Manufactured anxiety, cloaked in the soft, pastel aesthetic of wellness culture, has crept into every corner of our lives, warping what it means to care for ourselves until the concept of “care” becomes almost unrecognizable.

Manufactured anxiety, cloaked in the soft, pastel aesthetic of wellness culture, has crept into every corner of our lives, warping what it means to care for ourselves until the concept of “care” becomes almost unrecognizable.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/manufactured-anxiety-how-self-improvement-became-a-self-destruct-sequence/

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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Wellness culture has distorted self-care to the point where it is unrecognizable; perpetuating manufactured anxiety