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The Pilates Kitchen's avatar

Urgh, I’m sick of the wellness industry, and I don’t have a chronic illness to deal with. This type of blame and shame is hideous, but pervasive in ‘wellness industry thinking’. The pressure it puts on women is ridiculous. Even if we catch a cold it’s because we didn’t listen to our bodies enough, slow down or drink enough immunity boosting smoothies. Structural inequalities do not exist in the privileged world of the wellness industry. It’s great to read this as we need more counter narratives. I can only imagine how much harder this bs makes living with a chronic illness.

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Catherine The Middle Aged's avatar

This type of (wellness) bullsh*t winds me up 🙄 How DARE someone say that my (or anyone else's) chronic illness is by choice?! FFS! Apologies for swearing 🙏

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