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The Wellness Trap
- Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
- Narrated by: Christy Harrison
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From the paradigm-shifting author of Anti-Diet comes a deep dive into the underbelly of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being.
“It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.” You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful.
Many people with chronic illness understandably feel dismissed or abandoned by the healthcare system and find solace in alternative medicine, as Harrison once did. Yet the wellness industry promotes practices that often cause even more damage than the conventional approaches they’re meant to replace. From the lack of pre-market safety testing on herbal and dietary supplements, to the unfounded claims made by many wellness influencers and functional-medicine providers, to the social-media algorithms driving users down rabbit holes of wellness mis- and disinformation, it can often feel like no one is looking out for us in the face of the $4.4 trillion global wellness industry.
The Wellness Trap delves into the persistent, systemic problems with that industry, offering insight into its troubling pattern of cultural appropriation and its destructive views on mental health, and shedding light on how a growing distrust of conventional medicine has led ordinary people to turn their backs on science. Weaving together history, memoir, reporting, and practical advice, Harrison illuminates the harms of wellness culture while re-imagining our society’s relationship with well-being.
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- Kara Bowers
- 2023-07-23
GAME CHANGER
This book was INCREDIBLE and I love all of Christy’s work so much. Huge game changer for me in my journey of recovery and wellbeing. Christy’s voice is so compassionate and the book is clearly well researched.
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- Lorrie
- 2023-06-11
Highly recommend
It is obvious the Christy has done a lot of research for this book, and is not just writing from her opinion like a lot of books are. Christy really makes you stop and think about how our society pushes the topic of “wellness” when in reality it generally is not about wellness at all. As well, Christy writes in a way that is easy to understand, you don’t need to be an expert to understand what she is explaining.
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