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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín
22 reviews
gizellereads's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Incest, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, and Abortion
knick_nat's review
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Abortion, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual assault
ashstrong172's review
2.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual harassment
aubreystrawberry's review
Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
zaraven's review
2.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Self harm, Incest, Child abuse, and Colonisation
katharina90's review
2.5
This book is not an in-depth critique of the wellness industry in the West with all its harmful cultural appropriation, classism, fatphobia, capitalist overconsumption, etc.
You can catch glimpses of many those critiques but the author only scratches the surface and frequently relies on quotes from others to get her point across which makes her analysis feel unoriginal.
Graphic: Child abuse
Moderate: Body shaming, Self harm, and Sexual violence
Minor: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, and Racism
schomj's review
2.0
Instead of a deep dive into targeted critiques of the wellness industry from a coherent and culturally anchored point of view, it alternates between memoir and cherry-picked quotes from (mostly) better thinkers loosely connected by short bits of the author's own prose. She essentially is decontextualizing convenient quotes from their source material in support of her meandering arguments in a way that is ironic and also sometimes misleading. (But her understanding of what science is seems really tenuous so it's possible that it's less misleading than it is just her being confused. IDK)
At times it honestly feels like a first draft that no one edited. I say this because this is how I draft papers. But at a certain point I was telling the book that it needs to paraphrase and not just (block) quote. It is not generally a good sign when I start talking back to books about editing choices.
Also for a book that's supposedly at least nominally coming from a disability perspective, the sanism and dominance of the medical model were both... grim. And at times sounded like something you would hear from a "wellness" MLM grifter.
The book is strongest when it functions as a memoir. It's where the author has the most to say, where her voice is clearest and where her actual expertise is. If her editor had been paying attention, they should have told her to jettison the rest and be true to her strengths.
Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault
jkamler's review against another edition
1.0
As others have said, the book does not really examine wellness culture through a sociological lens, but is mostly a memoir of the author’s childhood abuse and pretty broad spiritual claims and generalizations. I hate to even admit this but I also found the author to be a little obsessed with suffering and overindulging in a victim mentality. I really wanted to enjoy this book because I believe in centering voices of color and I was invested in the criticism of wellness culture, but I just resented the experience the entire time. I pushed through to the end but honestly should have just called it quits.
Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Incest, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Fatphobia, Genocide, Body shaming, and Abandonment
yaoipaddle's review
3.5
I'm white and I think other white people would really gain a lot reading this. I quite like a lot of the connections drawn between capitalism, white supremacy, and wellness culture as it exists in most of the world today. If you think reading something like this would make you uncomfortable as a white person, then I REALLY think you need to read this.
You can tell that writing this book brought a lot of comfort to the author, so good for her!
One of my main dislikes from this book is the overuse of references/quotes. I am not exaggerating when I say almost every single page quotes another work/person. Often times there is multiple ones. I remember one occasion when a third of the page was taken up by a massive quote. This all makes the book more clunky to read and exhausting. I find that for a lot of the quotes the author does not integrate it well to her writing. Very often I felt like I was reading a long research paper's literature review. This does not make it a smooth or fast read.
One final thank you I want to give the author is that for the first time in my life I found someone actual reference the pain the USA & NATO inflicted on my home country. I often felt like we were overseen/invisible in that sense. So thank you thank you thank you! (Not really related to the book but it still meant a lot to me so I am putting it here.)
Graphic: Colonisation, Classism, Chronic illness, Bullying, Pedophilia, Islamophobia, Body shaming, Cursing, Child abuse, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Cultural appropriation, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Incest, Grief, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Abortion
Minor: Transphobia
marrocke's review
2.0
Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Colonisation
Minor: Islamophobia, Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Mental illness