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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín
11 reviews
bookishmillennial's review
Absolutely phenomenal - I highly recommend.
Graphic: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Self harm, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, and Cultural appropriation
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
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
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
warboyziri's review against another edition
Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault
Moderate: Dysphoria, Self harm, and Mental illness
readingfortomorrow's review
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Incest
ecn's review
5.0
Graphic: Abortion, Chronic illness, Violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexism
e_flah's review
Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse