Wellness trends

I recently read the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel and found it really thought provoking. It wove together a lot of what I’ve been learning in my decolonization journey.

 “The modern individual has been made through centuries of disconnection, from the world around us, from others, and even from our own bodies. While wellness trends can help us reconnect on some level, they incorrectly focus on the power of an individual to improve their own health, while ignoring, or worse, diffusing another power – our ability to collectively dismantle the hierarchies that cause those disconnections, and consequently a large share of the illnesses that we face. Holistic medicine would be a good thing, if it did what it promises, but absence an analysis of power and historical perspective on colonial cosmology, it is shallow.”