In part two, The Body, she investigates the physiology of trauma, detailing her own journey with fatphobia and gender dysmorphia, as well as her own chronic illness. In part three, Self-Care, she argues against the self-care industrial complex but cautious us against abandoning care completely and offers practical advice. She ends with Justice, arguing that if we truly want to be well, we must be invested in everyone’s well being and shift toward nurturance culture.

Deeply intimate and revelatory, Who Is Wellness For? forces us to confront the imbalance in health and healing and carves a path towards self-care that is inclusionary for all.

©2022 Fariha Róisín (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

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Very insightful and well expressed

This was an excellent book. The author discusses really painful, deep and expansive subjects in a very authentic and personalized way.

My only real criticism is that the reader (I think it’s the author herself) mispronounces quite a few words, especially non-English ones and the names of indigenous tribes and languages, which doesn’t change the meaning or value of the message but is still irksome for detail-oriented folks.

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Great book, hard read

Heart-wrenching exposé of childhood trauma and interesting questioning of Western, capitalism and racism. Challenging read, particularly the frank descriptions of child SA, but a good book to push you to think about how society is and how life could be if we looked at things differently, using the knowledge and practices we had before the plunder of white supremacy.

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