Experience the hilarious and all-too-true audiobook that inspired the stunning Netflix series about self-help, the wellness industry and the dark side of diet and wellness culture.

You look in the mirror and hate the way you look. You try fad diets, cold-pressed juices and the Paleo diet. All the stress and strife of trying to obtain perfection to look good. Does any of this truly make one happy? Guardian Australia journalist Brigid Delaney decides to find out—using herself as the guinea pig.

Welcome to Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. Brigid Delaney starts her journey with a tough 101-day fast and continues down the wellness and mindfulness journey to test different diets and fads that are meant to make us clean and lean. Brigid travels the world and explores different locales as she tries colonics, meditation, new age thinking, silent retreats, group psychotherapy and yoga, working out what is helpful and what is just expensive hype. Does all of this help? If everyone hoped on their wellness journey, would it change the state of the world? These are the questions Brigid sets out to answer.

Part Bridget Jones Diary, part investigative journalism, Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness is a comical look at diet culture that explores all the different facets of the industry— the fun, the bizarre and even the dangerous. Narrated by Marla Jane Lynch, Wellmania is an audiobook sure to satisfy anyone who’s ever questioned their self-image and the world of diets.